Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Difference between revisions

Can sometimes intersect with the [[Jerkass]]. Is a frequent cause of [[Mansplaining]]. Compare [[Feigning Intelligence]]. Contrast [[Insufferable Genius]], who has the same arrogant attitude but is ''not'' incompetent. Actually listening to one may result in [[The Blind Leading the Blind]]. Compare [[Small Name, Big Ego]], who both wantwants to be recognized and appreciated, but taketakes different paths to it. For a more "physical" version, see [[Boisterous Weakling]].

* In ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Sam the Eagle is a snobbish, arrogant fellow who dislikes the show’s “low-brow” nature and strives for more “cultured” entertainment with more “dignity and class”. In reality, he's a complete ignoramus with the arts. For instance, he didn't recognize the world famous ballet dancer, Rudolph Nureyev, in street clothes (and thought beforehardbeforehand that Nureyev was an opera singer), thought [[William Shakespeare]] was a composer who wrote ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' and that [[Beethoven]] was a playwright. He has no idea who [[Elton John]] is, criticizing the way Sir Elton dresses, and when Kermit tells him that [[Mozart]] wore a wig, high heels, and silk stockings, Sam swears that [[The Bet|if Kermit can prove it, he’ll eat his hat]]. Sam loses that bet when Scooter produces a painting of Mozart that, ironically, Elton John had just given him.