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* ''HeyArnold'': When the town tries to bake the world-record larges pizza puff, Sid accidentally adds an absurdly large amount of baking soda because he reads "tsp" (for "teaspoon") as meaning "ten square pounds", resulting in a massive pizzasplosion.
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* ''HeyArnold'': When the town tries to bake the world-record larges largest pizza puff, Sid accidentally adds an absurdly large amount of baking soda because he reads "tsp" (for "teaspoon") as meaning "ten square pounds", resulting in a massive pizzasplosion.
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it\'s been ages since i saw this so i hardly remember anything but this one moment was very memorable
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* ''HeyArnold'': When the town tries to bake the world-record larges pizza puff, Sid accidentally adds an absurdly large amount of baking soda because he reads "tsp" (for "teaspoon") as meaning "ten square pounds", resulting in a massive pizzasplosion.
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* Several of the disasters depicted on shows such as AirCrashInvestigation, {{Mayday}}, Seconds From Disaster, and similar, are the result of mismeasurement. Plane and train crashes, explosions, building collapses - it's all a result of someone, at some point, measuring something ''very'' wrong.
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We don\'t need a public safety lecture inserted into a trope description. Use Analysis.
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A character confuses measurements in some activity, resulting in having too little or too much of something that will become disastrous. TruthInTelevision and often has effects that are far more [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs sad and deadly]] than comedic in RealLife - especially with drug overdoses, chemical mixing, and similar.
("Under" is almost always a safer option than "over" when in a situation in RealLife that could possibly involve this trope. For example, if you're not sure you took that sleeping pill, and you assume you did and do not take another, the worst you will have is another night of insomnia - whereas if you take what turns out to be a second or third "to be sure," you could end up dead. If you assume one squirt of lighter fluid isn't enough for the BBQ, you can always add another squirt if it doesn't light - whereas if you squirted half a bottle onto the BBQ, you may have a fireball and explosion rather than a lit BBQ. This is also why it's not a good idea to keep medication or alcohol -or worse, both - at your bedside, because it's too easy in a sleepy/tired/confused/drunk state to accidentally invoke this trope and overdose.)
("Under" is almost always a safer option than "over" when in a situation in RealLife that could possibly involve this trope. For example, if you're not sure you took that sleeping pill, and you assume you did and do not take another, the worst you will have is another night of insomnia - whereas if you take what turns out to be a second or third "to be sure," you could end up dead. If you assume one squirt of lighter fluid isn't enough for the BBQ, you can always add another squirt if it doesn't light - whereas if you squirted half a bottle onto the BBQ, you may have a fireball and explosion rather than a lit BBQ. This is also why it's not a good idea to keep medication or alcohol -or worse, both - at your bedside, because it's too easy in a sleepy/tired/confused/drunk state to accidentally invoke this trope and overdose.)
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A character confuses measurements in some activity, resulting in having too little or too much of something that will become disastrous. TruthInTelevision and often has effects that are far more [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs sad and deadly]] than comedic in RealLife - especially with drug overdoses, chemical mixing, and similar.
("Under" is almost always a safer option than "over" when in a situation in RealLife that could possibly involve this trope. For example, if you're not sure you took that sleeping pill, and you assume you did and do not take another, the worst you will have is another night of insomnia - whereas if you take what turns out to be a second or third "to be sure," you could end up dead. If you assume one squirt of lighter fluid isn't enough for the BBQ, you can always add another squirt if it doesn't light - whereas if you squirted half a bottle onto the BBQ, you may have a fireball and explosion rather than a lit BBQ. This is also why it's not a good idea to keep medication or alcohol -or worse, both - at your bedside, because it's too easy in a sleepy/tired/confused/drunk state to accidentally invoke this trope and overdose.)
disastrous.
