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1When a character will open his mouth to speak or make voices while having no dialogue, and the instant they do, you immediately know that this character is a dumb or [[TooDumbToLive pretty stupid]] character. Whether he's an over-muscled {{Mook}} or she's the PluckyComicRelief, the one thing you can tell just by their voice is the fact that his elevator just doesn't go all the way to the top floor. Alternately, it is common for someone to put such a voice on to make fun of someone who supposedly [[TheUnpronounceable doesn't grasp something obvious]] or just giving this to display TheDitz.
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3Very common for this kind of voice in animated works, because allegedly such an obvious characterization tool [[AnimationAgeGhetto that appeals to children]]. In UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, this sort of voice was used a lot by characters who were a parody of Lennie from the film adaptation of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' or to reference a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} goofball]] character.
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5When the character is male, generally expect a halting voice in the low registers, silly inflections in his voice, or else a high-pitched, nasally quavering, with most sentences beginning with the word 'duh'. When the character is female, expect a high-pitched nasally whine or an even higher-pitched squeak-fest. Often, characters with this voice will use poor grammar or HulkSpeak. Male characters often substitute the t or d sounds for the th sound, like saying "dat" for "that." A ValleyGirl accent helps for common, female ditzes. They may occasionally utter a StupidlyLongFillerSound, just to enhance [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough their dimwitted nature]] at times.
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7A very common characteristic of {{Mooks}} and TheDitz, as well the MooseAreIdiots, DogsAreDumb, DumbDinos or a DoofyDodo characterization. Contrast UnintelligibleAccent and NerdyNasalness.
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15%%* Grimace from UsefulNotes/McDonalds commercials.
16* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjMUfIKktWU GEICO]] [[EverythingTalks talking pothole]] mixes ValleyGirl and a Southern drawl for her ditz voice. Subverted when "she" reveals herself to not so much be a ditz, as much as a snarky inanimate object. "Cuz I'm a POTHOLE!"
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20* Dorodoron's voice from ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' sounds very similar to this type, sounding rather like Grounder from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' would if he was speaking Japanese.
21* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Slowpoke says its name in this kind of voice, and it is established to be a very dimwitted species.
22* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
23** In the original Japanese, Son Goku is voiced with the equivalent of a country hick accent. This is an essential part of his character for Japanese viewers (along with [[VocalDissonance generally sounding like a child]]), but was excised in the English dub.
24** Recoome of the Ginyu Force; the "dumb-as-nails PsychopathicManchild" vs. "hammy sadist who's just toying with you" ratio depends on who's voicing him.
25* Bear in the American English dub of ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'' (voiced by Paul Greenberg), which makes scene considering what [[FatComicRelief what type of character he is]]. He sounds even dopier in the Asian English dub, where he sounds nearly like Moose below.
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29* Careless S. of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', while actually not that stupid, does have a major habit of [[ForgetfulJones forgetting stuff]]. The English dub made by Lookus reflects this characteristic by giving him a low-pitched, stupid-sounding voice.
30* In the English dub of ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'', Coldygury and Mungury (both voiced by Rod Beilfuss) have low, dopey voices, establishing them as the lesser-witted, softer villains of the series.
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34* Moose from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' is written this way. He used to say "Duh--" before every line.
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37[[folder:Comic Strips]]
38* Moe, the bully in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', combined this with PaintingTheMedium -- his speech bubbles are written in a childish scrawl.
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42* Suzaku Kururugi of ''WebVideo/CodeMENT'', complete with some slurring, speaks in this.
43* ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged'': Goku's voice is higher-pitched and more nasally than in the official dubs, in a nod to Masako Nozawa's voice in the original Japanese.
44* Red XIII is voiced this way in ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', fitting his relatively naive characterization.
45* Sailor Venus of ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'' has a stereotypical ValleyGirl voice to go along with her DumbBlonde personality.
46* Tristan of ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''. But it does give him super strength! It's a reference to how he had this kind of voice in the first ten episodes of the 4Kids dub, before Greg Abbey took over the role and gave him a completely different sounding voice.
47** [[GentleGiant Zorc]], being far more childish than his canon self, has an appropriately dopey-sounding voice.
48%%** [[Anime/Yugioh5Ds Jack Atlas]] as well.
49%%** Hobson as well, who also talks in HulkSpeak.
50** Miho from Season 0. Her speech mannerisms show that she isn't very smart.
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54* Gus the Mouse from Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. You can tell Jaq is the brains of the duo simply by his voice, long before he shows his lack of stealth.
55* Jeffrey, Maltravers's assistant from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'' and its sequel, speaks with goofy voice. He's also not the brightest characters out there.
