History BungledSuicide / WesternAnimation

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Popeye'' episode "Hospitaliky", Popeye and Bluto both try to get seriously injured so that they can be nursed to health by Olive Oyl, who works as a nurse at a hospital. While not trying to kill themselves per se, the things they attempt (jumping out of a plane, getting bit by a car, getting run over by a train) would kill just about anyone else, but they turn out safe every time, that is until Popeye finally forces Bluto to eat his spinach and beat him up. Even better, in the 1945 Famous Studios remake "From Nurse to Worse", it turns out Olive actually works at a veterinary hospital and both Popeye and Bluto's efforts were for naught, causing them to have a nervous breakdown and be institutionalized.

** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS15E10BassToMouth Bass to Mouth]]", Cartman tricks Jenny Simons into eating a laxative filled cupcake, causing her to defecate herself in class. Jenny is so humililated that she attempts suicide by jumping off the school roof. Jenny survived the fall, but fractured her pelvis. A year prior, Cartman had bullied Corey Duran, who also publicly soiled himself, to the point of suicide, and his setting up of Jenny was to get heat off of another kid named Pete Melmam who crapped himself (as Principal Victoria made a deal with Cartman to ensure that Pete doesn't kill himself, but Cartman interpreted this as only Pete not killing himself).

* Played for ''[[BlackComedy very dark]],'' {{Mood Whiplash}}y laughs on ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' in the episode "Princess Cookie". The episode deals with a [[AnthropomorphicObjects rogue cookie]] named Baby Snaps that is [[WouldHurtAChild holding children hostage]] in a store demanding Princess Bubblegum's crown, due to [[FreudianExcuse his aspiration to make people happy as a child leading to him]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything wanting to become a princess]]. As a child, he told the princess, who giggled at him, which he took the worst way possible. Jake, after hearing his FreudianExcuse, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds feels sorry for him]], and helps him to escape. This leads to them running away from the Candy Guards and when they reach a cliff, Baby Snaps thanks Jake for making him happy and jumps off the cliff. [[MoodWhiplash Cue]] him on the ground in pieces being recovered by Candy Guards yelling [[UnusualEuphemism "I]] [[ParentheticalSwearing GLUBBED]] [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction UP!"]] ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ...Yeah.]]''

** In the "Viewer Mail #2" segment "Fatman and Robin", Peter gains the power to turn people into Creator/RobinWilliams. The next day, they eventually start annoying Peter and he tries to get out by shooting himself in the head, but his power now also affects inanimate objects and his gun turns into a miniature Williams. As he runs away from an endless swarm of Williams clones, he attempts to jump off a cliff and impale himself on a sharp rock, only for his fall to be cushioned when the rock turns into Film/MrsDoubtfire.
** In "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell", Meg tries to kill herself by [[SuicideByPills OD'ing on sleeping pills]], but Stewie's evil turtle Sheldon replaced them with Alka-Seltzer tablets, so all that happens is that she lets out a long burp.
** In "Mom's the Word", after deciding that life is pointless if you're just going to die eventually anyway, Stewie tries to off himself in several ways. First, he tries to hang himself, [[TheManTheyCouldntHang but can't due to the shape of his head]], then he attempts SuicideByCop, but the cop he gets is Joe, who is equally depressed and wants Stewie to kill him too, then he tries an ElectrifiedBathtub, which only turns him into a toast-themed superhero.
** In "Christmas is Coming", Stewie fills his winter coat pockets with stones and tries to drown himself in a mall fountain, only to find that the water isn't nearly deep enough.

** In the WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon "Plane Daffy" a soldier tries to shoot himself after confessing a military secret to a spy. He goes outside to the hallway, closes the door, we hear a shot, then he opens the door again and says: "Uh,... I missed!"

* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'': the man Orel witnesses trying to kill himself jumps off a bridge, only to find out it's only knee-deep and he only breaks his neck. He's then arrested because suicide is a federal offence in Moralton.

