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[[File:Wheatley_trying_to_be_smart_3153.jpg|link=Portal 2|frame|"Oh, pardon me. I was just, y'know, reading up on some Machiavelli. Which I do all the time, of course. Because that's what smart robots do."]]
{{quote|''"When in doubt, look intelligent!"''
|'''Garrison Keillor'''}}
The opposite of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: A stupid character pretends (or tries to pretend) he or she is really smart or otherwise good at something. When done with pure romance in mind, the result is [[Playing Cyrano]]. The stupid characters will either enlist a smart character to feed them lines, or bluff their way through with [[Seemingly-Profound Fool|seemingly profound statements]] ("What is art? Are we Art? Is Art Art?") and [[Techno Babble]].
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* ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'': London hires Maddie to help her pull [[Playing Cyrano]] on a hot merit scholar, Trevor. The plan backfires when Maddie can't restrain herself from getting into a debate over politics with him, culminating in a [[Slap Slap Kiss]]. Fortunately, London seems more confused than hurt.
* ''[[Drake and Josh]]'': Drake gets Josh to help him cheat on an academic game show to impress an [[Nerds Are Sexy|attractive genius]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]], leading to the good ol' [[Be Yourself]] [[An Aesop|Aesop]]... which, in this case, would mean, "[[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|I don't care about what's inside. I like you because you're cute]]."
* "Aaaaaah, Bach!" In an early episode of ''[[
** Incidentally, the book ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120311193218/http://www.ovalbooks.com/bluff/Music.html The Bluffer's Guide to Music]'' recommends that exact phrase.
* In ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Sam the Eagle may constantly seek some culture in the show, but considering he thinks [[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Beethoven]] was a playwright, it's obvious he doesn't know the first thing about culture.
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', [[The Nth Doctor|the Tenth Doctor stated to his younger incarnation]] that he wore his glasses not because he needed them, but because it made him look clever. Of course, the Doctor is very smart to begin with, [[There Is No Such Thing as Notability|but still.]]
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'''Simmons:''' Yes. }}
* [http://www.xkcdb.com/?5414 This] ''[[xkcd]]'' chat quote demonstrating what a politician trying to get away with knowing little outside of rehearsed "hot topics" can run into.
* ''Clients From Hell'' have a lot of such folk. For example, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310232346/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/129564913392/this-story-was-when-i-was-training-in-system this]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160514173548/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/117513069141/me-ive-shared-some-files-with-you-via-google Or this]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151101120816/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/264965276/internet-expert People] from [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310210205/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/128558566103/i-provided-website-hosting-for-a-client-and-made marketing] seem to be particularly prone to such an act. And [https://web.archive.org/web/20170222083505/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/133004049262/while-putting-together-a-flyer-for-a-local-social sometimes] it's hard to tell whether you see an attempt to cover ignorance, evidence of patchy learning or obliviousness in action.
* Nassim Nicholas Taleb described the self-important variety of [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|pseudointellectuals]] as ''[https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 The Intellectual Yet Idiot]''.
{{quote| their main skill is capacity to pass exams written by people like them. }}
* ''[//fakescience.org/ fakescience.org]'' parodies the "educational" posters. Some of this advice is technically true, but still foolish:
{{quote|With just a ''little'' hard work, you can actually '''train your cats''' to do '''whatever they feel like doing'''. [http://fakescience.org/post/182271795455/training-cats] }}
== Western Animation ==
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