("Under" is almost always a safer option than "over" when in a situation in RealLife that could possibly involve this trope. For example, if you're not sure you took that sleeping pill, and you assume you did and do not take another, the worst you will have is another night of insomnia - whereas if you take what turns out to be a second or third "to be sure," you could end up dead. If you assume one squirt of lighter fluid isn't enough for the BBQ, you can always add another squirt if it doesn't light - whereas if you squirted half a bottle onto the BBQ, you may have a fireball and explosion rather than a lit BBQ. This is also why it's not a good idea to keep medication or alcohol -or worse, both - at your bedside, because it's too easy in a sleepy/tired/confused/drunk state to accidentally invoke this trope and overdose.)
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This is TruthInTelevision, so DontTryThisAtHome. Mismeasurements are responsible for vast amounts of human tragedy in RealLife.
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* In Soviet short ''[[http://eralash.ru/video/%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8C-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7-%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8C Measure Seven Times]]'' a schoolboy takes the proverb "measure 7 times before cutting"[[note]]in other words: recheck everything multiple times before taking irreversible actions[[/note]] [[NotHyperbole too literally]] and makes a stool 7 times larger.[[note]]The general view of the stool appears at 2:28.[[/note]]
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* In Soviet short ''[[http://eralash.ru/video/%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8C-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7-%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8C Measure Seven Times]]'' a schoolboy takes the proverb "measure 7 times before cutting"[[note]]in other words: recheck everything multiple times before taking irreversible actions[[/note]] times, cut once" [[NotHyperbole too literally]] and makes a stool 7 times larger.[[note]]The general view of the stool appears at 2:28.[[/note]]
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* Nearly any unintentional drug overdose is a result of this, whether prescription, over the counter, illegal, or anything, whether it be on the side of the manufacturer (e.g. the pharmaceutical company mismeasures the amount of active substance needed in its pills, the drug dealer actually ''doesn't'' [[WateringDown "cut"]] the heroin as much as usual) or on the side of the consumer (someone thinks they need to take more of a laxative or sleeping pill to make it work faster, someone drinks over their limit, someone assumes the pharma company or drug dealer to be trustworthy)
* Quite a few fires and explosions can be attributed to various forms of mismeasurement. Classic forms include the following:
** Not realizing that exceeding the amperage capacity of an electric power source is generally ''not'' a good idea, and doing things like plugging heaters/air conditioners/lots of electronics on a breaker strip into a low-capacity outlet, not checking the rating of extension cords and power strips and plugging things into them that should ''never'' be plugged into them.
** The overuse of explosive, flammable, or combustible substances, such as in the barbecue example above, or "topping off" a vehicle or gas-powered lawnmower/leafblower/similar's gas tank.
** Storing more than one needs to immediately use of those substances or of ammunition or fireworks/pyrotechnic devices in one location.
** Having too much heat in a given space.
** Mixing flammable, combustible, or explosive chemicals without proper knowledge of safe (or safer) measurements and outputs.
* Nearly any unintentional drug overdose is a result of this, whether prescription, over the counter, illegal, or anything, whether it be on the side of the manufacturer (e.g. the pharmaceutical company mismeasures the amount of active substance needed in its pills, the drug dealer actually ''doesn't'' [[WateringDown "cut"]] the heroin as much as usual) or on the side of the consumer (someone thinks they need to take more of a laxative or sleeping pill to make it work faster, someone drinks over their limit, someone assumes the pharma company or drug dealer to be trustworthy)
* Quite a few fires and explosions can be attributed to various forms of mismeasurement. Classic forms include the following:
** Not realizing that exceeding the amperage capacity of an electric power source is generally ''not'' a good idea, and doing things like plugging heaters/air conditioners/lots of electronics on a breaker strip into a low-capacity outlet, not checking the rating of extension cords and power strips and plugging things into them that should ''never'' be plugged into them.
** The overuse of explosive, flammable, or combustible substances, such as in the barbecue example above, or "topping off" a vehicle or gas-powered lawnmower/leafblower/similar's gas tank.
