History EpicFail / WesternAnimation

** Bojack mentions this as how his father died. Bojack's dad, Butterscotch, wrote a book, [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair convinced that the novel was a worldwide classic and his legacy]]. However, no one even bothered to review the book, it was so bad. As such, Butterscotch issued a TakeThatCritics in the form of a DuelToTheDeath with pistols at dawn. Some nut job eventually took Butterscotch up on the offer, but when Butterscotch began to walk away from his opponent, he turned to ask what the nutjob thought of the book. As he did, Butterscotch tripped over a tree root, [[deathByFallingOver bashed his head on a rock]], and died instantly.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' episode "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS5E06FreeChurro Free Churro]]", Bojack mentions this as how his father died. Bojack's dad, Butterscotch, wrote a book, [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair convinced that the novel was a worldwide classic and his legacy]]. However, no one even bothered to review the book, it was so bad. As such, Butterscotch issued a TakeThatCritics in the form of a DuelToTheDeath with pistols at dawn. Some nut job eventually took Butterscotch up on the offer, but when Butterscotch began to walk away from his opponent, he turned to ask what the nutjob thought of the book. As he did, Butterscotch tripped over a tree root, bashed his head on a rock, and died instantly.

** In "Battle of the Bands", Jimmy, Carl and Sheen win 8th place in a talent show with a hastily-improvised act. The talent show only had seven acts.

** In "Four Little Words", the four times Francine stated "IToldYouSo" to Stan: Stan somehow crashing a British double-decker bus into the garage, Stan accidentally killing two bungee-jumpers by wrapping the cord around their necks, Stan losing a game of chess ''to a rooster'', and Stan ''setting the backyard pool on fire'' -- '''while there was water in it'''.
** In "Fartbreak Hotel", without Francine, Stan '''can't even dress himself'''.
** In "Kung Pao Turkey", Stan tries to scare away [[ObnoxiousInLaws his Chinese in-laws]] by dressing up as Franchise/{{Godzilla}}... only to accidentally set himself on fire.

** In "My Morning Straitjacket," Stan gets himself and Roger kicked off a tour bus for My Morning Jacket after he brags about the time he did drugs with "[[BlatantLies Tina Jivestrong and the black guy from the Beatles]]."

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Beach", we get to watch Azula fail royally hard when it comes to normal socializing. Such highlights are the Kuai Ball game which showcases her ruthlessness to a friendly game, her sharp pickup line at the party and screwing up landing a potential boyfriend by promising world domination (makes sense in context). She cannot turn off the commander lifestyle off the battlefield for the life of her.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' episode "Cowdyshack", Pig was so bad at golf that when he had to replace an injured Otis during a tournament, he managed to wipe out Otis's ''300 stroke lead'' just trying to sink a single hole, ''when the ball was five inches away from the hole''.

** In "Tina-Rannousaurus Wrecks", Bob and Tina have just finished shopping, and Bob offers Tina a chance to drive the car around the nearly-empty parking lot. Not only does Tina [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ_EKHGgWJQ crash into the only other car in the entire lot]], she actually steers away from it, then steers back toward it, several times, ''all while driving at a slow walking pace''. And even worse, that just happened to be [[SitcomArchNemesis Jimmy Pesto's car]].
** This tends to be a trend in certain Gene-centric episodes. They start off with him being incredibly enthusiastic about trying something new and then he completely and utterly bombs within five minutes. In "O.T.: The Outside Toilet", when he's being entrusted with [[EggSitting a flour sack baby]], he not only drops the first one ''seconds'' after getting it, but he then dropped the replacement and the one he stole from another classmate. In "The Unnatural", where he was on a Little League team, during his very first turn at bat he got so freaked out when someone pitched the ball he purposefully swung his bat three times in a row to strike himself out. The rest of the game went so badly the parents of his teammates consoled their kids by flat out saying it was Gene's fault they lost.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' episode "Free Churro," Bojack mentions this as how his father died. Bojack's dad, Butterscotch, wrote a book, [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair convinced that the novel was a worldwide classic and his legacy]]. However, no one even bothered to review the book, it was so bad. As such, Butterscotch issued a TakeThatCritics in the form of a DuelToTheDeath with pistols at dawn. Some nut job eventually took Butterscotch up on the offer, but when Butterscotch began to walk away from his opponent, he turned to ask what the nutjob thought of the book. As he did, Butterscotch tripped over a tree root, bashed his head on a rock, and died instantly.

** In Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E8HotOven Hot Oven]]", Owen has trouble cooking his pizza right because his oven can't get hot enough. After using the forge to cook his pizza, he presents his perfect pizza to his family only for the pizza to slide off the pizza pan and land on the floor. He quickly puts the pizza back on the pan and presents it again to his family. It isn't a complete fail because despite it falling on the floor and looking awful, everyone loves the pizza.
** In Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E9LiveItUpTonight Live It Up Tonight]]", when Molly is searching for Cole after he ran away from her because he thinks she's a vampire, she finds him stuck on a fence hanging upside down after he failed to climb over it. Molly points out he could have just walked around the fence, where the end of the fence is a few feet away from the spot where he was hanging from.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': When Cuphead enters King Dice's game show and barely makes it through the song and trivia rounds (which King Dice deliberately made extremely easy), all he has to do is roll two dice. [[ForegoneVictory It literally doesn't matter what the dice roll]]: he would win the "surprise door" regardless of if he rolls a 2, 12, or anywhere in between. What happens when Cuphead rolls them? They fly off the pillars holding them, are flung a short distance, and then finally explode. Cuphead somehow lost a game rigged to always win. Of course, losing the game is good for Cuphead since the whole show is a con to [[DoomAsTestPrize have "winners" forfeit their souls]] to [[{{Satan}} The Devil.]]

** In "Four Little Words", the four times Francine stated "IToldYouSo" to Stan: Stan somehow crashing a British double-decker bus into the garage, Stan accidentally killing two bungee-jumpers by wrapping the cord around their necks, Stan losing a game of chess ''to a turkey'', and Stan ''setting the backyard pool on fire'' -- '''while there was water in it'''.