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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Played for laughs in one strip. Garfield pushes an antique vase off the edge of a table. Jon angrily yells at him that he doesn't know what he just did. Turns out Garfield actually knows more about the vase than Jon, despite the fact that Wikipedia didn't exist when the strip was made. Sure, he could have learned it from a history book, but it's unlikely that Jon would just keep a history book lying around and not even read it.
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->'''Jon''': You dumb animal! You're so stupid, you don't know what you did!
->'''Garfield''': ''[thinking]'' I know I destroyed a priceless ming dynasty vase as an overt expression to communicate my contempt for the politically oppressive doctrines of their early 17th century administration.
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->'''Garfield''': ''[thinking]'' I know I destroyed a priceless ming dynasty vase as an overt expression to communicate my contempt for the politically oppressive doctrines of their early 17th century administration.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Played for laughs in one strip. Garfield pushes an antique vase off the edge of a table. Jon angrily yells at him that he doesn't know what he just did, but it turns out Garfield actually knows more about the vase than Jon, despite being a cat.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':Homer is shown to know things he's never learned across various episodes -- he [[InexplicableLanguageFluency knows languages he's never seen or heard]], can name every Ayatollah, understands Hindu philosophy better than Apu, and knows what proposition 305 is. He even knows oddly specific things, like the phone number of the men who built the Berlin wall.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':Homer ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer is shown to know things he's never learned across various episodes -- he [[InexplicableLanguageFluency knows languages he's never seen or heard]], can name every Ayatollah, understands Hindu philosophy better than Apu, and knows what proposition 305 is. He even knows oddly specific things, like the phone number of the men who built the Berlin wall.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':Homer is shown to know things he's never learned across various episodes -- he [[InexplicableLanguageFluency knows languages he's never seen or heard]], can name every Ayatollah, understands Hindu philosophy better than Apu, and knows what proposition 305 is. He even knows oddly specific things, like the phone number of the men who built the Berlin wall.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'': The chickens know how to craft a plane, and one chicken knows how to knit. Even if these things weren't physically impossible for a chicken to do, one would wonder how they have any idea how to do these things.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'': The chickens know how to craft a plane, and one chicken knows how to knit. plane. Even if these things this weren't physically impossible for a chicken to do, one would wonder how they chickens living in a rural idea have any idea how to do these things.this.
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** In "Baby You Can't Drive My Car", Maggie drives Homer's car. This is not only [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physically impossible]] since a baby wouldn't be able to reach the gas pedal, but also something she shouldn't know how to do, since she's never taken driving lessons.
** Homer is shown to know things he's never learned across various episodes -- he [[InexplicableLanguageFluency knows languages he's never seen or heard]], can name every Ayatollah, understands Hindu philosophy better than Apu, and knows what proposition 305 is.
** In "Baby You Can't Drive My Car", Maggie drives Homer's car. This is not only [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physically impossible]] since a baby wouldn't be able to reach the gas pedal, but also something she shouldn't know how to do, since she's never taken driving lessons.
** Homer is shown to know things he's never learned across various episodes -- he [[InexplicableLanguageFluency knows languages he's never seen or heard]], can name every Ayatollah, understands Hindu philosophy better than Apu, and knows what proposition 305 is.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Baby You Can't Drive My Car", Maggie drives Homer's car. This is not only [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physically impossible]] since a baby wouldn't be able to reach the gas pedal, but also something she shouldn't know how to do, since she's never taken driving lessons.
** Homer''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':Homer is shown to know things he's never learned across various episodes -- he [[InexplicableLanguageFluency knows languages he's never seen or heard]], can name every Ayatollah, understands Hindu philosophy better than Apu, and knows what proposition 305 is.
** In "Baby You Can't Drive My Car", Maggie drives Homer's car. This is not only [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physically impossible]] since a baby wouldn't be able to reach the gas pedal, but also something she shouldn't know how to do, since she's never taken driving lessons.
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->'''Jon''': You dumb animal! You're so stupid, you don't know what you just did!
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->'''Jon''': You dumb animal! You're so stupid, you don't even what you just did!
->'''Garfield''': ''[thinking]'' I know I destroyed a priceless ming dynasty vase as an overt expression to communicate my contempt for the politically oppressive doctrines of their early 17th century administration.
