History Main / StupidestThingIveEverHeard

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0199.html "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"]]:
-->'''Roy:''' Well, I would say that's the dumbest thing I've heard all day, but as I've been talking to Elan since morning, it might not even crack the top ten.

* Uttered by a villain in a strip of ''Webcomic/SuperStupor'' in response to a minion warning him about the resident LittleMissBadass, and how heroes don't send out kids unless they can kick serious ass. He ignores the warning and promptly gets fried.
* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20100819104546/http://www.hamletothehamster.com/2008/10/hamleto-on-road-part-18.html Hamleto the Hasmter]]'':

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': At one point Pandora travels into the dreams of one of the main characters and sees [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2217 this.]] The very next page she claims that "Well, ''this'' is among the stupidest things I've ever seen." And coming from an Immortal who's seen just about everything, that's saying a lot.

Variations can include "dumbest", "most idiotic", "most ridiculous" etc., but the same basic message applies. Sometimes, as the page picture demonstrates, a verbal response isn't even necessary and FacialDialogue does all the work.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' after Farquaad realizes that Shrek is in love with Fiona, Farquaad laughs at him for having the idea of a princess and an ogre being together.

[[quoteright:316:[[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clueless_boss_2441.png]]]]

* ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'': Lopen suggests that Kaladin patch things up with Syl by buying her a hat[[note]]Syl is a spren, so she's noncorporeal and couldn't even wear a hat[[/note]]. Kaladin's response is "That's the most ridiculous piece of advice I've ever been given." Lopen promptly suggests something stupider and says that the hat thing is now only the ''second'' most ridiculous, so Kaladin should try it.

* ''[[http://www.hamletothehamster.com/2008/10/hamleto-on-road-part-18.html Hamleto the Hasmter]]'':

* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'' has a double example: [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix]] pulls this out the moment [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Trixie]] brings up a storm cloud as "decisive evidence". It bites him back when he discovers that yes, that cloud could perfectly be moved around by the defendant, [[CriticalResearchFailure and this is common knowledge in Equestria]].

* From ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' episode "Heavy Metal", when Sarge proposes charging the enemy base single file:

** In the episode "Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N.", a lockdown of the Treehouse has been enacted, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Count Spankulot]] had supposedly escaped from jail and is loose in the Treehouse, [[spoiler:but the real culprit turns out to be Numbuh One transformed into a Spank-Happy Vampire,]] having already spanked Numbuhs Two and Three, and the lockdown will only last until morning. Numbuh Four, fearful he will be the Count's next victim, discusses the Quadruple Emergency Bypass Code with Numbuh Two, which can override any Treehouse computer command and can lift the lockdown earlier, which leads to this exchange:

** In the episode "Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N.", Numbuhs Two and Four are discussing the Quadruple Emergency Bypass Code.

'''Numbuh Two:''' I can't! Only Numbuh Five has the code, and she's not even allowed to use it.\\

'''Numbuh Two:''' It's the rule! The code's so important, no-one's allowed to use it.\\

'''Sally:''' Steve, you're gonna have to be my husband. Patrick prefers blondes!\\
'''Bartender:''' I love this bar!

* ''Series/DeadRingers:'' When Gary Lineker interrupts ''Match of the Day'' to point out the all-female hosts aren't making inane sports commentary, the new host says that the idea MOTD needs inane commentary is the dumbest thing she's ever heard of. Gary responds that this is so mind-bogglingly nonsensical it actually counts as inane commentary by itself.

* Wiki/RationalWiki refers to it with two pages. "[[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong Not Even Wrong]]," and "[[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness Fractal Wrongness]]."

** Red Mage tends to trigger this in his "comrades", but the best example may be [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/07/09/episode-1150-stuck-in-the-middle-with-you/ 1150]]. "That is quite literally the least practical plan put together by an '''allegedly''' thinking creature." According to Black Mage, it's the stupidest thing [[UpToEleven anyone]] has ever heard, not just him.

-->'''Lucius:''' {{Let me get this straight}}. You think that your client—one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world—is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan... [[BullyingADragon is to]] ''[[BullyingADragon blackmail]]'' [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} this person]]? [[WhatAnIdiot Good luck!]]

--->'''Mayor:''' [[MythologyGag An animated Christmas card?]] [[TakeThatUs Kids, that just might be the dumbest idea I've ever heard, ever!]]

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

** In another strip, the PHB declares that he's going to smack people who say stupid things to him. Dilbert responds with the trope's title, which causes the boss to smack himself and convinces Dilbert that maybe he should give it a shot.

* The Trope Image, from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''. [[http://dilbert.com/strip/2012-03-11 As an addendum]], Dilbert calms the PointyHairedBoss down by giving him an even ''bigger'' trainwreck of technical jargon, which [[SuckinessIsPainful stuns the co-worker into traumatized silence]].

-->'''Nick:''' Well, folks, that is just about [[SuddenlyShouting THE STUPIDEST THING I EVER HEARD!]]\\

* From ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'':

-->'''Nick:''' Well, folks, that is just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard!\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "In Marge We Trust", Rev. Lovejoy has a vision with four Saints:

-->'''Nick:''' Coach, that has got to be the stupidest idea I have ever agreed with.