Idiot Ball: Difference between revisions

** In "Walking Distance", Martin Sloan finds himself in his own past where he encounters his mom and dad and a younger version of himself. Instead of playing it cool, he acts like an idiot, scaring his mom and his dad. When he encounters the younger version of himself, he chases him, then later finds him and does the same thing again. Instead of offering some sage advice to his younger self, he gives himself a broken leg, which causes him to limp the rest of his life.

** In "Escape Clause", Walter Bedeker is given immortality and is unable to feel pain. Instead of setting out to have a long and happy life, he defrauds several businesses and confesses to killing his wife, which he didn't do. In court, he works to get himself convicted so he could try out the electric chair, but is then given life in prison instead, although it's not explained what he would have done after going to the electric chair. It is at this point that he uses the "Escape Clause" which causes his own death rather than face life in prison. At this point, he has apparently forgotten that in addition to being ageless, he is also invulnerable. How easy would it then be to escape from prison if he doesn't have to fear injury or death? He could wait for an opportunity and make a break for the barbed wire or electrified fence and just climb over it. What are guard dogs or gunshots to someone who is invulnerable? In the very least, he could wait it out.

* In ''[[Community]]'' episodes [[Community/Recap/S1/E17 Physical Education|Physical Education]] Señor Chang comments on this when everybody, including Annie, forgets to check the front cover of a schoolbook to see who owned it last. (She blames Britta's pronunciation of the word "bagel" as "baggel", saying it was distracting.)

* The final storyline of ''[[Kamen Rider Blade]]'' dealt with trying to stop the Joker from winning the Battle Fight and causing [[The End of the World as We Know It]] {{spoiler|the problem being they don't want to seal him because he's become a human and friend. [[The Lancer|Tachibana]] suggests unsealing the Human Undead and then sealing the other two, but no one wants to seal Joker still, leading to him being the winner and Blade having to turn into another Joker to [[Take a Third Option]] and save both. Alright, fair enough. Except for the fact Kamen Rider Leangle has the power to unseal Undead and they've got the Tarantula Undead, whose a very nice guy who had no intent of doing anything wrong and they spent a storyline trying to ''prevent'' from being sealed. If they'd just unsealed him before sealing the Catagory King of Diamonds Undead, then the entire final storyline wouldn't have happened in the first place! Leangle even attempts this ''after'' Joker wins but the Undead can no longer be unsealed by then, but nothing was stopping him before!}}