History NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished / WesternAnimation

* The episode "Can You Spare a Dime?" of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' features Squidward quitting his job over a misunderstanding. When he ends up losing his house, [=SpongeBob=] selflessly takes him into his own home, and takes care of him. Whille initially thankful of [=SpongeBob=] for helping him in time of need, Squidward eventually becomes a freeloader, forcing [=SpongeBob=] to wait on him hand and foot (and wear a French Maid outfit), and throwing violent tantrums when he does not comply to Squidward's whims to every detail.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Bubbled", Steven is floating stranded in space with a ruby he's nicknamed Eyeball. After an asteroid fractures her ''GemHeart'', Steven uses his healing powers to restore her; this leaves Eyeball attributing this power to his war traitor mother Rose Quartz, and relentlessly attempts to stab him with a chisel.
* Discussed in the opening narration of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' episode "City at War, Part 2". According to Mikey, the Turtles ''thought'' they did the city a favor when they defeated the Shredder at the end of "Secret Origins, Part 3". However, the resulting EvilPowerVacuum has created a gang war between the Purple Dragons, Foot remnants, and mobsters that threatens to destroy New York. Leo tries to fix things, but his actions in fact trigger a huge battle that wrecks a city block.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' Melissa innocently offers [[{{Jerkass}} Coach [=McGuirk=]]] advice to help with his insomnia. He’s... not very grateful.

** Cartman himself suffers this in WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid, where after initially against Stan and Kyle from fixing the BadFuture, he is convinced by his wife Yentl to help change the past so that everyone else can have a better future. The result of Cartman's selfless act is that [[spoiler: he looses his loving family and is reduced to being a CrazyHomelessPerson whose ForcedToWatch as everyone else gets a happy ending in the "good" future]].

* There's a [[{{Subverted}} subversion]] of this in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Kyle Broflovski tries to get Heidi Turner out of an emotionally abusive relationship with Eric Cartman. When Cartman learns of this he uses Kyle's interference to manipulate Heidi into rejecting Kyle and become Cartman's DistaffCounterpart. The subversion comes [[spoiler: when Kyle makes Heidi [[HeelRealization realize]] what [[WhatHaveIBecome she has become]] after she rejected Kyle help and letting Cartman's influence change her, causing Heidi to end the abusive relationship herself for good.]]

*** Homer, upset that he had made an enemy, ''did'' try to make it up to Grimes by inviting him over for dinner. He was instead [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech castigated]] by Grimes about having been an incompetent bum [[HardWorkHardlyWorks yet achieving more in his life than harder working people like himself have]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer's mom became a runaway outlaw once she helped Mr. Burns after a bunch of hippies walked all over him. Even the producers [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this in the commentary by saying that "Never act in kindness" was the moral.
** However, in that same episode Chief Wiggum was very grateful for how Mona helped him [[KarmicJackpot and helped to smuggle her out of town]].
** Frank Grimes saves Homer from drinking a vial of acid, but smashes it against a wall. Burns chews out Grimes for wasting his precious acid and damaging the wall ([[NoOSHACompliance Though who keeps acid in the dining area?]]), and even worse, had Frank not saved Homer, Homer might have died.

** Also, Ned Flanders attempted to be kind by allowing two female college students to stay while they sleep and work on their studies. How do they repay him? By using the room he rented out to them as a studio for a softcore video site, sexy slumber party. Similarly in the same episode, Flanders attempts to be a good neighbor to his town and to Homer, but his attempts at good deeds are repaid by Homer leaking the video to the whole town, as well as the town cheering on the girls when Ned evicts them, and mocking him behind their backs.
*** And speaking of Ned Flanders, there's his ReasonYouSuckSpeech to all of Springfield... except this was after the townspeople had selflessly tried to help rebuild his house. It ended in failure, but they ''did'' try, which is lampshaded and derided in the speech itself by Ned.
** Bart, as the Shadow Knight, decides to do a good deed and sacrifice two-thirds of his life to resurrect an elf, Marge, although Marge tends to Bart, the same can't be said for the rest of the characters, deciding that his action meant he was easy pickings, and decided to take advantage of his weakened state by brutally slaughtering him. While Bart lost interest on the game anyway, Marge decided to [[spoiler:avenge him]].
** When Homer [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome became smart]], he sent a safety report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This led to all the SNPP workers losing their jobs.
** During the episode about Jessica Lovejoy, Bart realized she's even more mischievous than he is, after he witnessed her steal the money out of the church collection plate. After he refused to go along with it, she leaves right when the members of the church noticed Bart with the empty collection plate. If not for [[HypocriticalHeartwarming Lisa's determination to defend her brother]], Bart would have been run out of Springfield.
** During a ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'', there was a story where Lisa helped a dolphin to escape back to sea. Said dolphin eventually lead other dolphins in taking the surface away from mankind. (They claim they used to live at the surface before being ran out of it by humans) Also, when Lisa noticed a dolphin with a nose stuck at a can ring, she helped it and it bit her hand hard. Lisa almost snaps and curses at him before Homer sucker punches it.

* Lazlo quotes this word for word in the ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' episode "Irreconcilable Dungferences" after he helps the Dung Beetles with their argument, resulting in him accidentally getting whacked by their fishing poles when they were about to go fishing again.
* The episode "Can You Spare a Dime?" of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' features Squidward quitting his job over a misunderstanding. When he ends up losing his house, [=SpongeBob=] selflessly takes him into his own home, and takes care of him. Whille initially thankful of [=SpongeBob=] for helping him in time of need, Squidward eventually becomes a freeloader, forcing [=SpongeBob=] to wait on him hand and foot (and wear a French Maid outfit), and throwing violent tantrums when he does not comply to Squidward's whims to every detail.
** In "Porous Pockets", [=SpongeBob=] gets his hands on a fortune and generously buys ice cream for a stranger. Cue an enormous crowd of moochers skulking for free money until [=SpongeBob=] is bone dry.
** A similar thing happens in "The Sponge Who Could Fly" where [=SpongeBob=] uses his flying pants to perform heroic deeds but the citizens of Bikini Bottom quickly become demanding him for more or less everything so when he tries to escape they hunt him down because he "owes" them favors. These being the same citizens who ridiculed him for wanting to fly and formed an angry mob against him for having dreams earlier in the episode.
* Happens to Zuko in a season 2 episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' when a village he saves from corrupt guards instantly turns on him because he was a Firebender.[[note]]And not just ''any'' Firebender. Prince Zuko, son of Fire Lord Ozai.[[/note]]

** And Haru in season 1, who saved an old guy from a cave using Earthbending, but he turned Haru in to the Fire Nation soldiers.

* [[HeroAntagonist Dib]] from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' suffers this constantly. Perhaps most obvious in "Room With a Moose," where the kids mock, wedgy and ostracize him as he tries to warn them about Zim, and then has to ''use'' their cruel treatment of him to save their lives. He even considered dooming them despite knowing he'd doom himself as well.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "This Is a Life?", during the parody of 1952's ''This is Your Life'', when Daffy vociferously rants about how it was unfair for Bugs to be presented on stage by Elmer Fudd [[AttentionWhore instead of him]], he spots Granny, who was sitting adjacent to him, searching for something. Knowing exactly what she was looking for, Daffy politely hands the old woman her umbrella, and Granny thanks him...by hitting him over the head with it to keep him quiet.
* Buttons from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' embodies this trope. Every episode has Mindy getting out of her harness or crib etc, and causing Buttons to go and save her, [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter going through absolute hell in the process]]. And at the end of every short the [[AdultsAreUseless parents]] scolds him every time. Well, at least Mindy comforts him. He gets [[spoiler:praised and rewarded for his dedication and loyalty in TheMovie]], however.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' where Finn shares his food with a man who turns out to be a wizard. The wizard turns Finn into a giant foot for his kindness. The moral that this wizard was trying to teach Finn? [[SpoofAesop People are jerks and you shouldn't help them.]]

* Most of the time, when Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin|TheSeries}} does a good deed, it turns out okay. However, in "The Citadel", the introductory episode for KnightOfCerebus EvilSorcerer Mozenrath, when Aladdin tries to save a woman and her baby from a monster, they're actually illusions designed to lure Aladdin in so that Mozenrath can try to talk him into capturing ''another'' monster. Aladdin refuses, because Mozenrath is ObviouslyEvil, but then gets sent to Mozenrath's castle ''anyway''. He finally catches the creature, and then decides to do a good deed for ''it'', letting it back into its own world rather than leaving it as a slave to Mozenrath. Essentially, good deeds were in this case punished with the bitter enmity of the series' most powerful villain.
** In another episode, thanks to Iago getting a bump on the head, he experienced an uncharacteristic amount of selflessness and charitability by giving away a lot of things, including Genie's lamp. Unfortunately, this characteristic ended up causing more harm than good not only to him, but to everyone near him as well.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Mechanic", this trope is part of how Earl Cooper became the Batmobile's mechanic. Years ago, Cooper worked for a car company and noticed a fatal flaw in one of their car designs. The CEO refused to change it, and had some goons sent to silence Cooper, but Batman saved him. Unfortunately, this gave him a reputation as a whistle-blower, and as such Cooper couldn't find another job until Batman hired him for ''his'' car.
* Batman always follows through with [[ThouShaltNotKill one rule]] when dealing with the Joker, sometimes even saving the latter. Come ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', and the flashback that ensued, Batman most likely will wish he hadn't followed that rule knowing that Batman was in a way responsible for the Joker's most horrific (as well as final) act.
* Comes up repeatedly in ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'':
** Specifically Cricket wanting to get out and see the city sights in the first episode is what eventually causes the family truck to be towed.
** In "Present Tense", Cricket is determined to get Remy the ultimate birthday gift by winning a handful of tickets; however, he constantly keeps ditching Remy to do so, and all he wanted was to spend time with a best friend. And when he finally does get the gift, he slips up and ruins Remy's cake, making his birthday even more worse than ever.
** A HalfArcSeason for Season 2 hits this ''hard'' for the Green family; Chip Whistler pulls a FakeDefector on them and makes them believe he changed his ways so he can take over for his retiring father as CEO of Wholesome Foods. By believing his trick and signing that forgiveness contract (especially Cricket), not only does this worsen the rivalry even further, but this also leads to Cricket and Gloria losing their jobs at Big Coffee, Chip destroying the café and apartment complex to make room for a megastore expansion, and worst yet, the Greens almost lost their beloved farmhouse -- and their legacy. ''Ouch.''
** In "Fast Foodie", Cricket makes a wager with Bill that he and Tilly can eat at the next-door Burger Clown every day for every meal, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Cue the kids eating so much fast food that Cricket ends up bloated while Tilly is ill.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' has the end of season 2: The Sentinel is released, and by sticking around to fight it, the mutants are forced to reveal themselves, causing mass witch hunting and prejudice against them, even after they prove that they weren't responsible for the Sentinel and were the good guys there. Then, as the end of the series proves, the same thing happens when [[spoiler:they defeat Apocalypse, and it's revealed that mutant hatred will continue, more, and more powerful, sentinels will be built and used, one of their closest allies will be consumed by darkness, and at least two of them will be noticeably missing in the future line up. Hey, at least Magneto will become good and the Brotherhood will join SHIELD, but since it was SHIELD who were placed in charge of Sentinel production in the present, that might not be a good thing.]]
* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "A Dream Walking", Popeye saves Olive from sleepwalking at a construction site and brings her back to her bedroom. However, when she wakes up, she thinks Popeye is being ThePeepingTom and throws stuff at him.
** In "Little Swee'pea", Popeye saves Swee'pea from the zoo animals and bring him home safely. Popeye decides to entertain him with a toy monkey, which scares him, causing Olive to think he's scaring Swee'Pea and promptly cleans Popeye's clock. Popeye ends the cartoon saying:
-->"There's no ifs or maybes, I'll never have babies/I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!" ''(toot-toot)''
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had an episode, "The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith," wherein the CIA believes that Avery has dementia and orders Stan to have him mind-wiped, which would make him a vegetable. Stan rebels and saves Avery, only to find his behavior becoming stranger and more nonsensical until he steals a nuclear submarine. Eventually, Stan comes to terms with Avery's dementia and tries to euthanize him with a bullet to the head. However, Stan's bullet hits and destroys a mind-scrambling chip, planted by another CIA agent as retribution for Avery's bullying. Instead of thanking Stan for saving his life and sanity, Avery punishes Stan with a demotion because he didn't follow orders.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** Timmy Turner seems to run into this trope a lot. It's most noticeable on the Christmas specials. He is usually in universe and by fans called out on his selfishness and unwillingness to share. However, in the movie ''Film/AFairlyOddChristmas'' as well as Merry Wishmas, Timmy is condemned for being generous because he's "muscling in" on SantaClaus' territory.
** In "Dream Goat!", Timmy helping Chompy leaves him a guilt-ridden, sleep-deprived mess that ultimately gets grounded.
* It's pretty common for people to find the titular ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer'' and choose to look past his violence and theft and try to help him get on the right track. [[DeconstructiveParody Because of the]] [[CrapsackWorld nature of this show]], Kevin abuses their kindness and mistreats and steals from them. One episode had him build a friendship with the Widow Coulson, and even though he grew to care for her, he stole her medication.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'':
** In "The Good Deed", Wander finds his every attempt to do good [[DisasterDominoes leads to bigger troubles]], to the point it drives [[BigBad Lord Hater]] to try and blow up the sun. He starts to [[HeroicBSOD literally sinks into despair]] until Sylvia gives him a pep-talk. When they stop the plan, KarmicJackpot is reached.
** In "The Nice Guy", Wander's kindness again backfires when his desire to be nice and helpful complicates a simple attempt to buy Sylvia a bottle of her favorite soda. He even ends up giving the last bottle of Thunder Blazz to a little girl... [[SubvertedTrope who ends up giving it to Sylvia herself, since she was inspried by Wander]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Done infamously in the episode ''Princess Spike''. While it's true he ''does'' do some selfish and thoughtless things when being put in Twilight Sparkle's leadership position, and thus [[LaserGuidedKarma deserves some of the flak]], literally none of these things cause any problems. It's all the things he did with legitimately good intentions while trying to actually do things Twilight Sparkle would do and an overabundance of Dragon Sneeze Plants ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guess what they do]]) that cause all the problems, meaning if he hadn't done anything wrong he still would have been dragged through the wringer. The resulting BrokenAesop didn't sit well with many fans and is a major reason it appears so frequently on "[[https://www.derpibooru.org/forums/pony/topics/worst-episode-of-season-5 Worst Episode lists]]".
** "Marks for Effort" also offers this. Namely, it revolves around the CMC helping a student named Cozy Glow with studying for an exam, doing their absolute best to teach her everything about friendship and succeeding in having her remember it all. The end result? Cozy Glow not only ''fails the exam hard'', Twilight Sparkle also accuses the CMC of teaching her the wrong things and promptly forbids them from coming to the school and communicating with its students. As it turns out later on, Cozy Glow failed the exam because [[spoiler:she intentionally wrote all the wrong answers in hopes of making the CMC seem like they still have things about friendship to learn. Becomes even worse when Cozy reveals her [[BitchInSheepsClothing true motives]] for entering the school in the S8 finale]].
