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{{trope}}
[[File:the-ditz2_8758ditz2 8758.png|link=Glee|frame|"I'm pretty sure my cat's been reading my diary."]]
 
{{quote|'''Lord Percy:''' The fashion today is towards the tiny.
'''Blackadder:''' In that case you have the most fashionable brain in London.|''[[Blackadder]] II''}}
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'''The Ditz''' is a character whose defining characteristic is profound stupidity. Female ditzes tend to be sweet and naivenaïve, while male ditzes tend to be oafish but lovable. [[The Ditz]] is written to appear unintentionally funny. In drama series, he or she provides comic relief.
 
Unlike [[The Fool]], [[The Ditz]] is seldom in any real danger, and luck probably couldn't save him if he or she ever were.
 
A good looking Ditz (of either sex) might be the [[The Brainless Beauty]]. An independently wealthy Ditz is an [[Upper Class Twit]]. An exceptionally clumsy Ditz is a [[Dojikko]]. A Ditz that's a [[Mighty Glacier]] (Most commonly as [[The Big Guy]] or [[The Brute]]) is a [[Dumb Muscle]].
 
A more competent Ditz will often become [[The Fool]]. Taken to its extreme, the Ditz can evolve into a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
 
One reason you can find [[The Ditz]] on so many TV shows is that [[Expectation Lowerer|it gives the audience someone to feel superior to]]. No matter how stupid you might be, you are smarter than [[The Ditz]].
 
SeeSupertrope alsoto [[GeniusAsian DitzAirhead]], [[Obfuscating Stupidity]],and [[Dumb Blonde]], and [[The Klutz]].
 
See also [[Genius Ditz]], [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], and [[The Klutz]].
 
Can overlap with [[This Loser Is You]], but isn't the same thing.
{{examples|Like, examples of ''The Ditz'' include:}}
 
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* The women in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MpqyQRaBo This ad] for the LA County Fair.
 
