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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': "C-I-L-L my landlord!"
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* In ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', the ditzy sidekick Dooley announces that his guard is up -- "U. P. P., up."
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* ''Series/BlackBooks'': Manny stumbles over his spelling after Bernard starts a wager with him over who can sell the most books.
-->'''Manny:''' Ha! You're toast! T-O-E-A-R-S-T ...toearst.
-->'''Manny:''' Ha! You're toast! T-O-E-A-R-S-T ...toearst.
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->''All I need to know how to spell is 'Kill." K-Y-Y-Y-L.''
-->--A Houk mook from ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''
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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Dale tries to bring up the line that "Ford" stands for "fix or repair daily", but screws up an uses a similar line for a different brand.
-->'''Dale''': You know what the problem is? It's a Ford. You know what Ford stands for? Fix It Again Tony. \\
'''Hank''': ''(annoyed)'' Dale, that's a Fiat.
-->'''Dale''': You know what the problem is? It's a Ford. You know what Ford stands for? Fix It Again Tony. \\
'''Hank''': ''(annoyed)'' Dale, that's a Fiat.
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** Inverted in "Grade School Confidential", as Maude Flanders pulls CensorshipBySpelling correctly and Krusty mishears her.
--->'''Maude Flanders:''' We're talking about S-E-X in front of the C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N.\\
'''Krusty:''' Sex Cauldron? I thought they closed that place down.
--->'''Maude Flanders:''' We're talking about S-E-X in front of the C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N.\\
'''Krusty:''' Sex Cauldron? I thought they closed that place down.
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** Played with in ''WesternAnimation/DuckRabbitDuck'': Elmer thinks he needs a license to hunt a "fricasseeing rabbit", so Daffy writes him one, and asks Bugs how to spell it. Bugs then spells out "fricasseeing '''duck'''", which Daffy fails to notice even as he writes it and [[PleaseShootTheMessenger delivers it to Elmer]].
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* [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Mr. Know-It-All]] comes across an elephant's cage thinking it's a tiger inside. He even spells it out: "E-L-E-P-H-A-N-T. Tiger."
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch'' episode "No Space Like Home," the bears and Mr. Peevly and Botch have escaped a metallic planet in their rocket ship (on which a scientist sent them to start with) back for Earth.
-->'''Botch:''' Which button do I press now, Mr. Peevly?\\
'''Peevly:''' Earth button. What else?
'''Botch:''' Oh, yeah. Earth. (''sees the "destruct" button and fingers each letter'') Let's see now...D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T. "Earth"!
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch'' episode "No Space Like Home," the bears and Mr. Peevly and Botch have escaped a metallic planet in their rocket ship (on which a scientist sent them to start with) back for Earth.
-->'''Botch:''' Which button do I press now, Mr. Peevly?\\
'''Peevly:''' Earth button. What else?
'''Botch:''' Oh, yeah. Earth. (''sees the "destruct" button and fingers each letter'') Let's see now...D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T. "Earth"!
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* In WesternAnimation/InsideOut, when Bing-Bong tries to read the warning above a door:
-->D-A-N-G-E-R: Shortcut!
-->D-A-N-G-E-R: Shortcut!
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Peanuts}}:'' Spelling bee contest. Charlie Brown is one correct word away from taking the top prize. He is given "beagle" (Snoopy's species), which the other kids think he'll have no trouble getting by that very fact. "B-E-A-G-E-L." Cue the collective "AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHHH!!!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Peanuts}}:'' Spelling bee contest. Charlie Brown is one correct word away from taking the top prize. He is given "beagle" (Snoopy's species), breed), which the other kids think he'll have no trouble getting by that very fact. "B-E-A-G-E-L." Cue the collective "AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHHH!!!"
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* Intentionally done by Helga in a Spelling bee episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. Feeling the pressure mounted on her by her father to live up to the standards set by her [[TheAce ace]] sister, Helga throws the final round of the spelling bee when given the word "Qualm", a word her dad had beaten into her earlier in the episode.
-->'''Helga:''' Q, U, A, L...X?
-->'''Helga:''' Q, U, A, L...X?
