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{{quote|''"You don't even need them! You just think they make you look a bit clever."''|'''The Doctor''', to '''himself,''' ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 Ci NS Time Crash|Time Crash]]"}}
Usually, only people with [[Blind Without'Em|vision problems]] go to the trouble of getting a pair of glasses. But sometimes, we have a character who dons a pair of spectacles even though they have perfect eyesight. The
A sort of sister trope to [[Goggles Do Nothing]].
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Subversion: In the movie ''[[Charade]]'', Regina (Audrey Hepburn) accuses Peter (Cary Grant) of not needing the reading glasses he puts on. She pulls them from his face and dons them
* Played straight in ''[[High School Musical]]'' with Kelsi, completely averted with every other character in the movie.
* ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'': Tricia "Trillian" MacMillan, in her first scene has a pair of glasses to flag her character as clued-in.
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== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'', Cow immediately became smarter after she started wearing glasses. Chicken then started wearing glasses to try and become
* On ''[[Daria]]'', noted [[The Ditz|ditzes]] Kevin and Brittany are convinced for one episode that glasses might make them smart. Brittany ''does'' say something intelligent and then declares, "Wow, these things really do work!" but Kevin gets a pair without lenses because he doesn't want to get ''too'' smart.
* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer finds glasses and immediately starts acting smart, by quoting the scarecrow in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' after he got his diploma (and making the same mistake of referencing the wrong type of triangle). He does the same thing in one of the comics, when he buys Artie Ziff's glasses.
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* It's been debated in ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' fandom whether or not Charles Foster Ofdensen's glasses are functional or just there to both accentuate his cleverness and make him seem more harmless than he really is (which isn't at all. He's the [[Badass Normal]]).
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', during a [[Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum]] plot, Beezy dons a pair of glasses even though he has perfect eyesight. Heloise apparently needs hers to read, but in one episode she puts them on before giving advice, probably to appear smarter.
* Later episodes of ''[[Re Boot]]'' had Dot adopt a pair of
* On ''[[Family Guy]]'' Brian tries to show [[The Hills|Lauren Conrad]] how smart he is by taking out glasses to read. When she asks when he got reading glasses, he says he always wore them. She points out she knows they aren't real as she can see the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' logo.
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