The Blind Leading the Blind: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Bleach]]'': Kenpachi has [[No Sense of Direction]]. Seireitei is a huge maze. He has Yachiru give him directions. Yachiru ''also'' has [[No Sense of Direction]]. Kenpachi is strong enough to break down walls. It's a miracle there's anything left.

* ''[[Girls und Panzer]]'': At one point in the show, several of the first year girls on Ooarai's Senshado team ask their upperclassman Saori for relationship advice. After receiving the advice, they mention that her advice sounds very good and that Saori must have lots of dating experience, although the viewer will likely know by this point that Saori's never actually been in a relationship.

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': A very odd variation. During the climactic showing during the first Pantyhose Taro arc, Ryoga and Mousse end up at a hot spring away from Taro's mountain hideout. [[Blind Without'Em|Mousse]] remembers what the shape of the terrain, but has no clue where they are. [[No Sense of Direction|Ryoga]] knows where to go, but couldn't see what the mountain looked like. They both decide to work together, resulting in Mousse pointing in the wrong direction, and Ryoga running in an even wronger direction.

 

* The hilarious ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2894246/1/How_to_Woo_a_Raven_By_Beast_Boy How to Woo a Raven, by Beast Boy]'' is written as a reply from Beast Boy to his male fans, who supposedly write to him constantly and ask him to teach them how to attract girls. Needless to say, he's totally inadequate in romantic matters, and his "conquest" of Raven only happened in his mind... but he fails to realize this.

* In the aptly named ''[[Homestuck]]'' fanfiction [http://archiveofourown.org/works/263391/chapters/413034 The Blind Leading The Blind] by [http://archiveofourown.org/users/anonymousComrade/pseuds/anonymousComrade anonymousComrade], Karkat goes blind, and Terezi has to teach him to smell and taste colors before the culling drones find him in this no-Sgrub-AU. Needless to say, she's not as good at teaching him as she thought.

* In the Italian comedy film ''Fantozzi'' (one of the many) one of the characters is so near-sighted that once he's guided by a blind man. Partly subverted because the blind man manage to lead him to the right place.

* In [[The Little Mermaid]], Scuttle the pelican acted like an expert on human culture despite knowing next to nothing, which resulted in Ariel trying to style her hair with a fork while eating dinner with Prince Eric and blowing into a smoking pipe as if it were a musical instrument.

 

== Literature ==

* Taken quite literally in ''Naked Empire'' from Terry Goodkind's ''[[Sword of Truth]]'', in which a culture of [[Strawman Political]] pacifists receive their wisdom and guidance from a young boy who is kept blindfolded throughout his life.

* ''Miss Piggy's Guide to Life'' contains some fairly hilarious "advice" on everything from fashion to romance to food. ("You do not sew with a fork, and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles...")

{{quote|'''Twoflower''': You said you could fly one of these things!

'''Rincewind''': No, I didn't; I just said ''you'' couldn't! }}

 

* A sketch in a Norwegian humour show was a subversion: Not only were both characters actually blind, both characters though they were being led by the other. One sketch had them Rally-driving.

* On the updated version of ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'' with Tom Bergeron as host, Gilbert Gottfried would often claim to be an expert in the question's particular field, then provide a humorously inaccurate answer. Just picking him and saying "I disagree" before his answer was even uttered would have likely been a viable strategy. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130216202935/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozEIsWWngJo You Fool!]

KOCHANSKI: You're * sure* you know what you're doing?

LISTER: Hey...

KRYTEN: Ketchup?? With * lobster* , you want --

KOCHANSKI: I thought you said you knew what you were doing!

LISTER: No, I just said 'hey'. If you'd let me finish the whole sentence it'd have been: 'hey... no I don't'. }}

* In the pilot episode of ''[[Community]]'', Jeff claims to be a Spanish tutor to get time alone with Britta. Then she invites half a dozen other people to the "study group", and Jeff has to stall and keep them distracted to avoid having to admit that he can't tutor them.

** In a later episode we find out that their Spanish professor does not actually know Spanish and has been teaching them Klingon.

* Jerry vacillated between this trope, "semi-visually impaired leading the blind" and "guy with 20/20 vision who can't be bothered to look where he's going leading the blind" in his [[Straight Man]] role on ''[[Seinfeld]]''.

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'': Stephen the character lives this trope. It is especially highlighted in the ''Stephen's sound advice'' segments where he gives advice that is anything but sound.

 

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