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* Early in ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'', Sana challenges Akito to a bungee contest, since she knows that he's afraid of heights. Meanwhile, she forgets that although she loves high places, she ''has no idea how she'll react to falling from them'' -- as it turns out, with abject screaming horror. This is in character.
* Nobita from ''[[Doraemon]]'' is a good example to this. While saving a friend, a character usually states that he couldn't swim. Realizing that, he drowns, usually ending up being saved by another character.
* In ''[[Yoake Mae Yori RuriRuriiro Iro Nana]]'', Feena jumps into the river to save a drowning puppy despite the fact that she herself can't swim. Luckily, Tatsuya is there to rescue her.
* In ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'', in the first volume, Chiyo can "sort of do a doggy-paddle," but that doesn't stop her from jumping in and proceeding to sink. Of course, this happened during ''swim class'' and had many people monitoring her, so teaching her was kind of the point. (She improves as the series progresses; by the time they go to Okinawa, she's been SCUBA diving.)
* In ''[[Dino Zaurs (Anime)|Dino Zaurs]]'', Rena jumps into a hippo and crocodile infested lake in Africa to try to goad her friend into jumping in as well. He jumps in, but only to save her when she nearly drowns.
* Happens to Nagisa from [[Animal Detectives Kiruminzoo]] in the second episode.
* In the anime version of [[Asu no Yoichi]], the title character was raised in the mountains and never learned to swim, but when a side character falls into the water and is unable to swim because the bad guys are creating waves preventing him from doing so, Yoichi heroically jumps in to save the other. After several moments, he surfaces and splashes about. The original water-bound character is eventually saved by a third character who ''can'' swim (though no one knew that) while Yoichi gets a life preserver tossed to him so he can distract/fight off the opponents.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an old ''[[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 Inin 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.
* 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''.
{{quote| '''Freakazoid:''' "That was important and I forgot it!"}}
* Happens a few times to Bullwinkle in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.
* [[Futurama|Fry]] [[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Parody|and the Slurm Factory]]:
{{quote| "I'll just swim around and drink as much as I want! Ha! ''([[Beat|beat]])'' Help! I can't swim!"}}
* In an episode of ''[[Danger Mouse]]'', [[Count Duckula (Animation)|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?
{{quote| "Oh no, I just remembered, I can't swim!"}}
* ''[[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.
* 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.
 
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