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| 8 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInOdyssey'': In "[[Recap/AdventuresInOdysseyVideoSeriesE13BabyDaze Baby Daze]]", Eugene responds to Connie's warnings that he'd better take his responsibility to the infant he found on the doorstep seriously with "What could be the least bit hard about babysitting?" ...and soon he has to deal with the baby crying, spattering him with food, and other things he is not expecting. |
| 9 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': In one episode, everyone becomes addicted to Jimmy's new candy, so he announces he won't be making it anymore. |
| 10 | -->'''Jimmy:''' No more candy, no more problems. What are they gonna do? Riot?\ |
| 11 | '''Crowd:''' [[TorchesAndPitchforks DOWN WITH JIMMY! DOWN WITH JIMMY!]] |
| 12 | * This example from ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', during the episode "The Lost City of the Sun": |
| 13 | -->'''Genie:''' Your puny glove against my [[MemeticMutation phenomenal cosmic power]]! C'mon, give it your best shot!\ |
| 14 | '''Mozenrath:''' ''(rolls up his sleeve)''\ |
| 15 | ''(GilliganCut to Genie going flying)'' |
| 16 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "For Black Eyes Only" where the characters are in a pastiche of the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' films, Roger's character alludes to the previous ''James Bond''-style episode saying that he survived falling into a volcano when he gets dropped off of a helicopter, then he gets impaled on a swordfish. |
| 17 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYPGZ6zSNdw Marcy's Theme Song Takeover ]] showing her past adventures which ends with Marcy saying "Hope nothing bad ever happens to me!" when the [[DramaticIrony audience knows]] [[spoiler: she'll be stabbed in the chest after being betrayed by her mentor figure, and eventually becomes the human host for [[EldritchAbomination the Core]].]] |
| 18 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Sterling and Katya go on the run, and Archer assures her "We'll always be one step ahead of them. No matter who's hunting us. Even if it's, oh, I don't know, a criminally insane cyborg." Cut to [[spoiler:Barry]], a criminally insane cyborg out for revenge on Archer. |
| 19 | * ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'' |
| 20 | ** Shortly before his interview with Fog in the opening episode, Rigodon says becoming Fog's servants will enable him and Tico to stop travelling and settle down. Rigodon and Tico's backstory involves them having travelled all over Europe as circus performers, but Rigodon is now seeking more settled employment for himself and Tico, so Fog (who has not travelled for years) seems like the ideal employer. Hours later, Fog returns home from the Reform Club with news that Rigodon [[note]]Fog doesn't know about Tico at this point.[[/note]] is to accompany him on a trip . . . around the world. |
| 21 | ** While en route to Chicago, Fog and his companions encounter a snowstorm. Rigodon fears it could slow them down, but Fog assures him that they have almost reached Chicago, to which Rigodon says they have "nothing to worry about" in that case. However, when the travellers arrive in Chicago, they learn that the train tracks are blocked by snow as far as Buffalo, meaning the train cannot go any further. They set out to cross the Great Lakes in an ice boat, but Tico nearly succumbs to the cold and they have to take shelter in a log cabin until he recovers. |
| 22 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', a group of kids tell Binky Barnes that if he sees Arthur again, he must hit him, or he'll be kicked out of his own club that he founded. Binky concludes that if he doesn't see Arthur, he doesn't hit him. He's able to avoid Arthur for a whole day, and when he walks home from school, he tells his friends, "I never saw that glasses kid again. Probably never will." Guess who comes around the corner a second later. |
| 23 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 24 | ** While the Gaang's ship is under attack, Sokka says, [[RockBottom "Things couldn't get much worse!"]], then a giant sea serpent pops out of the water. |
| 25 | --->'''Sokka''': [[LampshadeHanging The universe just loves proving me wrong, doesn't it!?!]]\ |
| 26 | '''Toph''': You make it too easy! |
| 27 | ** The trope is however swiftly subverted, as a stray shot causes the serpent to attack their pursuers instead, prompting a "Thank you, the universe!" from Sokka. |
| 28 | ** In the two-part episode "The Boiling Rock", the Warden says that no one has ever escaped from his prison. [[spoiler: By the end, 5 people have escaped -- Sokka, Zuko, Hakoda, Suki, and Chit Sang.]] |
| 29 | ** Having captured Toph in a metal container, and in the process of carting her home, Xin Fu gets sick of her yelling and taunts her, saying, "You might think you're the greatest earthbender in the world, but even you can't bend metal!" They apparently gave Toph an idea, because she proceeds to ''invent'' and teach herself metalbending, breaks out of the container, traps Xin Fu and his accomplice in it, and proclaims "I AM THE GREATEST EARTHBENDER IN THE WORLD!" before leaving. |
| 30 | ** At the end of "The Earth King" Aang and Sokka make their way over the plains surrounding Ba Sing Se on Appa, convinced that things are finally going positively for them. They have the Earth king on their side, Long Feng is arrested, Sokka's on his way to see his dad, Aang's on his way to see a Guru who's going to help him master the Avatar State, Toph's on her way to see her mother, and the Kyoshi warriors are coming to Ba Sing Se. Sokka even says "Everything’s gonna work out perfectly, from now on and forever."\ |
| 31 | However, things go wrong in the next few scenes. In prison, a Dai Li agent delivers Long Feng his meal, but also quietly reassures Long Feng that the organization retains loyalty to him, not the King. Toph goes to meet her mother, and ends up being captured in a metal box by Master Yu and Xin Fu. The Kyoshi Warriors arrive before the Earth King, who formally welcomes them, [[spoiler:unaware that they are actually Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee, disguised in Kyoshi Warrior garments, face paint, and props.]] And sure enough, two episodes later, [[YankTheDogsChain things very quickly go]] FromBadToWorse. |
| 32 | ** The city of Ba Sing Se itself, whose name means "the impenetrable city". |
| 33 | ** Even its [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra spin-off sequel]] is getting in on this. Tahno's first words after unfairly winning the pro-bending tournament was asking if anyone wanted to challenge the champions. Sure enough, [[BigBad Amon]] accepted not long after and [[BroughtDownToNormal stripped the Wolfbats of their bending]] [[CurbStompBattle without any effort]]. |
| 34 | ** In Season 3 of Korra [[spoiler:when Tenzin discovers there are new airbenders popping up, he says it's so exciting and rhetorically wonders who else is discovering this wonderful ability. Cut to a remote mountain prison with tight security, and a BombThrowingAnarchist Zaheer who attempted to kidnap Korra previously has discovered this new ability, and uses it to escape and eventually wreck havoc on the world.]] |
| 35 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': After taking over a Quinjet port, the Vision remarks that it was of minimal difficulty. Hawkeye and Miss Marvel look at him in lock, with Hawkeye admonishing him to never say a situation is easy. Cue a brainwashed Thor arriving to smite them. |
| 36 | -->'''Vision''': That was of minimal difficulty.\ |
| 37 | '''Hawkeye''': Did you just say this was easy? You never say it was easy, ever!\ |
| 38 | '''Vision:''' Why?\ |
| 39 | '''Thor:''' ''(Brainwashed and arriving with a lightning storm)'' Your end has come, betrayers! |
| 40 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' |
| 41 | ** In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE16HarleysHoliday Harley's Holiday]]", a semi-rehabilitated Harley Quinn ends up being pursued by the police, as well as Batman and Robin, after a simple misunderstanding. After taking Veronica Vreeland hostage, she then ends up being pursued by gangsters who wish to ransom off the debutante. After Veronica realizes Harley really doesn't mean her any harm, she agrees to drop all charges, provided she gets out of this in one piece. A delighted Harley states: ''"For the first time today, things are finally looking up!"'' [[Funny/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Enter Veronica's hysterical Army general father, bearing down on them in a tank, Patton-style.]] |
| 42 | ** Also, from "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE56HarleyAndIvy Harley and Ivy]]". At the end Harley and Ivy have escaped both the Joker's gang and the Batman by using the latter to deal with the formers, and Ivy cries that ''[[NoManOfWomanBorn "No man can take us prisoners!"]]''. Cue officer Renee Montoya (a woman) taking them prisoners and making it look easy. |
| 43 | ** In [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]], this is the phrase that establishes Mayor Hill as the designated victim: |
| 44 | --->'''Hill:''' [[AdviceBackfire Forget your schedule for one day]]. Believe me, [[CreateYourOwnVillain it will make a new man out of you]]. |
| 45 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': |
| 46 | ** In "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot", Terry's friend Howard buys an illegal [[SexBot "pleasure synthoid"]]. She [[AIIsACrapshoot goes berserk]] because of her [[{{Yandere}} excessive attachment to him]], finally [[AngstNuke exploding and destroying his house]]. Howard asks "How could this get any worse?"... just as his parents arrive to chew him out. |
| 47 | * Waspinator, the designated ButtMonkey of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' gets it in "Changing of the Guard": |
| 48 | -->'''Waspinator:''' Wazzpinator having good day! Not get shot once!\ |
| 49 | ''(gets shot by Rattrap)'' |
| 50 | ** This exchange: |
| 51 | --->'''Quickstrike:''' "Is that all you got, partner?"\ |
| 52 | '''Dinobot:''' "No. It isn't." \ |
| 53 | ''(blasts him at full power for about half-a-minute straight)'' |
| 54 | * ''Franchise/Ben10'': |
| 55 | ** A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' is this trope being lampshaded or otherwise discussed. Ben is [[GenreSavvy all too aware of how it works]], leading to much frustration when one of the {{Genre Blind|ness}} supporting characters invokes it. He spends much of the episode "Outbreak" trying to explain it to Rook: |
| 56 | --->'''Ben:''' ''Still'' think things can't get any worse?\ |
| 57 | '''Rook:''' I thought you said not to say that.\ |
| 58 | '''Ben:''' Ahh! You made me say it! Maybe the universe didn't hear...\ |
| 59 | '''Rook:''' I really do not think we are talking cause and effect here. |
| 60 | ** For whatever reason, the trope appears to not have any effect when he travels to an alternate universe. Ben, Blukic, and Driba [[ThisIsGonnaSuck brace themselves]] for the inevitable when Ben 23 loudly exclaims that nothing could go wrong... only for nothing to happen after all. |
| 61 | ** One episode sees Kevin and Rook upgrade Kevin's car in the hopes of finally putting an end to its ChronicallyCrashedCar status. When it looks like they did it, they celebrate...only for a deflected magic blast to hit the car and make it disappear. |
| 62 | --->'''Kevin:''' ...I blame myself. |
| 63 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'', Ben as [=XLR8=] steps in a patch of poison ivy, and when Gwen points out that he did he believes that his alien form will be unaffected by it. Soon enough, his legs become instantly covered in purple boils that make it difficult for him to walk back to the Rustbucket. |
| 64 | * ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967'' episode "The Pirate Plot". After the pirates capture Birdman, Captain Kidd's first mate warns him that Birdman's eagle companion Avenger has escaped. Captain Kidd says "What can an eagle do to harm us? Let it go!" After the pirates make Birdman walk the plank, Avenger swoops in, flies underwater (!) and bites through the ropes tying Birdman's hands, freeing him. |
| 65 | * Shows up all the time in ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': |
| 66 | ** Twice in "Supermarket Scandal": |
| 67 | *** Upon arrival at Wholesome Foods, Cricket tries not to drive any attention to themselves. Immediately Chip announces their arrival. |
| 68 | *** Bill warns Cricket anyone who eats the fake produce will turn against the Greens and ruin their reputation. Chip eats it. |
| 69 | ** "Harvest Dinner": "[Watching a pie] is a bogus job! What's it gonna do, ''run away?''" The mean rooster runs away with it in their absense. |
