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* ''Captain Flamingo'' runs on this trope. Every use of the eponymous character's "Bird Brain" is either this, or a full-on [[I Was Just Joking]], depending on [[Rule of Funny|which would be funnier.]] Either way, it's played for laughs, as the ideas he gets are usually ridiculous... but always manage to work.

* According to ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Albert Einstein conceived his famous mass/energy equivalence formula (you know, E=mc^2) while watching Wakko writing "Acme" backwards (his "a" looked like a "2"). In a similar episode, the Warners were cleaning Beethoven's chimney (badly, of course) and humming an obnoxious tune that went a little something like "Hm hm hm hmmmmmmmm". As they're leaving, ol' Ludwig finally has the inspiration for his Fifth Symphony. The next house on the Warners' route is "that Van Gogh grouch again", and Wakko picks a sunflower to help cheer him up.

* In an episode of ''[[The Raccoons]]'', Cyril is accused of stealing a gem during a blackout. Bert is trying to solve the crime but is stumped until he sees Cedric drop his [[Nerd Glasses]] in the river. It's then that he realizes that the gem was not stolen but knocked in an aquarium, and was rendered invisible by water refraction, same as Cedric's lenses.

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' says that Pinky has one of these every time Brain asks him "[[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]", but since Pinky's thought processes are rather [[Cloudcuckoolander|unique]], neither the audience nor the Brain can figure out what Pinky's talking about.