56%%* Cubby from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''.
57%%* WesternAnimation/{{Igor}} from the eponymous movie
58%%* Sykes, Ernie, Bernie and Miss Sanchez from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''.
59%%* The Big City Agent from ''WesternAnimation/TheTrumpetOfTheSwan''.
60%%* Creator/JonHeder provides one for the main character in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf6S9q-Modg Legend of Kung-Fu Rabbit]]''.
61%%* Willie the Giant in the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment of ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree''.
62%%* Maleficent's mooks in ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', as they [[DroppingTheBombshell Drop The Bombshell]] that they wasted more than fifteen years searching for a baby.
63%%* Myles Standish, Strict Elderly Farm Turkey, Ammos and Governor Brandford in ''WesternAnimation/FreeBirds''.
64* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'', Peace [[spoiler:aka Necron 99 after being reprogrammed]] speaks for the first time in this tone.
65--->'''Peace:''' Peace wants love. Wants free. Will help.
66%%* Adult Copper is given this kind of voice in the Japanese dub of ‘’WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound’’.
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70%%* Nick in ''Film/ThirtyMinutesOrLess''.
71%%* Singing Kangaroo from ''Film/BigDaddy'' talks in this kind of voice.
72* Creator/JudyHolliday used this sort of voice when playing Billie Dawn in ''Theatre/BornYesterday''.
73** Likewise, Broderick Crawford in the same film uses the rough-and-tumble "big dumb guy" version. [[TruthInTelevision Crawford really spoke like that]]...
74* Sam in ''Film/IAmSam'' is shown to have a childlike tone when he speaks.
75* Napoleon's low-pitched voice and his brother Kip's higher-pitched one in ''Film/NapoleonDynamite''.
76* ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'': Falkor, who was a wise sage in the previous films and the original book, inexplicably TookALevelInDumbass in the third film and is now a bumbling moron with a [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Patrick Star]] like voice.
77%%* In many adaptations of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'', Lenny is often portrayed like this.
78* Creator/MiraSorvino played a rare ''low''-pitched female version of this in ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion'', adopting a deep but very feminine drawl that made her character seem very slow witted.
79%%* Lina Lamont in ''Film/SinginInTheRain''.
80%%-->"What do you think I am, dumb or something?"
81%%* Br'er Bear in ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''.
82%%* ''Film/TropicThunder'' has one in the InspirationallyDisadvantaged [[ShowWithinAShow fictional movie]] ''Simple Jack''.
83* This was lampshaded in Creator/JackieChan's ''Film/TheTuxedo''. Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt does a perfect impression of the BigBad's bimbo girlfriend's voice.
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87* Referenced in the novel version of ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''; Charlie notes that he had a stupid-sounding voice before [[spoiler:his increase in intelligence]], and he lapses back into it whenever [[InVinoVeritas he gets drunk]].
88* Literature/{{Discworld}} trolls tend to have this type of voice. Detritus, the troll that tends to show up the most, says "dis," "dat" and "der" instead of "this", "that", and "the." (He also sometimes replaces "th" with "f", for example "fink" instead of "think".)
89%%* M-O-O-N, that spells Tom Cullen from ''Literature/TheStand''.
90* Crabbe and Goyle from the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' books. Both are dim-witted lackeys of Harry Potter's school nemesis Draco Malfoy. Even Malfoy himself at one point describes Goyle as being so slow that if he were any slower, he'd be going backwards. Crabbe speaks mainly a soft but deep grunt, Goyle speaks in a low, raspy voice. They sound equally dumb in the film versions.
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94* Subverted in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Bernadette speaks with a high, nasal, squeaky DumbBlonde voice, but has a doctorate in Microbiology.
95%%* Michael Westen on ''Series/BurnNotice'' occasionally affects something resembling this accent for his "Bubba"-ish characters.
96* The Ogrons in ''Series/DoctorWho'' should be this, with one exception. In ''Day of the Daleks'', the Controller confronts two Ogrons. The first one says, "We found...and destroyed...the enemy." The controller asks if there were any complications, and the second one replies, "No complications," in a ''perfectly normal'' voice.
97* Big Bird's been created to have one on ''Series/{{The Ed Sullivan Show}}'' before ''Series/{{Sesame Street}}''. After a couple of years into Sesame Street, his performer, Caroll Spinney, felt like the character worked better as a six-year-old than a simpleton, so the simpleton voice was phased out for a more childlike one.
98%%* The Gumbys from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' all not only use this voice but [[NoIndoorVoice bellow it at the top of their lungs]].
99%%-->"MOY BRAIN HURTS! WE FORGOT THE ANESTHETIC!"
100* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:''
101%%** Lew Zealand has one, not because he's dumb, but rather a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. He's also dumb, but it's not his main problem.
102** Beauregard has a deep, goofy sounding voice.
103%%* Rom from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has one.
104%%* The Pakleds in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
105* Cat Valentine from ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' and ''Series/SamAndCat''. She originally started out with a more normal-sounding voice, but her voice got higher, slower and more baby-like as she became more ditzy.
106%%* Pets, Aiku and inspector Kukeke from ''Wremja''.
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110* Booji Boy, mascot of Music/{{Devo}}, a character portrayed by their singer Mark Mothersbaugh in a baby mask. Booji Boy exemplifies the band's philosophy of Devolution, and talks with a squeaky voice, known for such phrases as "We're all Devo".
111%%* Music/WesleyWillis lapsed into this every time he sang a chorus.
112* Music/FrankZappa used many of these across his career, like the teenage doo wop singer voice he uses on used on several tracks on Freak Out.
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116%%* The guys at Podcast/RiffTrax will do this every so often, usually in the context of a character suffering some kind of injury or is shown to already have a disability.
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120* Eccles from ''Radio/TheGoonShow''.
121** "Well, I'll say this much... I don't say much, but what I do say... don't make sense."
122** Creator/SpikeMilligan admitted that Eccles' voice was based on Disney's Goofy (see below).
123%%* Bud Dickman from The Phil Hendrie Show
124%%* Lou Costello on The Abbott and Costello show in the 1940s.
125* Creator/EdgarBergen used this kind of voice for his dummy Mortimer Snerd, in contrast to the higher-pitched, sharp-witted Charlie [=McCarthy=].
126* ''Duffy's Tavern'' featured the numbskull Finnegan, who would enter with a long "dyuuuuhhh, Hehllo, Awrch" at an appropriately funny time. Typical jokes included, "Archie's dead? Well, that's life."
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130%%* Leaf Coneybear from ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' generally has one.
131%%* Kitty from ''Theatre/TheDrowsyChaperone''.
132%%* Lilly from ''Theatre/{{Annie}}''.
133* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', Ella adopts a "dumb chorus girl" voice during "Just In Time" when an audience gathers to watches her dance with Jeff, but goes back to singing in a normal voice before the song ends. (This was another role originated by Judy Holliday.)
134%%* In "Buddy's Blues" from ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'', the "Margie" and "Sally" caricatures talk this way. Mostly they just echo Buddy's words.
135* The Wizard from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', who describes himself as "''This corn fed hick / Who thought it might be keen / To build a town of green / And a road of yellow brick.''" Of course, his seeming simple naivete and paternal air is [[ObfuscatingStupidity hiding something much darker...]]
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139%%* Rollo from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' ActionAdventure [[GaidenGame spin-off]] game, ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsAdventuresRedguard Redguard]]''.
140%%* Ogres and Peasants from ''VideoGame/WarcraftII'' and ''[[VideoGame/WarcraftIII III]]''.
141%%* Frost Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan8''. "Dat hurt!"
142%%* Clark from ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape''.
143%%* Ogryns in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: VideoGame/DawnOfWar''. [[note]]At least in the French version.[[/note]] Some Ork boyz, too.
144* Xu Zhu from ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' has the high-pitched inflection that shows his "uncomplicated" nature.
145%%* Derby in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox''.
146%%* Olaf from the PC and Saturn versions of ''VideoGame/TheLostVikings 2''.
147* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
148** Big the Cat has a slow, ponderous voice to match his slow and ponderous demeanor.
149** Zomom from ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' speaks in some sort of country bumpkin-like accent and is a simpleminded glutton.
150** Cubot, the dumber one of Eggman's two robot cronies, [[ExaggeratedTrope actually has a large number of stupid voices he can do]], on account of a defective voice box.
151%%* Willard and Mog from ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter''.
152* [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Boastful:]] While elcor from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' have this tone of voice down to a T with the low, "drooping" pitch and lazy inflection, they subvert this trope by being as intelligent as any other species and sometimes prone to SpockSpeak to make up for the lack of emotion in their voices.
153* Goliaths in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', the GiantMook enemy type of the Bandits. Strangely, their speech is a lot less slurred when you make them angry.
154* Sir Daniel from the ''VideoGame/MediEvil'' series and ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale''. However, this one is justified due to the fact that [[DemBones he has no lower jaw.]] And he's not really stupid, just very clumsy.
155* In the English dub of ''[[VideoGame/TroubleWitches Trouble Witches NEO!]]'', Pril Patowle is given such a voice, making her sound incredibly slow and dim. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV3aBvicAIg Here, listen for yourself.]]
156* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', you have Organization XIII, whose members generally sound fairly dangerous... except for Demyx, who both acts and sounds like a moron... at least until it's [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass time to get serious]].
157* ''VideoGame/InvestiGatorTheCaseOfTheBigCrime'': Investi-Gator, who is rather incompetent, has a deep, goofy-sounding voice for his SpeakingSimlish.
158* Wade from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''. While his voice [[VocalDissonance doesn't match his looks]], it certainly matches his level of intelligence.
159* Bob from ''The Twins'' speaks in a deep, muffled voice that is hard to understand, to enforce his role as DumbMuscle.
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163%%* The two titular leads of ''WebAnimation/BamanPiderman''.
164* The Flap-Jacks from ''Videogame/CarnEvil'' have a rather Goofy-esque voice.
165%%* Jimbob from ''WebAnimation/GEOWeasel'' speaks in a low-pitched voice.
166* Lumpy from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' has a dopey voice for a dopey character.
167* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Strong Mad speaks in an extremely exaggerated version of this trope, PlayedForLaughs. Most of his dialogue is nigh-unintelligible growls, but if you listen closely he ''is'' saying actual words... probably. Homestar Runner himself is a (somewhat) more subdued version of this trope.
168%%** Homsar. Dear God, '''''HOMSAR'''''.
169* In his review of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'', [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] [[BriefAccentImitation adopts this kind of voice]] to represent the ''Metal Gear'' franchise as a whole, to reflect how he views it as being lovably stupid.
170-->'''Yahtzee:''' Hey, Metal Gear? Why did you pretend ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty MGS 2]]'' would be about Solid Snake, then replace him twenty minutes in with a cross between an albino Barbie doll and Wesley Crusher?\
171'''[='=]Metal Gear[='=]:''' Duh, I'm sorry. I just wanted everyone to meet this cool new character I made up. He’s a cyborg and his nipples turn into shurikens!\
172'''Yahtzee:''' Hey, Metal Gear? Why are all these emotionally traumatised young women thrusting their butts at the camera?\
173'''[='=]Metal Gear[='=]:''' Duh, I'm sorry. Looking at bums makes my willy feel nice.
174* Caboose from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. Early episodes didn't have it, but Creator/JoelHeyman eventually got the voice to a "obvious moron" one, and the writing ramped up the character's stupidity as well. Joel also explained that Caboose speaks [[CutenessProximity like a human does so to a dog or cat, "only everything to him is an animal".]]
175* Boyfriend seems to have this in the later videos of WebAnimation/{{STA Studios Animations}}. Although it changed back.
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179* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', half-orc Thog the DumbMuscle BumblingSidekick is implied to sound like a moron just as much as he is one. His general speech pattern is HulkSpeak, the text of his speech bubbles is emboldened and transcribed in AllLowercaseLetters and to top it all off he's a ThirdPersonPerson. It was later revealed that all orcs speak like this, though they can apparently grow out of it through grammar lessons.
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183* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did it in her review of ''Film/SpiceWorld''.
184-->'''Mel B:''' Girl power, feminism, you know what I mean?\
185'''Chick:''' ''[in the stupidest voice she can manage]'' No. Do you?
186%%* The voice of the Wii in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrdfTRlUtvU this]] ''Dreamcast vs Wii'' video.
187* Jeffy from ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' has a deep but shrill, childish, and lispy voice to portray how idiotic he is. He can sometimes change his voice [[PluckyComicRelief for comedic purposes]].
188* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'':
189** Yellow Guy uses this voice, only emphasized by his short stature, noticeable slowness and status as a ButtMonkey.
190** The Spinach Can from the fifth installment has one, which emphasizes the low quality of his/her song and helps invalidate his/her flimsy health advise.
191** Unlike the five preceding videos, the sixth video's Teacher is almost immediately revealed to be malicious and ignorant, and as such, the Lamp's voice is quite slurred in order to immediately convey his incompetence.
192* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls:'' Combine her high-pitched comical voice and her tendency not to be a deep thinker and you have Harley Quinn.
193* In ''[[https://scrivnarium.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/the-proving-grounds-the-naming-of-swords/ The Proving Grounds: The Naming of Swords]]'' by Jeff C Wells, when Kelli Thunderhold, Paladin of Righteousness, is horrified to learn her sword's name is a DoubleEntendre
194-->'''Kelli''': Stupid friggin' elves. Dad always told me not to buy an elf sword. He was all like, 'It's meteoric iron or nothing, Kelli!' And here’s me: 'Hurr durr durr, I’m gonna go on the Aethernet and buy an elf sword because I love mithril! ''Holy rainbow slaadcrap I love mithril so farking much!''\
195'''Eidey''': This keeps remaining awesome. I love the voice you do when you're being 'you except stupid.'
