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• A long-standing gag of The Angry Video Game Nerd is that the video game of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the worst video game ever made, yet he's long-since played much worse ones like Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing and Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. He's since justified this with the Shit Scale, which categorizes the badness of video games. Jekyll and Hyde makes up the second-worse category all by itself while everything that's worse falls into the "so bad it doesn't even count as a game" category; as anything worse than Jekyll and Hyde no longer counts as a game, it makes Jekyll and Hyde the worst video game ever made.
  Nerd: When ranking terrible games, there's usually a certain level of playability. Even though I maintain Jekyll and Hyde is the worst game I've ever played, there's still that unholy category that lies underneath; games that can't even be called games.
• After the Asian Jake Paul diss track that was directed at the infamous Ricegum, Boyinaband said that he was going to apologize for the venomous comments that resulted from his insults in the song, even going to do so in person. It turns out that the guy he's apologizing to is Casey Neistat for a throwaway line in the disstrack that was still meant to insult Ricegum anyways^{The Line in Question} That's bad! But then I heard [Ricegum] try to rap. I was more disappointed than when I found out Casey Neistat didn't have nice tats!, and Ricegum is still an acceptable target for him because of all the other stuff he's done.
• Channel Awesome:
  • When The Nostalgia Critic gathers his fellow reviewers for an invasion in Kickassia, Phelous questions where everyone was going to stay. Critic says that he "booked everyone a hotel room". Gilligan Cut to everyone crammed into a hotel room.
    Phelous: Well, gee, I didn't see that one coming.
  • Film Brain tricked Linkara into reviewing The Spirit with him by telling him that he had a comic book movie with Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson. It was based on a comic, and both did appear in the movie, but Linkara was led to believe that FB was referring to Iron Man 2.
• Chuggaaconroy once stated that he would never Let's Play Super Mario 64 or Super Mario Galaxy due to those games being overrated and Let's Played a lot. Since then, he has Let's Played Super Mario 64 DS and Super Luigi Galaxy. (And he fudged a bit on that first one too, by including parts of the original game whenever an original star was removed in the remake.)
• Critical Role: Garmelie wants "a piece of a Syngorn threshold crest", meaning a fragment of the magical devices that allows the whole city to travel between the Material Plane and the Feywild, but never explicitly specifying it as such. What Percy gives him is a piece of a crest which Keyleth molded out of the threshold of the door to their guest room in Syngorn, using the Stone Shape spell. Much to Garmelie's dismay, he has to accept this deal as fulfilled.
• In Danganronpa Abridged Thing, Monobear promises the class that if a murder occurs, the class will get to see pictures of what Sayaka Maizono looks like under "those clothes", meaning her "idol outfit." A murder does occur, but the murderer is caught before the photos can be released to the class. We do get to see a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of what the pictures look like, though: they're just Sayaka in her school outfit under those clothes...because the idol outfit is on her head, meaning she is literally under those clothes.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • When Gohan, Krillin, and Dende use Porunga to revive Piccolo and bring him to Namek, he ends up a good distance away, just like in the anime. Dende actually lampshades it.
    Dende: He is on Namek.
    Gohan: Wait, where is he?
    Dende: On Namek.
    Piccolo: [in the distance] You dumbass!
    Krillin: Why didn't it bring him here?
    Dende: You must be specific.
    Gohan: Oh, so it's a sort of monkey's paw. You have to be careful with the hubris in your wishes.
    Piccolo: [still in the distance] NEEEEEEEERRRRDDD!
  • A few episodes later, Vegeta tells Krillin to almost kill him (since Saiyans get stronger on the brink of death) so that he can fight more evenly with Freeza. Krillin then asks if there will be any repercussions.
    Vegeta: ...I won't punch you.
    Krillin: Oddly specific.
  • This trope is also used to revive Nappa at the end of Season 2. Popo has Shenron revive everyone who was killed by Freeza and his men. Because Vegeta was still working for Freeza when he killed Nappa, that means Nappa gets to come Back from the Dead, much to Vegeta's annoyance.
