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* In ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyRidesAgain'', after tricking WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam into falling off a cliff, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny gets out a mattress, saying, "Eh, sometimes, me conscience bothers me", before pulling it away and saying, "But not ''dis'' time!"
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* ''Series/GetSmart'': A [=KAOS=] agent falls victim of this trope at the end of a CourtroomEpisode when he jumps off a window after his plan to discredit key witness Maxwell Smart is foiled. Notably this is the first time Max used his "missed it by that much" CatchPhrase.

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* ''Series/GetSmart'': A [=KAOS=] agent falls victim of this trope at the end of a CourtroomEpisode when he jumps off a window after his plan to discredit key witness Maxwell Smart is foiled. Notably this is the first time Max used his "missed it by that much" CatchPhrase.catchphrase.

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* In ''Film/ThirteenSins'', Elliot jumps out of the window of the police station, attempting to make a TrashLanding in a dumpster in the alley. However, he misses the open half of the dumpster, and bounces off the lid on the closed side.



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* A trailer for a BBC sketch show showed a man falling off a roof, with a lorry below marked "Soft and Fluffy". Then it pulled away, and another one marked "Sharp Porcelain Objects Inc." took its place.



* Accidentally invoked on ''Opposite Worlds'' due to NoOshaCompliance. The first contestant eliminated from the show was thrown past a narrow ring of protective cushions surrounding the platform for the first challenge and hit the floor after a 10-foot fall. He broke a leg and left the show in an ambulance.

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* Accidentally invoked on ''Opposite Worlds'' ''Series/OppositeWorlds'' due to NoOshaCompliance. The first contestant eliminated from the show was thrown past a narrow ring of protective cushions surrounding the platform for the first challenge and hit the floor after a 10-foot fall. He broke a leg and left the show in an ambulance.ambulance.
* A trailer for a BBC sketch show showed a man falling off a roof, with a lorry below marked "Soft and Fluffy". Then it pulled away, and another one marked "Sharp Porcelain Objects Inc." took its place.



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* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "A Star is Bruised". Johnny the stuntman falls right next to the big air cushion (after it seemed like this would be the end of his series of painful accidents).

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* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalympics}}'', an official has to move the landing pad for the high jump when the contestant goes up too high. He still lands short of the pad.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleParkLife''
episode "A Star is Bruised". Johnny the stuntman falls right next "The Jungle", this happens to the big air cushion (after duo three times in a row.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': There's at least one ''WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}'' cartoon where he keeps trying to open his parachute as he falls, but [[DelayedSafetyFeature
it seemed like this would be pops out after he's already hit the end ground]].
* WesternAnimation/DanVs: When Hal's helicopter gets shot out
of his series of painful accidents).the sky in [[Recap/DanVsS1E7DanVsTraffic Traffic]], the scene cuts to "Bed Bug Mattresses," only for the helicopter to land on the nearby pavement.



* One ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode begins with Dexter entering his lab by dropping in through a tube and landing next to a chair. He drags it into its proper place, muttering about Dee Dee moving it again.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'': One short features the Wolf chasing Droopy into a saloon. In order to escape, Droopy jumps from the second floor and lands on his donkey. The Wolf tries something similar with his horse and misses. He goes back to saloon for a second attempt and ''misses'' again. He then moves his horse to the spot where he landed and makes a third attempt, this time landing where the horse originally was. He gives up and calls a cab.



* This happens to Yosemite Sam in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''WesternAnimation/HighDivingHare''. It's especially playing with expectations because throughout the skit he usually lands in the water.
* There's at least one [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Goofy cartoon]] where he keeps trying to open his parachute as he falls, but [[DelayedSafetyFeature it pops out after he's already hit the ground]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** When sneaking out of work to go on the Duff Brewery tour, Homer perfectly hits the mattress attached to the top of his car... or at least he would have, if Barney hadn't driven forward about 8 feet to look at something he thought was Diana, Princess of Wales.
** In "Deep Space Homer", Barney ends stealing a jetpack while drunk. It runs out of gas and he falls unto the roof of a pillow factory until he lands unto the street, being immediately ran over by a truck of marshmallows.
** When Krusty [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] to escape the IntimidatingRevenueService, he jumps off a plane to fall on a net. He hits one of the rocks the net is tied to before hitting the net.
** Played with in "Homer the Heretic" with Ned, trying to help the unconscious Homer out of his burning house, tosses his mattress out the window so he can throw the man down to the ground safely. Homer does hit the mattress, only to have it spring him back up and through the ground-floor window of the still-burning house.

