Whole Foods' Box of Rasins

Whole Foods Market is the largest retailer of natural and organic foods in the world. They are a founding partner in Revolution Foods, which also includes a charitable component dedicated to educating kids about healthy eating and nutritious food, but apparently not about spelling.

Biggest Loser's Amercia

There's our America. There's Sarah Palin's America. And then of course there's the Amercia of "The Biggest Loser." It wasn't until later that I noticed the non-question of the next line, "In 1985, it was a size?" Looks like NBC may win top honors for most gaffes in the truncated first year of Cap'n Typo.

Associated Press Defeats Thursday Night

Remember how great you felt the first time you conquered Monday morning? Or the numb elation that crept over you when you and your high school buddies vanquished your first Saturday night? That's how the Portland Trailblazers must have felt last night when they beat not only the Phoenix Suns, but all of Thursday evening. And since it went out over the wire, you can find this one at the Sporting News, Fox Sports/MSN, and even the usually respectable Ottawa Sun. Thanks yet again to Pete, who must now be recognized as the official Cap'n Typo Sports Beat reporter.

KNBC's "Yes Yes" Proposition

Here's an oldie from an election of yore, courtesy of KNBC in Los Angeles. Talk about a "win win" proposal. Add it all up and the voters agree 100%--stop state funding!

Yahoo Sports Unaware of "Awared" Award

Doh! Thanks again to my friend Eagle-Eye Pete for this one.

A "Today Show" Triple in Under 10 Minutes!

During Friday's "Today Show" broadcast, the voice-over read "Every day 67 families find out..." while the fancy graphic sported the common and erroneous mash-up everyday. Then just nine minutes later, the graphics guys turned what should have read "Day Care" into a child's scrawl of Daycare while the title folks added their two cents with childcare. Nice triple play!

"Extra" Superbowl Stupidity

Hey, NBC! Somebody from the ad department might want to tell those yokels over at "Extra" to learn how to spell the name of your biggest cash cow of the year. Idiosos!

Ellen's Backseat Makeout

When I saw this song list for a fictional album on the commercial teaser for today's episode of "Ellen" I thought I had a two-fer, but you'll have to decide for yourself about "backseat," which I thought would be two words here. The one-word version yields just under six million hits on Google, while the two-word version shows up over eight million times. Webster's not only lists it as a word but dates it back to the 1700s, while Oxford doesn't recognize it in noun form at all and offers the hyphenate "back-seat" as an adjective, which this isn't. But even assuming the party responsible favors Webster, that's no excuse for the mash-up of "makeout."

"Good Morning America" Look-A-Like

Clearly preoccupied with its effort to make a funny pun about Conan O'Brien's support for Finland's President Tarja Halonen in 2006, "Good Morning America" forgets how to spell look-alike.

"Colbert Report" Sinks Titantic

Peabody Award, April 2, 2008. Emmy Award, September 13, 2008. Cap'n Typo's Lame Spelling Award, October 1, 2008. FYI, a search for the misspelling "Titantic" yields over 200,000 hits on Google. But we expect a bit more from our fake news programs.

Starz Trips on Pyschedelic

They must be putting something good in the tea over at Starz to induce the kind of pyschedelia found in this new TV ad for "Across the Universe." What would you expect from a company named Starz, itself part of a slur of names like Bratz and Razr that seem intent on plucking the English language apart one letter at a time?

"Survivor": Just Becuase

In honor of the new "Survivor" debuting this week, here's a classic gaffe to give people an idea of what to look for when appreciating producer Mark Burnett's attention to detail. And this is no third-rate cable job, mind you, but the #1 show in the country.

CNNMoney's Republican Balk

This just in from CNNMoney--Dems say they reached an agreement, but Republican balk! Look, I know we're in the midst of an economic crisis here, but let's not add to the confusion with hasty headlines.

Original is/was here.

Michael Moore Off Base with Camp Pendelton

I'm sure Michael Moore had the best of intentions when he tried to honor soldiers in this scene from his new film "Slacker Nation," but spelling the name of the base wrong is kinda bush-league. It's Camp Pendleton, Mike. But thanks for the free movie.

"SNL" Pulls a Boner with Weiners

Though this mistake from last night's "Saturday Night Live" is pretty common and probably just another case of a graphics department with no sense of spell checking, we can't believe that nobody caught it in time, especially considering that cast member Kenan Thompson just starred in the 2008 road trip comedy "Wieners."

ESPN brings the hoise Boise!

My friend Pete caught this one on ESPN.com this morning. The Ducks are actually hosting Boise St., but in honor of the overeager headline writer at ESPN who didn't have time to run a spell check, let's hoist a beer and shout "Hoise Boise!" for every Broncos score today. And next week, too. Aw hell, forever.

Original is here.

XBox LIVE's Metallica Death Magnet

Groundbreaking new format to introduce new albums by veteran rock giants? Check. Multi-million dollar campaign to promote said debut in print and video media? Check. Clueless graphics guy who implements the "Download Today" button out of the purview of the copy editor? Whoops.

Runner-up honors go to Country Music Television, who I suppose can be forgiven for not caring as much about things that don't boot scoot (see it here). And a special Flagrancy Award goes to UGO's "Hip Online" for sticking to their guns no less than six times on their review page below. How hip is that?

Give Brady Quinn Some Space

I'm a big Cleveland Browns fan and I look forward to great things from upstart QB Brady Quinn, though I find it premature to accord him the kind of mono appello status bestowed upon tried-and-proven stars like Morrissey, Charo and Jackée.

If-Than Hijinks with "Fever Pitch"

I don't blame the marketing folks at Fox for stumbling on the common "than/then" conundrum in this screen from the DVD of "Fever Pitch" (after all, "than" is used for comparisons, right?), but I still think it's pretty funny.

"Today Show" Trivia For A $1.00

Cap'n Typo Trivia -- Cap'n Typo introduced himself on September 8, 2008 with a trivial "Today Show" cap left over from the 2006 holiday season.