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* Isaac and Miria, the [[Outlaw Couple]] pair from ''[[Baccano!]]!''.
** It's probably [[Stealth Pun|not an accident]] that "Baccano!" sounds like "[[Baka]] no..."
* The characters of ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' tend to pass the [[Idiot Ball]] around quite a bit, but Hayashida is particularly stupid. [[The Other Wiki]] describes him as "dumber than a gorilla"--which—which, considering a gorilla is actually part of the cast, is ''proven true'' in the show. In his defense, the gorilla is the smartest member of the class. Yeah. It's that kind of series.
* Himeko from ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]''. She's so dumb, she faints upon SEEING English letters, since her brain can't take it.
* Gourry Gabriev in ''[[The Slayers]]''.
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* And while we're on the subject of ditzy high school heroines, Tenma Tsukamoto from ''[[School Rumble]]''. When you're the lead character of a [[Love Dodecahedron]] series, [[Love Makes You Dumb|it just sorta comes naturally.]]
* Patty from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' who mix it with [[Cloudcuckoolander]] (disturbing in some ocassions)
** Also Meme from ''[[Soul Eater Not!]]'', having the memory of a goldfish.
* Lizlet, A.K.A. the Teacup Maid, of ''[[Omamori Himari]]''.
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''
** Ash, at least initially. He was just plain stupid: "Hey, that Mankey just stole my hat!" *screams and climbs up a tree after it, while the others just stare at him* He's gotten a lot better since then.
** The Team Rocket trio seems to have become cursed to this position ever since encountering Ash, but this tapered off after the beginning of the ''Best Wishes'' series.
** May and Dawn when they first started as trainers - May was a bit less competent because she didn't really want to train Pokemon, which was before the anime introduced Contests. This even passed on her starter Torchic, who [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] and evolved into Combusken in the middle of Hoenn, eliminating this trait.
* Kanako from ''[[Maria Holic]]'' is marvelously dumb. She flunked nearly all her exams and, when given notes that "even an idiot could understand" by Sachi, she fails to comprehend even that. She's so single-minded in her pursuit of finding [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|girl-love]] that she's dim in everything else.
** Including the fact that liking girls makes her a lesbian.
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*** What's confusing about Luffy is that he ''is'' genuinely stupid most of the time, so it's quite hard to notice the situations where he probably is smart, but just acts like a ditz.
* An extremely ditzy [[Terrorists Without a Cause|Re-Coder]] shows up in ''[[Code Breaker]]''. When asked how many people she killed, she says "One, two, three... Ten, I guess, because I have ''ten fingers!'' But I'm not in a counting mood, so now [[Axe Crazy|I'll kill you painfully!]]" Notably, she never lapses into a [[Slasher Smile]] but remains cheerful and perky throughout.
* Lala of ''[[To Love LOVE-Ru]]'' usually acts like this.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has [[Genki Girl]] Makie filling this position. Konoka can also act ditzy, but it's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|almost certainly an act.]]
* Loui from ''[[Rune Soldier]]'' has a complete disregard for his own or anyone else's safety: ''"When it comes to the odds, I have done worse than 20 precent!"''
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** Actually, so is Rosette in the beginning.
* Nai is a boy version of this from ''[[Karneval]],'' {{spoiler|although he's really a cute little animal.}} Yogi is more of the "lovable oaf" kind when he's not being serious, which is often.
* The main lead of ''[[Angel Densetsu]]'' has his moments (it's more a combination of [[Nice Guy]], [[The Klutz]] and [[Selective Obliviousness]] actually), but then we have the most fearsome and brutal of the Shadowy seven: Hishida Haruka! Yep, she's [[The Ditz]], and [[The Klutz]], and almost a [[Pollyanna]] ...she's also the living embodiment of [[Confusion Fu]], and she's not ''even aware'' of all the destruction she's spreading around.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Tsukasa Hiiragi]] from ''[[Lucky Star]]'' qualifies.
* The toad Gamatatsu in ''[[Naruto]]''.
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== Film - Animated ==
* Babs from the Nick Park movie ''[[Chicken Run]]''.
** Jane Horrocks is not unfamiliar with this kind of role. Bubble from ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'', anyone?
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* One of Scamp's sisters in ''[[Lady and the Tramp]] 2'', Danielle, is an [[Tastes Like Diabetes|adorable]], ditzy Cocker Spaniel. However, coincidentally, she is voiced by the same person who voices Phil and Lil from the ''[[Rugrats]]''.
* Charlotte from ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', who is an inversion of the [[Alpha Bitch]], being [[Spoiled Sweet]] and generally a kind person to her friend Tiana and {{spoiler|willing to pull a [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] near the end, despite always wanting to marry a prince and be a princess.}}
 
 
== Film - Live-Action ==
* Gracie Allen's [[Alter Ego Acting]] personality.
* Cher Horowitz in ''[[Clueless]]''... kind of. She's certainly no genius level intellect, and is definitely more than a little naive and '[[Title Drop|clueless]]', but she's savvy enough when she needs to be and has enough wits about her to 'negotiate' her grades with most of her teachers.
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* Sarah from ''[[Hocus Pocus]]''.
* Colonel Mustard in ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]''.
* Mathew BrodrickBroderick's variation of ''[[Inspector Gadget (film)|Inspector Gadget]]''.
* ''[[Enchanted]]'': Giselle is a subversion. She seems to be stupid at first, but it eventually turns out she’s every bit as smart as Robert (who allows Giselle to stay at his apartment until Edward picks her up) himself is. And she adapts to being in New York City surprisingly quickly, though she first assumes that NYC is also a fairy tale world.
 
