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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Akane first establishes her [[Super Drowning Skills]] with this gag, jumping into the ocean to save Ranma from Cologne's attack failing to remember that she is utterly helpless
** In a very similar joke, Ryouga once dives into the water to save a drowning Akane, completely forgetting that he'll turn into a small black pig in contact with the water. Ranma even lampshades this mid-dive.
** During the Pantyhose Taro arc, this antagonist kidnaps her and takes her to a remote temple in the mountains, then leaves to confront Happosai. Akane escapes, comes across a river, and leaps in... only to splash and sputter her way back to shore. She even says "Oh no! I forgot I can't swim!" afterwards.
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* In a [[Star Wars]] one-shot comic, Boba Fett is hired to track down the man who killed a crime lord's son and kill him. Turns out, Boba Fett was the one who killed the boss's son, and the job was a setup to allow his other son to get revenge. After fighting against hordes of scrapyard droids, Fett douses the guy in oil and lights him on fire. Naturally, he runs screaming into a nearby pool to put himself out—remembering immediately afterwards that ''he can't swim''. As he watches him drown, Fett aptly remarks "No smarter than your brother."
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* Subverted in ''[[Time Bandits]]'', when, after declaring as he struggles in the Atlantic after the Titanic sinks that he can't swim, Fidgit the Bandit discovers to his sudden delight when transported to the Time Of Legends that, for no adequately-explained reason, "Hey! I can swim!"
* In ''[[The Gamers]]'':
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'''Ambrose:''' ''(out of character)'' Oh, right. ''(in character)'' Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! }}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'', Anne starts a writer's club. She writes a story in which two women fall in love with the same man, and the man falls in love with one of them. The other woman gets jealous, and eventually pushes her friend off a bridge into a river. The man they were fighting over jumps in to rescue her, but he can't swim, and both of them drown.▼
* In ''Aliens Stole My Body'' by Bruce Coville, the main character has had his brain transferred into the body of an alien. He talks the alien whose body he is sharing into going for a swim, only to realize that's not a good idea when you breathe through your skin...▼
== [[Live
* In one ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'' plot, one boy makes a bet with the girl swim team that the soccer team can beat them at swimming. He does this in spite of the fact that the ''rest'' of the soccer team clearly has a look on their faces that this is a very, very foolish idea.
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▲* In ''Aliens Stole My Body'' by Bruce Coville, the main character has had his brain transferred into the body of an alien. He talks the alien whose body he is sharing into going for a swim, only to realize that's not a good idea when you breathe through your skin...
* The song ''Swimming in the Pool'' by the Belgian group The Radios ends:
{{quote|''Cupid really made me stupid (Stupid so it must be him)''
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''Someone should explain her maybe (Now the story is getting cruel)''
''Why I drowned in the pool'' }}
▲== Literature ==
▲* In [[Anne of Green Gables]], Anne starts a writer's club. She writes a story in which two women fall in love with the same man, and the man falls in love with one of them. The other woman gets jealous, and eventually pushes her friend off a bridge into a river. The man they were fighting over jumps in to rescue her, but he can't swim, and both of them drown.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[Real Life]] [[Darwin Awards]] example: [http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2002-19.html This guy.]▼
* It's funny when you're on a boat and you pretend like you're about to fall in. It's less funny when you can't actually swim, but do actually fall in. It's downright tragic when two ''other'' people [[Too Dumb to Live|who can't swim]] [http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2010/08/four_mean_feared_drowned_in_idaho_reservoir.html jump in to try to save you].▼
* [[Richard Pryor]] mentions this in one of his routines. Whilst playing around with his children in his swimming pool, he accidentally jumped into the deep end and only after he was in the water did he remember that he can't swim.▼
