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{{quote|'''Agatha:''' This really ''is'' a Wulfenbach Ship?
'''Marie:''' Oh, yes. It was remarkably easy to steal. But then ''(glancing at her husband)'' who would be fool enough to try?
'''[[Funetik Aksent|Oggie]]:''' ''Hey!'' [[Don't Explain the Joke|Iz like hyu vife iz callink hyu a fool wit-out]] ''[[Don't Explain the Joke|ektually]]'' --
'''Master Payne:''' You cannot ''possibly'' be as stupid as you act.
'''[[Funetik Aksent|Oggie]]:''' ...[[Comically Missing the Point|Ken if I]] ''[[Comically Missing the Point|vants]]'' [[Comically Missing the Point|to be]]!|''[[Girl Genius]]'', [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070207 February 7th, 2007]}}
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* A variation happened in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' where Satoko said that only Keiichi would be dumb enough to fall for her mud [[Pit Trap]]. Cue a mud-covered Rika crawling out of the ground.
* Played with on ''[[Slayers]]'', where Lina sees a trap and tells Gourry that he'd be the only one stupid enough to fall for it... then Lina herself manages to walk right into the trap about ten seconds later, after being [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|Distracted by the Shiny]].
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' gives us the following lines
{{quote|'''O'Brien:''' There's no way he'll attack head on.
'''Judai:''' Battle! Featherman, direct attack! }}
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* From ''The All New Atom'': Ivy Town is being attacked by two movie monsters brought into the real world.
{{quote|'''Bystander:''' What are those hideous fiends?
'''[[Mr. Exposition|Ms. Exposition]]:''' Well, the Lizard is called Gosana, and the Bat/Reptile is called Kame-Komori. They're from a series of low-budget Japanese films from a small and seedy film company called Dorobo Studios. They were created as rubber suit monsters to sponge off the popularity of much better film franchises at Toho and Daiei Studios. Many hard-core aficionados say they're the worst giant monster films ever made, despite some tasty special effects. Of course, the films have almost never been seen since the sixties -- so only a total geek loser would even know who they are.
''(next panel)''
'''Atom:''' ''(inner monologue)'' Hey! It's Gosana and Kame-Komori! }}
* Inverted in one ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' short story parodying ''[[Star Wars]]''.
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* In ''[[Spaceballs]]'', the villains' plot relies on them discovering the pass code to the defenses protecting the heroine's planet. Dark Helmet eventually manages to get it:
{{quote|'''Dark Helmet:''' So the combination is 1 2 3 4 5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
''[[Brick Joke|(later...)]]''
'''President Skroob:''' What's the combination?
'''Colonel Sandurz:''' 1 2 3 4 5.
'''President Skroob:''' 1 2 3 4 5? That's amazing! [[Strange Minds Think Alike|I've got the same combination on my luggage!]] }}
* In ''[[It Takes a Thief]]'', [[The Chick]] makes fun of her fellow thieves who got conned into buying useless stuff off of infomercials... and then immediately hides ''her'' useless bracelet.
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* Lampshaded and parodied when Elaine gives Guybrush her [[Chekhov's Gun|wedding ring]] in ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay'':
{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' Aw, come on. Who's absent-minded enough to lose TWO wedding rings?
'''[[Chekhov's Boomerang|Pyrite Parrot]]:''' *Squawk* It's me, Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate!
'''Guybrush:''' Shut up, you! }}
* In ''[[Portal 2]]'', [[
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** And again in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television":
{{quote|'''Fry:''' What kind of bozos would start a Bender protest group?
'''Prof. Farnsworth:''' Good news everyone, [[Ironic Echo Cut|Hermes and I have started a Bender protest group.]]
'''Zoidberg:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|That was uncanny!]] }}
* In the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]'' episode "Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop", Shredder complains to Krang when Krang's mind control device makes its victims act like children instead of becoming willing slaves, and Krang protests "only a complete idiot" would invent something like that. As he [[Eureka Moment|realizes what he'd just said]] ("A complete idiot?"), he hollers at Rocksteady and Bebop, who sure enough had earlier accidentally damaged the device without telling their bosses.
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** "You said 'no one's dumb enough to pay a twenty dollar processing fee'!"
** Also from "You Kent Say What You Want"
{{quote|'''Lisa:''' There are a lot of religious watchdog groups out there [[Take That|keeping the world safe from the horror of free expression.]]
'''Bart:''' [[Truth in Television|You mean there are losers who spend all day watching TV looking for stuff to complain about?]] Who'd be lame enough to do that?
''(cut to Flanders doing just that)'' }}
* The pilot to ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo]]'':
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'''Dr. Leeland:''' None of these yahoos are crazy enough to pull that old stunt.
'''Poison Ivy:''' ''(in her cell and upon hearing this)'' Ha!
