History ComicallyMissingThePoint / WebOriginal

* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Done by [[EmotionlessGirl ''Keela'']] of all people in "Tale of the Unworld", Anjren fires an EnergyBall at Vampire Genisis, only for him to turn into SuperSmoke and the attack to crash into the wall of the coliseum behind him. Dylan and Anjren react with shock at Vampire Genisis' transformation while Keela just makes a remark about how sturdy the coliseum is.

** Then he mistakes Dolly's SailorMoon outfit for a [[SexyWhateverOutfit sexy Donald Duck outfit]].

-->'''Shephard''': HOLY FREAKING CRAP! IS THAT AN ALIEN?!\

* Website/{{reddit}} commenters often invoke this trope on purpose. A popular in-joke is to reply to such comments with "[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-old-reddit-switch-a-roo Ahh, the old reddit switcharoo.]"

* The ''LoadingReadyRun'' video [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/325/Son-of-a-Bitch Son of a Bitch]] features this.
* [[TheDitz 2D's]] [[http://gorillaz.com/profile/2d attempts at Sudoku]] on the ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'' website. Also, according to ''Rise of the Ogre'', the band once attempted to write a script for a movie. After much nagging from Murdoc, Russel suggested one in which "a bullying egomaniac bass-player" gets what's coming to him. The other band members elaborated on the idea, and Murdoc never noticed that they were talking about him.
* In [[http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20050911.html one]] of the least NSFW (but not least disturbing) pages of ''Webcomic/GhastlysGhastlyComic'', Freddy misses the point of ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'' and decides to help the Chick Boy...
--> [[FangirlJapanese Baka Ecchi Mizu-Boy's Manga Is Too Angry]]. Freddy Fix It [[GenkiGirl Genki]] Style!
* There's a subset of the FauxtivationalPoster that combines this with IgnoreTheFanservice.

* [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8VBxSmHMS1w/ThkdL7mRwbI/AAAAAAAAPXE/Oumc5W6d-H0/s1600/redact.jpg There's a Post Secret about someone whose mother bought them a Post Secret book, but blacked out all the "inappropriate" parts.]]
* In roleplay Roleplay/TouhouAGlimmerOfAnOutsideWorld Reimu is telling a ghost story, but ghosts are the ''least'' scary part. The most scary part is [[ItMakesSenseInContext asbestos.]]
* TheOnion uses this trope in probably over half their work, especially their [[http://www.youtube.com/show/intheknow "In The Know"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/show/todaynow "Today Now!"]] segments.
** The columns by Jean Teasdale are '''made''' of this trope. A sterling example comes from ''Ad Nauseum Vol. 14'', where one column has her discuss how a local magazine called her the worst columnist ever; she reprints the magazine's slams against her, and then ''immediately afterwards'' says that she doesn't know why they hate her. [[HypocriticalHumor And then proves the magazine completely correct.]]
* WebVideo/EpicMealTime has of late featured one fellow who digs into their crazy preparations politely with a knife and fork. MusclesGlasses has a tendency to give him reproachful looks.
** The ''comments'' on some videos fall into this. The gang's "recipies" range from [[BigEater comically huge but otherwise mundane portions]] to [[LethalChef abominations against culinary science]]. When intentionally awful looking/sounding/smelling/tasting things are made, and people respond along the lines of "Who would ever eat that?" it's this trope to everyone else.
* [=YouTube=] is full of "Confederate Pride" white supremacist videos calling for the extermination of foreigners, minorities, and liberals, all set to a song performed by Gary Lee and Showdown called "The Rodeo Song" - a song written by a French-Canadian from Ontario about the small-town Alberta winter rodeo circuit. It takes a special talent for missing the point to hear the stirring lyrics "It's forty below and I don't give a fuck" and think of Mississippi.
* Nella is battling her dark side and, in great pain, tells WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick to run away. The Chick, who has witnessed all this, has the important question to ask: does Nella really consider her a nerd?

* WebAnimation/HomestarRunner: Happens in Strong Bad Email #124, [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail124.html Secret Recipes]]:
-->'''[[TheDitz Homestar]]:''' (to Marzipan) Hey, girlfriend, have you tried any of this free ice cream Strong Bad made?
-->'''Marzipan:''' Homestar, didn't anyone tell you? That's, like, cottage cheese and The Cheat hair.
-->'''Homestar:''' [[IAteWhat WHAT?!]] (does a SpitTake) Strong Bad told me it was ''sour cream'' and The Cheat hair!
* [[http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/02/18/film-independent-spirit-awards-joel-mchale-video/ This]] web-promo for the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards has [[Series/{{Community}} Joel]] [[TheSoup McHale]] (the host for that year's ceremony) be forced to sit down and watch all the pictures nominated for Best Feature... and completely fail to respond in the intended or appropriate way to ''any'' of them.
-->"I dunno about "[[WintersBone Winter's]]", but it's tickling my ''funny'' bone!"
* [[ImageBoards 4chan]]'s [[TabletopGames Traditional Games]] board had a thread whose original post was [[DistressedDamsel a hot naked woman chained to a rock with a dragon approaching]], with no text. The following posts were all about what type of rock it was, whether they could determine the area from the flowers nearby, whether the dragon could fly with its displayed wingspan, and so on, while largely ignoring the naked woman. Largel
-->'''[[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9434393/#9434575 9434575]]''': Her vagina is leaking. I think she might have a medical condition.
** There's also a [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16934717/ recurring]] [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17962929/ series]] of threads where someone post an image of someone famous, usually challenging /tg/ to figure out who they are, and they proceed to make dozens of incorrect guesses, often while berating others for getting it wrong. Often enough, the person's real name is actually ''in the file name'' in the first post.
* In Episode 75 of WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd:
-->'''Kyle:''' C'mon, get 'em! He's the one that broke the couch!
-->'''James:''' Well technically, it was a futon...
* WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged ''The World's Strongest'':
--> ''Piccolo, BrainwashedAndCrazy, is about to attack Goku. Not realizing, Gohan runs up to him.''
--> '''Gohan:''' Mr. Piccolo, what is he talking about- ''gets pimpslapped away''
--> '''Piccolo:''' Shut up, Gohan! Mommy and Daddy are killing each other.
--> '''Gohan:''' ''But Daddy isn't drinking!''
** On episode 11, when Korin explains who Mr. Popo is.
-->'''Korin''': That's Mr. Popo. He lives up on the lookout with Kami.
-->'''Roshi''': ...did that cat just talk?