** Storing more than one needs to immediately use of those substances or of ammunition or fireworks/pyrotechnic devices in one location.
** Having too much heat in a given space.
** Mixing flammable, combustible, or explosive chemicals without proper knowledge of safe (or safer) measurements and outputs.
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* An episode of ''TheCosbyShow'' had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fake designer shirt for him (he had previously claimed he owned one in order to impress a girl). Her measurements are off, resulting in the shirt having oddly lengthen sleeves and other obvious mistakes in measurements.
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* An episode of ''TheCosbyShow'' had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fake designer shirt for him (he had previously claimed he owned one in order to impress a girl). Her measurements are off, resulting in the shirt having oddly lengthen mismatched sleeves and among other obvious mistakes in measurements.
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* ''GhostTrick'': in the ending, Beauty and Dandy are breaking into a safe above Chicken Kitchen with gunpowder. Dandy reads the instructions for twenty ''kilo''grams of gunpowder instead of twenty grams.
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* In ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' squirrels try to build [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=581 giant robots]] to fight a giant bug and forgot to agree if they are using [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=582 millimeters or centimeters]]. But they like the resulting battle armor [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=583 even better]].
* ''GhostTrick'': in the ending, Beauty and Dandy are breaking into a safe above Chicken Kitchen with gunpowder. Dandy reads the instructions for twenty ''kilo''grams of gunpowder instead of twenty grams.
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* In ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' squirrels try to build [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=581 giant robots]] to fight a giant bug and forgot to agree if they are using [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=582 millimeters or centimeters]]. But they like the resulting battle armor [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=583 even better]].
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* The protagonist of the children cartoon ''Jimbo'' is a talking Jumbo-jet that was manufactured in centimetres instead of inches by mistake.
* In the episode of ''HeyArnold'' where they try to get into the world record book, their attempt at the largest pizza pocket fails when Sid misinterprets "tsp" for the [[ImpossibleLeavening yeast requirement]] as "ten square pounds" instead of "teaspoons".
* In the episode of ''HeyArnold'' where they try to get into the world record book, their attempt at the largest pizza pocket fails when Sid misinterprets "tsp" for the [[ImpossibleLeavening yeast requirement]] as "ten square pounds" instead of "teaspoons".
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* The "Gimli Glider" was an incident in July 1983 where a Air Canada Boeing 767-200 jet run out of fuel while an route from Montreal to Edmonton and had to be piloted as a glider and landed at an abandoned air strip In Gimli, Manitoba. The problem was traced to the use of an incorrect conversion factor for calculating the weight of a litre of fuel in kilograms. Canada was switching to the metric system at the time and a conversion factor for the weight in pounds was used instead.
* The "Gimli Glider" was an incident in July 1983 where a Air Canada Boeing 767-200 jet run out of fuel while an route from Montreal to Edmonton and had to be piloted as a glider and landed at an abandoned air strip In Gimli, Manitoba. The problem was traced to the use of an incorrect conversion factor for calculating the weight of a litre of fuel in kilograms. Canada was switching to the metric system at the time and a conversion factor for the weight in pounds was used instead.
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* ''JonathanCreek'': In "Angel Hair", Jonathan is designing an illusion that centres around sawing a ventiloquist dummy in half. As the trick requires extra sets of feet for the dummy, he tells the dummy maker to be sure dummy has twelve feet. The dummy maker ends up delivering a 12 foot tall dummy.
* An episode of ''TheCosbyShow'' had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fake deseigner shirt for him (he had previously claimed he owned one in order to impress a girl). Her measurments are off, resulting in the shirt having oddly lengthed sleeves and other obvious mistakes in measurements.
* In ''LastOfTheSummerWine'', Seymour gives Wesley plans to build a kite using units of feet, but Wesley assumed (because Seymour is so pretentious about being educated) that he was using metres, resulting in a hang glider-sized kite. When this actually turns out to work better, Seymour comments "[[GladIThoughtOfIt I'm glad now I asked Wesley to do it in metres]]".
