diff --git a/evennia/utils/evmenu.py b/evennia/utils/evmenu.py
index f3bb867902..f03d1cc8f9 100644
--- a/evennia/utils/evmenu.py
+++ b/evennia/utils/evmenu.py
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ class EvMenu(object):
                 ret = self._execute_node(nodename, raw_string)
             except EvMenuError:
                 return
-        if isinstance(basestring, ret):
+        if isinstance(ret, basestring):
             # only return a value if a string (a goto target), ignore all other returns
             return ret