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** Garfield himself isn't completely safe either. He attempted to kill a spider by closing a window on it. [[https://gocomics.com/garfield/1985/08/04 It doesn't go well]].
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** Garfield himself isn't completely safe either. He attempted to kill a spider by closing slamming a window on it. [[https://gocomics.com/garfield/1985/08/04 It doesn't go well]].
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** When Jon complains about being unable to care for plants, Garfield points out [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1987/10/08 this latest failure]] was a ''plastic plant''.
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** When Jon complains about being unable to care for plants, Garfield points out [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1987/10/08 this latest failure]] was a pair of ''plastic plant''.plants''.
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** When Jon complains about being unable to care for plants, Garfield points out this latest failure was a ''plastic plant''.
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** When Jon complains about being unable to care for plants, Garfield points out [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1987/10/08 this latest failure failure]] was a ''plastic plant''.
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** Roger takes WalkingTechbane to [[UpToEleven new levels]]. A single press of a button or a click of a mouse can destroy an entire hard drive. Fortunately, he rarely can find the on switch in the first place.
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** Roger takes WalkingTechbane to [[UpToEleven new levels]].levels. A single press of a button or a click of a mouse can destroy an entire hard drive. Fortunately, he rarely can find the on switch in the first place.
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** How bad of an athlete is Peter? When he and his friend Steve were checking out who got cut from the football team, Peter's right at the top. Not only did he not actually ''try out'' for the football team that year, his name is '''pre-printed''' on the list.
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*** Patty's reaction to hearing Charlie Brown blew a 'fifty point lead in the bottom of the ninth with TWO outs' is priceless.
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** The arc that marked Peppermint Patty's first appearance involved her trying to help his sandlot team by taking over as manager. Despite hitting five home runs and pitching a no-hit game, they lost thirty-seven to five via unearned runs, which is when she decided she could ''not'' help them [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere and left.]]
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** The arc that marked Peppermint Patty's first appearance involved her trying to help his sandlot team by taking over as manager. Despite hitting five home runs and pitching a no-hit game, they lost thirty-seven to five via unearned runs, which is when she decided she could ''not'' help them [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and left.]]
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** When Calvin breaks his dad's binoculars, Hobbes asks, "Was the casing just chipped a little, or did the lens itself get cracked?" It turns out that, somehow, the binoculars have literally been ground into a fine powder.
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** When Calvin breaks his dad's binoculars, Hobbes asks, "Was the casing just chipped a little, or did the lens itself get cracked?" It turns out that, somehow, [[NoodleIncident/CalvinAndHobbes somehow]], the binoculars have literally been ground into a fine powder.
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** In the July 15, 1998 strip, Odie starts to bury a bone and somehow end sup burying himself instead.
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** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2013/08/07 Jon bought a set of weights for his workout.]] He couldn't lift them out of the car.
** Garfield himself isn't completely safe either. He attempted to kill a spider by closing a window on it. [[https://garfield.com/comic/1985/08/04 It doesn't go well]].
** Garfield himself isn't completely safe either. He attempted to kill a spider by closing a window on it. [[https://garfield.com/comic/1985/08/04 It doesn't go well]].
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** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2013/08/07 [[https://gocomics.com/garfield/2013/08/07 Jon bought a set of weights for his workout.]] He couldn't lift them out of the car.
** Garfield himself isn't completely safe either. He attempted to kill a spider by closing a window on it.[[https://garfield.com/comic/1985/08/04 [[https://gocomics.com/garfield/1985/08/04 It doesn't go well]].
** Garfield himself isn't completely safe either. He attempted to kill a spider by closing a window on it.
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** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2015/12/21 Jon's attempt to wrap a gift ends with him covered in tape and the gift still unwrapped.]]
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2017/03/16 Jon attempted to fix the plumbing underneath the kitchen sink.]] He somehow made it dispense ''mustard''.
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2017/03/16 Jon attempted to fix the plumbing underneath the kitchen sink.]] He somehow made it dispense ''mustard''.
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** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2015/12/21 [[https://gocomics.com/garfield/2015/12/21 Jon's attempt to wrap a gift ends with him covered in tape and the gift still unwrapped.]]
**[[https://garfield.com/comic/2017/03/16 [[https://gocomics.com/garfield/2017/03/16 Jon attempted to fix the plumbing underneath the kitchen sink.]] He somehow made it dispense ''mustard''.''mustard''.
** In [[https://gocomics.com/garfield/2020/08/18 one strip]], Jon screams that the ''fire extinguisher'' was on fire.
-->'''Garfield:''' I '''told''' you to buy two of them!
