History JerkassHasAPoint / WesternAnimation

** While Oscar can be too obnoxious, he was also right to be angry with Penny in the episode "Hip-Hop Helicopter" for wearing skimpy clothes on television because they too revealing for a middle school girl to be wearing; and Trudy even agrees with him (but then again, he should have been less hostile with his anger). He was also right to ground her when they catch her wearing the clothes again after he and Trudy banned her from wearing them.

** While Oscar can be too obnoxious and carried away with his overprotectiveness, he is right that Penny is too young to be dating as a middle schooler. He was also right to be angry with Penny and her friends in the episode "Hip-Hop Helicopter" for wearing skimpy clothes on television because they too revealing for a middle school girl to be wearing; and Trudy even agrees with him (but then again, he should have been less hostile with his anger). He was also right to ground her when they catch her wearing the clothes again after he and Trudy banned her from wearing them.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': While Carter Pewterschmidt personifies the EvilOldFolks and RichBastard tropes, his loathing for his son-in-law Peter Griffin is amply justified. Peter is not only a FatIdiot, he's a full-blown PsychopathicManchild who's repeatedly shown to be a danger to himself and everyone in the vicinity, responsible for multiple serious injuries, fatalities and millions of dollars in property damage. He's also not a good father as well to his kids, especially [[ButtMonkey Meg]].
** In "Coma Guy", Peter's obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later rendered brain dead after he goes into cardiac arrest. Good news? He miraculously awakens none the worse for wear. Bad news? It's just seconds after Lois pulled the plug on him. And while Peter is understandably livid about her decision, since she made it without his knowledge or consent, it's not one Lois made lightly and she easily justifies it; for years, she's had to put up with a PsychopathicManchild of a husband [[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E6Petarded who scored so low on an intelligence test that he was diagnosed as mentally retarded]] and does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head without a second thought or any regard for the consequences or his own safety. That Peter ''hasn't'' died yet is nothing short of incredible, and Lois has lived in fear of it happening for so long that when she thought it finally did, she couldn't help but feel relief that she didn't need to worry anymore. It ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois instantly regretted it, but the fact of the matter is that Peter's stupidity and recklessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

** In "Cartoon Wars, Part 1", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is set to depict the Muslim prophet Muhammad uncensored, resulting in several terrorist threats. Kyle tries to defend the Family Guy writers for standing up for free speech, while Cartman uncharacteristically points out that people can get hurt. Cartman even asks Kyle "If ten people die because Family Guy just had to have its little joke, will you still think it's funny? What if a hundred people died? Will it be funny then, Kyle?" This leads to Kyle conceding the point, teaming up with Cartman to get the episode pulled. [[spoiler:It's ultimately subverted when Cartman later reveals that he doesn't care about people getting hurt; he's just exploiting the controversy in order to get ''Family Guy'' cancelled, due to a personal dislike of his humor being compared to the show. This turns Kyle's stance around, saying that letting things be censored because of these threats allows terrorism to work.]]

** Sterling Archer, of all people, calls out his team for using him as an excuse to be their worse selves. Archer always had a strained relationship with his co-workers because he's an annoying douchebag on his best days and a complete a-hole on his worse days, with him constantly bullying and belittling them. Even the closest ones he has to friends have a hard time tolerating him at times. He was also a toxic influence on them. So when Archer was shot and put in a coma for three years, he found that his co-workers have become successful without him when he woke up. And it is implied that they are content without him in their lives, with them leaving him to his own devices for three months and trying to keep him from going on important missions with them. With Archer back and acting like an obnoxious, antagonistic, and impulsive ManChild, the rest of the characters start reverting to their self-destructive and dysfunctional selves. However, Archer himself did not do much to corrupt them. He just made a few comments that started fights. And while Archer causes Cyril to lose his confidence, he didn't do much but make some mean comments and sabotage his diet; but despite spending three years being a successful spy, it doesn't take much prodding from Archer to make him break down. This all comes to a head in the 11th season finale, where Lana angrily tells Archer despite him just saving the world, that she wishes he stayed in a coma and admits that she was OK with the Earth being destroyed if he was gone with it. Archer just asks if she ever considered that they like having him around so they have an excuse to be their worse selves, leaving Lana and the team with no words.

