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{{quote|'''Lord Percy:''' The fashion today is towards the tiny. <br />
'''Blackadder:''' In that case you have the most fashionable brain in London.|''[[Blackadder]] II''}}


{{quote|'''L''': Oh, it's nothing. Matsuda is being stupid again.
'''Light''': Well, that ''is'' his specialty.
|''[[Death Note]]''}}


{{quote|'''Marten''': Aw, well Raven's nice, but... I think she's like, a savant who hasn't found out what her one preternatural talent is, y'know?
{{quote|'''L''': Oh, it's nothing. Matsuda is being stupid again. <br />
'''Tai''': Is the amount of talent proportional to the amount of idiocy the savant otherwise displays? 'Cuz if so, she's gonna turn on the Weather Channel one day and spontaneously fix global warming.
'''Light''': Well, that ''is'' his specialty.|''[[Death Note]]''}}
|''[[Questionable Content]]''}}


{{quote|''"I think nothing, my lord."''|Ophelia|''[[Hamlet]]''}}
{{quote|'''Marten''': Aw, well Raven's nice, but... I think she's like, a savant who hasn't found out what her one preternatural talent is, y'know?<br />
'''Tai''': Is the amount of talent proportional to the amount of idiocy the savant otherwise displays? 'Cuz if so, she's gonna turn on the Weather Channel one day and spontaneously fix global warming.|''[[Questionable Content]]''}}


{{quote|''"I think nothing, my lord."''|'''Ophelia''', ''[[Hamlet]]''}}
{{quote|''"Aren't you happy, Flonne? We finally found somebody dumber than you!"''|Laharl|[[Disgaea]]}}


{{quote|You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.|Edward Flaherty{{who}} }}
{{quote|''"Aren't you happy, Flonne? We finally found somebody dumber than you!"''|'''Laharl''', [[Disgaea]]}}


{{quote|''"So everyone is talking about "old" Hollywood, which I think is basically like regular Hollywood, except it's wrinkly and smells like mothballs and metamucil. The best way to get this look is to have your grandma sit on your clothes for awhile and then you can wear them!"''|Tiffany Thongbiscuit{{who}}, on the "Old Hollywood" look."}}
{{quote|You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.|'''Edward Flaherty''' }}


{{quote|''"Vain ''and'' stupid. Girl power!"''|[[The Nostalgia Chick]], on Posh Spice in ''[[Spice World]]''.}}
{{quote|''"So everyone is talking about "old" Hollywood, which I think is basically like regular Hollywood, except it's wrinkly and smells like mothballs and metamucil. The best way to get this look is to have your grandma sit on your clothes for awhile and then you can wear them!"|'''Tiffany Thongbiscuit''' on the "Old Hollywood" look."''}}


{{quote|''"That King, although noone denies''
{{quote|''"Vain ''and'' stupid. Girl power!"''|'''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]''', on Posh Spice in ''[[Spice World]]''.}}
''"His heart was of abnormal size,''
''"Yet he'd have acted otherwise''
''"If he'd have been acuter."''
|Don Alhambra|''[[Gilbert and Sullivan|The Gondoliers]]''}}


{{quote|''"You can't always expect my usual brand of stupidity. I like to mix it up, keep you on your toes"''|Patrick Star|''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''}}


{{quote|''"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"''|[[Trope Namer|Ralph Wiggum]]|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
{{quote|''"That King, although noone denies''<br />
''"His heart was of abnormal size,''<br />
''"Yet he'd have acted otherwise''<br />
''"If he'd have been acuter."''|'''Don Alhambra''', ''[[Gilbert and Sullivan|The Gondoliers]]''}}


{{quote|''"Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck..."''|Ralph Wiggum (while playing "Duck, Duck, Goose" ''with the furniture'')|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}


{{quote|''"When he grows up, I want to be like me!"''|Ralph Wiggum|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
{{quote|''"You can't always expect my usual brand of stupidity. I like to mix it up, keep you on your toes"''|'''Patrick Star''', '' [[SpongeBob SquarePants]]}}


{{quote|''"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"''|'''[[Trope Namer|Ralph Wiggum]]''', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
{{quote|''"I can taste it with my sniff sniff!"''|Ralph Wiggum|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}


{{quote|''"My cat's breath smells like cat food."''|Ralph Wiggum|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
{{quote|''"Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck..."''|'''Ralph Wiggum''' (while playing "Duck, Duck, Goose" ''with the furniture'')}}


{{quote|''"She was expelled from the National Union of Bimbos for being too dim."''|Alex, regarding [[Rich Bitch|Sally Smedley]]|''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]''}}
{{quote|''"When he grows up, I want to be like me!"''|'''Ralph Wiggum'''}}


{{quote|''"I can taste it with my sniff sniff!"''|'''Ralph Wiggum'''}}
{{quote|''"I like swords."''|Fighter|''[[8-Bit Theater]]''}}

{{quote|''"My cat's breath smells like cat food."''|'''Ralph Wiggum'''}}

{{quote|''"She was expelled from the National Union of Bimbos for being too dim."''|'''Alex''', regarding [[Rich Bitch|Sally Smedley]], ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]''}}

{{quote|''"I like swords."''|'''Fighter''', ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''}}


{{quote|''"Don't mind him. He was dropped on his head at birth and infected with a happy virus during childhood."''|''[[Tokyo Mew Mew in a Nutshell]]''}}
{{quote|''"Don't mind him. He was dropped on his head at birth and infected with a happy virus during childhood."''|''[[Tokyo Mew Mew in a Nutshell]]''}}


{{quote|''"With these stool wings, I'll fly to the banana!"''|'''[[Johnny Bravo]]'''}}
{{quote|''"With these stool wings, I'll fly to the banana!"''|[[Johnny Bravo]]}}


{{quote|'''Lucky Bob''': I spy, something that begins with the letter "B".<br />
{{quote|'''Lucky Bob''': I spy, something that begins with the letter "B".
'''Cho-Cho''': Blinking lights?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': Blinking lights?
'''Lucky Bob''': Nope.<br />
'''Lucky Bob''': Nope.
'''Cho-Cho''': Big moon outside window?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': Big moon outside window?
'''Lucky Bob''': No.<br />
'''Lucky Bob''': No.
'''Cho-Cho''': Black darkness of deep outer space?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': Black darkness of deep outer space?
'''Lucky Bob''': No.<br />
'''Lucky Bob''': No.
'''Cho-Cho''': A bagel?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': A bagel?
'''Lucky Bob''': No.<br />
'''Lucky Bob''': No.
'''Cho-Cho''': A blitz?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': A blitz?
'''Lucky Bob''': No.<br />
'''Lucky Bob''': No.
'''Caption''': 55 HOURS LATER<br />
'''Caption''': 55 HOURS LATER
'''Cho-Cho''': A bupka?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': A bupka?
'''Lucky Bob''': No.<br />
'''Lucky Bob''': No.
'''Cho-Cho''': Big Fat Flying Baby?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': Big Fat Flying Baby?
'''Lucky Bob''': No.<br />
'''Lucky Bob''': No.
'''Cho-Cho''': A Bob who is lucky?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': A Bob who is lucky?
'''Lucky Bob''': Uh... no.<br />
'''Lucky Bob''': Uh... no.
'''Cho-Cho''': Bursting blood vessels in the astronauts' necks?<br />
'''Cho-Cho''': Bursting blood vessels in the astronauts' necks?
'''Astronauts''': TELL HER ALREADY!!<br />
'''Astronauts''': TELL HER ALREADY!!
'''Sammy Melman''': WHAT DO YOU SPY THAT BEGINS WITH A "B"?!!<br />
'''Sammy Melman''': WHAT DO YOU SPY THAT BEGINS WITH A "B"?!!
'''Lucky Bob''': Chocolate!|''[[Histeria (Animation)|Histeria!]]''}}
'''Lucky Bob''': Chocolate!
|''[[Histeria!]]''}}


