History Main / BarelyMissedCushion

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* 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 catapults him onto a cactus.

** 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 into the burning house.

* In a scene from ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'', a clip of Sideshow Bob's prison escape shows him about to jump into a truck full of pillows, but when he jumps the truck drives away and he instead lands in a truck filled with barbed wire.

* ''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 a slow-moving turtle 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).

* Subverted in the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' cartoon [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/xmas08.html "A Death-Defying Decemberween"]]. Homestar declares he's going to sled down the Steep Deep, not so much a hill as a vertical cliff face, but Strong Bad catches him burying a mattress at the foot of it, apparently to cushion his fall. Strong Bad naturally removes the mattress in the hopes of Homestar getting hilariously maimed on impact, but to everyone's amazement - Homestar's included - he makes it to the bottom without a scratch. As it turns out, the mattress was filled with "hammers, broken glass, and candy canes sucked down 'til they're all pointy," and Homestar was ''banking'' on getting hilariously maimed so he wouldn't have to spend Decemberween visiting Marzipan's parents.

* Used as a RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' whenever Crocker (or Timmy) enters the "Crocker Cave". Each time he ends up missing the mattress he was supposed to land on and moves it over to where he was.

* There's at least one [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Goofy cartoon]] where he keeps trying to open his parachute as he falls, but it pops out after he's already hit the ground.

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

** 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.

** When Krusty [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] to escape the IntimidatingRevenueService, he jumped off a plane to fall on a net. He hit one of the rocks the net was tied to before hitting the net.

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

* From ''WesternAnimaiton/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Pud'n is free-falling from terminal height, and the mayor of the town is introducing a new tourist attraction: the world's largest pillow. It looks exactly what Pud'n needs to land on... before the mayor points out said pillow will be on display next to the cactus farm. Guess where he lands?

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

* Early on in ''Videogame/TheWitcher2AssassinOfKings'', you can find the corpse of a guy dressed up like an Assassin from ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' right next to a pile of hay.

* In one ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'' story, the titular [[EvilChancellor great vizier]] and the Caliph both wind up on a sled, descending a slope at high speed towards a building.

(''next panel: Sled crashes to the right of the door, Iznogoud cushioning for the Caliph'')\\

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

* There's at least one [[ClassicDisneyShorts Goofy cartoon]] where he keeps trying to open his parachute as he falls, but it pops out after he's already hit the ground.

* 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]].