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* The upside-down graph is used on an ad for Monster.com in which a guy works in an office full of [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|chimpanzees]]. The executives are celebrating the upturn in sales until the guy turns the graph right side up. One of the chimps turns it back the other way and continue partying.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
Dave Gorman showed a number of graphs in ''[[The Dave Gorman Collection]]'', the premise being that he didn't want to break his miles per Dave Gorman rule.
 
Dave Gorman showed a number of graphs in ''The Dave Gorman Collection'', the premise being that he didn't want to break his miles per Dave Gorman rule.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Dave Barry]] Slept Here]]'' has a chart of the "Level of Colonial Tension" following the passage of the Irritation Acts. The vertical axis is unlabeled, and the points on the horizontal axis are labeled as days of the week.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Parodied in [http://www.xkcd.com/833/ this] ''[[Xkcdxkcd]]''.
* [[Lampshaded]] in [http://www.shortpacked.com/2005/comic/book-2-pulls-the-drama-tag/05-faztivus/upness/ this] ''[[Shortpacked]]'':
{{quote|'''Faz''': Contrary to what he claims, I have a graph here that clearly shows a line going up.
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