What An Idiot / Kaeloo

Such an idiot that even Kaeloo is facepalming.

"What a dumbbell!"

— Kaeloo (referring to Stumpy)

Mr. Cat always says that Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack are morons. And he's absolutely right.

Spoilers are unmarked.

General

• Mr. Cat promises not to hurt Quack Quack every time he asks to join a game.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo to learn to refuse to let him play.
  Instead: She always allows him to join the game. You can guess what happens. Subverted since it is eventually revealed that Kaeloo allows Mr. Cat to beat Quack Quack up so she can step in and "save" him from Mr. Cat and look like a hero, which gives her a purpose in life.

Season One

Let's Play Doctors and Nurses

• Stumpy is severely ill. He keeps asking Kaeloo and Mr. Cat to help him, and they callously ignore him.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy to go see an actual doctor.
  Instead: He spends the entire episode waiting for them to cure him.
  Result: He dies, only to be fine in the next episode.
• Stumpy sees a toadstool in the forest.
  You'd expect: Stumpy to decide not to eat the toadstool, since it could be poisonous and he's already really sick.
  Instead: He eats it.
  Result: He gets even sicker than before.
• Stumpy tells Kaeloo and Mr. Cat that he ate a really poisonous toadstool.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat to take a break from their game and try to help him.
  Instead: They focus entirely on Quack Quack, who isn't even sick, and tell Stumpy to come back in about six months. They even continue this uncaring treatment as Stumpy breaks a leg and gets a concussion, until finally, when he's about to die, they realize something is wrong.

Let's Play Red Light, Green Light

• When it's Mr. Cat's turn to stand next to the wall in a game of "Red Light, Green Light", he turns around and fires a missile from his bazooka. Kaeloo and Stumpy run away to escape.
  You'd Expect: Quack Quack to run away too.
  Instead: He stands in the path of the missile because the rules of the game say that he shouldn't move until Mr. Cat turns around again.
  Result: He gets hit by the missile and launched into the sky.

Let's Play at Reading Books

• Bad Kaeloo, who s against dirty magazines, is throwing a bunch of the, away into a pile next to where Quack Quack and Mr. Cat are standing.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat and Quack Quack to do nothing, since they're standing near her.
  Instead: Mr. Cat grabs some of the magazines and encourages Quack Quack to do the same.
  Result: Bad Kaeloo gets angry at him, and she beats him up (which she hadn't been planning on doing before).

Let's Play Magicians

• The gang hosts a magic show, and Mr. Cat picks Quack Quack as his assistant. When Kaeloo asks about it, he claims that he isn't going to hurt Quack Quack.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo to notice the large box of sharp weapons he has next to him.
  Instead: She lets him perform his act of sawing Quack Quack in half. And she actually thinks it's a magic act and is shocked when he tells her it isn't.

Let's Play Trap-Trap

• Quack Quack is undergoing withdrawal symptoms due to not eating yogurt.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat, who is fully aware of this, to realize that it's not a good idea to bring up yogurt.
  Instead: He yells out something about free yogurt and Quack Quack comes running towards him, but he reveals that it was "misleading advertising".
  Result: Quack Quack beats up Mr. Cat with a giant mallet.
• Kaeloo knows that Quack Quack isn't doing that well without yogurt and is now trying to cannibalize her and Stumpy.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo to just give him some yogurt.
  Instead: She refuses to give it to him, and actually gets mad at Mr. Cat for giving it to him, even though not giving him any could have gotten them all killed.

Let's Play Cops and Robbers

• Mr. Cat, as a police officer, is interrogating Quack Quack. Each time Quack Quack says he was not guilty, Mr. Cat hurts him by whacking him over the head.
  You'd Expect: Quack Quack to try staying on Mr. Cat's good side, given that he is in a position where Mr. Cat can hurt him wihout any repercussions.
  Instead: He retorts by Blowing a Raspberry at Mr. Cat, angering him further.
  Result: Mr. Cat uses harsher, nore violent techniques on him.

Let's Play Simon Says

• Mr. Cat becomes "Simon" in a game of Simon Says, and he asks the others to do things like giving him all their money.
  You'd Expect: The others to refuse to listen to him.
  Instead: They all comply with his demands. Even when he tells Quack Quack to take off his underwear.

Let's Play Prince Charming

• Stumpy is on Fakebook, a parody of Facebook, looking for a girlfriend. One person he meets asks him for his bank account details. Stumpy immediately realizes that it is a scam.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy to go and find another girl.
  Instead: He gives her his bank account details even though he knows it's a scam.

