History LaserGuidedKarma / WesternAnimation

** Actually this happened to Jerry on a deceptively frequent basis, especially in the later Creator/HannaBarbera shorts. At least a dozen instances where Jerry provoked Tom first or took his retribution to vindictive extremes, Tom would get the last laugh. Cases both characters were as bad as each other often ended in a stalemate. Similar odd cases Tom made a truce with Jerry often gave him a Karmicfootage.

** Actually this happened to Jerry on a deceptively frequent basis, especially in the later Creator/HannaBarbera shorts. At least a dozen instances where Jerry provoked Tom first or took his retribution to vindictive extremes, Tom would get the last laugh. Cases both characters were as bad as each other often ended in a stalemate. Similar odd cases Tom made a truce with Jerry often gave him a KarmicJackpot.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Squidward's horrific luck was initially presented as a product of this trope due to his {{jerkass}} attitude. As the show evolved, however, his ButtMonkey role became less provoked and leaned more into ComedicSociopathy territory. Now he's widely considered the show's biggest [[TheWoobie Woobie]].
*** This also makes the moments where he finally gets his revenge, or when karma finally hits [=SpongeBob=], all the more satisfying.
** Mr. Krabs tends to be a victim of this in episodes centered on him. [[TemporarilyAVillain These are the episodes when he's at his greediest and being antagonistic.]] A good example would be in "Patty Hype", where he cons [=SpongeBob=] out of the Pretty Patty Stand, only to face the wrath of the customers when the side effects come in. Essentially, Krabs was [[MisplacedRetribution punished for something that wasn't his fault]], but he still deserved it for other reasons.
** Plankton's schemes to steal the Krabby Patty always fail... except the one in [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie the first movie]], where he frames Mr. Krabs for stealing King Neptune's crown, steals the formula when it becomes unguarded, popularizes his Chum Bucket restaurant with the Krabby Patties, and, when Squidward catches on to his plan, uses his technology to brainwash everyone in Bikini Bottom and become its ruler. But in the end, [=SpongeBob=] recovers the crown and, through use of a [[ItMakesSenseInContext music number]], breaks the mind control devices. Plankton is trampled into a puddle and then arrested.
** In "Suds", when [=SpongeBob=] gets sick and decides to see a doctor, Patrick convinces him that the doctor's office is a horrible place and tries to treat [=SpongeBob=] himself. When [=SpongeBob=] finally does see a real doctor and gets a rather relaxing treatment, he gets a giant PostTreatmentLollipop, so [[PlayingSick Patrick claims to have the suds himself]] to get his own, only for him to end up receiving [=SpongeBob's=] treatment in a harsh manner: being rubbed against a cactus and used to clean a toilet bowl as he yells that his treatment doesn't seem right.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has this happen to [[SitcomArchNemesis Bonnie]] a few times:
** In "Car Alarm", she mocks Kim's hand-me-down car. Near the end of the episode, her own fancy car gets trashed, ''twice:'' the first time while Kim, Ron, and Jim and Tim (AKA the Tweebs) are chasing Motor Ed and Shego in the Kepler, and the second time with the Tweebs' grappling beam.

** In the episode "[[TheDentistEpisode Moral Decay]]", this happens to Buttercup, who, after learning that the [[LooseToothEpisode tooth fairy gives money in exchange for teeth]], decides to amass a fortune by knocking out villains' teeth. For a while, it's just her going for the teeth in her everyday routine as a heroine, so it's not exactly punishable. But then, after a day of no bad guys attacking, she goes and beats up villains for their teeth [[EvenEvilHasStandards without them doing anything]]. [[EnemyMine Blossom and Bubbles]] agree that [[EveryoneHasStandards she needs to be taught a lesson]], so they let the toothless villains [[DoWithHimAsYouWill get even with Buttercup by]] [[KarmicInjury knocking her teeth out]]. In addition, [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted Buttercup ends up losing all the money she obtained through her scheme when Professor Utonium uses it to pay her dental bills]].

