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* The ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' 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).
* ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]'', 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.
* Used as a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[The Fairly
* This happens to Yosemite Sam in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short ''High Diving Hare''. It's especially playing with expectations because throughout the skit he usually lands in the water.
* There's at least one [[Classic Disney Shorts|Goofy cartoon]] where he keeps trying to open his parachute as he falls, but it pops out after he's already hit the ground.
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* Sometimes on the ''[[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner|Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner]]'' cartoons, Wile E. decides to be [[Crazy Prepared]] 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, or the canvas wraps around him.
* One ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' 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 a episode of ''[[Johnny Test]]'' Susan and Mary Test redeem coupons that Johnny made to have him test their experiments as he's trying to make a dangerous skateboard run down Suicide Hill. A running gag in the episode is each time they have a mattress set up at the end for Johnny to hit or land on so he wont get hurt, but Mary's calculations are always off resulting in this trope. Subverted near the end of the episode when Johnny finally makes the run down Suicide hill, but the run goes horribly wrong. His sisters are there to save the day by setting up a waterslide, a ramp, and a mattress to save him. Nearly played straight as Mary realizes she did the math wrong and Johnny will hit the ground again, but they move the mattress just in time.
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