''([[Gilligan Cut|cut to Harley Quinn in a washing machine]])''
'''Harley Quinn:''' Help help! Ivy! Anybody! Get me out of here! }}
* In ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' Season 3 premiere, we learn in a flashback that The Monarch used to work as Phantom Limb's henchman while moonlighting as The Monarch and seduced Dr. Girlfriend during this period. When Phantom Limb catches them in the act, he doesn't recognize him (as he's off uniform) and demands he identify himself. The Monarch then makes up the name "Manotaur" on the spot after [[Line-of-Sight Name|looking at the big "M" on the hood of the Monarchmobile]]. Phantom Limb is then summoned by the Council and before leaving tells "Manotaur" he is now on Phantom Limb's "shit list". The present Dr. Girlfriend, who is learning of this via video footage, claims it's impossible that Phantom Limb (probably the most competent and intelligent villain on the show) would be stupid enough to fail to recognize his own henchman. [[Brick Joke|In the episode's epilogue]], we see {{spoiler|a still living but injured}} Phantom Limb descending on a retired, completely innocent, and looking-nothing-like-the-Monarch Manotaur...
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{{quote|'''Mr. Plotz:''' There must be someone who can deliver this stuff / But where can I find someone stupid enough?}}
* In the ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode "Escape from Leprechaupolis", Frylock receives an obvious scam in his email.
{{quote|'''Frylock:''' ''(reading e-mail)'' "Go down to the park and step into the rainbow and you'll be [[Get Rich Quick Scheme|rich with gold]]. [[Chain Letter|Forward this to 20 people]] or '''[[Disproportionate Retribution|we will burn your brain from the inside.]] Go down to the damn park'''." Man, who would be stupid enough to check this out?
''[[Gilligan Cut|(cut to Carl, waiting at the park)]]''
'''Carl:''' All right, I'm gonna give this rainbow thing another five minutes, and if it doesn't show up quick, then I am going down to the store and get a hot-rod magazine. (They got the chick with the boobs.) }}
* Used indirectly on ''[[Invader Zim]]''. The episode "Bad Bad Rubber Piggy" opens on an episode of Professor Membrane's show about time travel. After demonstrating [[Butterfly of Doom|the consequences of time travel]], Membrane proclaims "anyone who would build a space-time object replacement device is a complete ''moron''!". Guess what Zim's doing at that exact moment?
* In the [[Beach Episode]] of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when seeing people dancing on TV, Heloise mutters "Who dances like that?" in a clearly condesending tone. Naturally, [[Right in Front of Me|Jimmy and Beezy]] provide the answer.
* Lampshaded in an episode of ''[[American Dad]]'' ("Finances with Wolves"). The family is in a mall and Hayley is griping about the consumerism run rampant. She asks what kind of idiot would buy into all this; [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|Steve sighs heavily and says]] [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud|"And we widen to reveal..."]], at which point Stan enters the scene covered in useless junk (and a jacket made of money).
* At least once, the narrator would ask "But who would be stupid enough to [plot contrivance]?" as a lead-in to an entry by [[Rocky and Bullwinkle|Bullwinkle]] - "''I'' would!"
* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000" the kids are running a tooth racket where they collect the money from under other kid's pillows. A sting operation is set up to catch them in the act, with a news report about a kid getting $600 and his exact location.
{{quote|'''Cameraman''': Naw, come on. D'ya really think anyone will fall for somethin' that stupid?
'''[[Answer Cut|Cartman]]''': Six hundred dollars, you guys! Come on, get your stuff together! }}
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* Ditto for diploma mills—phony universities that thrive on the USA's legal voids and loopholes, which sell diplomas without even teaching anything. Google about "diploma mill" and you'll see ''many'' stories of people who actually ''believed'' they were now experts in computer science after buying their diplomas without even studying anything, who were shocked beyond belief when they found out their diploma was rendered null and void after the "university" was raided.
* Who would be stupid enough to launch an invasion of Finland during a harsh winter, while deliberately not using any soldiers from similarly cold regions near the Finnish border (out of paranoid fears that they'd be too sympathetic with the Finns)? [[Josef Stalin]], that's who. The result was [[Pyrrhic Victory|technically a Soviet victory]], but only through [[Zerg Rush|overwhelming the Finnish defenses through sheer numbers]]. As one Soviet general put it, "We have won enough ground to bury our dead." This embarrassing performance against the vastly smaller and more poorly equipped Finnish Army, incidentally, was a major factor in [[Adolf Hitler]] thinking he could duplicate Batu Khan's feat of conquering Russia. [[It Was His Sled|(He couldn't.)]]
* Stalin himself invoked this trope almost word for word when aviation minister Mikhail Khrunichev and aircraft designer A. S. Yakovlev proposed to buy advanced jet engines from the British. "What fool will sell us his secrets?" At the time jet engines were revolutionary technology and selling them would be the equivalent of selling stealth technology to your worst enemy today. Turned out the British Labour government was that stupid. They sold the Rolls Royce Nene to the Soviets who put it in the [[Cool Plane|MIG 15]]. The Mig gave air superiority to the [[Dirty Communists|North Koreans]] during the first stages of [[The Korean War]], before the appearance of the F-86 Sabre. Just to add insult to injury, they never paid the British the licensing fees either.
* Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Japanese Navy's "Shō-Gō 1 Plan" was for a decoy fleet, the Northern Force, to get the attention of the US Navy's covering forces and draw them away so that their Center and Southern Forces could attack the American Landing Zones at Leyte Island. William F. Halsey, commander of the USN 3rd Fleet, fell for the ruse by speeding after them with all of his ships, leaving a handful of Destroyers and Escort Carriers at the mercy of attack by Takeo Kurita's Center Force which occurred near Samar Island.
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