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-->--A Houk mook from ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''
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* Series/Powerless2017: Van shows Emily the many tropys he's won as a child, starting with the SpellingBee trophy he won for spelling "failure" as F-A-L-U-R-E. It's then that he starts realizing that his parents have let him win all his life.
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* Series/Powerless2017: ''Series/Powerless2017'': Van shows Emily the many tropys he's won as a child, starting with the SpellingBee trophy he won for spelling "failure" as F-A-L-U-R-E. It's then that he starts realizing that his parents have let him win all his life.
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* Series/Powerless2017: Van shows Emily the many tropys he's won as a child, starting with the SpellingBee trophy he won for spelling "failure" as F-A-L-U-R-E. It's then that he starts realizing that his parents have let him win all his life.
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* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017:'' The big finish to "Gaston":
-->'''Lefou:''' There's just one guy in town who's got it all down, \\
And his name's G-A-S…T… \\
I believe there's another T… \\
It just occurred to me that I'm illiterate and I've never actually had to spell it out loud before… \\
Gaston!
-->'''Lefou:''' There's just one guy in town who's got it all down, \\
And his name's G-A-S…T… \\
I believe there's another T… \\
It just occurred to me that I'm illiterate and I've never actually had to spell it out loud before… \\
Gaston!
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* Harry Enfield's novelty song ''Loadsamoney'' has him try to spell the song's title:
--> L-O-D-S of E-M-O-N-E! What's that spell? Loadsamoney, prob'ly.
--> L-O-D-S of E-M-O-N-E! What's that spell? Loadsamoney, prob'ly.
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** And a little girl looks at a tube of '''shaving soap.''' She spells it correctly, but still answers that it's toothpaste.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Peanuts}}:'' Spelling bee contest. Charlie Brown is one correct word away from taking the top prize. He is given "beagle" (Snoopy's species), which the other kids think he'll have no trouble getting by that very fact. "B-E-A-G-E-L." Cue the collective "AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHHH!!!"
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* ''Series/GomerPyleUSMC:'' Slater's stand-up comedy routine involves Sgt. Carter's problematic orthography: "M-A-R-E... M-A-R-U... Marines!"
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** And a little girl looks at a tube of '''shaving soap.''' She spells it correctly, but still answers that it's toothpaste.
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* In ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'', most of the characters get eliminated for reasonable slip-ups involving doubled or silent letters -- and then there's [[spoiler:Marcy's rebellion against her parents' oppressively high expectations by spelling "camouflage" with a J and a Z]].
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* In an episode of the American ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', Wayne, Greg, Colin, and Ryan sing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BgMOwzyK0E song]] based on audience member Howard's profession to the tune of the Village People's "YMCA". Wayne misspells Howard's name as H-O-R-W-A-R-D, not realizing it until it was pointed out to him after the song ended - and that was ''before'' Laura accidentally caused the music to speed up.
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** In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege "Homer Goes to College,"]] Homer gets his college application back and lights his high school diploma on fire, hilariously misspelling the word "smart" before quickly correcting himself:
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** In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege "Homer Goes to College,"]] Homer gets his college application back and lights his high school diploma on fire, hilariously misspelling the word "smart" before quickly correcting himself:
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* The first ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Puss Gets the Boot" has Mammy Two-Shoes saying that Tom (or Jasper as he was called) that he's going out: "O-W-T." This was was later [[{{Bowdlerize}} redubbed]] to make the spelling correct so it would seem less offensive to blacks.
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* The first ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short short, "Puss Gets the Boot" Boot", has Mammy Two-Shoes saying that Tom (or Jasper as he was called) that he's going out: "O-W-T." This was was later [[{{Bowdlerize}} redubbed]] to make the spelling correct so it would seem less offensive to blacks.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'': In "The Diabolical Department Store Danger", after the Ant Hill Mob drive Chugga-Boom into the store's elevator to rescue Penelope from the top floor, Dum-Dum looks at the lever and says, "D-O-W-N... up."
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* In ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'', the goose's habit of repeating herself results in spelling "Terrific" as "Teerrrriiffiicccc". Charlotte is not amused at the idea of writing out 17 letters in her web.
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-->'''Ali G:''' R.E.S.T.E.C.P! Do ya even know wha it spellz?
-->'''Cabinet M.P.:''' Restecp?
