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* The title of Creator/BobDylan's song [[Music/BringingItAllBackHome "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"]] is an equation ("Love - 0 / ∞").
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** Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: [[MissingStepPlan Collect underpants. Step 2: '''?''' Step 3: Profit!]]
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** In the episode "Simpsons Already Did It": Cartman's explanation for how adding semen to his tank of "Sea People" (brine shrimp) caused them to develop a civilisation: Sea-People + Sea-Men = Sea-Ciety.
** Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 2: '''?''' Step 3: Profit!
** Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 2: '''?''' Step 3: Profit!
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** In the episode "Simpsons Already Did It": Cartman's explanation for how adding semen to his tank of "Sea People" (brine shrimp) caused them to develop a civilisation: civilization: Sea-People + Sea-Men = Sea-Ciety.
** Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: [[MissingStepPlan Collect underpants. Step 2: '''?''' Step 3:Profit!Profit!]]
** Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: [[MissingStepPlan Collect underpants. Step 2: '''?''' Step 3:
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* In ''KenanAndKel'', Kenan uses this trope to explain Kel his plan, Kel then tells him he can't add things that aren't numbers.
* Used in ''{{Numb3rs}}''.
* Used in ''{{Numb3rs}}''.
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* In ''KenanAndKel'', ''Series/KenanAndKel'', Kenan uses this trope to explain Kel his plan, Kel then tells him he can't add things that aren't numbers.
* Used in''{{Numb3rs}}''.''Series/{{Numb3rs}}''.
* Used in
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* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': The Don Rosa version of Uncle Scrooge sometimes assembles these in his thought balloons.
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* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': The Don Rosa version of Uncle Scrooge sometimes assembles these in his thought balloons.
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* Benito Jacovitti, an Italian comic artist, used to draw little comic strips of this type as a gag aside of a main story. Sometimes they were related with verbal jokes (in Italian), sometimes more logical, sometimes nonsenses as in the picture of this entry (bull + lyre = bull with musical strings in the horns). Sometimes he used operations different form the sum: for instance, \sqrt{man}= skeleton.
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* Benito Jacovitti, Creator/BenitoJacovitti, an Italian comic artist, used to draw little comic strips of this type as a gag aside of a main story. Sometimes they were related with verbal jokes (in Italian), sometimes more logical, sometimes nonsenses as in the picture of this entry (bull + lyre = bull with musical strings in the horns). Sometimes he used operations different form the sum: for instance, \sqrt{man}= skeleton.
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* In ''PinkyAndTheBrain'', the Brain tries to mathematically deduce the reason his plans usually fail. He ends up with a portrait of Pinky. Later, Pinky is made smarter and finds several mistakes in Brain's calculations. Correcting them results in a portrait of Brain.
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* In ''PinkyAndTheBrain'', ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', the Brain tries to mathematically deduce the reason his plans usually fail. He ends up with a portrait of Pinky. Later, Pinky is made smarter and finds several mistakes in Brain's calculations. Correcting them results in a portrait of Brain.
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* In the ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Out to Launch," Phineas and Ferb are trying to get a rocket to launch using a scientific equation (You can see it starting at [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu0Nso-mm20 3:18 here]]), and with each new attempt, Phineas modifies one of the terms. After a few false starts, Ferb points out the problem: the equation equals the square root of a bomb. Phineas changes it to a smiley face, and their next launch is successful.
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* In the ''PhineasAndFerb'' ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Out to Launch," Phineas and Ferb are trying to get a rocket to launch using a scientific equation (You can see it starting at [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu0Nso-mm20 3:18 here]]), and with each new attempt, Phineas modifies one of the terms. After a few false starts, Ferb points out the problem: the equation equals the square root of a bomb. Phineas changes it to a smiley face, and their next launch is successful.
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* In ''Mickey Mania'', when you fight the Mad Doctor, there is a nonsensical equation - featuring Pluto - in the background.