 
== Literature ==
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* Lettice Protheroe from ''[[Murder at the Vicarage]]'' is presented at this.
* Jack Pumpkinhead from the [[Land of Oz]] series is ''always'' described as unintelligent. Some of the words used to describe him are "stupid", "dim", "innocent", "simpleton", "not known for his intelligence", etc. He might also have a bit of an [[Ambiguous Disorder]], as he fails to pick up on vocal cues and sometimes takes sentences to mean the opposite of what they mean (he once called a ferryman 'nice' after he refused to let Pumpkinhead cross a river on account of not having any money).
** Could be [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that [[Meaningful Name|he's got a pumpkin for a head]], which was confirmed in a later book, where he explained his stupidity was a result of the jack-o-lantern - which it seemed, had been a little overripe to begin with - was starting to spoil. He eventually discovered he could just replace it with a ripe one, and became smarter as a result.
* [[Mother Goose|Simple Simon]] was one, "simple" being a common term for "stupid" when the poem was written. After his meeting with the pieman, he tries to fish for a whale in a bucket of water and then tried to find plums on a thistle bush.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* As in the film example above, Gracie Allen's ditz character supported ''[[The Burns and Allen Show]]'', although there was a usually a weird sense of logic behind her statements.
* Edith Bunker from ''[[All in The Family]]'' was one of these a lot of the time.
** Her [[Trans -Atlantic Equivalent]], Else Garrett of ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'', really wasn't one, despite her husband's frequent references to her as a "silly moo".
* Mrs. Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell, from ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''.
** Mrs. Howell would probably be better described as [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]]. Gilligan himself certainly qualifies as The Ditz, as well.
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* Phoebe and Joey from ''[[Friends]]'' ([[Flanderization|by the end]], at least).
** Joey's ditziness especially shines through in the subject of [[Global Ignorance|geography]] - at various points in the series he has thought that the Netherlands was where Peter Pan lives, described Chandler's "going to Yemen" ruse for getting rid of Janice as clever because "it almost sounds like a real place", and gone to the bank to try changing dollars into "Vermont money".
* Ted and Georgette from ''[[Mary Tyler Moore|The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''.
* Monroe from ''[[Too Close for Comfort]]''.
* J.D. from ''[[Scrubs]]'' is an interesting case. Despite being a talented and well educated doctor, he's a massive [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who can't stop daydreaming and is constantly blurting out [[Non Sequitur|Non Sequiturs]]s, stream-of-consciousness, and ridiculously embarrassing remarks. He also delves into extreme ditz-hood when dealing with certain subjects, including sports (he thinks basketballs come "three to a can" and that Arnold Palmer is famous only for inventing a drink), politics (does not know the difference between a senator and a congressman, and knows Dick Cheney only as "the bald assistant president who has all the heart attacks") and geography (mistakes Austria for Australia and New England for New Zealand).
** There's a couple of issues of ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'', set in 'Australia', where the artist apparently made the same mistake (there ain't no mountains like that in Sydney, bub!). And ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] it.
* Lucy Moran and Deputy Andy Brennan from ''[[Twin Peaks]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080918035250/http://www.tv.com/debralee-scott/person/17269/summary.html Debralee Scott], in any of her [[Game Show]] appearances of the 1970s and early 1980s.
