In the 2009 retcon of the mythos, Lois Lane is fully aware from the beginning, along with Perry White, that the meek, pudgy and bumbling Clark Kent deliberately holds himself back: however, still far from associating him to Superman, they simply believe he's hiding his qualities as a good reporter.

Whereas Sergei Eisenstein viewed his montage of attractions as a propaganda tool through which the film-viewing masses could be subjected to “ emotional and psychological influence ” and therefore able to perceive “ the ideological aspect ” of the films they were being shown, Vertov believed the Kino-Eye would influence the actual evolution of man, “ from a bumbling citizen through the poetry of the machine to the perfect electric man .”

Awareness of the brand was spread in Britain by the satirical political magazine " Private Eye " which ran a cartoon series " The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ", featuring a bumbling Foster's swilling Australian expatriate, from about 1964 onwards.

Jar Jar Binks first appears in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as a bumbling Gungan from the planet Naboo.

Jadis ' attempt to conquer London is portrayed as more comical than threatening, and further humour derives from the contrast between the evil empress and Edwardian London and its social mores, and her mistaking bumbling Andrew Ketterley for a powerful sorcerer.

* Ronald Reagan, whose persona mutated from a bumbling, heavily stage-managed actor into a senile yet dangerous robot with a missile like pointed head, including being deployed in space as a component of the Strategic Defense Initiative.

When Williams escapes from the bumbling sheriff ( Gene Lockhart ) and practically falls into Hildy's lap, the lure of a big scoop proves too much for her.

His standard performance was as a genial, bumbling middle-class and middle-aged man from the North of England, who reduced all who came into contact with him to a state of confusion and frustration.

Conway gained a national following from his role as the bumbling, naive Ensign Charles Parker, Executive Officer of the PT-73, in the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, alongside Ernest Borgnine and Joe Flynn, where the two had gotten along well.

He is best known, however, as Colonel Wilhelm Klink: the bumbling, cowardly and self-serving Kommandant of Stalag 13 on Hogan's Heroes, which aired from 1965 – 1971.

He played a bumbling East German official in the 1968 American comedy film The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, directed by George Marshall and starring Elke Sommer and several of his costars from Hogan's Heroes, including Bob Crane.

Along the way, they must battle the bumbling Jack Spicer, " evil boy genius ," and the Heylin ghost-witch Wuya, who Jack accidentally freed from a 1500 year imprisonment in a puzzle box.

: Gargantua appears in episode two of the anime as a madman, with three bumbling demonic henchmen and a servant named Seiren ( derived from the Hellenic Siren ).

Ben Ernst is a divorced, good-natured, somewhat bumbling father from New Jersey, with glasses, a slight build, and a receding hairline.

With their own show revamped to a sitcom, bandleader-comedian Harris and singer-actress Faye played themselves, raising two precocious children in and out of slightly zany situations, mostly involving Harris's band guitarist Frank Remley ( Elliott Lewis ), obnoxious delivery boy Julius Abruzzio ( Walter Tetley, familiar as nephew Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve ), Robert North as Faye's fictitious deadbeat brother, Willie, and sponsor's representative Mr. Scott ( Gale Gordon ), and usually involving bumbling, malapropping Harris needing rescue from acidly-loving Faye.

While Elaine waits at her family home next door for Mortimer to take her on their honeymoon, Mortimer makes increasingly frantic attempts to stay on top of the situation, including multiple efforts to alert the bumbling local cops to the threat Jonathan poses, as well as to get the paperwork filed that will have Teddy declared legally insane and committed to a mental asylum ( giving him a safe explanation for the bodies should the cops find them, and preventing his aunts from creating any more victims because they will no longer have any place to bury the bodies ).

Eventually the bumbling pair encounter Karen Boyer, the only surviving operative from the main team.

The band's name is derived from the 1960s Australian TV character " Professor Ratbaggy ", who was a bumbling but kind-hearted scientist, a comical character, performed by Ernie Carroll on GTV-9 on Melbourne television.

He seems bumbling and insecure, though his portrait from 1987 shows him as somewhat fashionable and confident.

Her boyfriend, jazz musician Gerry Mulligan, had a small part in the film as a bumbling blind date ; he remained with her through her final years as she died from cancer.

Even with his bumbling ways, Clark, who works for a company that produces food colorings, additives, and preservatives, manages to keep things going as he waits for his Christmas bonus from work so he'll have enough money to have a swimming pool put in the back yard.

