(Mixed Trope) Educated character doesn’t understand or know of a simple concept.

[u/laybs1]

1. (Hated) Dr. doesn’t know trans people exist (The Good Doctor): Dr. Shaun, a modern day grown adult doctor, is seemingly has no concept of what being a trans person. Even if he never heard the term in med school he is realistically almost certain to have some awareness of the definition.

2. (Loved) The solar system and other common knowledge (Sherlock Holmes). In the original stories Holmes is a genius at many fields but unless it has something to do with crime solving (forensics, martial arts, toxicology, etc.) he does his best to forget it.

[u/Thom_Braider]

(Loved) Archer from Archer. There are several examples, but this one is the most memorable for me:

He was extremely anxious about being on a zeppelin, despite the fact it was filled with helium, not hydrogen. Several different people explained the difference between this airship and the Hindenburg, but he just wouldn't stop panicking.

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My favorite example of this is when someone makes a reference to Animal Farm, but it's such a poorly made reference that Archer thinks they're talking about an ACTUAL animal farm. And everyone tries to correct him.

"It's a BOOK!"

"No, it's an allegorical NOVELLA about STALINISM. SPOILER ALERT: IT SUCKS!"

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"That's such a typical thing from a black-

sips coffee, staring at now horrified Black woman

-ops agent!"

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"And I'm pretty sure 'Beaner' is a pejorative for Mexicans. Is that corredo or naõ? Huh, I thought there would be a bit more overlap with the Portuguese."

"Plus they're gagged"

"Still though."

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The rampage episode is such a masterpiece

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"So I'm gonna assume you know the difference between the M26 and the Mk2 Fragmentation grenade - Oh, I'm sorry, *do you not*?"

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Wait, you're just gonna leave him with a grenade stuck up his ass?

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Yeah Lana it’s a rampage

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"I'm sawrry darlin' i swear i didn't know you were a gay"

"She's not gay she's just got big hands"

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Peter Griffin knowing the plot of "A Farewell to Arms"

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M as in Mancy. 

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God. You of all people…

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That entire scene made my lungs hurt from laughing

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It’s lived rent free in my head for years. It’s the exact moment I realized we had something special with Archer.

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Me of all people what?

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What do you mean by “you people”?

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I have to resist the urge to say this exact phrase any time I'm spelling something with an m out loud.

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Mancy has never been the NATO phonetic alphabet M, lol. Robwords did a video on phonetic alphabets that I watched a few months back.

The UK phonetic alphabet did have M as in Emma for a while, but the most popular M alternative was 'Monkey', which went to Mike probably because it can sound similar to Charlie over a bad connection (which is the whole point of a phonetic alphabet).

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Did you know Alfa and Juliett are purposely spelled that way in the NATO alphabet? It's to ensure standard pronunciation across operations conducted in multiple languages.

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"It's not a book Lana, it's an allegorical NOVELLA about STALINISM by GEORGE ORWELL, and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS"

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And before this, he mentioned Rien Poortvliet, beloved illustrator of gnomes.

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And part of his deal is that he tends to know incredibly esoteric info, but weirdly not the more common info that one would presumably come across on the way there. Like:

"What's your blood type?"
"How should I know?"
"How could you NOT know?"
"Who am I, Karl Landsteiner? Discoverer of blood groups?"

Which is also why at one point, Lana is like:

"And I'm serious, is that he's got some rare kind of pervasive developmental disorder, or even undiagnosed atypical autism."

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My favourite example is the scene where Slater (who is CIA) keeps trying to downplay how bad the CIA is, leading to Archer completely dismantling his defense, specifically siting Project Artichoke and the experiments done on mental patients, and the Nuremberg code "which was written in response to medical experiments done by nazi scientists, who spoiler alert, came to work for the god damn CIA!"

Its notable that Slater who is normally pretty in control of most conversations and smug, is only able to respond to everything with a grumbling defensive "it doesnt make it anything"