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There is a problem. A dramatic, elaborate, and dangerous (and sometimes, pretty darn cool) solution is proposed to solve it. It's the Only Way! Then some other jerk points out that a much simpler Mundane Solution exists that would probably be more effective. Most often, it's a villain (usually of the Diabolical Mastermind or Evil Overlord variety) proposing the complicated scheme, and it is a savvy minion (or occasionally even The Hero himself) questioning their boss's grade-A Bond Villain Stupidity. However, it's not unheard of for clever villains to brag about the fact that they're eschewing elaborate Death Traps and intend to just shoot the hero, making them a No-Nonsense Nemesis. Sometimes, it's a Hyper-Competent Sidekick wondering why the hero is adhering to Honor Before Reason. There are fanfictions written for this sole purpose. If nobody states the simple solution until after they've spent the whole story on the Zany Scheme, it's a "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot. See also Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?, Sherlock Can Read, Actually a Good Idea, Lampshade Hanging, and Impossibly Mundane Explanation. Just Eat Gilligan is built around not having anyone do this. If someone actually does the simple solution, Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs. If the simple solution is well acknowledged as an oversight, expect Didn't Think This Through to be a response. If someone gives an actual reason not to take the simple solution, it's Simple Solution Won't Work. |
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When reviewing the various Hydlide games, to compare the game to literal shit he quotes Harry G. Frankfurt's essay On Bullshit which gives an elaborate theory on why people find feces repulsive to which he gives a much more simple solution to the question: | |
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The Funniest Minecraft Videos Ever: In the "Prison Escape" video, Jack Manifold is in prison in order to stay away from his wife. He's there because she's not there; when she dies, he gets to leave. Tommy points out that he could just go to, say, Argentina, because she's not there either. | |
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Linus Tech Tips: In "My monitor just got an UPGRADE," Linus goes through the arduous task of VESA mounting two very heavy 32:9 monitors on top of each other. At the end: | |
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When JonTron and Internet Historian did Future, their biggest criticism with Walmart's virtual reality online store evokes this. They bluntly ask who, in their right mind, would want to do shopping in a virtual store with an actual shopping cart and having to find their products that way, all the while being haunted by a virtual reality assistant, when you could just have a simple interface where you find products on a website either by browsing or searching and then select what you'd like to buy. And then point out this system already exists and has for quite some time. | |
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In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Guildenstern, taking Hamlet's claim that " I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw" literally, and then gets more and more convoluted in his attempt to work out where southerly actually is, until Rosencrantz suggests going and having a look. Guildenstern retorts "Pragmatism?! Is that all you have to offer? You seem to have no conception of where we stand! You're not going to find the answer waiting for you in the bowl of a compass, I can tell you that!" (This is indicative of their dealing with the more philosophical aspects of the play; Guildenstern trying to work things out from first principles, but unable to do so because he has no starting position, and Rosencrantz suggesting things that are more straightforward, but are equally stimmied by the void they find themselves in.) | |
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Umineko: When They Cry: This is used to solve the Closed Circle mystery of episode 2's First Twilight - how was the killer able to get 6 people inside the chapel when only Maria had the key and Rosa is absolutely sure that the door to the chapel was locked? Simple - Rosa is lying about the chapel being locked. Similar principles solve many of the other Twilights, in fact. Just figure out who is lying. | |
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Steam Train: When playing Besiege, after attempting to create hilariously and stupidly overly complex contraptions like "The Fuck-O-Matic", only for things to keep going awry and realizing the only times he's beaten levels are when he's gotten lucky and accidentally stumbled into victory, he ultimately has an epiphany and decides to make things much more simple. Hilariously, this is subverted in the very next mission, since the developers anticipated this strategy. The next mission has archers who snipe the bombs from a distance, blowing his bomb truck to hell and back before it even gets close, forcing him to once again begin building more complex contraptions. When playing King's Quest VI, Dan gets so wrapped up in trying to solve the very strange Alice in Wonderland style puzzles on the Isle Of Wonder that he completely forgets to try just walking through the gate to Chessboard Land. Ross has to point this one out to him: |
