History Main / ItWasntEasy

* An anti-smoking [=PSA=] with Yogi Bear and Boo Boo has the two seeing a visiting camper and some teens smoking. This prompts Boo Boo to ask why people smoke and how can they stop. "It isn't easy," Yogi says in his explanation.

** Although it's pretty clear what he did to hack them off (and you can get details if you ask about the specific mercenary leaders coming after you). The real miracle is that he didn't die in the process of screwing over each and every underworld element on Omega (except Aria) in order.

** Funnily enough, for this show, that's more explanation than we usually get.

* ''Literature/TheCulture'': In ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'' by [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]], Balveda's [[spoiler: escape from the ''Hand of God'']] happened {{offscreen|MomentOfAwesome}}. In the discussion afterwards...

A StockPhrase, and a staple of surrealistic comedy, this trope effectively combines a {{Watsonian}} {{Handwave}} with a NoodleIncident to explain the presence of something bizarre or otherwise impossible for the given setting.

** Of course, for this show, that's more explanation than we usually get.

[[folder:Film]]

* In ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'' by [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]], Balveda's [[spoiler: escape from the ''Hand of God'']] happened {{offscreen|MomentOfAwesome}}. In the discussion afterwards...
-->'''Horza''' ''[disbelieving]'': Unarmed, you killed an Idiran in full armour and toting a laser?
-->'''Balveda''' ''[shrugs]'': Horza, I didn't say it was easy.

[[folder:Live-Action Television]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "The Big Bang", The Doctor advises Rory to stay out of trouble. [[ItMakesSenseInContext When he runs into Rory a couple of thousand years later]], the Doctor asks Rory how he managed.
-->'''[[WeirdnessMagnet Rory]]:''' [[InvertedTrope Unsuccessfully.]]

[[folder: Western Animation]]

[[/folder]]

** Although it's pretty clear what he did to hack them off (and you can get details if you ask about the specific mercenary leaders coming after you). The real miracle is that he didn't die in the process of screwing over each and every underworld element on Omega (except Aria) in order. Zaeed's "explanation" for how he survived being held down by two men and shot in the face ("rage is a hell of an anesthetic") plays it straight, though.

'''Phineas:''' Well, it wasn't easy. It took most of the morning and half a dozen phone calls. But, if you're willing to put in the work-'\\

* In ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'', Hoagie is asked how he managed to escape from the shark. His only answer is "It wasn't easy!".

* From ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'' by [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]]:
-->''"Unarmed, you killed an Idiran in full battle armour and toting a laser?" Horza said sceptically. Balveda shrugged again. \\
"Horza, I didn't say it was easy."''

* In ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'', Egg Shen disappears after the fight in the assembly hall, then abruptly reappears to throw his friends an escape rope through a hole in the ceiling. When asked how the he got up there, Egg just says [[HandWave "It wasn't easy"]].

* ''Film/ThePinkPanther1963'' ends with [[spoiler: Clouseau being framed for the jewel robbery by his wife and the real thief]]. As he's being driven away from the court he's amazed at the cheering fans (many women) surrounding them, who consider the Phantom to be a sexy folk hero. One of the admiring officers asks how he'd done such remarkable work, and he slowly replies "Well...it wasn't easy."

[[folder:Live Action Television]]
* Maxwell Smart of ''Series/GetSmart'' uses a variation of this as one of his many catch phrases. When asked "How did you do X," or "How do you plan to do Y," he will invariably respond, "With great difficulty."

-->[[WeirdnessMagnet Rory]]: "[[InvertedTrope Unsuccessfully.]]"

[[folder:VideoGame]]
* Garrus utters one in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', when you find out that HE'S the one who's pissed off every major mercenary[=/=]criminal organization in the Terminus Systems to the point where they're all working together to bring him down. The line goes, in his usual sarcastic (albeit tired) tone:

** Of course for this show that's more explanation than we usually get.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "The Super Snooper" when WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck (as detective Duck Drake) is told by a Beverage Hills mansion butler to "walk this way" and mimics the butler's peculiar manner of walking, he turns to us and says "T'ain't easy!"

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "The Super Snooper" when DaffyDuck (as detective Duck Drake) is told by a Beverage Hills mansion butler to "walk this way" and mimics the butler's peculiar manner of walking, he turns to us and says "T'ain't easy!"