Basic Trope: Ridiculously stupid game-show contestants.
- Straight: The host asks Bob what the capital of America is. He guesses, "Antarctica."
- Exaggerated:
- Before the game even starts, Bob can't even answer what his name is.
- Bob doesn't even realize he's on a game show to begin with.
- Every contestant that ever appeared on the show has given stupid answers.
- Downplayed:
- Bob gives an incorrect answer that still has some logic behind it.
- Bob gets most questions correct, except for one he really botches.
- Justified:
- The questions are trivia about a subject Bob knows nothing about.
- They ran out of smart contestants and had to pick the dumbest ones instead.
- Bob is under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
- Inverted: Bob is a certified genius and the questions are far too easy for him.
- Role-Inverted: Bob knows all the answers, but the host has no idea how to run a game show.
- Subverted:
- Bob's answer turns out to be correct through some Insane Troll Logic.
- Bob corrects himself before he gets the answer wrong.
- Bob somehow gets the answer right through sheer dumb luck.
- Double Subverted:
- After getting an answer right, Bob immediately blows it on the next question.
- Bob gets the answer right, but breaks some other rule that causes him to lose the game.
- Parodied: A scripted game show exaggerates the typical stupidity of game show contestants for comedic value.
- Zig Zagged: Bob sometimes has reasonable answers and sometimes has stupid answers.
- Averted: Bob provides reasonable answers to the questions.
- Enforced: The author didn't know the real answer to the questions, so he made up a dumb incorrect answer for Bob to say.
- Lampshaded: The host remarks on how dumb all the contestants are on his shows.
- Invoked:
- Somebody tampered to make the questions all about subjects Bob doesn't know well at all.
- Bob's entire participation is part of a prank.
- Exploited:
- The host prompts Bob to give stupid questions because the audience finds it funnier than when contestants do well.
- The game show is called, "Dumbest People In America" and is drawing attention to the lack of intelligence in the nation.
- Defied: Bob is The Ditz, but studied really hard before going on the game show so he knows all the answers.
- Discussed: "Bob, you're the dumbest contestant I've ever seen on this game."
- Conversed: "These contestants on Guess The Answer are dumber than a sack of bricks!"
- Implied: We don't see the actual game show, but we see Bob leaving the studio much earlier than expected.
- Deconstructed: Bob was too stupid to make any money off the show, but spent hundreds of dollars to get to the studio, leaving him with debilitating debt.
- Reconstructed: Bob still becomes a minor celebrity because his answers were funny and people enjoyed watching him on the show.
- Played For Laughs: Bob gives an answer that's so ridiculously incorrect, it's hilarious.
- Played For Drama: Seeing Bob display such ignorance inspires a viewer to crusade for better public education.
- Played For Horror: Bob is on a Deadly Game where he gets killed for answering a question wrong.
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