196* Creator/JonBois: In ''Pretty Good'': "The Dumbest Boy Alive", [=TheJosh=] is given this voice to go along with his insistence that working out every other day doesn't average to 3.5 workouts per week. [[spoiler:Near the end of the video, [=TheJosh=] returns to say he was trolling and Jon drops the voice.]]
197* ''WebVideo/AdventureIsNigh'': the [[ActualPlay Player-Character]] Dabarella is noted to have a low Intelligence score. Her player, Creator/AmyCampbell, gives her a childish voice that you'd expect from someone half her age [[DumbMuscle and a quarter of her size.]]
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201* Grounder in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''. His voice changes to [[SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish Received Pronunciation]] when he gets a [[SmartBall genius chip]].
202* Richard from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''. Sussie the Chinikin is an even more extreme version (but only [[TheOtherDarrin when she's voiced by Fergus Craig]]; her Aurelie Charbonnier voice is more calm and sounds mostly like a normal girl).
203* The identically-sounding Runt (a downright ShoutOut to ''Film/RainMan'') and Ralph (a DumbMuscle always outsmarted by the Warners) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
204%%* As in the comics, Moose in ''WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow'' and ''Archie's Funhouse'' is voiced this way. Same goes for Big Ethel.
205* ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'': Rocky talks with the typical deep, goofy voice to help convey that he's the DumbMuscle of the team.
206%%* ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'': Baby Bugs, Baby Taz, and Baby Sylvester.
207* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
208** {{Invoked|Trope}} by Batman whenever he is being Bruce Wayne in public, to strengthen his cover as a useless rich guy. Bruce tends to downplay Batman's normal baritone and speak in a somewhat higher pitched and more cheerful voice, as well as using a much more simple vocabulary.
209** Harley Quinn spoke in the female variation, complete with a Jersey-like accent. In the episode "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE21MadLove Mad Love]]", it's revealed that before she was brainwashed by the Joker, she spoke in a lower pitched voice and the accent was more subtle. Also subverted; not only can she switch to a deeper, un-accented voice at will (as shown in the episode, "The Man Who Killed Batman"), but she's actually highly intelligent, not only having been a psychologist before her brainwashing, but able to pull off a perfectly good and understated gem heist on her own. The implication is that she acts like this because the Joker ''prefers'' for her to act stupid.
210* Music/RingoStarr from ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' speaks noticeably more slowly than the other three. The actual Ringo wasn't happy about it ''at all''.
211%%* Rick the crazy chicken guy and Gus the sound mixer in ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo''.
212* Steve the NeatFreak boss from ''WesternAnimation/{{Bordertown}}'' sounds really derpy.
213%%* On ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'', the monkey minions of show CardCarryingVillain Ms. Maralady, Spork and Spatch, both look and act really stupid and have this voice to match.
214* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': Chip and Skip are ditzy dung beetles that have deep, dopey voices. Clam's voice is scratchy and similarly low-pitched, [[ObfuscatingStupidity but he's far from stupid]].
215%%* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'': Lube.
216* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'': Waffle has the goofy high-pitched voice common to characters voiced by Creator/KevinMcDonald, which in this case indicates his ditzy character to viewers.
217%%* [[TheBully Reggie Bullnerd]] from ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone''.
218* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'': Philly Phil represents a rare case of this trope being used to support a DitzyGenius characterization, with him being the curious and [[GadgeteerGenius inventive]] but frequently hapless SmartGuy of the team.
219* ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'': Cleveland Jr. Kevin Michael Richardson based the voice on a mentally-retarded character he played for an episode on the first season of ''E.R.''
220%%* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2017'': Gil.
221* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', when Jay's boss, Duke Phillips (who speaks with a southern accent) meets Jay's new assistant, Alice (who is also southern). He notes to her about how as southerners, they have to work extra hard in New York because as soon as people hear them talk, they're immediately dismissed as illiterate, country bumpkins.
222* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'':
223** Head cheerleader Brittnay has an extremely high-pitched whine, and her quarterback boyfriend Kevin has a voice that befits his own lack of book smarts.
224** And on the other end is Tiffany, the AsianAirhead of the Fashion Club, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uayPDYBH71w&NR=1 as seen here]]. Her voice is breathy, monotonous, and she speaks ''very'' slowly.
225** Jamie. Unlike Joey and Jeffy, who speak normally, Jamie has a slower tone. Daria even makes a [[StealthInsult sarcastic remark]] about his monotone while reading Romeo and Juliet.
