Line #21 CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer/ComicStrips


1	[[NewspaperComics A handful of small panels]] proves to be plenty of room to [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer get the facts twisted]].
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4	* Parodied in the comic strip ''ComicStrip/TomTheDancingBug'', in which a news anchor says, "And now that we have reported this story, we plan to research it as thoroughly as possible."
5	* Various examples involving ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
6	** One of the reasons Charles Schulz hated the "Peanuts" name (which was [[ExecutiveMeddling forced on him by the syndicate]]) was that a lot of people thought it was the name of the main character, which is why the subtitle "Featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown" was included in the Sunday strips for several years.
7	** More than once, a writer will comment on Lucy or Peppermint Patty as though they are Charlie Brown's ''love interests'', or even in competition for his affections. Probably the kindest emotion Lucy has ever had toward Charlie Brown is pity. As for Peppermint Patty, for a while she ''believed'' that she and "Chuck" were an item, but then, she also believed Snoopy was a "funny looking kid with a big nose" and that his doghouse was "Chuck's guest cottage."
8	** When game shows and radio contests ask for the name of Charlie Brown's teacher, the "correct" answer is Miss Othmar, who is actually better known for being Linus' teacher. While a few strips have Charlie Brown show up in Linus' class, others have him in a separate class with a different teacher named Mrs. Donovan. The fact that Miss Othmar was referred to by name way more often than Mrs. Donovan (who was named exactly once in the mid-1960s) probably contributed to the assumption the former was Charlie Brown's teacher.
9	** A lot of Sally Brown's school reports are in-universe cases of this. [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1970/02/12/ Just]] [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1972/12/11/ a]] [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1984/10/06/ few]] [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1981/05/15/ examples]].
10	** [[https://www.amazon.com/Peanuts-Heres-You-Charlie-Brown/dp/1787742695 Some]] [[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/peanuts-charles-m-schulz/1144089611?ean=9781787742697 online listings]] for the Titan Comics reissue of the strip collection ''Here's to You, Charlie Brown'' claims that it included strips that were previously published in ''"Ha Ha, Herman," Charlie Brown''. It actually includes strips from ''You Can't Win, Charlie Brown'', the confusion likely stemming from the similarly-titled ''You Can't Win Them All, Charlie Brown'' (one of two "abridged" versions of ''"Ha Ha, Herman"'').
11	* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' did a week of strips parodying ''ComicStrip/LoveIs'' titled "Love Isn't", starring Jeremy and Sara as everyone's favorite [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons married naked 8-year-olds]]. At least one newspaper editor not only completely missed the parody aspect but [[https://web.archive.org/web/20091222145810/http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/11/05/jeremys-parents-are-naked/ ID'ed the naked couple]] as Jeremy's ''parents.''
12	* In an early ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip, Dilbert accidentally employed the "[[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan death grip]]" on a co-worker. Many readers wrote in to explain that "There is no such thing as a Vulcan death grip" (a direct quote from the relevant episode, "The Enterprise Incident"), though there is a "Vulcan nerve pinch" that only causes unconsciousness. Scott Adams says that's when he really understood who his audience was.
13	* Bill Rechin, the cartoonist behind ''Crock,'' made a number of these kinds of gaffes in his later years. One particularly painful strip involved [[http://joshreads.com/?p=23535 an oddly-dressed black character asking people if they ever "did the hip-hop."]]
14	* One part of [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/worstcomixever/pokemonstrip.html this review]] of the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' comic chastises the cartoonist for drawing Starmie shooting water from its jewel. However, the reviewer himself makes an error: he mistakes Staryu (who, to his credit, can't shoot water from its jewel either) for Starmie.
15	* An in-universe example in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': When the title characters are being chased by an evil snowman Calvin brought to life, Hobbes wonders, "Now, how did they finally kill [[WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman Frosty]]?" Anyone who has watched that Creator/RankinBass special knows that the main characters were trying to ''save'' Frosty, and while the villain character did appear to have succeeded in killing him, he came back to life.
16	** Calvin's bat/bug report is this trope lampshaded, turned inside out, and buried.
17	*** And in the 10th Anniversary Collection, Watterson noted that he found out more about bats from fan-letters than he'd ever cared to know.
18	* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': During a short storyline where Paige dreamed that she was in the land of [[ChristmasSpecial Christmas Specials]], [[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Hermie]] was indicated as Her'''B'''ie.
19	** Bill Amend pointed this out in the The Best Of Foxtrot commentary, and tried to justify it by saying "Paige doesn't proofread her dreams."
20	** Amend also makes the classic "Creator/{{Nintendo}}-makes-''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''" mistake in [[http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2016/08/28 this comic]] featuring a ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' related gag. (When that game in particular was created by Niantic with minimal input from Nintendo.) Amend being JustForFun/OneOfUs, however, it may have been made by mistake.
21	* ''ComicStrip/{{Pluggers}}'' asserted that one is a plugger if they don't recognize the names of talk show guests, depicted through a panel in which a character reacts in confusion to the TV announcing that Jay Leno's guests for the evening would be, among others, Michael Cera, which was misspelled Cer'''R'''a, and ''Series/LittleBritain'', which is the name of a TV show and not a person or a band as cartoonist Gary Brookins apparently thought, inadvertently demonstrating his own cluelessness.
22	* Many Scottish newspapers and magazines will tell you that ''The Broons'' and ''Oor Wullie'' live in Dundee. In actual fact, they live in a fictional town which has been variously named ''Auchenshoogle'', ''Auchentogle'' or ''Drumtogle'' over the years. The location of which changes depending on the story or the writer. The earliest strips explicitly name Glasgow as the hometown, but this was soon dropped.
23	** In the documentary ''Happy Birthday Broons'', the then-writer Tom Morton suggested that the hometown is most likely near or possibly even a district of Glasgow, but the Broons themselves could be an East-Coast family living there.
24	* Many articles and blurbs about ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' say that Marigold is Phoebe's imaginary unicorn friend (akin to ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''). In-Universe, however, Marigold and other unicorns are very much real, and she even interacts with other humans.
25	* In ''ComicStrip/StoneSoup'', the characters watch ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' and the film is mentioned among Disney movies where "they always off the mom." Actually, Dumbo's mother is alive and well throughout the whole movie.
26	* The sticker at the back of the box of a ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy''-themed car decal refers "Spy vs. Spy Jr." as "Spy vs. Film/SpyKids".

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