Basic Trope: Dogs portrayed as unintelligent.
- Straight: Bob the dog is The Ditz, especially in comparison to his friend Alice the cat.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is Lethally Stupid or Too Dumb to Live.
- Dogs are always portrayed as unintelligent.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is rather unintelligent, but is a Genius Ditz and still has some things he's good at.
- Bob is more of a Cloud Cuckoolander than outright dumb.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Bob is The Smart Guy, but Alice the cat is The Ditz.
- Subverted: Bob turns out to be Obfuscating Stupidity.
- Double Subverted: ...But he's still not that much smarter.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Whether Bob is smart or dumb is Depending on the Writer.
- Averted: Dogs aren't portrayed as particularly unintelligent.
- Enforced: Animal Stereotypes
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Dogs Are Dumb. And please tell Fido to stop drinking from the toilet on the way back.
