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{{quote|''"I am too stupid to LIVE!"''|'''Rebecca Howe''', ''[[Cheers]]''}}


{{quote|''"I am too stupid to LIVE!"''
{{quote|''"''Defective'' microchips? I like the sound of that!"''|'''Mikey Simon''', ''[[Kappa Mikey]]''}}
|'''Rebecca Howe''', ''[[Cheers]]''}}

{{quote|''"''Defective'' microchips? I like the sound of that!"''
|'''Mikey Simon''', ''[[Kappa Mikey]]''}}


{{quote|'''Brian Griffin''': Who the hell buys a novelty fire extinguisher?
{{quote|'''Brian Griffin''': Who the hell buys a novelty fire extinguisher?
'''Peter Griffin''': Someone who cares enough about physical comedy to put his whole family at serious risk.|''[[Family Guy]]''}}
'''Peter Griffin''': Someone who cares enough about physical comedy to put his whole family at serious risk.
|''[[Family Guy]]''}}


{{quote|'''Fry''': Wait. I know where we can get beeswax. From those giant space bees that nearly killed us, and we swore we'd never go back there.
{{quote|'''Fry''': Wait. I know where we can get beeswax. From those giant space bees that nearly killed us, and we swore we'd never go back there.
'''Farnsworth''': Let's go back there!|''[[Futurama]]''}}
'''Farnsworth''': Let's go back there!
|''[[Futurama]]''}}


{{quote|''"Bastian flips through the book and says, "It keeps going!" Koreander is a little too polite to reply, ''Of course it keeps going, it's the NeverEnding Story, ya dipshit!''"''|[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_NeverEnding_Story_III__Escape_from_Fantasia_1994.aspx?Page=2 Agony Booth] recap of ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] III: Escape From Fantasia''}}
{{quote|''"Bastian flips through the book and says, "It keeps going!" Koreander is a little too polite to reply, ''Of course it keeps going, it's the NeverEnding Story, ya dipshit!''"''|[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_NeverEnding_Story_III__Escape_from_Fantasia_1994.aspx?Page=2 Agony Booth] recap of ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]] III: Escape From Fantasia''}}

{{quote|'''Sonic''': Cool, it's raining fire!
{{quote|'''Sonic''': Cool, it's raining fire!
'''Players''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Cool! Cool! I'm gonna die!]]|[[Let's Play]] ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] 2006'' by pokecapn, Medibot, Kung-Fu Jesus, IlluminatusVespucci and John Condit}}
'''Players''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Cool! Cool! I'm gonna die!]]
|[[Let's Play]] ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] 2006'' by pokecapn, Medibot, Kung-Fu Jesus, IlluminatusVespucci and John Condit}}


{{quote|"..And as little as one month. Assuming the moron intends to give a two hour speech in a gale with no coat or hat. For more information, consult ''[[William Henry Harrison]], Idiot of Tippecanoe''."|''[[The Daily Show|America: The Book]]''}}
{{quote|"..And as little as one month. Assuming the moron intends to give a two hour speech in a gale with no coat or hat. For more information, consult ''[[William Henry Harrison]], Idiot of Tippecanoe''."
|''[[The Daily Show|America: The Book]]''}}


{{quote|'''Mach''': Hang on, I'm getting a strange energy reading.
{{quote|'''Mach''': Hang on, I'm getting a strange energy reading.
'''Ops''': '''Do not touch the artifact! Direct orders from Dostya!'''
'''Ops''': '''Do not touch the artifact! Direct orders from Dostya!'''
'''Mach''': It'll just take a second.|''[[Supreme Commander]]''}}
'''Mach''': It'll just take a second.
|''[[Supreme Commander]]''}}


{{quote|'''Iori Yagami''': Geez, sorry you guys! There's no cure for stupidity!|''[[The King of Fighters|The King Of Fighters '96]]''}}
{{quote|'''Iori Yagami''': Geez, sorry you guys! There's no cure for stupidity!
|''[[The King of Fighters|The King Of Fighters '96]]''}}


