History Main / DumbAndDrummer

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': Animal, the drummer for the Electric Mayhem. Once, when Kermit was too busy to answer a knock, he asked Animal to get the door. Animal got it by ripping it off its hinges and bringing it to the frog.

But music's number one.

-->'''Balsam''' ''[singing]'' I can barely tie my shoe\\

if I got some gum to chew.\\

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': Animal, again.

Playing percussion adequately often involves managing many more actions and ideas at once than most other instruments. Real drummers who consider themselves "serious" musicians often refer to themselves as "[[InsistentTerminology percussionists]]" in an attempt to distance themselves from this trope as well as because many drummers also play general percussion. Even for those who ''only'' play drums, to do so at any professional level usually requires either the ability to read musical notation or the talent to create beats/play by ear, and they are the backbone of the band's sound in ''many'' genres - so if they are so stupid their musicianship is awful and/or they can't keep rhythm, the ''entire band'' will usually sound awful. So it's ''not'' TruthInTelevision for the most part. On the other hand, drum kits are ''expensive'' relative to guitars and amps, and require much more practice space. If your drummer ''is'' an idiot ([[GeniusDitz probably not]]), it's not all that easy to replace them.

* ''ComicBook/ScareTactics'': This is what the rest of the band initially assume about Grossout because he is a hulking beast who only communicates in HulkSpeak. Subverted when Grossout gets hold of Arnie's computer and types out his story. He is actually intelligent and articulate, but cannot communicate verbally because of his transformation.

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* Music/BradPaisley's "Kung Pao Buckaroo Holiday," running down the list of holiday songs identifying [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad who they'd offend]]:

* In ''[[VideoGame/Persona4 Persona 4 Golden]]'', you have to play a concert at one point, and it's resident big guy and probably dumbest guy on the team Kanji who is on drum duty. When attempting to stagedive, he even manages to land upright (and stay) on his face. Sort of averted, as [[ButtMonkey butt-monkey]] Yosuke is playing the guitar, so he may not be the most stupid player.

* In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "best thing", the drummer of Limozeen was made the FatComicRelief in their [[OneEpisodeWonder short-lived]] BandToon "[[ShowWithinAShow Limozeen: But They're In Space]]!"
-->'''Mary Palaroncini:''' How come they made me fat and have red hair?\\

* In [[VideoGame/Persona4 Persona 4 Golden]], you have to play a concert at one point, and it's resident big guy and probably dumbest guy on the team Kanji who is on drum duty. When attempting to stagedive, he even manages to land upright (and stay) on his face. Sort of averted, as [[ButtMonkey butt-monkey]] Yosuke is playing the guitar, so he may not be the most stupid player.

* Glenn Fricker, owner of Spectre Media Group and longtime heavy metal record producer, hands drummer jokes out like they're candy - both in the studio and on his [=YouTube=] channel. As with his [[NobodyLovesTheBassist hatred of bass players]], he often plays this straight but will [[DiscussedTrope sometimes take the time to explain why he feels this way about drummers]], noting that as with bass players there ''are'' good drummers out there to whom this trope doesn't apply and with whom he has enjoyed working. Unlike with bass players, who usually can't play at all, drummers often ''can'' play. The problems with drummers tend to be that they can't keep a good beat, they're unable to keep their affairs outside the studio straight (e.g. Phil Rudd of {{Music/ACDC}}), and they tend to whine & complain when the producer insists on arranging drums, cymbals, & microphones in such a way as to get the optimal sound, seeing it as too much work and too different from how they normally play to the point that they can't play their kit this way at all.

* Implied by a fellow student in ''Film/SchoolOfRock'':
-->'''Freddy:''' I play percussion.\\
'''Classmate:''' 'Cause he couldn't play anything else!\\
'''Freddy:''' Shut up!

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-> ''"And if you're not smart enough to play drums, they take away one of your sticks, put you in the front, and call you the conductor."''

-> ''"If you're not smart enough to play a real instrument, they give you two sticks, put you in the back, and call you a drummer."''

* The {{credits|Gag}} for Music/{{Sabaton}}'s single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um5R_PH7Jek "Livgardet"]] credit the band members each as "Leading Actor"--except for drummer Hannes, who is credited as "Extra".