* Dougal from ''[[Father Ted]]'' (in the UK, a [https://web.archive.org/web/20051109043403/http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/channel4/ch4/idents/ch41997dougal.rm Channel4ID] had him forgetting what channel he was promoting).
* Alice from ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]''.
* Kelso, from ''[[That '70s Show]]''.
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* Bridget Hennesey, from ''[[8 Simple Rules]]''.
* Christmas Noelle "Chrissy" Snow (Suzanne Somers' archetypal role) from ''[[Three's Company]]''.
** Her [[Trans -Atlantic Equivalent]] in ''[[Man About the House]]'' (on which ''[[Three's Company]]'' was based) was something of a subversion. Not only was the "Chrissy" character the brunette in the British original -- andoriginal—and not at all ditzy -- butditzy—but the "Janet" character, who was blonde, wasn't so much [[The Ditz]] as she was a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
* Kelly Bundy of ''[[Married... with Children]]'' was eventually [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] into [[The Brainless Beauty|a brainless trollop]] who hadn't enough mental capacity to remember her homework and the members of her own family at the same time.
* That [[Token Minority|token black kid]] on ''[[Hip Hop Harry]]'', affectionately nicknamed "Stupid Scott" by Joel McHale of ''[[The Soup]]''. Despite being roughly around the age of 12, he expresses the cognitive skills of a 6-year-old and has to have explained to him (by the [[Positive Discrimination|smarter Asian girl]]) things like how to fill up a bathtub or why its not a good idea to feed ice cream and hot dogs to a pet gerbil. The program goes out of its way to make viewer wonder how on earth he manages to cross streets on the way home.
* Susan Meyer from ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' started out as the Ditz, but it was largely limited to being a [[Lethal Chef|horrible cook]] and having a tendency to trip over things. This has since been Flanderized to the point where she occasionally just seems mentally disabled, such as her being so desperate to get the new neighbors to like her that she kidnapped their dog planning to heroically "find" it later. It...didn't work out very well.
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*** In Puck's case, it's sort of implied that he's not really stupid at all, it's just that he usually doesn't put in that much effort. The moments when he does put in effort in things, he usually does just fine. Finn, however, plays this trope straight.
* Luke in ''[[Modern Family]]'' is always tripping, jumping on the trampoline while on a pogo stick, getting his head stuck in the staircase railing...
** He inherited it from his [[Bumbling Dad]] Phil and shares it with his sister [[The Brainless Beauty|Haley]].
* Dee Dee Starr from ''[[Hearts Afire]]''.
* Alicia Gianelli from ''[[The Adventures of Shirley Holmes]]'' had shades of this, being the "girly girl" of the cast, although she could be quite smart/insightful sometimes.
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** Bill as will to an extent.
* Dauber from ''[[Coach]]''.
* Paisley, Gibson, and Fletcher on ''[[ANTA.N.T. Farm]]'', but especially Paisley, who sometimes forgets that her name is Paisley.
* Max from ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]''. The only person who could write "One Syllable" as the answer in a game of charades.
* Chelsea from ''[[That's So Raven]]'' was derailed into one in later seasons.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Maria from [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] is a good example of a ditz, though this was subverted in the "Trial of Eric Bischoff" episode of ''WWE Raw'', by Maria making a particularly more-intelligent-than-usual speech about Bischoff's failings as a general manager. In a later appearance, Bischoff accused Maria of pretending to be "stupid and sweet" in order to win the fans' favor, which, if true, would make this an example of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].
 