226--->'''Daria''': Thanks, "Joey, Jeffy, or Jamie". [[SarcasmMode Lawrence Olivier in his present state couldn't have done better]]\
227'''Jamie''': [[SarcasmBlind Cool!]]
228%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': Willy White.
229* Ed from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', the DumbMuscle {{Cloudcuckooland}} of the titular trio, speaks in a dopey voice that instantly clues you in on his lack of intelligence, even before he starts spouting his trademark [[NonSequitur Non Sequiturs]].
230* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Cosmo has an extremely high pitched voice. In fact, thanks to his {{Flanderisation}} from "goofy but smart" to "straight up idiot", his voice got progressively higher. In the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, he was pretty intelligent ([[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness probably even smarter than WANDA]]) and had a deep and smooth voice. In first few seasons, when he was goofier and less intelligent, but not to terrible levels, he had higher voice, but it still had a natural tone to it. In later seasons, when he became TooDumbToLive, he has voice so high you would swear that either his [[TheOtherDarrin original voice actor got replaced]] or that his voice is digitally edited to sound like that.
231* Chris Griffin from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. This wasn't actually the intention; Creator/SethGreen went into the audition and decided to do his impression of Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' as a joke, but ended up getting the part. Inevitably, this is referenced in a cut-away gag where Chris does an impression of Buffalo Bill dancing naked (and tucked back) in front of a mirror.
232** And in the original version of the Pilot, his voice is more of a typical low-pitched simpleton voice.
233** {{Exaggerated|trope}} (unintentionally) in the AI-generated ''WebVideo/AIPeter'' parody, where Chris' text-to-speech AI will often mispronounce or slur words and also has him [[NoIndoorVoice constantly shouting every word]], making him sound even ''stupider'' (and earning him the nickname "Loudris").
234** For that matter, Barry in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', who has the same voice, only slightly more affected. Well, it isn't his real voice but the voice he has while [[spoiler: heavily drugged to suppress his true, evil personality. His real voice is a cultured accent]].
235%%* Airhead, and no doubt several other characters, in ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters''.
236* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Barney Rubble didn't originally have one (with a more high-pitched, nasal {{Joisey}} accent), but after Creator/MelBlanc recovered from a car accident in 1961, he settled into a deeper and more goofy-sounding voice from then on. It became even more prominent when Creator/FrankWelker took over. {{Averted|Trope}} with Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson's take on Barney, which uses Barney's older {{Joisey}} voice.
237%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}:
238%%-->Duh, I am Mo-Ron.[[note]]A later episode calls him "Bo-Ron", which was eventually lampshaded in an even later episode.[[/note]]
239%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freaktown}}'': Lenny is Beezy as a giant mantis (ironically Lenny's voice actor was Jimmy himself).
240* Used in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Fear of a Bot Planet" where the crew meets [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the council of robot elders]]. They promote human hunts to distract from their bigger problems.
241-->'''Elder 1:''' Like our crippling lugnut shortage.\
242'''Elder 2:''' And an incompetent group of robot elders.\
243'''Elder 3:''' Duh, that's for sure.\
244'''Elder 1:''' Quiet, Jimmy!
245** Igner (of Mom's three sons) can also qualify as this. The {{irony}} comes in when we learn his father is [[spoiler: Professor Farnsworth!]]
246%%* Junior from Creator/TexAvery's George and Junior shorts.
247%%* ''WesternAnimation/GetMuggsy'': Tred Possum.
248* ''WesternAnimation/GlennMartinDDS'': [[DumbassTeenageSon Connor Martin]] speaks in a whiny, nasally voice. It's most evident when he temporarily becomes a genius after hitting his head with a frying pan; he sounds normal (albeit speaking with SesquipedalianLoquaciousness).
249%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodeFamily'': Gerold.
250* Hyuck! [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Goofy]] (1932), first appearing in the early days of the sound era, may have been the very first cartoon character with a voice like this. Bill Farmer is capable of pulling off the voice while still giving Goofy an impressive emotional range in modern productions.
251%%* Wally Gator as he appeared in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
252* ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'': Mungo has the stereotypical "dumb guy" voice.
253* Stinky from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has a ''very'' nasally southern drawl, but he's not a complete idiot, just comically awkward.
254%%* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': Baby Shellby.
255%%* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': Spreads across several iterations of the franchise -- the larger MAD henchmen tend to talk like this. Corporal Capeman, who somehow manages to be even dumber than Gadget, also speaks with this kind of a voice.
