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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
2019-04-10 02:57:38
Two
similar
requests have been posted within the last month without a satisfying solution. Perhaps we should think about making a draft for this type of misunderstanding as a subtrope of Comically Missing the Point and sister trope of Not Actually the Ultimate Question.

From Season 3 Episode 10: Six Feet Under the Sea (Video Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko2C4fCpRck)
Is this considered the "Mathematician's Answer" trope?
-=Script=-
Shawn: And I've been doing something I like to call "Stalling" and Rutger Hauer calls "Schtalling"
Bad Guy: Why?
Gus: Because he's Dutch.
Bad Guy: No, why are you stalling?
Edited by styledev