| 70 | ** "Cheap Snake" has Cricket take the advice from a commercial he saw: "No think, just do." [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness It instantly goes horribly wrong from there.]] |
| 71 | ** In "Cricket's Place" after Cricket and Remy move into their own apartment, Cricket hopes for NO. CHORES. EVER. ''AT ALL.'' '''''PERIOD.''''' [[TrashOfTheTitans Guess what happens to the apartment next day!]] |
| 72 | ** Near the end of "Reckoning Ball" as Chip is promoted to CEO, his dad says, "I know you'll make me proud son." [[BaitTheDog Once his dad is out of sight, however...]] |
| 73 | ** In "Dolled Up": |
| 74 | --->'''Cricket:''' No one can box in ol' Cricket Green. ''(immediately gets put in a box amongst the other Li'l Ladies dolls)'' |
| 75 | ** In "Big Picture" when Cricket and Gloria hide from a ravaging old monkey actor behind the movie screen, Cricket says, "That dumb monkey's ''never'' gonna find us!" Not even mere seconds after he says this, the monkey hears him and sees his and Gloria's shadows projected onto the screen, alerting the monkey to where they are. |
| 76 | * ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'' has this happen ''all the time'', occurring at least OncePerEpisode. |
| 77 | ** The moment Crusher constructs his invention or blocks the way whatsoever, he deems, "there's no way Blaze will get past this!". Cue Blaze thinking of a solution (sometimes transforming into something) and getting past. |
| 78 | ** At some moment, either Blaze or AJ will say, "NothingCanStopUsNow" Cue an obstacle stopping them. |
| 79 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Uncle Ruckus, preaching to a crowd, says, "Now, let us pray. Lord, I have spent my whole life hatin' you for makin' me black, and now I see I must hate myself, and all those like me, and cause them misery just like your servant Ronald Reagan did. And if ANY of my words don't come directly from the Almighty God himself, then may I be struck by lightning right this very instant. Halle-". [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Three guesses what interrupted him.]] |
| 80 | * WesternAnimation/BozoTheWorldsMostFamousClown tells Butchy Boy a rather tall tale of how he and the circus boss caught the shark which is mounted on the wall. Bozo says "If that's not the truth, I hope to get bitten by a man-eating shark!" The mounted shark bites Bozo in the fanny. |
| 81 | * In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUvZP7-5LM clip]] from the never-produced ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' animated series: |
| 82 | -->'''Buffy:''' Willow, short of the apocalypse, nothing's gonna keep us from that party tonight.\ |
| 83 | '''Giles:''' Ah, Buffy. Good. We're having an apocalypse. |
| 84 | * The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Journey to the Center of the Lungfish" has Molly warn Bumpy that he should stop taunting the lungfish. Bumpy jokingly asks what kind of things the lungfish could do in retaliation, his last query being if the lungfish will swallow him whole. Shortly after this question, swallowing him whole is exactly what the lungfish does to Mr. Bumpy. |
| 85 | * {{Subverted}} in ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': One of the mini-shorts has [[ButtMonkey Simon]] raking a big pile of leaves and saying "I certainly couldn't imagine having to do that again." The plot of the short has Skip and Chip driving an out of control speedboat which ends up getting in dry land, so we expect the speedboat to ram into the leaves. Instead, it rams into Silkman who happens to walk by, and Simon and his pile remain untouched. |
| 86 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' episode "[=CatDog=] Cousteau", when [=CatDog=] and Lola find a treasure chest in a sunken ship, Cat claims that unlike all the other times they briefly got rich nothing could ruin that moment. Sure enough, [[TerribleTrio the Greasers]] then show up demanding the treasure. |
| 87 | ** In "Dog, Come Home!" [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Dog]] runs away from home. Cat says he's happy to have the house to himself so he can enjoy doing whatever he wants to do. Almost immediately, [[{{Jerkass}} Winslow]] shows up and starts annoying Cat. |
| 88 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'': After seeing Truffles and Mung get hit in the face with bags of money, Shnitzel laughs at them, only for a random bird to drop a pie on his head. |
| 89 | * ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' |
| 90 | ** Abe is running for student body president and getting his butt kicked. Gandhi says "At least things can't get any worse." and Abe berates him because of this trope. As if on cue, Cleo dumps him. Gandhi then says, "Wait... at least things can't get any ''better''." Abe says it doesn't work that way. After Abe leaves the scene, as if on cue, a butterfly flies over and gives Gandhi a dollar. |
| 91 | ** Parodied wonderfully in the episode where Ponce de León, a character who had never been seen before and was very obviously introduced just so he could be gratuitously killed off, spends the first act of the episode making blatant fate-tempting statements, such as constantly telling his friends he loves them just in case he never sees them again. Sure enough, he is randomly killed by a bunch of litter. He even tempts fate as specifically as possible, as when Joan tells him to stop littering (and to stop encouraging everyone else to litter), he says, "What Joan, is litter gonna kill me?" Right after she leaves, the wind kicks up and [[ItMakesSenseInContext the litter kills him]]. |
| 92 | ** "Ha ha! Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys!" |
| 93 | ** Subverted when Toots insists his house will survive a storm as he made it completely flood-proof. Cue the house being destroyed by lightning. |
| 94 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': |
| 95 | ** Any time Jérémie makes an assessment of the situation on Lyoko, something immediately happens to make it the opposite. Thus, optimism leads to nothing but trouble, but saying "It's all over!" appears to summon a DeusExMachina. |
| 96 | ** "Kadic Bombshell": Aelita asks Jérémie if he can fix the unexpected problem with the Supercomputer. He worriedly tells her, yes, "but the problem is that it might take a little while, and during that time, XANA could..." BEEP BEEP BEEP "...activate a tower!" XANA never lets an opportunity to let the kids tempt fate slide. |
| 97 | ** "Bad Connection": Odd complains at the beginning that he never has any conflict with his parents like a normal teenager. After XANA makes them, along with almost everyone else at the academy, BrainwashedAndCrazy, they spend most of the episode trying to kill him. When the mob corners him, we get this line: |
| 98 | --->'''Odd:''' ''(unconcerned/resigned)'' I promise never to complain about not having conflicts with my parents again. |
| 99 | ** From the same episode, this textbook exchange: |
| 100 | --->'''Jérémie:''' I'm putting it to sleep. Odd would kill me if the Super Scan went off in the middle of his film.\ |
| 101 | '''Aelita:''' At any rate, there's not much chance that XANA would launch an attack during the three minutes the film lasts. |
| 102 | ** "End of Take": |
| 103 | --->'''Sissi:''' Or else what, a monster's going to squirt goopy goo all over my face, huh, Ulrich?\ |
| 104 | ''([[DroolHello guess what happens next]])'' |
| 105 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Cree goes on a frantic search for his sister and goes to the treehouse to look for her. When Numbuh 1 refuses to reveal 5's whereabouts, Cree throws a fit. |
| 106 | -->'''Cree:''' You better tell me where my sister is now! Before I turn this stupid treehouse upside down!\ |
| 107 | '''Numbuh 1:''' I'd like to see you try it!\ |
| 108 | (cut to the treehouse ''[[NotHyperbole literally]]'' [[NotHyperbole upside down]])\ |
| 109 | '''Numbuh 1:''' ''(dazed)'' Wow... I didn't think you could do it. |
| 110 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/OperationZERO'', Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 are searching for a missing device in Sector V's treehouse. Numbuh 3 wishes Numbuh 5 was here and then Numbuh 5 shows up [[spoiler: as a Senior Citi-Zombie]]. |
| 111 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': |
| 112 | ** Episode 3 of "Day Of The Suds" has DM capturing and destroying Baron Greenback's army of [[ItMakesSenseInContext renegade washing machines]], as the sizzle of a spark emits. The reporter grilling him on London's loss of washers asks about it: |
| 113 | --->'''DM:''' That's just the Baron's secret fuel leaking into the soap compartment and being irradiated by sparking in the circuits.\ |
| 114 | '''Reporter:''' That sounds awful!\ |
| 115 | '''DM:''' Oh, no no no. The ''worst'' that can happen is that you'd get the evolution of a hideous mutated monster. (''loud bang occurs; a giant mutant soap monster appears'') |
| 116 | ** "Mechanised Mayhem", a one-shot episode featuring appliances and machines revolting en masse is solved when DM {{Logic Bomb}}s the supercomputer behind the uprising with BritishHumour, causing it to blow up and become a TwinkleInTheSky. As this is happening, Greenback's craft stops revolting, so Greenback surmises that, to prevent this happening again, he needs a bigger and better computer. Right on cue, said supercomputer falls right on top of them. BUT... |
| 117 | --->'''Stiletto:''' Oh well...it-a could've been a-worse, Baroni.\ |
| 118 | '''Greenback:''' ''How'' worse, you dolt?!\ |
| 119 | '''Stiletto:''' Ooh, you could've a-wanted the [=QE2=].[[note]]As in the luxury ocean liner ''Queen Elizabeth II''[[/note]]\ |
| 120 | ''(Both laugh at this...[[SpeakOfTheDevil until a ship's horn is heard]].)''\ |
| 121 | '''Greenback:''' ''[[OhCrap Oh no!]]''\ |
| 122 | ''(The ''Queen Elizabeth II'' falls on them. Episode ends.)'' |
| 123 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', episode "Reign Storm", after Danny stuffed Dash's locker full with toilet paper: |
| 124 | -->'''Sam:''' Nice. Using your powers to stuff toilet paper into a locker. He's gonna find out it's you. \ |
| 125 | '''Danny:''' Have you seen his grades? '''(together with Tuck)''' ''Never gonna happen''.\ |
| 126 | '''Dash:''' Hey! This is Fenton wipe! *glares at Danny*\ |
| 127 | '''Sam:''' "Never" is karma's doorbell. Ding-dong, it's for you. |
| 128 | * ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': In "Sky-Hi I.Q.," Dick Dastardly takes umbrage at Muttley being made the Vulture Squadron leader. "It'll be a rainy day in May before I take orders from that mutt!" Dick vents. When he answers his phone, a storm cloud emerges from the mouthpiece and dumps rain on him. |
| 129 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' short ''Tales of Metropolis -- Jimmy Olsen'' has Jimmy complaining to [[SecretIdentity Clark Kent]] about how ComicBook/{{Superman}} is excessively clingy and annoying, ending by saying that he never wants to see the Man of Steel again. A title card flashes up reading "Literally four seconds later", after which we see Jimmy in the clutches of a {{Kaiju}}, screaming "Save me, Superman!" |
| 130 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheDeputyDawgShow'': Muskie and Vince are hired by a dentist to bring Deputy Dawg in for a check-up. Coward that he is, DD makes Muskie and Vince's task difficult until they succeed. DD passes his check-up and explains he just acted like a coward and wanted Muskie and Vince to earn their money. He then says "If I'm not telling the truth, may the ground open up and swallow me." Muskie muses to Vince that DD is just saying that because it could never happen...until it does. |
| 131 | * This exchange in ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015'' episode "Dark Orca": |
| 132 | -->'''Smiling Finn:''' Another disaster averted.\ |
| 133 | ''(cable behind him snaps)''\ |
| 134 | '''Fontaine:''' You're not allowed to tak any more. |
| 135 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'': Cam does this in “Clogspiracy”. He and Lee enter [[spoiler:Barrage's old home]] only to find that the Cleaners have completely cleared it out, prompting him to comment “What's next? The house vanishes?” Cue the entire structure being lifted up and hauled off. |
| 136 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', when Swiper takes something from Dora or her friends and throws it away he remarks "You'll never find it now!", only for Dora to immediately find it a few minutes later. |
