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Stupid Question Bait
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A person who is making a presentation at a panel is taking questions and makes the mistake of asking "Any questions?" instead of asking for questions relevant to the topic at hand. An audience member promptly Comically Misses the Point and asks an irrelevant question. If the person taking questions then asks specifically for questions related to the topic at hand, it's common for either nobody to have any questions or for someone who already asked an off-topic question to repeat the same question and reword it so it's faintly related to the topic. A variant is where a character asks 'any questions', then places a criteria on the questions that causes everyone to retract their question, usually depicted with Hands Go Down. Ask a Stupid Question... is a related concept. |
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Star Trek Online: The Foundry mission "Bait and Switch" has a mission briefing scene. The admiral finishes her briefing and asks for questions. One of the dialogue options, even labeled "Ask a silly question," has the Player Character ask where they got the name "Operation Blue Friday" for the mission. (See also the mission's novelization Bait and Switch, in Fan Works.) | |
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The Simpsons: In "Marge vs. the Monorail" when Lyle Lanley is doing a presentation in Lisa's class. When ex-president George Bush moves to the neighbourhood, Homer pulls a prank on him, gluing a clown wig to his head before he has to give a speech: When NASA announced that either Homer or Barney will be sent to space, different members of the press keep asking the pertinent but unhelpful question "is this joke?" After having enough of this, the NASA rep says "and no more questions as to whether this is a joke or not!" Everyone lowers their hand. |
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In Parks and Recreation, whenever holding a public forum or announcing an event on television were the floor opens to the community to ask questions, they may ask these types of questions. This happens to Ron once when he is announcing, on television, information about an upcoming event and people phone in with questions completely off topic (e.g. woodworking or tips on cooking meat). | |
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Agatha Crumm: This happened in one strip where Agatha showed board members a pie chart. When asked if they had questions, one asked if they could get pizza. | |
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One Dilbert strip had the Pointy-Haired Boss end a meeting by opening the floor, reminding his employees that there are no stupid questions. One of the generic guys asks "If you crossed the International Date Line on your birthday, would you still get presents?"; the boss thinks to himself "Great, there are stupid questions and I don't know the answers to them." | |
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Clerks: The Animated Series: When the chief of police is holding a press conference about a suspected outbreak while wearing an Officer Big Mac costume, the reporters are more interested in asking him questions related to McDonalds. | |
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On The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon opens up to audience questions as a way of getting everyone back on topic after the group's panel on the ethical use of science in the 21st century turned into everyone squabbling as the panel consists entirely of friends and couples. Unfortunately, the person in that audience to respond was their friend Penny, who only wanted to add additional commentary to the squabbling. It was probably his fault for not prefacing it with "questions that actually have something to do with ethics, and not our personal problems". Another episode uses the "rephrase the question" version. Sheldon is in the dining car of a train, and the waiter asks "Any questions?" Sheldon, being a train enthusiast, asks a very detailed and technical question about the car itself. When the waiter clarifies that he meant questions about the food, Sheldon responds "Is this food being served on a car which..." and repeats his previous question. |
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xkcd: A press conference about an asteroid heading towards Earth gets sidetracked by reporters asking about what role Social Media has played. Reused in "NASA Press Conference". Beret Guy asks how data about liquid water on Mars compares to data from other fields, such as sports. |
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At the start of Jurassic Park III, Alan Grant has just finished giving a talk about prehistoric Raptors to an audience, and asks if anyone has any questions. Hands go up all over the room. Grant adds that he means any questions that aren't about Jurassic Park, and most of the hands go down. When he further specifies that he doesn't want questions about the events of Jurassic Park II ("Which I did not witness") either, there are hardly any hands left. | |
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In Aliens, after a meeting about the lifeforms that were spotted on the planet surface before they go in for a rescue mission. Lieutenant Gorman asks if there are any questions and Private Hudson asks "How do I get out of this chicken shit outfit?" | |
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In the Garfield and Friends episode "All About Odie", Garfield lets the audience ask questions before beginning the lecture, only to be asked, "Is wrestling fixed?" | |
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Stewie goes to a Star Trek convention because he wants to see the actors from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He finds a Q&A session where all the questions are completely unrelated to the show. Stewie is annoyed because the questions aren't about Star Trek. Ultimately he decides to use his time machine to kidnap the cast and force them to hang out with him. | |
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On M*A*S*H, Hawkeye gets a little pixilated from lack of sleep. He ingresses on a talk Frank is having with South Korean nationals on why the U.S. is there. When Frank asks for questions, Hawkeye raises his hand which Frank tries to ignore. | |
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Subverted in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa when Skipper was organizing the newly recruited (by Phil & Mason) monkeys to repair their plane. | |
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Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Kimberly Magic Academy Headmistress Esmeralda gives the freshman class a dramatic Dare to Be Badass speech about the fact that only 80% of students survive to graduate. Once she finishes, she offers to take questions... and Nanao Hibiya pipes up to suggest a remedy for the headache Esmeralda looks like she's having. | |
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Mulan has Yao replying to a last minute inquiry with "Does this costume make me look fat?" A loud punch follows. | |
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Chapter nine of Bait and Switch has Admiral Amnell Kree finish a mission briefing and ask if there are any questions. Viewpoint character Eleya snidely wonders aloud where they got an operational codename like "Blue Friday". | |
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A somewhat provoked case in South Park after George W. Bush explains his theory of Saddam Hussein being sent to heaven after Satan broke up with him: | |
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Family Guy: Stewie goes to a Star Trek convention because he wants to see the actors from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He finds a Q&A session where all the questions are completely unrelated to the show. Stewie is annoyed because the questions aren't about Star Trek. Ultimately he decides to use his time machine to kidnap the cast and force them to hang out with him. Appeared in a Cutaway Gag to one time when Peter had cow udders. He's making a presentation to a business meeting. |
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Friends: When Ross started to teach at the university, he was nervous about making a good impression and spoke in an English accent. He later tried to phase in out during one or two sentences. When Ross asked for questions, everybody raised their arm. One guy bluntly asked about the accent. Ross tried to be cool, but said what happened. When he asked for more questions, more people raised their arm. When he specified he meant about palaeontology and the stuff he taught, all put it down. This presumably happens again when moments later, Rachel stormed into the class and berated him for lying to her about having annulled their drunken marriage from Vegas. | |
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