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* Similarly, people confused the family film ''Film/JackFrost1998'' with ''Film/JackFrost1997''.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Three stories in the series find humor in naughty pet behavior.
** In “The Ski Trip,” Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino ride up a chairlift without a ticket, snitch a pair of skis, erratically descend down a mountain trail while tearing up its freshly groomed surface, and engage in a [[SnowballFight snowball fight]].
** In “The Cakes,” the three pets engage in an all-out [[{{Foodfight}} food fight]], ruining the pastries Penny's mom had prepared for a bake sale.
** In “The Autobiography,” Mittens [[HopelessWithTech wrecks Penny’s computer]] through a series of mishaps.

** "Becoming":

** "Tough Love":

:: On the other hand, the beating was pretty hilarious.

** A variation: Moe gets on a soap opera, only to be led to think his character will be killed off. He decides to have Homer spoil the future plot events on live broadcast. All the plot summaries written seem to end with "...with sexy results".

* "Hilarity ensues" is a good way to describe what happens when Orks go to war in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' because, to the Orks, it really is hilarious -- they're having a great time, and the more fire and dismemberment you can arrange, the more fun it is! To say that everyone else in the galaxy does not reciprocate the Orks' feelings on warfare and Ork invasions would be an understatement. For another perspective, an Ork Waaagh!, or campaign, is referred to in the background as a mix between a [[CrazyAwesome holy war and a pub crawl.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Applies to three stories in the series, all of which find humor in naughty pet behavior.

* People have reported (complained) about getting/downloading what they thought was Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' for their kids when it ended up being [[SimilarlyNamedWorks the OTHER]] ''Film/{{Frozen|2010}}'' with a group of tasty friends stuck in the snow on a ski lift and hungry hungry wolves.

JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith the {{webcomic}} ''Webcomic/HijinksEnsue''. Or with HumanityEnsues. When something serious happens and it's not played for laughs, you may end up with RealityEnsues. If the aforementioned hilarity is a lawsuit, it may be a case of HilaritySues.

* In ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect'' after Taichi and Yui [[FreakyFridayFlip personality swap]], [[spoiler:after finding out that Yui has an extreme case of [[DoesNotLikeMen androphobia]] due to her almost getting raped,]] Taichi kicks Yui in the balls to show [[spoiler:her]] how to disable any man. This drops Yui to the ground in pain as [[spoiler:she]] wonders why it hurts so much. After the GroinAttack, Taichi says that is all it takes. Taichi continues to talk for a few seconds until Hilarity Ensues when he is interrupted suddenly and [[spoiler:finds himself in his original body on the ground in pain from sore, freshly kicked, nuts.]]

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* Referenced in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'': "Any homely featured man who for whatever reason has to [[DisguisedInDrag disguise himself as a woman]] will inevitably become [[AttractiveBentGender attractive to otherwise perfectly sane men]], with, as the ancient scrolls say, hilarious results." Unfortunately, laws of reality had to go against [[spoiler:Nobby]] and admit defeat.

* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': High school romance comedy. Idiot delinquent (Harima) has a secret, obsessive crush on an even more clueless classmate (Tenma), who is in love with a complete oddball (Karasuma), who is in love with food (curry). Tenma's [[NiceGirl quiet, gentle]] sister Yakumo, her {{ojou}} friend Eri, and the [[HelloNurse hot school nurse]] may or may not have feelings for Harima, depending on the rumors you believe and the time of day. Also, both Tenma and Harima's cousin Itoko think Harima is in a relationship with Yakumo. {{Class rep|resentative}} Hanai is loudly in love with Yakumo (thus seeing Harima as his rival), while two or three girls may or may not have feelings for ''him''. And that's just the beginning.

-->'''Jeff:''' If you're lying to me, if my father isn't coming, if a car pulls up and anyone other than my father steps out, say an actor or you in a wig, if you pull any Ferris Bueller, Parent Trap, Three's Company, FX, [=FX=]2: the Deadly Art of Illusion bull ''[[SoundEffectBleep beep]]'' I will beat you. And there will be nothing madcap or wacky about it.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', one of the short stories can best be described as "Harry has a day off. Hilarity Ensues." It's [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments glorious]], too.

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* ''Film/TheVillain'': The movie runs on this.