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A variation of this happens in the Venom Pitch Meeting, only directed at the Screenwriter himself as opposed to the characters in the film. At the beginning of the film, the two Simbiotes land in Malaysia, and Venom is taken back to the lab, and Riot escapes. The Screenwriter then talks about all the legwork he had to do in order to get Eddie Brock into the lab so that he could bond with Venom as well as get Riot into the lab so that it could bond with Drake.note So a scientist working for Drake goes and talks to Eddie Brock to report about Drake performing experiments on Homeless people, and helps him break into the lab so that he could take pictures of it, as opposed to simply taking the pictures herself. Then Eddie finds the Venom Symbiote and bonds with it. Meanwhile, Riot latches onto an elderly woman in Malaysia and spends six months aimlessly wandering around before latching onto a young girl who is about to fly to America. The young girl then somehow gets into the secure lab so that Riot can bond with Drake. The screenwriter even says that it will probably be the "least fun" part of the movie but he needed to somehow get everyone into their positions so that the plot could get going in earnest. The Producer points out that he could eliminate the need to do all that legwork by simply having Venom be the one who escapes at the beginning. After admitting that the chance could "Save about 45 minutes of crap and make the whole thing a lot more fun to watch..." the Screenwriter refuses to make the change because he "doesn't want to." | |
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Cracked: "The 6 Most Pointlessly Elaborate Movie Murder Plots" offers a simple solution after the end of every such plot. After going through each plot, the alternative the article suggests is a much simpler plan that always ends with "shoot the target in the face." The exception is number 4 (the explosive toy car) could actually be a sneaky way to do it with modern technology. "Was 9/11 an Inside Job?" goes over the Loose Change video and the theory that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were orchestrated by the American government. After going over how ridiculously complicated, intricate, and elaborate such a conspiracy would have to be, along with debunking the authenticity of the claims in Loose Change, the article concludes "No, 9/11 wasn't an inside job; the conspiracy theorists just want to feel like the smartest people in the room." |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin is worried over Rosalyn coming over to babysit again, and unsure of how to handle it. Hobbes suggests that maybe they could try being good for a change. Calvin incredulously asks him to repeat that. Hobbes just says, "Nothing. Forget it." In another comic, Calvin is plotting out an elaborate plan to hit Susie, who is playing with her doll, with water balloons. Hobbes suggests that they just ambush her while she's sitting, to which Calvin says Hobbes lacks "an executive mind". |
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Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: Comes up often. Usually, the Screenwriter will describe characters doing something elaborate and dramatic but totally nonsensical when there is a much more straightforward solution to the problem that the Producer will point out. A variation of this happens in the Venom Pitch Meeting, only directed at the Screenwriter himself as opposed to the characters in the film. At the beginning of the film, the two Simbiotes land in Malaysia, and Venom is taken back to the lab, and Riot escapes. The Screenwriter then talks about all the legwork he had to do in order to get Eddie Brock into the lab so that he could bond with Venom as well as get Riot into the lab so that it could bond with Drake.note So a scientist working for Drake goes and talks to Eddie Brock to report about Drake performing experiments on Homeless people, and helps him break into the lab so that he could take pictures of it, as opposed to simply taking the pictures herself. Then Eddie finds the Venom Symbiote and bonds with it. Meanwhile, Riot latches onto an elderly woman in Malaysia and spends six months aimlessly wandering around before latching onto a young girl who is about to fly to America. The young girl then somehow gets into the secure lab so that Riot can bond with Drake. The screenwriter even says that it will probably be the "least fun" part of the movie but he needed to somehow get everyone into their positions so that the plot could get going in earnest. The Producer points out that he could eliminate the need to do all that legwork by simply having Venom be the one who escapes at the beginning. After admitting that the chance could "Save about 45 minutes of crap and make the whole thing a lot more fun to watch..." the Screenwriter refuses to make the change because he "doesn't want to." |
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Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. Episode 2 of Baited - "The Professional," features a standard refund scam in which supposedly too much money is transferred into Kitboga's fake bank and he needs to return it via gift cards. He spends over a half-hour running the scammer in circles, suggesting other, simpler methods by which they could get it sorted out, such as simply transferring the money back to him, or calling his bank. This has become a favored tactic in most of his videos, along with calling their bluff when they drop the facade and begin attempting to blackmail him by threatening to take all his money if he doesn't pay the amount they are requesting: he'll ask why they didn't just do that instead of dicking him around with gift cards if they were able. | |
