Surrounded by Idiots

Anime & Manga

 * In Black Butler, Sebastian is the head butler, and he has his hands full with keeping the incompetent staff in line. There's a maid who breaks dishes and confuses shoe polish with wax, a gardener who destroys everything he touches, a cook who uses flamethrowers, and a guest who keeps trying to turn himself in to the police. (As it turns out, this is mostly because the staff was hired on the basis of their competence in very different areas.)

Western Animation

 * In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Robotnik reaffirmed the lack of intelligence possessed by Scratch and Grounder in pretty much every episode. However they're typically his first choice to send after Sonic, and he often trusts them with important inventions he created. This was lampshaded in the episode "Spaceman Sonic" in which Sonic states that Robotnik will figure it cheaper to put Scratch and Grounder back together than to build new robots.
 * In the episode "Robotnik's Rival", he claimed that this was deliberate to ensure that they never betrayed him. Given that he was gloating over the eponymous rival who had just been backstabbed by his own super-competent henchbot, (and given that it's Robotnik) this was doubtless an Ass Pull.
 * From the episode "Blackbot the Pirate": "I'm surrounded by defective circuitry!"
 * From "Robolympics": "I'm surrounded by a bunch of burnt-out circuits!"
 * After a failed attempt to teach the other kids of the cul-de-sac after various demonstrations of them being Too Dumb to Live, a lamenting Edd of Ed, Edd n Eddy says this verbatim.
 * He also says this in another episode, "O-Ed Eleven".
 * Cat from CatDog always feels like this amongst the people of Nearburg (although sometimes he can be pretty shortsighted himself). And to make it worse, he's attached to one!
 * Benson from Regular Show is often frustrated with the laziness and incompetence of Mordecai and Rigby.
 * Bob's Burgers: Bob Belcher is frequently the Only Sane Man in his family (and to a lesser extent everyone else in town), so he has his moments of feeling like this.
 * On King of the Hill, Hank frequently feels this way, due to the various harebrained schemes that his friends and family pull off that he then must fix.