Basic Trope: An intelligent character who is disorganized.
- Straight: Prof. Brown is a renowned Omnidisciplinary Scientist who rarely baths, lets his dirty dishes, laundry and trash fester in his room, and generally dresses like a homeless person.
- Exaggerated: Prof. Brown is the most intelligent being in the entire universe, and is so unhygienic that his room is dirtier than a landfill, and he himself is covered from head to toe with dirt, grime, mold and other filth.
- Downplayed: Prof. Brown is a disorganized and tends to toss his things on the floor, bed, etc., but he otherwise keeps himself and his place clean.
- Justified: Prof. Brown has too many things on his mind to bother with petty things like personal grooming.
- Inverted:
- Prof. Brown is a Neat Freak who is Terrified of Germs and refuses to step out of his sterilized lab without a hazmat suit, while still insisting on spraying everything with disinfectant despite his full-body coverage.
- Zola being The Pig-Pen demonstrates that she's also Book Dumb.
- Zola is dumb, but organized.
- Subverted: Prof. Brown is introduced as a disheveled and unkempt, but this is only because he's had a really busy week and hadn't had time to clean up.
- Double Subverted: Even when he's not busy, Prof. Brown would rather do research than clean up his room or himself.
- Parodied: Prof. Brown instantly loses his brain power the moment he cleans his room.
- Zig Zagged: Prof. Brown rarely spends any effort to keep his living/work space neat and tidy—until he gets too stressed out with his work and copes by cleaning up. Rinse, lather, repeat.
- Averted: Prof. Brown is just as well-kept as any other character.
- Enforced: Brown's lab is a tertiary set that's a bit too complicated to rebuild properly for the episodes where it's needed so they made him disorganized to handwave the set errors.
- Lampshaded: "I'm working on a Cure for Cancer, I don't have time to clean up the lab."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Prof. Brown's rival sends The Mole to work as Prof. Brown's housekeeper to steal his work. The professor is so disorganized that he never notices when his stuffs go missing.
- Defied: Prof. Brown decides to start being responsible for his own upkeep after losing too many of his important belongings.
- Discussed: "Ugh, I hate cleaning up after Prof. Brown. Whenever I tidy things up, it gets messed up within a few hours at most. What, does he think that basic upkeep is beneath his intellect?"
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Prof. Brown's lack of hygiene causes him to catch a serious illness.
- Reconstructed: Which he can cure thanks to his vast knowledge on medicine (in addition to everything else). He ends up developing a stronger immune system thanks to his lack of hygiene.
- Played For Laughs: Prof. Brown has to go through a Rummage Fail montage whenever he wants to find anything, often pulling out things like his Embarrassing Old Photo, childhood toys and Goofy Print Underwear.
- Played For Drama: A disaster (e.g. a fire or earthquake) strikes and Prof. Brown trips and falls on his misplaced items while he is running for the emergency exit, spraining his ankle. He is unable to escape his laboratory in time and perishes.
Eureka! I have finally discovered the secrets of the fifth dimension and I must tell the whole world. Now where did I put the Main Page button?