** In "Coma Guy", Peter's obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later rendered brain dead after he goes into cardiac arrest, but he miraculously awakens none the worse for wear. Unfortunately, it's just seconds after Lois pulled the plug on him. While Peter is understandably livid about her decision, since she made it without his knowledge or consent, it's not one Lois made lightly and she easily justifies it; for years, she's had to put up with a PsychopathicManchild of a husband (who was diagnosed as mentally retarded, by the way) that does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head without a second thought or any regard for the consequences or his own safety. That Peter ''hasn't'' died yet is nothing short of incredible, and Lois has lived in fear of it happening for so long that when she thought it finally did, she couldn't help but feel relief that she didn't need to worry anymore. It ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois instantly regretted it, but the fact of the matter is that Peter's stupidity and recklessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

* In episode 7 of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Amity rebuffs Luz’s attempts to make friends since every time they meet Amity ends up humiliated and is proven right when she later stumbles onto Luz unknowingly having broken into her secret den with the Blight twins and allegedly stealing her diary, although later Amity realizes that Luz never intended to embarress her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Lila Rossi might be a HateSink and trying to manipulate Gabriel, but she's spot on that his overprotective nature is just making Adrien feel isolated and he needs friends his age.

* Iago is the TokenEvilTeammate among the protagonists of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', not to mention rude and annoying. However, in one episode he opposed vehemently helping or trusting Caliph Kapok, simply because he was known to be a wizard. (Agrabah's experiences with wizards [[EvilSorcerer were unpleasant to say the least]].) While such a suspicion at first seemed like [[FantasticRacism unfair stereotyping]], Iago had a valid point here, because Kapok was as evil as any other wizard they'd known.
** It helps that Aladdin himself when asked by Iago to name any non-villanous wizards they've met, he looks totally stumped.

** In "Born Again Krabs," after the Flying Dutchman (the Bikini Bottom version of Satan) is ready to drag Mr. Krabs to Davy Jones' Locker for being greedy, [=SpongeBob=] sticks up for his boss and wagers his own soul that Krabs is really generous. The Dutchman then offers Krabs a handful of pocket change in exchange for [=SpongeBob's=] soul, [[DirtyCoward which Krabs accepts without hesitation]]. Krabs gloats over the money, while the Dutchman departs with the sponge. Squidward, who hates [=SpongeBob=] with a passion, is absolutely ''disgusted'' with Krabs and angrily chews him out for [[UngratefulBastard selling SpongeBob out after he stuck up for him]], flat-out telling Krabs that he should be ashamed of himself. Krabs [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes Squidward is right and immediately repents]].

** One episode has Plankton declare that he's giving up his pursuit of the Krabby Patty formula and converting the Chum Bucket into a knick-knack store called the Chumporium. Mr. Krabs doesn't buy it and, after his initial attempts to goad Plankton fail, he snaps and smashes up the Chumporium with a baseball bat while ranting about how obvious Plankton's charade is. Krabs eventually backs off, apologises for his behaviour, and befriends the reformed Plankton... but of course, since StatusQuoIsGod, it turns out Plankton really ''wasn't'' reformed and was just tricking Krabs into letting his guard down. So while Krabs spent the first half of the episode being a total jerk, he was also completely correct about the Chumporium's true nature.

