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Contrast [[Improbably High IQ]]. For more information about IQ testing, go [[IQ Testing|here]].
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== Film ==
* In ''[[Forrest Gump]]'', Forrest has a somewhat more probable IQ of about 75, which is considered the lowest for "normal" intelligence, or mildly retarded. While low, someone with an IQ of 75 could still go to school, get a job, get married,
* From ''[[Willy Wonka
{{quote|''What do you get from a glut of TV?''
''A pain in the neck and an IQ of 3'' }}
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** Justified, as they may be too stupid to realize that.
* In one of the spoof trailers for ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'', the main character of Simple Jack is stated to have an IQ of five.
== Literature ==
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* In C. M. Kornbluth's ''The Marching Morons'', a character states that "the average IQ is now 45". As [[The Other Wiki]] (and [[IQ Testing|our Useful Notes page]]) point out, this is nonsense.
** Less so if it's interpreted as a shorthand way of saying "the average (contemporary for the speaker) person would, on a (contemporary for the protagonist) Stanford-Binet IQ test, score somewhere around the point at which the results become too low to be reliable, say 45." This still seems awfully low, though.
* The narrator of ''Stuck in Neutral'' has no conscious control of his muscles, and is typically assumed to be mindless, so his IQ was once measured at 3. (From his narration, he seems to be of above-average
▲== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Hazel Wassername of ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' has an IQ of 70 - which she seems to think is pretty high.
== Music ==
* The "narrator" of the song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rNfZxgkH7k "'Cause I'm a Blonde"] by [[Julie Brown]] notes at one point
{{quote|I took an IQ test and flunked it, of course.}}
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Garfield]]'' once gave us this list of beings, in order of intelligence (from 0 to [[Improbably High IQ|1000]]): Amoeba - slug - dog - stone - ape - human - kitchen machine - cat.
== Web Comics ==
* When not under the effects of her "boost intelligence 12 fold" [[Applied Phlebotinum]], the main character of ''[[Mind Mistress]]'' has an IQ of 66.
== Web Original ==
* The animation "Tramps Just Wanna Have Fun" reveals "an IQ of 1".
== Western Animation ==
* Homer Simpson of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has an IQ of 55 (taking a crayon out of his brain raised it 50 points to 105), but lives in a normal (not really, but within the show, yes) suburban home without any assistance.
** The logical conclusion of this score is that Homer is actually ''dumber than [[Forrest Gump]]''. (The writers have claimed they started him as average, but [[Flanderization|he loses about 5 IQ points a year from radiation]], and now he's basically "a dog who can talk").
* Billy of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** "[[Rule of Funny|We gave the same test to a shovel and two candy bracelets... They scored a positive 17.]]"
* Another character with ridiculously low IQ: [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Elmyra Duff]], who has "no detectable IQ" (presumed to mean an IQ of 0). This in comparison with a jar of mayonnaise, which is stated to have an IQ of 1.
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