  • When a confused and frustrated Semi-Perfect Cell demands to know how Vegeta has gotten so much stronger, Vegeta smugly responds that "I trained all day yesterday." This really is what Vegeta did to get stronger, but he leaves out the fact that he did this training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
  • It's also used the other way once Cell has been killed; Yamcha wishes for everyone on Earth that was killed by Cell to be revived. That ends up excluding everyone that got killed when Cell blew up King Kai's planet, with the latter being quite upset about it.
    King Kai: Yeah, thanks for specifying "on Earth", by the way! YAMCHA! YOU ASSHOLE!
• Dream:
  • At the start of every Minecraft Manhunt video, Dream says, "If I beat the Ender Dragon, I win." This comes into play at the end of "Minecraft Speedrunner VS Hunter (Again)", where Dream kills the dragon but George kills him before he can enter the Overworld portal — Dream successfully argued that he won, as the rules state he only has to kill the dragon before he dies, not enter the portal. It also comes into play at the end of "Minecraft Speedrunner VS 3 Hunters Rematch", where Dream kills the Ender Dragon a second before the hunters kill him, barely giving him the win.
  • At the end of "Minecraft Speedrunner VS 3 Hunters FINALE REMATCH," Dream complies to BadBoyHalo's request to come down, but Bad didn't say not to attack him; so Dream did.
    BadBoyHalo: Come down here please.
    [Dream comes down and attacks him.]
    Bad: Ooh! He came down!
• Dream SMP: Jschlatt orders Technoblade to "take out" Tubbo at the Manburg Festival. Although Techno eventually follows through with this order, he delays by asking whether Schlatt wants him to take Tubbo out for a fancy dinner.
• JonTron released a trailer stating that Jontron's StarCade Episode 1 would be released on May 9th. The episode was released... On the last possible second before May 10th.
• When the Game Grumps are mocking Gubble, with Arin talking it up as if it's some epic and deep difficult gaming experience with Danny not buying it for a second, we get this.
  Danny: Oh, so it just sort of does it on its own, huh? Oh, so it's Pac-Man!
  Arin: Yeah! Not as easy as it looks, is it?
  Danny: It's actually easier than it looks.
  Arin: YEAH! NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKS. IS IT?!
• Devin "LegalEagle" Stone is a practicing litigator who analyzes and explains both real-world legal disputes and Law Procedurals, so this trope comes up a lot since much of real-world law really does depend on the exact wording of a law, court decision, contract, etc. For example, in his video on the 2023 controversy over Wizards of the Coast's decision to retire the original version of the d20 System's Open Game License, he notes that the original OGL does not in fact say the license is "irrevocable", but rather "perpetual"—meaning that it doesn't expire, but, contrary to the Common Knowledge understanding of the license, it can be revoked by the licensor (i.e. Wizards).
• Tokusatsu fan Marcosatsu posted a video titled Kamen Rider Wizard- Life is Showtime (Extended). It was extended alright — three lines were the only thing repeated in the video for over 10 Hours.
• The Mark Remark: Fans asked him to stop having to take a pee break instead of actually talking about the women's matches. So Martin makes sure the next time not to eat or drink anything for days before recording, which just makes him pass out.
• MetaBallStudios: The "DRAGONS Size Comparison" video features size comparisons of many literal dragons — and the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as a "reference".
• Party Crashers:
  • In "Mario Party brings out the worst in you...", Sophist tells Brent that he will pick Random when visits the Boo. He does indeed pick Random, but not in-game, instead using a random number generator that the others don't know about. Vernias (of course) ends up suffering for it, as he gets his coins stolen. This leads to everyone thinking Sophist is just out for blood this game as a result of this seemingly targeted coin steal.
  • In "I made a Mario Party Game to torture my friends" and "Mario Party but the bonus stars are EVIL", Nick and Brent respectively make a deal to not choose a specific player from the Boo to steal a Star from. However, nothing was said about picking the Random option, to which the both of them promptly select.