* [[Real Life]] example from nature; the highly endangered Kakapo is known as 'the bird that forgot that it forgot how to fly'. Despite being completely flightless, they will throw themselves out of trees to try and escape danger.<ref>Couldn't find the right clip, so here's one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY shagging a photographer.]</ref>▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Ghost Trick]]'', the protagonist Sissel is told to break into prison and read a certain prisoner's work schedule. Easy task for a ghost. But when the time comes, Sissel remembers he can't read. {{spoiler|It turns out to be a non-issue; the work schedule in question turns out to be completely blank.}}
* In Schlock Mercenary, one arc has the titular mercenaries take a job as mall cops. As part of the contract, they have to leave behind all their military grade gear, including armor that can let them fly. When what appeared to be a thief started jumping from balcony to balcony, Captain Tagon jumped from his balcony intending to fly and follow. Only on his way down did he remember that he couldn't fly because he wasn't wearing his suit and promptly crashed into someone's dinner table, taking a fork in the eye for his trouble.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an old ''[[Fantastic Four (animation)|Fantastic Four]]'' cartoon, when the Fantasticar is shot over the ocean, the Four manage to bail onto an island. Johnny Storm turns into the Human Torch to go recover the submerged car. Think that one through, since clearly he didn't. Bizarrely, this is a ''dramatic'' variant of the trope's use, even though there's no real tension as to whether Johnny will be rescued. [[Animation Age Ghetto|Eh, what're ya gonna do?]]
* One of the many ridiculous plans to catch the pigeon in ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]'' was flying a ''diving board plane'' with Dick Dastardly on it, so when he was directly above the pigeon, he would dive, catch the pigeon and land on a plane carrying a huge tank of water. Before the squadron takes off, Dastardly remarks, "OK...but I still think we're forgetting something." Remarkably, Dastardly actually catches the pigeon, but suddenly says, "Uh oh! Now I remember! I CAN'T SWIM!", sinks beneath the water, lets go of the pigeon and once again begs for Muttley to rescue him.
** In an episode where Dick Dastardly went on vacation, he dove at a pool but, because of another attempt from his squad to catch the pigeon, we never got to learn if the trope would repeat or if he had already learned by then.
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{{quote|'''Freakazoid:''' "That was important and I forgot it!"}}
* Happens a few times to Bullwinkle in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.
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* In one [[Pepe Le Pew]] cartoon, Pepe sees Penelope on a cruise boat and runs after it. As he sinks he calmly tells the audience, "Silly me, I forgot I cannot swim."
* In one episode of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', Numbuh 4 dove at an aspargus sea to chase what he believed to be a cheeseburger and then he remembered he couldn't swim.
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'' {{spoiler|episode "Thanks to Them", Hunter (who has been possessed by Belos and is frantically [[Fighting From the Inside]]) throws a vial of Titan Blood into a lake. Belos regains control, dives after it - and sinks like a rock. A big irony here is, historically, knowing how to swim could have saved many innocents who were unjustly accused of witchcraft by corrupt lawmen like Belos.}}
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▲* [[Real Life]] [[Darwin Awards]] example: [http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2002-19.html This guy.]
▲* In Schlock Mercenary, one arc has the titular mercenaries take a job as mall cops. As part of the contract, they have to leave behind all their military grade gear, including armor that can let them fly. When what appeared to be a thief started jumping from balcony to balcony, Captain Tagon jumped from his balcony intending to fly and follow. Only on his way down did he remember that he couldn't fly because he wasn't wearing his suit and promptly crashed into someone's dinner table, taking a fork in the eye for his trouble.
▲* It's funny when you're on a boat and you pretend like you're about to fall in. It's less funny when you can't actually swim, but do actually fall in. It's downright tragic when two ''other'' people [[Too Dumb to Live|who can't swim]] [http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2010/08/four_mean_feared_drowned_in_idaho_reservoir.html jump in to try to save you].
▲* [[Richard Pryor]] mentions this in one of his routines. Whilst playing around with his children in his swimming pool, he accidentally jumped into the deep end and only after he was in the water did he remember that he can't swim.
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