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Athletes Famous For Ineptitude, Failure, or Futility

  1. Mario Mendoza. Namesake of baseball’s informal term for a player hitting below .200
  2. Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner. Made one fielding era that cost the Sox the 1986 World Series.
  3. Vinko Bogataj: the ski jumper featured in “ABCs Wide World of Sports” as “the agony of defeat.”
  4. Scott Norwood, Buffalo Bills - Super Bowl XXV: Wide Right!
  5. Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards, British ski-jump Olympian
  6. Mariano Rivera, NY Yankees, Game 7 of the 2001 World Series
  7. Jean Van de Velde, Golfer. Badly blew the lead at the '99 British Open on the final hole in tournament (had to shoot a double-bogey to win), lost in the playoff.
  8. Jim Marshall, Minnesota Vikings - recovered a fumble and ran it into his own end zone
  9. Garo Yepremian, Miami Dolphins, Super Bowl VII. The Perfect Season at risk - mildly. But he lost the chance for the score to match the Dolphins’ record, 17-0.
  10. Dick Stuart (a.k.a., “Dr. Strangeglove”), baseball. The polar opposite of Mario Mendoza, Stuart was a first baseman whose power-hitting abilities were more than offset by his legendary defensive ineptitude.
  11. Steve Sax, 2nd Baseman for Dodgers. In 1983, he had a case of the throwing yips, making 30 errors, many of them on routine throws to first base.
  12. Bob Uecker, he was actually a good baseball player but he developed the persona of being inept
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Athletes Famous For Ineptitude, Failure, or Futility

  1. Mario Mendoza. Namesake of baseball’s informal term for a player hitting below .200
  2. Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner. Made one fielding era that cost the Sox the 1986 World Series.
  3. Vinko Bogataj: the ski jumper featured in “ABCs Wide World of Sports” as “the agony of defeat.”
  4. Scott Norwood, Buffalo Bills - Super Bowl XXV: Wide Right!
  5. Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards, British ski-jump Olympian
  6. Mariano Rivera, NY Yankees, Game 7 of the 2001 World Series
  7. Jean Van de Velde, Golfer. Badly blew the lead at the '99 British Open on the final hole in tournament (had to shoot a double-bogey to win), lost in the playoff.
  8. Jim Marshall, Minnesota Vikings - recovered a fumble and ran it into his own end zone
  9. Garo Yepremian, Miami Dolphins, Super Bowl VII. The Perfect Season at risk - mildly. But he lost the chance for the score to match the Dolphins’ record, 17-0.
  10. Dick Stuart (a.k.a., “Dr. Strangeglove”), baseball. The polar opposite of Mario Mendoza, Stuart was a first baseman whose power-hitting abilities were more than offset by his legendary defensive ineptitude.
  11. Steve Sax, 2nd Baseman for Dodgers. In 1983, he had a case of the throwing yips, making 30 errors, many of them on routine throws to first base.
  12. Bob Uecker, he was actually a good baseball player but he developed the persona of being inept
  13. Charlie Brown from Peanuts.

New: Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie*** Big*** (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Stark Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
35948

Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
35951

Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
  7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of ***Twilight Zone ***movie)
35952

Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
  7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie)
  8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind)
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
  7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie)
  8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind)
  9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman)
35954

Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
  7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie)
  8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind)
  9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman)
  10. “Peggy Sue Got Married” (Kathleen Turner returns to her high school days)
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
  7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie)
  8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind)
  9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman)
  10. “Peggy Sue Got Married” (Kathleen Turner returns to her high school days)
  11. Yellow Submarine (The Beatles become babies as they travel through the Sea of Time.)
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
  7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie)
  8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind)
  9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman)
  10. Yellow Submarine (The Beatles become babies as they travel through the Sea of Time.)
  11. 18 Again. George Burns and Charlie Schlatter switch bods on the former’s 81st birthday.
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
  7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie)
  8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind)
  9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman)
  10. Yellow Submarine (The Beatles become babies as they travel through the Sea of Time.)
  11. 18 Again. George Burns and Charlie Schlatter switch bods on the former’s 81st birthday.
  12. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (aliens turn Dave Bowman into a baby)
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Fiction in which someone is made much younger

  1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show
  2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!)
  3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan)
  4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse)
  6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa)
  7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie)
  8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind)
  9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman)
  10. Yellow Submarine (The Beatles become babies as they travel through the Sea of Time.)
  11. 18 Again. George Burns and Charlie Schlatter switch bods on the former’s 81st birthday.
  12. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (aliens turn Dave Bowman into a baby)
  13. Cocoon

I’ll pass

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New Topic: Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches

  1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”)
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Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches

  1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”)
  2. Moshe Dayan
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Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches

  1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”)
  2. Moshe Dayan
  3. Madame Kovarian (Doctor Who)
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Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches

  1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”)
  2. Moshe Dayan
  3. Madame Kovarian (Doctor Who)
  4. Bazooka Joe (“Hey Mort, why’d you throw that clock out the window?” “I wanted to make time fly!”)
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Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches

  1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”)
  2. Moshe Dayan
  3. Madame Kovarian (Doctor Who)
  4. Bazooka Joe (“Hey Mort, why’d you throw that clock out the window?” “I wanted to make time fly!”)
  5. Big Dan Teague

Pic if the name’s not familiar