History BungledSuicide / WesternAnimation

** Moe apparently succeeds in doing this in "Treehouse of Horror XIV". Unfortunately, Homer has just 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".

* 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.

* 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 one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', Debbie Klymer is driven to suicide when she sees that her beautiful face has been horribly scarred. Milo tries to stop her from jumping off a bridge, but she does it... and the water is way too shallow. That's actually why Milo wanted to stop her -- everybody in the neighborhood has tried it at one point, it just doesn't work.
* 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.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Bill becoming increasingly depressed over the Christmas period. Eventually, he tries to end his own life by jumping off the roof of his house, which isn't really that high. To bungle it up even more, Bill simply lowers himself from the roof, hanging onto it with one hand before dropping into his garden! Later on, he attempts to gas himself with an electric oven.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': A RunningGag with Stumpy, who [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption fails at everything]], is to have him try to kill himself and fail.
* Surprisingly happens in the very first ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' cartoon. Depressed that he can't make a friend, Casper decides to let himself get run over by an oncoming train, apparently forgetting that as a ghost, he's already dead. The train just goes right through him.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** 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 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.
* ''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.
* ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheShiveringTruth'': A man repeatedly tries to kill himself and 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.

** Moe apparently succeeded once in a Treehouse of Horror special. Unfortunately, Homer had just killed the Grim Reaper so no one could die. Moe's left hanging there. "If I had known it would've taken this long, I would've put on the TV".

* 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!"
** The WesternAnimation/PorkyPig cartoon "Porky's Romance" sees Porky, distraught over being cruelly rejected by his selfish love Petunia, hanging himself on a tree branch in one of the sadder scenes to be found in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon. Of course, this being ''Looney Tunes'', MoodWhiplash comes into play when the branch snaps off under his weight.

* ''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. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He's then arrested because suicide is a federal offence in Moralton.]]

* In his very first cartoon, WesternAnimation/{{Casper}}, despondent over the death of his only friend, a fox, sits on a train track. The train passes right through him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheShiveringTruth'': A man repeatedly tries to kill himself and 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 ends up with a CureForCancer. Jump to his death, he falls on and kills the man who kidnapped the girls from earlier.

* ''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. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He's then arrested because suicide is a federal offence in Moralton.]]

** Homer's attempted suicide in "No Loan Again, Naturally" is also played for laughs.

** The WesternAnimation/PorkyPig cartoon "Porky's Romance" sees Porky, distraught over being cruelly rejected by his selfish love Petunia, hanging himself on a tree branch in one of the sadder scenes to be found in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon. Of course, this being ''Looney Tunes'', MoodWhiplash comes into play when the branch collapses under his weight.

** In "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell", Meg tries to kill herself by downing a CyanidePill, but Stewie's evil turtle Sheldon replaced it with an Alka-Seltzer tablet, so all that happens is that she lets out a long burp.

* ''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. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny He's then arrested because suicide is a federal offence in Moralton.]]

** 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 to his death, only for his fall to be cushioned when he lands on a rock that turns into Film/MrsDoubtfire.

** 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 part II, he says "good night" by shooting himself in the head, knowing that he'll just wake up in his bed the next morning.

** Another ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' example: in [[Recap/SouthParkS12E13ElementarySchoolMusical "Elementary School Musical"]], Cartman tries to commit suicide (over ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'''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.

** Another ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' example: in one episode, Cartman tries to commit suicide (over ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'''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 WesternAnimtion/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!"

** 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, 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 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 him and as he runs away from the endless crowd of Williams clones, he attempts to jump off a cliff to his death. However, since his power now also affects inanimate objects, his fall is cushioned when he lands on a rock that turns into Film/MrsDoubtfire.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': 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, 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.

** Moe apparently succeeded once in a Treehouse of Horror special. Unfortunately, Homer had just killed the grim Reaper so no one could die. Moe's left hanging there. "If I had known it would've taken this long, I would've put on the TV".

* 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.]]''

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Bill becoming increasigly depressed over the Christmas period. Eventually he tries to end his own life by jumping off the roof of his house, which isn't really that high. To bungle it up even more, Bill simply lowers himself from the roof, hanging onto it with one hand before dropping into his garden! Later on, he attempts to gas himself with an electric oven.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the episode where the homeless are like zombies, a man tries shooting himself in the head several times, each one (except the last) destroying his head a little more without killing him. By the end, he is writhing on the floor disgustingly, gargling and bleeding. Ick.