{{quote|''"If I had one dollar for every brain you don't have, I'd have one dollar."''|'''Squidward Tentacles''', ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''}}
{{quote|''"If I had one dollar for every brain you don't have, I'd have one dollar."''|Squidward Tentacles|''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''}}


{{quote|''"Yes!"''|'''Fred Fredburger''', ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]''}}
{{quote|''"Yes!"''{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}|Fred Fredburger|''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]''}}


{{quote|''"And now it's time for ''Ask Dr. Stupid''!"''|''[[Ren and Stimpy|The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''}}
{{quote|''"And now it's time for ''Ask Dr. Stupid''!"''|''[[Ren and Stimpy|The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''}}


{{quote|''"Shut up Eccles! Shut up Eccles! Shut up Eccles! Oh, that's me!"''|'''Eccles''', ''[[The Goon Show]]''}}
{{quote|''"Shut up Eccles! Shut up Eccles! Shut up Eccles! Oh, that's me!"''|Eccles|''[[The Goon Show]]''}}

{{quote|''(The Serpentine has been drained and filled with concrete)''
'''Seagoon''': How did you get that lump on your head?
'''Eccles''': I just dived in the Serpentine!
'''Seagoon''': Didn't you know it was filled with solid concrete?
'''Eccles''': No, but I know now. In any case, I wouldn't dare dive in a pool with water in it.
'''Seagoon''': Why not?
'''Eccles''': Can't swim!
|''[[The Goon Show]]''}}


{{quote|''(The Serpentine has been drained and filled with concrete)''<br />
{{quote|'''Frat Alien''': My dad paid for this hole and this hole is named after my dad!
'''Seagoon''': How did you get that lump on your head?<br />
'''Master Shake''': Maybe that's why it's called ''Ass''!
'''Eccles''': I just dived in the Serpentine!<br />
'''Meatwad''': Is it really called Ass?
'''Seagoon''': Didn't you know it was filled with solid concrete?<br />
'''Shake''': I don't know, I'm shooting my mouth off!
|''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Zombie Ninja Pro-Am]]''}}
'''Eccles''': No, but I know now. In any case, I wouldn't dare dive in a pool with water in it.<br />
'''Seagoon''': Why not?<br />
'''Eccles''': Can't swim!|''[[The Goon Show]]''}}


{{quote|'''Eccles''': Land ahead!
{{quote|'''Frat Alien''': My dad paid for this hole and this hole is named after my dad!<br />
''[Drawn-out sound of seagoing prison crashing up onto the shore]''
'''Master Shake''': Maybe that's why it's called ''Ass''!<br />
'''Meatwad''': Is it really called Ass?<br />
'''Eccles''': I shoulda said that sooner.
|''[[The Goon Show]]''}}
'''Shake''': I don't know, I'm shooting my mouth off!|''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Zombie Ninja Pro-Am]]''}}


{{quote|''[a truck full of explosives is rolling down a hill towards the campe, while also being broadcast on the tv]''
{{quote|'''Eccles''': Land ahead!<br />
'''Zangief''': Quick! Change the channel!
''[Drawn-out sound of seagoing prison crashing up onto the shore]''<br />
'''Eccles''': I shoulda said that sooner.|''[[The Goon Show]]''}}
|''[[Street Fighter]]: [[The Movie]]''}}


{{quote|'''Zim''': Um, is it supposed to be stupid?
{{quote|''[a truck full of explosives is rolling down a hill towards the campe, while also being broadcast on the tv]''<br />
'''Purple''': It's not stupid, it's ''advaaaaaaaaanced''.
'''Zangief''': Quick! Change the channel!|''[[Street Fighter]]: [[The Movie]]''}}
|''[[Invader Zim]]'', concerning [[Robot Buddy|GIR]]}}