| 137 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In [[OriginsEpisode "The First Adventure"]], Black Heron exposes herself as having replaced Scrooge's pilot with an associate and then jumps off the plane, leaving Scrouge and young Della and Donald on it to crash. When her associate, [[spoiler: Bradford]], compains that [[PragmaticVillainy they could have waited until they landed and captured them or even just not reveal themselves at all and keep Scrooge in the dark about the fact that they're even present]]. Black Heron, however, [[CardCarryingVillain insists on doing it like a "proper" villain]], and that Scrooge and the kids would never be able to land the plane. [[InstantlyProvenWrong Cue Della managing to safely land the plane just down the beach.]] |
| 138 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Ed's bratty sister Sarah is acting like a princess and bossing the Eds around. At one point Eddy remarks "Next thing you know, she's gonna want a throne!" GilliganCut to "Queen Sarah" sitting on a hastily cobbled-together throne, and Eddy [[YouJustHadToSayIt offering "A toast, to my big mouth!"]] |
| 139 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' |
| 140 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishology}}''... |
| 141 | --->'''Timmy:''' The Darkness is never coming back!\ |
| 142 | ''(Guess what's happening on Yugopotamia right now?)'' |
| 143 | ** From "Dream Goat": |
| 144 | --->'''Wanda''': It's only a matter of time before he wishes for something really dangerous.\ |
| 145 | '''Timmy''': ''(half-asleep, [[SuddenlyShouting suddenly yells]])'' I WISH FOR A GIGANTIC MONSTER THAT WON'T GO AWAY UNTIL I TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT CHOMPY!\ |
| 146 | ''(Cosmo and Wanda FacePalm and grant his wish)'' |
| 147 | ** In another episode, when the anti-fairies are causing all the rides in Adrenaland to break down, Timmy notes that there's no way all the rides could break. The anti-fairies make it happen. |
| 148 | ** [[CatchPhrase What else could go wrong?"]] |
| 149 | ** In "Timvisible", Principal Waxelplax tells Crocker to knock off the craziness, as she doesn't want the students freaked out before the big ceremony. Cue Chester and A.J., a jock, and a teacher running by for the RuleOfThree. Crocker in the end was truly innocent; the actual "ghost" was Timmy who'd wished himself invisible to hide from Francis. |
| 150 | ** In "Odd Ball", after Timmy becomes hooked on a video game and attacks his dad just for asking to play with him, causing the latter to take the couch from under him in response: |
| 151 | --->'''Timmy:''' Well, nothing can separate me from my video game.\ |
| 152 | ''[the V-Cube suddenly [[StuffBlowingUp explodes]] after being powered on for 36 hours straight]''\ |
| 153 | '''Cosmo:''' Except faulty Japanese game parts. |
| 154 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' |
| 155 | ** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E11DialMegForMurder Dial Meg for Murder]]" subverts this trope into a comment on the audience's racist assumptions: When Brian talks Meg out of robbing Mort Goldman's pharmacy and the two leave, Mort comments, "Well, at least I didn't get robbed!" Then, "How can I help you four fine black gentlemen today?" The show then cuts away to continue the story, leaving the viewer's familiarity with the trope and with common racial stereotyping to conclude the scene. |
| 156 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E6BrianWritesABestseller Brian Writes a Bestseller]]", when Stewie sees that he can't take a cab as he planned because he has no money, he exclaims: "Well, at least it's not raining." He immediately gets knifed in the back and left for dead on the sidewalk. |
| 157 | ** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E2IDreamofJesus I Dream of Jesus]]": [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184 You haven't heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard.]] |
| 158 | ** From their ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball parody]] "Something Something Something Dark Side:" |
| 159 | --->'''Rebel 1:''' I think we're doomed.\ |
| 160 | '''Rebel 2:''' Nah, unless they got any [[BuffySpeak big giant robot camels]] I think we're okay.\ |
| 161 | (''AT-AT walkers appear in the distance'')\ |
| 162 | '''Rebel 1:''' Uh, Jim? Robot camels... |
| 163 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E6TalesOfAThirdGradeNothing Tales of a Third Grade Nothing]]" Stewie changes the failing Cabana Club into the successful pLace [sic]. When Brian notes that nothing can stop them now, Andy Dick shows up. |
| 164 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E4StewieGoesForADrive Stewie Goes for a Drive]]", there's a CallBack to "Brian Writes a Bestseller": when Stewie is running away from home: |
| 165 | --->'''Stewie:''' Well, it could be worse. At least I'm not getting stabbed by some random guy on the street. ''(starts raining)'' See, it's the exact opposite! ''(gets stabbed)'' |
| 166 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E20RoadToEurope Road to Europe]]", when Brian is stuck on a flight with Stewie he asks how it can get any worse. Unfortunately for him, also on the plane are Andy Rooney, Creator/JerrySeinfeld, and Andy Dick. |
| 167 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E6Petarded Petarded]]", there's a cutaway set in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. A man arriving at his car notices a parking ticket and laments "I was only gone 5 minutes!" A moment later, a car drives by and splashes mud on his pants. He asks "how could this day get any worse?" Then there's the sound of something falling from the sky... a monkey. |
| 168 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E9BreakingOutIsHardToDo Breaking Out is Hard to Do]]", Brian finds out that Lois is the serial thief terrorizing Quahog and makes her get ready to return everything she stole and seek therapy, saying it's a good thing they're doing this now before anyone else figured it out. At that moment, Joe shows up to arrest her, having seen a news report about a stolen Matisse painting and recognizing it as the same one that Lois had just "acquired". |
| 169 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 170 | ** In "The Mutants Are Revolting", Leela is banished to the sewers for being a mutant and, shortly afterward, her friends are sent there for two weeks for harboring a mutant. |
| 171 | --->'''Leela:''' I swear, I hate every single person on the surface for making us live like this!\ |
| 172 | ''(her friends fall down into the sewers)'' |
| 173 | ** In "Obsoletely Fabulous": |
| 174 | --->'''Bender:''' Merciful Poseidon, take pity on this wayward vagabond. ''(sees a strong thunderstorm on the horizon)'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh geez.]] |
| 175 | %%* The ''Titanic'' reference happened in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''. Needless to say, neither vacation turned out very well, although to be fair, the ''Futurama'' episode didn't have the MindScrew that the ''Totally Spies'' episode did. |
| 176 | ** In "War Is The H-Word", Fry and Bender sign up for the Earth Army with the sole intent of getting convenience store discounts. The recruiter points out that yes, they can sign up for the military, use their discounts, then quit unless war is declared. Immediately after that, Earth declares war. |
| 177 | * In the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' shorts on ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Booker often hunts worms, an activity which Sheldon declines to participate in, but which he's usually nearby to witness. Consider this exchange: |
| 178 | -->'''Booker:''' You won't get away from me!\ |
| 179 | ''(the worm gets away)''\ |
| 180 | '''Sheldon:''' He got away from you! |
| 181 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'', Odie manages to win the first round of the pet pageant he's in with Garfield's "help". Garfield comments confidently that "we can't lose", only for the announcer to state that the second round would be the talent competition, causing Garfield, who realizes he spoke too soon, to remark: "Boy, can we lose." |
| 182 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/GodRocks'' episode "The Great Carboo", Carb builds a sand castle and declares that the Kingdom of Carb "will stand forever!" A boat arrives at that moment and causes a wave to hit the castle, destroying it. |
| 183 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Soos comments that the only thing that could possibly cause the rigged dunk tank to dunk Stan is a "futuristic laser arm-cannon." |
| 184 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', one of [[CouchGag Mandy's opening quotes]] is her telling the viewer "No matter how bad it seems, it could get worse". This is followed by a split-second frame of her as a green monster. |
| 185 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "The List". Arnold attempts to have the perfect Saturday by doing everything on the eponymous list: watching every cartoon he can while eating the best kind of cereal: riding down the steepest hill in the city, playing catch with every kid in the park, and going out to the movies for three sittings in a row. No one had ever managed to do all that in a single saturday, and his friend Gerald outright tells Arnold that he's tempting fate by trying to do so. He ends up sleeping in, his favorite cereal is all gone, along with nothing but spoiled milk left, his grandpa blows the power to the house, shorting out the TV, the one kid he can play with at the park steals his baseball, the steepest hill is in the middle of being re-paved, and when he tries to salvage what's left of the day by going to the movies, he finds he's lost his money because of a hole in his pocket, and attempts to sneak in, only for all the equipment to break, forcing the theater to close. Things only start getting better once his grandma points out no matter how bad things get, there's always something better to look up to later. |
| 186 | * Barely subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Max's Embarrassing Date", when Max is complaining about everyone making such a huge fuss over his date with Roxanne. |
| 187 | -->'''Max:''' What's next? ''A marching band?''\ |
| 188 | ''(cut to a marching band line up in the lobby)''\ |
| 189 | '''Daisy:''' Sorry, guys. Gig's off. |
| 190 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheJimmyTimmyPowerHour'' |
| 191 | ** In the first one, when Crocker escapes into fairy world with Jimmy's teleportation device, and plots to get the fairies to surrender to him by destroying over the Big Wand that supplies their magic. |
| 192 | --->'''Jimmy:''' I gotta get that teleportation device and get out of here! ''Can this get any worse?!''\ |
| 193 | ''[everything starts to rumble]''\ |
| 194 | '''Cosmo:''' If, by "worse", you mean somebody's knocking over the Big Wand, ''then yes!'' |
| 195 | ** Lampshaded in the second special. After Libby says "What, you think a date is just going to come crashing through the roof?", and Timmy Turner does so, she raises her finger and proclaims "I must use this power for good!" |
| 196 | * All the time on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', to the point where Jimmy's CatchPhrase is "Like that's even possible." It is. |
| 197 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', Johnny goes into a natural history museum thinking it's a hobby shop. He takes a "model kit" -- really a fossilized dinosaur egg -- and runs out when the staff shows up. One guard remarks on the stolen egg, but his supervisor tells him not to worry -- "There's a ''billion'' in one chance of that egg hatching!" SmashCut to Mama Bravo cuddling the egg and saying that it's about to hatch. |
| 198 | * ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS. |
| 199 | ** "Pirates from Below". The enemy leader is waiting for a mine attached to the Quest's underwater probe to detonate. Unfortunately for him, Race Bannon has removed the mine and let it drift up to the leader's ship. |
| 200 | --->'''Enemy leader:''' Their time is almost up. It is just a matter of seconds. ''('''BOOM'''!)'' |
| 201 | ** "Turu the Terrible". Dr. Quest and Race Bannon are sitting in front of a campfire. |
| 202 | --->'''Race Bannon:''' Well, so far so good, eh doctor?\ |
| 203 | '''Dr. Quest:''' And surprisingly peaceful.\ |
| 204 | '''Turu the Terrible:''' ''(detects them and starts making its warning call, then attacks)'' |
| 205 | ** "The Devil's Tower". Klaus is dive-bombing the Quests with grenades but repeatedly misses. He then yells "This time I cannot miss!" His next grenade ends up in the wing of the biplane he's flying, blowing up the wing and sending him spiraling down to his doom. |
| 206 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League / Justice League Unlimited]]'': |
| 207 | ** In "The Enemy Below", the heroes capture Deadshot and question him to find out who's behind the assassination attempt on Aquaman. Deadshot blusters "You can't scare me, Batman!" Batman takes him aside, and it takes barely any time at all before Deadshot is spilling his guts. |
| 208 | --->'''Wonder Woman:''' What did he say?\ |
| 209 | '''Superman:''' [[YouDoNotWantToKnow You don't wanna know....]] |
| 210 | ** In "Maid of Honor", Batman captures one of the agents stealing high-tech equipment from S.T.A.R. Labs and starts interrogating him: |
| 211 | --->'''Agent:''' ''(in Kaznian, subtitled)'' You can't understand a word I'm saying and I wouldn't tell you anything if you could.\ |
| 212 | '''Batman:''' ''(in Kaznian, subtitled)'' [[BilingualBackfire I can...]] ''(leans in to loom over him)'' ...and you will. |
| 213 | ** In "Grudge Match", ComicBook/{{Huntress}} and ComicBook/BlackCanary face off and against brainwashed superheroines in a [[CatFight Glamour Slam]]. After breaking Hawkgirl and ComicBook/{{Vixen}} out of their brainwashing, Huntress is feeling lucky and shouts "Is that all you've got?" to villainess Roulette -- who promptly sends (also brainwashed) Franchise/WonderWoman onto the stage. Cue the heroines' OhCrap expressions. |
| 214 | ** "Divided We Fall"'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53OyPYa7SEI "Are you going to fight me, boy?"]]'' ([[Awesome/JusticeLeague Yeah he's gonna]].) Just after Flash disappears, Luthor says "what do you know, I did kill him". After Superman overcomes the temptation to burn Luthor to a crisp, it turns out Flash is actually still alive. |
| 215 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': |
| 216 | ** Stumpy [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext brings all the chairs in Smileyland to life and makes them his "friends"]]. Mr. Cat and Quack Quack say they don't care since they still have the couch... cue the couch running towards Stumpy. |
| 217 | ** In the episode "Let's Play TV News", Mr. Cat sees Kaeloo sitting by herself and crying. When [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther he tries to comfort her]], she says she really needs some time alone. Almost immediately, Stumpy and Quack Quack run up and join them. |
| 218 | ** In Episode 55, Mr. Cat, who is having a headache, takes an aspirin and lies on the couch saying that with absolute silence he should be fine. As soon as he says that, Stumpy and Quack Quack show up and start making noise. |
| 219 | ** In the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", the gang are playing prison-ball[[note]]Prison-ball is a game similar to dogeball except that if a player gets hit they get sent to a space in the back of the court called a "prison"[[/note]]. Stumpy sings "You'll never hit me! You'll never hit me!" and Quack Quack promptly hits him with the ball. |
| 220 | ** In another episode, when Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are searching for Olaf inside a dark building, Olaf gleefully informs them that they'll never find him. Mr. Cat turns on the lights and finds Olaf right next to him. |
| 221 | ** In Episode 3, the main four are playing "Red Light, Green Light", and after repeatedly injuring [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] in various ways, Mr. Cat cheats and wins the first round. Kaeloo says that at least he won't be able to hurt Quack Quack during the second round of the game, but is proven wrong as he is able to hurt Quack Quack even worse than before. |
| 222 | ** In Episode 134, Mr. Cat is driving his car and remarks on how relaxing it is. Just then, Stumpy and several clones of himself, who are angry at Mr. Cat, drive up in several more cars and crash all their cars into his. |
| 223 | ** In Episode 118, [[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]] says he'd "sooner be hit by a car full of sheep" than appear in one of [[AlphaBitch Pretty]]'s photos. The moment he finishes speaking, he gets hit by a car full of sheep, [[CameraFiend and Pretty takes a picture of this.]] |
| 224 | ** In Episode 129, everyone tries to stay up late at night to see a shooting star. |
| 225 | --->'''Kaeloo:''' I can stay up all the way until ten o'clock!\ |
| 226 | ''looks at clock''\ |
| 227 | '''Kaeloo:''' Oh, it's ten o'clock!\ |
| 228 | ''Kaeloo falls asleep'' |
| 229 | ** In one episode, the characters play "waiter race", a race where everyone dresses up as a waiter and has to carry a tray full of objects while running to the finish line. Inches away from the finish line, she remembers that the race was set up by [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] and remarks [[NoFourthWall to the audience]] that it's odd that nothing bad has happened. Immediately, a bunch of traps are sprung, causing Kaeloo to lose her balance and drop the tray, disqualifying her from the race. |
| 230 | ** Kaeloo dresses up as Mr. Cat for a costume party. She brags about how original her idea is, only to find out that Stumpy and Quack Quack are also dressed as Mr. Cat. |
| 231 | ** In Episode 180 Pretty talks about how handsome Mr. Cat is. Moments later, he walks into the room suffering from a bad allergic reaction, with his face completely swollen. |
| 232 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' |
| 233 | -->'''Kim:''' Spikes. Gee. Where are the snakes?\ |
| 234 | ''[snakes appear]''\ |
| 235 | '''Kim:''' [[IWasJustJoking I was just being sarcastic!]] |
| 236 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' features Juniper tempting fate by commenting on how there hasn't been any magical emergencies lately despite the warnings from Monroe. |
| 237 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': In "The Rise of Scar" after Kion accidentally used the Roar of the Elders in anger and he is leaving the Outlands with the rest of the guard, he says to them, "At least nothing bad happened." In the very next scene, Scar is summoned. |
| 238 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' |
| 239 | ** In "WesternAnimation/PorkysBadtimeStory", Gabby Goat is awoken by a leaky ceiling, and pulls out an umbrella to protect himself. When Porky points out opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck, Gabby scolds him for being superstitious... then a freak lightning bolt comes in through the window and zaps Gabby's umbrella. When Gabby shouts in frustration "I might as well try sleeping under Niagara Falls!", the roof caves in and dumps a ton of water on him and Porky. (Remade with Daffy Duck in 1944 as "Tick Tock Tuckered.") |
| 240 | ** In one short with Tweety and Sylvester, the bulldog is bedridden with a broken leg (having broken it by chasing Sylvester), letting Sylvester have a lot of fun at his expense (making the dog ''very'' angry), so long as he doesn't get too close to the guy. Eventually, Tweety runs to the dog for protection: |
| 241 | --->'''Bulldog:''' Stay by me, birdie, he'll have to get to you over my dead body!\ |
| 242 | '''Sylvester:''' Okay, buster, I can arrange that! [[note]]Unfortunately for Sylvester, this turns out to be a subversion, because his attempt to drop a safe on the dog results in him [[HoistByHisOwnPetard dropping it on himself]] and ending up with even ''worse'' injuries.[[/note]] |
| 243 | ** In another short the ending has Sylvester ending up in a truck to the pound loaded with dogs, and Tweety believes that he won't have to worry about cats anymore. He then sees two cats disguising themselves as lamps, just as Sylvester did at the beginning of the short, and remarks "Of course I could be wrong." |
| 244 | ** In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "His Hare-Raising Tale", when the veracity of said tale(s) gets called into question, Bugs announces "Why if every word I've said isn't true, I hope I'm run over by a streetcar!" And of course a streetcar immediately plows into the room right through the wall and flattens him. |
| 245 | ** In a WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn cartoon, Foggy shows Egghead Junior his (obviously fake) rain dance, and then says "Let's see if you can dance up a storm." Junior makes it rain, using a paper plane to seed a cloud. |
| 246 | --->'''Foggy:''' Some storm. Where's the thunder and lightning?\ |
| 247 | ''(Lightning flashes, blowing his feathers off.)''\ |
| 248 | '''Foggy:''' I had to ask. I just ''had'' to ask! |
| 249 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/KnightyKnightBugs'', when the Knights of the Round Table run off in a panic and King Arthur laments as to who would get the Singing Sword, Bugs Bunny, as the court jester, says that "Only a fool would retrieve the Singing Sword". King Arthur agrees, pointedly looking at Bugs. |
| 250 | ** The Wacky Worm from 1941's "Greetings Bait" challenges a crab to a fight. The worm addresses the audience that the scene will be diverted to the lake surface "while I reduce this upstart to crabmeat." After the sounds of battle and the sloshing of water, the worm is lifted to the surface broken and in traction. "I could be wrong, you know." |
| 251 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' has one in the theme song: |
| 252 | -->'''Arnold''': Please let this be a normal field trip!\ |
| 253 | '''Wanda''': With the Frizz?\ |
| 254 | '''All except Arnold''': NO WAY!\ |
| 255 | ''[cue a ThisIsGonnaSuck reaction from Arnold]'' |
| 256 | * In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{MEGASXLR}}'', just before Coop finds the titular robot in the junk yard's $2 pile, Goat remarks, "I doubt the whole pile's worth more than two bucks." |
| 257 | * ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' has one at the end of "Goofy's Grandma". Mickey and Goofy go to Goofy's shack so that they can deal with a spider that has taken up residence in the house. After Mickey assures Goofy that the spider is small and harmless, he opens the door to see that the spider is [[GiantSpider anything but]]. |
| 258 | * Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' when Andy French makes a deliberate comment about how ''he'' pays the electric bill. The lights flicker off soon as the words are out of his mouth... then flicker right back on, Andy smugly repeating that he did, indeed, pay the electric bill. |
| 259 | * In one ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' short: |
| 260 | -->'''Teslo''': Today, we will learn how many Electroids it will take to change a lightbulb.\ |
| 261 | '''Volectro''': When will we ''ever'' need to know that?\ |
| 262 | ''(the single lightbulb keeping the room illuminated breaks)''\ |
| 263 | '''Teslo''': Right now! |
| 264 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheMummyTheAnimatedSeries'', where the family is pursued on waters by the Scarab King: |
| 265 | -->'''Jonathan:''' Okay, we should be perfectly fine as long as no one says --\ |
| 266 | '''Evelyn:''' I think we lost him!\ |
| 267 | '''Jonathan:''' ... [[YouJustHadToSayIt Why'd you have to say it?]]\ |
| 268 | ''(the Scarab King [[OffscreenTeleportation suddenly pops out of nowhere]])'' |
| 269 | * ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'': |
| 270 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': |
| 271 | *** The first of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTvSpecials'' uses this in the opening theme song. The lines "No sign of trouble in sight" and "May all your days be bright" prove to be tempting fate because soon after the ponies are attacked by the goons of Tirek, who seeks to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds. |
| 272 | *** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE59FlightToCloudCastle2 Flight to Cloud Castle, Part 2]]", while walking through the castle's halls, Heart Throb confidently says that things are going well and everything is falling right into place. As soon as she finishes saying this, she walks right into a pit trap. |
| 273 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 274 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Friendship is Magic, part 1]]": Twilight brushes off Princess Celestia's advice to make some friends, saying "The fate of all Equestria doesn't depend on me making friends". By the next episode, it's clear that actually, it ''[[ThePowerOfFriendship does]]'' -- as friendship is required to power the Elements of Harmony to defeat Nightmare Moon. |
| 275 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]": Twilight ends up lecturing Applejack and Rarity after their bickering spoils Twilight's first slumber party, and ends her rant with "Is there anything else that could possibly go wrong?!" The thunderstorm outside swiftly worsens, and a lightning bolt strikes a nearby tree and threatens to send it crashing into Twilight's house. The Japanese dub has a line that's an even bigger example, as Twilight snaps "If you two are going to fight, I'd rather be struck by lightning!" |
| 276 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]": Twilight refuses to believe any of Pinkie Pie's predictions, and ends up on [[HumiliationConga the receiving end of every one of them.]] |
