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* ''[[Andromeda]]'': In [http://andromeda.wikia.com/wiki/Immaculate_Perception "Immaculate Perception"] Tyr says sending the DNA of Tamerlane Anasazi for comparision with Drago Museveni's could not be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is0JRDsskyY kept a secret]{{broken link}}. He says that he is leaving with his son and wife while the rest of the pride can perish from it's stupidity.
* ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]'' features a lot of deaths that come from sheer stupidity: Some highlights:
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** All in all, Sheldon and Howard would not fare well at all in the real world, and they are so lucky to not exist in the real world.
** The show does have an example of Too Dumb to Live, though: When the check engine light is one, that means YOU CHECK YOUR ENGINE!!!! And what does Penny do? She ignores it. Sheldon, Leonard's mom, and Amy all warned her about it, and she just ignored them. Three brilliant minds told her about the check engine light, and she ignored them as if they were crazy about that effecting the car. And when her engine does break down, she doesn't seem to see the connection between it and her ignoring the check engine light.[[What an Idiot!]].
* One [[Girl of the Week]] in the ''[[Star Trek:
** Almost every [[Red Shirt]] on ''[[Star Trek:
* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', [[Red Shirt|Red Squad]] ends up on a ''Defiant''-class ship behind enemy lines during a training mission, and the actual officers are promptly killed, leaving the cadets in command. The ranking cadet, naturally, decides they should just run the ship themselves, despite having ample opportunities to get home. While this in itself is dumb, he later decides to pull a [[David vs. Goliath]] against a new type of Dominion battleship. Never mind that even getting close enough to potentially succeed was a one-way trip, he doesn't even seem ready to give up after the plan fails. Predictably, they all die.
** Even worse, the decision to engage the
** Ensign Nog (and the Red Squad "CO") gets even more [[Too Dumb to Live]] bonus points for not recognizing that an Ensign outranks a Cadet (Acting Commander) when the officer by whose authority the cadet has been acting is deceased, or otherwise removed from the chain of command.
* Also in [[DS 9]], two people were fighting in front of a group of armed, angry Klingons. The first accused the second of being a shapeshifter, with whom the Klingons were at war. The second then shapeshifted his arm to choke the first, promptly getting shot and destroyed by all the Klingons, thus spoiling a yearlong undercover operation.
* From ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', Seven of Nine's parents. A pair of scientists who plan to study the Borg by ''sneaking onto Borg Cubes''. This could be considered TDTL all on
** The Doctor actually [[lampshade]]s this by expressing his
** Also, the Borg themselves could arguably be considered Too Dumb to Live. Namely because of their tendency to ''ignore intruders on their star ships'' until the intruders go out of their way to present an obvious threat (such as by shooting a drone). Of course, this makes it absurdly easy for Star Fleet officers to do stuff like wander right into the very heart of Borg ships, plant a bunch of high explosives, steal valuable Borg technology, and beam safely out.
** And therefore, any ''Star Trek'' captain who fights Borg ship-to-ship (the Borg have repeatedly been demonstrated as ''invincible'' that way) instead of just asking nicely if they might beam over, and then ''setting a bomb and then beaming out.''
* When the victims in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Roadkill" decided to run straight down a highway to get away from a truck trying to run them over, they were Too Dumb to Live.
* The show ''[[Time Commanders]]'': horse archers go in front! Do something about their horse-archers! NO, DON'T CHARGE THEM WITH HEAVY CAV!
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** Three inexperienced cave divers explore a cave without training. Two survive.
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