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* CaptainObvious: There are moments where the cast members aren't really making jokes at the videos, and tend to just be narrating what's going on, as if [[ViewersAreMorons we, the viewers, can't figure it out ourselves]].
** This was very prevalent in the early episodes where there were less gags and jabs at the people on the video (and each other).
* TheCastShowoff:
** If you see a clip of somebody doing something dumb to try and impress his buddies (or any random clip from a "Record Breakers" episode), expect Danny to try and pull it off himself... and usually not doing too well at it.
** Frankie will occasionally pick a pretty mean guitar, and once provided the song for an animated music video of drunk hillbillies riding their horses into a grocery store Starbucks kiosk.
* CatchPhrase: During "World's Dumbest Brawlers", expect to hear someone in the clips scream "YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT!" at least once.

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* CaptainObvious: There are moments where the cast members aren't really making jokes at the videos, and tend to just be narrating what's going on, as if [[ViewersAreMorons we, the viewers, can't figure it out ourselves]].
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ourselves]]. This was very prevalent in the early episodes where there were less gags and jabs at the people on the video (and each other).
* TheCastShowoff:
** If you see a clip of somebody doing something dumb to try and impress his buddies (or any random clip from a "Record Breakers" episode), expect Danny to try and pull it off himself... and usually not doing too well at it.
** Frankie will occasionally pick a pretty mean guitar, and once provided
vided the song for an animated music video of drunk hillbillies riding their horses into a grocery store Starbucks kiosk.
* CatchPhrase: CatchPhrase:
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During "World's Dumbest Brawlers", expect to hear someone in the clips scream "YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT!" at least once.



*** Judy often uses "Hello?" as well, though she usually delivers it with a lot more bite and snark than Tonya does.

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*** ** Judy often uses "Hello?" as well, though she usually delivers it with a lot more bite and snark than Tonya does.
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* SoccerHatingAmericans: Whenever the show features a clip in which soccer is included - even briefly - much of the cast is quick to add their disdain for the sport in their commentary.
-->'''Nick [=DiPaolo=]:''' Soccer's not boring enough when it's played by humans, let's slow it down even more underwater with fish!
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** Daisy made an LOLCats reference in the episode entitled "World's Dumbest Heroes."

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** Daisy made an LOLCats WebOriginal/LOLCats reference in the episode entitled "World's Dumbest Heroes."
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: An amateur skier after crashing into a tree.
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* TongueOnTheFlagpole: Happens in one clip. Chuck Nice even references ''Film/AChristmasStory''.
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* TooDumbToLive[=/=]ThisLoserIsYou: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Do we need any examples?]]

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* TooDumbToLive[=/=]ThisLoserIsYou: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Do we need any examples?]]examples?]] Of course, it isn't exactly Series/OneThousandWaysToDie, either.
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-->'''Roger:''' Hey, watch the language, mister! This ain't [[JerrySpringer Springer]], this is the Smoking Gun, [[SophisticatedAsHell very classy around here!]]

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-->'''Roger:''' Hey, watch the language, mister! This ain't [[JerrySpringer [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Springer]], this is the Smoking Gun, [[SophisticatedAsHell very classy around here!]]
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** One of the earlier episodes features a clip that seems remininscent of the movie ''[[Film/WeekendAtBernies]]'', where a guy drags behind him a dead person in an office chair, with sunglasses on his face.

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** One of the earlier episodes features a clip that seems remininscent of the movie ''[[Film/WeekendAtBernies]]'', ''WeekendAtBernies'', where a guy drags behind him a dead person in an office chair, with sunglasses on his face.
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''truTV Presents: World's Dumbest...'' (formerly titled ''The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest...'') is a program on [=truTV=], "highlighting" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the world's dumbest criminals, drivers, brawlers, encounters, etc]] with celebrity commentary. Originally produced by The Smoking Gun - a site profiling known criminals and many celebrities such as [[Series/ThePartridgeFamily Danny Bonaduce]] and Creator/LeifGarrett, who also were regular emcees on the show. Other emcees include Bryan Callen, Frank Stallone, Tonya Harding, Judy Gold, [[Series/DiffrentStrokes Todd Bridges]], Brad Loekle, Gary Busey, Ted Jessup, Nick [=DiPaolo=], Daisy Gardner, Chelsea Peretti, John Enos, Chuck Nice, [[Series/BlindDate Roger Lodge]], Loni Love, Daniel Baldwin, Mike Trainor, Kevin and Tom [=McCaffrey=], Jaime Andrews, Marianne Sierk, Michael Loftus, Mike Britt, Brendan Walsh, Greg Wilson, Billy Kimball, Chris Fairbanks, Rachel Feinstein, and Jamie Lee. In 2013, the series experienced an [[ReTool overhaul]], letting go a number of the above mentioned emcees, and bringing in new additions to the roster, including Amanda Landry, Mike O'Gorman, and Gilbert Gottfried.