• PewDiePie caused an uproar when, as his channel was nearing the 50 million subscriber milestone, he released a video announcing to his viewers that he "would delete his Youtube channel once PewDiePie hits 50 million", grabbing widespread media attention. True to his word, once he passed the 50 million mark he did delete his channel... his secondary channel "Jacksepticeye2", which was a fairly new, seldom used joke channel which saw comparatively little attention. This stunt especially earned the ire of all the trolls and detractors who had subscribed to him at this point just to force him to quit.
• Rooster Teeth:
  • In Episode 61 of the "Let's Play Minecraft", Ryan had captured a cow in the bottom of his dirt house and named him Edgar after an incident lead him to losing a game. Flash forward six episodes and Michael covertly frees Edgar and Geoff unwittingly kills the cow. Ryan finds the damage, hunts down another cow and puts him in the hole, leading to Michael freaking out over his victory being rendered null. As he tries to point out that the cow he lured in probably isn't the real Edgar, Ryan responds "No, no, you don't understand. Edgar is the one in the hole.", meaning that it doesn't matter how many cows anyone frees, the one in that hole will always be Edgar.
  • In the Rooster Teeth Shorts episode "Sex Dogs, Sex Dogs", Matt notices that in the background Chris has forgotten to hide a photo of dogs having sex. He requests that Chris pay attention to the full frame, which he agrees to. Chris being Chris, however, he moves the dogs into the foreground, increases the size of the picture and blurs Burnie out. When Matt returns to point out the new problem, he requests that the photo focuses on the subject, so Chris focuses on the dogs having sex (mistakenly believing them to be the subject) and not Burnie. When he has that error called out and is told to focus on Burnie, he dresses Burnie up in a dog suit for the next photo, making him cry in the process, and points out he did exactly what he was told by making people's eyes go right to Burnie, albeit for the worst possible reasons. This last one is enough to get him fired by Matt, who is by this point exasperated.
• In this mashup of "It Has To Be This Way" and the Zelda CD-i Games, when fighting Morshu, Link says that his sword won't hurt anyone friendly (which is actually something he says in the original game). He said his sword. He never said anything about bombs.
• Weird school rules in Hong Kong: The students often take advantage of the wording in their ridiculous school rules to bend them to their advantage, especially in the face of the more obstinate teachers. How well this goes tends to depend on the skit.
  • In Episode 1, in the skit discussing a rule against wearing leather shoes to school, the student explains that his shoes were "made in [the Strong Country, i.e. China]" and therefore didn't contain real leather. We don't know if the teacher accepted this as an excuse, though.
  • In Episode 2, in the skit discussing a rule that only permits glasses with black frames, a student lends his 3D glasses to a schoolmate, Yan-yan (whose glasses frames violated the rules), because his 3D glasses had purely black frames and didn't violate the rules.
• Yogscast:
  • In an episode of the series YogNews, Turpster is busy boasting that with Strippin no longer working at Yogtowers, he is the strongest man in the office. He then struggles to open a simple water bottle, which Kim Richards opens with ease. His response?
    Turps: Goddammit, Kim, I said strongest man. Not strongest wo-man. Can't compete with women. Their boob strength.
  • During the first playthrough of Trouble in Terrorist Town, the common "spell the word innocent backwards" test is put to use ^note the reasoning for it being that a traitor would not be able to read it back quickly since their HUD would read "traitor" instead, although it isn't foolproof. Simon Lane gets challenged to do it by Hat Films, and says "I-N-N-O-C-E-N-T B-A-C-K-W-A-R-D-S". This gets him killed. He was a traitor, and the round ends.
• YouTube is Going to Be Fine in 2020, which despite going over YouTube's vague and shady policies growing worse day by day, isn't sarcastically titled. YouTube the corporation will be fine in 2020 and isn't going anywhere no matter how many fuck ups, terrible policies, and acts of censorship they can and will keep doing.

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