It is "entertaining", because listening to someone explain how they came to whatever they got as their answer when you know they aren't right is amusing. "Entertainingly" amusing. In some of the more random cases, even very amusing, with the word "entertainingly" fitting even more.
It's the sort of situation where someone manages to get some voodoo gibberish as an answer, and once you start questioning them you learn that, technically speaking, their conclusion is a valid one, given what they know. But given what you know, the result they gave you makes you think they were drinking something before thinking.
You might want to ask a teacher about that - sometimes students manage to eat an important part of their task but still do the rest, not knowing that had they not lost the rest of instructions they would have made something entirely different. The sort of situation where you ask "how the hell did that happen?" and become more amused as you listen to their explanation.
Some of the examples fit that, but many don't. The trope definition itself says nothing about the explanation being funny, simply specifying that it's an incorrect but logically valid conclusion. Perhaps it could be split into two variants - serious and absurd.
^ I agree, the trope needs to be renamed or split. The description outright says it's the opposite of Right for the Wrong Reasons, so you'd think a better name for it would be "Wrong For The Right Reasons," which is why I added that as a redirect. "Entertaining" shouldn't have anything to do with it.
Honestly I'd always just assumed it was a figure of speech I was unfamiliar with when I saw the name.
I think this trope should be renamed to Logically Wrong since the trope is about someone coming to a valid and logical conclusion that ultimately turns out to be wrong. I don't see where the "Entertainingly" part comes from.
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