History TooDumbToLive / WesternAnimation

* While neither [[ScoobyDoo Scooby-Doo]] nor Shaggy weren't known for their intelligence, and the inches tall [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] tried to fight the monsters with his extremely tiny fists, none of them have anything on Scooby-dumb, Scooby-doos hillbilly cousin. He was literally too dumb to either run or hide, mostly having to be dragged by Scooby and the others away from danger.

* While neither [[Scooby-Doo]] nor Shaggy weren't known for their intelligence, and the inches tall [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] tried to fight the monsters with his extremely tiny fists, none of them have anything on Scooby-dumb, Scooby-doos hillbilly cousin. He was literally too dumb to either run or hide, mostly having to be dragged by Scooby and the others away from danger.

* Snips and Snails from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. More so, Snails but usually, it's both of them. in "Boast Busters" they lead an Ursa Major [[hottip:*:a giant bear made out of stars]] into Ponyville so they can see Trixie defeat it, [[FakeUltimateHero which she can't.]] In "The Show Stoppers", Snails ruins his and Snips' magic act by eating the carrots they needed for a trick. and in "Ponyville Confidential", they got their asses stuck together with bubble gum. This isn't really a bad thing as Snips and Snails cause a lot of FunnyMoments on the show and are clearly good colts, but man, are they stupid.

* Darkstar has a moment in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien''. Saying that you want to take another girl as a trophy once you TakeOverTheWorld while within earshot of the girl who ''gave you your powers'' is [[Understatement not the best idea]]. Especially if the girl who gave you said powers is TrueNeutral at best.

* Snips and Snails from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. More so, Snails but usually, it's both of them. in "Boast Busters" they lead an Ursa into Ponyville so they can see Trixie defeat it, which she can't. In "The Show Stoppers", Snails ruins his and Snips' magic act by eating the carrots they needed for a trick. and in "Ponyville Confidential", they got their asses stuck together with bubble gum. this isn't really a bad thing as Snips and Snails cause a lot of FunnyMoments on the show and are clearly good foals but man, are they stupid.

* Snips and Snails from ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. More so, Snails but usually, it's both of them. in "Boast Busters" they lead an Ursa into Ponyville so they can see Trixie defeat it, which she can't. In "The Show Stoppers", Snails ruins his and Snips' magic act by eating the carrots they needed for a trick. and in "Ponyville Confidential", they got their asses stuck together with bubble gum. this isn't really a bad thing as Snips and Snails cause a lot of FunnyMoments on the show and are clearly good foals but man, are they stupid.

* Snips and Snails from ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. More so, Snails but usually, it's both of them. in "Boast Busters" they lead an Ursa into Ponyville so they can see Trixie defeat it, which she can't. In "The Show Stoppers" Snails ruins his and Snips' magic act by eating the carrots they needed for a trick. and in "Ponyville Confidential", they got their asses stuck together with bubble gum. this isn't really a bad thing as Snips and Snails cause a lot of FunnyMoments on the show and are clearly good foals but man, are they stupid.

* The clones from "6teen". SO DAMN MUCH.
* Nestor from "WorldOfQuest" would probably be dead by the end of the first episode if it wasn't for Quest always saving his ass.

* Eustace and Muriel from ''CourageTheCowardlyDog''. Both are completely oblivious to the dangers that surround their home or even outside of it. Without Courage, those two would have been dead far before the series even began.

* It is amazing how long the eponymous character of ''InvaderZim'' has managed to survive, considering how often his idiocy has made things literally blow up in his face. GIR is a more extreme example, although being a [[MechaMooks robot]], he's easily repaired.
** As a matter of fact, the same could be told about the humans in this serie in general. Seriously, a kid with [[PaperThinDisguise green skin, no ears, a weird uniform]] and [[LargeHam megalomaniac tics and mannerisms]], yet they don't suspect a thing. The [[OnlySaneMan only one to notice anything]] is Dib, and everyone just think he's talking nonsense.
* The eponymous character in ''{{Chowder}}''. Not only does he usually drive the plot along by either destroying something in stupidity or just by being incredibly stupid, but, well, apparently he's ''literally'' Too Dumb to Live without someone directing him. This is a guy who once thought the proper way to put away a spoon was to ''shove it in an electrical outlet'' after all (and judging from the marks it happened more than once).
* While most of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' qualifies for the IdiotBall in some form, no one exemplifies Too Dumb To Live as well as Master Shake. Indeed, Shake repeatedly dies in many episodes (continuity is non-existent on the show), usually by his own stupidity. He has sliced himself in half with a katana, eaten a sandwich that he knew would send him to a hell dimension where an axe-wielding cyclops awaited to slice his head open, and has gone as far as committing suicide to ruin Meatwad's Ouija video game.
** Another sterling example of Too Dumb To Live is an episode where the Mooninites (usually actually fairly competent by the show's standards) are menaced by a monster that wants to eradicate them, and instead of doing anything to stop this, ''use it as the basis for a pyramid scheme''. At the same time as TheReveal that the monster was real, one of them gets a KarmicDeath for his stupidity and {{Jerkass}}ness when it squashes him, ''while he's trying to enroll it into the pyramid scheme.'' Truly epic instance of the IdiotBall.

