History Main / NobodysThatDumb

** In Season 11 "[=CIAPow=]", when Stan and his friends are trying to avoid the police in Thailand, Hooper's idea of a safehouse is taking refuge in a [[Advertising/TheBurgerKing Burger King]]-restaurant, arguing that [[ArtisticLicenseLaw since BK's an American-corporation, the restaurant's property counts as American-soil.]] Despite the Burger King cashier's lack of education, even he pointed out Hooper's flawed logic.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Season 12 "[=CIAPow=]"

** In "Timbuktu", Carolyn explains that Birling Day (in which they fly Mr Birling to the big rugby match and he gives them a massive tip) won't be happening, because the match is not only in England this year, but closer to Mr Birling's house than the airport, and not even he has ''that'' much more money than sense.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'', Fenris had a hard time understanding that Emile De Launcet is dumb enough to tell everyone he's a Blood Mage... in a city full of templars. Even ''[[GeneralRipper Meredith]]'' realized that his stupidity was genuine.

[[folder:Web Original]]

** The Team Rocket trio never fails to fool Ash and company with their {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s. But they push their luck too far in "Do I Hear A Ralts?" when they recycle the Kirlia and Gardevoir disguises that were exposed ''earlier in the same episode.'' Even the twerps are rather insulted by how poor this ruse is.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

*** Shufti is the least worldly of all the characters, having disguised herself as a boy to look for her fiancé who'd left her pregnant. She's repeatedly shown to be painfully naive, like believing the guy had been mislaid when she'd given him a sixpence to split in half, or missing the DoubleEntendre of a BawdySong. However, she does get a moment once the squad is captured and [[{{Irony}} accused of being soldiers disguised as women]] by hiking up her skirt and showing her belly to the officer. Polly then asks the officer with icy politeness if he needs the ''rest'' of the squad to strip down as well, and they're quickly left alone out of sheer embarrassment.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', "Super Goof", after eating some contaminated peanuts, Goofy becomes a superhero named "Super Goof". When Clarabelle thinks she figures out who Super Goof is after finding a contaminated peanut shell, she thinks it's WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} despite Goofy's superhero costume being just him wearing a [[ClarkKenting red jumpsuit and a blue cape]] with nothing obscuring his face. Goofy was not amused by this.

'''Numbuh Three:''' Oh... And what about the day after that?.\\

'''Numbuh Three''' Oh, I know you're leaving, silly. What do you think I am, an airhead or something?\\

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', season 11 "[=CIAPow=]"

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'', Fenris had a hard time understanding that Emile De Launcet is dumb enough to tell everyone he's a Blood Mage... in a city full of templars.

** In "Timbuktu", Carolyn explains that Birling Day won't be happening, because the rugby is not only in England this year, but closer to Mr Birling's house than the airport, and not even he has ''that'' much more money than sense.

* ''Radio/CabinPressure:'' One episode has Martin and Douglas quizzing Arthur on the phonetic alphabet to pass time on a long flight, and Arthur is terrible at it, often requiring them to drop hints or just outright tell him the answer (for "b" he gets stuck on "bag"). So they're quite surprised when he gets one correct on the first try.
-->'''Arthur:''' Well, obviously I know some of them.

-->'''Goofy:''' Oh, come on. I may be goofy but even I'm not ''that'' stupid.

This will usually lead to HypocrisyNod and SelfDeprecation. Compare TooDumbToFool, who is dumb, but not gullible, SmarterThanYouLook, for when somebody appears to be dumb but they're not, and GoodIsNotDumb, when someone who is good gets underestimated because of it. The inverse is WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, for when somebody ''really is'' that dumb. See DumbassHasAPoint.

-->'''Homer:''' You know, a "D" turns into a "B" so easily. You just got greedy.

* A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' involves Garfield commenting on how [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough someone would have to be really stupid to do X]], cue Odie doing said action. However one time while a snow storm is going on, Garfield comments how you would have to be stupid to be out outside. He then glances over to Odie who is standing three feet away from him and says that even Odie isn't that stupid

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': The Team Rocket trio never fails to fool Ash and company with their {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s. But they push their luck too far in "Do I Hear A Ralts?" when they recycle the Kirlia and Gardevoir disguises that were exposed ''earlier in the same episode.''

* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' season 4, "Here's Mud in Your Ed", after Eddy realizes that Rolf and Jimmy scammed him with a fake money tree seed and bangs on Rolf's front door demanding he get his stuff back, Rolf offers that he will give Eddy the "real" money tree seed if he stops. Edd tells Rolf that Eddy wouldn't fall for the same trick twice but he's proven wrong when Eddy agrees to it and the "real" money tree seed he receives is just a bolt. Ed even comments that even ''he'' isn't that gullible.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', "Super Goof", after eating some contaminated peanuts, Goofy becomes a superhero named "Super Goof". When Clarabelle thinks she figures out who Super Goof is after finding a contaminated peanut shell, she thinks it's WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} despite Goofy's superhero costume is just him wearing a [[ClarkKenting red jumpsuit and a blue cape]] with nothing obscuring his face. Goofy was not amused by this.

* In "To the Moon, Baboon" of ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'', the Crystal Coconut goes missing, and Diddy and Cranky think DK put it in a time capsule that is to be sent to the moon since he was the last person watching it and had been trying to think up a contribution. At the end, DK reveals that he just hid the Coconut somewhere so he could prepare his actual contribution;

--> '''Alan:''' You know why I was being audited? Not because I have unsubstantiated deductions, which I have. Not because I take the occasional cash payment from a client, and forget to report it, which I do. It was because ''no one'' at the IRS could believe I was paying as much alimony as I claimed. It took me three hours to convince them that, yes, I am that big a ''shmuck!''

* I one episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Alan gets audited by the [=IRS=]. After a series of misadventures between Charlie and Jake, Alan's son, Alan comes home and tells Charlie:

This is when a character who is established to be dumb or not as smart as their colleague feels that, while they're not that bright, they're not ''that'' stupid. The character has to acknowledge their low intelligence in any shape or form. It is also okay for a character to acknowledge another character for being dumb but not that stupid. Also, the character doesn't necessarily have to be dumb, it could also be a character who just lacks the knowledge for a certain subject but has common sense about it or someone who is naive. This could also apply to someone with a disability, like blindness or a mental disorder as examples, where they point out that their disability does not affect their intelligence or common sense. This can also apply to elders who are viewed as ScatterbrainedSenior but can still prove they can still understand what's going on around them.

** In Season 11 "[=CIAPow=]", when Stan and his friends are trying to avoid the police in Thailand, Hooper's idea of a safehouse is taking refuge in a [[Advertising/TheBurgerKing Burger King]] restaurant thinking that [[ArtisticLicenseLaw since it's a U.S. corporation it's technically U.S. soil]]. Despite the Burger King cashier's lack of education, even he pointed out Hooper's flawed logic.