You know, it's impossible from that sentence to tell which side the family was on! And such a compilation of big old groaners would be fun! :D

I gave away the Dresden Files novel with the author's glaring grammatical error in the dedication to his father, which made me cringe and hope his dad's either dead or illiterate. And early editions of Stephen King's "The Stand" had a gigantic plot point that hinged on a character finding a chocolate smudge from a Payday candy bar on the page of her journal, when Paydays aren't made with chocolate.