** In “Fools in April”, Squidward’s retaliation prank may have been a DudeNotFunny and cruel moment, but it did stem from a legitimate grievance. Are Spongebob’s obnoxious pranks a distraction to him? Never mind they’re in fast food, which is a high pressure work environment.
** In "Krusty Love", despite his unpleasant behavior, Mr. Krabs does have a leg to stand on in that he explicitly asked [=Spongebob=] not to let him spend any money, [[NoMatterHowMuchIBeg no matter what he might say or do to convince him otherwise.]] The problem is, [=Spongebob=]'s [[UndyingLoyalty Undying Loyalty]] and his tendencies to be something of an [[ExtremeDoormat Extreme Doormat]] really don't leave him equipped for a task like that.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "We Need To Talk", [[GreenEyedMonster Pearl]] lashes out at Greg, claiming Rose's love for him is 'just a phase.' While an incredibly cruel and racist [[note]]given Greg and Rose's divergent lifespans/biological origins[[/note]] remark, it ''is'' true that Rose at the time didn't consider him her equal -- something Greg eventually realizes.

** Beast Boy, while being affected with the JerkassBall in "The Beast Within", also brings up the point that he's often disrespected, especially by Raven.

** Raven also takes the longest to fully trust Terra, but her point -- that Terra must learn to control her highly dangerous powers -- is fairly sound. [[spoiler:Raven's distrust is also well-founded, as Terra is TheMole for Slade]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': In the episode "The Anti-Social Network", Mandy discovers that a mysterious source has created a social network called Mandybook in her honor. She's thrilled, especially when she gets over 100,000 followers within the first hour. But things quickly go downhill when her followers literally start to follow her, and not in a good way. It's revealed the person behind this was a old classmate named Telly Hardwire, who created Mandybook in an attempt to create an army to kill Mandy, after she refused his Internet friend request back in their school days at Beverly Hills High. When Mandy learns this, she's disgusted, calls him pathetic, and says he should just get over it. Mandy is a snobby and mean person, but she's right that he wants revenge over a petty reason. What makes it worse is that it's implied that Telly and Mandy never met face-to-face before this episode, meaning that the only thing she ever did to him was say no to his Internet friend request. Then Telly reveals that he plans to get revenge on everyone who rejects his friend requests, showing that Mandy is right that he's truly a petty and pathetic person.

*** Porter C. Powell is slimy CorruptCorporateExecutive who is utterly in the wrong for throwing a small child onto the street and telling her that because she has no birth certificate she may not be her father's daughter. However, he was right that was Sari too young and inexperienced to be put in charge of her father's corporation in his absence.

** In "Coma Guy", Peter's obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later rendered brain dead after he goes into cardiac arrest, but he miraculously awakens none the worse for wear. Unfortunately, it's just seconds after Lois pulled the plug on him. Peter is understandably livid about her decision, since she made it without his knowledge or consent, but it's not one Lois made lightly and she easily justifies it; for years, she's had to put up with a PsychopathicManchild of a husband (who was diagnosed as mentally retarded, by the way) that does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head without a second thought or any regard for the consequences or his own safety. That Peter ''hasn't'' died from his misadventures yet is nothing short of incredible, and Lois has lived in fear of it happening for so long that when she thought it finally did, she couldn't help but feel relief that she didn't need to worry anymore. While it ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois instantly regretted it, the fact of the matter is that Peter's stupidity and recklessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

** In "Coma Guy", Peter's obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later rendered brain dead after he goes into cardiac arrest, but he miraculously awakens none the worse for wear. Unfortunately, it's just seconds after Lois pulled the plug on him. Peter is understandably livid about her decision, since she made it without his knowledge or consent, but it's not one Lois made lightly and she easily justifies it; for years, she's had to put up with a PsychopathicManchild of a husband who does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head without a second thought or any regard for the consequences or his own safety. That Peter ''hasn't'' died yet is nothing short of incredible, and Lois lived in fear of him dying from his misadventures for so long that when she thought it finally happened, she couldn't help but feel relief that she didn't need to worry anymore. While it ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois instantly regretted it, the fact of the matter is that Peter's stupidity and recklessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' Season 1, Admiral Zhao is the resident Jerkass and HateSink character. However, in Episode 3 (his debut episode no less) he raised some very good points about the {{Deuteragonist}} Zuko's undying (and completely undeserved) [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty]] to his father the Fire Lord. He says it in a way that's obviously meant to hurt Zuko, but it doesn't make what he says any less true.