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** In [[https://gocomics.com/garfield/2020/08/18 one strip]], Jon screams that the ''fire extinguisher'' was on fire.
-->'''Garfield:''' I '''told''' you to buy two of them!
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** Zero has difficulties doing things right. When firing a cannon, he manages to do it wrong by making it go MOOB instead of BOOM. He also can't sleep in a tent right: instead of both legs sticking out at one end, he has one sticking out of each end.
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* Charlie Brown of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' is well known for failing in ways that are utterly impossible through no readily apparent fault of his own. Blockhead.
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** Charlie Brown
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** Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in TheMovie ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'', when the girls mock Charlie by singing the song "Failure Face." They quip that, if trying to fail were like running a race, Charlie Brown [[LogicBomb would actually]] ''[[LogicBomb win]]''.
** There is a line of Epic Fail t-shirts displaying his greatest failure moments.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': The antics of the crocodiles of the Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity are guaranteed to result in this, namely when trying to kill and eat Zebra.
** Some of their more memorable failures involve attempting to kill Zebra... and end up killing several crocodiles in the process, usually with some form of IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
** There is a line of Epic Fail t-shirts displaying his greatest failure moments.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': The antics of the crocodiles of the Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity are guaranteed to result in this, namely when trying to kill and eat Zebra.
** Some of their more memorable failures involve attempting to kill Zebra... and end up killing several crocodiles in the process, usually with some form of IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
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** Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in TheMovie ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'', when the girls mock Charlie by singing the song "Failure Face." Face". They quip that, if trying to fail were like running a race, Charlie Brown [[LogicBomb would actually]] ''[[LogicBomb win]]''.
** There is a line of Epic Failt-shirts T-shirts displaying his greatest failure moments.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': The antics of the crocodiles of the Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity are guaranteed to result in this, namely when trying to kill and eatZebra.
**Zebra. Some of their more memorable failures involve attempting to kill Zebra... and end up killing several crocodiles in the process, usually with some form of IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
** There is a line of Epic Fail
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* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' a man [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments lost a quick draw to a sloth]]. One bystander mentions that the newly deceased wasn't exactly what you would call a "quick draw".
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** A Wild West gunslinger gets beaten to the draw.. by [[SugarWiki/FunnyMomentslost a quick draw to a sloth]]. One bystander mentions that the newly deceased wasn't exactly what you would call a "quick draw".
** A Wild West gunslinger gets beaten to the draw.. by [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments
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* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'':
** Cookie manages to make soup that is too tough to cut with a knife... and steak that is too tough to cut with a machine gun and grenades. He also manages to fail to ''not'' [[KitchenSinkIncluded include the kitchen sink]] -- in food. No wonder [[FMinusMinus he graduated 50th out of a class of twenty-five.]]
** Failures in reading the map have led the soldiers to standing on thin air or upside down on the downside of a cliff -- or, more explicably, in a river when Lt. Fuzz insists on following the blue line.[[note]]In real life, it is commonly believed in the Army that the most dangerous thing in the world is a Lieutenant with a compass.[[/note]]
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
** When Calvin breaks his dad's binoculars, Hobbes asks, "Was the casing just chipped a little, or did the lens itself get cracked?" It turns out that, somehow, the binoculars have literally been ground into a fine powder.
--->'''Calvin:''' Don't sneeze.
** Subverted in the numerous strips where Calvin attempts to learn how to ride a bike. Getting your face stuck in the chain ''sounds'' like quite the failure... if it wasn't for the fact that the bike is actually alive and attempting to kill Calvin. His parents don't believe him though.
* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip, a generic co-worker decides to hide his boyish looks by growing a beard. Dilbert and Wally chuckle on how they don't think Ted is smart enough to grow a beard. In the final panel, we see that Ted has indeed grown a beard...out of his ''forehead.''
* ''ComicStrip/{{Drabble}}'':
** Ralph once went on ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''. The first question: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a what?" Ralph can't think of the answer, so he uses the lifeline to remove two of the answers. He's now left with "wall" and "whoopee cushion" which were the two he couldn't decide between before. He then decides to poll the audience. After the ''entire audience'' claims that it's "wall", he dismisses the poll because he thinks the audience looks kind of stupid. He finally phones his son Patrick who starts to give him the answer only for time to run out. Ralph ends up walking away with nothing.
** In 2016, Norman decided that Echo was the girl for him and he should finally stop pursuing Wendy. So, he sends Wendy a series of nasty breakup texts to finally let her know how he feels about the way she treats him. How is this an Epic Fail? He sends them to Echo by mistake. Worse yet, he mentions it to Wendy and she says he didn't need to break up with her because they were never actually dating. Fortunately, it appears his relationship with Echo will recover.
** One week, the Polecat Lodge held a telethon. You know things are heading this way when No Neck forgets to get ''telephones'' for the telethon. The telethon eventually brings in a scant ''seventeen'' dollars...and Patrick manages to get more donations while trick or treating that Halloween.
* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' a man [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments lost a quick draw to a sloth]]. One bystander mentions that the newly deceased wasn't exactly what you would call a "quick draw".
** In another comic, a man in an orchestra is thinking, "''This'' time I won't screw up! I won't, I won't, I won't..." He's holding a single cymbal in one hand- the other hand is empty. The caption reads "Roger screws up."
* From ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':
** Jason and Marcus are attempting to launch a rocket, but put the engines in wrong so it launches into the ground. When the second stage kicks in, fire starts ''[[StuffBlowingUp shooting out of various spots in the ground in enormous columns]],'' prompting this remark from Jason:
--->'''Jason:''' Why can't my successes ever be as spectacular as my failures?
** There's also Roger once being effortlessly defeated at Chess by a computer... after having Jason modify the chess program's code so that Roger had a King and fifteen Queens, while the computer had a King and fifteen Pawns.
** Roger and the barbecue grill do not go well together. One time he lit it and the flames shot towards the ground, leading him to announced that he ''put the charcoal in upside down''. Jason even says it would be impossible [[AchievementsInIgnorance for anyone else]].
** Roger, in general, is a failure. One time, while playing golf, he finally makes a straight shot! Too bad it was in the opposite direction of the hole...and impacted into the windshield of his boss' car. In fact, the only time he can get a hole-in-one is when the golf course is flooded under 5 feet of water. Of course, he probably didn't even come close to the green but no-one wants to swim out and check.
** Another is a strip where Roger is golfing and hits his first shot. The shot ricochets off of trees, yard markers, bounces on a sidewalk, etc. until, defying the laws of physics, it inevitably ends up right back on the tee Roger hit it off of. He implies that this is actually a ROUTINE occurrence.
** Roger takes WalkingTechbane to [[UpToEleven new levels]]. A single press of a button or a click of a mouse can destroy an entire hard drive. Fortunately, he rarely can find the on switch in the first place.
** Also, a Pavilionplex worker ended up somehow mistaking the theater's internet server with the butter server and promptly washing it, explaining the reason for the long lag time for the Pavilionplex's site when Jason was ordering tickets for ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' online.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''
** Jon seems to epically fail at life in general, but there are some specific examples where he fails when barely even doing anything.
*** Raises his hand when declaring the future is looking bright. Hand cramps painfully.
*** Feels ready to conquer the world... but can't get the front door open to leave the house.
*** Tries to just sit there and do nothing so nothing can go wrong. Tabletop he's leaning on breaks.
** When Jon complains about being unable to care for plants, Garfield points out this latest failure was a ''plastic plant''.
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2013/08/07 Jon bought a set of weights for his workout.]] He couldn't lift them out of the car.
** Garfield himself isn't completely safe either. He attempted to kill a spider by closing a window on it. [[https://garfield.com/comic/1985/08/04 It doesn't go well]].
** Jon and dating. To make a long story short, if Jon's latest paramour doesn't show up, for him that's considered a GOOD date. (Eventually, though, [[EarnYourHappyEnding he does end up in a loving, stable relationship with Liz]].)
** Jon's mother gets into this with her HomemadeSweaterFromHell she sends Garfield every Christmas. They're usually gaudy, humiliating and/or have something wrong with them, like a sweater without a hole for the head or a sweater with cow udders on them. The one time she makes a ''good'' sweater, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Jon and Garfield are understandably worried]].
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2015/12/21 Jon's attempt to wrap a gift ends with him covered in tape and the gift still unwrapped.]]
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2017/03/16 Jon attempted to fix the plumbing underneath the kitchen sink.]] He somehow made it dispense ''mustard''.
* ''ComicStrip/TheMiddletons'' once saw Grandma Middleton commenting on the stupidity of a game show contestant who's just asked to buy a vowel. Morris asks her to be more forgiving since ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' isn't an easy show. Grandma then tells him she's watching ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''
* In ''ComicStrip/MyCage'', Jeff the land shark somehow got stuck inside the water cooler.
* Charlie Brown of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' is well known for failing in ways that are utterly impossible through no readily apparent fault of his own. Blockhead.
-->'''Linus''': That's the first time I've ever seen a kite explode.
