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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBearsBigChapterBooks'': Acknowledged in narration rather than dialogue at the end of ''The Berenstain Bears' Media Madness''. After winning ''[[ShowWithinAShow Talent Hunt]]'' and its grand prize of appearing on station WBBC in Big Bear City, Too-Tall and his gang get a call from an agent who wants them to make a demo record in Bearville. Too-Tall turns it down because, as the narration says, "The agent turned out to be that well-known swindler Ralph Ripoff. And not even Too-Tall was dumb enough to make a business deal with Ralph."
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This will usually lead to HypocrisyNod and SelfDeprecation. Compare TooDumbToFool, who is dumb, but not gullible, SmarterThanYouLook, for when somebody appears to be dumb but they're not, and GoodIsNotDumb, when someone who is good gets underestimated because of it. The inverse is WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, for when somebody ''really is'' that dumb. MurphysLaw (the original one) points out that you can't rely on this, because ''someone, somewhere'' is that dumb. See DumbassHasAPoint.

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This will usually lead to HypocrisyNod and SelfDeprecation. Compare TooDumbToFool, who is dumb, but not gullible, SmarterThanYouLook, for when somebody appears to be dumb but they're not, UnderestimatingIntelligence, when someone fails to manipulate another because of the latter's intelligence, and GoodIsNotDumb, when someone who is good gets underestimated because of it. The inverse is WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, for when somebody ''really is'' that dumb. MurphysLaw (the original one) points out that you can't rely on this, because ''someone, somewhere'' is that dumb. See DumbassHasAPoint.

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