* Rick of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' attempts this in "Auto Erotic Assimilation." After being dumped by Unity for being a destructive and negative influence on everyone around him, he attempted to vaporize his head with a heat beam. The attempt failed because he passed out on the last second and fell out of the beam's path.

** In "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere," he relates how he tried to hang himself, but the rope broke. So he sued the rope manufacturer, who gave him a huge cash settlement... and a new rope, which is already tied into a noose.
** In "Simpsons Christmas Stories," Moe makes [[SerialEscalation three consecutive attempts]]: he hangs himself with a popcorn string that snaps under his weight, rides a sleigh into heavy traffic only for every single vehicle to miss him, and [[InOneEarOutTheOther shoots himself in the ear, only for the gun to send a "Merry Christmas" flag out the other ear.]] Finally, he asks Barney to kill him as a Christmas present; however, Barney has already bought him a hat, so the heartwarmed Moe decides to live for the time being, making this an InterruptedSuicide of sorts. At the very end of the episode, however, he tries the sleigh-through-traffic method again, heading towards a loaded tractor-trailer, which of course misses him ("All eighteen wheels," as he notes bitterly).
** Another Moe example from "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas", he attempted suicide via a fall from thousands of feet up. As shown at the end of the episode, he survived by landing on a hot air balloon, and tried again with the same results.
** Moe apparently succeeds in doing this in "Treehouse of Horror XIV". Unfortunately, Homer has just [[TheDeathOfDeath killed the Grim Reaper]], so no one can die and Moe's left hanging there. "If I had known it would've taken this long, I would've put on the TV".
** Homer's attempted suicide in "No Loan Again, Naturally" is also played for laughs. He attempted to hang himself from a tree, but the tree gives way, sparing Homer and wrecking his car.
** Another one played for laughs is Mr. Burns' in "The Fool Monty", where he survives an airplane hitting him, then slamming against pine tree branches and whacked away by a bear.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the episode where the homeless are like zombies, the scientist decides it's BetterToDieThanBeKilled, but each attempted shot (except the last) destroys his head a little more without killing him. By the end, he is writhing on the floor disgustingly, gargling and bleeding. Ick.
** Another ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' example: in [[Recap/SouthParkS12E13ElementarySchoolMusical "Elementary School Musical"]], Cartman tries to commit suicide (over [[Film/HighSchoolMusical High School Musical's]] popularity) by sitting in his mom's car in the garage with the engine running. This doesn't work since his mom drives a hybrid.
** In the "Coon and Friends" story arc, Kenny, aware of his immortality, sometimes shoots himself in front of his friends in the frustration of them not being able to remember his deaths. In fact, when he and the other heroes are sent to R'lyeh by [[spoiler: Cthulhu and Cartman]], he fatally falls on a spike because [[InvokedTrope he'd escape R'lyeh by waking up back home]]. At the end of the episode, he says he's going to go to bed by shooting himself in the head, knowing that he'll just wake up in his bed the next morning.
** In "Britney's New Look", Music/BritneySpears blows half her head off with a shotgun, but survives (looking like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken Mike the Headless Chicken afterward]]). She finishes the job at the end of the episode.
* An Eastern European cartoon humorously showed a despondent man trying suicide and failing repeatedly... until he's held up at gunpoint, and abruptly fearing death, gives away his money as well as all his clothes. It ends with him naked and loving life.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheShiveringTruth'': A man repeatedly tries to kill himself and [[PlagueOfGoodFortune every attempt just causes good things to happen]]. Try to hang himself, the ceiling above him collapses and reveals two BoundAndGagged girls. Ingest multiple drugs, he makes himself healthier than ever and his blood becomes a potential component for a CureForCancer. Jump to his death, he falls on and kills the man who kidnapped the girls from earlier.

** In "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell", Meg tries to kill herself by OD'ing on sleeping pills, but Stewie's evil turtle Sheldon replaced them with Alka-Seltzer tablets, so all that happens is that she lets out a long burp.