Ah, the Oscars. The latest Academy Awards show was a spectacle filled with pizza, celeb selfies and the return of Pharrell’s mega hat — and, if you were paying attention, a notable slip up by John Travolta.
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The actor introduced the performance of the Oscar-nominated ‘Let it Go’ from the movie Frozen, saying it would be sung by the “wickedly talented, one and only Adele Dazeem.” Which is great and all — except the woman who was performing is named Idina Menzel.
To commemorate Travolta’s squinty-eyed fumble, Slate has put together a tool which allows you to “Travoltify” your own name. Just like Travolta, the widget messes up your name, spewing out a jumbled version likely to have been spoken by the star if your name had popped up on the teleprompter instead of Menzel’s.
In case you weren’t watching the ceremony, here’s what the blunder looked like:
