History Main / NotMyLuckyday

* ''Literature/SlugDaysStories'': Lauren calls days like this [[TitleDrop slug days]]. Things that can cause a slug day include disruptions to her routine, frustrating schoolwork, and her classmates being mean to her.

* ''[[Literature/MissBindergarten Miss Bindergarten Has a Wild Day in Kindergarten]]'' has the day go wrong for just about everybody in some way. For starters, the titular teacher burns her toast, accidentally cracks an egg onto her bird's tail, loses the beads to her necklace, spills her juice, and gets a flat tire all in the same morning.
** It gets more hectic at school through the book, Adam's throws his hat onto a mobile causing it to come down, Brenda comes in late with things coming out of her bookbag, Christopher has an accident when trying to get to the bathroom, Danny accidentally sprays Emily when tending to his seeds causing the latter to blow her truck at him throughout the rest of the story, Franny accidentally knocks one of her shoes on something down on Miss Bindergarten's desk, Gwen falls off of a footstool in the library, Ian accidentally tears a page on a book he and Christopher were reading, Jessie accidentally drops a jar of bugs causing Kiki to cut her thumb, Noah drops his rock from the rock collection on top of his foot, Ophilia's smock gets caught on her painting, Patrica trips over Franny's backpack and drops her tray, Quintin overeats and gets sick, Raffie ends up soaking Sara with his apple juice, Tommy dumps too much dirt onto his plant, Ursula rips open a seed packet spilling the seeds everywhere, Vicky pours way too much water on her plant causing it to overflow and get on Sara's tail, Wanda accidentally whacks the Principal with a ball, and Xavier scrapes his knee. All in all, Henry, Matty, Yolanda and Zach are the only ones spared from this trope.

* The ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' episode "Donkey's Bad Day" is about Donkey thinking that her day has gone awry after an alarm clock falls on her hoof and she spills her favorite cereal. She is so upset over these two events that nothing can cheer her up [[spoiler: until Purple Panda suggests making a happy memories box]].

** It gets more hectic at school through the book, Adam's throws his hat onto a mobile causing it to come down, Brenda comes in late with things coming out of her bookbag, Christopher has an accident when trying to get to the bathroom, Danny accidentally sprays Emily when tending to his seeds causing the latter to blow her truck at him throughout the rest of the story, Franny accidentally knocks one of her shoes on something down on Miss Bindergarten's desk, Gwen falls off of a footstool in the library, Ian accidentally tears a page on a book he and Christopher were reading, Jessie accidentally drops a jar of bugs causing Kiki to cut her thumb, Noah drops his rock from the rock collection, Ophilia's smock gets caught on her painting, Patrica trips over Franny's backpack and drops her tray, Quintin overeats and gets sick, Raffie ends up soaking Sara with his apple juice, Tommy dumps too much dirt onto his plant, Ursula rips open a seed packet spilling the seeds everywhere, Vicky pours way too much water on her plant causing it to overflow and get on Sara's tail, Wanda accidentally whacks the Principal with a ball, and Xavier scrapes his knee. All in all, Henry, Matty, Yolanda and Zach are the only ones spared from this trope.

** It gets more hectic at school through the book, Adam's throws his hat onto a mobile causing it to come down, Brenda comes in late with things coming out of her bookbag, Christopher has an accident when trying to get to the bathroom, Danny accidentally sprays Emily when tending to his seeds causing the latter to blow her truck at him throughout the rest of the story, Franny accidentally knocks one of her shoes on something down on Miss Bindergarten's desk, Gwen falls off of a footstool in the library, Ian accidentally tears a page on a book he and Christopher were reading, Jessie accidentally drops a jar of bugs causing Kiki to cut her thumb, Noah drops his rock from the rock collection, Ophilia's smock gets caught on her painting, Patrica trips over Franny's backpack and drops her tray, Quintin overeats and gets sick, Raffie ends up soaking Sara with his apple juice, Tommy dumps too much dirt onto his plant, Ursula rips open a seed packet spilling the seeds everywhere, Vicky pours way too much water on her plant causing it to overflow and get on Sara's tail, Wanda accidentally whacks the Penguin Principal with a ball, and Xavier scrapes his knee. All in all, Henry, Matty, Yolanda and Zach are the only ones spared from this trope.

** It gets more hectic at school through the book, Adam's throws his hat onto a mobile causing it to come down, Brenda comes in late with things coming out of her bookbag, Christopher has an accident when trying to get to the bathroom, Danny accidentally sprays Emily when tending to his seeds causing the latter to blow her truck at him throughout the rest of the story, Franny accidentally knocks one of her shoes on something down on Miss Bindergarten's desk, Gwen falls off of a footstool in the library, Ian accidentally tears a page on a book he and Christopher were reading, Jessie accidentally drops a jar of bugs causing Kiki to cut her thumb, Noah drops his rock from the rock collection, Ophilia's smock gets caught on her painting, Patrica trips over Franny's backpack and drops her tray, Quintin overeats and gets sick, Raffie ends up soaking Sara with his apple juice, Tommy dumps too much dirt onto his plant, Ursula rips open a seed packet spilling the seeds everywhere, Vicky pours way too much water on her plant causing it to overflow and get on Sara's tail, Wanda accidentally whacks the Penguin Principal with a ball, and Xavier scraps his knee. All in all, Henry, Matty, Yolanda and Zach are the only ones spared from this trope.

** It gets more hectic at school through the book, Adam's throws his hat onto a mobile causing it to come down, Brenda comes in late with things coming out of her bookbag, Christopher has an accident when trying to get to the bathroom, Danny accidentally sprays Emily when tending to his seeds causing the latter to blow her truck at him throughout the rest of the story, Franny accidentally knocks one of her shoes on something down on Miss Bindergarten's desk, Gwen falls off of a footstool in the library, Ian accidentally tears a page on a book he and Christopher were reading, Jessie accidentally drops a jar of bugs causing Kiki to cut her thumb, Noah drops his rock from the rock collection, Ophilia's smock gets caught on her painting, Patrica trips over Franny's backpack and drops her tray, Quintin overeats and gets sick, Raffie ends up soaking Sara with his apple juice, Tommy dumps too much dirt onto his plant, Ursula rips open a seed packet spilling the seeds everywhere, Vicky pours way too much water on her plant causing it to overflow and get on Sara's tail, Wanda accidentally whacks the Penguin for a Principal with a ball and Xavier scraps his knee. All in all, Henry, Matty, Yolanda and Zach are the only ones spared from this trope.

** It gets more hectic at school through the book, Adam's throws his hat onto a mobile causing it to come down, Brenda comes in late with things coming out of her bookbag, Christopher has an accident when trying to get to the bathroom, Danny accidentally sprays Emily when tending to his seeds causing the latter to blow her truck at him throughout the rest of the story, Franny accidentally knocks one of her shoes on something down on Miss Bindergarten's desk, Gwen falls off of a footstool in the library, Ian accidentally tears a page on a book he and Christopher were reading, Jessie accidentally drops a jar of bugs causing Kiki to cut her thumb, Noah drops his rock from the rock collection, Ophilia's smock gets caught on her painting, Patrica trips over Franny's backpack and drops her tray, Quintin overeats and gets sick, Raffie ends up soaking Sara with his apple juice, Tommy dumps too much dirt onto his plant, Ursula rips open a seed packet spilling the seeds everywhere, Vicky pours way to much water on her plant causing it to overflow and get on Sara's tail, Wanda accidentally whacks the Penguin for a Principal with a ball and Xavier scraps his knee. All in all, Henry, Matty, Yolanda and Zach are the only ones spared from this trope.

-->-- '''Alexander''', ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay''

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'': Most of the game takes place over the course of one ''very'' bad day for Edgeworth. In chronological order, he faints due to airplane turbulence triggering his fear of earthquakes, discovers a body in an elevator (he's also uncomfortable around those), gets blamed for killing the guy, has to find the real culprit, lands only to find himself roped into a hostage situation, gets hit over the head, has to solve ''another'' murder, meets [[AbhorrentAdmirer Wendy Oldbag]] and has to interrogate her, and later enters his office to find that yet another guy has been killed there and he needs to investigate ''that''.

* ''[[Literature/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay]]'': The title character is a little boy who wakes up one morning with gum in his hair. And it's all downhill from there.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In season 3 episode "Dog of Death", the dog needs an expensive operation, so the family cuts back on luxuries. This includes Lisa's monthly encyclopedia purchase--which happens to cover Copernicus, which turns out to be the subject for that week's report in school--Marge's weekly lottery ticket--so of course Marge's numbers come up right on cue--and new clothes for baby Maggie...who chooses just this week to have a growth spurt. This actually leaves the whole family angry at the dog for essentially robbing them of such good luck to the point he leaves, feeling unwanted.
** The entire first act of season 3's "Bart the Murderer" is this for Bart. It's a lovely day, Bart's homework is done, and he's going on a field trip to the chocolate factory. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? [[ButtMonkey Everything]]. [[ADogAteMyHomework Santa's Little Helper eats Bart's homework]], he misses the school bus and has to walk to school in the rain, arriving forty minutes late. He splits his pants on the monkey bars and gets a black eye from a football hitting him in the face. [[OhCrap He suddenly realises he left his permission slip for the field trip at home]], so he can't go. After spending the time licking envelopes instead, he leaves school, it starts raining again, he loses a wheel off his skateboard and finally has the Mafia pointing their guns in his face. Poor kid.

* ''[[Literature/MissBindergarten Miss Bindergarten Has a Wild Day in Kindergarten]]'' has the day go wrong for just about everybody in some way.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold!'': Oskar Kokoshka is usually bad at poker, but today he's so confident of his current poker hand, he's betting the baby he's babysitting... but his poker partners won't allow it, and leave. And it turns out to be a royal flush.

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* Minor subversion: On an episode of ''Series/{{Nurses}}'', the nurses' lottery ticket numbers are drawn -- but the person who bought the ticket got one of the numbers wrong. But this time, they actually _do_ realize that 5 of 6 numbers wins them a good deal of money, after the {{Aesop}} on how they really do care about the person who screwed up.

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* One Disney Ducks comic by Keno Creator/DonRosa, "The Sign of the Triple Distelfink", reveals that BornLucky Gladstone Gander's birthday is the one day of every year when he's unlucky. Unfortunately for many readers, the story ends with the discovery that the titular magical symbol, which is what gives Gladstone all of his infamous luck, was flawed when created, and it's fixed, meaning this one chink in Gladstone's armor is gone. It's not a very popular story for that reason.

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* ''[[Literature/MissBindergarten Miss Bindergarten Has A Wild Day In Kindergarten]]''.

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* ''Series/TheJamieFoxxShow'': Some hotelier lady won't let some worker at the hotel buy his regular lottery numbers. And it turns that no one won... and that the "asinine" winning numbers of 1-2-3-4-5, were that worker's usual numbers (Not really asinine, as statistically speaking, any sequence of numbers is exactly as likely as any other.)
** It is more likely someone else will pick those numbers.
* ''Series/TheBill'': Everyone thinks Reg Hollis has won the lottery because his numbers have all come up, and it turns out for some reason that he changed one of them. The result of this is that he gets hosed down in a cell and the fact that 5 numbers (in most case) still gets a substantial prize between them is completely ignored.
** This may be based on the story of a woman who found that her lottery ticket almost, but not quite, won a fairly minor prize-a couple thousand dollars at most. Disappointed, she alters it (badly) with a ballpoint pen, and attempts to redeem her prize. Naturally, the clerk doesn't buy it and she's arrested. The officer finds the original number under the forgery, and discovers that the woman was doubly mistaken -- not only did she get arrested over a relatively small sum, she invalidated a ticket that had won the jackpot.

* A different kind is portrayed in the first episode (and opening titles) of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': Earl wins at scratch cards, but while he's celebrating, he gets rammed by a car.
** This is supposed to be the event that convinced Earl of the existence of karma, and that he needs to atone for all the bad things he's done up until now so that nice things can start happening to him again.

* In the ABC ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "Death Hits the Jackpot", A young man in the final stages of a divorce wins the jackpot and asks his Uncle (Rip Torn) to cash in the ticket and hold the money for him so he won't have to split it with his soon-to-be ex-wife. Naturally his Uncle kills him. A VERY bad day indeed.

* Almost every episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.

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* When WesternAnimation/DangerMouse and Penfold help track down an alien's furry, prolific pet--a "tickle-o-hippus"--and constantly mess up doing so (episode "Multiplication Fable"), they each comment "This is not going to be my day."

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