{{quote|''"You remember what daddy always said. That God gave you a big sister instead of a brain."'' |'''Meredith''' (to Flint), ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''}}
{{quote|''"You remember what daddy always said. That God gave you a big sister instead of a brain."''
|'''Meredith''' (to Flint), ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''}}


{{quote|'''Zeke''': The average human lifespan is seventy years.
{{quote|'''Zeke''': The average human lifespan is seventy years.
'''Embla''': I see.
'''Embla''': I see.
'''Zeke''': Heh. Except Ethan. If you run the data, his life expectancy comes out to ''negative'' forty years.|'''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Ctrl Alt Del]]'''}}
'''Zeke''': Heh. Except Ethan. If you run the data, his life expectancy comes out to ''negative'' forty years.
|'''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Ctrl Alt Del]]'''}}


{{quote|''"You were born to be murdered."''|'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Major Calloway]]''' (to Holly Martins), ''[[The Third Man]]''}}
{{quote|''"You were born to be murdered."''
|'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Major Calloway]]''' (to Holly Martins), ''[[The Third Man]]''}}


{{quote|'''Things I Learned From This Game''':
{{quote|'''Things I Learned From This Game''':
''Some people are just too fucking stupid to live.''|[http://web.archive.org/web/20080212094700/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/rahowasucks.html This review] of ''[[So Bad It's Horrible/Traditional Games|Racial Holy War]]''.}}
''Some people are just too fucking stupid to live.''
|[http://web.archive.org/web/20080212094700/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/rahowasucks.html This review] of ''[[So Bad It's Horrible/Traditional Games|Racial Holy War]]''.}}


{{quote|'''Moiraine''': "DO NOT go out into Shadar Logoth, or touch anything!"
{{quote|'''Moiraine''': "DO NOT go out into Shadar Logoth, or touch anything!"
'''Mat''': "Let's go out into Shadar Logoth and touch things!"
'''Mat''': "Let's go out into Shadar Logoth and touch things!"
'''Rand''' and '''Perrin''': "Good idea."|''[[Wheel of Time]]'' [http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=386600 mock summary]}}
'''Rand''' and '''Perrin''': "Good idea."
|''[[Wheel of Time]]'' [http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=386600 mock summary]}}


{{quote|''"Duuuh. You died because you were dumb."''|[[Have a Nice Death|Death message]], ''[[Space Quest]] V''}}
{{quote|''"Duuuh. You died because you were dumb."''
|[[Have a Nice Death|Death message]], ''[[Space Quest]] V''}}


{{quote|Stupidity is the only natural capital crime.|'''[[Robert A. Heinlein]]''', ''The Notebooks of Lazarus Long''}}
{{quote|Stupidity is the only natural capital crime.
|'''[[Robert A. Heinlein]]''', ''The Notebooks of Lazarus Long''}}


{{quote|'''Freakazoid:''' Dumb, dumb, '''dumb!''' Never tell the villain how to trap you in a cage!
{{quote|'''Freakazoid:''' Dumb, dumb, '''dumb!''' Never tell the villain how to trap you in a cage!
'''Gutierrez:''' You probably shouldn't have helped us build it, either.
'''Gutierrez:''' You probably shouldn't have helped us build it, either.
'''Freakazoid:''' I know! '''''Dumb!'''''|''[[Freakazoid]]''}}
'''Freakazoid:''' I know! '''''Dumb!'''''
|''[[Freakazoid]]''}}