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''truTV Presents: World's Dumbest...'' (formerly titled ''The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest...'') is a program on [=truTV=], "highlighting" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the world's dumbest criminals, drivers, brawlers, encounters, etc]] with celebrity commentary. Originally produced by The Smoking Gun - a site profiling known criminals and many celebrities such as [[Series/ThePartridgeFamily Danny Bonaduce]] Creator/DannyBonaduce and Creator/LeifGarrett, who also were regular emcees on the show. Other emcees include Bryan Callen, Frank Stallone, Tonya Harding, Judy Gold, [[Series/DiffrentStrokes Todd Bridges]], Brad Loekle, Gary Busey, Ted Jessup, Nick [=DiPaolo=], Daisy Gardner, Chelsea Peretti, John Enos, Chuck Nice, [[Series/BlindDate Roger Lodge]], Loni Love, Daniel Baldwin, Mike Trainor, Kevin and Tom [=McCaffrey=], Jaime Andrews, Marianne Sierk, Michael Loftus, Mike Britt, Brendan Walsh, Greg Wilson, Billy Kimball, Chris Fairbanks, Rachel Feinstein, and Jamie Lee. In 2013, the series experienced an [[ReTool overhaul]], letting go a number of the above mentioned emcees, and bringing in new additions to the roster, including Amanda Landry, Mike O'Gorman, and Gilbert Gottfried.
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* CreepyChild: In a "Performers" episode, a mother dresses as a clown for her kid's birthday party, though a mishap on her part accidentally starts a fire in the room; while she and a bunch of the kids naturally begin to panic, one little boy stands off in the background and seemingly giggles uncontrollably over the entire incident. The cast is deeply creeped out by this, with Brad even suggesting this kid ''is'' [[TheOmen Damien Thorne]].

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* CreepyChild: In a "Performers" episode, a mother dresses as a clown for her kid's birthday party, though a mishap on her part accidentally starts a fire in the room; while she and a bunch of the kids naturally begin to panic, one little boy stands off in the background and seemingly giggles uncontrollably over the entire incident. The cast is deeply creeped out by this, with Brad even suggesting this kid ''is'' [[TheOmen [[Film/TheOmen Damien Thorne]].Thorn]].
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Danny invokes this in a clip from a "Brawlers" episode, in which we see him exchanging barbs with another obscure has-been entertainer known as "[[IronicName The Reverend]]" before they hit the boxing ring. The Reverend smacks Danny on one cheek, to which he asks The Reverend if he's ever read Literature/TheBible (he claims he never has) before offering his other cheek to be smacked.
-->'''Daniel:''' Who knew Danny Bonaduce was a Biblical scholar?


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** From "World's Dumbest Holidays", a clip of a community hunting a leprechan in Alabama includes an excitable fellow exclaiming about witnessing the alleged man in green.
-->'''Bystander:''' To me, it looked like a leprechan to me!
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-->'''Danny:''' This is like [[TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch]] for motorcyclists.

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-->'''Danny:''' This is like [[TheBlairWitchProject ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch]] Witch]]'' for motorcyclists.
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* StalkerWithACrush: In "World's Dumbest Lovers 3", a drunken girl calls up a guy she had just met at a bar, and leaves him ''four'' long messages, one right after another, gushing about how cute she thinks he is and how she stirs up feelings of chemistry and nervousness inside her, and telling him all the places she works so he has multiple options of calling her back so they can talk together.

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-->'''Mike T.:''' Makes sense to me! Knee ''brain'' right under the knee ''cap''. (Mimes putting on a hat)

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-->'''Mike T.:''' Makes sense to me! Knee ''brain'' right under the knee ''cap''. (Mimes putting on a hat)hat) Got it!


