F Minus Minus: Difference between revisions

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'''Strong Bad:''' Not good enough, [[Trope Namer|F Minus Minus]].|'''''[[Homestar Runner]]''''', sbemail "for kids"}}

* Happens to ''[[Billy Madison]]'' when he answers a question about the industrial revolution with a rambling, incoherent [[Metaphorgotten]] about a lost puppy. The principal grades him thusly:

== Folklore ==

* There is an [[Urban Legend]] about a student complaining to his university lecturer about his grade.

'''Lecturer:''' Neither do I, but it is the lowest grade the university will allow me to award. }}

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Captain Underpants]] and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman'', Ms. Ribble tells George and Harold she's lowering their grades to Fs and Gs.

'''Ms. Ribble:''' There is now, bub! }}

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Students taking their OWLs can receive grades of O, E, A, P, D, and T ([[The Smart Guy|Outstanding]], [[Smarter Than You Look|Exceeds Expectations]], [[So Okay It's Average|Acceptable]], [[Book Dumb|Poor]], [[The Fool|Dreadful]], and [[Too Dumb to Live|Troll]]). When Harry first hears of the T grade, he thinks [[Those Two Guys|Fred and/or George]] might be pulling his leg (i.e. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|trolling]] him), but there it is listed among the others on the form. Even Hermione, who normally seems to know all about such things, seems initially surprised by the existence of this grade.

* In one ''Squirt'' strip, Squirt's homework was so bad that his teacher extended the alphabet 15 letters past Z in order to aware him an accurate grade.

* From German comic ''Haiopeis'':

'''[[The Ditz|Shark]]:''' Great, that's the highest I've ever gotten! When can I start to [[Malaproper|stupidy]]?<br />

'''Fish clerk:''' Why study? That was our entry test for the cleaning staff. }}

== Western Animation ==

* In the ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]'' episode "Rite of Pillage", Dave receives grades of F and F- on first two tests, Battle Cry and [[Heh, Heh, You Said "X"|Laying]] [[Toilet Humor|Waste]] respectively. After failing his third test, Plundering, his examiner becomes furious at his performance.

* Parodied as well as [[The "B" Grade]] in ''[[Futurama]]'':

* [[Fairly Oddparents|Timmy Turner]] has a history of getting these.

* In an ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' episode, Buster worried about get an "F" on an assignment he did wrong and Arthur quipped that he could even get a "G" or an "H".

* In the ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' episode "Sheen's Brain", Sheen gets [[Up to Eleven|FOUR]] minuses on a test. One of the things he wrote down was that [[You Fail History Forever|Ultralord was the first president of the United States]].

* ''[[The Emperor's New School|The Emperors New School]]'' episode "Kuzclone" has the eponymous clone flunk Kuzco's tests so badly he gets a G-.

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'': When Mojo Jojo starts teaching a linguistics class, he hears everyone and tells everyone that based on what he's already heard he would give them an F, then he goes in a rant where he says he would give them all a Z if the scale when down that low (he also asks why they skip E).