* Discussed in the opening narration of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' episode "City at War, Part 2". According to Mikey, the Turtles ''thought'' they did the city a favor when they defeated the Shredder at the end of "Secret Origins, Part 3". However, the resulting EvilPowerVacuum has created a gang war between the Purple Dragons, Foot remnants, and mobsters that threatens to destroy New York. Leo tries to fix things, but his actions in fact trigger a huge battle that wrecks a city block.
* In the second half of the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' when Ickis was going to be ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Snorched]]'' for failing to retrieve his lost monster manual, Oblina and Krumm go on an extensive chase to get it back for him. However, as the Gromble pointed out, getting the manual back was ''Ickis's'' assignment, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero so not only do Oblina and Krumm fail to get Ickis out of being]] ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Snorched]]'', [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but they end up joining him]].
* Discussed in the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode [[Recap/BobsBurgersS7E19ThelmaAndLouiseExceptThelmaIsLinda Thelma and Louise Except Thelma Is Linda]]. Louise gets detention for pantsing a student, even though she only did it because said student was bullying another. She sees herself being punished as this trope, and the plot focuses on Linda busting her out of detention and trying to reward her to challenge this trope.
* There's a [[{{Subverted}} subversion]] of this in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Kyle Broflovski tries to get Heidi Turner out of an emotionally abusive relationship with Eric Cartman. When Cartman learns of this he uses Kyle's interference to manipulate Heidi into rejecting Kyle and become Cartman's DistaffCounterpart. The subversion comes [[spoiler: when Kyle makes Heidi [[HeelRealization realize]] what [[WhatHaveIBecome she has become]] after she rejected Kyle help and letting Cartman's influence change her, causing Heidi to end the abusive relationship herself for good.]]
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' Melissa innocently offers [[{{Jerkass}} Coach [=McGuirk=]]] advice to help with his insomnia. He’s... not very grateful.
-> '''Melissa:''' Did you try just laying on your bed and, you know, closing your eyes and relaxing?\\
'''Coach [=McGuirk=]:''' [[SarcasmMode Well, that’s genius, Melissa. You’re saying that all I have to do to fall asleep, is go to sleep. Is that what you’re saying, Melissa?]] ''(Melissa nods)'' [[SarcasmMode Good, ‘cause it’s brilliant. You should write a book! You should hold seminars!]] ''[[SarcasmMode You’ll make millions of dollars!]]'' '''[[SarcasmMode ATTENTION ALL INSOMNIACS! ALL YA HAVE TO DO TO FALL ASLEEP, IS LAY IN YA BED!]]'''\\
'''Melissa:''' ''(on the verge of tears)'' ...I’m just trying to help.\\
'''Coach [=McGuirk=]:''' '''LIKE EVERY OTHER WOMAN IN MY LIFE!'''
* ''[[WesternAnimation/LoopyDeLoop Loopy de Loop]]'' is "[[NobleWolf ze good wolf]]" and is always trying to help others, unfortunately everybody makes assumptions about the trustworthiness of his species and abuses him for it.
* A very tragic examples happens in ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu'' in regards to the BigBad Dragon. Before the events of the show, Dragon protected the valley from danger. To test his loyalty, the Heavens caused a drought and when Dragon asks the Heavens if he can use his ability to manipulate water to end the drought, the Heavens remained silent and since they technically did not say 'No' to Dragon, he used his powers to end the drought. However, the Heavens stripped him of his ability to fly since they saw him ending their drought as an act of 'arrogance'. It should be noted that regardless of arrogance, he still used his powers for the sake of others. It's no wonder he's so bitter in the present.