* An episode of ''TheCosbyShow'' had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fake deseigner shirt for him (he had previously claimed he owned one in order to impress a girl). Her measurments are off, resulting in the shirt having oddly lengthed sleeves and other obvious mistakes in measurements.
* In ''LastOfTheSummerWine'', Seymour gives Wesley plans to build a kite using units of feet, but Wesley assumed (because Seymour is so pretentious about being educated) that he was using metres, resulting in a hang glider-sized kite. When this actually turns out to work better, Seymour comments "[[GladIThoughtOfIt I'm glad now I asked Wesley to do it in metres]]".
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* ''JonathanCreek'': In "Angel Hair", Jonathan is designing an illusion that centres centers around sawing a ventiloquist ventriloquist dummy in half. As the trick requires extra sets of feet for the dummy, he tells the dummy maker to be sure dummy has twelve feet. The dummy maker ends up delivering a 12 foot tall dummy.
* An episode of ''TheCosbyShow'' had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fakedeseigner designer shirt for him (he had previously claimed he owned one in order to impress a girl). Her measurments measurements are off, resulting in the shirt having oddly lengthed lengthen sleeves and other obvious mistakes in measurements.
* In ''LastOfTheSummerWine'', Seymour gives Wesley plans to build a kite using units of feet, but Wesley assumed (because Seymour is so pretentious about being educated) that he was using metres, resulting in a hang glider-sized kite. When this actually turns out to work better, Seymour comments "[[GladIThoughtOfIt I'm glad now I asked Wesley to do it in metres]]".
* An episode of ''TheCosbyShow'' had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fake
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** In another episode, Mr. Burns drops a weight on Homer, but it's 1000 grams. That's about 2.2 pounds, which did not have the desired affect. Burns curses the metric system.
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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter Mars Climate Orbiter]] ended up being lost in space because its software expected thruster performance to be entered in metric units, but the ground crew used imperial units.
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* ''ThisIsSpinalTap'': due to confusion on the symbols for feet (') and inches ("), a Stonehenge prop that was supposed to be 18 feet tall was instead 18 ''inches'', and nearly stomped on by the little people actors onstage.
* ''ThisIsSpinalTap'': due to confusion on the symbols for feet (') and inches ("), a Stonehenge prop that was supposed to be 18 feet tall was instead 18 ''inches'', and nearly stomped on by the little people actors onstage.
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* In Soviet short ''[[http://eralash.ru/video/семь-раз-отмерь Measure Seven Times]]'' a schoolboy takes the proverb "measure 7 times before cutting"[[note]]in other words: recheck everything multiple times before taking irreversible actions[[/note]] [[NotHyperbole too literally]] and makes a stool 7 times larger.[[note]]The general view of the stool appears at 2:28.[[/note]]
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* In Soviet short ''[[http://eralash.ru/video/семь-раз-отмерь ru/video/%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8C-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7-%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8C Measure Seven Times]]'' a schoolboy takes the proverb "measure 7 times before cutting"[[note]]in other words: recheck everything multiple times before taking irreversible actions[[/note]] [[NotHyperbole too literally]] and makes a stool 7 times larger.[[note]]The general view of the stool appears at 2:28.[[/note]]
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* In Soviet short ''[[http://eralash.ru/video/семь-раз-отмерь Measure Seven Times]]'' a schoolboy takes the proverb "measure 7 times before cutting"[[note]]in other words: recheck everything multiple times before taking irreversible actions[[/note]] [[NotHyperbole too literally]] and makes a stool 7 times larger.[[note]]The general view of the stool appears at 2:28.[[/note]]
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* In ''SequentialArt'' squirrels try to build [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=581 giant robots]] to fight a giant bug and forgot to agree if they are using [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=582 millimeters or centimeters]]. But they like the resulting battle armor [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=583 even better]].