{{quote|''"I clean my knives in a crossbow. Some people say it's foolish... I put them in the hoover and set it on blow and just shoot water at them around the kitchen, as I sit with a plug -- bare-wired... at my feet... '''PEEING ON IT!''' All to get a better clean."''|'''Phil Jupitus''' on ''[[Series/QI|QI]]'' after hearing about the fatal accidents involving dishwasher users impaling themselves on the cutlery basket because they put all the knives in pointing up -- all to get a better clean.}}
{{quote|''"I clean my knives in a crossbow. Some people say it's foolish... I put them in the hoover and set it on blow and just shoot water at them around the kitchen, as I sit with a plug -- bare-wired... at my feet... '''PEEING ON IT!''' All to get a better clean."''
|'''Phil Jupitus''' on ''[[Series/QI|QI]]'' after hearing about the fatal accidents involving dishwasher users impaling themselves on the cutlery basket because they put all the knives in pointing up -- all to get a better clean.}}


{{quote|'''Ray''': Why would I be nervous?
{{quote|'''Ray''': Why would I be nervous?
'''Lindesfarne''': Because... I'm an insectivore.
'''Lindesfarne''': Because... I'm an insectivore.
'''Ray''': What's an insectivore?
'''Ray''': What's an insectivore?
'''Lindesfarne''': (whispers to Tammy) [[Lampshade Hanging|Not too big on self-preservation, is he]]?<br />
'''Lindesfarne''': (whispers to Tammy) [[Lampshade Hanging|Not too big on self-preservation, is he]]?
'''Ray''': What's self-preservation?|'''Lindesfarne''' (a hedgehog) and '''[[The Ditz|Ray]]''' (a firefly) in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''}}
'''Ray''': What's self-preservation?
|'''Lindesfarne''' (a hedgehog) and '''[[The Ditz|Ray]]''' (a firefly) in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''}}


{{quote|''"Anyone who fights us is either stupid or on [[Big Bad|Saren's]] payroll. Killing the latter is business. Killing the former is a favor to the universe."''|'''Urdnot Wrex''', ''[[Mass Effect]]''}}
{{quote|''"Anyone who fights us is either stupid or on [[Big Bad|Saren's]] payroll. Killing the latter is business. Killing the former is a favor to the universe."''
|'''Urdnot Wrex''', ''[[Mass Effect]]''}}


{{quote|'''Klingon Transporter Operator''': I do not deserve to live.
{{quote|'''Klingon Transporter Operator''': I do not deserve to live.
'''Kirk''': Fine, I'll kill you later. |''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock]]''}}
'''Kirk''': Fine, I'll kill you later.
|''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock]]''}}


{{quote|''I mean like, dangerously, not-able-to-function-on-his-own level of stupid, like, if you were to give this guy a cup of applesauce and a spoon, would probably drown-level stupid.''|[[The Spoony Experiment|Noah Antwiller]]}}
{{quote|''I mean like, dangerously, not-able-to-function-on-his-own level of stupid, like, if you were to give this guy a cup of applesauce and a spoon, would probably drown-level stupid.''
|[[The Spoony Experiment|Noah Antwiller]]}}


{{quote|'''Tom Servo:''' "Hey, the cop never said anything about doing intensely stupid things!"|''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', "Last Clear Chance", right before the characters get hit by a train.}}
{{quote|'''Tom Servo:''' "Hey, the cop never said anything about doing intensely stupid things!"
|''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', "Last Clear Chance", right before the characters get hit by a train.}}


{{quote|''Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.''|'''Rincewind''' on Twoflower, ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]''}}
{{quote|''Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.''
|'''Rincewind''' on Twoflower, ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]''}}


{{quote|''Pages one and two had been salvaged by a Damogran Frond Crested Eagle and had already become incorporated into an extraordinary new form of nest which the eagle had invented. It was constructed largely of papier-mache and it was virtually impossible for a newly hatched baby eagle to break out of it. The Damogran Frond Crested Eagle had heard of the notion of survival of the species but wanted no truck with it.''|''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (novel)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''}}
{{quote|''Pages one and two had been salvaged by a Damogran Frond Crested Eagle and had already become incorporated into an extraordinary new form of nest which the eagle had invented. It was constructed largely of papier-mache and it was virtually impossible for a newly hatched baby eagle to break out of it. The Damogran Frond Crested Eagle had heard of the notion of survival of the species but wanted no truck with it.''
|''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (novel)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''}}


