Forgot I Couldn't Swim: Difference between revisions

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There are many situations where applying the skill of swimming is very useful. Say, for the sake of winning a bet. Recovering lost or damaged property. Saving someone whose life you care about. But there is one situation where no person in their right mind should ''ever'' try swimming, for any reason.

* In ''[[Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na]]'', 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]]'', 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 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.

* In one episode of ''[[Sgt Frog]]'', Keroro falls into icy water and starts to drown. In a display of friendship, Fuyuki forfeits a match to jump in and save him. However, previous episodes have made it plain that Fuyuki can't swim, and when Keroro points this out, he starts to flounder, even shouting out the trope's name verbatim.

 

== Literature ==

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* 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.

{{quote|'''Freakazoid:''' "That was important and I forgot it!"}}

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

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