| abstract | - ~~echochamber:okgu2rHwI~~ A character who's normally Book Dumb and/or The Ditz comes up with a valuable insight. 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." (Often adding, "And that scares me to death.") 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 - in which case, this trope then becomes somewhat of an inversion of Your Approval Fills Me with Shame. Truth in Television, and can be seen between Vitriolic Best Buds and Internet-nemeses on Message Boards. Compare Actually Pretty Funny, Too Dumb to Fool, The Cuckoolander Was Right, Wisdom from the Gutter, Mistaken for Profound and I Have Nothing to Say to That. When the character is the subject of this reaction because they're mean, unlikable or evil it's Jerkass Has a Point. When the author has a stupid character make a point, but the reader and not the character sees it, it's Straw Man Has a Point. Related to Wisdom from the Gutter. Examples of Dumbass Has a Point include:
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