History Quotes / CrazyEnoughToWork

->"''Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.''"

-->-- '''Skawo,''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQm2IByd4Zc&list=PLNt9bYwiVIA-mXBirDVAA02FGLmaXPmWU&index=47 Paper Mario: Color Splash - Part 47 - Mah Roy~~]]

-->-- ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mUOymWLCqE Donkey Kong Country Abridged]]''

->''"You're both'' '''nuts'''. ''This whole'' '''plan''' ''is nuts. It can't work. I am totally in."''
-->-- '''Max''', ''Scandal Sheet''

->''"That's not a remotely sound basis for '''any'''thing."''
-->-- '''[[DiscussedTrope Black Mage on this trope]],''' ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->'''Trinity:''' Neo... no one has ever done anything like this.
->'''Neo:''' That’s why it’s going to work.
-->-- ''Film/TheMatrix''

->'''Heavy:''' Doctor! Are you sure this will work?\\
'''Medic:''' [[LaughingMad Ha Ha]], I have no idea!
-->-- ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', ''[[http://www.teamfortress.com/classes.php?class=medic Meet the Medic]]'', shortly before the Medic deploys his Ubercharge.

->''"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."''
-->-- '''Niels Bohr''', after hearing the proposition for Quantum Physics

->''"Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to [[EpicFail fail hilariously]]."''
-->-- AltText, ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}} [[http://xkcd.com/580/ #580]]''

->''"This has a small, but fascinating, chance of '''actually working'''! Let's do it!"''
-->-- '''Agatha Heterodyne''', ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''

->''"No, no, no. This is so stupid, it's '''completely''' foolproof."''
-->-- '''Red Mage''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', on his latest plan

->'''Black Mage:''' Y'know, it's been too long since I had a headache. So, Red Mage, enlighten us. How can a plan that makes '''no sense''' work?\\
'''Red Mage:''' One simple reason: it makes too little sense to fail.\\
'''Black Mage:''' [[FlatWhat What.]]\\
'''Red Mage:''' Most plans are '''critically''' flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's too easy for a good plan to fall apart. [[InsaneTrollLogic Therefore]], a plan with '''no attachment''' to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level.\\
'''Black Mage:''' That's so stupid I can't even see straight anymore.\\
'''Red Mage:''' [[AchievementsInIgnorance Now imagine what'll happen when physics tries to figure it out!]]\\
'''Black Mage:''' Seriously, this hurts.
-->--''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->''"'Out-of-the-box' is where I live."''
-->-- '''Kara Thrace''', ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''

->''"Coach, that is the stupidest idea I have ever agreed with."''
-->-- '''Nick''', ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2''

-->--''[[Literature/CodexAlera First Lord's Fury]]'', on [[CrazyIsCool Tavi]]

->"''There's something broken in your head, Calderon. You do all your thinking sideways.''"
-->-- '''Antillar Maximus''', ''[[Literature/CodexAlera Princeps' Fury]]'', ''also'' describing [[RefugeInAudacity Tavi]]

->''"The plan is insane. ''You'' are insane.... I'll need some pants."''
-->--'''Ehren''', ''[[Literature/CodexAlera Captain's Fury]]''

->''"If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid."''
-->-- ''Murphy's Laws of Combat''

->''"Maxim 43: If it's stupid and it works, [[SubvertedTrope it's still stupid and you're lucky]]."''
-->--''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', "The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"

->''"If Milli Vanilli happened today, they would be caught by the third comment on their first [=YouTube=] video. However, two decades ago, it was the kind of scheme that seemed doable. They got away with it long enough to win a Grammy and somehow even kept it going after the real singer, Charles Shaw, told reporters the truth. To solve that, Farian gave Shaw $150,000 in hush money, and suddenly he had no idea what those reporters were talking about. In 1990, that was totally an option. In this age of recorded everything, you'd have to be a conservative politician to try something that retarded."''
-->-- '''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}'''

-->-- "Fallen", ''Series/StargateSG1''

->"''Sometimes crazy works.''"
-->-- '''Optimus Primal''' (on two separate occasions), ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''

->'''Maggie:''' You actually expect this to work?\\
'''Hardison:''' No, you're supposed to say "Wow, that's just crazy enough to work!"\\
'''Sophie:''' Incredibly, chance does seem to bend itself to his bizarre machinations.
-->-- ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', on Nate

-> '''Cortana:''' I know what you're thinking, and it's crazy.\\

-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}''

->''"If the thought of it seems crazy, you weren't crazy enough to begin with."''
-->-- '''ComicBook/NickFury''', ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX''

->''You plan to cross-examine an orca!?''
-->-- '''Judge''', ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' [[note]]Yes, this does work.[[/note]]

