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* ''[[Animal Farm]]'', by the same author, features Boxer, a horse meant to represent the working class. He is shown to not grasp reading and writing, and remain completely loyal to the farm's new management, which makes Napoleon's disgraceful treatment of him all the more sickening.
* The ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey]]'' stories are full of this trope.
* Stan Shunpike in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is not the brightest of wizards and has a distinctly working-class [[Funetik Aksent|accent]]. Possibly averted with the Weasleys (in particular Percy and the twins), though they're arguable [[Impoverished Patrician
** Ron is still shown as intelligent in his own right. He just tends to be overshadowed a bit.
** Hermione is the smartest of the group, and she's the daughter of two dentists. We also see that when Harry's parents were teenagers, Lily (from a middle-class family) was intelligent, kind, and friendly while James (very wealthy) was not a ''bad'' person entirely, but tended to be "an arrogant toerag".
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* Subverted for laughs in a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch that placed ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]'''s Teela and Evil-Lyn in a farm for a reality show called "Country Folk R Morons" (a play on The Simple Life, starring the RC sketch's main target or inspiriation Paris Hilton). A farmer tries to explain to them theoretical quantum chrono dynamics.
{{quote|'''Teela''': "You're [[Sound Effect Bleep|f[bleep]ing]] stupid!"}}
* Subverted in ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''. Two farmhands look exactly like stereotypical hicks, but it turns out they both have PhDs. And they take [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|remarkably well]] to the concept of a magical flying chicken and a pig with [[Laser Eye
== Reality TV ==
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