Maybe advice to side with clever over strong in a crisis?

I went to Cinco de Lebowski dressed entirely in Oregon State regalia with a photo frame tied to my head

so I could enter the costume contest as a beaver picture

and I did not win

in A Quiet Place when the nail on the stairs gets pulled upright

and there's this slow dolly in on the nail just standing there in the most Chekhov moment in film history

and my nephew goes "the nail is the real protagonist"