History Main / AccidentallyRealFakeAddress

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': In the season 2 premiere, Horse tries to get into the horsetaur fortress with the name "Horsatia Wighair Beansz", and much to her surprise that's an actual name on the guest list. We even see the real Horsatia Wighair Beansz on her way to the fortress [[BrickJoke at the end of the episode]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "The Real You", Finn tries to become smarter by painting a face on his finger and using it to infiltrate a lecture at a worm college. He introduces himself as "Wormy [=McSquirmy=]", and it turns out there is someone by that name... but it turns out Wormy hasn't been attending classes, earning Finn the ire of the teacher and the rest of the class.
-->'''Worm:''' [[SeriousBusiness Truancy hurts us all!]]

** In the episode "Trilogy of Error" Marge accidentally cuts off Homer's thumb. When calling 911, she is instantly accused of attempted murder by Chief Wiggum, so, when asked her address, Marge claims it to be "123 Fake Street" (as pictured above). Remarkably, this turns out to correspond to a decrepit building in Springfield where Bart and Milhouse are hiding fireworks in an unrelated plot, and the spontaneous appearance of the police there leads to Bart and Milhouse getting caught.

For some reason or another, a character might need to give out some false information to hide their real identity, location, or employer. If the situation is immediate enough, they may have to make up their false information on the fly, perhaps sounding obviously false. But, it's possible they accidentally gave out a real name, address, or other piece of information that does correspond to someone or something else, albeit not them. HilarityEnsues as the unsuspecting recipients are suddenly questioned about events that have no relation to them. Another common variant is when a piece of fake information that isn't explicitly deceptive, like a pseudonym or nickname, ends up having the same effect.

->''"Why did I have to say Market Street!?"''

-->-- WesternAnimation/BugsBunny: "Semper Lie", ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': "One Krabs' Trash" sees Mr. Krabs trying to scare [=SpongeBob=] out of a priceless soda-drinking hat by [[ScoobyDooHoax posing as a ghost]] and telling him the hat is cursed and must be returned to its deceased owner "Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen". Approximately one nanosecond later, [=SpongeBob=] announces he's gone and put the thing in the ''actual'' Werbenjaegermanjensen's grave.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Catfish," Gumball and Darwin pretend to be a woman named Muriel so their Grandpa Louie can have an Elmore Plus friend. After a while, Darwin decides they should tell the truth, and messages Louie as Muriel to meet "her" at the mall. Unfortunately, Granny Jojo (whose [[{{Main/Yandere}} clinginess]] is the reason Louie can't see his friends) finds the messages, and things go {{From Bad To Worse}} when it's revealed that the picture Gumball used for Muriel is of a female mall employee. Cue Gumball and Darwin frantically trying to stop their grandmother from performing a {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}} on a random, innocent woman.

** Zigzagged in "Funeral for a Fiend", when Luigi mentions that Bart made a prank order for pizzas to be delivered at "888 Poopypants Lane". As it turns out, Poopypants Lane ''was'' real... but it ended at 700.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': "One Krabs' Trash" sees Mr. Krabs trying to scare [=SpongeBob=] out of a priceless soda-drinking hat by [[ScoobyDooHoax posing as the ghost]] of "Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen". Approximately one nanosecond later, [=SpongeBob=] announces he's gone and put the thing in the ''actual'' Werbenjaegermanjensen's grave.

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* Zigzagged in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}},'' Cubert and Dwight trick Fry, Leela and Bender into delivering a pizza to Dogdoo Eight, they return a week later, realizing it was a prank.
-->'''Fry:''' The address was on Dogdoo Eight but the universe ends right after Dogdoo Seven.

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* In ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', the address of Mindy's building, 1619 Pine Street, Boulder, CO, was a real address found in the city of Boulder. If one looks closely, during the filmed scenes (Mindy driving up and parking, outside static shots), there is a chain across the driveway. After ''Creator/RobinWilliams'' death, Mork & Mindy fans created an impromptu memorial to him on and in front of the fence that the then current owners has erected.

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