 
== Puppet Shows ==
* The puppet for [[George W. Bush]] in the French satirical show ''[[Les Guignols Dede L Infol'info]]'' is very much this. He was regularly portrayed as brainless -- inbrainless—in some cases, ''literally''.
* Ditto for Reagan in ''[[Spitting Image]]''.
 
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** Since then Cirno has been nicknamed "Nine-ball" or simply "⑨".
** Rumia is known for constantly blinding herself with her own [[Casting a Shadow|darkness powers]] and knocking into trees while flying.
** The same series also has [[Ravens and Crows|Utsuho]] [[I Love Nuclear Power|Reiuji]], also known by the similar [[Fan Nickname]] "⑥" (Six-ball) and often called "birdbrain" by other characters. It's even stated that the power she received is more effective the dumber the user is, and she was the perfect vessel.
* Lucia in ''[[Shadow Hearts]] Covenant'' is described by her own teacher Carla as "slow".
* Both Lloyd and Colette of ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' both qualify quite well for the title of [[The Ditz]]. A great example is a skit conversation between the two and Regal when Colette asks how Lloyd memorized every single Dwarven Vow (of which there are at least 108).
{{quote|'''Lloyd''': Since I was a child, I memorized one before each meal and was tested on it. And if I couldn't say it, I didn't get to eat.
'''Colette''': Oh, I see.... There must have been Dwarven Vow memory ingredients in the food.
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* Sarrie from ''[[Star Ocean|Star Ocean: The Last Hope]]'' is the living, breathing embodiment of this trope. Just how bad is it? {{spoiler|She wakes up on a sacrificial alter, in a room with greenish light...and simply says "Good Morning!" She then remembers that "guests" came in through her window, and she was going to serve them tea...}}
* Aino Heart from ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' is this trope turned up to Eleven. She's a combination of this and [[Love Freak]].
* Taokaka from ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]''. While she's incredibly energetic, she often forgets things that are told to her just seconds after the fact.
* Shion Uzuki from the ''[[Xenosaga]]'' series, in particular the first episode. Although she IS [[Genius Ditz|a scientist...]]
* Viki from the ''[[Suikoden]]'' series.
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* Captain Blubber in the ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' series.
* ''[[The Game of the Ages]]'' brings us the Village Idiot of Stupidity. Guess what his defining attribute is?
 
