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A slightly more credible version may involve some version of the following exchange:
{{quote| "So, we turn left here?"<br />
[[
A similar gag: everyone on TV gets confused between port and starboard. (Incidentally, port is ship's "left", easily remembered as they both have four letters. If you still find yourself confused, remember that both right and starboard are the longer words.)
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Sometimes appears as confusion between left and "stage left."
To be entirely fair, though, it's not like this doesn't actually [[Truth in Television|happen with an alarming regularity in real life]]. We're just talking about its predictable appearances on TV. For some reason, it's always "your other left," never "your other right", even though you'd think both occur equally often in [[Real Life]] (especially in languages in which the [[
Compare [[The Exit Is That Way]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'' had poor [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]] have some difficulty with the concept of moving to her right. 'It's the hand you hold your chopsticks in!' helped, although this meant she had to mime eating. Instead of doing her actual job of holding Tomo up off the ground...
** A similar joke pops up in both the anime and [[Visual Novel]] versions of ''[[Kanon]]'': In an effort to avoid [[Once Per Episode|his regular collisions with Ayu]] and this trope, Yuuichi tells her to dodge toward the hand she holds her chopsticks in. Turns out Yuuichi is right-handed, while Ayu is left-handed...
* In ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', Dominic Sorel asks the protagonist if [[No Sense of Direction|South is in the direction of the hand you hold the fork in]]. This is a guy who's supposed to be a [[Modern Major
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* In a ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' comic featured in ''Disney Adventures'', a lightning strike makes Megavolt [[MST3K Mantra|perceive everything backwards and even talk backwards (young readers might need a mirror)]]. Anyone he touched would gain the same affliction, as Darkwing discovered after he said, "To the left, Launchpad!" and crashed into Launchpad moving to the right. Ironically, they got it backwards.
* In one strip of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', the two eponyms stalk into the house, drenched and glaring at one another, proceed in an angry silence to the bookshelf, and furiously look up an entry in the dictionary, whereupon Hobbes shouts, "See?! Starboard is ''right''! ''Port'' is left!"
* ''[[Dilbert (Comic Strip)|Dilbert]]'': During a team-building exercise, Dogbert tells everyone to turn to the left and name one thing they admire about that person. The [[Pointy
{{quote| '''PHB:''' I admire your leathery skin, Alice.<br />
'''Alice:''' I admire your ability to figure out which side is your ''right'' in only two tries. }}
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* When ''[[Bolt (Disney)|Bolt]]'' is learning to beg, Mittens tells him, "Drop your left ear. No, your other left. No, the first way was better."
* ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' uses the line while Garrett (who is blind) is driving a wagon with Kayley shouting directions to him: "Left! Go left! <small>Your other left...</small> No, Garrett, ''right!''" In this case, it's Kayley confusing the directions and then correcting herself rather than Garrett mixing them up, but the effect is more or less the same.
* A variation occurs in ''[[The
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* Frequently used on ''The New Adventures of [[Winnie the Pooh]]''. Justified as they are animals of very little brain.
* An episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'' had Stu and his dad inside a mechanical dragon and Stu ordered Lou (his dad) to hit a button on his right -- and the dragon flipped, causing the response, "Your other right"
* Used in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well" by a construction worker Rainbow Dash was in the middle of saving.
* In an episode of [[Johnny Test]] when everyone is fleeing from aliens:
{{quote| '''Susan:''' Go left!<br />
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