** In the episode "[[TheDentistEpisode Moral Decay]]", this happens to Buttercup, who, after learning that the [[LooseToothEpisode tooth fairy gives money in exchange for teeth]], decides to amass a fortune by knocking out villains' teeth. For a while, it's just her going for the teeth in her everyday routine as a heroine, so it's not exactly punishable. But then, after a day of no bad guys attacking, she goes and beats up villains for their teeth [[EvenEvilHasStandards without them doing anything]]. [[EnemyMine Blossom and Bubbles]] agree that [[EveryoneHasStandards she needs to be taught a lesson]], so they let the toothless villains [[DoWithHimAsYouWill get even with Buttercup by]] [[KarmicInjury knocking her teeth out]]. In addition, Buttercup ends up losing all the money she obtained through her scheme when Professor Utonium uses it to pay her dental bills.

** In the episode "[[TheDentistEpisode Moral Decay]]", this happens to Buttercup, who, after learning that the [[LooseToothEpisode tooth fairy gives money in exchange for teeth]], decides to amass a fortune by knocking out villains' teeth. For a while, it's just her going for the teeth in her everyday routine as a heroine, so it's not exactly punishable. But then, after a day of no bad guys attacking, she goes and beats up villains for their teeth [[EvenEvilHasStandards without them doing anything]]. [[EnemyMine Blossom and Bubbles]] agree that [[EveryoneHasStandards she needs to be taught a lesson]], so they let the toothless villains [[[[DoWithHimAsYouWill get even with Buttercup by]] [[KarmicInjury knocking her teeth out]]. In addition, Buttercup ends up losing all the money she obtained through her scheme when Professor Utonium uses it to pay her dental bills.

** In the episode "[[TheDentistEpisode Moral Decay]]", this happens to Buttercup, who, after learning that the [[LooseToothEpisode tooth fairy gives money in exchange for teeth]], decides to amass a fortune by knocking out villains' teeth. For a while, it's just her going for the teeth in her everyday routine as a heroine, so it's not exactly punishable. But then, after a day of no bad guys attacking, she goes and beats up villains for their teeth without them doing anything. Blossom and Bubbles agree that [[EveryoneHasStandards she needs to be taught a lesson]], so they let the toothless villains get even with Buttercup by [[KarmicInjury knocking her teeth out]]. In addition, Buttercup ends up losing all the money she obtained through her scheme when Professor Utonium uses it to pay her dental bills.

** In the episode "[[TheDentistEpisode Moral Decay]]", this happens to Buttercup, who, after learning that the [[LooseToothEpisode tooth fairy gives money in exchange for teeth]], decides to amass a fortune by knocking out villains' teeth. For a while, it's just her going for the teeth in her everyday routine as a heroine, so it's not exactly punishable. But then, after a day of no bad guys attacking, she goes and beats up villains for their teeth without them doing anything. Blossom and Bubbles agree that she needs to be taught a lesson, so they let the toothless villains get even with Buttercup by knocking her teeth out. In addition, Buttercup ends up losing all the money she obtained through her scheme when Professor Utonium uses it to pay her dental bills.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' episode "To Err is Truman", after pulling a prank planting bombs in the X house's toilets, Truman tries to prove he can behave so he can go to a water park with the rest of the family, or else he'll be sent to [[EveryoneHatesMimes mime camp]]. However, Tuesday (wanting Truman out of her hair) and Homebase (wanting revenge for the toilet bomb prank) repeatedly try to get him to misbehave, but all their attempts fail. Tuesday finally decides to pull the toilet bomb prank Truman pulled earlier in the episode and frame him for it, only to be caught by their parents and sent to mime camp herself.

* In the short film ''WesternAnimation/{{Balance}}'', five men living on a platform floating in some sort of void start fighting over a music box. The last of these men, #23, ends up alone after kicking all of his fellows off, and with the way the music box is positioned he's stuck in one spot, unable to move lest he disturb the balance.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E9LiveItUpTonight Live It Up Tonight]]", when Bitsy and Helen gets locked inside a liquor storeroom, Bitsy decides to destroy all the liquor in the room because she believes it belongs to her competitor, the Dagmont Hotel, and convinces Helen to join her. After they get out and learn the auditor couldn't find any dirt on Owen, she decides to drown her sorrow with liquor until her staff tells her someone broke into their liquor storeroom and smashed all the bottles, making Bitsy and Helen realize they screwed up badly.