256* Beezy from ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''. According to his voice actor, Brian Froud, it was originally a bad impression of Creator/BradGarrett that then just evolved into "this dog-like, child-like voice".
257%%* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': Hubert Test.
258%%* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Luanne and Bill.
259* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
260** Any character that parodies [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen Lennie Smalls]], such as [[AndCallHimGeorge Hugo the Abominable Snowman]] from "The Abominable Snow-Rabbit" and [[KindheartedSimpleton Benny the cat]] from "Hoppy-Go-Lucky" (who even calls Sylvester "George"). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKxrJQlSMXs Here is a compilation of such characters]].
261** Cecil Turtle is a subversion. He has the rather low-pitched, slow, goofy-sounding voice expected of a nitwit, but he's the ''only'' character who outwitted WesternAnimation/BugsBunny every time.
262** Beaky Buzzard has a deep, low voice like Edgar Bergen's "Mortimer Snerd"; in-house he was alternately known as "The Snerd Bird".
263** Junyor Bear of the Three Bears, voiced by Creator/StanFreberg, has the oafish type that marks him as older than his dress code suggests.
264%%** Pete Puma, who incidentally was also voiced by Creator/StanFreberg.
265%%** Mugsy of Rocky and Mugsy.
266%%* On ''WesternAnimation/MackAndMoxy'', despite being a somewhat [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version of the MooseAreIdiots characterization, Mack speaks this way.
267%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': Peppermint Larry.
268* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'': Penny is very idiotic, and has a deep somewhat congested voice to go along with it.
269* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'': Tooley has a very basic vocabulary and audibly struggles to enunciate longer words.
270%%* Mole from ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'', as well as Bogus himself.
271%%* Megawatt from ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha''.
272%%* On ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendRabbit'', even various summary listings describe the character of Thunder as being "slower" than the other characters, and he has this sort of voice to match.
273%%* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'': Principal Pixiefrog and Neardy Crocodile.
274* Snails and Derpy Hooves from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Derpy is a strange case; Creator/TabithaStGermain was, apparently, originally under the impression that Derpy was meant to be a boy. So Derpy was never actually intended to have this trope; she just got one because Tabitha isn't very good at CrossdressingVoices.
275* ''WesternAnimation/TheNutshack'': Jack has one, despite being smart enough to make robot body parts for Horat. He is, however, quite stupid when it comes to being StreetSmart. His accent doesn't help his case.
276%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pearlie}}'': Mr. Flea.
277%%* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'': From the rare times he says something other than Dinosaur, No or Why, George sounds like this.
278* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': Pinky speaks in a high voice and a heavy Cockney accent to emphasize his simplemindedness.
279* Big Billy of the Gangrene Gang from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' is easily the least intelligent member of the gang and he sounds just as stupid as he acts.
280%%* ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' has Lurky, Murky DIsmal's hairy assistant.
281%%* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': Ticket Guy from the episode "Caffinated Concert Tickets".
282* Stimpy from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren & Stimpy Show]]'', modeled after another famous {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, [[Film/TheThreeStooges Larry Fine]]. %%Various minor characters as well, such as Lump and Loaf.
283* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Heffer has a goofy-sounding, relatively high-pitched voice.
284%%* ''WesternAnimation/ScaredySquirrel'': Nester, Momma, Paddy, Buck, Dan Duck and Paulie.
285* Scooby Dum from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' has a low voice to go with his foolish personality.
286%%* Meathead from Creator/TexAvery's ''WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel'' cartoons.
287* Shirley from ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep''. Seeing that she's the FatIdiot of the group, her voice is low and raspy.
288%%* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'': Scorpia has one, though the character didn't seem particularly stupid.[[note]]Furthermore, she doesn't have this voice in every episode.[[/note]]
289%%* ''WesternAnimation/ShurikenSchool'': Vlad.
290* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer Simpson is the leader of a small crowd of such characters that also include his friend Barney Gumble (whose exaggerated slurred drawl is because he's almost always drunk), Cletus (who has stereotypical "yokel" voice), and Chief Wiggum (who has a comical nasally voice based upon Creator/EdwardGRobinson's) and his son Ralph (who uses a vacuous-sounding high-pitched variation). However, Homer is definitely one of the most iconic examples in western animation.
291** Parodied/subverted with Oxford "Ox" Haas, one of the soldiers Grampa Simpson served with in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in "''The Curse of the Flying Hellfish.''" He spoke with this voice, and looked exactly like the kind of person who would, but is actually [[SmarterThanYouLook smarter than he seems]].
