History Main / NoOneElseIsThatDumb

* ''Series/ABlackLadySketchShow'': In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA6Zt0rNztM Plugged In]]," Omarion is faced with two women claiming to be his wife. In an attempt to SpotTheImposter, he asks how O's are in his name. Both women answer "five" after much deliberation. He reveals that an incorrect response is the correct one for his purposes because his wife's math abilities are so poor.

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--> '''Torg''': I was wrong. This house is not a ghost trap! It is an elevator to hell with ghosts in the gas tank.
--> '''Riff''': Elevators don't use gas tanks.
--> '''Torg''': Right... bad analogy. How about... It's an inverted toaster popping the bread of us on to the "two eggs up, and a side of bacon" plate of hell! ''With ghosts in the gas tank!!''
--> '''Riff''': Well, we know Torg's not possessed. That's Torg all right.

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%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* There was an episode of ''ComicStrip/{{Bananaman}}'' where the protagonist was distinguished from his fabricated clone that way.

--->'''Patrick:''' Uh, is this a trick question?

* Subverted in an episode of WesternAnimation/{{Bananaman}}, where an evil clone of Bananaman is created. The hero’s resident NonHumanSidekick, Crow, has access to a device that can turn one of the two Bananamans into a banana, so he decides to test them with the trick question of “What’s heavier, a ton of lead or a ton of feathers?” One of the two answers that both are the same weight, while the other replies “What kind of feathers?”. Crow then zaps the latter, knowing that while the real Bananaman is a buffoon, he still is capable of successfully spotting such a trick question.

--->'''Shelbyville kid:''' How come we haven't seen you in school?
--->'''Bart:''' I don't go to school.
--->'''Shelbyville kid:''' Oh yeah? What's 2 plus 2?
--->'''Bart:''' 5.
--->'''Shelbyville kid:''' Story checks out.

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'': the MasterOfDisguise Prince Ludwig has infiltrated the court of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Queen Elizabeth]]; the palace is having a fancy dress party to take her mind off her troubles and Blackadder (who was Ludwig's prisoner) told Ludwig that Nursie always dresses as a cow. Then Blackadder escapes, returns to London, and stabs Nursie while she's dressed as a cow - but it isn't Nursie, it's Prince Ludwig.

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* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', Marie wonders who's sending messages over her communication line with the player. She immediately identifies them as [[spoiler: her missing cousin, Callie]], when one of the audio transmissions somehow arrives upside down, a CallBack to the [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} previous game]].

Compare TrustPassword and BluffTheImpostor. Will often overlap with SpotTheImposter.

* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' heads towards some sort of TrustPassword, but short-circuits it in favor of [[http://xkcd.com/1121/ "no one else is that nerdy."]]

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Brian has to distinguish between the real Stewie and his evil clone - both are naked and there are no other clues. Brian is annoyed by having to play SpotTheImposter... on only because it's cliché and he already knows how to solve it: by asking them to look at their feet. The evil clone wonders why he'd ask this, while the real Stewie [[PingPongNaivete is captivated by his toes like the eighteen-month old toddler he is]].

* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', Marie wonders who's sending messages over her communication line with the player. She immediately identifies them as [[spoiler: her missing cousin, Callie]], when one of the transmissions somehow arrives upside down, a CallBack to the [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} previous game]].

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Brian has to distinguish between the real Stewie and his evil clone - both are naked and there are no other clues. Brian eventually hits on the fact that the real Stewie will revert to type and behave not as a world-dominating evil genius but as an eighteen-month old toddler. He asks both to look at their feet. The evil clone sneers while the real Stewie is captivated by his own wiggling toes. Brian then knows which one to shoot.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', Goofy encounters a criminal who looks just like him. In order to tell them apart, Max sets down a bucket of wallpaper paste and asks his real dad to please step forward. Max immediately knows that the one who clumsily steps in the bucket is Goofy.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'', a criminal MasterOfDisguise infiltrates an important police meeting as Gadget himself. When the real one shows up, he accidentally knocks down chief Quimby with his mallet, prompting Quimby to order the other one arrested.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', when Sandy questions whether [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick were really them and not a [[ItMakesSenseInContext snail]], she asks Spongebob his mom's maiden name and Patrick his first name.