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* AwesomeMcCoolname: "World's Dumbest Drivers 2" features a clip of a man who is arrested for a slew of crimes, including shoplifting and (doughnut truck) auto theft, whose name is revealed to be "Warren G. Whitelightning." Whether or not he was born with this name is not revealed.
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* WartsAndAll: Of the original cast, Danny seems to be regarded as the show's unofficial star, particularly in earlier seasons where it's not uncommon for a clip of some of his past exploits or activities are featured in a countdown; his transvestite hooker incident was also spoofed in an animated clip, and promotional images tend to plaster him front and center with Leif, Tonya, and Todd behind him in the background. Leif perhaps comes in second, as photos and clips from his TeenIdol days in TheSeventies are occasionally featured, and similarly, a drug arrest of his was also spoofed in a re-enactment.
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** In a "Drivers" clip, a SassyBlackLady is confronted about tax evasion, and she runs over the foot of an older man with a large bushy mustache who was trying to repossess her car.
-->'''Natalie:''' Damn! She gangsta! She tried to run over Wilford Brimley!
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* ShesGotLegs:
** The examples are infrequent, but they are there. Marianne regularly wears hot pants and miniskirts, but it's only if she's used in a skit or super-imposed into a clip in full-bodied shots that we see this.
** This also happened with Jaime once when she's inside a plastic bubble while wearing a bathing suit.
** A clip example involves two teen girls brawling while wearing short shorts, which Chelsea comments it's a good idea to wear them to give people more bang for their buck.
** A rare male example includes a clip where a man is pulled over for drunk driving, and is wearing unusually short (for men) shorts; Brad and Chelsea like what they see.
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* KickTheDog: Lampshaded in an episode of, "Outlaws". One clip shows a bicyclist who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident, and was left seriously injured, with two broken legs. As emergency personnel tend to him, a police dashcam records a trio of hoodlums arriving at the scene, and actually stealing his bike while everybody is preoccupied.

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* KickTheDog: KickTheDog:
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Lampshaded in an episode of, "Outlaws". One clip shows a bicyclist who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident, and was left seriously injured, with two broken legs. As emergency personnel tend to him, a police dashcam records a trio of hoodlums arriving at the scene, and actually stealing his bike while everybody is preoccupied.preoccupied.
** In a more literal sense, a clip shows a pair of elderly men who were rival football players in high school, and ''still'' hold a grudge against each other to this day. One of them held it to such an extent that he tells the people attending their ceremony that he had a dog he named after his rival, "And I kicked the shit out of that dog every day." After he says that, someone's cellphone can be heard ringing, to which Roger remarks, "I think that's PETA on line one!"
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* ArtisticLicenseAnatomy: This is PlayedStraight with a drunk driver, and PlayedForLaughs with the cast in a "Partiers" clip of a drunk driver being pulled over, but claiming he has a defect in his knee:
-->'''Drunk:''' The placenta is torn.
-->'''Brad:''' Wow. We need to get you to a hospital. You're going to have a baby.
-->'''Marianne:''' Everyone knows only girls have babies in their knees.
** In the same clip, the drunk corrects himself and says the problem is his "plaselta", which he claims is the membrane that separates the knee cap from the "knee brain."
-->'''Mike T.:''' Makes sense to me! Knee ''brain'' right under the knee ''cap''. (Mimes putting on a hat)
** Finally, the drunk feels the officer's questions are inappropriate, and requests to call his lawyer.
-->'''Kevin:''' (As lawyer) Dude, I would love to help you out, but my knee ''just'' went into labor. I'm literally pushing as we speak.
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* POVCam: An "Inventions" episodes features the Hat Cam, which is a baseball cap with a built-in camera. Various different cast members try it out, and as such, we're treated to Frank in the men's room, preparing for filming; Brendan and Leif meeting each other, and Brendan (on his first day at Meetinghouse Productions) assuming Leif is, "The New Guy," while Leif informs him that he's the new guy; and [[HomePornMovie an unknown woman riding Danny]].

