History Quotes / IdiotBall

-->--'''King Boo''', ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''

->'''Garak:''' ''[[DramaticIrony I]]'' knew [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar Brutus was going to kill Caesar]] in the first act, but Caesar didn't figure it out until the knife is in his back!\\
'''Bashir:''' That's what makes it a tragedy. Caesar couldn't ''conceive'' that [[EtTuBrute his best friend would plot to kill him!]]\\
'''Garak:''' Tragedy is not the word I'd use. 'Farce' would be more appropriate.
-->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E20ImprobableCause Improbable Cause]]"

->''Thing is, the folly of Jurassic Park was never the dinosaurs... but at staffing your park with a bunch of jackasses who'd get fired from a carnival.''
-->--''Website/{{Cracked}}'' on ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', "[[https://www.cracked.com/article_24386_5-scientific-movies-that-actively-hate-science.html 5 'Scientific' Movies That Actively Hate Science]]"

->''You cannot, just for the sake of telling the story you want to tell, reduce your characters to hollow, unbelievable shells and expect anyone to buy it.''
-->--'''[[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville10-ep16 Julian Finn]]''' on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E16Scion Scion]]"

->''Just when I was saying that Chakotay had lost his way, the writers come along and make him [[WeCanRuleTogether a cult worshipper of a man with Godlike powers!]] It's not a shift in his favour and I was waiting patiently for the script to hit me with its ‘[[FakeDefector he was pretending all along]] so they could escape’ which never came. No, he really is as daft as he appears. Beltran fails to convince on any level and when I read recently that he felt contempt for how the writers used his character [[CreatorBacklash I could actually sense that]] in this episode.''
-->--'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/voyager-season-four.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year Of Hell]]"

->''When T'Pol points out that it's a spiritual site for Vulcans seeking meditation and enlightenment, Archer’s response is incredibly self-centred. ''[='=]It’s not every day we get to see an ancient Vulcan monastery,[='=]'' he remarks, as if the universe exists for him to gawk at. It's strange that he is so insistent and yet strangely hesitant once the ship enters orbit. ''[='=]I don't like dropping in on people unannounced,[='=]'' he tells T'Pol, even though it seems quite late for this to come up.''
-->--'''Darren Mooney''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E07TheAndorianIncident The Andorian Incident]]"

->'''Clone Lincoln:''' We need you to help expose the truth behind the illegal clones! Tell the world that Creator/SeanBean is evil!\\
'''Real Lincoln:''' Okay I'll help you, despite the fact [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain I'm going to die in two years and I have no possible benefit to helping you and I need your liver.]]\\
'''Clone Lincoln:''' What?\\
'''Real Lincoln:''' Nothing. I'm just going to go get my shoes [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and not call Sean Bean.]]\\
'''Clone Lincoln:''' But you're ''[[IHaveToIronMyDog wearing]]'' shoes!
-->--[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]] [[http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/the-island/ on]] ''Film/TheIsland''

->"So the plot is that someone's trying to kill Amidala for no reason, and Anakin and Obi-Wan are assigned to protect her. So, she doesn't sleep in an interior bedroom of this building with no window where it's safer, but rather in a room where the blinds are half-open in a city where nine hundred quadrillion people can see her--especially the robot that's here to kill her."
-->--'''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]]''' on ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''

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->''My primary interest in contacting you gentlemen is my concern over my lack of experience in playing dummies. Perhaps you could arrange to get me educated in this area. Maybe if I watched some ''{{ComicStrip/Blondie}}'' episodes and watched Dagwood as a role model, I could pick up some pointers. Or better still, I could get right to the bottom line by wearing some braids and feathers and learning to grunt, [[Radio/TheLoneRanger "Ugh, Kimosabee"]]]?''
-->--'''Creator/LeonardNimoy''' in response to ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]''[='s=] [[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy "Whom Gods Destroy"]]
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->"We're in a crypt. Nobody thought of that. [The Night King is] bringing all the dead people back to life. And they've put the women and children in a crypt with all the dead people! So ... blah. Tyrion's smart, but I guess not ''that'' smart."