** In "Coma Guy", Peter's obsession with the ''Music/VanHalen'' song "Panama" causes him to get in a car crash so bad that he falls into a coma and is later rendered brain dead after he goes into cardiac arrest, he miraculously awakens none the worse for wear. Unfortunately, it's just seconds after Lois pulled the plug on him. Peter is understandably livid about her decision, since she made it without his knowledge or consent, but it's not one Lois made lightly and she easily justifies it; for years, she's had to put up with a PsychopathicManchild of a husband who does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head without a second thought or any regard for the consequences or his own safety. That Peter ''hasn't'' died yet is nothing short of incredible, and Lois lived in fear of him dying from his misadventures for so long that when she thought it finally happened, she couldn't help but feel relief that she didn't need to worry anymore. While it ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing and Lois instantly regretted it, the fact of the matter is that Peter's stupidity and recklessness prepared her for losing him a long time ago.

** In "Coma Guy", Peter gets in a car crash so bad, he falls into a coma and is later rendered brain dead after he goes into cardiac arrest, but he miraculously awakens just seconds after Lois pulls the plug on him. Peter is understandably livid about her decision, since she made it without his knowledge or consent, but it's not one Lois made lightly and she easily justifies it; for years, she's had to put up with a manchild of a husband who does whatever halfcocked, idiotic thing pops into his head without a second thought or any regard for his own safety. That Peter ''hasn't'' died yet is nothing short of incredible, and Lois is so stressed out over living in fear of the next dumb idea he has being his last that when she thought it finally happened, she couldn't help but feel relief that she didn't need to worry anymore. While it ''was'' a horrible thing to consider doing, the fact of the matter is that Peter's stupidity and recklessness prepared Lois for losing him a long time ago.

* ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'': While he's usually a lazy jackass, [[OnlySaneMan Charlie's advice is generally more practical]] than [[WideEyedIdealist Pim's]] on the few occasions that he does actually try to do his job. He points out that Desmond is already suicidal and is basically a lost cause; that Shrimp should move on from Shrimpina and focus on getting his life together; and that they should focus on their assignment in the Enchanted Forest and not get sidetracked by questing. Unfortunately, his advice is rarely heeded, and on the occasions that he is able to act on it, he proves to be just as out of his depth as Pim is.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', during a flashback, Demona talks behind Hudson's back that the Wyvern clan need a new leader due to Hudson's advanced age. Hudson acknowledges that she has a point and gives the reigns of leadership to Goliath while Hudson stays on as a mentor.

--->'''Cartman:''' Cartman: Me being a bigot stopped a nuclear bomb from going off, yes or no?!\\

'''Kyle:''' No! ...Not... not like you're saying!

--->'''Cartman:''' Me being a bigot helped saved America. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Yes or no, Kyle]]?\\
'''Kyle:''' I... Ye... No! Not the way you're saying it!

** "Super Sirloin", Meatwad sends all the food in the house off to a rapper named Sir Loin to feed starving children. This includes a duck à l'orange that Shake was going to eat, and he is not thrilled about that discovery, since that duck cost "higher than Meatwad can count". And for once, Frylock agrees with Shake.
-->'''Frylock''': Charity is one thing, but this is getting out of hand. I mean, '''''we''''' don't have anything to eat now!
** In "Total Re-Carl," after destroying Carl's body and reducing him to just a head, Frylock tries to provide Carl with several replacement bodies. One of his last attempts is an indestructible MiniMecha armed to the teeth with advanced weaponry. Shake immediately points out that activating him is ''not'' a good idea, considering that an enraged Carl attempted to strangle Frylock with his last body. Frylock quickly settles on giving Carl a much simpler new body (a remote controlled truck).

