Idiot Ball: Difference between revisions

** If anything the frequency and size of the idiot balls has increased exponentially as the seasons passed from a reasonable suspension of disbelief to characters regularly choosing the most utterly insane, illogical and downright stupid course of action.

*** One notable incident occurs when [[Idiot Hero|Peter]] has spent several episodes attempting to retrieve a box while suffering amnesia. He get it open and finds his driver's license, and then complains that knowing his name doesn't help him know who he is. Peter, use the Internet.

* The entire ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' cast in the episode "Intervention." No one wonders why Buffy's acting oddly and using highly unusual speech patterns only ''three'' episodes (to be fair, the time that passed between episodes is unknown) after a robot with identical behavior and mannerisms showed up, and everybody could immediately tell it was a robot then, despite next to zero hints.

** Lampshaded in the very same episode, when Buffy herself walks in the house and comes face to face with her duplicate. The other characters are stunned and bewildered, to which Buffy (having heard all of two sentences from the Buffybot) responds: