The Blind Leading the Blind: Difference between revisions

* ''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...")

* Twoflower hands control of a [[Flying Broomstick]] to Rincewind in ''[[Discworld/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]''. This proves to be a mistake.

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

 

* 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!]

* From ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'':

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

''([[Gilligan Cut]] to Tyler and George, up to their knees in suds)''<br />

'''Tyler''': No, I don't. }}

* From ''[[Red Dwarf]]''

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 ''[[The Red Green Show]]'', Red gives pretty good advice in his "North of Forty" segments, while he is at his fly tying bench. However, in his "Handyman Corner" segment, his advice of how to build something with the junk you have lying around and duct tape are hilariously the blind leading the blind.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': In the episode ''Warrior's Gate''

'''K9''': Affirmative. }}

* In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Geordi teaches Data how to paint. Riker comments on the poetic irony of the blind man teaching art to the emotionless android.

== Music ==

* In [[POD]]'s song "Youth of the Nation", discussed:

Don't nobody know why: it's [[Trope Namer|the blind leading the blind]]. }}

* Mentioned in the lyrics of the [[Billy Talent]] song, "The Dead Can't Testify":

'Cause the dead can't testify. }}

* A literal example appears in [[Megadeth]]'s, "Millenium of the Blind":

Washed out to sea }}

 

** This also led to the first of many cases that point to Peggy being at least slightly deluded. After getting arrested for accidentally kidnapping a girl and taking her back to Texas (Yeah) Peggy refuses to admit she had a misunderstanding due to language. To reiterate, she thought the police officer who was interrogating her and promising to lock her up and have rats eat her face was planning to give her an award AND she naturally assumed that her lawyer in her trial was asking to go out and buy a hat when he called her to testify.

* In ''[[Futurama]]'', there's Doctor Zoidberg. He knows nothing about medicine for humans. Never ask him anything about what's wrong with you. He doesn't even know anything about psychology, generally using his own life to explain your own issues.

 

== Real Life ==