{{quote|'''Caboose''': Last time I was shot, I got a Purple Heart. Yeah, uh, I hope this time, I get a Purple Lung. You see eventually I, I hope to build an entire Purple Person. And we will be best friends.
{{quote|'''Zim''': Um, is it supposed to be stupid?<br />
'''Tucker''': Maybe you should ask for a Purple ''Brain''.
'''Purple''': It's not stupid, it's ''advaaaaaaaaanced''.|''[[Invader Zim]]'', concerning [[Robot Buddy|GIR]]}}
'''Caboose''': You're just jealous, 'cause you have no friends!
|''[[Red vs. Blue]]''}}


{{quote|'''Brain:''' Pinky, your complete inability to grasp the sublime is deeply sublime in and of itself.
{{quote|'''Caboose''': Last time I was shot, I got a Purple Heart. Yeah, uh, I hope this time, I get a Purple Lung. You see eventually I, I hope to build an entire Purple Person. And we will be best friends.<br />
'''Pinky:''' Oh, Brain, I love it when you say things about me that I don't understand. [[Verbal Tic|Poit.]]
'''Tucker''': Maybe you should ask for a Purple ''Brain''.<br />
|''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''}}
'''Caboose''': You're just jealous, 'cause you have no friends!|''[[Red vs. Blue]]''}}


{{quote|'''One/Zero''': Suzaku, listen! It's me!
{{quote|'''Brain:''' Pinky, your complete inability to grasp the sublime is deeply sublime in and of itself.<br />
'''Suzaku''': No, it is not! Because ''I'm'' me! And that makes you ''not'' me!
'''Pinky:''' Oh, Brain, I love it when you say things about me that I don't understand. [[Verbal Tic|Poit.]]|'''''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'''''}}
'''One/Zero''': What the f***?
|''[[Code MENT]]''}}


{{quote|'''One/Zero''': Suzaku, listen! It's me!<br />
{{quote|'''Chocola''': Chocola's all for curry! Leave dinner to Chocola!
'''Maple''': Chocola? Making dinner...? Do you have any cooking skills?
'''Suzaku''': No, it is not! Because I'm me! And that makes you not me!<br />
'''Cinnamon''': They're tragic. I don't even remember Chocola ever stepping foot inside the kitchen...?
'''One/Zero''': What the f***?|''[[Code Ment]]''}}
'''Azuki''': Wait, Chocola can barely read children's books! She wouldn't be able to read the recipe!
'''Chocola''': It's alright, Chocola recently remembered the cooking song they always sing on TV!
'''Coconut''': Didn't I already explain to you that that song was about croquettes? Like, three times.
|''[[Nekopara Vol. 0]]''}}


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Latest revision as of 01:43, 18 March 2024


L: Oh, it's nothing. Matsuda is being stupid again.
Light: Well, that is his specialty.

Marten: Aw, well Raven's nice, but... I think she's like, a savant who hasn't found out what her one preternatural talent is, y'know?
Tai: Is the amount of talent proportional to the amount of idiocy the savant otherwise displays? 'Cuz if so, she's gonna turn on the Weather Channel one day and spontaneously fix global warming.

"I think nothing, my lord."
—Ophelia, Hamlet
"Aren't you happy, Flonne? We finally found somebody dumber than you!"
—Laharl, Disgaea
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
—Edward Flaherty[who?]
"So everyone is talking about "old" Hollywood, which I think is basically like regular Hollywood, except it's wrinkly and smells like mothballs and metamucil. The best way to get this look is to have your grandma sit on your clothes for awhile and then you can wear them!"
—Tiffany Thongbiscuit[who?], on the "Old Hollywood" look."
"Vain and stupid. Girl power!"
The Nostalgia Chick, on Posh Spice in Spice World.

"That King, although noone denies
"His heart was of abnormal size,
"Yet he'd have acted otherwise
"If he'd have been acuter."