* In the short cartoon ''Creature from the Lake'', EgomaniacHunter Jack is prepared to take the credit for capturing the Creature, when it was his chubby, neurotic camera-woman Shelby who knocked it out. Then the Creature regains consciousness and swallows Jack whole.

* Roger Klotz from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' is often on the receiving end of this for being an asshole to others, which results in him either getting whatever punishment any authority figure gives him or taking the more hilarious embarrassments ever. Perhaps the most infamous example is the episode "Doug Didn't Do It", where he framed Doug for stealing one of Assistant Prinicpal Bone's yodeling trophies and succeeds in getting him in major trouble, with his punishment being that he has to polish all of Mr. Bone's trophies after school. When Roger brags about this to Doug, [[AccidentalPublicConfession he accidentally sets on]] [[EngineeredPublicConfession the intercom button in the office]] and Mr. Bone, who heard the whole thing, punishes Roger instead, and now HE has to polish Bone's trophies after school.
** Another example is "Doug Saves Roger", when Roger meets Mr. Bone's nephew, Percy Femur. Unlike Roger, who picked on and harassed Doug and other students out of childish mischief, Percy reveals himself to be a cruel bully and a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who chose Roger as his favorite target. Ironically, it's Doug of all people who puts his own safety on the line to save him.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' are ALWAYS falling victim to this. For example, when the Eds play a trick on Jimmy in "Tinker Ed", this leads to Sarah and Jimmy setting up an elaborate trap for them to fall into, resulting in an embarrassing photo being taken of them in fairy-tale costumes which is promptly handed off to Kevin to show to the other kids.

* Despite being a SadistShow, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' believes in this trope. Lois falls victim to this from her family members, like Meg verbally calling her out to the point she cried and Chris calling her a bitch. Connie falls victim to this when Chris made her unpopular (and when she made fun of Meg for going to the prom with Brian, with Brian calling her out on making fun of Meg by pointing out that the reason she does that is because she developed sexually earlier than Meg did and takes out all of her low self-esteem on an innocent victim), and Peter falls victim to this at times for all the idiotic and/or jerkass things he's done (one episode had him stand trial for blowing up a children's hospital). Inverted when he gets charged a jail sentence... till next Sunday night at 9:00.[[note]]Ironically, ''Family Guy'' didn't air the following Sunday as the MadeForTVMovie ''Series/TwentyFour: Redemption'' took its place.[[/note]]

** Even Quagmire gets some of this trope when he hooks up with a woman who has an even more voracious sexual appetite than him, and ends up kidnapped, held as her sex slave, and tortured for her amusement until the gang finds and rescues him. These are no worse than the things he routinely does to women.

* On ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Jon's cousin's genius son gets a variation of this and KarmaHoudini: On one hand, he gets off scot-free for framing Garfield twice. On the other hand, Garfield manages to get some revenge on the kid despite being scolded and shamed by Jon: when Jon tells him to go apologize to the sadistic inventor, Garfield instead sneaks in and grabs the remote to his DoAnythingRobot. At the end of the episode, we see the robot forcefully making the kid spin around like a ballerina, with Garfield noting the kid made such a good work that the robot's battery is likely to last at least three days.

** Daolon Wong suffers several cases. After stripping people of their sight, hearing and speech in "The Good, the Bad, the Blind, the Deaf and the Mute", he loses all three of them. He vanquished Chi Master Fong, but he ends up being repeatedly humiliated [[spoiler:and ultimately stripped of his magic]] by Fong's apprentice. In his last appearance, he's [[spoiler:dragged off to be interrogated by the past versions of the Enforcers, the same ones whose present versions he enslaved and abused during the third season]].

** In "Car Alarm", she mocks Kim's hand-me-down car. Near the end of the episode, her own fancy car gets trashed, ''twice:'' the first time while Kim, Ron and Jim and Tim (AKA the Tweebs) are chasing Motor Ed and Shego in the Kepler, and the second time with the Tweebs' grappling beam.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LEGOStarWarsTheFreemakerAdventures'', Naare attempts to use the [[LostSuperweapon Kyber Saber]] to [[TheStarscream dethrone Palpatine]] and conquer the galaxy, but is once again outsmarted by Rowan. She's later found by Graballa the Hutt and imprisoned in carbonite.