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-->'''Ali G:''' R.E.S.T.E.C.P! Do ya even know wha it spellz?
-->'''Cabinetspellz?\\
'''Cabinet M.P.:''' Restecp?
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--->'''Mother''': I-M W-O-R-R-I-E-D T-H-A-T H-E M-A-Y B-E S-T-U-N-T-E-D I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-Y.
--->'''Son''': That's I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-'''L'''-Y!
--->'''Son''': That's I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-'''L'''-Y!
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--->'''Mother''': I-M W-O-R-R-I-E-D T-H-A-T H-E M-A-Y B-E S-T-U-N-T-E-D I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-Y.
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'''Son''': That's I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-'''L'''-Y!
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--->'''Woman''': ''[about a nearby girl]'' She's not very P-R-E-T-Y, is she?
--->'''Girl''': But I'm very S-M-A-R-T, and by the way, "pretty" is spelled with two Ts.
--->'''Girl''': But I'm very S-M-A-R-T, and by the way, "pretty" is spelled with two Ts.
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--->'''Woman''': ''[about a nearby girl]'' She's not very P-R-E-T-Y, is she?
--->'''Girl''':she?\\
'''Girl''': But I'm very S-M-A-R-T, and by the way, "pretty" is spelled with two Ts.
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'''Girl''': But I'm very S-M-A-R-T, and by the way, "pretty" is spelled with two Ts.
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-->'''Ella''' ''(to Sandor)'': Inspector Barnes!
-->'''Sandor''': Barnes?
-->'''Ella''': Barnz! B-A-R-N-Z!
-->'''Sandor''': Z?
-->'''Ella''': Z!! The whole thing was a trap. He was after you the whole time.
-->'''Sandor''': Barnes?
-->'''Ella''': Barnz! B-A-R-N-Z!
-->'''Sandor''': Z?
-->'''Ella''': Z!! The whole thing was a trap. He was after you the whole time.
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-->'''Sandor''': Barnes?
-->'''Ella''':Barnes!\\
'''Sandor''': Barnes?\\
'''Ella''': Barnz!B-A-R-N-Z!
-->'''Sandor''': Z?
-->'''Ella''':B-A-R-N-Z!\\
'''Sandor''': Z?\\
'''Ella''': Z!! The whole thing was a trap. He was after you the whole time.
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'''Sandor''': Barnes?\\
'''Ella''': Barnz!
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'''Sandor''': Z?\\
'''Ella''': Z!! The whole thing was a trap. He was after you the whole time.
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--->'''Prunella:''' Can ''you'' spell 'endurance', Arthur?
--->'''Arthur:''' I-N-D... ''(Francine busts out laughing)''
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--->'''Arthur:''' I-N-D... ''(Francine busts out laughing)''
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'''Arthur:''' I-N-D... ''(Francine busts outlaughing)''
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-->'''Jimmy Gourd:''' Nothin'! Nothin'! N-U-T, uh... You know, nothin'.
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* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''
-->'''Roger:''' Dames? What dames? Jessica's the only one for me! You'll see! We'll rise above this piddling pecadillo! We're gonna be happy again! You got that? Happy! Capital H-A-P-P-I!
-->'''Roger:''' Dames? What dames? Jessica's the only one for me! You'll see! We'll rise above this piddling pecadillo! We're gonna be happy again! You got that? Happy! Capital H-A-P-P-I!
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Someone has to spell a word out loud, for the sake of clarity, for emphasis, or because they're in a SpellingBee, and they make an elementary spelling mistake or even spell a different word entirely. This generally [[TheDitz reflects negatively on the character's intelligence]] or [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny attentiveness]].
In English, these common spelling mistakes include inserting a spurious silent E, changing a hard S to a Z, or almost any of the mangled spellings whose deliberate use is described under XtremeKoolLetterz.
Compare AcquiredErrorAtThePrinter, LIsForDyslexia, {{Malaproper}}, TwoWordsICantCount.
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* ''Film/AliGIndahouse'': Ali G hears the M.P.s arguing and stands up to tell them they should "restecp" each other more.
-->'''Ali G:''' R.E.S.T.E.C.P! Do ya even know wha it spellz?
-->'''Cabinet M.P.:''' Restecp?
* ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' features the BadGirlSong "'Cause I'm a Blonde," in which the singer spells "blonde" a different way during each chorus (B-L-O-N-D, B-L-I-N-D, and B-L-"I don't know," respectively.) It also contains the lyrics:
-->I can't spell VW
-->but I've got a Porsche!
* ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'':
-->'''Don Giovanni''': OK, you want plain English: Robin is gonna be dead. D-E-D. Dead.
* In the second ''Film/TeenBeachMovie'', [[BrainlessBeauty Tanner]] tells Brady:
-->'''Tanner''': But in my world, we have our own word. Confidence. It's spelled K-O-N...fidence.
* A rare instance of this trope being {{Invoked}} [[PlayedForDrama for Drama]] occurs in ''[[Film/TheresNoBusinessLikeShowBusiness There's No Business Like Show Business]]''. After Tim [[spoiler:gets drunk and crashes his car with a passenger, both of them miraculously surviving with barely a scratch]], the stress of learning what happened combined with Tim's lack of remorse causes his father Terence to tell him off.
-->'''Terence:''' What's got into you? Who do you think you are? I'll tell you what you are. You're nothing, because you've made yourself nothing, you conceited little punk. I wouldn't care if I never saw you again.
-->'''Tim:''' Well, come on now, pop. I heard there was a big crop of corn this year, but--
-->'''Terence:''' What?
-->'''Tim:''' Corn. H-A-M. Corn. ''[Terence slaps him across the face and storms out of the room.]''
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'':
-->'''Roger''': Dames? What dames? Jessica's the only one for me! You'll see! We'll rise above this piddling peccadillo! We're gonna be happy again! You got that? Happy! Capital H-A-P-P-I!
* In ''Film/TheWizardOfSpeedAndTime'', when C. C. de Schwartz fires Harvey Bookman, he shouts "You're out, Bookman! O-W-T!"
* In ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', used by Derek to explain to Mathilda why he couldn't have been missing for a week:
-->'''Derek''': Uh, earth to Mathilda! I was at a day spa. Day. D-A-I-Y-E. Ok?
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* In ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'', Comfort Goodpasture, after meeting Opie, responds to one of Grady's come-ons: "No. N-O-E. No."
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* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ''TOW The Blind Dates" Joey tells Monica and Chandler they need to be more responsible babysitters: "You can't have S-E-X when you're looking after a B-A-B-I-E!"
* On the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode 'Al Goes to the Dogs' (season 10 ep. 22), when Kelly gets caught making out with a man by her family on their front door, she gets startled and [[ImplausibleDeniability pushes him away]]:
-->'''Kelly:''' God, do I have to spell it out for you? G-N-O spells 'no'!
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': In the episode in which Ron and Diane first meet, we get this from Andy, though it probably says more about his inattention than intelligence:
-->'''Andy:''' [[KissingInATree Ron and Diane sitting in a tree]], K-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I!
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* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'':
** In one "Lighter Side Of..." strip two parents are discussing their son, who is having problems at school, and resort to CensorshipBySpelling to talk about it in front of him.
--->'''Mother''': I-M W-O-R-R-I-E-D T-H-A-T H-E M-A-Y B-E S-T-U-N-T-E-D I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-Y.
--->'''Son''': That's I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-'''L'''-Y!
** And in another "Lighter Side"
--->'''Woman''': ''[about a nearby girl]'' She's not very P-R-E-T-Y, is she?
--->'''Girl''': But I'm very S-M-A-R-T, and by the way, "pretty" is spelled with two Ts.
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* From "Young, Dumb, and Ugly" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic:
-->''We got three-day stubble. Our name spells "trouble".''
-->''T-R-U-B-E-L.''
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* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', Ella, being threatened by Sandor and the Corvello henchmen, tries to tell them that the police are in pursuit:
-->'''Ella''' ''(to Sandor)'': Inspector Barnes!
-->'''Sandor''': Barnes?
-->'''Ella''': Barnz! B-A-R-N-Z!
-->'''Sandor''': Z?
-->'''Ella''': Z!! The whole thing was a trap. He was after you the whole time.
* In ''Theatre/WonderfulTown'', the Wreck sings that he went through college as a DumbJock who "thought that dog was c-a-t."
