Forgot I Couldn't Swim: Difference between revisions

* 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]]'':

'''Ambrose:''' ''(out of character)'' Oh, right. ''(in character)'' Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! }}

 

== Music ==

* The song ''Swimming in the Pool'' by the Belgian group The Radios ends:

''Why I drowned in the pool'' }}

 

** 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.

* Varation: ''[[Freakazoid]]'' is using his super-car to distract Longhorn, a redneck minotaur in a super semi-truck. They race all around the country till they get to the ocean, and Freakazoid thinks, "Let's see him follow me under water!" Longhorn's truck has a scuba mode. The Freakmobile ''doesn't''.

* Happens a few times to Bullwinkle in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.

* [[Futurama|Fry]] [[Charlie and the Chocolate Parody|and the Slurm Factory]]:

* In an episode of ''[[Danger Mouse]]'', [[Count Duckula]] dives [[It Makes Sense in Context|500 feet into a glass of water]]. Guess what he says just after he makes the jump?

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': after Perry the Platypus [[Freaky Friday Flip|switches bodies]] with Candace he once still tried to give a slow-motion tail-slap to Dr. Doofenschmirtz, but just span around pointlessly because he didn't have a tail anymore. After getting mocked for this, he then starts beating Doofenschmirtz with a purse [[Hammerspace|from nowhere.]]

* In ''[[The Zeta Project]]'', the titular [[Do-Anything Robot]] has a wide variety of tools. A means of flight is not among them, which would have been nice to remember ''before'' he jumped out of a skyscraper.