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Dreamscape: In episode 7, when Kaila expresses interest in obtaining a Mechelly, which is a Robot Buddy protector that will follow your orders even if you are evil, Keela points out that she and Kaila know next to nothing about Mechellies, so there is no way Kaila could acquire one. Kaila's response? Just ask someone. | |
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In Darwin's Soldiers: Scrodinger's Prisoners, Dr. Shelton and a soldier have to get through a room with an angry doctor. The soldier suggests this as an option. Turns out that's pretty much what they do. | |
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In Campaign 3 of Critical Role, the group needs to get the name of a dwarf that they're looking for, managing to track his last known location to an inn. While everyone is discussing how to get the name from the tavern's owner — mostly coming up with ideas that are either risky or illegal — Ashton suggests just bribing the tavern owner to tell them the name of the dwarf. Twenty gold and some sly wording later, Ashton has a name. | |
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When The Nostalgia Critic is watching Jurassic Park, he harshly criticizes the opening scene where the park worker is killed by the velociraptor, noting the glaring Idiot Ball-ness of the scene and how there were dozens of much easier and safer ways to get that thing into the pen. | |
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Sherman's Lagoon: This strip has Hawthorne and Sherman asking Kahuna to turn them into a dog and a human respectively so that they can win $1,000 in a dog show. Kahuna's response is "Why not just ask Kahuna for $1,000?" | |
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Fate Series: In Fate/stay night's Heaven's Feel scenario, True Assassin points out to his master that the easy and pragmatic thing would probably be to have him kill Shirou and Rin, who are running around like headless chickens desperately trying to find a way to defeat the Shadow that's eating half the town. Said master, who is an utter sadist, replies that it's more fun to do nothing, watch them fail, and have the Shadow kill them. This comes back to bite Zouken in the ass when the Shadow, which is Sakura, kills him and True Assassin. In Week 3 of Fate/EXTRA, you and your Servant figure out that the way to escape Caster's identity-erasing Reality Marble is to remember your name after it's erased. When you ask Rin how to do this, she suggests writing it down. Fate/strange Fake: At one point, Gilgamesh suggests to his Master Tine Chelc that rather than waste time searching for and fighting the other Servants, they could win the Holy Grail War if he blows up the entire city with Ea since all the other Servants and Masters should be somewhere within. Tine balks at the suggestion, not wanting to sacrifice the townspeople. Gilgamesh shrugs and says he just wanted to see how she would react. |
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The bread and butter of How It Should Have Ended — stating the far simpler and/or funnier way to solve the problem of the story than what the characters in the movie did. Examples include the Jurassic World park containing the Indominus Rex by such simple measures as not putting in a dinosaur-sized exit to the habitat and building a moat inside it (something real-life zoos very often do), Bucky avoiding his conditioning being activated by plugging his ears, and June preventing the whole plot of the film by making sure that the statue in which the Enchantress was trapped is never damaged or broken (like a good archaeologist should). However, it's also sometimes Deconstructed, like in the Inside Out HISHE, in which the simple method leads to Bing-Bong revealing the existence of the Mind World to Riley, causing her to go insane. | |
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When the The 8-Bit Guy is talking about getting 80 columns on the Commodore 64 he gives four possible methods. The first one involves doing it in software which is slow and eats up a good chunk of the machine's already limited memory, and the second two involve two third-party add-on cartridges that are rare, costly, and support next to no software. The fourth solution, though? Just buy a Commodore 128 which has full Commodore 64 compatibility as well as native 80 columns support. | |
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Fate/strange Fake: At one point, Gilgamesh suggests to his Master Tine Chelc that rather than waste time searching for and fighting the other Servants, they could win the Holy Grail War if he blows up the entire city with Ea since all the other Servants and Masters should be somewhere within. Tine balks at the suggestion, not wanting to sacrifice the townspeople. Gilgamesh shrugs and says he just wanted to see how she would react. | |
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Epithet Erased: Indus, being prone to using his Barrier epithet to solve all his problems, attempts to free Molly from duct tape by smacking the chair with a doughnut-sized barrier. Molly encourages him to try just using his hands like a normal person. Mera's plan is to use a magic amulet to steal Molly's powers and use them to negate the downside of her own, which brings with it debilitating fragility and pain. Molly points out that she could just use the power to remove her own epithet, which would save her both time and effort. Unfortunately, Mera is a big fan of the Sunk Cost Fallacy. |
