History Main / ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime

-->''Hold my beer. Watch this...''

In fur will fly, the outcome of most of Brad's "brilliant" ideas.

* The song [[TitleDrop A Good Idea At the Time]] by OkGo both expresses SympathyForTheDevil and is an [[ShoutOut explicit homage]] to the RollingStones song ''Sympathy for the Devil'', portraying Lucifer as simply a guy after a good time who keeps winding up causing horrific situations throughout history, usually because of [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime this trope]] and the consumption of [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy ludicrous amounts of booze]].

* ''TrailerParkBoys'' episode "Propane, Propane"

* True to its tendency of turning sayings into titles, ''ThisAmericanLife'' has done an episode ([[http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/306/seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time #306]]) that's flat out titled "Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time."

* Every idea Klunk comes up with for [[DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines the Vulture Squadron]] to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon seemed like a good idea at the time. Once it's implemented, EpicFail is imminent.
* ''Series/BobsBurgers'' - Tina is backed into a corner when classmate Tammy blackmails her with the threat of reading Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' to her crush Jimmy Junior - her mom reassures her, and tells her to take control of the situation and read her fiction herself to the whole class. It's only after she repeats her advice to Bob that she sees what a bad idea it is.

* ''BobsBurgers'' - Tina is backed into a corner when classmate Tammy blackmails her with the threat of reading Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' to her crush Jimmy Junior - her mom reassures her, and tells her to take control of the situation and read her fiction herself to the whole class. It's only after she repeats her advice to Bob that she sees what a bad idea it is.

* ''TheAdventuresOfYoungIndianaJones'' episode "Demons of Deception" ("Verdun" and "Paris")

* RedVsBlue, in episode 52 ''Have We Met?'':

* Any of Chris's antics during his college career in ''ThePaleKing''.

* This was the reason given for the production of ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'', a movie about a Holocaust-era clown which would have been Jerry Lewis' directorial debut.

* In ''OryxAndCrake'', where pigs are spliced with human DNA in order to create ultra-large pigs who grow multiple human organs that are used for transplants. Some of them even have some human brain tissue, which makes them viciously intelligent. Of course, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
* Similarly to the ''OryxAndCrake'' example, in the ''[[Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries Revelation Space]]'' universe an intelligent species of "hyperpigs" exists due to genetic manipulations conducted to provide transplant materials. While things are rocky for a long while, a hyperpig ends up being vital to saving all humans and hyperpigs from the Inhibitors.

* Most of history can be fit under this, especially the really catastrophic parts. So can the really funny parts too.
** Case in point: the colonization of New England. Most of the British colonies in North America were set up either as trading posts or as cash cows for profitable crops. New England, on the other hand, was Britain's dumping ground for social misfits and religious dissidents - basically anyone they didn't know what to do with. Massachusetts in particular was a hotbed of political radicals and religious whackjobs for most of the 18th century. Less than a century after its initial colonization, New England became the center of a secessionist movement that would eventually become UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. Maybe putting all the crazy people in one place wasn't such a great idea...
** Mary Renault on the burning of Persepolis by Alexander the Great:
---> "Like many happenings at a very successful party it seemed like a good idea at the time."
* "Hey y'all, watch this!"
* [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy "Hold my beer."]]
* Any youtube video that starts with "Are you recording this?"

* The mega-popular image hosting site Imgur instituted paid advertisements in June 2015. The first company to attempt it was Warner Brothers Records. The WarnerBrosRecords account had dropped to almost -60,000 reputation in less than a week. They made three whole posts before the account was reset due to this intense negative reception.
** This was mere days after the forced removal of NSFW comments (which in no way was related to the incoming advertisers, trust us), that sparked a mini-revolt by the community at large. Imgur reinstated NSFW comments as an option that was off by default.

* ''BobsBurgers'' - when Tina's classmate Tammy blackmails her with the threat of reading Tina's 'erotic friend fiction' to her crush Jimmy Junior, her mom reassures Tina, and tells her to take control of the situation and read her fiction herself to the whole class. It's only after she repeats her advice to Bob that she sees what a bad idea it is.

* In the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' movie, Crow attempts to escape the Satellite of Love by ''digging a tunnel'' through space. When asked why he decided to bore a hole through the hull of the ship, he responds, "I calculated the odds of this working vs the odds that I was doing something incredibly stupid and... I went ahead anyway."

* Another real life example. Back in the 1988 Nintendo wanted to develop a CD peripheral for the SNES. They first partnered with Sony, but after discovering the deal gave Sony unprecedented control over the games on it, they bailed and partnered with Philips. This made Sony none too happy at the betrayal. The SNES never got a CD add-on, Philips got temporary rights to misuse Nintendo IP, and Sony got busy preparing for the formal announcement of the Playstation. GoodJobBreakingItHero indeed.

* Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie. Giovanni learned not to create the worlds strongest pokemon to use for your own personal gain/ world domination without a way to control it. Also see GoneHorriblyRight

* Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie. If you want to create a super pokemon that is capable of defeated all others to use for your own personal gain/ world domination, maybe make sure you have a way to control it. Also see GoneHorriblyRight

* The mega-popular image hosting site Imgur instituted paid advertisements in June 2015. The first company to attempt it was Warner Brothers Records. They made three whole posts before the account was reset due to intense negative reception. The account had almost -60,000 reputation before it was reset.
** This coincided with the forced removal of NSFW comments (which in no way was related to the incoming advertisers, trust us), which Imgur reinstated as an option that was off by default.