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', one of the [[MemeticMutation highly memetic]] Space Core's many, ''many'' lines about space includes him spelling the word "space":
-->'''Space Core''': S-P... uh... Ace.
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* Fisk from ''Webcomic/BetterDays'' getting kicked out of his GirlOfTheWeek Jenny's house by her mother:
-->'''Mother:''' [[http://jaynaylor.com/betterdays/archives/2003/05/post-8.html Out! Out! Oh-Dubya-Tee, OUT!]]
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* Resident SerialKiller Genocide Jill in ''WebVideo/DanganronpaParody'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOScMm94YU&t=5m2s gives this little number]] after coming back from [[BodyOfTheWeek finding a corpse in the garden]] in episode 5.
-->'''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jill]]''': Let me spell it out for you. A dead B.O.D.E!
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Byakuya]]''': Great! And that came from the 'Ultimate Writer'!
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/peaking-at-high-school-isnt-f-u-n-n-y/24279 This story]] at ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' has a customer demand his money back because he didn't like the book. He doesn't have a receipt and the cashier tells him the best they can do is store credit. He replies "No, the best you can do is money. M-U-N-N-Y!" Another customer really lays into him, even pointing out his spelling error.
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* One ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode revolves around a school spelling bee, with multiple examples.
** Prunella says she won last year with the word 'endurance'.
--->'''Prunella:''' Can ''you'' spell 'endurance', Arthur?
--->'''Arthur:''' I-N-D... ''(Francine busts out laughing)''
--->'''Prunella:''' Forget it.
** The Brain is knocked out in the first round of the spelling bee when he spells 'fear' F-E-R-E. ([[JustifiedTrope It's strongly implied he spent more time teaching himself programming than studying for the spelling bee.]])
* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Too Smart for his own Ed" has Jimmy training Rolf for the spelling be with a ''Baby's First Words" book; here, he's trying to spell "Watch."
-->"W-O-C-H. Wristclock."
** "R-E-S-P-E-E-K. Respect, Double D."
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', the title character is in a SpellingBee and is asked to spell "go". He spells it "G-E-A-U-X".
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
** "WesternAnimation/BabyBottleneck": WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck is asked to hatch an egg.
--->'''Daffy:''' Oh, no! Oh-ho-ho no! Sitting on eggs is out! O-W-T, out!
** "WesternAnimation/ABearForPunishment": Junyer Bear goes to get tobacco for his dad's pipe.
--->'''Junyer:''' G-U-N-P-O-W-D-E-R, tobacco. I am a good speller, I am. C-A-T, dog. B-A-T, Rhode Island.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''
-->'''Roger:''' Dames? What dames? Jessica's the only one for me! You'll see! We'll rise above this piddling pecadillo! We're gonna be happy again! You got that? Happy! Capital H-A-P-P-I!
* ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'':
-->'''Tigger:''' Name's Tigger. Tee-aye-double-guh-ur. That spells Tigger.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege "Homer Goes to College,"]] Homer gets his college application back and lights his high school diploma on fire, hilariously misspelling the word "smart" before quickly correcting himself:
--->'''Homer''': I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T![[note]]The word was spelled correctly in the script; Creator/DanCastellaneta flubbed it, but it was decided to ThrowItIn.[[/note]]
** In the episode "Krusty Gets Busted":
--->'''Homer''': Earth to Marge, I was there. The clown is G-I-L-L-T-Y.
* The first ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Puss Gets the Boot" has Mammy Two-Shoes saying that Tom (or Jasper as he was called) that he's going out: "O-W-T." This was was later [[{{Bowdlerize}} redubbed]] to make the spelling correct so it would seem less offensive to blacks.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': In "Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space!", Jimmy Gourd complains that nothing interesting ever happens at his job:
-->'''Jimmy Gourd:''' Nothin'! Nothin'! N-U-T, uh... You know, nothin'.
In English, these common spelling mistakes include inserting a spurious silent E, changing a hard S to a Z, or almost any of the mangled spellings whose deliberate use is described under XtremeKoolLetterz.
Compare AcquiredErrorAtThePrinter, LIsForDyslexia, {{Malaproper}}, TwoWordsICantCount.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/AliGIndahouse'': Ali G hears the M.P.s arguing and stands up to tell them they should "restecp" each other more.