** "WesternAnimation/StoogeForAMouse" had [[ManipulativeBastard a mouse destroying the friendship between Sylvester the Cat and a bulldog all so he could get some cheese.]] At the end of the cartoon, the two are pummeled senseless by the mouse's last prank and, as he heads for the cheese, [[HoistByHisownPetard the magnet he used to perpetrate said prank ends up pulling a ceiling lamp down on top of him, knocking him senseless.]]

** In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "WesternAnimation/BarbaryCoastBunny", a sleazy con-man swindled Bugs out of an enormous gold nugget he'd found. Later on, Bugs walked into the man's shiny new casino and every game paid off for him (even the man's gun dispensed coins for Bugs). Hence the moral of the story: "Don't steal no eighteen [[{{Pun}} karats]] from no rabbit."

** In "The Mane Event", Bubbles and Buttercup give Blossom a terrible haircut, and they, the entire city and even the [[VillainOfTheWeek giant eye monster]] all laugh at her. After the girls defeat the monster, Blossom gets even with her sisters by using her EyeBeams to ruin ''their'' hair in return.

* Done in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' episode where Billy Joel insults the patrons of the bar he plays at through song, especially one individual whose wife Joel reveals he's sleeping with; he also claims the novel that the guy's writing will fail horribly. As Billy leaves for the night, said person stabs him repeatedly and kills him. Then gets a call from his agent that his book is a hit, meaning he can leave his blue collar job. And that his wife died from an STD. The man happily hangs up and shouts "POETIC JUSTICE!".

*** In "Canned", he attempts to sabotage Rocko (who he tried to make think he was offering Rocko a job at Conglom-O) by putting him in precarious situations as a "test subject", only to have every scheme backfire on him and Ed himself [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ends up getting the short end of the stick every time]]. His final attempt consists on having a herd of mad giraffes run over Rocko, only for Ed himself to get trampled by the herd instead[[spoiler:, thanks to the Mad Giraffe Repellant Rocko was given seconds before they were released]].

* Angelica Pickles of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' gets hit with this. However, how she gets hit with this depends on if Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil are involved in what she's doing. If the babies are involved in any way, then, yes, she'll get hit with this. However, she's been shown to pull the wool over her parents and the other grown-ups' eyes easily and incidents involving Suzie solely tend to have things go in Angelica's favor.

** Plankton's schemes to steal the Krabby Patty always fail... except the one in [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie the first movie]], where he frames Mr. Krabs for stealing King Neptune's crown, steals the formula when it becomes unguarded, popularizes his Chum Bucket restaurant with the Krabby Patties, and, when Squidward catches on to his plan, uses his technology to brainwash everyone in Bikini Bottom and become its ruler. But in the end, [=SpongeBob=] recovers the crown and, through use of a [[ItMakesSenseInContext music number]], breaks the mind control devices. Plankton is trampled into a puddle, and then arrested.

** Airachnid also gets hit wih this. In "Metal Attraction", her stated goal for getting the polarity gauntlet is to have an edge if the Decepticons try to force her to rejoin -- by the end of the episode, she's been magnetized to Breakdown, who takes her back to Megatron as a consolation prize, forcing her to rejoin. In "Armada", she uses a legion of Insecticons to try and take down Megatron, which releases them from stasis pods, but during her fight with Arcee, she accidentally triggers one of those pods and is promptly put into stasis. [[spoiler:She's infected with vampirism in "Thirst" by Breakdown (or rather Silas piloting his corpse), whom she killed in "Crossfire".]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'' episode "April Ghoul's Day" is a lighthearted example, but it's still there. The episode has Vee and the Hauntley family pull pranks on Poppy and Bridget on April Ghoul's Day. They at first don't mind, but they take issue with how they're the only ones getting pranked. As such, Vee apologizes for what happened when they talk if out. The last few minutes of the episode have Vee help Poppy and Bridget pull pranks on the family, with everyone apologizing. Vee is later pranked when being chased by a pink windup toy they put out, but she doesn't mind them doing this.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': In the episode "The Fugitive", Wander and Sylvia are trying to escape a planet occupied by Lord Hater, but Wander keeps accidentally thwarting Sylvia's attempts to escape by helping random civilians. Eventually, Sylvia has Wander promise not to help people anymore, but at that point Hater's minions realize they can draw Wander out by intentionally causing problems to invoke his ChronicHeroSyndrome. It works, but as the two of them are being led away, everyone who Wander assisted turns up and helps the two of them get off the planet.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' episode "To Err is Truman", after pulling a prank planting bombs in the X house's toilets, Truman tries to prove he can behave so he can go to a water park with the rest of the family, or else he'll be sent to [[EveryoneHatesMimes mime camp]]. However, Tuesday (wanting Truman out of her hair) and Homebase (wanting revenge for the toilet bomb prank) repeatedly try to get him to misbehave, but all their attempts fail. Tuesday finally decides pull the toilet bomb prank Truman pulled earlier in the episode and frame him for it, only to be caught by their parents and sent to mime camp herself.

