Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: Difference between revisions

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Sometimes when a plan or idea is proposed the regular insults and even a [[Face Palm]] just don't cut it. Nope, they've crossed the line into what can be called a Crowning Moment of Stupidity, and the witness feels the need to comment on this.

Variations can include "dumbest" "most idiotic" "most ridiculous" etc., but the same basic message applies.

 

 

 

 

* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''

** Danielle Moonstar uses this against Cyclops early in ''[[New Mutants|New X-Men: Academy X]]'', when the latter suggests keeping from their students that the corpse of their recently deceased teacher has been stolen, and that he might return as a brainwashed zombie.

 

 

== Fan Works ==

'''Draco:''' That has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. }}

:: And later there's this...

'''Fred:''' All day isn't very long, Harry. It can't be more than ten. }}

 

 

'''Homer Simpson:''' That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. }}

** Note that this is [[Hypocritical Humor]] since Homer delivered ''the exact same line'' to Marge not half an hour earlier in the movie.

'''Sheen:''' No, this is the stupidest thing you've ever heard! ''(starts jabbering)'' }}

'''Timon:''' That's the stupidest thing I ever heard, "maybe he'll be on..." Hey, I got it! What if he's on ''our'' side? }}

'''Narrator:''' ''(deadpan)'' That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. }}

** [[Brick Joke|It later turns out that this is, in fact, the combination President Skroob has on his luggage]].

* ''[[Murder By Death]]'' has Sidney Wang after Dick Charleston presents the theory that Lionel Twain murdered himself.

'''Sidney Wang:''' Is stupid. ''(laughing)'' Is stupidest theory I ever heard. }}

'''Howard:''' That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. }}

* In ''[[Heathers]]'':

'''J.D.:''' That's the stupidest question I've ever heard. }}

'''Agent #1:''' That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. Of course he's a Russkie, but he's a retard or something. }}

 

== Literature ==

'''Ron:''' That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, including all the stuff that [[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna Lovegood]] comes out with. }}

** Of course, {{spoiler|Harry decides to do exactly that, train his fellow students in a group he calls "Dumbledore's Army". Not that they are going to take on the Ministry of Magic, but Voldemort}}.

* Sean Devine in ''[[Mystic River]]'' says this when his partner Whitey suggests a theory for the murder they're investigating, {{spoiler|that Dave Boyle, Sean's childhood friend, killed Katie Marcus}}. In the end {{spoiler|Sean was right, and while Dave did kill someone, it wasn't Katie}}.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

'''Grissom:''' I think this is the dumbest thing we've ever heard. }}

'''Diane Chambers:''' That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. }}

* ''[[Felicity]]'' had Megan propose long theory about how Felicity's song preferences show she likes Ben, at which point Ben delivered this line.

* From the ''Full Frys'' episode "Inga delikatesser"

'''TC:''' Orville, I've heard you say some dumb things in my life, but that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard you say. }}

'''Mindy:''' That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. }}

** A one-time variant was called [[Sophisticated As Hell|"The Most Poetic F#@king Thing I've Ever Heard."]]

'''Cordelia:''' I stand corrected. }}

* From ''[[Chuck]]'', the title character has an antidote for a deadly poison in his blood, and the needle broke. So he kisses his (male) infected friend.

'''Jill:''' ...that is the ''stupidest'' thing I have ever heard. [[You Fail Biology Forever|No wonder you failed bio]]. }}

'''Bartender:''' I love this bar! }}

 

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]: Escape from Butcher Bay'':

* In ''[[Sam and Max Hit The Road]]'', after hooking it up so he can do so, Sam proudly declares that he can [[It Makes Sense in Context|control the rotation of a rotating restaurant on top of the world's largest ball of twine via a pair of mounted binoculars]]. Max informs him that this is the most ridiculous thing he's ever heard. It may very well rate pretty high in that category. Even better, since ''Hit The Road'' was made during the dark ages long before Microsoft caught on to the concept of hardware abstraction the UNIX world had years earlier, it had its own audio hardware configuration tool. The sound clip used as a test to make sure your hardware was working correctly was Max saying that very line. So yes, this can even be considered a meta-example of sorts.

 

 

== Web Animation ==

 

 

== Web Comics ==

* Uttered by a villain in [http://www.superstupor.com/sust04092008.shtml this strip] of ''[[Super Stupor]]'' in response to a minion warning him about the resident [[Little Miss Badass]] and how heroes don't send out kids unless they can kick serious ass. He ignores the warning and promptly gets fried.

 

 

== Web Original ==

** On the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' story "Holy War":

** Ironically, he would then say the same thing about the evil plan in ''Future 5'': Dr. Know plans on becoming the smartest and most powerful man on Earth by... convincing everyone to not go to college. Linkara saying this is [[Tempting Fate]] in its purest form.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

'''Stan Smith:''' ... this is the worst idea I've ever heard. }}

** "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

'''Officer Barbrady:''' That is the silliest thing I've ever heard. }}

'''Helga:''' That is the ''stupidest'' idea I have ever heard in my ''entire life!'' }}

'''The Professor:''' That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard, you imbecile! ''(raises a rolled-up newspaper to hit Zoidberg, Zoidberg sprays ink at his face and runs off)'' }}

 

== Real Life ==

* A judge used the Billy Madison line above in his closing words of a case where the man (incompetently) defended himself at his own trial.

* During one townhall meeting, Congressman [[Deadpan Snarker|Barney Frank]] interrupted a woman who was comparing a government health care program to Naziism by informing her that it was the stupidest thing he'd ever heard and that the table he was at was capable of more rational comments. Not the people at the table. ''The table''. To realize how absurd the comparison to Naziism is, recall that Barney Frank is both Jewish and gay.

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