| 277 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]": Spike causes trouble because of his jealousy over Owlowiscious the owl, and ends up running away from home after getting a lecture from Twilight. As he trudges, alone and feeling unloved, through the Everfree Forest, he asks himself "Can it ''get'' any worse?" [[CueTheRain It almost immediately starts raining]]. |
| 278 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]" starts with this, with the Mane Six indulging in a CrowdSong about how all their hopes and dreams for the Grand Galloping Gala are about to come true. Naturally, they don't. Then near the end of the episode, Celestia and Twilight Sparkle step into the main hall and find that the others have laid waste to the entire party. Thinking she's been utterly humiliated in front of her mentor, Twilight remarks "At least things can't get any worse..." A moment later, a horde of wild animals stampedes into the room with [[SanitySlippage a insanely furious Fluttershy]] on their heels. |
| 279 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" has this happen when the mayor gives a speech about Applejack, calling her "a pony of the utmost trustworthiness, reliability, and integrity. Ponyville's most capable and dependable friend: Applejack!" But then... [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she doesn't show up on time.]] |
| 280 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot Wedding, Part 1]]": The song "BBBFF" contains the line "Never had a single fight." You get one guess as to what happened by the end of the episode. |
| 281 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]" begins with Twilight singing the song "Morning in Ponyville", and said song includes the line "Can things ever go wrong? I don't think that they will." [[MusicalisInterruptus She doesn't even get to finish the song]] before disaster strikes. |
| 282 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli Filli Vanilli]]": Rarity says that "It ''is'' wonderful when a plan comes together without any sort of ''drama'', isn't it?" Cut to the next scene, in which the plan unravels and much drama ensues. |
| 283 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]": Tirek describes his medallion as useless, since it reminds him of Scorpan and his siding with the ponies, and causally tosses it to the heroes to mock them. Take a wild guess what ends up being the final key to unlock the box and seal his defeat. |
| 284 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E26SchoolRazePart2 School Raze, Part 2]]": Early in the episode, Cozy states that the Tree of Harmony must surely be weakened by the vanishing of Equestria's magic. The scene then cuts to the Tree summoning its available magic to free the other students. At the end , Princess Celestia ensures everyone that Cozy Glow won't be causing anymore trouble where she's sent her to. She's sent to Tartarus, where she has the chance to chat face-to-face with another villain. |
| 285 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E1TheBeginningOfTheEndPart1 The Beginning of the End, Part 1]]": When Sombra infests the main characters with fear magic, he brags that nothing can defeat their own fears. Twilight then proceeds to do just that. |
| 286 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E25TheEndingOfTheEndPart2 The Ending of the End, Part 2]]": The VillainTeamUp of Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Chrysalis have defeated Discord, Celestia, and Luna, conquered Canterlot, and divided the three pony tribes. Twilight's friends try to comfort her, with Rainbow Dash saying "It's not like things can get any worse!" Cue the howl of a windigo, adding the threat of an EndlessWinter to the Mane cast's problems. |
| 287 | ---->'''Spike:''' ''(To Rainbow Dash)'' Haven't you learned ''never'' to say that by now? |
| 288 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark'': In "The Jinxie Games", Hitch declares that he has figured out the rules for the Field Day events, only to trip and get pelted with stewed cabbage balls by the birds as a penalty. |
| 289 | ---> '''Hitch:''' [sighs] Spoke too soon. |
| 290 | * ''WesternAnimation/OlafsFrozenAdventure'': Olaf is singing about how perfect his plan is when everything when the burning coal gets bumped out of the sauna, starting the chain of events that destroys all the traditions he'd collected. |
| 291 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': |
| 292 | ** This has become a running gag involving a farmer and his wife. Whenever the farmer starts a business but is always being unprepared and never remembers to stock his business with the requisite merchandise, his wife constantly nags him for his poor business management, with her sarcastically claiming something "isn't going to fall out of the sky" before items either fall near her on on her. This is usually a product of Phineas, Ferb, and/or Doofenshmirtz' daily antics. |
| 293 | ** In "A Hard Day's Knight", Candace agrees to dress up like a princess for their medieval fair. After a few moments she wonders "Wait a sec. Could this be one of those things that backfires horribly on me? Nah." Throughout the rest of the episode, she suffers indignity after indignity. |
| 294 | ** In "Summer Belongs To You", Phineas gets an uncharacteristically GenreBlind moment as he and his friends attempt to circumnavigate the globe and return home by sundown. |
| 295 | --->'''Phineas:''' We may even arrive in Danville ahead of time. You know, barring any foreseen mishaps. ''(The stirring wheel suddenly breaks off)'' Oh, like that. That's what I'm talking about. ''(The engine stops)'' And that. ''(Another part breaks off)'' And that. ''(The [[ItMakesSenseInContext floatation baguettes]] fall off)'' And that. ''(Everything is now gone except the kids themselves, the seats, and one oversized elastic, the kids crash onto a desert island)'' [[DissonantSerenity This is all exactly what I was talking about earlier.]] |
| 296 | ** In "Doof Side of the Moon", Candace teams up with Irving's brother Albert to bust Phineas and Ferb for their latest project, [[StarScraper a skyscraper so gigantic that it reaches to the moon]]. When their proof is lost thanks to Irving stealing all the security cameras they put up, Albert assures Candace that the tower is so huge, "no force on Earth" could get rid of it before her mom comes home. This is only [[ExactWords technically true]], as Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Lunar Rotate-inator causes the moon to turn around, dragging the tower away in the process. |
| 297 | ** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbStarWars'': One Death Star worker makes a funny comment about Darth Vader's helmet and says there's no way Vader could have heard. Then it seems Vader was using the Force to choke the worker [[SubvertedTrope but it turns out the worker was just mocking his colleague.]] |
| 298 | * WesternAnimation/PixarShorts: "Your next stop is the hospital!" (Cue Doctor Feelbad being shot out of the arena by the Tormentor [[Franchise/{{Cars}} (Mater's]] monster truck wrestler alter-ego) and [[DestinationDefenestration into a hospital]].) |
| 299 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Satellite Selfie", Jet says he's not gonna blink when the satellite takes a picture of Boxwood Terrace. [[spoiler: He then sneezes, which causes him to blink]]. |
| 300 | * Egon Spengler of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' once remarked, "Sometimes I think the universe just waits for me to get cocky." |
| 301 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Summer watches a TV show where a girl admits to having had sex while pregnant, responding with [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong "What's the worst that could happen?"]] The TV show in question is called ''Pregnant Baby''. |
| 302 | ** In 'The Ricklantis Mixup', Rick and Morty return from Atlantis where they had a genuinely good adventure, while Morty wonders about the Citadel Mortys earlier in the episode. Rick dismissively advises Morty to ignore them as [[DramaticIrony their story was better than the Citadel ones and it won't have any future impact on them]]... Excluding the fact that in a Meta way, the Citadel adventures are among ''the'' best episodes of the show, and in the episode itself, the rebuilding efforts led to a chain of events where a person worse than the Council of Ricks, Evil Morty succeeded to be the ruler of the place, which means Rick and Morty's paths will surely cross that of Evil Morty's. |
| 303 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken Franchise/StarWars Episode II'', Lando's deal with Vader gets worse and worse as he keeps complaining about it. Eventually he gets savvy enough to quit while he's ahead. |
| 304 | ** And later in that same special, Palpatine's borderline HumiliationConga of problems (including his tray table breaking and spilling coffee in his lap, the airport losing his luggage, his new chair bolted to the floor ''and'' right under an air conditioning vent) ends with him saying to a guard, "Hey, wanna see me tempt fate? ''Could this day get ANY worse?'' ''({{beat}})'' I did it ironically, so I think I'm safe." [[GilliganCut Cut to Vader throwing him down the reactor shaft]]. |
| 305 | ** In a Season 4 skit showing [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]'s backstory, when he makes his DealWithTheDevil he remarks "Well, at least I got my complexion." only to be immediately engulfed in flames right as the skit ends. |
| 306 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' has a flashback where Ed Bighead has two balls left to win a bowling game. He throws the first one away as he claims he doesn't need two balls. As he uses the final ball, the announcer says that only something terrible that would haunt him for the rest of his life would cause this to not go perfectly. Ed then accidentally destroys the entire building... and ''still'' doesn't get a single pin down. |
| 307 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', Fred and Daphne are tied to chairs in an empty swimming pool to be used as a makeshift DrowningPit. It only starts to fill with water ''after'' Fred mocks their captor saying that the pool doesn't have any water in it. |
| 308 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' |
| 309 | ** PlayedForLaughs in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer Deep Space Homer]]". After being disrespected and laughed at by his workplace and family, Homer goes to the living room to watch some TV. As he grabs the remote, he says "TV respects me. It laughs with me. Not at me." Cue him turning the TV on. |
| 310 | --->'''Guy on TV:''' *points at camera and laughs* [[YourTelevisionHatesYou You stupid!]]\ |
| 311 | '''Homer:''' D'OH! |
| 312 | ** Parodied in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E23ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo Thirty Minutes over Tokyo]]" when the family find themselves competing in a torturous Japanese game-show, Homer tempts fate by saying that he prefers their current predicament to the "lightning round"; he gets struck by lightning. Then, recognising the pattern, he hopefully wonders whether there'll be an "ice cream round"... and gets struck by lightning again. |
| 313 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E17HomerAtTheBat Homer at the Bat]]": When Mr. Burns rounds up an all-star baseball team to defeat the Shelbyville plant, he challenges fate to have them all befall nine separate misfortunes. This turns out to be a subversion because only ''seven'' of his players do, and Burns kicks the eighth over a stupid issue. (Tropes being tropes, the one who doesn't have a misfortune, Darryl Strawberry, is the one who's taking Homer's spot in the lineup.) |
| 314 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E1BartOfDarkness Bart of Darkness]]" has this from Martin Prince when all the kids are swimming in a pool truck to cool off. Bart managed to tear off five (yes, five) swimsuits from him. Turns out he came prepared for this. |
| 315 | --->'''Martin Prince''' Take your best shot! [[CrazyPrepared I'm wearing seventeen layers!]] (''All the bullies in the pool rush him and tear off every single swimsuit leaving him naked. He laughs at first, thinking they failed to strip him only to realize they did'') [[LampshadeHanging ...I brought this on myself.]] |
| 316 | ** Lampshaded in “The Daughter Also Rises”: |
| 317 | --->'''Marge''' This house is not an embarrassment! (Pause) Hm, usually when I say something like that, something extremely embarrassing happens. I'm gonna say good night before it does. Good night. |
| 318 | ** Burns also has this line in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E5LisaTheVegetarian Lisa the Vegetarian]]": |