Let's Play Golf

• Kaeloo cheats at golf by telling everybody to look at something (that doesn't exist) in another direction, and then Hulking Out and hitting the ball.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo to make sure that nobody sees her.
  Instead: The "thing" she points to is in the same direction she's standing in from Stumpy's point of view.
  Result: Stumpy sees her and denounces her as a cheater to everyone else.
  

Let's Play Catch the Mailman

• Mr. Cat writes an insulting letter to Kaeloo, and then deliberately reveals to her that he wrote it so that she gets mad at him.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat would have made an escape plan of some sort before telling her it was him.
  Instead: He just stands there making fun of her. And finally, just when she's about to beat him up, he realizes that he Didn't Think This Through.

Let's Play Treasure Hunt

• Mr. Cat changes Kaeloo's dares, clues and riddles in a game of treasure hunt she made for Stumpy and Quack Quack. One of the challenges is to jump off a cliff and whoever lands first wins.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy and Quack Quack to ask Kaeloo why "she" wrote that in there.
  Instead: They both race towards the cliff and jump off.

Let's Play Me-Me-Nopoly

• Quack Quack becomes king of Smileyland. Mr. Cat, his advisor asks him to sign a contract.
  You'd Expect: Quack Quack to read what he's signing.
  Instead: He doesn't read it and just signs what he is asked to.
  Result: Mr. Cat becomes king of Smileyland, since Quack Quack just signed off all his property to him.

Let's Play Art Class

• Mr. Cat tells Stumpy that artists revel in pain.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy to use pain as an inspiration for his artwork.
  Instead: He blows his own head off with a bazooka because it's painful. While Quack Quack was able to bring him Back from the Dead, it still doesn't even begin to describe Too Dumb to Live.

Let's Play Circuses

• Stumpy tries juggling chainsaws. Suddenly, his mother calls him on his cellphone, wanting to check that her kid is safe.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy to not answer the phone and/or get someone else to do it for him.
  Alternatively: He puts down the chainsaws and then picks up the phone.
  Instead: He picks up the phone and answers it while the chainsaws are still in the air.
• Mr. Cat shoots a missile at Quack Quack while the latter is standing on a tightrope. Quack Quack takes control of it and sends it flying back at him.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat to get out of the way.
  Instead: He pretends to be a "missile tamer" and tells the missile to "sit". Obviously, it doesn't work.

Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat!

• At the end of the episode, Mr. Cat loses his invisibility powers. Stumpy asks to play hide and seek, but he also loses his invisibility and Quack Quack finds him in just a few seconds. Stumpy realizes that he can also see himself again.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy to realize that he and Mr. Cat have lost their invisibility and can be seen.
  Instead: He believes that he now has the power to see the invisible.

Let's Play Gangster Poker

• Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Quack Quack decide to play cards. Unfortunately, Stumpy misplaces the cards.
  You'd Expect: Them to decide to play another game, or get another deck of cards.
  Instead: They decide to play with imaginary cards.
  Result: When Mr. Cat joins in, he easily cons them out of all their money.
• Mr. Cat is threatening to shoot the other characters if someone else doesn't pay him money (e.g. threatening to shoot Kaeloo if Quack Quack doesn't pay him). Stumpy decides to try this approach as well.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy to hold a gun to someone else's head and demand to be paid.
  Instead: Stumpy holds the gun to his own head and threatens to shoot himself.

Let's Play Tea Party

• Mr. Cat is using Quack Quack in another one of his schemes to make Kaeloo angry and is clearly abusing him.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo to stop Mr. Cat from hurting Quack Quack.
  Instead: Kaeloo says she's disappointed in Quack Quack for "playing along with Mr. Cat's nasty ploys".

Season Two

Episode 53

• Mr. Cat, Quack Quack and Olaf are in a car. Mr. Cat and Quack Quack get out of the car.
  You'd Expect: Olaf, who watched them get out, to do the same thing they did.
  Instead: He spends half the episode trying to open the car door inwards, and eventually has to call Serguei to save him.

Episode 56

• Quack Quack and Stumpy are having a horse race. Mr. Cat bets 6000 dollars that Stumpy will win.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy would realize that if Mr. Cat was betting that much money on him winning, he likely had something in mind to make Stumpy win.
  Instead: Stumpy bets all his money on Quack Quack winning, and loses it all when Mr. Cat's plan to make Stumpy win works.