* Subverted by Fry in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''. Fry is so dumb that he lacks a certain brain function that even inanimate objects are said to have; ironically, it is the exact lack of this brain function that serves as a highly effective defense mechanism against extremely dangerous threats (i.e. threats that seek to destroy the entire Universe) that are capable of reading minds, rendering him entirely invisible and mostly undetectable to them. It often falls to Fry as the only person in the Universe who ''can'' save it, because his unique ability to survive against these threats derives directly from his being Too Dumb to Live. However, it's later revealed, that he lacks this brain function (delta brain waves), because [[IncestIsRelative he did the nasty in the pasty]], as he so eloquently puts it.

* [[AdultsAreUseless Most of the adult cast]] from SouthPark is this, but Randy Marsh takes the cake. Drives drunk with his kid and friends, gets into drunken fights in little league games, gets Finland nuked off the face of the planet, is responsible for the death of his daughter's boyfriend.... His stupidity risks himself and pretty much anybody caught in the line of his scheme.
* [[TransformersAnimated TF;A Starscream]] takes to cake for this instance. His constant attempts to kill Megatron, end with him being repeatedly killed (in a montage that is described as the "best TF montage of all time" by the TF wiki and is a huge {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}); only surviving to try again due to an [[ContractualImmortality All Spark fragment]] embedded in his head. Almost every Starscream has displayed this kind of thing at some point.
** Really, it became more as to stupid to die for him, I mean [[DontExplainTheJoke he technically wasn't alive in the first place]], [[spoiler: as soon as the shard was removed, he died,]] so yea. But anyway, attacking Megatron like that still qualifies.
* Miko of ''TransformersPrime'' is a prime example of this. She follows Bulkhead in a sneak mission, yells at the top of her lungs making it into an active battle zone after that hitches a ride in Bulkheads cockpit hurls in said cockpit and then defends her decision to friends who come after her. All the while being a GenkiGirl. Annoying and dumb, what an amazing combination!

** At least some of the bigots are smart enough to go after the mutants that they know actually try to co-exist and thus not kill people. One episode has Principle Kelly kiss up to the Brotherhood, not only keeping them from attacking him, but also convincing them to fight the X-men and thus discredit the mutants further. Still, while the main cast generally prove themselves safe targets, it's still rather stupid to attack the younger, less self-controlled teenagers.
* ''RobotChicken'' parodied ''TheHillsHaveEyes'' by putting three of the dumbest celebrities together. One of them drove the car off the road when he complained things were "too hard" and claimed the tires were flat. The other complained to the main dumb idiot that she was just jealous that she got Aaron ''the dumb driver'' and that things were also "too hard." Both idiots left in a huff. Finally, the third idiot couldn't back into the car, and realized either the dumb blond or the dumb driver had the car keys. Instead of going after them, she decided to go a completely OPPOSITE way.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' lampoons typical horror movie idiocy in the episode "Hook, Line, and Screamer." After learning that a "Psycho Killer With a Chainsaw and an a Hook" is loose on the island, the contestants then shower, make out in the woods, and get snacks.

