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[[The Blind Leading the Blind]] describes a situation wherein one character, in desperate need of advice on a pressing matter, solicits the help of a second character claiming to be an expert on the subject. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when it is gradually revealed that the person giving the advice is a far cry from an expert, and in fact may know even less than the person they were supposed to be helping. More often than not, neither character realizes this, and the first character, after a devastating failure, often ends up wondering what could possibly have gone wrong.

 

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* Literal leading example: in ''[[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.

* Aria from ''Love Master A''. She's loved at least 50 boys and never had a boyfriend, therefore gaining herself the title "Love Master". To escape this title, she goes to a different school, but her fame precedes her. Unfortunately, no one knows that the title is facetious and she is taken as an expert on love.

 

== Fan Fiction ==

** The ''Guide'' itself may be an example, due to being (reputedly) notoriously unreliable.

*** The Guide is definitive, reality is sometimes in error though.

* In [[The Colbert Report (TV)|Stephen Colbert's]] ''I Am America (And So Can You!)'', Stephen offers the reader advice on several romantic, sexual, academic, and family matters. Anyone who seriously follows his advice had better brace themselves for a lifetime of failure and despondency.

* Similar to the Colbert example above, Dave Barry has also written a few hilarious and obviously fake "self help" books that only ''Darwin Awards'' candidates would take seriously.

* 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. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozEIsWWngJo You Fool!]

{{quote| '''George''': Tyler, do you know how to run a washing machine?<br />

'''[[Cloudcuckoolander|Tyler]]''': ''(enthusiastic)'' Do I know how to run a washing machine?!?<br />

** Host [[Richard O Brien|Richard O'Brien]]'s reactions to such stupidity became legendary. If the player of the game was a lost cause, or if Richard's advice was ignored, he would often [[Deadpan Snarker|let the viewer know]], before breaking out into off-putting Harmonica music, drowning out the team's 'advice' and breaking the player's concentration. In effect, he became a kind of [[Musical Assassin]].

*** In at least one episode, Richard actually broke out a Fender Telecaster and amplifier.

* Used by name in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', in the Flying Sheep sketch - the farmer points out a ewe trying to teach her lamb to fly. We hear it "Baa" and hit the ground. "Talk about the blind leading the blind."

 

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