-->'''Ali G:''' R.E.S.T.E.C.P! Do ya even know wha it spellz?
-->'''Cabinet M.P.:''' Restecp?
* ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' features the BadGirlSong "'Cause I'm a Blonde," in which the singer spells "blonde" a different way during each chorus (B-L-O-N-D, B-L-I-N-D, and B-L-"I don't know," respectively.) It also contains the lyrics:
-->I can't spell VW
-->but I've got a Porsche!
* ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'':
-->'''Don Giovanni''': OK, you want plain English: Robin is gonna be dead. D-E-D. Dead.
* In the second ''Film/TeenBeachMovie'', [[BrainlessBeauty Tanner]] tells Brady:
-->'''Tanner''': But in my world, we have our own word. Confidence. It's spelled K-O-N...fidence.
* A rare instance of this trope being {{Invoked}} [[PlayedForDrama for Drama]] occurs in ''[[Film/TheresNoBusinessLikeShowBusiness There's No Business Like Show Business]]''. After Tim [[spoiler:gets drunk and crashes his car with a passenger, both of them miraculously surviving with barely a scratch]], the stress of learning what happened combined with Tim's lack of remorse causes his father Terence to tell him off.
-->'''Terence:''' What's got into you? Who do you think you are? I'll tell you what you are. You're nothing, because you've made yourself nothing, you conceited little punk. I wouldn't care if I never saw you again.
-->'''Tim:''' Well, come on now, pop. I heard there was a big crop of corn this year, but--
-->'''Terence:''' What?
-->'''Tim:''' Corn. H-A-M. Corn. ''[Terence slaps him across the face and storms out of the room.]''
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'':
-->'''Roger''': Dames? What dames? Jessica's the only one for me! You'll see! We'll rise above this piddling peccadillo! We're gonna be happy again! You got that? Happy! Capital H-A-P-P-I!
* In ''Film/TheWizardOfSpeedAndTime'', when C. C. de Schwartz fires Harvey Bookman, he shouts "You're out, Bookman! O-W-T!"
* In ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', used by Derek to explain to Mathilda why he couldn't have been missing for a week:
-->'''Derek''': Uh, earth to Mathilda! I was at a day spa. Day. D-A-I-Y-E. Ok?
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'', Comfort Goodpasture, after meeting Opie, responds to one of Grady's come-ons: "No. N-O-E. No."
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ''TOW The Blind Dates" Joey tells Monica and Chandler they need to be more responsible babysitters: "You can't have S-E-X when you're looking after a B-A-B-I-E!"
* On the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode 'Al Goes to the Dogs' (season 10 ep. 22), when Kelly gets caught making out with a man by her family on their front door, she gets startled and [[ImplausibleDeniability pushes him away]]:
-->'''Kelly:''' God, do I have to spell it out for you? G-N-O spells 'no'!
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': In the episode in which Ron and Diane first meet, we get this from Andy, though it probably says more about his inattention than intelligence:
-->'''Andy:''' [[KissingInATree Ron and Diane sitting in a tree]], K-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I!
[[AC:{{Magazines}}]]
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'':
** In one "Lighter Side Of..." strip two parents are discussing their son, who is having problems at school, and resort to CensorshipBySpelling to talk about it in front of him.
--->'''Mother''': I-M W-O-R-R-I-E-D T-H-A-T H-E M-A-Y B-E S-T-U-N-T-E-D I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-Y.
--->'''Son''': That's I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-'''L'''-Y!
** And in another "Lighter Side"
--->'''Woman''': ''[about a nearby girl]'' She's not very P-R-E-T-Y, is she?
--->'''Girl''': But I'm very S-M-A-R-T, and by the way, "pretty" is spelled with two Ts.
[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* From "Young, Dumb, and Ugly" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic:
-->''We got three-day stubble. Our name spells "trouble".''
-->''T-R-U-B-E-L.''
[[AC:{{Theatre}}]]
* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', Ella, being threatened by Sandor and the Corvello henchmen, tries to tell them that the police are in pursuit:
-->'''Ella''' ''(to Sandor)'': Inspector Barnes!
-->'''Sandor''': Barnes?
