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** Basil gets a few injuries himself, but they are quite tame compared to anything Manuel is dished out. This makes the episode where Basil ends up in hospital because he was squirted in the face with a fire extinguisher and then bumped his head on a frying pan seem quite strange when Manuel has been able to take much worse without needing to be hospitalized.

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** Basil gets a few injuries himself, but they are quite tame compared to anything Manuel is dished out. This makes the episode where Basil ends up in hospital because he was squirted squirt in the face with a fire extinguisher and then bumped his head on a frying pan seem quite strange when Manuel has been able to take much worse without needing to be hospitalized.hospitalized.
** Basil was also hospitalized in [[{{Recap/FawltyTowersS1E6TheGermans}} "The Germans"]] when a moose head fell off the wall giving him a concussion. This was played for more laughs after he left the hospital on his own (and still affected by the concussion.) He returned to Fawlty Towers, and caused a disturbance with some guests.
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---->'''Wash''': Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl 'cause... I don't think that's ever getting old.

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* One ''Series/DocumentaryNow'' episode is entitled "How They Threw Rocks" covers the (fictional) Welsh sport of craig maes, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin described in the title]]. Although competitors are running with blood from skin injuries moments into a match, there's never any suggestion that it can or would incur serious injury.
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* The bread and butter for the "Adventures With Bill" segment of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow.'' Among other things Bill [[LongList has dropped heavy items on his own foot and the feet of the people with him, launched himself hundreds of feet through the air, hit his head on Red's van, hit other people with the unwieldy loads he's attempted to carry, had a hood support fail and smash his hands, stabbed himself with a knife, hit himself in the foot with an ax, shot himself in the foot with an arrow, [[OverlyLongGag shot himself in the foot with a gun,]] and this only scratches the surface.

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* The bread and butter for the "Adventures With Bill" segment of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow.'' Among other things Bill [[LongList has dropped heavy items on his own foot and the feet of the people with him, launched himself hundreds of feet through the air, hit his head on Red's van, hit other people with the unwieldy loads he's attempted to carry, had a hood support fail and smash his hands, stabbed himself with a knife, hit himself in the foot with an ax, shot himself in the foot with an arrow, arrow,]] [[OverlyLongGag shot himself in the foot with a gun,]] and this only scratches the surface.
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* The bread and butter for the "Adventures With Bill" segment of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow.'' Among other things Bill [[LongList has dropped heavy items on his own foot and the feet of the people with him, launched himself hundreds of feet through the air, hit his head on Red's van, hit other people with the unwieldy loads he's attempted to carry, had a hood support fail and smash his hands, stabbed himself with a knife, hit himself in the foot with an ax, shot himself in the foot with an arrow, shot himself in the foot with a gun.]]

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* The bread and butter for the "Adventures With Bill" segment of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow.'' Among other things Bill [[LongList has dropped heavy items on his own foot and the feet of the people with him, launched himself hundreds of feet through the air, hit his head on Red's van, hit other people with the unwieldy loads he's attempted to carry, had a hood support fail and smash his hands, stabbed himself with a knife, hit himself in the foot with an ax, shot himself in the foot with an arrow, [[OverlyLongGag shot himself in the foot with a gun.]]gun,]] and this only scratches the surface.
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* The bread and butter for the "Adventures With Bill" segment of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow.'' Among other things Bill [[LongList has dropped heavy items on his own foot and the feet of the people with him, launched himself hundreds of feet through the air, hit his head on Red's van, hit other people with the unwieldy loads he's attempted to carry, had a hood support fail and smash his hands, stabbed himself with a knife, hit himself in the foot with an ax, shot himself in the foot with an arrow, shot himself in the foot with a gun.]]
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* ''Series/StudioC'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9jXYOH2c0 "Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling"]] has the titular goalie ("The man!" "The myth!" "THE LEGEND!!") taking increasingly-improbable shots to the face. They followed it up (and took it UpToEleven) with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY2nVQNlUB8 "Best Volleyball Blocks Ever With Scott Sterling"]].

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* ''Series/StudioC'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9jXYOH2c0 "Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling"]] has the titular goalie ("The man!" "The myth!" "THE LEGEND!!") taking increasingly-improbable shots to the face. They followed it up (and took it UpToEleven) with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY2nVQNlUB8 "Best Volleyball Blocks Ever With Scott Sterling"]].
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* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
** "The Train Job", when Jayne is telling Wash they're going to finish the job or he's going beat Wash with the chain of command, then goes crazy and slumps over, unconscious. Tell me that wasn't hilarious.
** "I got stabbed, right here...."
** River slashing Jayne across the chest. Come on, that was ''hilarious''.
*** And in TheMovie, River punching Simon in the throat and then knocking him out.
*** River. Maidenhead Bar Brawl. Both the beatdown and the Ball grab.
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** %%** "The Train Job", when Jayne is telling Wash they're going to finish the job or he's going beat Wash with the chain of command, then goes crazy and slumps over, unconscious. Tell me that wasn't hilarious.
** %%** "I got stabbed, right here...."
** %%** River slashing Jayne across the chest. Come on, that was ''hilarious''.
*** %%*** And in TheMovie, River punching Simon in the throat and then knocking him out.
*** %%*** River. Maidenhead Bar Brawl. Both the beatdown and the Ball grab.
*** %%*** Acknowledged in-universe as such.
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*** During this, Leonard also gets a bit of an amusing injury. He laughs so hard at what Sheldon did, he bust a blood vessel in his nose.