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* POVCam: We're treated to this from time to time; some specific examples are as follows:
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An "Inventions" episodes features the Hat Cam, which is a baseball cap with a built-in camera. Various different cast members try it out, and as such, we're treated to Frank in the men's room, preparing for filming; Brendan and Leif meeting each other, and Brendan (on his first day at Meetinghouse Productions) assuming Leif is, "The New Guy," while Leif informs him that he's the new guy; and [[HomePornMovie an unknown woman riding Danny]].Danny]].
** A "Motorheads" clip features a group of bikers riding through the mountains in North Carolina, each of them wearing helmet cams - on the front and back of their helmets.
-->'''Mike T.:''' It's like I always say, "Never leave the house with less than ''two'' helmet cams!
*** One of the bikers wipes out on a dangerous curve, and falls down the hillside; we're even treated to his wipeout and his attempts to climb back up to the road.
-->'''Danny:''' This is like [[TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch]] for motorcyclists.
** Another "Motorheads" clip is from a vlogger who records rides he takes on his motorcycle throughout his neighborhood, including an occasion where he accidentally crashes into the back of a UPS truck that has slowed to a stop.
-->'''Mike T.:''' "Oh, man! These videos are gonna be great to watch later!" Says no one.
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* InsistentTerminology: Tonya, of all people, plays this straight on occasion:
-->'''Tonya:''' Women don't fart, we toot.
-->'''Tonya:''' Women don't fight, we brawl.
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** Kevin has a subtle moment of this, in which we see Danny getting a "Smokin' Gun" tattoo on his shoulder, though the tattooist messes up from a mini van plowing through the store front (in the accompanying clip), to which Kevin remarks the van hit the store so hard it, "Knocked the 'G' off Danny's chest."
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* NamesTheSame: An "Inventions" episode that features a reimagined version of a jock cup called the Nutty Buddy.
-->'''Roger:''' I thought the Nutty Buddy was an ice cream cone with nuts. Isn't it?
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** In the episode ''World's Dumbest: TV Shows'', GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende was featured two times.

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** In the episode ''World's Dumbest: TV Shows'', GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende'' was featured two times.
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* SkewedPriorities: In one episode of "Motorheads", a driver on the run from police loses control of his car and slams through the window of a diner. Kevin plays a patron who's having a meal in a booth next to said window.
-->'''Kevin:''' Excuse me, waiter? Yeah, I ordered this steak medium rare-- this is clearly medium well. ''[{{beat}}]'' Also, there's a car in my mashed potatoes.

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* StealthPun: In "World's Dumbest Criminals 21," the title of one clip is "Good Grief!" The clip features a robbery, and while holding up the store, the thief is snacking on... [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} peanuts]].

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* StealthPun: In "World's Dumbest Criminals 21," the title of one clip is "Good Grief!" "[[CatchPhrase Good Grief]]!" The clip features a robbery, and while holding up the store, the thief is snacking on... [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} peanuts]].peanuts]].
* StonersAreFunny: A couple is pulled over in Kansas after the passenger throws something out of the window, and upon inspection of the vehicle, the police ascertain that they're in possession of marijuana. When the male resists the officers' search, they use physical force to get him to cooperate. His girlfriend, almost in a lethargic stupor, deadpans (in a rare instance, unintentionally) "Stop doing that to my boyfriend..." Michael Loftus can only comment that "That's some good dope right there."


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* UglyGuyHotWife: In one clip, a man is arrested for a major crime during his wedding. Mike Trainor has the following to say:
-->'''Mike T.''': You knew he was doing something illegal to be that ugly and have a wife that hot. Something was afoot.
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** Since Season 13, Brad has seem to become almost everybody's personal Butt Monkey, especially for Danny, John, and Bryan.

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** Since around Season 13, Brad himself has seem seemed to become almost everybody's personal Butt Monkey, especially for to Danny, John, Bryan and Bryan.John.
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* LooksLikeJesus: In one Criminals clip about illegal desert dumping, a criminal is arrested, and in his court video, he appears to be a middle-aged/elderly man with shagy gray hair, and a full beard.
-->'''Billy:''' Oh my God! They arrested Jesus!
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** Upon being introduced to Wiarton, Ontario's Groundhog Day mascot: Willy, the albino groundhog:
--->'''Chuck:''' Damn, what's up in Canada? Even the ''groundhogs'' gotta be white?
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** An episode of "Partiers" showed a group of English mates sitting around a campfire, doing dumb stuff with their smoldering cigarette butts, like extinguishing them into one of their wrists, while he also eats one (while still burning). As noted above, Danny often likes to pull the stunts we see in the clips, and Brad was well aware of this, begging the producers not to let him see this clip, knowing he would try to eat a smoldering butt; sure enough, we cut to Danny, and we see him eat a smoldering butt. Brad's response? A defeated, "Damnit..."

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