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* In ''Mickey Mania'', ''VideoGame/MickeyMania'', when you fight the Mad Doctor, there is a nonsensical equation - featuring Pluto - in the background.
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* ''KeychainOfCreation'' brings us [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0285.html this]].
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* ''KeychainOfCreation'' ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' brings us [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0285.html this]].
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* ''TheBoondocks'': Nigga Moment + Nigga Synthesis = [[CrowningMomentOfFunny COMPLETE]] [[BrickJoke DISASTER]]
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* It's probably closer to MemeticMutation, but Franchise/{{Batman}} + HumongousMecha = ''Anime/TheBigO''
** By the same token, ''Manga/DeathNote'' + HumongousMecha = ''Anime/CodeGeass''.
** By the same token, ''Manga/DeathNote'' + HumongousMecha = ''Anime/CodeGeass''.
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* The title of Creator/BobDylan's song [[Music/BringingItAllBackHome "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"]] is an equation ("Love - 0 / ∞").
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* [[http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/calculus.htm Tolkien as Calculus]]
** Where's the calculus? Inequalities, yes, but no calculus...
** Where's the calculus? Inequalities, yes, but no calculus...
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* [[http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/calculus.htm Tolkien as Calculus]]
** Where's the calculus? Inequalities, yes, but no calculus...Mathematics]]
** Where's the calculus? Inequalities, yes, but no calculus...
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* Puck has a moment of this in {{Berserk}} when he sees Guts collapse. He rushes over to him as he's getting swarmed by weak ghosts, and his wild flailing drives them off. Guts < Monsters, Monsters < Puck, so Puck > Guts.
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* Puck has a moment of this in {{Berserk}} ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' when he sees Guts collapse. He rushes over to him as he's getting swarmed by weak ghosts, and his wild flailing drives them off. Guts < Monsters, Monsters < Puck, so Puck > Guts.
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--> ''We all use the teleporter let's say six times a day. Times four years. Minus we're not bread.''
-->--'''The Medic''', ''[[Machinima/TeamFortress2 Expiration Date]]''
-->--'''The Medic''', ''[[Machinima/TeamFortress2 Expiration Date]]''
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* ''DuckDodgers'': Daffy draws a complicated navigation chart to navigate to Planet X, and then Porky suggests they just follow the letters on the planets.
* ''TheSimpsons'', when Homer is an inventor. During a montage, he's shown writing equations on a blackboard. After he's done, the camera moves to shot of the house ? where there's a massive explosion. Cut back to Homer: who examines his equation and crosses out the offending section, a drawing of a stick of dynamite, which he then replaces with something else. This results in another, ''bigger'' explosion.
* ''TheSimpsons'', when Homer is an inventor. During a montage, he's shown writing equations on a blackboard. After he's done, the camera moves to shot of the house ? where there's a massive explosion. Cut back to Homer: who examines his equation and crosses out the offending section, a drawing of a stick of dynamite, which he then replaces with something else. This results in another, ''bigger'' explosion.
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* ''DuckDodgers'': ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'': Daffy draws a complicated navigation chart to navigate to Planet X, and then Porky suggests they just follow the letters on the planets.
*''TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', when Homer is an inventor. During a montage, he's shown writing equations on a blackboard. After he's done, the camera moves to shot of the house ? where there's a massive explosion. Cut back to Homer: who examines his equation and crosses out the offending section, a drawing of a stick of dynamite, which he then replaces with something else. This results in another, ''bigger'' explosion.
*
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels (but also referring to the real world, and why time can be lost in bookshops): Libraries are collections of books and books contain knowledge. Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass. "[[Discworld/GuardsGuards A good bookshop is a genteel black hole that knows how to read.]]"
** Camel mathematicians also think in these terms.
--->Let legs equal four....
** The eighth son of an eighth son will always be a wizard. The eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard squared (and a Sourcerer). Even though FridgeLogic points out that if that's going to be any power of a wizard, it ought to be 3/2. But WritersCannotDoMath.
*** This is a bit like the old question about a double hat-trick: do 4 successive whatevers count as a double hat-trick because there's the first one made up of the first, second and third examples, and a second consisting of the second, third and fourth ones? If so, then the Sourcerer = Wizard^2 argument holds up. An 8th son is just that; it's only when he has an 8th son that said son is a wizard. So it's the extra generation and power of 8 that counts. Doing that ''again'' -- that is, the wizard having an 8th son -- is what makes him a Sourcerer. Put numbers to it: Original 8th son = 1 (un-magical); his 8th son = 8 (wizard); ''his'' 8th son = 64 (Sourcerer, and wizard squared).
** Camel mathematicians also think in these terms.
--->Let legs equal four....
** The eighth son of an eighth son will always be a wizard. The eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard squared (and a Sourcerer). Even though FridgeLogic points out that if that's going to be any power of a wizard, it ought to be 3/2. But WritersCannotDoMath.
*** This is a bit like the old question about a double hat-trick: do 4 successive whatevers count as a double hat-trick because there's the first one made up of the first, second and third examples, and a second consisting of the second, third and fourth ones? If so, then the Sourcerer = Wizard^2 argument holds up. An 8th son is just that; it's only when he has an 8th son that said son is a wizard. So it's the extra generation and power of 8 that counts. Doing that ''again'' -- that is, the wizard having an 8th son -- is what makes him a Sourcerer. Put numbers to it: Original 8th son = 1 (un-magical); his 8th son = 8 (wizard); ''his'' 8th son = 64 (Sourcerer, and wizard squared).
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In the''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels (but also referring to the real world, and why time can be lost in bookshops): Libraries are collections of books and books contain knowledge. Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass. "[[Discworld/GuardsGuards A good bookshop is a genteel black hole that knows how to read.]]"
** Camel mathematiciansalso think in these terms.
--->Let --->''"Let legs equal four....
four..."''
** The eighth son of an eighth son will always be a wizard. The eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard squared (and a Sourcerer). Even though FridgeLogic points out that if that's going to be any power of a wizard, it ought to be 3/2.But WritersCannotDoMath.
*** ThisWritersCannotDoMath, or this is a bit like the old question about a double hat-trick: do 4 successive whatevers count as a double hat-trick because there's the first one made up of the first, second and third examples, and a second consisting of the second, third and fourth ones? If so, then the Sourcerer = Wizard^2 argument holds up. An 8th son is just that; it's only when he has an 8th son that said son is a wizard. So it's the extra generation and power of 8 that counts. Doing that ''again'' -- that is, the wizard having an 8th son -- is what makes him a Sourcerer. Put numbers to it: Original 8th son = 1 (un-magical); his 8th son = 8 (wizard); ''his'' 8th son = 64 (Sourcerer, and wizard squared).
** In the
** Camel mathematicians
** The eighth son of an eighth son will always be a wizard. The eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard squared (and a Sourcerer). Even though FridgeLogic points out that if that's going to be any power of a wizard, it ought to be 3/2.
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* Benito Jacovitti, an Italian comic artist, used to draw little comic strips of this type as a gag aside of a main story. Sometimes they were related with verbal jokes (in Italian), sometimes more logical, sometimes nonsenses as in the picture of this entry (bull + lyre = bull with musical strings in the horns). Sometimes he used operations different form the sum: for instance, \sqrt{man}= skeleton.
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* [[Webvideo/Whatthefuckiswrongwithyou Nash]] does this sometimes, when talking about a complete and stupid disaster. "Once again, it's time to do the math: This + this equals [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] THIS!"
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* [[Webvideo/Whatthefuckiswrongwithyou [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash]] does this sometimes, when talking about a complete and stupid disaster. "Once again, it's time to do the math: This + this equals [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] THIS!"
