History Main / TheGraphShowsTheTrend

* A French sketch has an accountant showing a graph to his affiliates. The lines goes down, leaves the graph, and so does the accountant, who goes downstairs, as the line keeps going down. [[UpToEleven He calls the accountants to say that he's in the sewers, and the line is STILL going down.]]

* The upside-down graph is used on an ad for Monster.com in which a guy works in an office full of [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys 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.

* 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.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Ghost in the Machines", Bender has died, and in a meeting Hermes shows a graph indicating how request to [[CatchPhrase "bite my shiny metal ass"]] have gone down 98%. When Scruffy interrupts the meeting using a vacuum made from Bender's body, Hermes asks him to do it later. Scruffy responds with "bite my shiny metal ass", and the chart adjusts automatically.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' has Spacely Sprockets showcasing the profits of the new Asteroid mine in such a fashion. The line goes up until it reaches the end, before crashing directly down and through the floor. Considering the mine is being sabotaged, this might actually be the correct profit margin.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Movie'' has Spacely Sprockets showcasing the profits of the new Asteroid mine in such a fashion. The line goes up until it reaches the end, before crashing directly down and through the floor. Considering the mine is being sabotaged, this might actually be the correct profit margin.

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons]] Movie'' has Spacely Sprockets showcasing the profits of the new Asteroid mine in such a fashion. The line goes up until it reaches the end, before crashing directly down and through the floor. Considering the mine is being sabotaged, this might actually be the correct profit margin.

* In ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex]]'', when Uka Uka is chewing out Cortex and his cronies, he shows a line graph showing their evil-spreading has been dropping.

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* Series/HowIMetYourMother has a rather offbeat example of this. There is an episode where Marshall has an obsession with making graphs of trivial things. So much so that the gang stages an intervention.
* 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.

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-->'''Faz''': Contrary to what he claims, I have a graph here that clearly shows a line going up.\\
'''Ethan''': You don't even know what that line represents!!!\\
'''Galasso''': It represents upness.\\
'''Faz''': The graph has spoken.

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* A French sketch has an accountant showing a graph to his affiliates. The lines goes down, leaves the graph, and so does the accountant, who goes downstairs, as the line keeps going down. [[UpToEleven He calls the accountants to say that he's in the sewers, and the line is STILL going down.]]

[[quoteright:350:[[Webcomic/Shortpacked http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/upness.jpg]]]]

* ''DaveBarry 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.

* Main/HowIMetYourMother has a rather offbeat example of this. There is an episode where Marshall has an obsession with making graphs of trivial things. So much so that the gang stages an intervention.

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.

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* Parodied in [[http://www.xkcd.com/833/ this]] ''{{xkcd}}''.

* {{Lampshaded}} in [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2005/comic/book-2-pulls-the-drama-tag/05-faztivus/upness/ this]] ''{{Shortpacked}}!'':

To demonstrate how some situation has been progressing, a line graph is brought out as a prop, showing a line clearly proceeding upward or downward, perhaps veering OffTheChart. The axes may be unlabeled, especially in parodies. Sometimes someone realizes the graph is on the easel pointed in the wrong direction and fixes it, and now the line is going in the opposite direction. In comedy uses, the line is sometimes [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale drawn out of the graph]] and goes into the ceiling or floor, or just lies there in coils.

To demonstrate how some situation has been progressing, a line graph is brought out as a prop, showing a line clearly proceeding upward or downward, perhaps veering OffTheChart. The axes may be unlabeled, especially in parodies. Sometimes someone realizes the graph is on the easel pointed in the wrong direction and fixes it, and now the line is going in the opposite direction.