-->--''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''
->'''Garfield''': ''[thinking]'' I know I destroyed a priceless ming dynasty vase as an overt expression to communicate my contempt for the politically oppressive doctrines of their early 17th century administration.
-->--''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''
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* ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney'': Sassy knows how to unlock a pound door even though she's never been to a pound before.
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* ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney'': Sassy knows how to unlock a pound door even though she's never been to a pound before.
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What people know about depends on their time and place, and the access to education they have. Sometimes writers forget this, and include characters having knowledge of something nobody would know about in the time or place where the work is set.
Supertrope to AnimalsFearNeutering, InexplicableLanguageFluency, and MedievalUniversalLiteracy. See also OrphanedEtymology, where someone uses a word that wouldn't exist where the story is set. May overlap with AmplifiedAnimalAptitude or WiseBeyondTheirYears. Not to be confused with ThirdPersonFlashback, when a character remembers things that happened when they weren't even in the room.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Played for laughs in one strip. Garfield pushes an antique vase off the edge of a table. Jon angrily yells at him that he doesn't know what he just did, but it turns out Garfield actually knows more about the vase than Jon, despite being a cat.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'': The chickens know how to craft a plane, and one chicken knows how to knit. Even if these things weren't physically impossible for a chicken to do, one would wonder how they have any idea how to do these things.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleDrummerBoy'': At one point, several of the animals pretend to be other animals, which include an alligator and a caribou. The special is set in Judea, where neither of those animals are found.
* ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}''
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'': The penguins know how to drive, despite having spent their entire life in a zoo.
** ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'': The penguins also know how to fly a plane. And they built it themselves, too.
** ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'': Not only do [[InexplicableLanguageFluency the animals understand what French people are saying]], Marty the Zebra knows how to drive a car.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': One of the elephants worries about piranhas in the river, upon which another says that piranhas only live in South America. One would wonder how an elephant in Africa would even know either of those things exist. They don't know what humans are, though, since young Tarzan is mistaken for a piranha.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Baby You Can't Drive My Car", Maggie drives Homer's car. This is not only [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physically impossible]] since a baby wouldn't be able to reach the gas pedal, but also something she shouldn't know how to do, since she's never taken driving lessons.
** Homer is shown to know things he's never learned across various episodes -- he [[InexplicableLanguageFluency knows languages he's never seen or heard]], can name every Ayatollah, understands Hindu philosophy better than Apu, and knows what proposition 305 is.
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Supertrope to AnimalsFearNeutering, InexplicableLanguageFluency, and MedievalUniversalLiteracy. See also OrphanedEtymology, where someone uses a word that wouldn't exist where the story is set. May overlap with AmplifiedAnimalAptitude or WiseBeyondTheirYears. Not to be confused with ThirdPersonFlashback, when a character remembers things that happened when they weren't even in the room.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Played for laughs in one strip. Garfield pushes an antique vase off the edge of a table. Jon angrily yells at him that he doesn't know what he just did, but it turns out Garfield actually knows more about the vase than Jon, despite being a cat.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'': The chickens know how to craft a plane, and one chicken knows how to knit. Even if these things weren't physically impossible for a chicken to do, one would wonder how they have any idea how to do these things.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleDrummerBoy'': At one point, several of the animals pretend to be other animals, which include an alligator and a caribou. The special is set in Judea, where neither of those animals are found.
* ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}''
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'': The penguins know how to drive, despite having spent their entire life in a zoo.
** ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'': The penguins also know how to fly a plane. And they built it themselves, too.
** ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'': Not only do [[InexplicableLanguageFluency the animals understand what French people are saying]], Marty the Zebra knows how to drive a car.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': One of the elephants worries about piranhas in the river, upon which another says that piranhas only live in South America. One would wonder how an elephant in Africa would even know either of those things exist. They don't know what humans are, though, since young Tarzan is mistaken for a piranha.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Baby You Can't Drive My Car", Maggie drives Homer's car. This is not only [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physically impossible]] since a baby wouldn't be able to reach the gas pedal, but also something she shouldn't know how to do, since she's never taken driving lessons.
** Homer is shown to know things he's never learned across various episodes -- he [[InexplicableLanguageFluency knows languages he's never seen or heard]], can name every Ayatollah, understands Hindu philosophy better than Apu, and knows what proposition 305 is.
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