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* Puck has a moment of this in {{Berserk}} when he sees Guts collapse. He rushes over to him as he's getting swarmed by weak ghosts, and his wild flailing drives them off. Guts < Monsters, Monsters < Puck, so Puck < Guts.
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* Puck has a moment of this in {{Berserk}} when he sees Guts collapse. He rushes over to him as he's getting swarmed by weak ghosts, and his wild flailing drives them off. Guts < Monsters, Monsters < Puck, so Puck < > Guts.
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* Puck has a moment of this in {{Berserk}} when he sees Guts collapse. He rushes over to him as he's getting swarmed by weak ghosts, and his wild flailing drives them off. Guts < Monsters, Monsters < Puck, so Puck < Guts.
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* In ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', Jack puts a number of these "equations" on a blackboard to try and understand Christmas.
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No idea how you do this. I\'m gonna leave it for someone else to fix.
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* The Don Rosa version of ''UncleScrooge'' sometimes assembles these in his thought balloons.
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** Where's the calculus? Inequalities, yes, but no calculus...
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** The eighth son of an eighth son will always be a wizard. The eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard squared (and a sourcerer). Even though FridgeLogic points out that if that's going to be any power of a wizard, it ought to be 3/2. But WritersCannotDoMath.
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** The eighth son of an eighth son will always be a wizard. The eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard squared (and a sourcerer).Sourcerer). Even though FridgeLogic points out that if that's going to be any power of a wizard, it ought to be 3/2. But WritersCannotDoMath.WritersCannotDoMath.
*** This is a bit like the old question about a double hat-trick: do 4 successive whatevers count as a double hat-trick because there's the first one made up of the first, second and third examples, and a second consisting of the second, third and fourth ones? If so, then the Sourcerer = Wizard^2 argument holds up. An 8th son is just that; it's only when he has an 8th son that said son is a wizard. So it's the extra generation and power of 8 that counts. Doing that ''again'' -- that is, the wizard having an 8th son -- is what makes him a Sourcerer. Put numbers to it: Original 8th son = 1 (un-magical); his 8th son = 8 (wizard); ''his'' 8th son = 64 (Sourcerer, and wizard squared).
*** This is a bit like the old question about a double hat-trick: do 4 successive whatevers count as a double hat-trick because there's the first one made up of the first, second and third examples, and a second consisting of the second, third and fourth ones? If so, then the Sourcerer = Wizard^2 argument holds up. An 8th son is just that; it's only when he has an 8th son that said son is a wizard. So it's the extra generation and power of 8 that counts. Doing that ''again'' -- that is, the wizard having an 8th son -- is what makes him a Sourcerer. Put numbers to it: Original 8th son = 1 (un-magical); his 8th son = 8 (wizard); ''his'' 8th son = 64 (Sourcerer, and wizard squared).
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* ''Webcomic/KoanOfTheDay'' has a guru who is [[http://www.koanoftheday.com/24/ bad at math]].
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Repair Dont Respond, Natter.
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** Pretty Sure Einstein said that first.
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** Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 2: '''?''' StepThreeProfit!
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', in the episode "Simpsons Already Did It": Cartman's explanation for how adding semen to his tank of "Sea People" (brine shrimp) caused them to develop a civilisation: Sea-People + Sea-Men = Sea-Ciety
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** In the episode "Simpsons Already Did It": Cartman's explanation for how adding semen to his tank of "Sea People" (brine shrimp) caused them to develop a civilisation: Sea-People + Sea-Men =Sea-CietySea-Ciety.
** Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 2: '''?''' StepThreeProfit!
** Cartman's formula for gold.
** In the episode "Simpsons Already Did It": Cartman's explanation for how adding semen to his tank of "Sea People" (brine shrimp) caused them to develop a civilisation: Sea-People + Sea-Men =
** Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 2: '''?''' StepThreeProfit!
** Cartman's formula for gold.