292--->'''Burns:''' How many of you are familiar with the concept of a "{{Tontine}}"?\
293''[[[BeatPanel beat]]; all stare at Burns silently, until Ox raises his hand]''\
294'''Burns:''' All right, Ox. Why don't you take us through it?\
295'''Ox:''' ''Duh'', essentially, we all enter into a contract whereby the last surviving participant becomes the sole possessor of...[[SophisticatedAsHell all them purty pictures]].
296** In "Lisa The Simpson", an ImagineSpot in which Lisa imagines her future after losing her intelligence where she's inexplicably gained a southern accent.
297%%* Officer Barbrady from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' combines this with NoIndoorVoice.
298%%** Shelley also talks this way (though it may just be a SpeechImpediment caused by cumbersome dental work).
299* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Patrick Star is one of the top examples in western animation; most probably first heard the stereotypical low-pitched, goofy-sounding dopey kind of voice associated with this trope from him. However, up until Season 9, the Japanese dub of the TV series[[note]]but not [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie the first movie]][[/note]] gave Patrick a high-pitched voice similar to Creator/MasakoNozawa's Goku.
300** Peter Browngardt, aka WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa, makes a guest appearance in the Season 10 episode "Patrick's Coupon" as the Ice Cream King and used Uncle G's voice. The similarity between the voices is uncanny. In the German version, they brought back Patrick's original German voice to voice the Ice Cream King.
301** In "Squirrel Jokes," when Sandy pretends to be LethallyStupid in order to make [=SpongeBob=] stop telling jokes about squirrels being stupid, she exaggerates her southern accent, accents her sentences with "duh," and her voice becomes slightly lower-pitched.
302%%* Ranger Stu from ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy''.
303%%* Chief from ''WesternAnimation/TakAndThePowerOfJuju''.
304* Kuchipatchi has this voice in ''WesternAnimation/TamagotchiVideoAdventures'', contrasting with his appearances in later ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'' media where he has a much higher-pitched voice.
305* Bebop and Rocksteady in the '80s ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon both speak in voices that make their idiocy apparent.
306%%* Lilly from ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'' a rare female example. However she loses this voice when she gets very upset, ashamed, or annoyed.
307%%** From the same show the duo Frank and Frank.
308* ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'': On the [[SuddenlySpeaking few occasions]] Tom speaks, he may speak in a low, simple voice.
309-->'''Tom:''' C... A... T... Cat.
310%%* Brain from ''WesternAnimation/TopCat''. And had a more dimwitted sounding voice in TheMovie.
311* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
312** BrainlessBeauty Lindsay speaks in a high-pitched childlike ValleyGirl voice that instantly gives away her extreme lack of intelligence.
313** Max is a super-villain wannabe who believes he's an EvilGenius, but in actuality, he's a bumbling buffoon.
314** Downplayed with Sugar. While she has a [[DeepSouth heavy hick accent]], and is certainly BookDumb and {{ditz}}y, she is a lot more [[ObfuscatingStupidity cunning and ruthless]] than her style of speech would suggest.
315* Spud from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' is so dull and dim-witted, he speaks almost as fast as he thinks...rather slowly.
316* Largely subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. Bulkhead is TheBigGuy of the team, with a slow and heavy voice. He has around average intelligence (with some HiddenDepths) and is generally hurt that some people might see him as an [[DumbMuscle unintelligent brute]].
317%%* WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa talks in this voice all the time.
318%%* Wild Card and the Watchdog janitor in the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Big Job".
319%%* Hi-Riser from ''WesternAnimation/WheelieAndTheChopperBunch''.
320%%* The titled protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/YakkityYak''.
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324* Actor Creator/BillFagerbakke (who is quite intelligent, urbane, and friendly in person) has made a career out of this trope, and he does it by only very slightly exaggerating the way he naturally speaks. In addition to voicing Patrick Star in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Broadway in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' and Bulkhead in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Fagerbakke played Tom Cullen in the miniseries adaptation of Creator/StephenKing's ''Series/TheStand1994'' and Dauber on ''Series/{{Coach}}''; all of them had the "big dumb doofus" form of this trope.
325* Similar to the above, the French actor and singer Creator/{{Bourvil}} made his SignatureStyle of playing {{Butt Monkey}}s speaking like this, also by exaggerating his normal speech pattern. Though it is notable that he was equally good in dramatic roles.
326%%* Karl Pilkington of ''Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow'' and ''Series/AnIdiotAbroad'' sounds notably less intelligent than Ricky and Steve...naturally, he is.
327%%** He is intelligent enough sounding for a working class guy from Manchester though.
328* Studies done on rural UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents found that a disproportionate amount of preschoolers who spoke with vernacular rural accents (Vermont, Appalachia, etc.) were placed in special education classes for it.
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