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* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' is pretty rife with these, though 99% of the time it's the patient being the idiot. Many of the caes could be solved in two seconds if the patient didn't lie, deliberately hide parts of their past, or simply forget things that might be relevant. One that was on the doctors was when a patient died because one of them didn't ask all the proper questions regarding the patient's past, missing one that is a pretty damn big question. House doesn't do anything about it though because, really, how often is that gonna happen?

* Two episodes of ''[[Fear Itself (TV series)|Fear Itself]]'' exude this: ''Chance'' (see YMMV section in the article for an elaborate breakdown) and to a lesser extent ''In Sickness and In Health''.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. The whole tragedy could've been averted had the eponymous characters (and others) bothered to think rationally for a few moments rather than emotionally. [[Tropes Are Tools|Which was arguably the point of the play.]]

* Pretty much any of Shakespeare's plays fit this arguably, although like mentioned above, that can be the point of the play. For example, in ''Othello'', Desdemona probably wouldn't have died if Othello had just flat-out asked her "Were you having an affair with Cassio?" or waiting to point fingers until after Iago brings the "occular proof" that he had asked for. (Assuming Othello would have ''believed'' Desdemona.)

* In Clare Boothe's preface to her play ''[[The Women]]'', she notes that if Mary, the principal character of her play, were a reasonably intelligent woman, she would quickly have found a different play to be in.

* The opera la Sonnambula, by Bellini. Sure, she's in a compromising position... but it's completely out of character for her.

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