History Main / ImprobablyLowIQ

* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'': Marty "Kaboom" Moffat was a man whose career standing close to explosives left him a mite... strange. In the end, he was found unresponsive one morning, rushed to hospital, declared brain-dead and had his organs harvested as per his legally filled-out donor card. The hospital was promptly sued by Moffat's next of kin, who argued that he was alive and well, and simply not a morning person.

* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', Forrest has a somewhat more probable IQ of about 75, which is considered the lowest for "normal" intelligence, or mildly retarded. While low, someone with an IQ of 75 could still go to school, get a job, get married, etc., just as Forrest did. It's notable that in the old days with harsher (or one might say [[ValuesDissonance different]]) terminology, one wasn't considered a "moron" until an IQ of 70, psychologically speaking.

* In C. M. Kornbluth's ''The Marching Morons'', a character states that "the average IQ is now 45". As Website/TheOtherWiki (and [[UsefulNotes/IQTesting our Useful Notes page]]) point out, this is nonsense.

* One rather hilarious detail about Videogame/FalloutNewVegas is that if your intelligence is extremely low or rock-bottom, certain optional speech checks will appear where you're ''so stupid'' that you ''succeed'' either out of pity or pure dumb luck.

* In ''Literature/TheWestingGame'', in Sandy's notes of the other heirs to Westing's will, a note on Otis Joseph Amber is that his I.Q is 50 (Mild to moderate mental retardation, depending on the scale you're looking at). A person with this I.Q would have difficulties on their own, but it's stated that Amber is a delivery boy [[spoiler:and even marries Berthe Erica Crowe after the contest ends.]] When he's around, he acts more [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} nutty]] yet competent than mentally impaired. [[spoiler: [[ObfuscatingStupidity There is a reason for this.]]]]

* In C. M. Kornbluth's ''The Marching Morons'', a character states that "the average IQ is now 45". As Wiki/TheOtherWiki (and [[UsefulNotes/IQTesting our Useful Notes page]]) point out, this is nonsense.

* On the Israeli sitcom ''Shemesh'', the eponymous lead character asks [[TheDitz Sasi]], the cook in his restaurant, if he knows what ‘ICQ’ is.[[note]]This was in an episode that aired in the early [[TheNoughties Noughties]], when ICQ, the first modern instant messaging software, was invented in Israel and became popular; it was later bought by Microsoft and adapted, in a sense, into MSN Messenger.[[/note]] Sasi answers, ‘Of course I do, it’s what I have 12 of!’

* Zig-zagged in Lene Alexandra's "My Boobs Are OK", where the DumbBlonde narrator says that "her cup size and IQ work in harmony". Depending on what measuring system you use, it could mean an IQ in the twenties, one not that far from 100, or that she [[BrokeTheRatingScale somehow got a letter grade for an IQ]]. Maybe she doesn't even know how the system works.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' once gave us this list of beings, in order of intelligence (from 0 to [[ImprobablyHighIQ 1000]]): Amoeba - slug - dog - stone - ape - human - kitchen machine - cat.

* The narrator of ''Stuck in Neutral'' has no conscious control of his muscles, and is typically assumed to be mindless, so his IQ was once measured at 3. (From his narration, he seems to be of above-average intelligence--he's just completely uneducated.)

* Homer Simpson of ''TheSimpsons'' has an IQ of 55 (taking a crayon out of his brain raised it 50 points to 105), but lives in a normal (not really, but within the show, yes) suburban home without any assistance. (The writers have claimed they started him as average, but [[{{Flanderization}} he loses about 5 IQ points a year from radiation]], and now he's basically "a dog who can talk".) Interestingly, his 105 IQ is portrayed as ungodly high--not just in comparison to his peers, but objectively, to the point where he devises a mathematical equation that flawlessly disproves the existence of God.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', the rather drug addled troll named Brick is described at one point as having a possibly negative IQ for comedic effect. Sergeant Detritus is at least once jokingly commented to have a room temperature IQ, but in fact he is no fool and an excellent policeman, if not especially bright. Also subverted in that the comment can be taken literally, as [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Troll's brains]] in Discworld work faster in low temperatures, so his intelligence really is likely to be affected by the room temperature.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Holly the computer, once said to have an IQ of 6000 (equivalent to that of 6000 P.E. teachers or 12000 car-park attendants), has succumbed to computer senility. While trying to prove he's not completely gone, he [[spoiler:he fabricates a back-up computer program called Queeg, who "takes over" ''Red Dwarf'']] in the episode "Queeg". Queeg claims that Holly's IQ was actually 6. ("It's got a six ''in'' it, but it's not six thousand...") Holly [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that 6 would be "a bad IQ for a glass of water."

* [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Stimpy]]; nothing more to be said.

'''Hoss: '''What's wrong with -5?\\

Unlike [[ImprobablyHighIQ the opposite end of the spectrum]], it's much more rare to see one of these scores reach ridiculous levels that don't match up with real world IQ testing. Of course, when it does get ridiculous (to the point of giving negative scores), it's much more jarring. On the other hand, most ''really'' ridiculously low [=IQs=] - single digits, or negative numbers - are found in comedies, where the RuleOfFunny can be blamed, or in-character hyperbole.

* Buck Tuddrussel in''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' is shown to have an IQ of 78, in the episode "Kubla Khan't". Later in "Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Monty Zuma", Larry mocks Tuddrussel in a round of VolleyingInsults by telling him "I tried to measure your IQ, but numbers don't go that low!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'': In "Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Monty Zuma", Larry 3000 mocks Tuddrussel in a round of VolleyingInsults by telling him "I tried to measure your IQ, but numbers don't go that low!"

** However, with trolls, there's an ''inverse'' relationship between temperature and intelligence. Detritus is '''brilliant''' when he's about to freeze to death in the Pork Futures Warehouse, and Mr. Shine is considerably sharper than the run-of-the-mill Discworldian even in "normal" temperatures, being composed of stuff that naturally refracts light instead of absorbing it.

-->''We gave the same test to a shovel and two candy bracelets... [[InanimateCompetitor They scored a positive 17.]]''

->'''Goodvibes: '''I have Billy's IQ test right here. I'm afraid Billy only scored a negative 5.
->'''Hoss: '''What's wrong with -5?
->'''Goodvibes: '''Well, we gave the same test to a shovel and two candy bracelets, they each scored a positive 17.

-->''We gave the same test to a shovel and two candy bracelets... [[RuleOfFunny They scored a positive 17.]]''

* ''VideoGame/{{Awesomenauts}}'' has [[MeaningfulName Derpl]] [[TheIdiot Zork]], a character so dumb he scored lower than ''plankton'' on a galactic IQ test.

* Implied then subverted. [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] claims that Bugs Bunny, in contrast to his genius, can hardly pass the entrance exams to kindergarten. We all know how it all turned out, didn't we?