{{quote|'''Thief''': Okay, Fighter, tie this rope to something sturdy so we can climb across
{{quote|'''Thief''': Okay, Fighter, tie this rope to something sturdy so we can climb across
'''Fighter''' [off-panel]: Done!
'''Fighter''' [off-panel]: Done!
'''Black Mage''': Why is the rope on fire?
'''Black Mage''': Why is the rope on fire?
'''Fighter''': I tied it to the lava! Y'know, so we could find it when we're done here.|''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]''}}
'''Fighter''': I tied it to the lava! Y'know, so we could find it when we're done here.
|''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]''}}


{{quote|'''Link:''' Ah! Fire! My flame-proof suit isn't working!
{{quote|'''Link:''' Ah! Fire! My flame-proof suit isn't working!
'''Navi:''' That's not a fireproof suit, you just painted your regular suit red!
'''Navi:''' That's not a fireproof suit, you just painted your regular suit red!
'''Link:''' But...isn't that how fireproof suits work? You know, by camouflaging me from the flames?
'''Link:''' But...isn't that how fireproof suits work? You know, by camouflaging me from the flames?
'''Navi:''' How you've managed to survive this long is a mystery to me.|''[[Ocarina of Time]]: [[The Abridged Series]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywoScf2vYU0 Episode 12]}}
'''Navi:''' How you've managed to survive this long is a mystery to me.
|''[[Ocarina of Time]]: [[The Abridged Series]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywoScf2vYU0 Episode 12]}}


{{quote|''Thoth sprang up, blood mounting darkly to his face, while his eyes flamed with the stunned fury of a man who suddenly realizes [[Too Dumb to Live|the full depths of a fool's swinish stupidity]].''|'''[[Robert E. Howard]]''', "[[Conan the Barbarian|The Phoenix On The Sword]]," as Thoth-Amon realizes that Dion has his lost [[Ring of Power]] and doesn't even know it.}}
{{quote|''Thoth sprang up, blood mounting darkly to his face, while his eyes flamed with the stunned fury of a man who suddenly realizes [[Too Dumb to Live|the full depths of a fool's swinish stupidity]].''
|'''[[Robert E. Howard]]''', "[[Conan the Barbarian|The Phoenix On The Sword]]," as Thoth-Amon realizes that Dion has his lost [[Ring of Power]] and doesn't even know it.}}


{{quote|''He said he wouldn´t be my friend if i didn´t tell him!''|'''Barney''', on why he revealed the player's top secret mission to the enemy in ''[[Heart of Evil]]''.}}
{{quote|''He said he wouldn´t be my friend if i didn´t tell him!''
|'''Barney''', on why he revealed the player's top secret mission to the enemy in ''[[Heart of Evil]]''.}}


{{quote|''Cartman, you've stooped to the level of a full-fledged retard.''|'''Kyle Brofloski''', ''[[South Park]]''}}
{{quote|''Cartman, you've stooped to the level of a full-fledged retard.''
|'''Kyle Brofloski''', ''[[South Park]]''}}


{{quote|''I suppose from a creative standpoint, some characters deserve to die. Ones that lack common sense or even basic survival instinct.''|'''Abed''', ''[[Community]]''}}
{{quote|''I suppose from a creative standpoint, some characters deserve to die. Ones that lack common sense or even basic survival instinct.''
|'''Abed''', ''[[Community]]''}}


