History Main / CarryTheOne

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] when your ChosenOne [[IncrediblyLamePun refuses to walk]]. Compare with MisplacedADecimalPoint, the other common arithmetic mistake.

* TheNostalgiaCritic does it in [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/nostalgia-critic/34-nostalgia-critic/386-avgn-response-response this]] part of the AVGN/NC feud.

* Every time anyone calculates anything in EightBitTheater. Culminating in [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/03/09/episode-1223-make-the-truth/ "carry the infinity"]].
* {{Serious Business}} in this {{XKCD}} comic. http://xkcd.com/813/

* In ''Game/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice: Chariots of the Dogs'', the Mariachi supervisor of the Time Vortex mutters "carry the tres" (Spanish for three) when trying to figure out where an ink ribbon landed after it was lost in space and time.

* In ''OldHarrysGame'', Einstein is working out a long complicated calculation, before concluding "No! Dammit, forgot to carry the seven! I'm always doing that."

* In ''SamAndMax: Chariots of the Dogs'', the Mariachi supervisor of the Time Vortex mutters "carry the tres" (Spanish for three) when trying to figure out where an ink ribbon landed after it was lost in space and time.

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/{{Thud}}!'', the Gooseberry organiser-imp tells Vimes that "you don't always carry the tens" when doing the Watch accounts.

Also, when someone is calculating, he will always say "...carry the one...", mostly because carrying numbers is the most advanced mathematical concept most writers ([[ViewersAreMorons and audiences]]) can remember from way back then. Note, though, that the line works with any single-digit number, so you can hear, for instance, "carry the seven".[[hottip:*:The prevalence of "one" is probably due to the fact that, in the simplest case, addition, you'll never have a bigger digit than 1 to carry, because 9+9='''1'''8.]]

->'''Alice:''' Twenty-seven plus 35 is 52.

* Said by Dr. Frink in ''TheSimpsons'', episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land".

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] when your ChosenOne refuses to walk. Compare with MisplacedADecimalPoint, the other common arithmetic mistake.

Also, when someone is calculating, he will always say "...carry the one...", mostly because carrying numbers is the most advanced mathematical concept most writers ([[ViewersAreMorons and audiences]]) can remember from way back then. Note, though, that the line works with any single-digit number, so you can hear, for instance, "carry the seven".

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* When the [[PenguinsOfMadagascar penguins']] vacation to the moon [[spoiler:turns out to be a failure]], Kowalski says while checking his calculations for the rocket, "It seems I forgot to carry the two."

* When the {{PenguinsOfMadagascar}}'s vacation to the moon [[spoiler:turns out to be a failure]], Kowalski says while checking his calculations for the rocket, "It seems I forgot to carry the two."

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] when your ChosenOne refuses to walk.

* I know there's a ''QuestionableContent'' somewhere where Hannelore is doing calculations for her mother and this pops up somewhere...
** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=961 This strip?]]

Also, when someone is calculating, he will always say "...carry the one...". Note, though, that the line works with any single-digit number, so you can hear, for instance, "carry the seven".

* NostalgiaCritic does it in [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/nostalgia-critic/34-nostalgia-critic/386-avgn-response-response this]] part of the AVGN/NC feud.