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* This happens to Yosemite Sam in The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "A Star is Bruised". Johnny the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''WesternAnimation/HighDivingHare''. It's especially playing with expectations because throughout the skit he usually lands in the water.
* There's at least one [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Goofy cartoon]] where he keeps trying to open his parachute as he falls, but [[DelayedSafetyFeature it pops out after he's already hit the ground]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** When sneaking out of work to go on the Duff Brewery tour, Homer perfectly hits the mattress attached
stuntman falls right next to the top big air cushion (after it seemed like this would be the end of his car... or at least he would have, if Barney hadn't driven forward about 8 feet to look at something he thought was Diana, Princess series of Wales.
** In "Deep Space Homer", Barney ends stealing a jetpack while drunk. It runs out of gas and he falls unto the roof of a pillow factory until he lands unto the street, being immediately ran over by a truck of marshmallows.
** When Krusty [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] to escape the IntimidatingRevenueService, he jumps off a plane to fall on a net. He hits one of the rocks the net is tied to before hitting the net.
** Played with in "Homer the Heretic" with Ned, trying to help the unconscious Homer out of his burning house, tosses his mattress out the window so he can throw the man down to the ground safely. Homer does hit the mattress, only to have it spring him back up and through the ground-floor window of the still-burning house.
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* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'' cartoons, Wile E. decides to be CrazyPrepared and put a trampoline at the bottom of a cliff so that he lands safely when he falls. Sometimes he misses. Sometimes he hits the trampoline but simply rips through the canvas and hits the ground. Sometimes the canvas separates from the frame and wraps around him. Once, [[ThrowTheDogABone the trampoline worked perfectly]], only for him to [[TraumaCongaLine hit his head on an overhang, fall on the ground next to the trampoline, then get hit again when the dislodged overhang fell on him]].
* One ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode begins with Dexter entering his lab by dropping in through a tube and landing next to a chair. He drags it into its proper place, muttering about Dee Dee moving it again.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalympics}}'', an official has to move the landing pad for the high jump when the contestant goes up too high. He still lands short of the pad.
* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Wallaby". After getting thrown from his horse, Rocko flies over such hazards as a patch of cacti, a utensil graveyard full of forks and knives ("Pointy End Up"), and a toxic waste dump, only to land in a mattress junkyard. As he comments "[[TemptingFate What an unbelievable stroke of luck]]," a spring pops out of the mattress Rocko landed on and [[CactusCushion catapults him onto a cactus.]]
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku'', the girls try to escape an annoying song, go up an elevator and hear an equally annoying song, then run through a window falling down several stories. They miss a pile of mattresses below and [[TrashLanding fall into a Dumpster]].



* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleParkLife'' episode "The Jungle", this happens to the duo three times in a row.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'': One short features the Wolf chasing Droopy into a saloon. In order to escape, Droopy jumps from the second floor and lands on his donkey. The Wolf tries something similar with his horse and misses. He goes back to saloon for a second attempt and ''misses'' again. He then moves his horse to the spot where he landed and makes a third attempt, this time landing where the horse originally was. He gives up and calls a cab.
* WesternAnimation/DanVs: When Hal's helicopter gets shot out of the sky in [[Recap/DanVsS1E7DanVsTraffic Traffic]], the scene cuts to "Bed Bug Mattresses," only for the helicopter to land on the nearby pavement.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleParkLife'' first episode of ''WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku'', the girls try to escape an annoying song, go up an elevator and hear an equally annoying song, then run through a window falling down several stories. They miss a pile of mattresses below and [[TrashLanding fall into a Dumpster]].
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** This happens to Yosemite Sam in ''WesternAnimation/HighDivingHare''. It's especially playing with expectations because throughout the skit he usually lands in the water.
** In one of the ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'' cartoons, Wile E. decides to be CrazyPrepared and put a trampoline at the bottom of a cliff so that he lands safely when he falls. Sometimes he misses. Sometimes he hits the trampoline but simply rips through the canvas and hits the ground. Sometimes the canvas separates from the frame and wraps around him. Once, [[ThrowTheDogABone the trampoline worked perfectly]], only for him to [[TraumaCongaLine hit his head on an overhang, fall on the ground next to the trampoline, then get hit again when the dislodged overhang fell on him]].
* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''
episode "The Jungle", this happens to Good, the duo three times Bad, and the Wallaby". After getting thrown from his horse, Rocko flies over such hazards as a patch of cacti, a utensil graveyard full of forks and knives ("Pointy End Up"), and a toxic waste dump, only to land in a row.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'': One short features the Wolf chasing Droopy into a saloon. In order to escape, Droopy jumps from the second floor and lands on his donkey. The Wolf tries something similar with his horse and misses. He goes back to saloon for a second attempt and ''misses'' again. He then moves his horse to the spot where
mattress junkyard. As he landed and makes comments "[[TemptingFate What an unbelievable stroke of luck]]," a third attempt, this time landing where the horse originally was. He gives up and calls a cab.
* WesternAnimation/DanVs: When Hal's helicopter gets shot
spring pops out of the sky in [[Recap/DanVsS1E7DanVsTraffic Traffic]], the scene cuts mattress Rocko landed on and [[CactusCushion catapults him onto a cactus.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** When sneaking out of work
to "Bed Bug Mattresses," only for the helicopter to land go on the nearby pavement.Duff Brewery tour, Homer perfectly hits the mattress attached to the top of his car... or at least he would have, if Barney hadn't driven forward about 8 feet to look at something he thought was Diana, Princess of Wales.
** In "Deep Space Homer", Barney ends stealing a jetpack while drunk. It runs out of gas and he falls unto the roof of a pillow factory until he lands unto the street, being immediately ran over by a truck of marshmallows.
** When Krusty [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] to escape the IntimidatingRevenueService, he jumps off a plane to fall on a net. He hits one of the rocks the net is tied to before hitting the net.
** Played with in "Homer the Heretic" with Ned, trying to help the unconscious Homer out of his burning house, tosses his mattress out the window so he can throw the man down to the ground safely. Homer does hit the mattress, only to have it spring him back up and through the ground-floor window of the still-burning house.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDaleParkLife'' episode "The Jungle", this happens to the duo three times in a row.