** Eustace ''always'' gets struck by this. Trying to keep a million-dollar slab by King Ramses and refusing to give it up in "King Ramses' Curse"? He ends up part of the slab. Chopping down the titular magic tree after his unknowing abuse of its wish-granting abilities causes [[BodyHorror Muriel's head to swell up]] in "The Magic Tree of Nowhere"? The tree makes him suffer the same illness Muriel did moments after Courage cures her. Stealing the titular artifact in "The Forbidden Hat of Gold"? He disintegrates into ashes right when he puts it on. Just name any wrong thing he's done, because once he does it, you know there's no chance in hell he's getting away scot-free. He's literally karma's punching bag.

* Roger Klotz from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' is often on the receiving end of this for being an asshole to others, which results in him either getting whatever punishment any authority figure gives him or taking the more hilarious embarrassments ever. Perhaps the most infamous example is the episode "Doug Didn't Do It", where he framed Doug for stealing one of Assistant Prinicpal Bone's yodeling trophies and succeeds in getting him in major trouble, with his punishment being that he has to polish all of Mr. Bone's trophies after school. When Roger brags about this to Doug, he accidentally sets on the intercom button in the office and Mr. Bone, who heard the whole thing, punishes Roger instead, and now HE has to polish Bone's trophies after school.

* In the WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon "My Favorite Duck," Daffy, in his screwy persona, goes out of his way to torment a camping Porky; every time Porky is pissed off enough to threaten violence, Daffy produces various signs that state it isn't duck season and Porky will be fined $500 if he harms Daffy in any way. By the end of the cartoon, Daffy gets his just desserts when the final signs end up stating that it ''is'' duck season, and Porky eagerly takes the opportunity to get back at Daffy with a shotgun, though not before [[BornInTheTheater the screen gets out of order and breaks]] and Daffy tries to exaggerate the story before [[VaudevilleHook being whisked offscreen by a hook]] and banged on the head by Porky's gun.
** Another Daffy cartoon, "WesternAnimation/TheDucksters", has Daffy hosting a sadistic game show called "Truth or AAAAHHH!!", with Porky as the hapless contestant put through a series of brutal penalties. When Porky survives the last one (involving a gorilla) and returns [[BewareTheNiceOnes looking homicidal]], Daffy quickly awards him the $26 million (and three cents) jackpot to save his skin. Porky ''promptly buys the station'' with the prize money and puts Daffy through the penalty gauntlet.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' episode "To Err is Truman", after pulling a prank planting bombs in the X house's toilets, Truman tries to prove he can behave so he can go to a water park with the rest of the family, or else he'll be sent to [[EveryoneHatesMimes mime camp]]. However, Tuesday (wanting Truman out of her hair) and Homebase (wanting revenge for the toilet bomb prank) repeatedly try to get him to misbehave, but all their attempts fail. Tuesday finally decides pull the exact same prank Truman pulled earlier in the episode and frame him for it, only to be caught by their parents and sent to mime camp herself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' episode "To Err is Truman", Truman tries to prove he can behave so he can go to a water park with the rest of the family, or else he'll be sent to [[EveryoneHatesMimes mime camp]]. Tuesday, however, repeatedly tries to get him to misbehave so he'll be out of her hair, finally deciding to frame Truman for planting bombs in the X house's toilets again as he did earlier, only to be caught by their parents and sent to mime camp herself.

