Boston Manhunt Boo-Boo: Zooey Deschanel Called a Suspect in "Epic Closed Captioning Fail"

New Girl star is what one guy's TV came up with while watching the search for a second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings unfold

By Natalie Finn Apr 20, 2013 4:16 AMTags
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Zooey Deschanel had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombings.

Not exactly breaking news, right?

Tell that to Peter Ogburn's television set, which, while the radio show producer and writer was watching the manhunt for a second suspect unfold on his local Fox station, misidentified the 19-year-old man police were looking for as...

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Zooey Deschanel!

"Marathon bombing, he is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel," read the errant caption, which flubbed the name of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, who was ultimately arrested Friday night after he was found hiding in a boat behind a home in Watertown, Mass.

"Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL! "@joelmchale: Oh my RT @peterogburn: pic.twitter.com/F3sbpmq9WO," the New Girl star wrote, retweeting Joel McHale's flabbergasted retweet.

"Oh come on, Fox," Ogburn wrote in first catching the error and sharing a pic of the screen on Twitter.

He also retweeted McHale and Deschanel's reactions, then tweeted the actress, "@ZooeyDeschanel So, you're saying it wasn't you?"

We think that's what she's saying.

(Originally published April 19, 2013, at 7:26 p.m. PT)