Exactly What It Says on the Tin, when a character gets covered with dirt or is walking through the snow, he will look down and see his own footprints. However, because this character is either a Cloudcuckoolander or The Ditz, he will think that his footprints belong to someone else and start following the footprints. It is then that the character is back where he started that he realizes that it [...] [tvtropes.org]