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* In ''SequentialArt'' ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' squirrels try to build [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=581 giant robots]] to fight a giant bug and forgot to agree if they are using [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=582 millimeters or centimeters]]. But they like the resulting battle armor [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=583 even better]].
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* In ''SequentialArt'' squirrels try to build [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=581 giant robots]] to fight a giant bug and forgot to agree if they are using [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=582 millimeters or centimeters]]. But they like the resulting battle armor [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=583 even better]].
* In ''SequentialArt'' squirrels try to build [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=581 giant robots]] to fight a giant bug and forgot to agree if they are using [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=582 millimeters or centimeters]]. But they like the resulting battle armor [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=583 even better]].
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* In ''LastOfTheSummerWine'', Seymour gives Wesley plans to build a kite using units of feet, but Wesley assumed (because Seymour is so pretentious about being educated) that he was using metres, resulting in a hang glider-sized kite. When this actually turns out to work better, Seymour comments "[[GladIThoughtOfIt I'm glad now I asked Wesley to do it in metres]]".
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A character confuses measurements in some activity, resulting in having too little or too much of something that will become disastrous. TruthInTelevision and often has effects that are far more [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs sad and deadly]] than comedic in RealLife - especially with drug overdoses, chemical mixing, and similar.
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A character confuses measurements in some activity, resulting in having too little or too much of something that will become disastrous. TruthInTelevision and often has effects that are far more [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs sad and deadly]] than comedic in RealLife - especially with drug overdoses, chemical mixing, and similar.
similar.
("Under" is almost always a safer option than "over" when in a situation in RealLife that could possibly involve this trope. For example, if you're not sure you took that sleeping pill, and you assume you did and do not take another, the worst you will have is another night of insomnia - whereas if you take what turns out to be a second or third "to be sure," you could end up dead. If you assume one squirt of lighter fluid isn't enough for the BBQ, you can always add another squirt if it doesn't light - whereas if you squirted half a bottle onto the BBQ, you may have a fireball and explosion rather than a lit BBQ. This is also why it's not a good idea to keep medication or alcohol -or worse, both - at your bedside, because it's too easy in a sleepy/tired/confused/drunk state to accidentally invoke this trope and overdose.)
("Under" is almost always a safer option than "over" when in a situation in RealLife that could possibly involve this trope. For example, if you're not sure you took that sleeping pill, and you assume you did and do not take another, the worst you will have is another night of insomnia - whereas if you take what turns out to be a second or third "to be sure," you could end up dead. If you assume one squirt of lighter fluid isn't enough for the BBQ, you can always add another squirt if it doesn't light - whereas if you squirted half a bottle onto the BBQ, you may have a fireball and explosion rather than a lit BBQ. This is also why it's not a good idea to keep medication or alcohol -or worse, both - at your bedside, because it's too easy in a sleepy/tired/confused/drunk state to accidentally invoke this trope and overdose.)
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A character confuses measurements in some activity, resulting in having too little or too much of something that will become disastrous.
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* ''TheSimpsons'': Homer is in the basement trying to invent something. He works out a few equations on the chalkboard, hammers, saws, welds, and finally blows up the basement. Walking over to a chart, he changes a "greater than" sign to a "less than" sign, and goes back to work.
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* ''TheSimpsons'': Homer is in the basement trying to invent something. He works out a few equations on the chalkboard, hammers, saws, welds, and finally [[EpicFail blows up the basement.basement]]. Walking over to a chart, he changes a "greater than" sign to a "less than" sign, and goes back to work. (This causes an even ''bigger'' explosion, and on the next review he finds and erases the "Dynamite" component from the diagram.)
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* The protagonist of the children cartoon Jimbo is a talking Jumbo-jet that was manufactured in centimetres instead of inches by mistake.
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* The protagonist of the children cartoon Jimbo ''Jimbo'' is a talking Jumbo-jet that was manufactured in centimetres instead of inches by mistake.
