Cutting the Knot: Difference between revisions

* Xanatos of ''[[Gargoyles]]'' attempts to do this towards the end of the ''City of Stone'' arc. In order to save the city, Xanatos and Goliath need to get a password for Demona. Demona is locked in combat with her [[Arch Enemy]], the [[Anti-Villain]] MacBeth. Goliath attempts to talk the two into stopping, and only succeeds in getting both of them to attack him. Out of patience, Xanatos tells Goliath "If they won't listen to reason, take them both both down. We'll sort it out after", and shoots at both with a laser. It doesn't work because Xanatos [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|somehow manages to miss them from about three feet away]].

* In ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', one of the puzzles in "We Call it Maze" is to guess how many jelly beans are in a jar. While the duo and Baljeet attempt to solve the problem mathematically, Buford's solution was to eat all the jellybeans, then type the number zero. And it ''worked'', too.

'''Buford:''' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|I will in about twenty minutes.]] }}

* In the beginning of one episode of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'', the four monks-in-training are tasked to get a stuffed toy dog at the end of an obstical course. Clay, closer to Earth cowboy, upon noting that the course is shaped like a circle, with the start and finish right next to each other, simply turns around snatches the dog off its pedestal. This comes up several more times in the episode, where the moral is, "Simple solutions to complicated problems"