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Moose Are Idiots
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In Real Life, moose, Alces alces, are at least moderately intelligent as far as animals go, and there's nothing to say they aren't at least as smart as other deer species. In fiction, however, they can be shown as very dumb. At best, they are a bit slow on the uptake, and at worst, they can even be portrayed as Too Dumb to Live. They very often speak with a Simpleton Voice. Likely due to the inherently funny name and rather goofy appearance, moose are the only species of deer portrayed as stupid in fiction rather than graceful or marvelous, including themselves under the older name "(Eurasian) elk" note (not to be confused with Cervus canadensis, the large deer species referred to as "elk" or "wapiti" in North America). And no, there's absolutely no difference. "Moose" is just the Abenaki name, which caught on in the East around the same time the Lewis and Clark expedition found the similar-looking Northwestern "elk". They are also the largest extant species of deer which, paired with their enormous antlers, often translates into "big and clumsy". More negative portrayals of moose will have them be The Brute with Dumb Muscle tendencies, like Angry, Angry Hippos. See Dogs Are Dumb, Doofy Dodo, Unwise Owl and Dumb Dinos for other animals portrayed as having similarly low intelligence. |
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Despite only looking like a moose, Yakkity Yak is a Too Dumb to Live yak for fits in this trope. | |
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Rutt and Tuke, the moose brothers from Brother Bear. They managed to crash a mammoth in a mountain, if their idiocy means anything. | |
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Downplayed with the title protagonist of Super Agent Jon Le Bon* Although he looks more like a deer, which is even pointed out in-universe.; while Jon understands basic concepts and his responsibilities at the Agency, he's got a childlike mindset and isn't quite all there. It's attributed to the fact that the other agents were too busy to raise him frequently after he was left on their doorstep. | |
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In Camp Lazlo, Scoutmaster Lumpus is a moose. He is an extremely incompetent, apathetic Jerkass Woobie who doesn't even like being a scoutmaster. As a Running Gag, he has trouble identifying Clam's species (a pygmy rhino). On the other hand, as a nature lover, he is useful to the scouts because he fights the system to keep the camp open. | |
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Yin Yang Yo!: Ultimoose, the first villain faced by Yin and Yang, is Testosterone Poisoning incarnate, but not much else. This is actually more of a conscious choice for him, as he considers books and smarts to be too girly for his tastes. | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: Inverted again with Ellie. Ellie is a moose, but she's clearly smart enough to be an EMT. | |
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If You Give a Moose a Muffin, a sort-of sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. In the animated series, he doesn't really see all that dumb, but still has the typical stupid-sounding voice associated with a dumb moose. | |
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In Strawberry Death Cake, Winston is very eccentric and has a quirky personality, often coming off as a simpleton, or at least absent minded, but at other times displays a vast knowledge of the supernatural. A possible explanation lies in the fact that he is a weremoose and was originally a full human. The full details of his curse have yet to be revealed. | |
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Played with in Kemono Friends: Moose is more Hot-Blooded than stupid, but she always uses the same strategy of charging directly at the battle without ever thinking how. Truth in Television, as normal moose will exactly do that in Real Life with its antlers. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Party Moose," Layla attempts to scare the moose off the runway by buzzing it with a low pass. The moose doesn't even notice the enormous "bird" swooping down on it, and just continues to graze. | |
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The sequel to Bambi, Bambi 2, had an old grouchy porcupine insult Bambi's father, the Great Prince of the Forest, by calling him a "big moose". | |
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Bullwinkle J. Moose of Rocky and Bullwinkle is the Trope Codifier, if not the Ur-Example. | |
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Blue Moose: Averted. The titular moose not only speaks English and French, he is not tame and he resents any implication that he is. | |
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Balto III: Wings of Change offers a darker take on the trope, tying back into real-life moose behavior. The bull moose the heroes encounter on their journey to save Boris and Duke is clearly not the brightest bulb but he’s still a hulking and highly territorial beast whose answer to everything is to charge at it. Balto and co only escape him once a rival moose shows up and the two lock antlers. The two moose also talk and act like stereotypical mobsters. | |
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In the online version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg writes a report on moose. His only true fact is one he recalls from reading a book called Dumb Animals. | |
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Semi-subverted with Mr. Moose on Captain Kangaroo. Not the brightest puppet a hand could control, but he could still trick the Captain to say something that will have ping pong balls raining down on him. | |
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The moose in the Heckle and Jeckle cartoon "Moose On The Loose" is pretty bright, getting the best of the two at the cartoon's end. | |
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The Mickey Mouse short Moose Hunters. "Kiss me!" | |
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Numb Chucks: Inverted with Hooves, a decently smart Neat Freak moose who actually suffers from the stupidity of the two woodchuck protagonists. Though admittedly, he once tried to limit contact with bathroom germs by wrapping himself in toilet paper. | |
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Lumpy from Happy Tree Friends is the absolute epitome of this trope, and provides the current page image. He frequently does stupid things that endanger the lives of the other cast members (often even himself), and tends to do very incompetent things. As a matter of fact, he's Lethally Stupid to the point that he's killed more characters than Flippy (who has an Ax-Crazy Superpowered Evil Side), some cases including Flippy himself. | |
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