 
== Visual Novels ==
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== Web Animation ==
* Several characters on the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' site. Homestar himself is the most noticeably ditzy, but there's more than one [[Idiot Ball]] being passed around among the cast.
* All of the characters in the video podcast ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080921211032/http://www.tikibartv.com/tikibar_display.php?pver=qh&vid=40 Tiki Bar TV]'' drift in and out of this. This is largely because the dialog is improvised while the actors are drunk, leading to some bizarre exchanges that drift back and forth between [[The Fool]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander]], and generally end up falling around [[The Ditz]].
{{quote|Dr. Tiki: I'm a PhD MD USB for a reason!}}
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''
** Caboose gradually degrades from The Ditz in the first series to being completely retarded and [[Cloudcuckoolander|almost completely disconnected from reality]] (at one point, he loads his gun with crayons and forgets how to spell his name).
** Donut also qualifies and stays [[The Ditz]] the entire time, though ironically he's the only one from either team who ever managed to accomplish their objective (capturing the flag). Sister could also count when she arrives. Both of them share two traits - speaking [[Fun with Foreign Languages|terrible]] [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|Spanish]], and both of them [[Motor Mouth|talk way too damn much.]]
* The Pink and Blue unicorns from the two ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]'' [[YouTube]] videos ''appear'' to be this at first, {{spoiler|but seeing as they tricked him into donating his kidney-- with''out'' consent-- in the first movie, and ended up robbing him in the second, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|they're something else entirely]].}}
 
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* Raven from ''[[Questionable Content]]''. She has her moments, which makes some people think she's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|smarter than she looks]].
* T-Rex in ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' is another male example, as well as a giant green dinosaur example. He worries about being racist against taxi drivers, and makes good-natured attempts to use every school of philosophical thought in recorded history to justify the things he does every day (mainly stomping on people and things).
* Monette started out this way in ''[[Something *Positive]]''. She got better.
* Cube from the [[Stick Figure Comic]] ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'' can be a bit ditzy.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''
** Elan is a definitive version...though it was toned down a bit after [[Took a Level Inin Badass]].
*** As of [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1030.html strip 1030], he's noticing it:
** Crystal, the [[Goth]] assassin. Uncommon in so far that she has neither the good attitude nor the good looks most ditzes have. If she wasn't [[The Rival]] of Haley Starshine (which lets her gain a level every time Haley gets one, for the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' rules), she'd probably still be at 0th level. Crystal's little pickle stunt moves her closer to [[Too Dumb to Live]]. [[The Ditz]] may be stupid, but there's stupid and there's unbelievably retarded.
{{quote|'''Belkar:''' We don't have to go fight Durkon, and you're a moron.
'''Elan:''' Explain.
'''Belkar:''' You're not very smart, and you make poor decisions.
'''Elan:''' I meant the first part.}}
** Crystal, the [[Goth]] assassin. Uncommon in so far that she has neither the good attitude nor the good looks most ditzes have. If she wasn't [[The Rival]] of Haley Starshine (which lets her gain a level every time Haley gets one, for the ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' rules), she'd probably still be at 0th level. Crystal's little pickle stunt moves her closer to [[Too Dumb to Live]]. [[The Ditz]] may be stupid, but there's stupid and there's unbelievably retarded.
** The Monster in the Darkness could also qualify.
** Thog from the Linear Guild.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
** Kiki is a combination [[The Ditz|Ditz]]/GenkiGirl cranked up to eleven.
** Sam is this combined with [[Casanova Wannabe]].
* Kia from ''[[Fletcher Apts]]''.
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** Duchess Letita is very ditzy, although whether it's due to her stupidity or just her [[Cloudcuckoolander|strange viewpoint]] is somewhat debatable.
** Her younger daughter is a straighter example, though it's implied that she's only ditzy because she thinks she's entitled to everything and ''chooses'' not to use her brain.
* In the ''[[Cross Time Cafe]]'' Ky is [[The Ditz|this]] combined with 100% [[Eldritch Abomination]]. [[Berserk Button|But don't call her a ditz]]... [[Our Demons Are Different|or you will see her]] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130601121739/http://whiteponyproductions.com/comicstrips/ctc/ctc0163.htm true self... a 60-foot tall burning-mad demon!]
* Dustin from ''[[Spacetrawler]]''. He's so consistently stupid that the other characters just start doing the opposite of whatever he advises.
{{quote|'''[http://spacetrawler.com/2012/02/19/spacetrawler-207/ Pierrot]:''' Dusty thinks it's a bad idea, it must be sensible.}}
 