* A ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' film had this. Piglet was trying to confirm that it was, in fact, Pooh. He suggested Pooh say something like, "I am Pooh." Pooh, naturally, said, "Really? Well, then, who am I?" Piglet chuckled and said, "It's Pooh."

* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', Marie wonders who's sending messages over her communication line with the player. She immediately identifies them as [[spoiler: her missing cousin, Callie]], when one of the transmissions somehow arrives upside down, a CallBack to the previous game.

Compare TrustPassword and BluffTheImposter. Will often overlap with SpotTheImposter.

* In ''Literature/TheCulture'' novel ''Literature/{{Matter}}'' Farbin is a KingIncognito, one step ahead of the usurper who's declared him dead, who seeks help from his old tutor who hasn't seen him since he was a boy. The tutor says that if he's who he says he is, he'll remember the name of the tutor's assistant, and the subject of one of their lessons. When Farbin admits he can't recall either of these things, the tutor is reassured that this really is the UpperClassTwit he remembers.

* One WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck saw Donald getting arrested alongside a CriminalDoppelganger, a villainous GadgeteerGenius who used a homemade jetpack to rob a bank. To prove Donald's innocence, Huey, Dewey, and Louie suggests to the police to put him and the doppelgänger through an intelligence test. Donald visibly struggles with the test, while the doppelgänger aces it, leading the police to let Donald to go as he, quite a bit to his humiliation, simply was not clever enough to could have pulled of the heist.

* On the Israeli sitcom ''Shemesh'', the stereotypical DumbBlonde Ogen is revealed to be a spy, after a few characters notice [[ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation they have no idea what her source of income is]]. She tries to go into [=HQ=], where she is asked for the password, and she answers, �...Can I get a hint?� She gets in, where she�s told she�s fired and can [[ObfuscatingStupidity drop the]] [[TheDitz ditzy]] act, [[BecomingTheMask but she has no clue what they�re talking about]]. (Then again, this show has had a lot of NegativeContinuity, including Ogen�s {{Backstory}}, which makes this a somewhat weird example.)

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* One WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck saw Donald getting arrested alongside a CriminalDoppelganger, a villainous GadgeteerGenius who used a homemade jetpack to rob a bank. To prove Donald's innocence, Huey, Dewey, and Louie suggests to the police to put him and the doppelgänger through an intelligence test. Donald visibly struggles with the test, while the doppelgänger aces it, leading the police to let Donald to go as he, quite a bit to his humiliation, simply was not clever enough to could have pulled of the heist.

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'''Gary:''' Exactly. <beat> OWWWWW!\\

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* On the Israeli sitcom ''Shemesh'', the stereotypical DumbBlonde Ogen is revealed to be a spy, after a few characters notice [[ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation they have no idea what her source of income is]]. She tries to go into [=HQ=], where she is asked for the password, and she answers, ‘...Can I get a hint?’ She gets in, where she’s told she’s fired and can [[ObfuscatingStupidity drop the]] [[TheDitz ditzy]] act, [[BecomingTheMask but she has no clue what they’re talking about]]. (Then again, this show has had a lot of NegativeContinuity, including Ogen’s {{Backstory}}, which makes this a somewhat weird example.)

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** In "It's the Wrong Torg, Grommit!" the protagonists have some issues with random dimensional travel, especially when parallel dimensions with parallel events start interacting. At the end, Riff and Zoë have to wonder whether the Torg who shows up through a dimensional portal is really their version of him. At first they think it's not, because he goes to [[KillerRabbit Bun-bun]] and asks for a hug. Then they realise it is, because he was using it as a test as to whether he was in the right dimension (only his Bun-bun would react so violently) -- and only ''their'' Torg would be dumb enough to use that as a test.

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%% ZeroContextExample* There was an episode of ''ComicStrip/{{Bananaman}}'' where the protagonist was distinguished from his fabricated clone that way.

* In an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest]]'', Dukey gets a cyborg clone of Johnny to reveal itself by asking a math question. The cyborg answers immediately with the correct answer, but gets blasted. When questioned why he blasted the one who gave the correct answer, Dukey points out he knew that the real Johnny wasn't smart enough to do math like that without counting on his fingers.

* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', Marie wonders who's sending messages over her communication line with the player. She immediately identifies them as [[spoiler: the other Squid Sister, Callie]], when one of the transmissions somehow arrives upside down.