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* ''Film/TheGreatRace'' - Professor Fate flees a high-up boardroom by arranging for his flunky Max to be waiting below in a car with a trampoline fixed to it. He lands perfectly, but bounces high, Max takes off at that point, and...

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Professor Fate flees a high-up boardroom by arranging for his flunky Max to be waiting below in a car with a trampoline fixed to it. He lands perfectly, but bounces high, Max takes off at that point, and...and...
** Baron Von Stuppe's attempted VillainExitStageLeft combines this with an implied example of SoftWater. He gets defeated in his sword duel with Leslie and jumps out a window into a lake where he has a boat waiting. Unfortunately, rather than landing in the water, he hits the boat instead, smashing and sinking it.
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* Early on in ''Videogame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'', you can find the corpse of a guy dressed up like an Assassin from ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' right next to a pile of hay.

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* Early on in ''Videogame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'', ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'', you can find the corpse of a guy dressed up like an Assassin from ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' right next to a pile of hay.



* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' :: 4U City Red, Riff and alt-Rammer fall onto a dumpster of pillows. A closed dumpster. With a metal lid. Alt-Torg [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/110428 later lampshades]] this trope.

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* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' :: ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': 4U City Red, Riff and alt-Rammer fall onto a dumpster of pillows. A closed dumpster. With a metal lid. Alt-Torg [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/110428 later lampshades]] this trope.



* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "A Star is Bruised":. Johnny the stuntman falls right next to the big air cushion (after it seemed like this would be the end of his series of painful accidents).

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* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "A Star is Bruised":.Bruised". Johnny the stuntman falls right next to the big air cushion (after it seemed like this would be the end of his series of painful accidents).



** In "Deep Space Homer", Barney ends stealing a jetpack while drunk. It runs out of gas and he falls unto the roof of a pillow factory until he lands unto the street, being immediatly ran over by a truck of marshmallows.

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** In "Deep Space Homer", Barney ends stealing a jetpack while drunk. It runs out of gas and he falls unto the roof of a pillow factory until he lands unto the street, being immediatly immediately ran over by a truck of marshmallows.
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* In ''Film/HardcoreHenry'', a mook cuts a line that Henry was trying to climb onto a helicopter. It looks like Henry is about to land in a pond, but he lands right next to it.