* Lazlo quotes this word for word in the ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' episode "Irreconcilable Dungferences" after he helps the Dung Beetles with their argument, resulting in him accidentally getting whacked by their fishing poles when they were about to go fishing again

* A very tragic examples happens in ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu'' in regards to the BigBad Dragon. Before the events of the show, Dragon protected the valley from danger. To test his loyalty, the Heavens caused a drought and when Dragon asks the Heavens if he can use his ability to manipulate water to end the drought, the Heavens remained silent and since they technically did not say 'No' to Dragon, he used his powers to end the drought. However, the Heavens tripped him of his ability to fly since they saw him ending their drought as an act of 'arrogance'. It should be noted that regardless of arrogance, he still used his powers for the sake of others. It's no wonder he's so bitter in the present.

** Dave gets captured by a bear in "[[Recap/TotalDramaMoMonkeyMoProblems Mo' Monkey, Mo' Problems]]" and there's little that can be done to save him. Ella goes against Chris's ban on singing to get the bear to let go of Dave and follow the team back to Chris, as they need something the bear ate to win. And Waneyihtam Maskwak does win, meaning Ella would've been safe if Sugar hadn't been waiting for this opportunity. She lets Chris anonymously know that Ella went against his orders, which gets her eliminated.

** A similar thing happens in "The Sponge Who Could Fly" where [=SpongeBob=] uses his flying pants to perform heroic deeds but the citizens of Bikini Bottom quickly become dependent on him for more or less everything so when he tries to escape they hunt him down because he "owes" them favors. These being the same citizens who ridiculed him for wanting to fly and formed an angry mob against him for having dreams earlier in the episode.

* Done infamously in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''Princess Spike''. While it's true he ''does'' do some selfish and thoughtless things when being put in Twilight Sparkle's leadership position, and thus [[LaserGuidedKarma deserves some of the flak]], literally none of these things cause any problems. It's all the things he did with legitimately good intentions while trying to actually do things Twilight Sparkle would do and an overabundance of Dragon Sneeze Plants ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guess what they do]]) that cause all the problems, meaning if he hadn't done anything wrong he still would have been dragged through the wringer. The resulting BrokenAesop didn't sit well with many fans and is a major reason it appears so frequently on "[[https://www.derpibooru.org/forums/pony/topics/worst-episode-of-season-5 Worst Episode lists]]".
** "Marks for Effort" also offers this. Namely, it revolves around the CMC helping a student named Cozy Glow with studying for an exam, doing their absolute best to teach her everything about friendship and succeeding in having her remember it all. The end result? Cozy Glow not only ''fails the exam hard'', Twilight Sparkle also accuses the CMC of teaching her the wrong things and promptly forbids them from coming to the school and communicating with its students. As it turns out later on, Cozy Glow failed the exam because [[spoiler:she intentionally wrote all the wrong answers in hopes of making the CMC seem like they still have things about friendship to learn]].

* In the second half of the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' when Ickis was going to be ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Snorched]]'' for failing to retrieve his lost monster manual, Oblina and Krumm go on an extensive chase to get it back for him. However, as the Gromble pointed out, getting the manual back was ''Ickis's'' assignment, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero so not only do Oblina and Krumm fail to get Ickis out of being]] ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Snorched}'', [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but they end up joining him]].

* In the second half of the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' when Ickis was going to be ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Snorched]]'' for failing to retrieve his lost monster manual, Oblina and Krumm go on an extensive chase to get it back for him. However, as the Gromble pointed out, getting the manual back was ''Ickis's'' assignment, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero so not only do Oblina and Krumm not get Ickis out of being 'Snorched', but they end up joining him]].

* In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' when Ickis was going to be '[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Snorched]]' for failing to retrieve his lost monster manual, Oblina and Krumm go on an extensive chase to get it back for him. However, as the Grumble pointed out, getting the manual back was ''Ickis's'' assignment, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero so not only do Oblina and Krumm not get Ickis out of being 'Snorched', but they end up joining him]].

** In "Little Swee'pea", Popeye saves Swee'pea from the zoo animals and bring him home safely. Popeye decides to entertain him with a toy monkey, which scares him, causing Olive to think he's scaring Swee'Pea and promptly cleans Popeye's clock.
-->"No ifs, ands or maybes, I'll never has babies/I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!" ''(toot-toot)''

* The episode "Can You Spare a Dime?" of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' features Squidward quitting his job over a misunderstanding. When he ends up losing his house, [=SpongeBob=] selflessly takes him into his own home, and takes care of him. Whille initially thankful of [=SpongeBob=] for helping him in time of need, Squidward eventually becomes a freeloader, forcing [=SpongeBob=] to wait on him hand and foot, and throwing violent tantrums when he does not comply to Squidward's whims to every detail.

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "A Dream Walking", Popeye saves Olive from sleepwalking at a construction site and brings her back to her bedroom. However, when she wakes up, she thinks Popeye is being a PeepingTom and throws stuff at him.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' where Finn shares his food with a man who turns out to be a wizard. The wizard turns Finn into a giant foot for his kindness. The moral that this wizard was trying to teach Finn? [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop People are jerks and you shouldn't help them.]]