History Main / SidetrackedByTheAnalogy

* One ''Lupo Alberto'' strip has a variant when Enrico commented that the rainy weather seemed the summer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherrapunji Cherrapunji]] (or Cerrapungi, as it's often spelled in Italian)... And it turns out nobody else in the farm (aside possibly the doctor) has ever heard of the place, leaving them stunned wondering just ''what'' Cherrapunji is (somehow, nobody just ''asks'' the two guys in the known what this mythical Cerrapungi is).

'''Dilbert:''' (''thinking'') [[TemptingFate Please don't be]] [[TropeNamers sidetracked by the analogy.]]\\

-->'''Topper:''' My uncle used to tell me that not playing to win is like [[BrotherSisterIncest sleeping with your sister]]. Sure, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies]], but it's... it's just illegal... Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth

--> [[note]] Scars can be made invisible or erased completely with proper skin care and make-up.[[/note]]

* In a 2021 episode of British topical comedy show ''The Last Leg'' host Adam Hills brought up a recent story of a man who had recently visited accident and emergency due to having an unexploded WW2 bomb stuck... [[AssShove well]], as part of an analogy that his claims that he slipped and fell were more believable than claims made in the currently discussed story. Unsurprisingly regulars Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe quickly became distracted discussing this story instead, which Hills was quick to point out.

* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'': When Rochelle finds out that Tonya had been wearing a stuffed bra in order to get attention from boys, she compares it to having a saddle before getting a horse. After elaborating a bit too much on the analogy, Tonya asks if they are talking about bras or saddles, in which Julius answers "saddles" off-screen.[[note]] this was likely because he almost took the blame for said bra ending up in Rochelle's drawer, which caused her to [[MistakenForCheating accuse him of an affair]]. That, and because Tonya is a DaddysGirl, and he disliked the fact that she was growing up too fast.[[/note]]

* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'': When Rochelle finds out that Tonya had been wearing a stuffed bra in order to get attention from boys, she compares it to having a saddle before getting a horse. After elaborating a bit too much on the analogy, Tonya asks if they are talking about bras or saddles, in which Julius answers "saddles" off-screen.[[Note]] this was likely because he almost took the blame for said bra ending up in Rochelle's drawer, which caused her to [[MistakenForCheating accuse him of an affair]]. That, and because Tonya is a DaddysGirl, and he disliked the fact that she was growing up too fast.[[/note]]

* [[https://xkcd.com/2186/ This]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip has a girl explain to a guy that the Earth contains roughly a squirrel's weight of dark matter at any given time. The guy interprets it as a literal squirrel made of dark matter hiding somewhere amongst the Earth's squirrel population, much to the girl's dismay.
-->''"Dark matter isn't squirrels!"''

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', after getting a bit of AnalogyBackfire with "ogres are like onions," Donkey spends some time trying to find a more palatable food for the analogy. [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] a bit by the fact that the onion is kind of a bad analogy to begin with: it may have layers, but each layer is made of the same thing: onion. You're not going to find anything different or surprising in the middle of an onion. Donkey's suggestion of a parfait is actually closer to what Shrek is talking about. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} ...But then they ignore that and continue arguing.]]

'''Dilbert:''' (''thinking'') [[TemptingFate Please don't be]] [[TropeNamer sidetracked by the analogy.]]\\

* Similar to the above, an episode of ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' has Minatsu posing a math problem to Kurimu. The problem is fairly typical: "John goes to the store with X dollars. He buys Y units of a certain item at a certain price, and Z units of another item at a different price. How much change should he get?" Kurimu instead thinks about why the character in the story would be buying the certain items, and concludes that his parents are neglectful.