History EpicFail / LiveActionTV

* On CBS's revival of ''SeriesTicTacDough'' in 1978, the bonus game's object is to uncover an X or O pattern three in a row on the board (now numbered) to win $1000 and a prize package without first uncovering a CGI dragon. On the very first telecast, the contestant uncovered the dragon on the first selection.

* A contestant on the ''Series/PressYourLuck'' revival won the game with $0 as he hit a Whammy on his final spin but did Whammy out as his two opponents did. In the bonus round, he hit a Whammy on his final spin as well.

* A tragic one in ''Series/The100'': The remnants of civilization in Mount Weather have been getting along rather well for generations since the bombs fell, despite resorting to some morally abhorrent practices to survive. Then the President's son decides that the President is getting too sympathetic towards the Ark kids and stages a coup. Within a week, he mismanages the situation so badly that it leads to the death of every man, woman, and child in the mountain.

* [[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS6E2TillDeathDoUsPart One episode]] of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' feature a soon-to-be-married couple planning to kill the bride's father on the wedding day and framing her stepmother for the murder. They come up with a pretty solid plan, which we see go perfectly...in the fantasy of the killers. When they actually execute it, the only thing they really succeed in is killing the father.

** All of these examples pale in comparison to Amy's Baking Company, whose episode marks the only time in the US series that Gordon [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere gives up before he even starts]], as the owners prove to be so cartoonishly unhinged and [[CantTakeCriticism thick-skulled]] that nothing he says or does can get through to them. It became the most {{memetic|Mutation}} episode of the series and the only one to get [[Recap/KitchenNightmaresS6E15AmysBakingCompany its own trope page]] precisely because how ludicrously awful the restaurant and its proprietors are compared to those featured in the show before and after it.

--->'''Josh:''' Drake?
--->'''Drake:''' What?
--->'''Josh:''' [[TranquilFury Where's the door hole?]]
--->'''Drake:''' It goes right there. See? I drew it with a magic marker.
--->'''Josh:''' You were supposed to cut it out with the power saw.
--->'''Drake:''' Dude, I'm gonna!
--->'''Josh:''' Oh really?
--->'''Drake:''' Yes!
--->'''Josh:''' ...So go get the power saw.
--->'''Drake:''' Okay, I will. ''(walks straight into the wall, [[DelayedOhCrap then slowly realizes he and Josh are trapped]])'' ......I see the problem.
--->'''Josh:''' Oh, '''''DO YA!?'''''

* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': In "Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman", Fausta Grables and Colonel Kesselman have captured Wonder Woman, taken her powers, kidnapped her to Germany, and have her strapped to a table for interrogation. They know about her magic lasso ''and even force her to answer questions under its power''. Despite this - and perhaps pushed by the fantastical answers Wonder Woman truthfully gives - he wants to torture information out of her rather than use the magic lasso. Fausta insists on using the lasso. This so enrages Kesselman that he grabs the belt and lasso from Grables and throws it away...right into Wonder Woman's hand.

*** Lulu from 45 achieves new levels of incompetence comparable to these three tribes, but for different reasons. Not only did they lose every pre-swap immunity challenge, but ''three'' of the original players quit (though to be technical Brandon more gave up and let himself be voted out, which many fans qualify as a quit) and of the two still remaining, one clearly doesn't want to be there and nearly quit herself.

** In season 31, Bret and Chris, who had gotten to the detour first with a three-hour lead over the last three teams on a later flight, spent two hours total doing a needle in a haystack challenge rather than the fairly simple memory challenge. They give the memory challenge a try once then goes back to the needle in a haystack before ultimately going back to the memory challenge which once they actually try, they get quite easily. They leave the detour in last place and can't make up the time and get eliminated.
** In each season, there always eems to be one team that has NoSenseOfDirection and gets eliminated because of it, but in Season 32, Michelle and Victoria took it to a whole new level by getting lost in Paris for ''six and a half hours'' just trying to find a location that was just two kilometers away. Unsurprisingly, they got eliminated.

** In each season, there always eems to be one team that has NoSenseOfDirection and gets eliminated because of it, but in Season 32, Michelle and Victoria took in to a while new level by getting lost in Paris for ''six and a half hours'' just trying to find a location that was just two kilometers away. Unsurprisingly, they got eliminated.

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** In the first round of the second episode, the teams were supposed to make cannoli. The only team that didn't get it right had a contestant with Italian heritage. They even found Marsala wine (which is unique to cannoli baking) and more or less ignored it.
** In the first round of the fourth episode, none of the teams figured out that the dessert they were supposed to make was cheesecake. Bad already, but one of those teams ran a cheesecake shop and even noted how similar the ingredients they found were to a cheesecake's, so they should have known from professional experience.
** From a non-guessing standpoint, the seventh episode had one of the contestants turn off the oven by accident, resulting in a bake that came out raw.

** During the episode "Deadlocked", Harry Kim invents a new type of forcefield, specifically designed to contain a growing hull breach. He decides to be the one to implement his ingenious solution. Naturally, it utterly fails to work, leaving him right above the breach when it ruptures, [[ThrownOutTheAirLock sucking him into the cold, hard vacuum of space]] where he dies. All in all, ''[[ButtMonkey classic]]'' Harry Kim move. Luckily, at the end of the episode, he ends up getting replaced by a [[CloningBlues Quantum Duplicate]] from the alternate ''Voyager''.