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* WebVideo/PartyCrashers: In Brent's ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGvWRzpldPM Raid Boss session]], Vernias questions how Sophist could possibly reach the Boo behind the gate without a Skeleton Key, not realizing that Sophist can just purchase one from the Item Shop right in front of him:

'''Sophist:''' Oh, you're right. I don't have a key. Silly me. How did I not think of this? [[SarcasmMode Man, if only there was a way to get a key somewhere.]]\\

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: In Brent's ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGvWRzpldPM Raid Boss session]], Vernias questions how Sophist could possibly reach the Boo behind the gate without a Skeleton Key, not realizing that Sophist can just purchase one from the Item Shop right in front of him:

* Used often in the old SpriteComic ''[[Website/Fireball20XL That's My Sonic!]]'' Though frequently, the answer was actually quite straightforward.

''The Undertaker''': What am I doing? I'm kicking your ass, what do you think I'm doing?!

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: At one point in Brent's ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGvWRzpldPM Raid Boss session]], Vernias asks how Sophist could possibly reach the Boo behind the gate without a Skeleton Key, not realizing that Sophist can just purchase one from the Item Shop right in front of him:

'''Sophist:''' Oh, you're right. I don't have a key. Silly me. How did I not think of this? Man, if only there was a way to get a key somewhere.\\

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: At one point during Brent's ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGvWRzpldPM Raid Boss session]], Vernias asks how Sophist could possibly reach the Boo behind the gate without a Skeleton Key, not realizing that Sophist can just purchase one from the Item Shop right in front of him:

'''Sophist:''' Oh, you're right. I don't have a key. Silly me. How did I not think of this? [[SarcasmMode Man, if only there was a way to get a key somewhere.]]\\

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: At one point during Brent's ''Mario Party'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGvWRzpldPM Raid Boss session]], Vernias asks how Sophist could possibly reach the Boo behind the gate without a Skeleton Key, not realizing that Sophist can just purchase one from the Item Shop right in front of him:

-->'''Marc Maron:''' * AskAStupidQuestion: In a memorable exchange, Marc says he thought he had asked an insightful question, but in hindsight he realized he had set himself up for an unanswerable response:

-->'''Marc Maron:''' Look, I talk to a lot of musicians of your generation, and many of them really think that they're doing their best work now. What about you?
-->'''Music/PaulMcCartney:''' ({{Beat}}) ...I was in Music/TheBeatles!

An attempt to maneuver someone into asking a stupid question for the purpose of delivering a snappy answer is [[{{Henway}} What's a Henway?]] When the stupid answer is, in fact, correct, it's DontBeRidiculous. See StupidQuestionBait, RidiculousRequestResponse, and RhetoricalQuestionBlunder for similar concepts, as well as YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion (where the question somehow ''contains'' the answer, like "What's the number for 911?")

-->'''Mort:''' Wait, those are suppositories. Have you been eating them?\\
'''Peter:''' No, I've been shoving them up my butt!

* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'': At one point during Brent's ''Mario Party'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGvWRzpldPM Raid Boss session]], Vernias asks how Sophist could possibly reach the Boo behind the gate without a Skeleton Key, not realizing that Sophist can just purchase one from the Item Shop right in front of him:

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* [[https://pizzacakecomic.com/post/721295673034768384 This]] ''Pizza Cake Comic'' strip, in which a woman suggests that [[AuthorAvatar Ellen]], being [[CanadaEh Canadian]][[labelnote:*]] A country of over 40 million people, distributed (albeit not terribly evenly) over an area of three and a half million square miles[[/labelnote]], must know her cousin Jeremy. Ellen responds by cheerfully dumping a huge pile of snark on her head.

An attempt to maneuver someone into asking a stupid question for the purpose of delivering a snappy answer is [[{{Henway}} What's a Henway?]] When the stupid answer is, in fact, correct, it's DontBeRidiculous. See StupidQuestionBait and RhetoricalQuestionBlunder for similar concepts, as well as YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion (where the question somehow ''contains'' the answer, like "What's the number for 911?")