“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

That's why It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is my favorite show. 100% idiot plots all the way down. They represent some of the worst human beings on Earth, and it's more fun to laugh at the morons than think about how much they're fucking up life for the rest of us...

Does this include the plot points where there’s a misunderstanding in a relationship? Like where a girl sees her boyfriend hug another girl but doesn’t know it’s his cousin or something and instead of talking about it just ignores him and so he ignores her and it’s just dumb and entirely avoidable?

The entirety of American history, or at least since Jan 6, 2021, when Trump would have been immediately arrested and tried for treason in a sane and efficient society

So... the majority of popular sitcoms and movies.

Isn't this the plot of C-SPAN?

I always call the trope "Steve" when I see it.

"Hey look, Steve left the door open so the dinosaurs got out."

"Oh no, Steve forgot to zip his hazmat suit now all the apes are smart."

"Steve took his helmet off on an alien planet because the air smelled fine."

it's also known as life

What do we call it when it happens in real life? The News...
Do I put the /s?

That's the entire "It's always sunny" plot!

just like all the news coming from the US nowadays

Once you learn that term, you start noticing it everywhere in movies and shows. So many conflicts would disappear if just one character asked a simple question. 😅

There is also another similar trope, defined by "Any problem important to the plot that can be solved by 5min honest conversation between participating parties"

This is almost every horror movie or series.

Oh look, the USA

Makes me think of Gilligan's Island. The scientist could make a radio from a coconut, but couldn't fix a hole in the side of a boat, and no one questioned that.

Show should have been over in no more than 2 episodes.

I'm wondering about examples of this sort of movie. Are they talking about obvious ones like Dumb and Dumber, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, etc.?

Or do they mean movies that were supposed to be serious, but are accidentally bad because of bad writing?

See: Alien Earth.

Sons of Anarchy. There's a season ender where some Irish bloke kidnaps a child and sails away. They had to make an entire season in Ireland because these knobheads of criminal but also mechanics can't figure out to follow the kidnapper on water, even though they're standing on a pier with hundreds of boats.

Isn’t this most horror movies? “Oh I’m going off alone”, “let’s check this really dark and creepy area”, “let’s go find the source of that errie noise!” As that all drop one by one.

It makes more sense to me conceptually if I just imagine that most people in this country in the last decade had the tops of their skulls removed, had someone take a dump in there, and then seal it back up.

Seems like there are a lot of 💩🧠s floating around nowadays.

Real Life.

i usually dont have much of a problem with these, but i have seen one example where the protagonist had the super power of super intelligence

In ~~literary criticism~~ world politics