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In "Bowser Junior's Time Out", Bowser Jr.'s plan to get his Barbie Future Dictator of the World set from his father's bedroom was to learn how to dig a hole to China and come back at the other side of the door. Koopa tells him he could've just opened the door since it probably wasn't locked, which is something Junior didn't realize until 3 hours of digging. | |
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On Taskmaster: This often pops up during the on-stage segments where Greg or Alex will point out much simpler way the contestant could have done the challenge. Sometimes they enforce it as well by giving a task to a contestant which is apparently just a Luck-Based Mission, have them come up with ludicrously complicated means of finding the answer (or just guess and hope for the best), and then tell them that the answer was in plain sight and they didn't have to "solve" it at all. The Pendulum Draws The Eye had a task which involved finding which sock, out of fifty, contained a satsuma orange with very limited means of searching them. During the show they were told that the giant number 8 on the side of the caravan, which normally isn't there, referred to which sock contained the orange. And sometimes the contestants just do something silly on their own, often while trying to be smart, only for Greg or Alex to point out there was a much simpler way. The Series 4 finale prize task was to bring in the most money. Mel brought in nearly a million pounds... but most of it was Monopoly money with only 240 pounds on top. Alex points out that she genuinely did bring in 970,000 pounds worth of Monopoly money, that is 48 board games worth, then points out that had she just brought in the 815 pounds she spent buying all the Monopoly boards it would have been much more than anyone else had brought in so farnote Hugh brought in 2 million in Vietnamese Dong, worth about 72 pounds, Joe brought in 250 pounds worth of pennies, Noel brought in a currency he invented, and Lolly hadn't gone yet. You practically see the color drain out of her when the realization hits her. While Lolly still would have won (she brought in a blank cheque to go one pence above whoever had the most, and also 2000 pounds as a backup), Mel would have gotten 2nd instead of 4th had she not put in the extra effort. |
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Dan Avidan of Game Grumps describing how the Endoraptor of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom worked and why he thinks it's utterly ridiculous: | |
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Red vs. Blue: Grif seems to frequently do this in response to Sarge's crazy plans. When the Reds spy on the Blues with the scopes of their sniper rifles, Donut points out that if they can see their enemies, they can shoot them right now. Sarge refuses, saying not killing your enemies up close and personal is not very satisfying. When Agent Washington first visits Blood Gulch, he finds that with most of the teams reassigned, the "war" for the canyon has devolved into an "epic stalemate" between Sarge and Lopez on Red Team, and Sister on Blue Team. Wash points out to Sarge that since he has a 2-1 advantage, he could very easily just attack Sister and finish it. Sarge, of course, refuses to fight a girl. Later on, Tex is laying an utter smackdown on the Reds and Tucker. Tucker - whose armor got colored black after going through a teleporter - is tackled by Tex and she's trying to beat him up. Meanwhile, Simmons has a rocket launcher and he's trying to figure out which black-armored figure to shoot. In the "Where There's a Will There's a Wall" mini-series, Lopez points out that Simmons could just use the sniper rifle to shoot the Blue Team instead of using the scope to spy on them. Since no one understands Spanish, his suggestion is ignored. During Singularity, Wash is using Mental Time Travel to figure out where Carolina was in-between the flashback segments of Season 10 and the present day. Unfortunately, he's traveled back to a time period where he was the resident Butt-Monkey and got no respect. As he bemoans his problems to The Triplets, they point out to him that since he can travel to anywhere along his own timeline, he should just travel into the future to when he and Carolina are good friends and he can just ask her then. After a lengthy Stunned Silence, Wash immediately tries that out and gets an answer, causing him to scream in utter rage about how he "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot. |
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When Jarvis Johnson is being subjected to Troom Troom's surreal DIY videos in his Troom Troom is Actually The Worst Channel on Youtube video, after seeing numerous nonsensical life hacks to deal with body fatigue when using computers he points out how they could just avoid these weird maladies by sitting properly. | |
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LegalEagle, during his analysis of Liar Liar, points out a number of times where Fletcher could have gotten around things by being completely honest — that is not by using a half-truth or just refusing to speak. Like when Fletcher wants a continuance because he can't lie, it's explained he could have pointed out that the previous lawyer withdrew just yesterday and he's a brand-new lawyer on the case: this would be a more than valid reason for a continuance, as a lawyer needs ample time to familiarize himself with a case. | |
