A team or company’s success can largely depend on the overall ability of its weakest link. This link could be anything from a detrimental or poorly trained employee to an outdated business plan or poorly designed website. Whatever your weakest link may be, rectifying or improving it is of the utmost importance. To better illustrate the cataclysmic effects of the ill-prepared, here are some clips from a few game shows where contestants, though they thought themselves ready for the challenge, failed miserably.

This poor woman claimed to have been a mathematics major in college. I guess they don’t start teaching the fundamentals of subtraction until grad school.

I doubt this man-child’s gaff will ever be replicated.

Never has the word irony ever been more appropriately used. Thought I was exaggerating?

And people wonder why some men prefer brunettes…

Here’s a short compilation of some truly idiotic contestants.

The dumbest Price is Right bid ever… and she mistakenly thinks she’s won.