—Don Alhambra, The Gondoliers
"You can't always expect my usual brand of stupidity. I like to mix it up, keep you on your toes"
—Patrick Star, SpongeBob SquarePants
"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
"Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck..."
—Ralph Wiggum (while playing "Duck, Duck, Goose" with the furniture), The Simpsons
"When he grows up, I want to be like me!"
—Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons
"I can taste it with my sniff sniff!"
—Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons
"My cat's breath smells like cat food."
—Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons
"She was expelled from the National Union of Bimbos for being too dim."
—Alex, regarding Sally SmedleyDrop the Dead Donkey
"I like swords."
—Fighter, 8-Bit Theater
"Don't mind him. He was dropped on his head at birth and infected with a happy virus during childhood."
"With these stool wings, I'll fly to the banana!"

Lucky Bob: I spy, something that begins with the letter "B".
Cho-Cho: Blinking lights?
Lucky Bob: Nope.
Cho-Cho: Big moon outside window?
Lucky Bob: No.
Cho-Cho: Black darkness of deep outer space?
Lucky Bob: No.
Cho-Cho: A bagel?
Lucky Bob: No.
Cho-Cho: A blitz?
Lucky Bob: No.
Caption: 55 HOURS LATER
Cho-Cho: A bupka?
Lucky Bob: No.
Cho-Cho: Big Fat Flying Baby?
Lucky Bob: No.
Cho-Cho: A Bob who is lucky?
Lucky Bob: Uh... no.
Cho-Cho: Bursting blood vessels in the astronauts' necks?
Astronauts: TELL HER ALREADY!!
Sammy Melman: WHAT DO YOU SPY THAT BEGINS WITH A "B"?!!
Lucky Bob: Chocolate!

"If I had one dollar for every brain you don't have, I'd have one dollar."
—Squidward Tentacles, SpongeBob SquarePants
"Yes!"[context?]
"And now it's time for Ask Dr. Stupid!"
"Shut up Eccles! Shut up Eccles! Shut up Eccles! Oh, that's me!"
—Eccles, The Goon Show

(The Serpentine has been drained and filled with concrete)
Seagoon: How did you get that lump on your head?
Eccles: I just dived in the Serpentine!
Seagoon: Didn't you know it was filled with solid concrete?
Eccles: No, but I know now. In any case, I wouldn't dare dive in a pool with water in it.
Seagoon: Why not?
Eccles: Can't swim!

Frat Alien: My dad paid for this hole and this hole is named after my dad!
Master Shake: Maybe that's why it's called Ass!
Meatwad: Is it really called Ass?
Shake: I don't know, I'm shooting my mouth off!

Eccles: Land ahead!
[Drawn-out sound of seagoing prison crashing up onto the shore]
Eccles: I shoulda said that sooner.

[a truck full of explosives is rolling down a hill towards the campe, while also being broadcast on the tv]
Zangief: Quick! Change the channel!

Zim: Um, is it supposed to be stupid?
Purple: It's not stupid, it's advaaaaaaaaanced.

Invader Zim, concerning GIR

Caboose: Last time I was shot, I got a Purple Heart. Yeah, uh, I hope this time, I get a Purple Lung. You see eventually I, I hope to build an entire Purple Person. And we will be best friends.
Tucker: Maybe you should ask for a Purple Brain.
Caboose: You're just jealous, 'cause you have no friends!

Brain: Pinky, your complete inability to grasp the sublime is deeply sublime in and of itself.
Pinky: Oh, Brain, I love it when you say things about me that I don't understand. Poit.

One/Zero: Suzaku, listen! It's me!
Suzaku: No, it is not! Because I'm me! And that makes you not me!
One/Zero: What the f***?

Chocola: Chocola's all for curry! Leave dinner to Chocola!
Maple: Chocola? Making dinner...? Do you have any cooking skills?
Cinnamon: They're tragic. I don't even remember Chocola ever stepping foot inside the kitchen...?
Azuki: Wait, Chocola can barely read children's books! She wouldn't be able to read the recipe!
Chocola: It's alright, Chocola recently remembered the cooking song they always sing on TV!
Coconut: Didn't I already explain to you that that song was about croquettes? Like, three times.


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