* Duck does this in the episode 'Beach Brawl' of ''DSBTInsaniT'' after seeing Fire Guy get captured by Cell.
-->''Duck'': Holy shitoki mushrooms!...That was awesome!
* In a [[http://www.comicbooktidbits.com/ Comic Book Tid Bits]] article covering an instance of [[http://www.comicbooktidbits.com/CENSORING%20SUPERMAN_files/image006.jpg overt censorship]] in ''[[Franchise/TheDCU World's Finest Comics]]'' #189, the author writes the following about it (though he does get serious in the paragraph after):
--> "The lights went out in the hospital momentarily and some silly graffiti artist spray painted some weird, glow in the dark letters! It's so obvious!"

* From the Website/SFDebris review of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds"]], after saying Picard trying to warn off the Borg with threats of new weapons developments is:
--> "... like thinking you can warn off a date rapist by saying you're wearing crotchless panties. You might say that's a tasteless metaphor, but ''you'd be completely wrong!'' It's a simile."
* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' has a brief period during which the main guild's command is given to the group's misogynist and {{Noob}}-hater, while all other members of the guild happened to fit one of the catagories. While two of the women are discussing the very real possibility of being kicked out, the {{Noob}} chimes in by basically saying : "Well, ''my'' position is safe. I was given the important task to find a talented [male] healer and recruiting him into the guild". Guess who's the guild's current healer.
* Half the humor in ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' comes from this. Cecil tends to be a bit... [[KentBrockmanNews easily distracted]], and will often derail a report on the [[ConspiracyKitchenSink bizarre]] [[FantasyKitchenSink goings-on]] in Night Vale to talk about, say, how beautiful and perfect [[LoveInterest Carlos the Scientist]]'s hair is, his violent hatred of [[SitcomArchNemesis Steve Carlsburg]], or how Old Woman Josie posted this ''[[CutenessProximity adorable]]'' video of kittens on her Facebook page along with that message of impending doom, and [[ValleyGirl oh my god it's so cute you have to watch this]]. Or there's the bit in one early episode where the Apache Tracker sneaks into the Post Office and reports seeing numerous corpses and messages in blood on the walls, and Cecil spends the entire segment complaining about how ridiculously racist it is for a white guy to pretend to be a MagicalNativeAmerican.
* In episode two of Shephard's Mind, Shephard comes across an alien corpse with a knife implanted in it:
-->'''Shephard''': Oh my god...Is that a knife?! Ho ho, look at this thing! Oh man, it's got a killer edge, it's just- Makes me wanna-
** Then subverted when Shephard notices what the knife is ''in'':
-->'''Shephard''': HOLY FREAKING CRAP! IS THAT AN ALIEN?!\

-->'''Shephard''': Oh my god...Is that a knife?! Ho ho, look at this thing! Oh man, it's got a killer edge, it's just- Make's me wanna-\\

'''Shephard''': HOLY FREAKING CRAP! IS THAT AN ALIEN?!\\

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* DragonBallAbridged ''The World's Strongest'':

* From the Website/SFDebris review of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds"]], after comparing Picard trying to warn off the Borg with threats of new weapons developments to trying to scare off a date rapist by saying you're wearing crotchless panties:
--> "You might call that a tasteless metaphor, but ''you'd be wrong!'' ''({{beat}})'' It's a simile.

* The xkcd What If? section is fueled by this stuff. After quickly answering how little every person on earth jumping at the same location at the same time would do to the earth's orbit, it explains how much carnage would result from people trying to get away from said location.

* The Wikipedia article for "you have two cows" jokes, jokes parodying various economic systems using cows as metaphors for money and currency that often begin with the sentence "You have two cows", features an image of...[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Two_cows_grazing.jpg/250px-Two_cows_grazing.jpg two cows]].

-->''Korin'': That's Mr. Popo. He lives up on the lookout with Kami.
-->''Roshi'': ...did that cat just talk?

* ''WebAnimation/PonyDotMov'': SHED.mov has this moment when [[spoiler:Spike, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie enter Fluttershy's shed.]]

* Website/{{4chan}}'s [[TabletopGames Traditional Games]] board had a thread whose original post was [[DistressedDamsel a hot naked woman chained to a rock with a dragon approaching]], with no text. The following posts were all about what type of rock it was, whether they could determine the area from the flowers nearby, whether the dragon could fly with its displayed wingspan, and so on, while largely ignoring the naked woman. Largel