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera about a Batman-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon, and his assistant, bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, who could produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body.

A memorable portrayal of King Pellinore comes from T. H. White's The Once and Future King, where he is a bumbling but endearing old man who can't give up his search for the " Questin ' Beast " lest the poor creature die of loneliness.

Despite the novel approach of the family being ( mostly ) supernatural creatures, the show followed the typical family sitcom formula – the bumbling, well-meaning dad, the practical mom, the eccentric extra-nuclear live-in relative, and the precocious kid.

Laurie ’ s later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson ; the Disney live-action film 101 Dalmatians ( 1996 ), where he played Jasper, one of the bumbling criminals hired to kidnap the puppies ; Elton ’ s adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby ( 2000 ); Girl From Rio ; the 2004 remake of The Flight of the Phoenix ; and the three Stuart Little films.

The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel ( she previously had a role in the Parker Pyne short story The Case of the Discontented Soldier ).

The Westlake novel The Hot Rock ( 1970 ) was originally intended to feature Parker, but the plot, which involves a precious gem that is stolen, lost, stolen again, lost again, and so on seemed too comic a situation for the hard-boiled Parker, so Westlake rewrote the novel with a more bumbling and likable cast of characters, including John Dortmunder, who is Parker seen through a comic mirror.

He is modeled on the British comedy actor Terry-Thomas ; he is named after Professor Porter's bumbling assistant in the original Tarzan novel.

The Berenstain Bears, who reside " in a big treehouse down a sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country ," consists of Papa Bear, an oafish, bumbling carpenter ; wise Mama Bear, a housewife and perfectionist ; and their children, Brother Bear ( originally Small Bear ), and later additions Sister Bear and Honey Bear.

His colleagues on the show later remarked that the role resembled Lowe himself, pompous and bumbling ; Lowe had a clause written into his contract specifying that he would never have to lose his trousers.

Recorded in Bill's bedroom and at a local band rehearsal hall, the album featured the theme song " Green Jellö Theme Song " ( the band's initial manifesto / call to arms ), as well as early songs " I've Got Poo-Poo On My Shoe " ( later " Shitman "), " Whip Me Teenage Babe " ( later " House Me Teenage Rave "), " Hill, Hill ", " Do the Howie " ( a song about the bumbling rent-a-cop at the band's high school alma mater, Kenmore West High School, sung to the tune of Van McCoy's " The Hustle "), the one-second long " Icrog ", " The Ice Cream Song ", and " I'll Buy You Any Major Appliance You Want Baby, Ooo Ooo ".

Dick and Muttley were paired together in various later Hanna-Barbera series as bumbling villains.

Many tropes that would later become commonplace in detective fiction first appeared in Poe's stories: the eccentric but brilliant detective, the bumbling constabulary, the first-person narration by a close personal friend.

Ambler himself, in later books, preferred to have as his protagonists bumbling Barstow-type amateurs, who need to deal with dangerous situations without superhero help.

Bell, was so impressed with Wharmby's " natural " performance that, instead, he cast him in the more prominent role of the bumbling Wesley Pegden for another episode and Clarke later wrote him in as a regular.

The film costars Tim Conway and Don Knotts as a pair of bumbling holdup men who try to steal gold, but are later offered it by a group of children.

Evan Handler ( born January 10, 1961 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Harry Goldenblatt, Charlotte's divorce attorney and later husband, on Sex and the City, Charlie Runkle, Hank's comically bumbling friend and agent, on Californication, and Louis Martinez on Miami Vice.

It becomes clear to the bumbling British diplomats assigned to find a solution, Gregg ( Basil Radford ) and Straker ( Naunton Wayne ), that defeating the Burgundians would be no easy task, so they negotiate.

He accidentally gets married to a rebel space pilot named Keyne, and becomes involved in fighting an evil wannabe galactic emperor and his " bumbling henchmen ".

Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is about a bumbling New Yorker who, after being dumped by his activist girlfriend, travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

His flagging career was helped with Wolf's Clothing ( 1936 ), which starred him as a dithering diplomat, and Honeymoon-Merry-Go-Round ( 1940 ), where he played a bumbling bridegroom who unintentionally becomes an ice-hockey star.

The tiger becomes visible and is hunted down on the streets of San Francisco by a compassionate police officer, under the orders of his bumbling chief.