'''Shake''': And you're gonna plug him in?!\\

** Played to the hilt in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]". Frank Grimes, a one-time character, gets introduced as a new worker at the nuclear plant. He's had an extremely rough life, and works very hard for everything that he has (to include a second night job to make ends meet). He becomes increasingly agitated, eventually enraged, at Homer's buffoonery, incompetence, and laziness.Grimes goes to increasingly hostile lengths to prove Homer's ineptitude throughout the episode, rounding him out as a bit of a jerkass. Albeit one with a strong point that everyone watching can relate to. At one point he point-blank told Homer "If you lived in any other country in the world, you'd have starved to death long ago." At which, Bart even responds "He's got you there, dad." Even Marge tells Homer that he ought to be more professional in his work ethic.

** In "Born Again Krabs," after the Flying Dutchman (the Bikini Bottom version of Satan) is ready to drag Mr. Krabs to Davy Jones' Locker for being greedy, [=SpongeBob=], sticks up for his boss, wagering his own soul that Krabs is really generous. The Dutchman then offers Krabs a handful of pocket change in exchange for [=SpongeBob's=], soul, [[DirtyCoward which Krabs accepts without hesitation]]. Krabs gloats over the money, while the Dutchman departs with the sponge. Squidward, who hates [=SpongeBob=], with a passion, is absolutely ''disgusted'' with Krabs and angrily chews him out for [[UngratefulBastard selling SpongeBob out after he stuck up for him]], flat-out telling Krabs that he should be ashamed of himself. Krabs [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes Squidward is right and immediately repents]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** In "Boss Mabel" it's shown that while Grunkle Stan is certainly a greedy con man, all of his policies for the Mystery Shack (being extremely strict with employees, using tons of fake exhibits, never offering refunds ever) exist for a reason, and when Mabel decides not to enforce them, it results in the Shack not taking in any profits. [[note]]Specifically, being lax with employees results in them either blowing off work or doing their jobs badly, real exhibits are too dangerous, and Mabel's people-pleasing attitude means that she'll give refunds back to ''anybody'' who asks for it.[[/note]]
** In "A Tale of Two Stans", [[spoiler: The Author, the real Stanford Pines, chews our Grunkle, Stanley Pines out for using the Universe Portal to bring him back to Earth. While it seems like Ford is being an UngratefulBastard, he was right; The Universe Portal was incredibly unstable, the gravitational anomalies caused all sorts of damage to the town, and ultimately Stan was gambling the Earth on a dangerous device he didn't understand to bring back someone who he didn't know was alive or dead. In the next episode we learn that the Portal created a rift in space-time that is the first step in the BigBad's plan to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
** In "The Stan-churian Candidate", [[EnfantTerrible Gideon]] makes a NotSoDifferentRemark to Dipper and Mabel while putting them in a DeathTrap. Given that the two used a mind-control necktie on Stan and Soos several times in the episode (despite witnessing Soos' terrified reactions to being controlled by it), he's not entirely wrong.
** In "The Land Before Swine", while Mabel's and Dipper's reactions to Stan's and Soos' Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moves were kind of harsh, they were correct that Stans' dislike of Waddles placed over his safety is what led to the gang to come to rescue him and Soos' interference with their mission only worsens their situation.
*** Stan has a point himself though. An animal that is going to go around the house chewing on things (a habit Mabel actually encourages) really should be kept outside, at least until it's better trained.
** In "Soos and the Real Girl" has Stan being harsh towards Soos, but he did have a point that Soos had rather poor chances with women at the start of the episode due to being kinda eccentric and having poor social skills. When Wendy tries to make Soos feel better by telling him he's a sweet guy with a steady job, Stan pointedly asks if that means she would date him, to which she meekly retreats from the conversation. It goes to show that despite Soos being a Nice Guy, women still aren’t going to be magically attracted to him and he must put himself out there and be himself.
** In "Blendin's Game" Blendin' reasons that lead to Dipper and Mabel's JerkassRealization: Blendin' points out that the twins were willing to play with time to get what they wanted—Wendy or Waddles—with no thoughts to the consequences, especially to a time traveler like him. He has a good reason to hold a grudge against them but still wants to fight them fairly in the gladiator arena.
** In "The Love God", whatever one thinks of Wendy's {{Jerkass}} behavior, she does point out that it's not cool of her best friend to go dating her ex "behind her back," especially when said ex was a manipulative and needy boyfriend and Wendy doesn't know about the extenuating circumstances. Mabel ought to have realized that before pairing Wendy's ex Robbie with her best friend Tambry via love potion.
*** The same can be said of Nate, as he states that Robbie knew about his own crush on Tambry.
*** Whilst Dipper's a jerk for wanting to leave Robbie wallowing in self-pity in the open grave, he's not entirely unjustified when one considers his past relationship with Robbie has almost entirely consisted of Robbie making snide comments about Dipper & even threatening to beat him up.