*** When the city was being attacked with by a worm, Patrick suggests that they "take Bkini Bottom and push it somewhere else!" Not only did they go with it, and [[AchievementsinIgnorance somehow]], pushed it into a canyon [[spoiler: at which point the worm fell onto it]].
* Numbah 4 of ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the best example is the cooties episode when he shows that he is too stupid to remember that he allergic to coconuts.
** There's also Numbah 3, who can't get it through her head that she's NOT being thrown a surprise party when situation after situation comes up that has no birthday ring to it, and the fact that her birthday is ''a year and a half away'' (Numbuh 4's words).
* Mr Bump in ''TheMrMenShow''. You'd think by now he would learn not to hang around so much with Miss Whoops,(related or not)....or Mr. Strong....or Mr. Tickle...or Miss Helpful....and he's just ONE example from this show.
* In the ''JimmyTwoShoes'' episode "Air Force None" has Jimmy, beezy, and Molotov making a series of decisions that can only be defined as this. Wrecklessly grabbing the controls, [[SchmuckBait pressing the big black skull labeled button]], Molotov abandoning the plane when he's the only one that can fly, accidently losing the back-up pilots, pulling out the controls of the plane, doing a barrel roll and ruining rescue attempts, throwing pies at a rescue plane...you get the idea.

** Possibly justified for the hot dog part in that they seems to have react under their shark instinct, as it seems they suddenly became more aggressive and hungry after their transformation.

-->'''Daffy:''' Shoot me again!!! I love the smell of burnt feathers...and gunpowder...and cordite! I'm an elk! Why don'cha shoot me?? It's elk season! I'm a fiddler crab!! Shoot me!! It's fiddler crab season!!!

* Mentioned by name in ''{{The Spectacular Spider-Man}}'' after the Sinister Six lure Spider-Man into a trap, by them regarding him. [[CaptainObvious They're wrong.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "The Limit", we meet the Hot Dog Knights, who are described by their own princess as being slow. When two of them (along with our heroes) are granted wishes:

* Jasmine does this in the series version of Aladdin in the episode "When Chaos Comes Calling" where she orders Chaos, a god-like being shown to be more powerful than Mirage (who herself is a powerful evil elemental capable of wiping Agrabah easily off the map without the heroes saving the day) to stop causing madness around the palace during a royal guest meeting. Although Chaos looks like a harmless silly blue cat with wings, genie had explicitly warned her not to make him mad as he had "more power in his whisker than a palace full of genies" and could grant his own wishes. To no one's surprise, Chaos does not take being ordered around well and shrinks her to the size of an ant right under Aladdin's feet, who unknowingly endangers her life. Fortunately she is brought back to full size due to Chaos' love for unpredictability. Jasmine should really have known better than to order around a trickster deity.
* The (stunningly naive) Earth King from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Fresh from having his EvilChancellor exposed as having deceived and manipulated him for years, he happily explains to the newly-arrived Kyoshi Warriors about the Day of the Black Sun invasion plan. Even if the Warriors weren't [[TheDragon Azula]] and her sidekicks in disguise, The Earth King just openly blabed about a major, secret military operation to a group of warriors he'd met literally seconds ago. And yes, this bites the good guys in the ass in a '''big''' way, later.

* Peter Griffin from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is a particularly extreme example, as demonstrated throughout the show's run. Gets a lampshade in an early episode where Brian tries putting out a fire, only to discover that the extinguisher is a prank item that sprays plastic snakes - which promptly explode, exacerbating the fire. When the family comes back, Brian angrily demands to know WhoWouldBeStupidEnough to do such a thing; Peter responds "A man who cares enough about prop comedy to put his family at severe risk, that's who!"
** To be fair, Peter IS retarded.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' put this to the extreme in many episodes. The acts from their stupidity often put themselves in grave danger.

* When Patrick from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' receives an extremely rare trading card, he does so many stupid things it descends into DudeNotFunny territory. To exemplify this-he starts walking into a construction zone and without even realizing the danger he's in, nearly plunges to his death into a barrel filled with fire. Patrick Star is the absolute ''dumbest'' thing in fiction now, bar none.

* Jasmine does this in the series version of Aladdin in the episode "When Chaos Comes Calling" where she orders Chaos, a god-like being shown to be more powerful than Mirage (who herself is a powerful evil elemental capable of wiping Agrabah easily off the map without the heroes saving the day) to stop causing madness around the palace during a royal guest meeting. Although Chaos looks like a harmless silly blue cat with wings, genie had explicitly warned her not to make him mad as he had "more power in his whisker than a palace full of genies" and could grant his own wishes. To no one's surprise, Chaos does not take being ordered around well and shrinks her to the size of an ant right under Aladdin's feet, who unknowingly endangers her life. Fortunately she is brought back to full size due to Chaos love for unpredictability. Jasmine should really have known better than to order around a trickster deity.

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