| 319 | --->'''Burns:''' You know, Smithers, I think I'll donate a million dollars to the local orphanage... when pigs fly!\ |
| 320 | ''(they laugh; [[CueTheFlyingPigs a pig sails across the sky before them]])''[[note]]In the episode, Homer hosts a barbecue and plans to roast a pig; Lisa pushes it down a hill, where it eventually blocks up a dam before the water pressure causes it to shoot out as if from a cannon[[/note]]\ |
| 321 | '''Smithers:''' Will you be donating that million dollars now, Sir?\ |
| 322 | '''Burns:''' Nooo, I'd still prefer not. |
| 323 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E11WildBartsCantBeBroken Wild Barts Can't Be Broken]]", the kids start a radio show revealing all the adults' embarrassing secrets. Their first broadcast ends with Homer before saying that they would return with embarrassing secrets on the other adults. Homer then says "At least they've already done me." Cue the radio then saying... |
| 324 | --->'''Bart:''' And we have plenty more on Homer Simpson.\ |
| 325 | '''Homer:''' D'OH! |
| 326 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E12NoLoanAgainNaturally No Loan Again, Naturally]]", Marge is crying after landlord Ned Flanders has evicted the family from their home: |
| 327 | --->'''Homer:''' Don't be upset, Marge. At least it's not raining! ''(after a pause... nothing happens)'' See? |
| 328 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]", wherein the last thing Sideshow Bob says before being trampled by a parade (which includes elephants) is, "Surely there's no harm in lying in the middle of a public street?" |
| 329 | ** In the [=McBain=] movie shown in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E9SaturdaysOfThunder Saturdays of Thunder]]", his partner mentions that once they take down the evil senator Mendoza, [[{{Retirony}} he's retiring in two days, when his daughter's graduating college, and he and his wife will sail around the world like they always wanted to in the aptly-named "Live-4-Ever".]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill He then gets shot 17 times.]] |
| 330 | *** '''[[SkywardScream MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAA-]]''' |
| 331 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E9MrPlow Mr. Plow]]", after Barney and Homer's snow plow feud comes to an end: |
| 332 | --->'''Homer:''' When two best friends work together, not even God Himself can stop them!\ |
| 333 | '''God Himself:''' Oh no?\ |
| 334 | ''(God melts away the snow with an early spring)'' |
| 335 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E25NaturalBornKissers Natural Born Kissers]]", Homer and Marge find themselves naked on a football field. Homer taunts the crowd to take a picture, "it lasts longer!" Not only was it Camera Day, they end up on the front page. |
| 336 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E24BrotherCanYouSpareTwoDimes Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]", after his friends express concern to Homer about the recent destruction of his couch, Homer states "there is no way this day can get any worse". Instead of something happening his friends just stand around awkwardly until Homer repeats the phrase again. This time Smithers comes over the loud speaker and orders him to see Mr. Burns. |
| 337 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E20ChildrenOfALesserClod Children of a Lesser Clod]]", Homer has kidnapped several children and is driving them in a stolen paddy wagon. |
| 338 | --->'''Ralph:''' Where are we going, Mr. Simpson?\ |
| 339 | '''Homer:''' I'll tell you where we're ''not'' going: jail.\ |
| 340 | '''Milhouse:''' Then you better turn around.\ |
| 341 | ''(Homer sees he's heading straight for the jail wall)'' |
| 342 | ** The first segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E1TreehouseOfHorrorXIII Treehouse of Horror XIII]]" has [[ButtMonkey Gil]] having successfully grown a cornfield, which is then eaten by a horde of ravenous Homer clones. As he says that he still has his health, they eat him as well, leaving only his skeleton. |
| 343 | ** A twofer in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" when Mr. Burns launches several characters through the air like skeet targets and shoots all of them but Moe. Moe taunts him only to be impaled on a weathervane, so he decides to check a lottery scratch-off and wins. He tries to get free, only for Chief Wiggum's corpse to fall on him and crush him to death. |
| 344 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud Rosebud]]", after Mr. Burns starts ruining Homer's life in an effort to make him hand over his beloved old teddy bear Bobo (which he refuses to do as Maggie adores the toy), Homer muses "my life can't get any worse." Cue Smithers over the intercom: |
| 345 | --->'''Smithers:''' Homer Simpson, report for much worse duties. |
| 346 | --->'''Homer:''' [[CatchPhrase D'oh!]] |
| 347 | ** Lisa describes a ''post facto'' example in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E25TheSecretWarOfLisaSimpson The Secret War of Lisa Simpson]]" when she and Bart see the military school's motto: "[[BadassBoast I'll die before I surrender]], Tim." |
| 348 | --->'''Lisa:''' Apparently Tim was somebody who was with the general moments before he was shot in the head. |
| 349 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/LesSisters'' episode "Amnesique et Perils", Sandrine and William go out, leaving Marine and Wendy alone at home. They return at the end of the episode and Sandrine remarks that for once the girls didn't damage the house in any way. Almost immediately, Wendy breaks a window. |
| 350 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol'': After the DisasterDominoes shown by the Smurf of Christmas Present seems to end, Clumsy Smurf comments that at least the tree didn't catch on fire. |
| 351 | * ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': |
| 352 | ** In the pilot, when Sofia worries she might trip and everyone will laugh at her, her mother tries to comfort her, saying, "No one laughs at a princess." Guess what happens to Sofia during her dance lesson later in the episode. |
| 353 | ** In "The Little Witch", Sofia accidentally gets caught in Jade's trap for Lucinda, causing it to destroy the decorations of the party room. After Jade frees Sofia, the former laments that everything's ruined, but Ruby points out that the cake wasn't. Cue the witch piñata swinging into it. |
| 354 | ** In "King For a Day", Amber worries about James messing everything up as the temporary king, so Roland considers. going home early to check on him. Miranda reminds him that the point of appointing James as king for a day is to train him how to be one on his own, so Roland changes his mind. |
| 355 | ---> '''Roland:''' After all, he's only in charge for a day. What's the worst that could happen?\ |
| 356 | ''[cue Cedric's fireworks awakening the baby giant, who nearly destroys the village]'' |
| 357 | ** In "When You Wish Upon a Well", Amber uses up all her three wishes to try turning Sofia back to normal after accidentally wishing for her to [[ForcedTransformation turn into a purple cat]]. When the Wishing Well turns Sofia into a ''[[ExactWords pink]]'' cat instead, Amber laments, "Could this day get any worse?" Cue Wormwood flying in to try stealing Sofia's Amulet. |
| 358 | ** When Cedric obtains the Amulet and it gives him super strength, he comments that he'll rule with an iron fist. Right after that, the Amulet curses him by turning his fists into iron. |
| 359 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' episode "Ro-Becca", Antoine does this while walking in the pouring rain. |
| 360 | -->'''Antoine:''' This is ze worst day of my life! ''(sobs)'' WHAT ELSE COULD HAPPEN?!\ |
| 361 | ''(Antoine gets struck by lightning)'' |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 363 | ** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E2CartmansMomIsStillADirtySlut Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut]]" the doctor notes Mephesto should be fine as long as the power doesn't go out. When it immediately does, he adds "[[LampshadeHanging Who didn't see that coming a mile away, huh?]]" |
| 364 | ** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E9Marjorine Marjorine]]", Butters is forced by the other boys to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] as part of a plan to infiltrate the girls. His parents are grief-stricken, at which point a random old man suddenly shows up to try and convince Butters's Dad not to rebury him at an old Indian burial ground in a bid to [[CameBackWrong bring him back]]. Mr. Stotch wasn't even aware of the burial ground, so all the man did was give him the idea. |
| 365 | ** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList The List]]", Cartman's first plan to steal the girls' list of the boys listed in order of cuteness is called "Operation: Cannot Possibly Fail". It does -- one of the steps to stealing the list is to have Butters kick the list keeper, Nelly, in the testicles. |
| 366 | ** Subverted in "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E9ChristianRockHard Christian Rock Hard]]": Cartman, Butters and Tolkien are meeting music executives when one of them asks if they're only in it for the money. Cartman responds, "If I'm lying, may the Lord strike me down right now!" Butters, knowing they are in it for the money, starts moving away from Cartman. Nothing happens. |
| 367 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' |
| 368 | ** "Brago". As a boy leaves an escape tunnel: |
| 369 | --->'''Boy:''' So far so good. There's no one around. I'm in luck!\ |
| 370 | ''(the barrel of a blaster rifle appears from off-screen pointing at him)'' |
| 371 | ** "The Looters". As a pirate ship approaches a ship carrying a cargo of gold: |
| 372 | --->'''Pilot 1:''' Don't worry! Nothing can penetrate our craft's armor!\ |
| 373 | '''Brak:''' Fire sleep missile! ''(missile is fired and hits)''\ |
| 374 | '''Pilot 2:''' It's sleeping gas!\ |
| 375 | ''(both pilots start choking and fall unconscious)'' |
| 376 | ** "Hi-Jackers". The BigBad Tansit is pursuing and firing at Jan, Jace and Blip. |
| 377 | --->'''Tansit''': [EvilLaugh] I have you now! [energy blasts start hitting all around him] What's that?\ |
| 378 | '''Space Ghost''': [Appears. The energy blasts are coming from his power bands] |
| 379 | ** "Two Faces of Doom". Jan, Jace and Blip are in the Spider Queen's arena. They fly to the top of the arena's wall and Jace says "We should be safe up here." A moment later some giant plants in the arena send out tentacles that wrap them up. |
| 380 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' |
| 381 | ** "Wet Painters" [[PlayingWithATrope played with it incessantly]]. [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are painting a house filled with valuable collectibles. Cue MurphysLaw, involving a paint bubble. |
| 382 | --->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Barnacles, what could be worse than a giant paint bubble?!\ |
| 383 | '''Patrick:''' Ooh! I know! ''(produces a bubble wand, dips in into the paint, and blows another giant paint bubble)'' ''Two'' giant paint bubbles!\ |
| 384 | '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' No!\ |
| 385 | ''(the bubbles collide and form one MASSIVE paint bubble)''\ |
| 386 | '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Patrick?\ |
| 387 | '''Patrick:''' Yeah, [=SpongeBob=]?\ |
| 388 | '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' I don't think this bubble could get any bigger.\ |
| 389 | '''Patrick:''' Nonsense! ''(produces a bike pump to hook up to the paint bubble, inflating it further)'' |
| 390 | ** "Pizza Delivery" show you can't even be sarcastic without resulting in this: |
| 391 | --->'''Squidward:''' [[SarcasmMode AAAND THE PIZZA'S COLD! OH THIS IS TERRIBLE! NOT THE '''PIZZZZZA!''' Oh, how could it get any worse?!]] ''(kicks their boat that is out of gas, which rockets back up to a full tank, and DRIVES AWAY ON ITS OWN)'' |
| 392 | ** In "Squeaky Boots" just before [=SpongeBob=] goes to bed with his boots on, he says to Gary "these boots have changed my life. I’m never taking them off.", though the former's gonna have to some time. Sure enough, 8 seconds later, Mr. Krabs appears and swipes them off. |
| 393 | ** In "The Secret Box", [=SpongeBob=] is snooping around the sleeping Patrick's rock, trying to sneak a peek into his secret box while trying not to wake him. He ends up making various noises, though Patrick manages to sleep right through... but then [=SpongeBob=] quietly says, "Gee, Patrick sure is a heavy sleeper," causing Patrick to wake up for real. |
