Sounds like a dumbed-down version of signs years ago that warned riders against "expectorating."

"Boys is a low-rent, dumbed-down version of Before Sunrise, with a rent-a-plot substituting for clever dialogue."

George W. Bush looked like a dumbed-down version of Gerald Ford - a man who could be trusted to while away his presidency on the elliptical trainer.

He provides a dumbed-down version of Friedrich Hayek's classical liberalism but doesn't mention Ayn Rand's blockbuster novels.

Does she mind playing a maximally dumbed-down version of herself?

Once iCloud gets full Linux support (i.e. not a dumbed-down version, available for any Linux distribution (not just Ubuntu, etc.), then perhaps we'll talk, Apple.

Ms. Beeson said the new act would create a "dumbed-down version of the Internet" for students at poorer schools, which have the fewest alternatives to federal aid.

"I'm not aware of any PC manufacturer that has expressed interest in the dumbed-down version of Windows 95," said Brad Chase, a Microsoft marketing executive.

Costs are minimized by keeping to simple interchangeable shapes, which are authentically all-American rather than dumbed-down versions of English ones.

Add to this the inescapable impression that one is looking at a dumbed-down version of Bruce Nauman's "Clown Torture."