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* Rose, from ''[[The Golden Girls]]''.

** A beautiful [[Double Subversion]] of this trope occurred in the pilot of ''Golden Palace'', a short-lived and otherwise unremarkable spinoff of ''[[The Golden Girls]]''. Rose, confronted by a robber at the front desk of the hotel the girls are running, is too ditzy to even realize that she's being robbed. The robber eventually leaves, with nothing, in frustration. The trope is subverted as Rose immediately calls the police, providing a detailed description of the robber, where he's headed, what kind of car he's driving, etc., ending with "Who is this? Oh, just someone who's not quite as dumb as she appears," much to the delight of the audience. The subversion itself is then subverted as we hear Rose's next line into the phone: "Oh, this is ''four'' one one?"

* Christmas Noelle "Chrissy" Snow (Suzanne Somers' archetypal role) from ''[[Threes Company]]''.

** Her [[Trans Atlantic Equivalent]] in ''[[Man About the House]]'' (on which ''[[Threes Company]]'' was based) was something of a subversion. Not only was the "Chrissy" character the brunette in the British original -- and not at all ditzy -- but the "Janet" character, who was blonde, wasn't so much [[The Ditz]] as she was a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].

* Brittany from ''[[Glee (TV)|Glee]]'' is one of these, with a little [[Dumb Blonde]] thrown in for good measure. Recipes are confusing and a ballad is a male duck.

** [[Running Gag|Dolphins are just gay sharks, and the square root of 4 is rainbows.]]

**** [[Overly Long Gag|She can't spell her name right, and draws a sombrero for every answer on her Spanish tests.]]

*** Brittany once [[Noodle Incident|''lost a wheelchair.'']]

* Alicia Gianelli from ''[[The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (TV)|The Adventures of Shirley Holmes]]'' had shades of this, being the "girly girl" of the cast, although she could be quite smart/insightful sometimes.

* ''[[I Carly]]'': Gibby before his [[Character Development]], and Carly's webshow skit role as the "[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Idiot Farm Girl]]".

* [[Dumb Blonde]] Faith on ''[[Hope And Faith]]'' is an extreme example.

* Both Troy and Pierce from ''[[Community]]''.

 

== Puppet Shows ==

* Ditto for Reagan in ''[[Spitting Image]]''.

 

'''Zack:''' The ''[[Blues Clues]]'' guy? Wait, I forget. Was he the blue one, or was he the dog? }}

* [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.

* 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.

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