| 394 | ** In "I'm With Stupid" as [=SpongeBob=] is getting ready to act stupid for Patrick's parents, Gary questions him about it; [=SpongeBob=] replies, "What could go wrong?" Something ''will'' go wrong indeed -- [[BelievingTheirOwnLies Patrick begins to think [=SpongeBob=] really]] ''[[BelievingTheirOwnLies is]]'' [[BelievingTheirOwnLies stupid.]] |
| 395 | ** From "[=SpongeGuard=] on Duty": |
| 396 | ---> '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' I'm every bit as cool as Larry. And if I'm not, let me be struck by... ''(thunder clap)'' ...a flying ice cream truck. ''(Cue falling ice cream truck.)'' AND LIVE! ''(Ice cream truck suspends in mid-air just above [=SpongeBob=], then falls on him.)'' |
| 397 | ** In "Slide Whistle Stooges" after Squidward destroys the Chum Bucket on his rampage through Bikini Bottom in a stolen truck, Mr. Krabs pokes fun of Plankton and Squidward promptly drives through the Krusty Krab. |
| 398 | ** In "Sandy, [=SpongeBob=], and the Worm", when Sandy manages to lasso herself and [=SpongeBob=] onto the Alaskan bull worm she claims that up there they'll be safe, then a second later the worm dives into a trench. |
| 399 | ** In "Jellyfish Hunter", after the jellyfish are free from the activating door (in a factory Mr. Krabs runs that consists on squeezing the jelly out of every jellyfish) thanks to Mr. Krabs inadvertently setting off the voice activator of it, he brags about the jellyfish being unable to catch him as he tries to escape by pedaling on his bike...only to realize that he's pedaling on an immobile exercising bike. The herd of jellyfish then proceed to zap the greedy boss to a crisp all at once. |
| 400 | ** In "That Sinking Feeling", when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's digging causes the Krusty Krab to fall underground, Plankton gloats that the Chum Bucket is now the only restaurant in town. The Chum Bucket promptly also falls underground, and when he sees what happened he lets out a dejected "Nuts." |
| 401 | ** In "Just One Bite", when Squidward tries to sample a Krabby Patty, but to no avail. |
| 402 | --->'''Squidward:''' What do I have to do? Eat one out of the ''garbage?''\ |
| 403 | '''Fish:''' I wish I could eat this, but I'm so darn full. Oh well. ''(throws his half-eaten patty away)''\ |
| 404 | '''Squidward:''' I ''had'' to say "garbage"...BUT OKAY! |
| 405 | ** In "SB-129", Squidward is locked in the freezer at the Krusty Krab, leading to this: |
| 406 | --->'''Squidward:''' Oh, well, someone will realize I'm gone and come looking for me. I'll be out of here in no time.\ |
| 407 | ''(narrator reads a card that says "2000 Years Later")'' |
| 408 | ** In "A Pal For Gary", [=SpongeBob=], while going to bed, claims he can sleep peacefully now that Gary has a partner to keep him company so he's not lonely while he's at work. [[AndHereHeComesNow Cue Gary barging into his room in fear from Puffy Fluffy and waking him up]], prompting him to berate him. |
| 409 | ** In "I Was A Teenage Gary", after going through the ordeal of Gary being sick, Squidward comments "I hope I never see another snail again". Sure enough, ten seconds later, he encounters the transformed [=SpongeBob=]. |
| 410 | ** In "The Camping Episode," after being told ''everything'' that can make sea bears aggressive ([[HairTriggerTemper and it is a long list]]), Squidward, who is adamant that sea bears do not exist, decides to do ''all'' of them just to prove it. Unfortunately for him, the sea bear turns out to be real, and it mauls him quite brutally ''several'' times. |
| 411 | ** In "Krusty Towers", Mr. Krabs transforms the Krusty Krab into a hotel and instates the motto "We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request". The first guest to take the business seriously is Patrick, who indeed goes on to make arduous and/or humiliating requests. Then Squidward [[LoopholeAbuse takes advantage of the motto]] by quitting his job and asking to stay in the hotel, with Krabs and [=SpongeBob=] having to comply with his own requests. |
| 412 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': |
| 413 | ** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E01SecondContact Second Contact]]": |
| 414 | *** After getting bitten by a Galardonian bug, Ransom declines to get it looked at, figuring that he'll be fine. He becomes PatientZero for a HatePlague as a result. |
| 415 | *** Rutherford's date is going fairly smoothly in spite of his malfunctioning cybernetic implant, and he muses on how glad he is that they got to sit down and learn about one another without any distractions. Cue Ransom turning full rabid zombie over at the bar, vomiting black bile, and attacking several crew members. |
| 416 | ** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E10NoSmallParts No Small Parts]]": Captain Dayton insists on keeping her new ship as pristine as possible after losing the ''Rubidoux''. It takes less than a minute for the Pakleds to show up and start blasting. |
| 417 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': |
| 418 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E2RisingMalevolence "Rising Malevolence"]]: Plo Koon and three clone troopers are stranded in an escape pod without any power after the Jedi Master's fleet was destroyed by a Separatist superweapon. Sergeant [[TheCynic Sinker]] decides to go ahead and say that things can't get much worse, something Plo calls him on just before they're targeted by a Separatist pod-hunter. |
| 419 | --->'''Plo:''' When you ask for trouble, you should not be surprised when it finds you.\ |
| 420 | '''Sinker:''' I think trouble already found us, sir. |
| 421 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E17BlueShadowVirus "Blue Shadow Virus"]]: Obi-Wan and the bomb squad find the room with the virus bombs: |
| 422 | --->'''Clone Trooper:''' This looks like the bomb room.\ |
| 423 | '''Obi-Wan:''' Yes, but luckily they appear inactive.\ |
| 424 | ''[=[=][[MadScientist Vindi]] remotely activates the bombs and they start counting down]''\ |
| 425 | '''Obi-Wan:''' I spoke too soon. Get these deactivated, now! |
| 426 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E18MysteryOfAThousandMoons "Mystery of a Thousand Moons"]]: Upon hearing the alarm signifying that one of the virus containers is missing, a patrolling clone trooper comments that he doesn't want to be around if the droids set it off. Naturally, he and the other trooper he's patrolling with are in the bomb room when Vindi's LEP droid sticks the stolen vial into a bomb and sets it off. |
| 427 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E5LandingAtPointRain "Landing at Point Rain"]]: |
| 428 | *** Surveying a map of the battlefield, Ahsoka expresses concern about a giant wall covered with gun emplacements. Anakin tells her not to worry about it because they won't be going anywhere near it. Sure enough, after their gunship gets shot down, Anakin and Ahsoka do indeed have to contend with that wall. |
| 429 | *** One clone trooper, just before the gunship he's in is shot down: |
| 430 | ---->"Good thing those bugs can't aim." |
| 431 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E13VoyageOfTemptation "Voyage of Temptation"]]: |
| 432 | *** During the hunt for the last "mother" assassin droid, Anakin asks Cody and Rex if they've seen it. Just after he says that he hasn't seen it, Rex gets jumped by it. |
| 433 | *** Treacherous Senator Tal Merrik has set up a SadisticChoice for Obi-Wan and ActualPacifist Duchess Satine while threatening to blow up the duchess' ship: |
| 434 | ---->"Come on then! Who'll strike first and brand themselves a cold-blooded killer?" ''[=[=][[CallForward Anakin]] runs him through from behind]'' |
| 435 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E16AltarOfMortis "Altar of Mortis"]]: |
| 436 | --->'''The Son:''' You look frail, Father.\ |
| 437 | '''The Father:''' I am not dead ''yet''.\ |
| 438 | '''The Son:''' Well... perhaps, I am [[SuddenlyShouting TIRED OF WAITING!]] ''[attacks Father with Force lightning]'' |
| 439 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E21PadawanLost "Padawan Lost"]]: Preparing to attack a Separatist base, Anakin warns Ahsoka that scaling the back wall won't be easy. She responds that he's taught her well and she can handle anything. Moments later, during the attack, she's caught by surprise, being captured and kidnapped while being deprived of her lightsabers and comlink. |
| 440 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E22WookieeHunt "Wookiee Hunt"]]: Leaving the wreckage of the Trandoshan ship, Chewie is cautious, while Ahsoka assures him it's perfectly safe. Moments after they walk out into the open, the sniper the Trandoshans left behind takes a potshot at them, only missing thanks to the actions of O-Mer and Jinx. |
| 441 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E1WaterWar "Water War"]]: Prince Lee-Char gives a speech where he says that he doesn't believe that the Quarren will attack. Naturally, the Separatist attack on the Mon Calamari capital, with the Quarren participating, begins moments later. |
| 442 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E2GunganAttack "Gungan Attack"]]: When the Gungans arrive, Kit Fisto says that the tide of the war for Mon Cala has turned in the Republic's favour. Unfortunately it ends up turning around, with the battle going south for the Republic forces after that. |
| 443 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E20Bounty "Bounty"]]: |
| 444 | --->'''Krismo Sodi:''' I've come for what's mine.\ |
| 445 | '''Major Rigosso:''' Over my dead body... ''[Krismo kills him with a thrown dagger to the chest]'' |
| 446 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E22Revenge "Revenge"]]: Obi-Wan says that he'll defeat Maul just like he did last time — right before [[TheBrute Savage]] turns up to kick his ass. As Maul puts it: |
| 447 | --->'''Maul:''' ''[chuckling darkly]'' Don't be so certain. |
| 448 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS6E6TheRiseOfClovis "The Rise of Clovis"]]: At the beginning, the Council of Five that controls the [=InterGalactic=] Banking Clan believe they are in no danger because of the files stolen by Clovis and Padmé because only they know the locations of their secret accounts. Unfortunately for them, the Sith give Clovis the location of those accounts because their plans for the bank involve helping Clovis take over. |
| 449 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': |
| 450 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsSparkOfRebellion "Spark of Rebellion"]]: When they're on an Imperial transport ship and Kanan is planting a detonator on the controls of the door of a room containing Wookiee prisoners they're attempting to rescue, Zeb comments that "At least things seem to be going smoother than our last op." Ezra immediately arrives to tell them that it's a trap, and the door opens to reveal a squad of stormtroopers. |
| 451 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E07StealthStrike "Stealth Strike"]]: ''Immediately'' after Rex says that he would never wear the Empire's "junk armour", Zeb enters the ''Ghost''[='s=] cargo bay dragging two unconscious stormtroopers with the line "Here are your disguises." |
| 452 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': |
| 453 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E1TheRecruit "The Recruit"]]: Poe has a private conversation with Yeager when he's persuading him to hire Kaz on as a mechanic for his cover. Poe promises that Kaz won't be any trouble... just as inside the tavern behind them, an Aleena is thrown against the window during the BarBrawl that started when Kaz got tricked by a conman with a rigged dart (that same Aleena, in fact). |
| 454 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E7SynarasScore "Synara's Score"]]: Yeager has his mechanics hurry up with working on the Colossus' targeting computer so they can get it installed as soon as possible in case of a pirate attack. Kaz thinks they'll be fine, asking Neeku what the odds are that a pirate attack will happen that very second... which is, naturally, when Kragan Gorr's pirate gang arrives to attack the platform. |
| 455 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E10StationThetaBlack "Station Theta-Black"]]: Wandering around the titular abandoned station, Kaz gets worried and tells Poe they might get lost if they go too far. Poe's response is to tell him he's worrying too much, and that nothing worse is going to happen. BB-8 then rolls up to tell them that the First Order has just arrived. |
| 456 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS0E2DartAndCover "Dart and Cover"]]: Kaz laughs when Bucket's third dart goes off course... only for it to ricochet around and [[ShotInTheAss hit him in the ass]]. |
