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** When Buffy is struggling to make money in Season 6, first trying to get a loan and later becoming an employee of the Doublemeat Palace, no one even once suggests that Willow and Tara could pitch in, despite them living in her house. It's probably because Willow and Tara, unlike Buffy, were in college, but there '''is''' such a thing as a college student with a part-time job.

** Of course, the whole latter half of Season 2 is dependent on the gypsies who gave Angel his soul as a punishment deciding that if he becomes happy and stops being punished... ''he'll lose his soul and turn back into a psychotic killer with ambitions to destroy the world''. Which not only ''guarantees'' he won't be being punished anymore, it's also kind of, um, dangerous.

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'':

** The [[Series Finale]] was a major Idiot Plot. First, {{spoiler|the control chair for the Ancient outpost gets destroyed because it was, at the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|International Oversight Advisory]]'s insistence, moved from the outpost in Antarctica to Area51 in Nevada}}, despite the fact that {{spoiler|the IOA was created specifically so that America wouldn't have sole control over advanced alien technology, and the non-American members have long been paranoid about exactly that happening}}. This is explained with the ridiculously flimsy premise that {{spoiler|international treaty requires Antarctica to be demilitarized, ignoring the fact that a prehistoric structure could in no way be covered by the treaty}}. Later in the episode, {{spoiler|when Atlantis tries to dial Earth and instead reaches a Stargate inside the Wraith ship attacking the planet, their response is to send a small team through to infiltrate the ship}}. Obviously, anybody who's not carrying the world's largest [[Idiot Ball]] would've just sent some Jumper drones through.

* ''[[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''.

 

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