->"We're in a crypt. Nobody thought of that. [The Night King is] bringing all the dead people back to life. And they've put the women and children in a crypt with all the dead people so ... blah. Tyrion's smart, but I guess not ''that'' smart."

->"Nobody thought of that. He's bringing all the dead people back to life and they put women and children in a crypt will all the dead people! So... blah. Tyrion's smart, but I guess not ''that'' smart."

->'''Garak:''' ''I'' knew [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar Brutus was going to kill Caesar]] in the first act, but Caesar didn't figure it out until the knife is in his back!\\

-->--'''Darren Mooney''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E06TheAndorianIncident The Andorian Incident]]"

->'''Obi-Wan Kenobi:''' [trapped in ray shields] Wait a minute. How did this happen? We're smarter than this.\\
'''Anakin:''' Apparently not.\\
-->-- ''Franchise/StarWars'' Episode III: ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

-->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Improbable Cause"

-->-- ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', "Everything Changes"

--> -- '''[=GLaDOS=]''' on Wheatley, ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

-->--''Website/{{Cracked}}'' on ''Film/JurassicPark'', "[[https://www.cracked.com/article_24386_5-scientific-movies-that-actively-hate-science.html 5 'Scientific' Movies That Actively Hate Science]]"

-->--'''[[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville10-ep16 Julian Finn]]''' on ''Smallville'', "Scion"

-->--'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/voyager-season-four.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Year Of Hell"

->''When T’Pol points out that it’s a spiritual site for Vulcans seeking meditation and enlightenment, Archer’s response is incredibly self-centred. ''[='=]It’s not every day we get to see an ancient Vulcan monastery,[='=]'' he remarks, as if the universe exists for him to gawk at. It’s strange that he is so insistent and yet strangely hesitant once the ship enters orbit. ''[='=]I don’t like dropping in on people unannounced,[='=]'' he tells T’Pol, even though it seems quite late for this to come up.''
-->--'''Darren Mooney''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "The Andorian Incident"

->''My primary interest in contacting you gentlemen is my concern over my lack of experience in playing dummies. Perhaps you could arrange to get me educated in this area. Maybe if I watched some ''{{ComicStrip/Blondie}}'' episodes and watched Dagwood as a role model, I could pick up some pointers. Or better still, I could get right to the bottom line by wearing some braids and feathers and learning to grunt, [[Radio/TheLoneRanger “Ugh, Kimosabee”]]?''
-->--'''Creator/LeonardNimoy''' in response to ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]''[='s=] [[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy}} "Whom Gods Destroy"]]

-->-- '''Mr. Potatohead''', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''

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[[folder:Web Animation]]
->"In his first scene, Leon has somehow forgotten what a zombie is as he ''attempts to reason with one'' that is advancing towards him smacking his chops and wearing a brain-patterned barbecue apron... So they could have replaced the two recurring protagonists with [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Laurel and fucking Hardy]] and it would have meant precisely as much!"
-->--'''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''
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->''When T’Pol points out that it’s a spiritual site for Vulcans seeking meditation and enlightenment, Archer’s response is incredibly self-centred. ''[='=]It’s not every day we get to see an ancient Vulcan monastery,[='=]'' he remarks, as if the universe exists for him to gawk at. It’s strange that he is so insistent and yet strangely hesitant once the ship enters orbit. ''[='=]I don’t like dropping in on people unannounced,[='=]'' he tells T’Pol, even though it seems quite late for this to come up.