** His kite has also ended up down a sewer and in a mailbox slot. And of course, he tends to get tangled up in a tree ''with'' the kite a lot.
** The arc that marked Peppermint Patty's first appearance involved her trying to help his sandlot team by taking over as manager. Despite hitting five home runs and pitching a no-hit game, they lost thirty-seven to five via unearned runs, which is when she decided she could ''not'' help them [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere and left.]]
** There was one arc where Charlie Brown helped Peppermint Patty sell popcorn while she pitched for her team. After badgering her by saying he can pitch the final out, he promptly gives up a fifty-run lead and her team loses.
** Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in TheMovie ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'', when the girls mock Charlie by singing the song "Failure Face." They quip that, if trying to fail were like running a race, Charlie Brown [[LogicBomb would actually]] ''[[LogicBomb win]]''.
** There is a line of Epic Fail t-shirts displaying his greatest failure moments.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': The antics of the crocodiles of the Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity are guaranteed to result in this, namely when trying to kill and eat Zebra.
** Some of their more memorable failures involve attempting to kill Zebra... and end up killing several crocodiles in the process, usually with some form of IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/PiranhaClub'', a character tries to boil water for a home economics class, but somehow manages to freeze the water solid.
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* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'':
** Cookie manages to make soup that is too tough to cut with a knife... and steak that is too tough to cut with a machine gun and grenades. He also manages to fail to ''not'' [[KitchenSinkIncluded include the kitchen sink]] -- in food. No wonder [[FMinusMinus he graduated 50th out of a class of twenty-five.]]
** Failures in reading the map have led the soldiers to standing on thin air or upside down on the downside of a cliff -- or, more explicably, in a river when Lt. Fuzz insists on following the blue line.[[note]]In real life, it is commonly believed in the Army that the most dangerous thing in the world is a Lieutenant with a compass.[[/note]]
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
** When Calvin breaks his dad's binoculars, Hobbes asks, "Was the casing just chipped a little, or did the lens itself get cracked?" It turns out that, somehow, the binoculars have literally been ground into a fine powder.
--->'''Calvin:''' Don't sneeze.
** Subverted in the numerous strips where Calvin attempts to learn how to ride a bike. Getting your face stuck in the chain ''sounds'' like quite the failure... if it wasn't for the fact that the bike is actually alive and attempting to kill Calvin. His parents don't believe him though.
* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip, a generic co-worker decides to hide his boyish looks by growing a beard. Dilbert and Wally chuckle on how they don't think Ted is smart enough to grow a beard. In the final panel, we see that Ted has indeed grown a beard...out of his ''forehead.''
* ''ComicStrip/{{Drabble}}'':
** Ralph once went on ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''. The first question: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a what?" Ralph can't think of the answer, so he uses the lifeline to remove two of the answers. He's now left with "wall" and "whoopee cushion" which were the two he couldn't decide between before. He then decides to poll the audience. After the ''entire audience'' claims that it's "wall", he dismisses the poll because he thinks the audience looks kind of stupid. He finally phones his son Patrick who starts to give him the answer only for time to run out. Ralph ends up walking away with nothing.
** In 2016, Norman decided that Echo was the girl for him and he should finally stop pursuing Wendy. So, he sends Wendy a series of nasty breakup texts to finally let her know how he feels about the way she treats him. How is this an Epic Fail? He sends them to Echo by mistake. Worse yet, he mentions it to Wendy and she says he didn't need to break up with her because they were never actually dating. Fortunately, it appears his relationship with Echo will recover.
** One week, the Polecat Lodge held a telethon. You know things are heading this way when No Neck forgets to get ''telephones'' for the telethon. The telethon eventually brings in a scant ''seventeen'' dollars...and Patrick manages to get more donations while trick or treating that Halloween.
* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' a man [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments lost a quick draw to a sloth]]. One bystander mentions that the newly deceased wasn't exactly what you would call a "quick draw".
** In another comic, a man in an orchestra is thinking, "''This'' time I won't screw up! I won't, I won't, I won't..." He's holding a single cymbal in one hand- the other hand is empty. The caption reads "Roger screws up."
* From ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':
** Jason and Marcus are attempting to launch a rocket, but put the engines in wrong so it launches into the ground. When the second stage kicks in, fire starts ''[[StuffBlowingUp shooting out of various spots in the ground in enormous columns]],'' prompting this remark from Jason:
--->'''Jason:''' Why can't my successes ever be as spectacular as my failures?
** There's also Roger once being effortlessly defeated at Chess by a computer... after having Jason modify the chess program's code so that Roger had a King and fifteen Queens, while the computer had a King and fifteen Pawns.