| 457 | ** [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E17TheDisappeared "The Disappeared"]]: After [[spoiler:helping Aunt Z and Hype escape the Colossus in a stolen First Order ship]], Kaz and Torra are talking about it, and Kaz points out that [[spoiler:the First Order will eventually realize one of their ships is missing]]. Torra responds that they won't know who was responsible. Cut to Kaz and CB-23 arriving back at the repair shop to find [[spoiler:Team Fireball under arrest by stormtroopers]]. |
| 458 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 459 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E12GiantWoman "Giant Woman"]]: While trying to get Amethyst and Pearl to fuse and form Opal, Steven lists the possibility of getting eaten by a giant bird. Guess what happens two seconds later? |
| 460 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E24AnIndirectKiss "An Indirect Kiss"]]: Amethyst teases worrywart Steven by dancing on a clifftop, which she falls from in less than a minute. |
| 461 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird "Keep Beach City Weird"]]: Pearl tells Steven not to worry about Ronaldo giving up his [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theories]] because "It's not like he was ever going to be right." From that point onward, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight a surprising number of Ronaldo's crazy ideas turn out to be true]]. |
| 462 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E20Bismuth "Bismuth"]]: Steven expresses relief that Bismuth is the first new Gem he's met that hasn't tried to kill him. A few scenes later, she's trying to kill him because [[AllLovingHero their]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil views]] don't align. |
| 463 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E13TheZoo "The Zoo"]]: Steven reassures Greg that he won't be selected for [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage the Choosening]] because he's new to the Zoo. Naturally, Greg gets picked ''immediately'' after Steven says this. |
| 464 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll "That Will Be All"]]: Homeworld Gem Holly Blue Agate expresses delight at the honor of being visited by both Blue Diamond and Yellow Diamond in one day, and says "I don't think anything could spoil this for me!" Then she turns around and catches the Crystal Gems trying to smuggle Greg out of [[PeopleZoo the Zoo]]. |
| 465 | ** [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie The Movie]]: |
| 466 | *** Steven, relaxing with the Gems on the hillside by the lighthouse, says that he wants everything to stay just like this, and Pearl agrees. Just moments later, cue the arrival of the villain with her giant injector designed to kill all organic life on Earth. |
| 467 | *** In the flashback showing how [[spoiler:Spinel was abandoned by Pink Diamond, when Pink tells her to play a game where she stands still until Pink returns, Spinel exclaims "This'll be so much fun!" [[HideAndNoSeek It...]] [[GoMadFromTheIsolation wasn't.]]]] |
| 468 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': |
| 469 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E2Guidance "Guidance"]]: After "helping" all the gems with their jobs, Steven contentedly says, "It looks like my work here is done." The episode almost "ends" with an IrisOut, but resumes when Steven's face is hit by a flying piece of pizza cheese. It turns out that the quartzes now working in the pizza shop are too rowdy to run it, and giving the gems jobs they didn't know how to do caused chaos on the boardwalk. |
| 470 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E18EverythingsFine "Everything's Fine"]]: In a fit of mania, Steven tries to be helpful at Little Homeschool even though his help isn't needed and just ends up causing problems due to malfunctioning powers. When he saves the Heaven and Earth Beetles from a flying baseball without his powers causing destruction... He gets excited over not messing up, and screams "YEAHHHHH!" which causes more destruction than a baseball in the window would have. |
| 471 | * ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'': Every time Lucky makes a comment on how things could have become worse, they '''DO''' become worse just like he said they would. He also falls victim of the trope whenever it's commented on how nothing bad has happened to him lately. One would think that, after all the times he said things could have been worse without hinting on how and nothing making things worse, he'd learn to avoid the trope. |
| 472 | * ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' (1973/74) episode "Too Hot to Handle". The heat causes wax statues of the main heroes to melt, so Wendy and Marvin remove the uniforms from the statues. |
| 473 | -->'''Wendy''': Let's get these things packed away before something else happens to them.\ |
| 474 | '''Marvin''': What's the rush? I mean, what else could possibly happen to them?\ |
| 475 | ''[The heat causes the overhead automatic fire sprinklers to go on]'' |
| 476 | ** In "The Mind Maidens", Wonder Woman and Jayna decide to sneak into villainess Medula's lair, with Jayna smugly commenting "It's be a cinch!" They are immediately captured and turned into Medula's mind-controlled slaves. |
| 477 | * ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' |
| 478 | ** "The Bird! The Bird!", Toad is whisked away by a Birdo with extremely bad vision, who thinks he's her baby. This leads the Mario Brothers and the Princess up the tallest mountain in an already snowy land to bring him back. At one point, Mario says that "it could be worse". When Luigi asks how, an Albatoss drops a Bob-Omb nearby. It and the next 4 Bob-Ombs are easily disposed of before they go off, but the next three are dropped farther up the path, setting off an avalanche. |
| 479 | ** In "King Mario of Cramalot", Mario, Luigi, The Princess, and Toad are manacled in a dungeon with a small circumference but a (temporarily) high ceiling. Mario says things could be worse, and Luigi asks how. Mario gives the example that [[DescendingCeiling the ceiling could start lowering until it crushed them]]. No points for guessing what starts to happen, but extra credit if you guessed that the ceiling would be [[{{Pun}} pointy]]. Mario then says that the [[DrowningPit room could start filling up with water]]. It does... start, anyway. When Mario is about to think of another way that things could be worse, Luigi shuts him up. |
| 480 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Beast Boy, normally the GenreSavvy one, has been prone to these. |
| 481 | ** In the beginning of Kole, Dr. Light invokes this. "Here in the Arctic Circle, nobody will ever come to stop me." Cue Titans. |
| 482 | * At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', Plucky arrives home after tagging along on Hamton's family road trip, which to make a long story short was not an enjoyable experience. As soon as Plucky mutters "At least I'll never have to live through that again," Hamton's dad insists that Plucky stay and watch the slide show of their trip. |
| 483 | -->'''Plucky:''' ''[[OhCrap Slide show?!]]'' |
| 484 | * One ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon was about a white laboratory mouse that had consumed several volatile explosives, escaped, and is threatening to destroy everything in its path once it explodes. Tom, after hearing about the exploding white mouse on the radio, encounters said mouse, but it turns out to be his archnemesis Jerry, who disguised himself as the white mouse by covering himself with flour just to give Tom a scare. Shortly after Jerry's disguise is accidentally washed off, the ''real'' white mouse arrives, at which point Tom hears over the radio that the explosives inside the mouse have deteriorated and is no longer dangerous, "the white mouse will not explode." Tom decides to triumphantly drop-kick the white mouse out the front door, causing it to explode for real and level the house. |
| 485 | --> '''Radio''': We repeat: the white mouse will ''not'' explode.\ |
| 486 | ''(Tom emerges from the rubble)''\ |
| 487 | '''Tom''': DOOON'T YOOOU BELIEVE IT. |
| 488 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'': |
| 489 | ** After the Killer Bass' tent is burned down, an angry Courtney declares that things couldn't get any worse. On cue, [[CueTheRain it starts to rain]]. |
| 490 | ** From the first episode: |
| 491 | --->'''DJ:''' It's our first challenge, how hard could it be? ''(cue the thousand-foot cliff)'' Oh sh--*bleep* |
| 492 | * ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': In "Rack, Shack and Benny", just after Mr. Nezzar arrogantly declares, "Nobody's ever gonna stand up to me again!", God sends His angel down to save the title characters from the fiery furnace and show him the error of his ways. |
| 493 | * On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', [[spoiler:Henchman #24 used to be a perfect example of a MauveShirt, but once he and #21 started commenting on how they never die, he was finally killed off]]. |
| 494 | ** In the same episode as [[spoiler:24's death]], when Dr. Girlfriend thinks The Monarch might be falling into a trap, he says "It's Rusty Venture, not the OSI! Anything he can throw at us, we can throw back tenfold." Guess who else is at the Venture compound... |
| 495 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': |
| 496 | ** [[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]] in "The Nice Guy": "I'm gonna turn around, there's gonna be another huge line, and something's gonna happen that keeps me from getting Sylvia her Thunder Blazz-esque drink!" Wander turns, there's no line, and rushes to the counter...then trips on the lumpy mat, spilling the drink. |
| 497 | ** From "The Greater Hater": "Nothing. Ever. Changes." Cue the arrival of Dominator's ship ten times as large. |
| 498 | ** Lampshaded in "The Black Clube". When Wander decides to cheer up the Black Cube of Darkness, [[AlasPoorVillain who's in a slump after losing their villain cred]], he reminds Sylvia [[CatchPhrase "It never hurts to help!"]] She responds "Do you know how many times you say that ''immediately'' before we actually get hurt?!" Sure enough, Wander nearly gets his soul sucked out stopping the Black Cube from lashing out at an angry mob. |
| 499 | * ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': In "The San Franpsycho", the gang is making a getaway in a speedboat: |
| 500 | -->'''Velma:''' We're going to make it! \ |
| 501 | (''a shark takes a giant bite out of the boat's aft'') \ |
| 502 | '''Velma:''' (''resignedly'') Ah, irony. We meet yet again. |
| 503 | * ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' Season 3 arguably would have been better off ''not'' subverting this trope: Stella says, of saving someone from her own homerealm to get her Enchantix, "I hope I don't have to save Chimera." [[spoiler:When push comes to shove, she ends up saving her dad, left by Chimera and her mom escaping in his vehicle. So instead of maybe getting [[HeelFaceTurn Chimera coming over to Stella's side]], we end up getting Chimera being ignominiously defeated in an anticlimactic battle.]] |
| 504 | * ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'': In the episode "Cruise Control", the X-Men are taking a vacation on a cruise ship. When Boom-Boom is going to breakfast, ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} says to her, "Remember, low profile." Boom-Boom says, "It's just breakfast. What could happen?" Cue the breakfast scene, in which the X-Men accidentally reveal their powers to the passengers and cause a huge mess. Also it's ''Boom-Boom'' who starts the whole mess by throwing one of her bombs, although it's Jean using her powers to put out the fire caused by Boom-Boom's bomb that tips off the passengers. Later in the episode, when they're on an island Boom-Boom says the ''same line'' ("What could happen?"), right before the volcano acts up. |
| 505 | * In ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', the X-Men break into a government compound to destroy many of the files of [[SuperRegistrationAct several mutants]] before attempting to escape the compound. Morph says the line, "Didn't I tell you? Clear sailing all~ the way!" Cue the [[KillerRobot Sentinels]] marching through the trees. Quoth the Beast: "[[SacrificialLamb Oh dear]]". [[spoiler: Beast is captured, Morph dies]]. |
| 506 | * In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', after being retired from crime-fighting for a while, Artemis decides to return for a one off mission, even though her boyfriend (Kid Flash) is against it. She assures him by saying "What could possibly go wrong?" As if to gleefully laugh at the audience shouting "WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT?!?", the scene immediately cuts to Artemis dying on that mission. [[spoiler: Actually subverted. The death was faked.]] |
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