'''fatmanfalling:''' Because in episode 14 she gives it up after Yang tells her that it's counterproductive to her goal of not being hunted anymore. \\

-->--'''Creator/LeonardNimoy''' in response to ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]''[='s=] [{{Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy}} "Whom Gods Destroy"]]

''(elevator arrives full of reinforcements)''\\

->'''Obi-Wan:''' ''[trapped in ray shields]'' Wait a minute. How did this happen? We're smarter than this.\\
'''Anakin:''' Apparently not.
-->-- ''Franchise/StarWars'' Episode III: ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

->Oh my God. Has everyone taken stupid pills!?

->'''Jack:''' Before we go any further, who the ''hell'' orders pizza under the name of "[[OpenSecret Torchwood]]"?!\\

->[[AC: The engineers tried everything to make me... behave. To slow me down. Once, they even attached an Intelligence Dampening Sphere on me. It clung to my brain like a tumor, generating an endless stream of terrible ideas.]]\\
[...]\\
[[AC: He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation, working together with the express purpose of building the ''dumbest'' moron who ''ever lived''.]]
--> -- '''[=GLaDOS=]''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

->Who would actually believe that mansions get given away in contests? Talk about stupid! What do they feed you Mario Bros. anyway? Gullible soup?

->You cannot, just for the sake of telling the story you want to tell, reduce your characters to hollow, unbelievable shells and expect anyone to buy it.

->Just when I was saying that Chakotay had lost his way, the writers come along and make him [[WeCanRuleTogether a cult worshipper of a man with Godlike powers!]] It's not a shift in his favour and I was waiting patiently for the script to hit me with its ‘[[FakeDefector he was pretending all along]] so they could escape’ which never came. No, he really is as daft as he appears. ''[Robert''] Beltran fails to convince on any level and when I read recently that he felt contempt for how the writers used his character [[CreatorBacklash I could actually sense that]] in this episode.

->When T’Pol points out that it’s a spiritual site for Vulcans seeking meditation and enlightenment, Archer’s response is incredibly self-centred. ''“It’s not every day we get to see an ancient Vulcan monastery,”'' he remarks, as if [[HawaiianShirtedTourist the universe exists for him to gawk at.]] It’s strange that he is so insistent and yet strangely hesitant once the ship enters orbit. ''“I don’t like dropping in on people unannounced,”'' he tells T’Pol, even though it seems [[DidntThinkThisThrough quite late]] for this to come up.

->'''Lincoln:''' We need you to help expose the truth behind the illegal clones! Tell the world that Creator/SeanBean is evil!\\
'''Clone Daddy Lincoln:''' Okay I'll help you, despite the fact [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain I'm going to die in two years and I have no possible benefit to helping you and I need your liver.]]\\
'''Lincoln:''' What?\\
'''Clone Daddy Lincoln:''' Nothing. I'm just going to go get my shoes [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and not call Sean Bean.]]\\
'''Lincoln:''' But you're ''[[IHaveToIronMyDog wearing]]'' shoes!

->''"But it's obviously a trap! Why are you acting so gullible and out of character?"''

->So the plot is that someone's trying to kill Amidala for no reason, and Anakin and Obi-Wan are assigned to protect her. So, she doesn't sleep in an interior bedroom of this building with no window where it's safer, but rather in a room where the blinds are half-open in a city where nine hundred quadrillion people can see her--especially the robot that's here to kill her.

->And with that, viewers, welcome back to LetsPlay ''VideoGame/HomeworldCataclysm.'' Last time, we managed to figure out what the Taidaan Imperialists were up to, which appeared to be, well... ''being dumbasses.''

->Uncle! What are you doing Firebending your tea? You know, for a wise old man, that was a pretty stupid move.

->Oh, you're smart, girly, but it's all book and no street!

->Stupidity isn't a virus but it sure is spreadin' like one!

-->--'''Creator/LeonardNimoy''' in response to ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', [[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy}} "Whom Gods Destroy"]]

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater''

-> "…damn, I’m dumb."

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-> "({{Beat}})…damn, I’m dumb."

-> '''Sento:''' "(Beat)…[[IdiotBall ({{Beat}})…[[IdiotBall damn, I’m dumb]]."