* ''Series/TheHoganFamily'': Played straight, then {{re|alityEnsues}}versed in the Season 2 episode "Leave It To Willie." Willie is a diehard fan of a TV sitcom where the main protagonists are seemingly allowed to get away with little more than a slap on the wrist for various offenses, and deduces he, too, can get away with being an unlicensed driver while taking his father's convertible out for a joyride, causing a hit-and-run accident, and keeping quiet as his mother rakes his older brother, David, over the coals about the incident (believing David to have been responsible) and then is asked if he knows anything. After he has an ImagineSpot where he sees getting away with his actions, Willie finally admits he caused the damage to his father's car … only for Val to become furious and punish him. But even worse tells him she's lost trust in him and that it's going to take awhile to regain it – making Willie realize that in the real world, hilarity does NOT ensue and that [[RealityEnsues actions do have consequences]].
* In the "Save Our Bluths" ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' episode the narrator described their dinner party emergency as a "relatable situation with a promise of comedy", to emphasize something more conventionally sitcomy over the family's massive incestuous implications.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** The episode "Becoming":

** Also in episode "Tough Love":

* Evoked by name in an episode of ''Series/MythBusters'' which involved testing the slipperiness of banana peels and their conductivity to comical pratfalls. After an already hilarious starting test which Jamie managed to fail by virtue of laughing too hard to get up after a fall, the Mythbusters decide to try for a comparison test and cover their testing field in [[RefugeInAudacity animal birthing lubricant]]. As Adam notes of the proceedings, "Hilarity will ensue." Adam promptly validates his guess mere moments later.

* In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' video "Elmo's Sing-Along Guessing Game", Elmo is the host of a quiz show where everything that can go wrong ''does'' go wrong, including no less than three changes in hosts in the same program (specifically, from Elmo to Mr. Johnson to the floor director back to Elmo), hosts having a pretty bad habit of answering questions when the contestants take too long (though Elmo does manage to control himself by the end), contestants disappearing and only reappearing when the next question is about to be answered, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext a clueless bus driver who doesn't know the way to Cincinnati]].

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* Lampshaded in the "Sweet Stench Of Success" episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'':
-->'''Bloo''': But imagine what would happen if someone spotted me and I became a big celebrity! That would lead to all manner of crazy and hilarious consequences, don't you think?

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Gumball, Darwin, and Anais are trying to sneak out of a theater without getting caught. When Gumball gets stuck to "fossilized soda" on the floor, Darwin suggests that Gumball might have to [[NakedPeopleAreFunny take off his clothes]] and try to escape leading to all sorts of wacky shenanigans. [[WrongGenreSavvy That doesn't happen]].
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman The Ruff Ruffman Show]]'', Ruff starts a pet-sitting service and is tricked into pet-sitting a ''rhino'' and hilarity ensues as he tries to cope with this massive animal when he was expecting to pet-sit a cute and fuzzy hamster.

* There are a great number of hilarious accidents that happen to people but which people come out of alright. The Internet would be made out of these videos and photos if it weren't for cats (half the cat videos are these situations anyway). These could have resulted in debilitating injuries but everything worked out and a good laugh was had and remembered down the years.

* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' uses a similar phrase to describe the typical plot of an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. Jason complains to Andy that the restaurant where he's scheduled an impressive party is removing foreign cheeses from its menu, finishing with "I just know madcap hijinks will come of this!"

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5985759/7/Colors-and-Capes Colors and Capes]]'', Xander Harris and Green Arrow have to delay Solomon Grundy long enough for Superman to arrive and fight him. Solomon Grundy promptly flees from Xander because he remembers the man [[HolyBurnsEvil splashing him with holy water]]. The next several minutes is simply Xander trying to chasing after Solomon Grundy until Superman arrives and the zombie promptly surrenders.

Sometimes certain additional criteria are included with the hilarity to help classify it, i.e. "hilarity ensues, but not in the romcom sense, but rather in the sense of ''[[Film/RikiOhTheStoryOfRicky The Story Of Ricky]]''".

* Apppears in an apparently heroless episode of ''WesterAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer'' that also served as a DayInTheLimeLight for the character Drix. Wrath-Amon, forced to assume his [[AnthropomorphicTransformation original form]] to replenish himself, entrusts the [[ArtifactOfDoom Black Ring]] to his naga servant. Once Wrath-Amon is safely out of the way, Drix, naturally, steals the ring and tries to usurp the position of BigBad. Of course since he's also the series' ButtMonkey and the episode needed no heroes to reach a resolution, you can probably tell how well that went.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', one of the short stories can best be described as "Harry has a day off. Hilarity Ensues." It's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny glorious]], too.

** Referenced in the episode "Marge on the Lam", the WrongGenreSavvy Homer assures the kids that if a burglar comes, '[[Film/HomeAlone it will be a very amusing and hilarious situation]].'

NotToBeConfusedWith the {{webcomic}} ''Webcomic/HijinksEnsue''. Or with HumanityEnsues. When something serious happens and it's not played for laughs, you may end up with RealityEnsues. If the aforementioned hilarity is a lawsuit, it may be a case of HilaritySues.

* Virtually every episode of ''WebVideo/Roadkill'' results in this. This is what makes the hosts, Freiburger and Finnegan, [[FailureHero Failure Heroes]].