Episode 57

• Kaeloo sets up a lottery, and Quack Quack and Mr. Cat participate.Quack Quack wins each time, so Mr. Cat accuses Kaeloo of cheating. Kaeloo starts to get angry at his accusation, but she calms down and suddenly, Mr. Cat receives a giant gift box from her.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat to realize that Kaeloo is angry with him, and the Bad Kaeloo-sized box in front of him could only contain one thing.
  Instead: He thinks Kaeloo is giving him an actual gift and opens the box, and Bad Kaeloo jumps out.
  You'd Then Expect: Mr. Cat to apologize to Bad Kaeloo.
  Instead: He tries to flirt with her.

Episode 60

• Kaeloo sets the gang up to play "wedding". Quack Quack is set to be the groom, and just when Eugly is about to be selected as the bride, Pretty jumps in and says she wants to be the bride (because she already bought a wedding dress). On the wedding day, Pretty and Quack Quack refuse to marry each other since they both prefer Mr. Cat and Eugly respectively.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo to listen to them and call off the wedding.
  Instead: She pronounces them man and wife, and proceeds to talk about what a wonderful wedding that was while everyone else gets into a huge fight.

Episode 70

• The cast's Alternate Universe counterparts get into a fight with them after coming to Smileyland through a Portal Door. Mr. Cat formulates a plan to get rid of them, and he, Stumpy and Quack Quack manage to throw them out the door.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat to check that he threw out the right people.
  Instead: He smashes the door with a giant mallet. As it turns out, he threw the wrong Kaeloo out the door.
  Result: Kaeloo was stuck in the wrong dimension, only to be fine in the next episode.

Episode 72

• Stumpy is singing a song with a radio. He decides to impersonate Jimi Hendrix, and he decides to bite the radio.
  You'd Expect: That he sees everyone else yelling at him not to.
  Instead: He bites the radio, gets an electric shock and dies. Fortunately, the Spirit of Morons brings him back to life.

Episode 75

• Kaeloo realizes that Quack Quack is eating too much yogurt and setting a bad example for kids who are watching the show.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo to ask Quack Quack to stop eating so much yogurt.
  Instead: She tells Quack Quack that he can either stop eating yogurt or leave Smileyland.
  Result: He chooses to leave, and the others are forced to use the time machine and fix the whole mess.

Episode 77

• Kaeloo tells Olaf that the world is about to end and suggests that he join them in trying to escape.
  You'd Expect: Olaf to realize that he's in danger and joins the other six in plotting an escape.
  Instead: Olaf, who thinks he's king of the world, says that since it's "his" world, he gets to decide when it ends. He goes back home.
  Result: He is presumably blown up along with the planet instead of escaping like everyone else (except Stumpy).

Episode 80

• Stumpy buys steroids from the online store the cast buy all their stuff from. The instructions on the back clearly say "take two or three capsules a day for 43 years".
  You'd Expect: Stumpy to follow the instructions.
  Instead: He eats the entire bottle of capsules at once.

Episode 81

• Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Pretty are in a tomb looking for the MacGuffin. In order to stop any traps from being triggered, Stumpy does the smart thing for once and quickly replaces it with an acorn. The change is not detected, and they have what they need.
  You'd Expect: Them to just walk away with it.
  Instead: Stumpy picks up and eats the acorn he put there, and the traps are triggered.

Episode 83

• Mr. Cat shows Quack Quack some pictures of Eugly cheating on him with other characters from the show. The pictures are obviously fake, as they are all pictures of Quack Quack with a photo of someone else's head crudely stuck on it.
  You'd Expect: Quack Quack notices that the pictures are fake, given how crudely they've been edited.
  You'd Also Expect: Quack Quack doesn't believe Mr. Cat, who has proven to be dishonest several times in the past and especially enjoys torturing him more than anyone else.
  Instead: Quack Quack believes this and refuses to speak with Eugly, driving the poor girl to tears.
• Later, after Mr. Cat's actions and Stumpy's bad luck provoke a full-on brawl, Kaeloo gets very angry with Mr. Cat and transforms. She picks him up by the neck and yells at him for ruining her party.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat to apologize to Kaeloo.
  Instead: He asks her to kiss him since it's Valentine's Day. He only gets a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown for his rotten actions instead.