{{quote|'''Meatwad''' ([[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|holding a scorpion]]): I'll eat it.... if you eat it.<br />
{{quote|'''Meatwad''' ([[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|holding a scorpion]]): I'll eat it.... if you eat it.
'''Shake''': All right, deal! Wait a minute... how are you gonna eat it after I eat it?<br />
'''Shake''': All right, deal! Wait a minute... how are you gonna eat it after I eat it?
'''Meatwad''': Look, you eat it, then I go back in time to before the time that you eat it, then I'll eat it.<ref> They actually do have a time machine in this episode, but it's pretty clear Meatwad's lying.</ref><br />
'''Meatwad''': Look, you eat it, then I go back in time to before the time that you eat it, then I'll eat it.<ref> They actually do have a time machine in this episode, but it's pretty clear Meatwad's lying.</ref>
'''Shake''': Okay.<br />
'''Shake''': Okay.
''Later''<br />
''Later''
'''Frylock''': What's wrong with Shake?<br />
'''Frylock''': What's wrong with Shake?
'''Meatwad''': Oh, he's dead. Dumbass ate a scorpion. }}
'''Meatwad''': Oh, he's dead. Dumbass ate a scorpion. }}


{{quote|''Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in [[Discworld|Ankh]]-[[Wretched Hive|Morpork]], but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of [[Wretched Hive|the Shades]] was suicide. Asking for a short beer in a [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarf]] bar was suicide. Saying "[[Silicon-Based Life|Got rocks in your head]]?" to a [[All Trolls Are Different|troll]] was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.''|''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', [[Terry Pratchett]]}}
{{quote|''Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in [[Discworld|Ankh]]-[[Wretched Hive|Morpork]], but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of [[Wretched Hive|the Shades]] was suicide. Asking for a short beer in a [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarf]] bar was suicide. Saying "[[Silicon-Based Life|Got rocks in your head]]?" to a [[All Trolls Are Different|troll]] was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.''
|''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', [[Terry Pratchett]]}}

{{quote|Isaac helped the two of them through a small rear window [[Bar Brawl|as the noise in the ''jasca'' rose suddenly.]] [...]
'''Dom''': The stupid geck. Oh Chel, the stupid geck!
'''Hrsh-Hgn''': Intelligence is humanity's prime ssurvival trait, therefore it iss as well that those who don't sshow it be weeded out.
| ''[[The Dark Side of the Sun]]'' }}



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Revision as of 11:34, 24 August 2016


"I am too stupid to LIVE!"

Rebecca Howe, Cheers

"Defective microchips? I like the sound of that!"

Mikey Simon, Kappa Mikey

Brian Griffin: Who the hell buys a novelty fire extinguisher?
Peter Griffin: Someone who cares enough about physical comedy to put his whole family at serious risk.

Fry: Wait. I know where we can get beeswax. From those giant space bees that nearly killed us, and we swore we'd never go back there.
Farnsworth: Let's go back there!

"Bastian flips through the book and says, "It keeps going!" Koreander is a little too polite to reply, Of course it keeps going, it's the NeverEnding Story, ya dipshit!"

Sonic: Cool, it's raining fire!
Players: Cool! Cool! I'm gonna die!

Let's Play Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 by pokecapn, Medibot, Kung-Fu Jesus, IlluminatusVespucci and John Condit

"..And as little as one month. Assuming the moron intends to give a two hour speech in a gale with no coat or hat. For more information, consult William Henry Harrison, Idiot of Tippecanoe."

Mach: Hang on, I'm getting a strange energy reading.
Ops: Do not touch the artifact! Direct orders from Dostya!
Mach: It'll just take a second.

Iori Yagami: Geez, sorry you guys! There's no cure for stupidity!

"You remember what daddy always said. That God gave you a big sister instead of a brain."

Meredith (to Flint), Heroes

Zeke: The average human lifespan is seventy years.
Embla: I see.
Zeke: Heh. Except Ethan. If you run the data, his life expectancy comes out to negative forty years.

"You were born to be murdered."

Major Calloway (to Holly Martins), The Third Man

Things I Learned From This Game:
Some people are just too fucking stupid to live.

Moiraine: "DO NOT go out into Shadar Logoth, or touch anything!"
Mat: "Let's go out into Shadar Logoth and touch things!"
Rand and Perrin: "Good idea."

"Duuuh. You died because you were dumb."

Stupidity is the only natural capital crime.

Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Freakazoid: Dumb, dumb, dumb! Never tell the villain how to trap you in a cage!
Gutierrez: You probably shouldn't have helped us build it, either.
Freakazoid: I know! Dumb!

"I clean my knives in a crossbow. Some people say it's foolish... I put them in the hoover and set it on blow and just shoot water at them around the kitchen, as I sit with a plug -- bare-wired... at my feet... PEEING ON IT! All to get a better clean."

Phil Jupitus on QI after hearing about the fatal accidents involving dishwasher users impaling themselves on the cutlery basket because they put all the knives in pointing up -- all to get a better clean.

Ray: Why would I be nervous?
Lindesfarne: Because... I'm an insectivore.
Ray: What's an insectivore?
Lindesfarne: (whispers to Tammy) Not too big on self-preservation, is he?
Ray: What's self-preservation?

Lindesfarne (a hedgehog) and Ray (a firefly) in Kevin and Kell

"Anyone who fights us is either stupid or on Saren's payroll. Killing the latter is business. Killing the former is a favor to the universe."

Urdnot Wrex, Mass Effect

Klingon Transporter Operator: I do not deserve to live.
Kirk: Fine, I'll kill you later.

I mean like, dangerously, not-able-to-function-on-his-own level of stupid, like, if you were to give this guy a cup of applesauce and a spoon, would probably drown-level stupid.

Tom Servo: "Hey, the cop never said anything about doing intensely stupid things!"

Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Last Clear Chance", right before the characters get hit by a train.

Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.

Rincewind on Twoflower, The Colour of Magic

Pages one and two had been salvaged by a Damogran Frond Crested Eagle and had already become incorporated into an extraordinary new form of nest which the eagle had invented. It was constructed largely of papier-mache and it was virtually impossible for a newly hatched baby eagle to break out of it. The Damogran Frond Crested Eagle had heard of the notion of survival of the species but wanted no truck with it.

Thief: Okay, Fighter, tie this rope to something sturdy so we can climb across
Fighter [off-panel]: Done!
Black Mage: Why is the rope on fire?
Fighter: I tied it to the lava! Y'know, so we could find it when we're done here.

Link: Ah! Fire! My flame-proof suit isn't working!
Navi: That's not a fireproof suit, you just painted your regular suit red!
Link: But...isn't that how fireproof suits work? You know, by camouflaging me from the flames?
Navi: How you've managed to survive this long is a mystery to me.

Thoth sprang up, blood mounting darkly to his face, while his eyes flamed with the stunned fury of a man who suddenly realizes the full depths of a fool's swinish stupidity.

Robert E. Howard, "The Phoenix On The Sword," as Thoth-Amon realizes that Dion has his lost Ring of Power and doesn't even know it.

He said he wouldn´t be my friend if i didn´t tell him!

Barney, on why he revealed the player's top secret mission to the enemy in Heart of Evil.

Cartman, you've stooped to the level of a full-fledged retard.

Kyle Brofloski, South Park

I suppose from a creative standpoint, some characters deserve to die. Ones that lack common sense or even basic survival instinct.

Abed, Community

Meatwad (holding a scorpion): I'll eat it.... if you eat it.
Shake: All right, deal! Wait a minute... how are you gonna eat it after I eat it?
Meatwad: Look, you eat it, then I go back in time to before the time that you eat it, then I'll eat it.[1]
Shake: Okay.
Later
Frylock: What's wrong with Shake?
Meatwad: Oh, he's dead. Dumbass ate a scorpion.

Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of the Shades was suicide. Asking for a short beer in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying "Got rocks in your head?" to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.

Isaac helped the two of them through a small rear window as the noise in the jasca rose suddenly. [...]
Dom: The stupid geck. Oh Chel, the stupid geck!
Hrsh-Hgn: Intelligence is humanity's prime ssurvival trait, therefore it iss as well that those who don't sshow it be weeded out.


  1. They actually do have a time machine in this episode, but it's pretty clear Meatwad's lying.