** Roger and the barbecue grill do not go well together. One time he lit it and the flames shot towards the ground, leading him to announced that he ''put the charcoal in upside down''. Jason even says it would be impossible [[AchievementsInIgnorance for anyone else]].
** Roger, in general, is a failure. One time, while playing golf, he finally makes a straight shot! Too bad it was in the opposite direction of the hole...and impacted into the windshield of his boss' car. In fact, the only time he can get a hole-in-one is when the golf course is flooded under 5 feet of water. Of course, he probably didn't even come close to the green but no-one wants to swim out and check.
** Another is a strip where Roger is golfing and hits his first shot. The shot ricochets off of trees, yard markers, bounces on a sidewalk, etc. until, defying the laws of physics, it inevitably ends up right back on the tee Roger hit it off of. He implies that this is actually a ROUTINE occurrence.
** Roger takes WalkingTechbane to [[UpToEleven new levels]]. A single press of a button or a click of a mouse can destroy an entire hard drive. Fortunately, he rarely can find the on switch in the first place.
** Also, a Pavilionplex worker ended up somehow mistaking the theater's internet server with the butter server and promptly washing it, explaining the reason for the long lag time for the Pavilionplex's site when Jason was ordering tickets for ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' online.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''
** Jon seems to epically fail at life in general, but there are some specific examples where he fails when barely even doing anything.
*** Raises his hand when declaring the future is looking bright. Hand cramps painfully.
*** Feels ready to conquer the world... but can't get the front door open to leave the house.
*** Tries to just sit there and do nothing so nothing can go wrong. Tabletop he's leaning on breaks.
** When Jon complains about being unable to care for plants, Garfield points out this latest failure was a ''plastic plant''.
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2013/08/07 Jon bought a set of weights for his workout.]] He couldn't lift them out of the car.
** Garfield himself isn't completely safe either. He attempted to kill a spider by closing a window on it. [[https://garfield.com/comic/1985/08/04 It doesn't go well]].
** Jon and dating. To make a long story short, if Jon's latest paramour doesn't show up, for him that's considered a GOOD date. (Eventually, though, [[EarnYourHappyEnding he does end up in a loving, stable relationship with Liz]].)
** Jon's mother gets into this with her HomemadeSweaterFromHell she sends Garfield every Christmas. They're usually gaudy, humiliating and/or have something wrong with them, like a sweater without a hole for the head or a sweater with cow udders on them. The one time she makes a ''good'' sweater, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Jon and Garfield are understandably worried]].
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2015/12/21 Jon's attempt to wrap a gift ends with him covered in tape and the gift still unwrapped.]]
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2017/03/16 Jon attempted to fix the plumbing underneath the kitchen sink.]] He somehow made it dispense ''mustard''.
* ''ComicStrip/TheMiddletons'' once saw Grandma Middleton commenting on the stupidity of a game show contestant who's just asked to buy a vowel. Morris asks her to be more forgiving since ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' isn't an easy show. Grandma then tells him she's watching ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''
* In ''ComicStrip/MyCage'', Jeff the land shark somehow got stuck inside the water cooler.
* Charlie Brown of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' is well known for failing in ways that are utterly impossible through no readily apparent fault of his own. Blockhead.
-->'''Linus''': That's the first time I've ever seen a kite explode.
** His kite has also ended up down a sewer and in a mailbox slot. And of course, he tends to get tangled up in a tree ''with'' the kite a lot.
** The arc that marked Peppermint Patty's first appearance involved her trying to help his sandlot team by taking over as manager. Despite hitting five home runs and pitching a no-hit game, they lost thirty-seven to five via unearned runs, which is when she decided she could ''not'' help them [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere and left.]]
** There was one arc where Charlie Brown helped Peppermint Patty sell popcorn while she pitched for her team. After badgering her by saying he can pitch the final out, he promptly gives up a fifty-run lead and her team loses.
** Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in TheMovie ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'', when the girls mock Charlie by singing the song "Failure Face." They quip that, if trying to fail were like running a race, Charlie Brown [[LogicBomb would actually]] ''[[LogicBomb win]]''.
** There is a line of Epic Fail t-shirts displaying his greatest failure moments.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': The antics of the crocodiles of the Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity are guaranteed to result in this, namely when trying to kill and eat Zebra.
** Some of their more memorable failures involve attempting to kill Zebra... and end up killing several crocodiles in the process, usually with some form of IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/PiranhaClub'', a character tries to boil water for a home economics class, but somehow manages to freeze the water solid.
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