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* In ''Film/HardcoreHenry'', a mook cuts a line that Henry was trying to climb onto a helicopter. It looks like Henry is about to land in a pond, but he lands right in a tree next to it.
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* WesternAnimation/DanVs: When Hal's helicopter gets shot out of the sky in [[Recap/DanVsS1E7DanVsTraffic Traffic]], the scene cuts to "Bed Bug Mattresses," only for the helicopter to land on the nearby pavement.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'': One short features the Wolf chasing Droopy into a saloon. In order to escape, Droopy jumps from the second floor and lands on his donkey. The Wolf tries something similar with his horse and misses. He goes back to saloon for a second attempt and ''misses'' again. He then moves his horse to the spot where he landed and makes a third attempt, this time landing where the horse originally was. He gives up and calls a cab.
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** In one episode, Barney is subject to a series of three or four nasty injuries based on an ''industry'' of soft items - e.g., falling onto the roof of a mattress company, then being run over by a truck carrying pillows, etc.

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** In one episode, "Deep Space Homer", Barney is subject to ends stealing a series jetpack while drunk. It runs out of three or four nasty injuries based on an ''industry'' of soft items - e.g., falling onto gas and he falls unto the roof of a mattress company, then pillow factory until he lands unto the street, being run immediatly ran over by a truck carrying pillows, etc.of marshmallows.
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "Invasion of the Moon Creatures", Graham realises the Apollo capsule holding Bill and Tim will land on solid ground instead of the ocean. Cue him getting a couple of soldiers to run back and forth holding a bathtub to catch them. [[RuleOfFunny Naturally]] the capsule misses the tub and lands on Graham instead.

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* In ''Film/{{Freaked}}'', Stewie Gluck falls out an airplane and smacks into the ground a few feet from a giant hay pile.



* In ''Film/{{Freaked}}'', Stewie Gluck falls out an airplane and smacks into the ground a few feet from a giant hay pile.


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* In ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' Harry and Perry have to discretely dispose of a corpse. They eventually end up throwing the corpse off the roof the hotel so they don't have to drag it through the building. The corpse goes sailing through the air and the scene snaps to a dumpster, clearly where the body is going to land, right? Nope, bounces off the side with a loud pang and falls in the alley.
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* In WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale: Park Life episode "The Jungle", this happens to the duo three times in a row.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'' has Wedgehead introduced to Uglyville by being launched out of her conveyor belt place (due to being a misfit doll), where a target has a mattress about to be set up for her. Unfortunately for her, the mattress is being moved by Willard, a slow-moving tortoise Uglydoll, causing her to land on the ground before it gets there for her, head-first. This also ends up giving her her trademark wedge-shaped head (her original head was shaped like a duck's tail, as she was a wrongly-assembled duck doll).
* In ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', the robot GO-4 is kicked out of a window. The scene then pans to the pool below, showing a prominently-placed diving board, only for the robot to land on the hard ground right next to it.
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* In ''Film/WallE'', the robot GO-4 is kicked out of a window. The scene then pans to the pool below, showing a prominently-placed diving board, only for the robot to land on the hard ground right next to it.



* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "A Star is Bruised":. Johnny the stuntman falls right next to the big air-cushion (after it seemed like this would be the end of his series of painful accidents).

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* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "A Star is Bruised":. Johnny the stuntman falls right next to the big air-cushion air cushion (after it seemed like this would be the end of his series of painful accidents).



* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku'', the girls try to escape an annoying song, go up an elevator and hear an equally annoying song, then run through a window falling down several stories. They miss a pile of mattresses below and fall into a Dumpster.

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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku'', the girls try to escape an annoying song, go up an elevator and hear an equally annoying song, then run through a window falling down several stories. They miss a pile of mattresses below and [[TrashLanding fall into a Dumpster.Dumpster]].



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'' has Wedgehead introduced to Uglyville by being launched out of her conveyor belt place (due to being a misfit doll), where a target has a mattress about to be set up for her. Unfortunately for her, the mattress is being moved by Willard, a slow-moving tortoise Uglydoll, causing her to land on the ground before it gets there for her, head-first. This also ends up giving her her trademark wedge-shaped head (her original head was shaped like a duck's tail, as she was a wrongly-assembled duck doll).
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* One ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book had the titular hero lose his superpowers without realizing it until he tries to fly out the window. He falls three stories and misses a haystack, a trampoline, and a truck full of soft pillows, before landing on his head.

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* One The ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book ''Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers'' had the titular hero lose his superpowers without realizing it until he tries to fly out the window. He falls three stories and misses a haystack, a trampoline, and a truck full of soft pillows, before landing on his head.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', episode "A Plain Shortage of Planes": Seeing Dick Dastardly fall, Muttley quickly sets up a water-filled inflatable pool, then snickers as this trope happens to Dastardly.

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"A Plain Shortage of Planes": Seeing Dick Dastardly fall, Muttley quickly sets up a water-filled inflatable pool, then snickers as this trope happens to Dastardly.

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