Following the embarrassing mix-up, Mayor Bloomberg suggested the NYPD cops make amends with the two officials by getting a beer together.
Take Embarrassing Bodies, mix it with its less squirmish off-shoot Supersize vs Superskinny, add a pinch of Gillian McKeith's You Are What You Eat, and you are somewhere close to Channel 4's new show Doctor in Your House.
So, let's put those keen eyes and experience to work, and eliminate some of these embarrassing mix-ups involving similar-sounding words.
The embarrassing mix-up came after the Federal Reserve decided to relaunch America's most valuable banknote, which carries a host of new security features to thwart counterfeiters.
It took six days of ludicrous questioning ("Why did you go to that literary festival? What does this cartoon mean?"), and hundreds of valuable police hours wasted, to realise it had been an inept and embarrassing mix-up.
Organisers of the Brit awards are used to controversy, but there are red faces all round today after the singer Dido had to be struck from one category following an embarrassing mix-up by officials.
Trading began here despite an embarrassing mix-up that caused the share allocations to be misprinted in the newspapers on Wednesday morning, although the correct allocations were posted on the Web site of the Hong Kong Exchange, the local stock market.
No, this wasn't some embarrassing mix-up; the girl knew exactly what her mom was up to and told police she felt disrespected by her actions.
Rather, the problem is that, despite its prevalence, stage sex is often a mix of the coy and the embarrassing.
Contrary to what most reunion planners think, the proceedings are embarrassing enough without adding the Electric Slide to the mix.
