"Baby boomers" will remember Gilder Radner's Saturday Night Live character from the '70s--Emily Litella, who would launch into hilarious rants against perceived problems, only to discover that she had completely misconstrued what she was fuming about.
"What's all this fuss about endangered feces?" she asked in one. "How can you possibly run out of such a thing?" Then, after Jane Curtain interrupted to tell her "It's endangered species," she meekly responded with what became the iconic denouement of the era: "Ohhhh. Never mind."