Episode 86

• Kaeloo takes Mr. Cat to her psychotherapist. The therapy session is starting to take a while and Kaeloo is bored.
  You'd Expect: Kaeloo realizes how badly her friend needs help and just waits for the session to finish.
  Alternatively: Kaeloo goes home.
  Instead: She drags him out in the middle of the therapy session and forces him to go back home.

Episode 92

• Stumpy and Quack Quack play a game where they drive cars and the first one to hit the brakes loses. They come to a cliff.
  You'd Expect: That they both hit the brakes or turn around.
  Instead: Quack Quack hits the brakes, but Stumpy drives off the edge of the cliff.
  Result: Stumpy lands on Kaeloo, which could have killed or severely injured her if she hadn't been able to transform. Stumpy also chokes on one of his shoes, which got stuck in his throat during the crash, and would have definitely died if Mr. Cat hadn't showed up and dislodged it in time.

Episode 93

• Stumpy, in the middle of firefighter training, realizes that Quack Quack is stuck in a burning building.
  You'd Expect: That Stumpy uses the hose and ladder and other equipment in the firetruck.
  Instead: Stumpy runs into the building to save Quack Quack and gets stuck there with him.
  Result: Just as Kaeloo transforms to save their hides, Mr. Cat shows up and provokes her into giving him a smackdown after a perverted stunt, leaving Stumpy and Quack Quack stuck in the building. Fortunately, Stumpy gets them out with a... weird tag team birthday wish.

Episode 97

• Stumpy decides to get Quack Quack, who has developed an amazing singing voice because of an accident, to sing a love song to Ursula over the phone.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy picks a song about undying love, or how wonderful love is.
  Instead: He picks "Plaisir d'amour", a song about heartbreak. And presumably puts the phone down after that.

Episode 102

• Kaeloo has found out to her outrage that Stumpy and Mr. Cat have been ripping pages out of books and tormenting her and Quack Quack by throwing the crumpled-up, magic paper balls at them. At the point of near-transformation, Kaeloo angrily yells their names, so Mr. Cat tells Stumpy not to answer her.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy would listen to Mr. Cat and do nothing.
  Instead: He turns to her and yells that he won't answer her. Naturally, Kaeloo easily finds them and transforms to punish them, though the duo temprarily fend off Bad Kaeloo with a few magic books of their own.

Season Three

Episode 106

• Kaeloo, angry at Mr. Cat, who is having a Garage Sale, transforms and asks if she can buy him.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat refuses.
  Instead: Mr. Cat not only accepts, but allows her to "try him out" for free.
  Result: She winds up hurting him, obviously.

Episode 107

• Stumpy and Quack Quack sign a contract with Mr. Cat to keep their stuff safe by putting it in a super-protected safe-deposit box.
  You'd Expect: Quack Quack realizes that he needs to eat the yogurt once he gets hungry, and Stumpy remembers that he needs his phone in case someone calls.
  Instead: They put all the yogurt and the phone inside the safe deposit box.
• Kaeloo offers to negotiate the contract with Mr. Cat.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy and Quack Quack wait for her to finish negotiating, and then try something else if it doesn't work.
  Instead: While she's negotiating, they try to stage a break-in, despite her warning them not to.
  Result: They get arrested.

Episode 110

• Quack Quack has been turned into a vampire. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are attempting to turn him back, but Stumpy is trying to stop them.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy remembers that vampires are destroyed by sunlight.
  Instead: He grabs Quack Quack and pulls him out of the building, in broad daylight.
  Result: Quack Quack disintegrates into a pile of ash.
• Kaeloo has managed to bring Quack Quack back to normal, but Stumpy still has his beak, which is vampire-ized. Stumpy uses it to turn himself into a vampire.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy learns something from the example above about vampires and sunlight.
  Instead: He steps out into the sunlight.
  Result: He turns into a pile of ash.

Episode 111

• Kaeloo is receiving very nice comments from the viewers, in-universe. Mr. Cat's head starts to swell up because he's allergic to too much kindness and he's having a really bad allergic reaction.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat leaves the place, and maybe even gets some allergy medication.
  Instead: He just stands there as more and more nice comments pour in.
  Result: His head swells up so much that it explodes.