-->'''Ella''': Barnz! B-A-R-N-Z!
-->'''Sandor''': Z?
-->'''Ella''': Z!! The whole thing was a trap. He was after you the whole time.
* In ''Theatre/WonderfulTown'', the Wreck sings that he went through college as a DumbJock who "thought that dog was c-a-t."
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', one of the [[MemeticMutation highly memetic]] Space Core's many, ''many'' lines about space includes him spelling the word "space":
-->'''Space Core''': S-P... uh... Ace.
[[AC:WebComics]]
* Fisk from ''Webcomic/BetterDays'' getting kicked out of his GirlOfTheWeek Jenny's house by her mother:
-->'''Mother:''' [[http://jaynaylor.com/betterdays/archives/2003/05/post-8.html Out! Out! Oh-Dubya-Tee, OUT!]]
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* Resident SerialKiller Genocide Jill in ''WebVideo/DanganronpaParody'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOScMm94YU&t=5m2s gives this little number]] after coming back from [[BodyOfTheWeek finding a corpse in the garden]] in episode 5.
-->'''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jill]]''': Let me spell it out for you. A dead B.O.D.E!
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Byakuya]]''': Great! And that came from the 'Ultimate Writer'!
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/peaking-at-high-school-isnt-f-u-n-n-y/24279 This story]] at ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' has a customer demand his money back because he didn't like the book. He doesn't have a receipt and the cashier tells him the best they can do is store credit. He replies "No, the best you can do is money. M-U-N-N-Y!" Another customer really lays into him, even pointing out his spelling error.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* One ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode revolves around a school spelling bee, with multiple examples.
** Prunella says she won last year with the word 'endurance'.
--->'''Prunella:''' Can ''you'' spell 'endurance', Arthur?
--->'''Arthur:''' I-N-D... ''(Francine busts out laughing)''
--->'''Prunella:''' Forget it.
** The Brain is knocked out in the first round of the spelling bee when he spells 'fear' F-E-R-E. ([[JustifiedTrope It's strongly implied he spent more time teaching himself programming than studying for the spelling bee.]])
* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Too Smart for his own Ed" has Jimmy training Rolf for the spelling be with a ''Baby's First Words" book; here, he's trying to spell "Watch."
-->"W-O-C-H. Wristclock."
** "R-E-S-P-E-E-K. Respect, Double D."
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', the title character is in a SpellingBee and is asked to spell "go". He spells it "G-E-A-U-X".
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
** "WesternAnimation/BabyBottleneck": WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck is asked to hatch an egg.
--->'''Daffy:''' Oh, no! Oh-ho-ho no! Sitting on eggs is out! O-W-T, out!
** "WesternAnimation/ABearForPunishment": Junyer Bear goes to get tobacco for his dad's pipe.
--->'''Junyer:''' G-U-N-P-O-W-D-E-R, tobacco. I am a good speller, I am. C-A-T, dog. B-A-T, Rhode Island.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''
-->'''Roger:''' Dames? What dames? Jessica's the only one for me! You'll see! We'll rise above this piddling pecadillo! We're gonna be happy again! You got that? Happy! Capital H-A-P-P-I!
* ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'':
-->'''Tigger:''' Name's Tigger. Tee-aye-double-guh-ur. That spells Tigger.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege "Homer Goes to College,"]] Homer gets his college application back and lights his high school diploma on fire, hilariously misspelling the word "smart" before quickly correcting himself:
--->'''Homer''': I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T![[note]]The word was spelled correctly in the script; Creator/DanCastellaneta flubbed it, but it was decided to ThrowItIn.[[/note]]
** In the episode "Krusty Gets Busted":
--->'''Homer''': Earth to Marge, I was there. The clown is G-I-L-L-T-Y.
* The first ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Puss Gets the Boot" has Mammy Two-Shoes saying that Tom (or Jasper as he was called) that he's going out: "O-W-T." This was was later [[{{Bowdlerize}} redubbed]] to make the spelling correct so it would seem less offensive to blacks.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': In "Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space!", Jimmy Gourd complains that nothing interesting ever happens at his job:
-->'''Jimmy Gourd:''' Nothin'! Nothin'! N-U-T, uh... You know, nothin'.