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*** ** During this, Leonard also gets a bit of an amusing injury. He laughs so hard at what Sheldon did, he bust a blood vessel in his nose.

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* Part of the course in ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire''. The show's writers seem rather keen on electrocutions in particular. During Gordon's tenure at the leisure centre, both a pool full of reborn Pentecostals, and a massive hand-holding circle of children are all electrocuted to near death. Gordon himself also ends up being pumped full of electricity, when Gavin's mentally disturbed wife Jessica ties him up to Colin's waste management system.
** Colin also suffers hundreds of amusing injuries off-screen, but comes into work bearing the side effects, such as concussion, memory loss and even blindness at one point.
** Gordon and Colin are the only two characters who receive life-threatening injuries on a routine basis, although Gavin and Tim are both prone to a good kicking from various people on occasion.



hilarious, then asks aloud "Is that my eye? I think I lost my eye! Ha ha ha!"

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* In one of Creator/EllenDeGeneres' stand-up routines, she subverts this trope by poking fun at the fact that we're all supposed to laugh at our own injuries; she mimes accidentally running into a glass door and trying to make it sound like it was hilarious, then asks aloud "Is that my eye? I think I lost my eye! Ha ha ha!"

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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Miss Brooks suffers from sudden klutziness around Osgood Conklin, time to time leaving Mr. Conklin with amusing injuries. "Living Statues" involves her opening the door of the Principal's office and slamming it into his face. A variation occurred in "Here Is Your Past" where Miss Brooks accidentally gets Mr. Conklin to sneeze so badly he dislocates his shoulders and cracks his ribs! In TheMovie GrandFinale, Miss Brooks does one better, dropping a barbell on his foot!
-->'''Mr. Conklin''': It's alright Miss Brooks. I have another one!
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* ''Series/OddSquad'': The show features some of this as part of its slapstick humor. Since it features real child actors, however, the injuries are usually minor in nature and often don't hinder the characters too much.

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* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Klaus smashes a snow globe over his head after decking his brother in the face in order to blackmail a lab technician for info by making it appear the tech assaulted them. In another episode he tells his two brothers how he once waxed his ass with chocolate pudding, which was painful. Even later, another brother reminds him of when they were twelve and Klaus broke his jaw running down the stairs in their mother's heels, resulting in eight glorious weeks of bliss while it was wired shut.

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* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Klaus smashes a snow globe over his head after decking his brother in the face in order to blackmail a lab technician for info by making it appear the tech assaulted them. In another episode he tells his two brothers how he once waxed his ass with chocolate pudding, which was pain. Even later, another brother reminds him of when they were twelve and Klaus broke his jaw running down the stairs in their mother's heels, resulting in eight glorious weeks of bliss while it was wired shut.

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* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Klaus smashes a snow globe over his head after decking his brother in the face in order to blackmail a lab technician for info by making it appear the tech assaulted them. In another episode he tells his two brothers how he once waxed his ass with chocolate pudding, which was pain.painful. Even later, another brother reminds him of when they were twelve and Klaus broke his jaw running down the stairs in their mother's heels, resulting in eight glorious weeks of bliss while it was wired shut.
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* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Klaus smashes a snow globe over his head after decking his brother in the face in order to blackmail a lab technician for info by making it appear the tech assaulted them. In another episode he tells his two brothers how he once waxed his ass with chocolate pudding, which was pain. Even later, another brother reminds him of when they were twelve and Klaus broke his jaw running down the stairs in their mother's heels, resulting in eight glorious weeks of bliss while it was wired shut.
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* In one episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Hawkeye finds himself treating a patient who sprained his ankle falling in a foxhole. Margaret initially chides him and BJ for laughing (even though the patient is [[ActuallyPrettyFunny taking it all in good humor]]), but then cracks up completely when Klinger brings in another patient: a guy who "was in a foxhole when some clown fell on him".

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* In one episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Hawkeye finds himself treating a patient who sprained his ankle falling in a foxhole. Margaret initially chides him and BJ for laughing (even though the patient is [[ActuallyPrettyFunny taking it all in good humor]]), admits it's ActuallyPrettyFunny), but then cracks up completely when Klinger brings in another patient: a guy who "was in a foxhole when some clown fell on him".
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* Consciously averted in ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''. Fred Rogers said he got into children's television specifically because he hated this trope.
** Fred Rogers: "We deal with such things as - as the inner drama of childhood. We don't have to bop somebody over the head to...make drama on the screen."

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