** The entire Cadmus story arc centered on Cadmus' attempts to thwart the worst-case scenario of the league [[BewareTheSuperman taking over the world]] like their [[EvilCounterpart Justice Lord counterparts]]. Amanda Waller points out that the League has a KillSat, they ''have'' made some questionable decisions in the past, and there ''has'' been at least one reality they know of where the League overthrew the government (albeit to keep Luthor from wiping out all life on Earth out of sheer spite). Normal people ''don't'' have a way to defend themselves against a group of super powerful beings if it ever came down to it. In "Question Authority", ComicBook/GreenArrow lampshades the whole thing by saying that if the League ever decided to cross the line and become the Lords, there's nothing that the rest of the world could do to stop it. Green Arrow and the league's more grounded heroes were meant in part to keep the heavy hitters honest but they only served as the overall conscience against them JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, not an actual RestrainingBolt if they were to truly abandon their principles and attack the government.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'': While Aldrin is typically a smug BigBrotherBully towards Maggie, there are a few episodes where his behavior is justified, considering how much of a self-absorbed, spoiled brat his little sister can be. In particular, "Le Termite" has Aldrin lay the groundwork for Maggie's ZanyScheme that episode to be exposed, and when questioned about it later on, he explains out that he works hard at his BurgerFool job and earned their family's praise, whereas she was attempting to trick everyone solely in hopes of undermining him and receiving even greater praise. In general, he doesn't like seeing her constantly trying to find shortcuts in life and tries to hammer home the idea that she can find success if she'd focus and put effort into her dreams, just like he has with sports.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'': While Aldrin is typically a smug BigBrotherBully towards Maggie, there are a few episodes where his behavior is justified, considering how much of a self-absorbed, spoiled brat his little sister can be. In particular, "Le Termite" has Aldrin lay the groundwork for Maggie's ZanyScheme that episode to be exposed, and when questioned about it later on, he explains out that he works hard at his BurgerFool job and earned their family's praise, whereas she was attempting to trick everyone solely in hopes of undermining him and receiving even greater praise. He doesn't like seeing her constantly trying to find shortcuts in life and would have had ''zero'' issue if Maggie truly had worked hard and found a better job than his.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'': While Aldrin is typically a smug BigBrotherBully towards Maggie, there are a few episodes where his behavior is justified, considering how much of a self-absorbed, spoiled brat his little sister can be.
** In the episode "Le Termite", Maggie whines and demands to know why her older brother Aldrin had to help unravel her ZanyScheme by asking for proof that she became head waitress at a high-class restaurant on her first day of work. Aldrin counters by pointing out that Maggie was lying purely to show him up under the odd assumption that he didn't have to work hard at all in order to get the BurgerFool position he currently has. Furthermore, he had even apologized earlier in the episode when he believed that he was wrong; he has ''zero'' issue with the idea of his younger sister being more successful than him if it is the result her own hard work.
** In "Training Day", Aldrin does fake an injury, which is a cruel prank to pull on his sister. But he did it because Maggie didn't appreciate that he works hard at everything he does and that she should try to do the same to achieve her goals, instead of taking the easy route and piggybacking off his success. Plus, she had already greed to do his chores for him anyway. He happily notes that she gets to have both the scooter he won for her and a lesson about the joys of hard work... only for the scooter to inadvertently get totaled and for her to openly reject the lesson.