Needs a better image: Genius Ditz

Genius Ditz.

I would like to begin by asking a couple of questions. 1) What am I looking at, the image is a tad small. 2) It isn't coherent enough at demonstrating this trope. What does this image have to do with being a Genius Ditz? I've never read this comic and it seems dangerously close to JAFAAC. I vote to change the image. So, fellow tropers, what do you guys think?

edited 20th Nov '10 7:58:55 PM by joerc45

Yeah, I tend to agree, though it may be hard to find an image that's much better. The "genius" part doesn't really come through in this one, though at least it's alluded to.

I guess it would have to be a picture of a seemingly ditzy individual pulling off something visibly incredible.

Perhaps Sequential Art #493? The 4 squirrels at least look ditzy while talking in binary.

Why does at least one of those characters have two faces?

EDIT: Gah, not working. I'm looking for a Wallace image that works.

Wallace from Wallace And Gromit in the Wrong Trousers◊?

Beaker from the Muppets looking like he fits this trope (perhaps)◊?

edited 21st Nov '10 1:04:17 PM by mmysqueeant

I think that Wallace picture would work better than EGS. You can at least tell by looking at the guy that he doesn't seem to be all there, but the robo-pants show that he's got to have some kind of noggin.

Uh...there's nothing genius or ditsy about this.

Lets see if I can find some panels of Mutsumi from Love Hina forgetting to write her name on a test and getting a 0 while later during a self practice exam during a group study session she gets a 90.

The picture says ditz (she "painted" herself into a corner) and the text says genius. Not great, but not nothing.

edited 24th Jan '11 12:06:26 PM by ButterflyFairweather

She was painting? I couldn't even tell until you pointed it out.

Mopping. But the expression that exactly describes that situation is "painted into a corner".

How about the following Calvin And Hobbes comic?

That's definitely better than the current pic.

That's a good one, but I think we only need the last two panels.

Lets see if I can find some panels of Mutsumi from Love Hina forgetting to write her name on a test and getting a 0 while later during a self practice exam during a group study session she gets a 90.

Oh god, this! I laughed so freaking hard when it was revealed that she gets near perfect scores on her tests, but keeps forgetting to write her name down.

Last two frames could work.

Lets see how this works out I might need to work on it a little. [1]◊ [2]◊

edited 24th Jan '11 1:17:08 PM by Raso

I like the Calvin and Hobbes. The manga one is too confusing to me.

Doesn't the Calvin and Hobbes one kind of rely on the caption though?

No, the Calvin And Hobbes caption just lampshades what's already in the comic.

"That's a good one, but I think we only need the last two panels." - shimaspawn

Yeah, I included the first one just in case a different arrangement (such as first and third) would have been preferable.

EDIT: Oh, and just in case it might be better, I came up with a horizontal arrangement:

edited 24th Jan '11 1:55:34 PM by neoYTPism

The Calvin example would work fine without a caption, even (though I think I'd still include the caption, as it adds a bit.)

The vertical arrangement looks better to me, more legible.

edited 24th Jan '11 3:25:11 PM by suedenim

The horizontal arrangement is the same size, just not on the forums. Right click to view image to see it full size.

edited 24th Jan '11 3:28:57 PM by shimaspawn

When posting a caption box on the forum, I reduce width to 300 ([[caption-width:300:...) so it looks right.

Understood, but I still don't like the horizontal - actually, it's the cutoff of Calvin's word balloon that irks me more than anything, I think.