** In "Suds", when [=SpongeBob=] gets sick and decides to see a doctor, Patrick convinces him that the doctor's office is a horrible place and tries to treat [=SpongeBob=] himself. When [=SpongeBob=] finally does see a real doctor, he gets a giant PostTreatmentLollipop, so Patrick claims to have the suds himself to get his own, only for him to end up rubbed against a cactus and used to clean a toilet bowl as he yells that his treatment doesn't seem right.

*** Rocko's former boss, Mr. Dupette, at the end of "Canned", after he ruthlessly fired him from Super-Lot-O Comics, then Rocko soon gets a new job at Kind-of-a-Lot-O Comics. After Mr. Bighead tried numerous attempts to hurt Rocko with his tests, Rocko remembers the gene-enhancing gum he gave him earlier shortly after he gets his new job and hands it over to Dupette when he arrives at the store for a pack of comics and gum. The moment Dupette samples the gum, [[ScaryStingingSwarm his head ends up sprouting a beehive]], and along with being stung like crazy, crashing his car in the process, he is also chased by the herd of mad giraffes Mr. Bighead released on Rocko earlier.

* In the WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon "My Favorite Duck," Daffy, in his screwy persona, goes out of his way to torment a camping Porky; every time Porky is pissed off enough to threaten violence, Daffy produces various signs that state it isn't duck season and Porky will be fined $500 bucks if he harms Daffy in any way. By the end of the cartoon, Daffy gets his just deserts when the final signs end up stating that it ''is'' duck season, and Porky eagerly takes the opportunity to get back at Daffy with a shotgun.

** In "The Mane Event", Bubbles and Buttercup give Blossom a terrible haircut, and they, the entire city and even the [[VillainOfTheWeek giant eye monster]] all laugh at her. After the girls defeat the monster, Blossom gets even with her sisters by using her {{Eye Beam}}s to ruin ''their'' hair in return.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "[[TheDentistEpisode Moral Decay]]", this happens to Buttercup, who, after learning that the [[LooseToothEpisode tooth fairy gives money in exchange for teeth]], decides to amass a fortune by knocking out villains' teeth. For a while, it's just her going for the teeth in her everyday routine as a heroine, so it's not exactly punishable. But then, after a day of no bad guys attacking, she goes and beats up villains for their teeth without them doing anything. Blossom and Bubbles agree that she needs to be taught a lesson, so they let the toothless villains get even with Buttercup by knocking her teeth out. In addition, Buttercup ends up losing all the money she obtained through her scheme when Professor Utonium uses it to pay her dental bills.

** Even Quagmire gets some of this trope when he hooks up with a woman who has an even [[UpToEleven more voracious sexual appetite than him,]] and ends up kidnapped, held as her sex slave, and tortured for her amusement until the gang finds and rescues him. These are no worse than the things he routinely does to women.

*** Rocko's former boss, Mr. Dupette, at the end of "Canned", after he ruthlessly fired him from Super-Lot-O Comics, then Rocko soon gets a new job at Kind-of-a-Lot-O Comics. After Mr. Bighead tried numerous attempts to hurt Rocko with his tests, Rocko remembers the gene-enhancing gum he gave him earlier shortly after he gets his new job and hands it over to Dupette when he arrives at the store for a pack of comics and gum. The moment Dupette samples the gum, his head ends up sprouting a beehive, and along with being stung like crazy, crashing his car in the process, he is also chased by the herd of mad giraffes Mr. Bighead released on Rocko earlier.

** This sort of thing happens to [[CrankyNeighbor Ed Bighead]] on a regular basis:

** To a lesser extent, two [[BadBoss bad bosses]] have had this happen to them:

** This sort of thing happens to [[CrankyNeighbor Ed Bighead]] on a regular basis:

*** Rocko's current boss, Mr. Smitty, in "Commuted Sentence". It is revealed [[RoadTripAcrossTheStreet he lives next door to his place of business]], backing into a parking space Rocko wanted and making him park in a bad area of town, then [[NeverMyFault has the gall to chew him out for being late]]. When Rocko's car is towed, he needs a way to get to work on time and raise the money to release it from impoundment or else Smitty will fire him. In the end, Smitty does fire Rocko when he finally arrives on time after showing up late several times, but then, ''his'' car gets impounded when the space it was in becomes a new tow-away zone. Guess who was operating the tow truck at the time?