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''[[Literal-Minded|So I did.]]"''|'''[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]''', ''Albuquerque''}}
Are you reading [[All The Tropes]]? Are you reading a Trope Page? Are you reading the into to a Trope Page? Well, you must know about Stupid Questions then, cause we just asked three of the stupidest!
You know how obnoxious [[Captain Obvious]] can be. You just want to yell at them and say, "Any blind idiot can tell what's going on!" But then there are those [[Captain Obvious|Captains Obvious]] who can not only tell what is going on, but ask a stupid question ''just to verify.''
This is not only when that question is asked, but to the frustrated individual this is their chance to strike back with a non-sequitur, either in a [[Deadpan Snarker]] retort or full on [[Mind Screw]] confusion. In other words, ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. A specific variation of [[Sarcasm Mode]].
While examples on this page are of [[In-Universe]] instances of this type of exchange, this is certainly a staple of [[MSTing]] by pointing out where people are being oblivious to their dialogue (or [[Parrot Exposition|being repetitive in them]]). For example: [[The Mummy Trilogy|"This is a map to Hammunaptra."]] "''The'' Hammunaptra?" "No, the one in Jersey."
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