"Even if you can’t spit out answers like a calculator, you know a whole lot of stuff. Like the boomerang thing! I’m the 'smart kid', and I’d have to spend hours making calculations to figure out the physics behind that thing."
"Underachiever — and proud of it, man!"
— Early 90's motto for Bart Simpson
"You know the worst thing about niggas, the worst thing about niggas? Niggas love to not know. Nothing makes a nigga happier than not knowing the answer to your question. 'Hey man, what's the capital of Zaire?' 'Shoot, I don't know that shit! I'm just keeping it real, just keeping it real.' Yeah, you're keeping it real, real dumb."
— Chris Rock makes the most of his N-Word Privileges, from "Bring The Pain" (1996)
Victor Sullivan: Lead on, MacDuff.
Charlie Cutter: Lay on.
Victor Sullivan: What?
Charlie Cutter: It's "Lay on, MacDuff."
Nathan Drake: Who the hell's MacDuff?
Charlie Cutter: Is there no bottom to your ignorance?
"She lives very much in the 'now', and History, of course, is very much about the 'then'."
— Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"You know, if you actually studied, you'd get a few things done school-wise."
— Hobbes, Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, "Pharaoh Andrew"
"Apparently according to TV Tropes I'm not Book Smart."
Jerry: Look, I'm never going to be great at karate, or a great school person-"
Milton: Student.
Jerry: Whatever.
-Kickin' It, "All the Wrong Moves"
"Mr. Goreiro,
Your son doesn't so much do his homework, as perpetrate it.
The teacher"
Your son doesn't so much do his homework, as perpetrate it.
The teacher"
—Note from Manolito's teacher on his homework, Mafalda
"Look, I'm good at the things I'm good at. Grades isn't one of them."
— Jane Lane, Daria, "Prize Fighters"
"I can't forgive myself for having lied to you. I don't have a degree in biology. Never even finished high school. I haven't read more than two books in my whole life. One, never finished. And the other is the phone book."
—Francesco Dellamorte, Cemetery Man
"I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not."
—Lynda, Halloween (1978)
Dorien: She's got a thing about people thinking she's stupid.
Sharon: Yeah... started at school.
Dorien: Well, what happened?
Sharon: She was stupid.
— Birds of a Feather, "Out"
Junker Queen: I've met mozzies with more brains than you, Fawkes!
Junkrat: With all due respect, milady, I believe that's a knock against the Junkertown educational system.
Queen: ...we've got an education system?
Junkrat: With all due respect, milady, I believe that's a knock against the Junkertown educational system.
Queen: ...we've got an education system?