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When playing King's Quest VI, Dan gets so wrapped up in trying to solve the very strange Alice in Wonderland style puzzles on the Isle Of Wonder that he completely forgets to try just walking through the gate to Chessboard Land. Ross has to point this one out to him: | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd: When reviewing the Game.com he talks about its Internet capabilities and explains how it required a wired connection to a modem since this was the days before wifi. So, you could buy the Game.com, plug it into your modem, and navigate through it's tiny text-only touch screen, but since you don't own a modem with Internet for no reason and can't leave the house with it anyways... When reviewing the various Hydlide games, to compare the game to literal shit he quotes Harry G. Frankfurt's essay On Bullshit which gives an elaborate theory on why people find feces repulsive to which he gives a much more simple solution to the question: During his Making Of episode when talking about how he does all the special effects for the Nerd episodes, he states he uses Photoshop to create them and then inserts them with Final Cut Pro on the advice of Dave Willis. Having met Willis in a bar, he asked him for advice on how to do special effects and, rather than getting a grandiose explanation, was simply told "Just do it in Photoshop!" |
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In Week 3 of Fate/EXTRA, you and your Servant figure out that the way to escape Caster's identity-erasing Reality Marble is to remember your name after it's erased. When you ask Rin how to do this, she suggests writing it down. | |
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A winter-themed Peanuts Sunday strip from the '60s has Charlie Brown worrying about Snoopy getting cold at night, telling Linus and Lucy he's tried giving him blankets, giving him straw, etc. Linus then suggests that Snoopy try sleeping inside his doghouse instead of on top of it. The others look at him like he's got rocks in his head, leading to Linus admitting in the final panel that "it was sort of a ridiculous suggestion". | |
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When playing Besiege, after attempting to create hilariously and stupidly overly complex contraptions like "The Fuck-O-Matic", only for things to keep going awry and realizing the only times he's beaten levels are when he's gotten lucky and accidentally stumbled into victory, he ultimately has an epiphany and decides to make things much more simple. Hilariously, this is subverted in the very next mission, since the developers anticipated this strategy. The next mission has archers who snipe the bombs from a distance, blowing his bomb truck to hell and back before it even gets close, forcing him to once again begin building more complex contraptions. |
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FoxTrot: One Sunday strip shows Jason plotting out an elaborate Rube Goldberg Device that will light a fake halo over his bed just as Santa Claus is visiting the house, which he thinks will inspire Santa to give him more presents. His mother Andy, looking at the plans, cocks an eyebrow and asks, "Wouldn't it be easier to just actually be good?"; Jason replies "Yeah, right." Another strip has Jason proudly show Peter how he's traced over every line in his comic book with glow-in-the-dark ink, so he can read it past his bedtime. Peter points out, "Couldn't you just hide a flashlight under your covers?" |
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Hello Internet: In one episode, Grey laments that try as he might, he can't find a collared shirt with the exact attributes he wants. He's gotten so frustrated about this that he has occasionally, but very seriously, considered starting a small factory just to create the shirts he wants. In the next episode's follow-up, Myke mentions that many fans asked why Grey didn't just go to a tailor. Grey admits that this had never occurred to him, partly because he unconsciously thought of tailors as something from a bygone era. | |
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In Fate/stay night's Heaven's Feel scenario, True Assassin points out to his master that the easy and pragmatic thing would probably be to have him kill Shirou and Rin, who are running around like headless chickens desperately trying to find a way to defeat the Shadow that's eating half the town. Said master, who is an utter sadist, replies that it's more fun to do nothing, watch them fail, and have the Shadow kill them. This comes back to bite Zouken in the ass when the Shadow, which is Sakura, kills him and True Assassin. | |
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Clone Spoony then reveals he's reviewing Final Fantasy X prompting Original!Spoony to shoot himself and change back into a Black Lantern. Yeah, it's complicated. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: While most of the students are breaking their brains puzzling over how the killer of chapter 1 managed to move around during a blackout and throwing out ever more outlandish solutions, Akane puts forward that the killer had their own light source. This is true- it was the flame from a portable stove. | |
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Inverted in Dick Tracy when Flattop has abducted Tracy and intends to kill him. His henchmen suggest that he allow them to simply slash Tracy's throat because it would be quieter while being just as effective. However, Flattop overrules them because he prefers to shoot his targets. That proves to be a big mistake when Flattop prepares to do that on a count of three. Tracy lunges toward the killer to seize his gun and a wild battle ensues, where Tracy is able to defeat all the crooks at once, even as his comrades in the force are storming the hideout. | |
