Idiot Ball: Difference between revisions

[[File:IdiotBall.jpg|link=SpongeBob SquarePants|frame|[[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|WARNING]]: Prolonged exposure to the idiot ball can cause [[What an Idiot!|severely reduced intelligence]], [[No Social Skills|complete social ineptitude]], and [[Too Dumb to Live|death]].]]

 

'''Anakin:''' Apparently not.|''[[Star Wars]] [[Revenge of the Sith|Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]''}}

 

* Cergorn in the second ''[[Shadowleague]]'' book is definitely holding this when he [[Cardboard Prison|imprisons Veldan and Kazairl in their home, sets their good friends to guard them]] and expects them to stay put.

* The ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' give [[Doctor Who|the Doctor]] a [[Worthy Opponent]] who is about twice his size and apparently has twice his brainpower, having to explain to the Doctor the [[Whoniverse]]'s second-most-obvious explanation for someone becoming a bit slimmer than they were previously<ref>Turns out the most obvious explanation, diet and exercise, doesn't apply, but probably continues to plague the Doctor with confusion to this day</ref>:

Sabbath was amused rather than angered by the comment. "Really, Doctor?" [[Fascinating Eyebrow|He raised an eyebrow.]] "I didn’t expect you to have any trouble understanding how something can be [[Bigger on the Inside|bigger inside than it appears from without]]." }}

** An Eleventh Doctor book called "Hunter's Moon" has Rory, probably the most level-headed one between him, Eleven and Amy, gambling away the TARDIS and getting himself kidnapped to a place where humans are hunted.

** The trope applies to several episodes, with varying results - [[The Fool|SpongeBob]], [[Genius Ditz|Patrick]], [[Money Fetish|Mr. Krabs]], and/or [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Plankton]] will be saddled with the idiot ball at any time whatsoever. The only ones safe are [[Gadgeteer Genius|Sandy]] and [[Perpetual Frowner|Squidward]]... and even then...

** Squidward has been known to hold the Idiot Ball. In "The Snowball Effect", Squidward tells Patrick to think of him as SpongeBob, to teach him how to have a snowball fight. Squidward throws a snowball at Patrick and says, "Now, what are you going to do?" Patrick throws a snowball back at Squidward, who had said not five seconds ago to think of him as SpongeBob. Squidward asks why Patrick didn't throw it at SpongeBob.

'''Spongebob''':*[[It Makes Sense in Context|Impersonating Mr Krabs]]*[[Dumbass Has a Point|Argh, It's true, Mister Squidward.]] Now get back to work! }}

* The same goes for ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', where in most episodes it's Timmy's idiocy that gets the plot moving.