Jay: Maybe we can just ask him to shut down the church. If it's closed that day, uh, those guys can't get blessed or whatever, right? Metatron: Good Lord, the little stoner's got a point! Even a Stopped Clock is right twice a day. The character most often heard belittling their intelligence sighs heavily and concedes, " I Can't Believe I'm Saying This , but I agree with him.
This can often be the result of pure chance; a wild guess turning out to be true, or Right for the Wrong Reasons. In other cases, this is because the dumbass isn't willing to rule out an option due to thinking it illogical at first, or lacks knowledge of something that would limit more intelligent characters' thinking and cause them to rule out the correct idea.
Or sometimes, more intelligent characters are overthinking it and the simple guy is the only one to think of Stating the Simple Solution especially if it involves Cutting the Knot.
Also heard when two people of more or less equal intelligence, who normally disagree about everything on ideological grounds, find that there's one opinion they share.
In other cases, the character with a valuable insight may be of a little less moral standing β in which case, this trope then becomes somewhat of an inversion of Your Approval Fills Me with Shame. When the character is the subject of this reaction because they're mean, unlikable, or evil, it's Jerkass Has a Point or Villain Has a Point when it's coming from an outright antagonist. If the reaction stems from the character making the point having a knack for doing the opposite thing, it's Hypocrite Has a Point.