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* In the film ''The Black Bird'' (a sequel/parody of ''TheMalteseFalcon''), the eponymous statue is mismeasured; it's one cubit long, about the length of a man's forearm, but the man who was measuring it is a Little Person so his arm is much shorter than normal.
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* In the film ''The Black Bird'' (a sequel/parody of ''TheMalteseFalcon''), ''FIlm/TheMalteseFalcon''), the eponymous statue is mismeasured; it's one cubit long, about the length of a man's forearm, but the man who was measuring it is a Little Person so his arm is much shorter than normal.
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** In another episode, Mr. Burns drops a weight on Homer, but it's 1000 grams. That's about 2.2 pounds, which did not have the desired affect. Burns curses the metric system.
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* In the episode of ''HeyArnold'' where they try to get into the world record book, their attempt at the largest pizza pocket fails when Sid misinterprets "tsp" as "ten square pounds".
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* In the episode of ''HeyArnold'' where they try to get into the world record book, their attempt at the largest pizza pocket fails when Sid misinterprets "tsp" for the [[ImpossibleLeavening yeast requirement]] as "ten square pounds".pounds" instead of "teaspoons".
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Not to be confused with UnitConfusion. See also MisplacedADecimalPoint.
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* In the Polish ''Kajko i Kokosz'' comic books the evil knights would construct a siege tower to get over the town wall but at night the heroes would sneak into the knights' encampment and alter the plans just enough to foil the plan. Since the knights were too stupid to recheck the measurements they would end up with a ramp that was too short or too long and HilarityEnsued.
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* In the film ''The Black Bird'' (a sequel/parody of ''TheMalteseFalcon''), the eponymous statue is mismeasured; it's one cubit long, about the length of a man's forearm, but the man who was measuring it is a Little Person so his arm is much shorter than normal.
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* This was a feature of many of 'Bloody Stupid' Johnson inventions on the ''{{Discworld}}''.
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* ''JonathanCreek'': In "Angel Hair", Jonathan is designing an illusion that centres around sawing a ventiloquist dummy in half. As the trick requires extra sets of feet for the dummy, he tells the dummy maker to be sure dummy has twelve feet. The dummy maker ends up delivering a 12 foot tall dummy.
* An episode of ''TheCosbyShow'' had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fake deseigner shirt for him (he had previously claimed he owned one in order to impress a girl). Her measurments are off, resulting in the shirt having oddly lengthed sleeves and other obvious mistakes in measurements.
[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* ''ThisIsSpinalTap'': due to confusion on the symbols for feet (') and inches ("), a Stonehenge prop that was supposed to be 18 feet tall was instead 18 ''inches'', and nearly stomped on by the little people actors onstage.
[[AC:NewspaperComics]]
* A ''{{Garfield}}'' strip had Jon asking Garfield about the right amount of chili powder to add to a dish that he was making. The resulting amount caused the entire dish to go poof (It might have been intentional, as Garfield then tells Jon to pitch it all out and order a pizza).
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''GhostTrick'': in the ending, Beauty and Dandy are breaking into a safe above Chicken Kitchen with gunpowder. Dandy reads the instructions for twenty ''kilo''grams of gunpowder instead of twenty grams.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* The protagonist of the children cartoon Jimbo is a talking Jumbo-jet that was manufactured in centimetres instead of inches by mistake.
* In the episode of ''HeyArnold'' where they try to get into the world record book, their attempt at the largest pizza pocket fails when Sid misinterprets "tsp" as "ten square pounds".
* ''TheSimpsons'': Homer is in the basement trying to invent something. He works out a few equations on the chalkboard, hammers, saws, welds, and finally blows up the basement. Walking over to a chart, he changes a "greater than" sign to a "less than" sign, and goes back to work.
** In another episode, Mr. Burns drops a weight on Homer, but it's 1000 grams. That's about 2.2 pounds, which did not have the desired affect. Burns curses the metric system.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter Mars Climate Orbiter]] ended up being lost in space because its software expected thruster performance to be entered in metric units, but the ground crew used imperial units.
