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** Naruto himself fits this in part 1, though it's really more a case of [[Book Dumb]]. He outgrows it after the timeskip.
* Arguably, the titular character from ''[[Yotsuba&!]]'' qualifies. Sure, she's five years old, but what kid that age doesn't even know how a swing works? She can also be led by the nose rather easily. Any moderately intelligent five-year-old would eventually figure out that cardbro is simply Miura in a cardboard box, for instance.
* [[Split Personality|Outer]] Moka from ''[[Rosario
* The frequent use of this trope as a [[Charm Point]] was parodied in a [[Stinger]] skit in ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]''. Yanagin gets her [[Sempai-Kohai|sempai]] to teach them how to be cuter, and the correct answer is...
{{quote|'''Yanagin's Senpai:''' "Pretending to be an idiot who doesn't even know common knowledge<ref>Like not recognizing [[Oda Nobunaga]]</ref> is what makes high school girls cute! Listen up, their brains and eyes are directed [[Zettai Ryouiki|right here]]..."}}
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* In ''[[Buddenbrooks]]'', Tony is impressed by smart people (like Morten Schwarzkopf — a doctor-to-be with whom she falls in love, but can't marry him because of the Grünlich thing), but is neither book smart nor street smart herself, and calls herself "a silly goose" sometimes. Her poor relative Klothilde is even more so.
* Mrs Korobochka the widow in ''[[Dead Souls]]'', who hesitates selling her "[[Title Drop|dead souls]]" and suggests that "you could still need them".
* Tawneee (yes, three 'e's), a minor character from [[Discworld]].
* 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).
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* Lowell from ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]''.
* Tony Banta from ''[[Taxi]]''.
* In [[Eureka]], Sheriff Jack Carter is by no means stupid, but being of average intelligence in a town of the country's brightest scientific minds often puts him into the ditz role by default.
* Coach Ernie Pantuso from ''[[Cheers]]''. His [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|replacement]] on the show, Woody Boyd, was even more of one.
* Phoebe and Joey from ''[[Friends]]'' ([[Flanderization|by the end]], at least).
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* Dougal from ''[[Father Ted]]'' (in the UK, a [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]]''.
* 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?"
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* All of the characters in the video podcast ''[http://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.]]
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* 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.
** Snips and Snails certainly qualify, especially the latter.
{{quote|'''Spike''': The proof is in the pudding!
'''Snails''': (laughs) [[Sidetracked by the Analogy|I like pudding]]! }}
** Wind Whistler is this in the toys and G1 comics, though the cartoon made her [[The Spock]].
** Back to ''Friendship is Magic'', Sweetie Belle is a mild example of this.
* Brittney ''and'' Kevin from ''[[Daria]]''. Of the pair, Brittney tended to be the smarter one (which isn't saying much).
* Nester from ''[[Scaredy Squirrel]]''.
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