diff --git a/modules/lang-painless/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/painless/WhenThingsGoWrongTests.java b/modules/lang-painless/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/painless/WhenThingsGoWrongTests.java
index 905766c781c..55ee490bb3f 100644
--- a/modules/lang-painless/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/painless/WhenThingsGoWrongTests.java
+++ b/modules/lang-painless/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/painless/WhenThingsGoWrongTests.java
@@ -175,6 +175,12 @@ public class WhenThingsGoWrongTests extends ScriptTestCase {
         });
     }
 
+    public void testDynamicWrongArgs() {
+        expectThrows(WrongMethodTypeException.class, () -> {
+            exec("def x = new ArrayList(); return x.get('bogus');");
+        });
+    }
+
     public void testDynamicArrayWrongIndex() {
         expectThrows(WrongMethodTypeException.class, () -> {
             exec("def x = new long[1]; x[0]=1; return x['bogus'];");