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The Spoony Experiment: When Original!Spoony shows up intending to take back his show from Clone!Spoony: Clone Spoony then reveals he's reviewing Final Fantasy X prompting Original!Spoony to shoot himself and change back into a Black Lantern. Yeah, it's complicated. |
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S&D Tier: Morgan has an affinity for planning high-stakes, overly-complex heists that take months to prepare. Their best friend Alex is the most powerful supervillain in the world and completely unkillable, and would do anything for Morgan. Alex repeatedly emphasizes that they'd be glad to just walk in, kill or otherwise incapacitate anyone who got in the way, take the prize, and bring it to them, and they could easily accomplish this in five minutes or less. Morgan refuses to take them up on it, as that would take all the fun out of it. | |
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Oddly enough, Arcueid in Tsukihime asks Nero this — technically, she points out he's been messing around too much by making Shiki suffer, which just triggered his Nanaya side — after Nero decides he's going to have fun and slowly eat Shiki instead of killing him outright. After Shiki starts kicking his ass, he realizes maybe it would have been a better idea not to play with his food. | |
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And sometimes the contestants just do something silly on their own, often while trying to be smart, only for Greg or Alex to point out there was a much simpler way. The Series 4 finale prize task was to bring in the most money. Mel brought in nearly a million pounds... but most of it was Monopoly money with only 240 pounds on top. Alex points out that she genuinely did bring in 970,000 pounds worth of Monopoly money, that is 48 board games worth, then points out that had she just brought in the 815 pounds she spent buying all the Monopoly boards it would have been much more than anyone else had brought in so farnote Hugh brought in 2 million in Vietnamese Dong, worth about 72 pounds, Joe brought in 250 pounds worth of pennies, Noel brought in a currency he invented, and Lolly hadn't gone yet. You practically see the color drain out of her when the realization hits her. While Lolly still would have won (she brought in a blank cheque to go one pence above whoever had the most, and also 2000 pounds as a backup), Mel would have gotten 2nd instead of 4th had she not put in the extra effort. | |
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In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, a group of students try to leave the school and discover that the front doors and windows are locked. They start to panic, with one of them picking up a guitar to smash one of the windows. Cue one of the students asking why they don't just try the emergency exit, or ask one of the teachers what's up. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: Skewered in a sketch about two kings suffering from really bad communication problems. A third party, stuck between the two bickering kings and fed up of the whole mess, suggests rather than sending messengers back and forth (thereby messing up the fields where they live) the king just Shoot the Messenger. The messenger tries pointing out the reason this is frowned upon, and then that if it's such a problem the king could just give him the day off, but by the time he says this, the king's already shot him. When King Herod learns about Jesus, he tries ordering the death of every infant under the age of two. His aide tries pointing out the sheer monstrousness and impracticality of such a response, and that if Jesus has just been born he's obviously not going to look like a two year old, and if by some freak of coincidence their target slips the net Judea will be suffering a public relations nightmare. The aide then says if he's that fussed he could send two guards to check the stables for a new born baby, but Herod insists on the infanticide regardless. |
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The second Strong Bad Email is someone asking Strong Bad that if he hates "Homsar" so much, why doesn't he just kill him? Strong Bad responds that he is utterly right and dumps a "Heavy Lourde" at a newly invented character called Homsar (who did not exist up to this point and had little to no relation to Strong Bad's actual nemesis "Homestar"). Homsar would later prove to be Not Quite Dead and became an ongoing Easter Egg and Ensemble Dark Horse of the series. | |
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StacheBros: In "Bowser Junior's Time Out", Bowser Jr.'s plan to get his Barbie Future Dictator of the World set from his father's bedroom was to learn how to dig a hole to China and come back at the other side of the door. Koopa tells him he could've just opened the door since it probably wasn't locked, which is something Junior didn't realize until 3 hours of digging. In "Home Alone", when Wario and Waluigi try to get past a door in Bowser's Castle with a heated doorknob, Waluigi tries sneaking underneath the door since he's so skinny, but Bowser Jr. electrocutes him with an Amp. Afterwards, Wario gets in by simply pushing the door open. |
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From the set of The Lord of the Rings: "Why don't I just zap them?" "Be-because your batteries are low. You can't get any AA's in the city. You've tried, but... gone to every chemist in the city but none of them have AA batteries." | |
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In one episode of Mission to Zyxx the crew is burdened with an overly complicated orders during a mission to disrupt Ted Ronka's political campaign. | |
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