->'''The 10th Doctor:''' General, we have a plan!\\
'''The 11th Doctor:''' We should point out that it's a fairly terrible plan.\\
'''The 10th Doctor:''' And it almost certainly won't work.\\
'''The 11th Doctor:''' I was happy with "fairly terrible".
-->-- '''The Doctor'''(s) discusses his(their) plan to save Gallifrey from certain destruction, from the episode "Day of the Doctor", ''Series/DoctorWho''

->'''Captain Jay Yim:''' Lieutenant Kanril, are you ''insane''?!\\
'''Lieutenant Kanril Eleya:''' It worked, didn't it?
-->-- "Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack, Part II"

->'''Astrid''': What are you going to do about it?\\
'''Hiccup''': Probably something stupid.\\
'''Astrid''': Okay, but...you've already done that.\\
'''Hiccup''': Then something crazy.\\
'''Astrid''': That's more like it.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''

->''Hi, I'm [[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Gandhi]], and if Britain doesn't get the hell out of India, I'm going to starve myself in public.\\
[Britain immediately leaves]\\
Wow, that ''worked''?''
-->--''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess''

->'''Walt:''' That's just crazy enough to work!\\
'''Connie:''' I agree with the first three words in that sentence.
-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}''

->It was far too ridiculous to be called a tactic. ''A plan based on deflecting [[BigBad Reinhard Heydrich's]] most powerful attack'' was pure insanity by that virtue alone.

-> '''Patrick''': We should take Bikini Bottom, and ''[[MemeticMutation push it somewhere else!]]''\\
'''Squidward''': That idea may just be crazy enough... [[BaitAndSwitch TO GET US ALL KILLED!]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

-> '''Huey:''' I bet [those Bob-ombs] would be strong enough to destroy that black paint tank! Plus, it'll be REALLY fun.
-> '''Skawo:''' ''(as Mario)'' And incredibly dangerous, downright foolish, noisy, potentially lethal, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and kinda rude.]] I'm all in.
-->-- '''Skawo,''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQm2IByd4Zc&list=PLNt9bYwiVIA-mXBirDVAA02FGLmaXPmWU&index=47 Paper Mario: Color Splash - Part 47 - Mah Roy~~]]

-> '''Funky''': Here it is, dudes! Mellow yellows that will make ya' hair grow where you didn't know ya' could grow hair!
-> '''Diddy''': That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. [[LampshadeHanging So in other words, it'll probably work.]] GET MUNCHIN'!
-> [45 minutes later]
-> '''Donkey Kong''': [groans]
-> '''Diddy''': [[SubvertedTrope I don't think it worked.]]

->'''Bow''': Ready to do something that probably ''won't'' work?
->'''Glimmer''': ''Always''.

->''"This strategy makes no sense at all, which is exactly why I think it may work."''
-->-- '''Hubert''', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'', after seeing [[spoiler:Count Bergliez shatter a mountain with his fists to get around Claude's ambush]]

->''"My grandpa used to say, 'If it's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid'."''
-->-- '''James Parnell''', ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}''

->''"Our main area of expertise lies in the field of practical insanity, or! In more common parlance... Applied.'' Bullshit''."''
-->-- '''Jeremiya Cross''', ''Fanfic/ThisBites''

-> '''Benoit''': It's so dumb...\\
'''Birdie''': It's so dumb it's brilliant!\\
'''Benoit''': [[BigNo NO!]] [[DefiedTrope It's just]] ''[[DefiedTrope DUMB]]''!
-->-- ''Film/GlassOnion''

->''"friendly reminder that Lea got a [[CoolSword Keyblade]] just by showing up and asking for one, and [[BigGood Yen Sid]]'s response was "on the one hand you're a fucking idiot but on the other hand I'm all out of ideas"''
-->-- [[https://www.tumblr.com/skypillar/157256977806/friendly-reminder-that-lea-got-a-keyblade-just-by This]] Website/{{Tumblr}} post on ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''

->''"My grandpa used to say, 'If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid'."''

-> '''Patrick''': We should take Bikini Bottom, and ''push it somewhere else!''\\

->"You're mad--both of you! Which might just get you through this."

-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mUOymWLCqE Donkey Kong Country Abridged]]

-->-- Optimus Primal (on two separate occasions), ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''

-->--''[[Literature/CodexAlera First Lord's Fury]]'', on [[CrazyAwesome Tavi]]

->'''Will Turner:''' This is either madness... or brilliance.\\
'''Jack Sparrow:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.]]
-->--''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''

-> '''Diddy''': [[AvertedTrope I don't think it worked.]]

'''Captain Jack Sparrow:''' Thank goodness for that, because, if I wasn't, this'd probably never work.

->''"No, no, no. This is so stupid it's '''completely''' foolproof."''

->''"Out-of-the-box" is where I live.''

-> '''Huey:''' I bet [those Bob-ombs] would be strong enough to destroy that black paint tank! Plus it'll be REALLY fun.

-->--''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanCurseOfTheBlackPearl''