Stupid Crooks: Difference between revisions

*** While Avi isn't a criminal by profession, he qualifies as well, since he's trying to get his hands on the diamond, and he ends up mucking everything he gets involved with up as well.

* Of the two burglars in ''[[Home Alone]]'', Marv is much more dense than his partner Harry. It was his idea to flood every house they rob as his way of leaving a [[Calling Card]], and when Marv wants to make it clear to cops that he and his partner are the "Wet Bandits", one of his arresting officers makes an observation:

** ''Every'' crook in a ''[[Home Alone]]'' film counts, really.

* [[Woody Allen]]'s character Virgil Starkwell from his [[Mockumentary]] film ''[[Take the Money and Run]]'' is shown to be pretty incompetent. His idea of sneaking a hidden camera into a bank to scout out a potential place to rob involved hiding the camera in ''a loaf of bread'' that he has to hold up to his face to take pictures with.

* As the ''[[Snatch]]'' example would suggest, [[Stupid Crooks]] are very popular topic among late night talk show hosts, especially [[The Tonight Show|Jay Leno]]. Whenever Jay does his "Headlines" segment, you can always expect at least one story about a dumb criminal to crop up.

* The "Non-Illegal Robbery" sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' is about a group of criminals who aren't even plotting anything that's criminal.

'''Terry Jones:''' They wouldn't ''give'' it to us if we didn't ''pay'' for it! }}

* The whole gimmick of Chespirito's characters ''El Chompiras Y El Peterete''.

* Observed in, of all places, a ''[[Rugrats]]'' cartoon where two bumbling criminals kidnap Tommy and hold him for ransom after they get their ''real'' target's house address wrong. Even then, the one-year-old baby becomes too much for the two idiots to handle so fast that they end up returning Tommy back to his parents before they even realized Tommy had been missing.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Dumbbell Indemnity", Moe spends so much money on things for his new girlfriend that he decides to come up with a plan with Homer to steal his car, have it destroyed, and collect the insurance money. Homer steals Moe's car and is supposed to leave it on the train tracks, but he gets sidetracked by a showing at a drive-in theater for a movie about a monkey who is president. Having missed the train, Homer decides to drive the car off a cliff in plain view of everyone, including the police, which gets himself arrested.

'''Homer:''' Homer, you ''genius!'' }}

** It's even better than that. When Homer first goes to steal the car, he finds that Snake is already on the job. So Homer pulls Snake from the car, throws him to the ground, and steals the car himself.