* The "Gimli Glider" was an incident in July 1983 where a Air Canada Boeing 767-200 jet run out of fuel while an route from Montreal to Edmonton and had to be piloted as a glider and landed at an abandoned air strip In Gimli, Manitoba. The problem was traced to the use of an incorrect conversion factor for calculating the weight of a litre of fuel in kilograms. Canada was switching to the metric system at the time and a conversion factor for the weight in pounds was used instead.
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Maybe involve ExplosiveStupidity in regards to the amount of gunpowder used, or OvenLogic.
Not to be confused with UnitConfusion. See also MisplacedADecimalPoint.
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[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* In the Polish ''Kajko i Kokosz'' comic books the evil knights would construct a siege tower to get over the town wall but at night the heroes would sneak into the knights' encampment and alter the plans just enough to foil the plan. Since the knights were too stupid to recheck the measurements they would end up with a ramp that was too short or too long and HilarityEnsued.
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* In the film ''The Black Bird'' (a sequel/parody of ''TheMalteseFalcon''), the eponymous statue is mismeasured; it's one cubit long, about the length of a man's forearm, but the man who was measuring it is a Little Person so his arm is much shorter than normal.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* This was a feature of many of 'Bloody Stupid' Johnson inventions on the ''{{Discworld}}''.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''JonathanCreek'': In "Angel Hair", Jonathan is designing an illusion that centres around sawing a ventiloquist dummy in half. As the trick requires extra sets of feet for the dummy, he tells the dummy maker to be sure dummy has twelve feet. The dummy maker ends up delivering a 12 foot tall dummy.
* An episode of ''TheCosbyShow'' had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fake deseigner shirt for him (he had previously claimed he owned one in order to impress a girl). Her measurments are off, resulting in the shirt having oddly lengthed sleeves and other obvious mistakes in measurements.
[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* ''ThisIsSpinalTap'': due to confusion on the symbols for feet (') and inches ("), a Stonehenge prop that was supposed to be 18 feet tall was instead 18 ''inches'', and nearly stomped on by the little people actors onstage.
[[AC:NewspaperComics]]
* A ''{{Garfield}}'' strip had Jon asking Garfield about the right amount of chili powder to add to a dish that he was making. The resulting amount caused the entire dish to go poof (It might have been intentional, as Garfield then tells Jon to pitch it all out and order a pizza).
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''GhostTrick'': in the ending, Beauty and Dandy are breaking into a safe above Chicken Kitchen with gunpowder. Dandy reads the instructions for twenty ''kilo''grams of gunpowder instead of twenty grams.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* The protagonist of the children cartoon Jimbo is a talking Jumbo-jet that was manufactured in centimetres instead of inches by mistake.
* In the episode of ''HeyArnold'' where they try to get into the world record book, their attempt at the largest pizza pocket fails when Sid misinterprets "tsp" as "ten square pounds".
* ''TheSimpsons'': Homer is in the basement trying to invent something. He works out a few equations on the chalkboard, hammers, saws, welds, and finally blows up the basement. Walking over to a chart, he changes a "greater than" sign to a "less than" sign, and goes back to work.
** In another episode, Mr. Burns drops a weight on Homer, but it's 1000 grams. That's about 2.2 pounds, which did not have the desired affect. Burns curses the metric system.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter Mars Climate Orbiter]] ended up being lost in space because its software expected thruster performance to be entered in metric units, but the ground crew used imperial units.
* The "Gimli Glider" was an incident in July 1983 where a Air Canada Boeing 767-200 jet run out of fuel while an route from Montreal to Edmonton and had to be piloted as a glider and landed at an abandoned air strip In Gimli, Manitoba. The problem was traced to the use of an incorrect conversion factor for calculating the weight of a litre of fuel in kilograms. Canada was switching to the metric system at the time and a conversion factor for the weight in pounds was used instead.
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