From Bad to Worse/Newspaper Comics


 * FoxTrot had an arc where Roger, after a horrible business trip (which could be an entry in itself) that ended quits him returning to his son needing stiches, quits his job. He then proceeds to find out that none of his family has time (or wants) to hang out with him. To gain money, he invests... in an infomercial, losing money. He then tries stock trading... and loses more money. After all of this, he ends up going back to his job, having lost a number of paychecks, a large amount of money, and his computer, and gaining a cut in pay at his job.
 * In a Peanuts strip, Charlie Brown comes to the sandlot to find that Lucy has "borrowed" dirt from his pitcher's mound for her new plant. Then, four other members of the team do the same thing. Finally, he blows his top and demands they return it, shouting that "I want my pitchers mound to be just the way it was!" The mess he ends up with is not the way it was.