Episode 113

• Stumpy's phone runs out of charge.
  You'd Expect: He charges it.
  Instead: He tries to do CPR on it.
• Kaeloo convinces the jury that objects have souls, an argument which would allow her to win the trial. Mr. Cat says that if objects do have souls, they can use a can of yogurt as a witness.
  You'd Expect: Quack Quack, who is cognizant of the fact that Kaeloo just convinced everyone that objects have souls, allows the trial to continue.
  Instead: Yogurt being his Trademark Favorite Food, he eats it immediately.
  Result: He is arrested for eating a "witness".

Episode 114

• Mr. Cat has been elected President of Smileyland by making false promises.
  You'd Expect: Mr. Cat promises to fulfil his promises and leaves.
  Instead: He tells everyone that his promises were fake, while he's right there within their reach.
  Result: Kaeloo manages to catch him before he escapes and forces him to fulfil all his promises.

Episode 122

• In a retelling of Hansel and Gretel with Stumpy and Quack Quack as Hansel and Gretel, Mr. Cat, dressed as an evil sorcerer, decides to show the witch, played by Kaeloo, how to catch children in these days (right in front of the kids in question). He shows them the door to the McDaube restaurant, which is clearly on fire, and tells them that they can get burgers and yogurt there.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy and Quack Quack, having listened to the conversation and noticed that the restaurant is on fire, stay outside.
  Instead: They go inside and get burned.

Episode 128

• Mr. Cat uses Quack Quack in a scam to demonstrate the art of scamming to Stumpy.
  You'd Expect: Stumpy, who is fully aware of the scam, just sits there watching it.
  Instead: Stumpy falls for the scam and gives Mr. Cat all his money, despite being completely aware of the fact that it's a scam.

Episode 134

• Stumpy triumphantly declares that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat can never find the real him among all the clones.
  You'd Expect: That Kaeloo and Mr. Cat realize that the Stumpy who just said that is the real deal and get him.
  Instead: They walk away, defeated, and come up with a new plan with a ton of holes.
• In order to get rid of the clones, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat hatch a plan where they tell Stumpy that he got a package in the mail from Ursula, which is only meant for the real Stumpy, and the real Stumpy gets rid of the clones so he can get the package.
  You'd Expect: That they realize that Stumpy would ask for the package after getting rid of the clones.
  Instead: They just plan until the part where Stumpy gets rid of the clones. Stumpy finds out that there was no package.
  Result: Stumpy punishes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat by forcing them to play the board game "Me-Me-Nopoly" all night. Though Quack Quack escapes.

Episode 147

• Olaf and the main four produce a song about saving the ice caps and plan to perform it live on TV to get people to acknowledge their cause.
  You'd Expect: That knowing the dangers of global warming, they set up their equipment somewhere where it can't be affected.
  Instead: They set everything up in Olaf's igloo, which is, you know, made of ice.
  Result: Right when they are supposed to perform, the igloo melts and floods the place, almost drowning everyone and rendering the music unintelligible.

Episode 148

• The Friend Versus Lover tropes comes into play and Stumpy and Mr. Cat decide to make Quack Quack and Eugly break up so they can hang out with him more. They do this by borrowing Quack Quack's spare beak, sneaking into Olaf's lair, kissing Olga with the beak, taking a picture which makes it look like Quack Quack is kissing Olga, and showing the picture to Pretty and Eugly.
  You'd Expect: That Stumpy keeps up the pretense as long as the twins are there.
  Instead: As soon as they show the picture to Eugly, Stumpy gives back the spare beak to Quack Quack in front of them.
  Result: Everyone finds out about the scheme, and Mr. Cat has to jump to Stumpy's defense to prevent the bunnies from hurting him.

Season Four

Episode 190

• Mr. Cat has made a new TV show which blatantly plagiarizes Kaeloo, and Kaeloo wants it canceled.
  You'd Expect: That Kaeloo gets it canceled by suing him for plagiarism.
  Instead: Kaeloo gives Mr. Cat's show bad publicity by talking about the downsides of its content and how bad it is for children, despite knowing that it's a copy of the exact same things that happen on her show.
  Result: Mr. Cat's show gets canceled... and so does Kaeloo's.

Season Five

Episode 227

• Mr. Cat hired Poucave to write news articles about Kaeloo, Quack-Quack, and Pretty, and then changed the content of the articles to include blatant falsehoods and published them on his tabloid news website.
  You'd Expect: That the three of them notice that the articles about them were false, so they realize that this website publishes fake news.
  Instead: Kaeloo, Quack-Quack, and Pretty all believe that the articles are true and start criticizing the other two over what they allegedly did.