Dream Tropes Wiki/Cowboy Bebop At His Computer

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This is when the media reports blatantly incorrect facts about a creative work that any fan (or casual observer, or anyone with access to The Other Wiki, etc.) would know to be wrong. It seems like some people just can't be bothered to do any fact-checking. Let's face it — sometimes, it's easy to do. But what about the news? Newspapers, a News Broadcast, national news, etc.? It is in their job description to do at least some research, to make sure they aren't stating factual untruths.

This rule apparently doesn't apply much to works of fiction. Maybe the news media doesn't seem to care as much about the show in question as about whatever effect it had. But that's no reason to make an error that could have been avoided by looking into the material a bit, especially if said error involves serious accusations like blaming a child's death on imitating something they saw on TV. Often results in examples either factually incorrect (from minor to grossly wrong like the trope namer) or taking some "facts" from The Theme Park Version of a larger entity, which to some is much worse than just not doing the research.

Compare Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch. See Fandom Berserk Button when it's the fans who get the names wrong. I Am Not Shazam is a key trope involved. Also compare Dan Browned, the version for fictional works. See New Media Are Evil (though if you find yourself constantly annoyed by this kind of thing then you probably believe Old Media Are Evil). See also Animation Age Ghetto for when people dismiss various kinds of cartoons as childish when they, in fact, are not. For a problem endemic to Anime and Manga, see All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles. This trope can also overlap with a Shallow Parody if the parodists in question are really careless with their research. This is basically the Real Life version of Critical Research Failure.

## Anime & Manga

* Paintbox describes *Neon Genesis Evangelion* as "A group of teenagers use robots to fight evil monsters from space"... and that's it apparently.

## Film - Live Action

* Regarding *Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London*, it seems Paintbox thought Sabeen, the Indian bassoon player, was Cody's love interest for the film when in reality it was Scotland Yard operative Emily. All of Sabeen's interactions with Cody were just her thinking Cody was her "woodwind buddy" and nothing more.
* Docomo Northeast describes *Romano Family Quartet 3* as "Four friends receive letters from an unknown culprit of a tower incident". Clearly they watched only the first 30 minutes of the movie and nothing else, as the culprit is revealed to be Gamm Bal.

## Western Animation

* Paintbox once described *Pinky and the Brain* as "A grumpy mouse and his odd circle of bizarre friends go on adventures", when in reality it's actually about an Evil Genius mouse and his Cloud Cuckoo Lander lackey scheming to take over the world. Clearly someone at Paintbox just read the entry on the show in *The Monty Python Encyclopedia* and nothing else.
* A continuity announcer (Brock Baker) on Jetix Play thought *Sylvanian Families* was about "Ashley and her friends going on adventures in the Sylvanian Forest." That's just half the show's plot.
* Cignal... good lord:
	+ *VeggieTales* is described as "A tomato and a cucumber receive letters from children."
	+ Cignal describes *SpongeBob SquarePants* as "a pirate named Patchy tells stories of a chipper sea sponge who lives in Bikini Bottom." Clearly they just watched the special episodes and nothing else.
	+ Their description for *Transformers G1* claims that Transformers are weapons used by the Autobots and Decepticons, when of course they themselves *are* the Transformers.
	+ They also can't seem to decide whether or not Matthias from *Redwall* is a mouse, a rat or a gerbil. Matthias, whilst reciting a poem in "Sparra's Kingdom", clearly says "A warrior *mouse*, protect Redwall!" and he is clearly stated to be a mouse throughout the franchise's installments.
	+ *Angelina Ballerina* is apparently about "a mouse named Angelina Ballerina who dances through her life." Even the show's haters would tell you Angelina's name is Angelina *Mouseling*.
* Multiple sources refer to *Cindi and Friends* as a Kantasy series. Although the show uses the same art style as Kantasy shows, it is not a fantasy show, therefore, it cannot qualify as Kantasy.