History Main / GuinnessEpisode

* In episode 104 of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', Melodytchi finds a Tamagotchi Guinness world record book and wants to beat one of the records in it for Tamagotchi Planet's largest cake. Melodytchi works with the rest of the gang to bake the gigantic dessert, which goes pretty well until they run out of chocolate frosting. [[spoiler:When they finally do finish the cake and beat the record, it creates a Tama Heart that looks like chocolate.]]
* ''Anime/{{Pecola}}'': In "Yo! Pecola", Pecola is roped into attempting to break a world record for the longest time in performing the "around the world" trick with a yo-yo repeatedly by Rudy. It starts to get to the point where Pecola focuses more on the yo-yo than his friends, and culminates in him learning that his grandfather is showing off a relic that he's uncovered, giving him a moral crisis as to whether he should finish the record or go see what his grandfather found.

* The WebAnimaion/StrongBadEmail "record book" turns the tables by having Strong Bad invent his own world record book and then challenge everyone else to try to get in it by whatever means they can think up. Though he does reject Coach Z's attempt to set too specific and random of a record (putting 15 pieces of chewed gum on his face and singing a song while hopping on one foot).

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* One ''Webcomic/BasicInstructions'' [[http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2009/8/9/how-to-set-and-achieve-a-long-term-goal.html strip]] has Scott intend to set the world record for the longest book of world records, simply by taking the current longest book and adding a page on it. He ends up winning the record for [[MedalOfDishonor "laziest attempt at a world record".]]

* WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} and friends made the world's largest pizza. In the same episode, Buster tried for longest time walking backward, Francine tried bouncing a soccer ball on her knee and Muffy tried not talking.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer first tries to break the ''Duff'' record for jumping up and down making goofy noises. When told that the record is three years, he then tried to get everyone to make the world's largest human pyramid but they couldn't hold it for enough seconds. ([[FridgeLogic Although they did hold it for long enough]] if you count the time it took to explain that they had to hold it for "at least three Mississippis".) They collapsed because Jimbo and Kearny realized their hands were touching and pulled away from each other. As a consolation, they learn that Springfield is the world's fattest city.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' did this once in an episode titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "World Records,"]] attempting record after record, going through everything from Longest Distance Walking Backwards to Longest Time Spent Not Bathing, culminating in a disastrous attempt to make the World's Largest Pizza Puff. [[HilarityEnsues It doesn't end well]], but at least they got a ConsolationWorldRecord: most attempts at breaking a world record!

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' had Sandy trying to break every World Record in the book with [=SpongeBob=]'s help. But once they bring someone to offically recognize them, they find out that the book they have is out of date and that all the records have already been broken. However, it turns out that [=SpongeBob=] had already broken a record: Most Injuries Sustained While Helping a Friend.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has Eddy and Kevin competing to see who can set the most records.

* Happens in the final episode of ''Heyyy, It's The King'', a segment from animated anthology ''WesternAnimation/CBBears''. The King tries to set a world record; his attempts include flagpole sitting, basketball dribbling, and trying to catch the world's largest shark. [[spoiler: While he fails at all of them, he accidentally sets a ConsolationWorldRecord for barefoot waterskiing while escaping from the shark.]] Unusually, they do call it the "Guinness Book of Records" instead of a fictional equivalent.

* The StrongBadEmail "record book" turns the tables by having Strong Bad invent his own world record book and then challenge everyone else to try to get in it by whatever means they can think up. Though he does reject Coach Z's attempt to set too specific and random of a record (putting 15 pieces of chewed gum on his face and singing a song while hopping on one foot).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "A Little Mystery", after hearing about the recent death of the record holder for world's longest fingernails, Francine Smith decides to compete for that record, out of a want to be remembered and a want to be a freak. In order to achieve nails long enough to qualify, she starts eating a lot of prenatal multivitamins due to having a side effect of speeding up the growth of one's fingernails and [[RapidHairGrowth hair]]. She even had a local mad scientist trick out a dialysis machine to get the vitamins directly into her system, leading to her fingernails growing at an audible rate. By the time she got to the Guinness qualifiers, her nails were about as long as she was tall, and to prove how long they are, she tried to tickle a bodybuilder from a distance, which caused the bodybuilder to drop her weight onto the fingernails, shattering them. Fortunately, as a result of the excess vitamins, Francine had grown a large cutaneous horn that was hidden under her hair which had tripled in size, so she won a ConsolationWorldRecord; "World's Horniest Woman".

* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': In episode "[[Recap/CheersS4E6 I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday]]", Cliff the resident weirdo is trying to set the record for longest amount of time walking backwards.

* One Webcomic/BasicInstructions [[http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2009/8/9/how-to-set-and-achieve-a-long-term-goal.html strip]] has Scott intend to set the world record for the longest book of world records, simply by taking the current longest book and adding a page on it. He ends up winning the record for [[MedalOfDishonor "laziest attempt at a world record".]]

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' had an episode dedicated to "breaking the longest webcast". They failed when they lost power due to the B-Plot, meaning it was not a continuous webcast. As consolation, they got to meet the World's Fattest Priest!
** Plus, Spencer broke the record for the world's largest moving sculpture and let Carly and the gang add the last piece so they can share the credit.

* ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': In "[[Recap/WishboneS1E1TheImpawssibleDream The Impawssible Dream]]", paralleling ''Literature/DonQuixote'', Joe Talbot tries to break the record for most freethrows thrown. He falls short of the record, [[WeWinBecauseYouDidnt however, he does better than his rival Damont Jones]].

* ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': In "The Impawssible Dream", paralleling ''Literature/DonQuixote'', Joe Talbot tries to break the record for most freethrows thrown. He falls short of the record, [[WeWinBecauseYouDidnt however, he does better than his rival Damont Jones]].

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] ''Guinness'' beer. Nor with BrokenRecord, which is the ''other'' kind of record.

Named for the ''Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords'', the most well-known compilation of world records in the English-speaking world. Attempts in TV shows will often be for similar but fictitious Records books -- probably because the rigorous rules set by the Guinness people get in the way of the comedy, as well as "Guinness" being a registered trademark.

* One ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' episode had Rob flashing back to trying to break the record for staying awake the longest. He succeeded, but the problem was, he had an interview for his job with Alan Brady that same day, and had to go to it all exhausted. HilarityEnsues, but he still got the job.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] ''Guinness'' beer.

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* In the Israeli sitcom ''Zanzuri'', [[LikeYouWereDying soon-to-be-dead eponymous character]] tries to break the world record in [[RefugeInAudacity most profanities uttered in a minute]] to be remembered by after his death. [[spoiler:He fails when he�s told something happy and can't bring himself to cuss anymore.]]

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