 
== Web Original ==
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{{quote|'''Tom:''' [[Kenneth Branagh]] did it first.
'''Zack:''' The ''[[Blue's Clues]]'' guy? Wait, I forget. Was he the blue one, or was he the dog? }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714120106/http://community.sparknotes.com/tag/tiffany-thongbiscuit Tiffany Thongbiscuit]. When she heard from The Vogue (Pronounced "the vagooey") that "[[Mad Men]]" was fashionable. She went to school dressed like a literal mad man.
* At the [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy in the [[Whateley Universe]], one example is the minor character Bubble. Someone comments to herself, "She has a bubble all right. Between her ears." Another good example is the egocentric, villainous Solange, who isn't smart enough to be an ''effective'' villain. She uses her powers to absorb an ethereal protagonist and steal said character's powers; she gets run through the [[Humiliation Conga]] for her efforts.
* Tiffany from [[Me and My Dick]]
* February from ''[[Starship]]''. She takes the fact that she removed her helmet before she was supposed to on an unfamiliar planet as a sign that she's "super ahead of schedule". Bug and Junior have their moments, too.
* [[OMF Gcata|Jesse Cox]], as is evident in his Terraria playthrough with [[Total Biscuit]] and the [[RPG Maker]] series.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* RalphPretty Wiggummuch fromeveryone on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' except Lisa is pretty dumb, but Ralph Wiggum stands out, so much so that he had his own trope for a while.
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''.
** Ed
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* Luanne, from ''[[King of the Hill]]''. [[Depending on the Writer]], sometimes she's more of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
* Officer Barbrady from ''[[South Park]]''. Butters also shows ditziness often.
* Starfire from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. But that's because she's from another planet and [[Innocent Aliens| she doesn't have much knowledge about the Earth]]. Although [[Tsundere|she can be pretty mad sometimes]] and has had a few [[Genius Ditz]] moments.
* Lor McQuarrie from ''[[The Weekenders]]''.
* Twister Rodriguez from ''[[Rocket Power]]''. Subverted in "Twist of Fate", where after being ridiculed for being a fan of a cartoon on safety, Twister ends up using the knowledge he's learned from that show to get his friends out of trouble in the Grand Canyon, showing that (to paraphrase Rose) he's "someone who's not quite as dumb as he appears".
* Cosmo from ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]''. He certainly qualifies better as [[Too Dumb to Live]]. If he weren't immortal, he'd be so dead.
* Patrick Star and [[SpongeBob]] from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. More famously the former.
* Big Dog and Little Dog from ''[[Two Stupid Dogs|2 Stupid Dogs]]''.
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* The perfect example of a ''male'' ditz is Gonard from ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'', who at one point forgets where his hat is. It's on his head. Also, he takes part in the auditions for a new cast member for [[Show Within a Show]] "Lily Mu", despite already being a cast member. All this is in the ''pilot'' episode. "Cheerful buffoon" is putting it mildly.
{{quote|'''Gonard''': Dude! Check out my laced gloves! Hey, where'd my shoes go?}}
* Chris Griffin on ''[[Family Guy]]'' has an intelligence somewhere between that of a sign post and a bag of moldy French fries. [[The Brainless Beauty|Jillian]], Brian's ex-girlfriend, is another example. Peter too, [[Depending on the Writer]].
* Madison from ''[[Class of 3000]]''.
* Amy Wong from ''[[Futurama]]'' is a black-haired Ditz - she fails at haggling, confusing it with bidding at auctions, and flirts with all men. Fry is also [[The Ditz]].
* Bebop and Rocksteady from the 1980s version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' fit this trope-- despitetrope—despite being male villains.
* Da-da-da-da-da - ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''.
* [[The Brainless Beauty|Lindsay]] from [[Total Drama Island|the Total Drama series]]
* C2 from ''[[Carl Squared]]''. (He ''is'' only a few months old, and part dog, so some of it is excusable.)
* Cal of ''[[Undergrads]]''.
* The titular character from ''[[Bonkers]]'', but it could be explained away by his being a Toon; he's super emotional, gets all huggy (and kissy) when he's happy, and seems a bit naive when it comes to human matters (especially in the Miranda episodes). On the other hand, he's very knowledgeable about his own kind, and knows just what sort of Toon stunt or prop can save the day.
* ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]!''
** The (except the Chief and probably Justice the dog) Action League from the ''[[Action League NOW]]!''.
** Bob of ''Prometheus and Bob''.
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* Robin Hood from ''[[King Arthur's Disasters]].'' [[Catch Phrase|Heheheheh.]]
* Numbuh Three from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''. A genuine example.
* Freddy in ''[[What's New, Scooby -Doo?]]''. Surprisingly, he ''wasn't'' like this prior to this series (Fred used to be quite serious.)
* I.R. Baboon, Weasel's [[Foil]] from ''[[I Am Weasel]]''; his stupidity is one of his most prominent traits (along with his rotten luck), his very name (which he writes on his t-shirt upside-down) indicating his poor grammar, as he tends to use "are" when he should use "am".
* Lola Bunny from ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]''. Daffy also has his ditzy moments.
* Ringo Starr in the Hanna Barbera ''[[Beatles]]'' cartoon was portrayed as a complete bumbling idiot.
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* Rancid Rabbit, Mr. Sunshine and The Greaser Dogs from ''[[CatDog]]''.
* Principal Pixiefrog, Neardy Crocodile and The Prietties (Marget's Rhino's gang) from ''[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey]]''.
* Joe Tabootie and Reggie Bullnerd from ''[[Chalk ZoneChalkZone]]''.
* Lok, Pupununu Tribe, Zariah, Slog, Blod and Bleeta from ''[[Tak and the Power of Juju]]''.
* [[Yakkity Yak]]
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* Gerold and Mr. Heelo from ''[[The Goode Family]]''
* Sandra from ''[[Will and Dewitt]]''.
* Pinkie Pie from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' represents Ponyville in all her boundlessly enthusiastic glory.
** I wouldn't say that. She's extremely intelligent, just fucking insane.
** Derpy/Ditzy, as seen in her recent debut as a main character.
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* T.J. Detweiler in ''[[Recess]]''. Lawson is this even moreso.
* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''
* Lucky Bob, Pepper, and Toast from ''[[Histeria!]]''
* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'': Pretty much everybody from time to time, but Bullwinkle J. Moose was a full-time ditz. He was immune to Boris Badenov's brainwashing gas: "No brain, no effect!"
 
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