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Alleged consequence of any event in a [[~~Sit Com~~]] or cartoon which in the real world would result in hospitalization, [[Hilarity Sues|a lawsuit]], or dismissal from one's job, at the very least, up to and including possible imprisonment or death. Thankfully for our fictional friends both the [[Rule of Cool]] and the [[Rule of Funny]] keep them safe (the latter more prominently).

Alleged consequence of any event in a [[Sitcom]] or cartoon which in the real world would result in hospitalization, [[Hilarity Sues|a lawsuit]], or dismissal from one's job, at the very least, up to and including possible imprisonment or death. Thankfully for our fictional friends both the [[Rule of Cool]] and the [[Rule of Funny]] keep them safe (the latter more prominently).

Traditionally seen in the capsule descriptions of episodes found in programming guides: "Jimbo accidentally glues his boss to a golf cart and hilarity ensues." Outside of these descriptions, though, the phrase is usually used sarcastically, indicating that the consequences are anything ''but'' hilarious. The less charitable might say that hilarity is what happens for those hearing about it afterward.

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* You can summarize most non-action-based episodes of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' in this manner. Sousuke goes to school; hilarity ensues. Sousuke goes to the beach; hilarity ensues. Sousuke goes on a date; hilarity ensues. Sousuke goes to a festival; hilarity ensues. If you swap out "hilarity" and "violence" as appropriate - or more frequently combine the two - you can summarize ''every'' episode that way.

* About half the plots against Loki in ''[[Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok]]'' have this at some point.

* On [[~~Dragonball~~]], [[Dirty Old Man|Master Roshi]] interactions with a female character, any female character. Also when Vegetto gets turned into a gumball by Buu. Everything from that point until when Kid Buu {{spoiler|destroys the Earth}} qualifies as this.

* On [[Dragon Ball]], [[Dirty Old Man|Master Roshi]] interactions with a female character, any female character. Also when Vegetto gets turned into a gumball by Buu. Everything from that point until when Kid Buu {{spoiler|destroys the Earth}} qualifies as this.

* What happens when you assign a class of untrained, inexperienced, ADHD-afflicted ten-year-old kids to pilot and monitor a [[Zettai Muteki Raijin Oh|giant robot capable of untold destruction]] when placed in the wrong hands? Hilarity!

* What happens when you assign a class of untrained, inexperienced, ADHD-afflicted ten-year-old kids to pilot and monitor a [[Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh|giant robot capable of untold destruction]] when placed in the wrong hands? Hilarity!

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': A 10-year-old wizard has to teach an all-girls class! It's wacky! [[Genre Shift|At first.]]

* In the first episode of [[Mitsudomoe]], the class hamster is named Nipples.

* Take a powerful, macho martial artist and throw him into a [[Gender Bender]] cursed spring. Then add liberal doses of [[Comedic Sociopathy]], [[Unwanted Harem|way too many]] [[Stalker ~~With~~ a Crush|girls after him]] (not to mention [[Attractive Bent Gender|the guys...]]), a [[Tsundere]] fiancee, and a [[Lord Error-Prone|couple of]] [[Dirty Old Man|perverts]]. Welcome to [[Ranma Half]]. Oh, and let's make his rivals the King of [[Wangst]] who [[Disproportionate Retribution|blames]] [[The Power of Hate|Ranma]] for it all (and {{spoiler|gains the ability to channel it into an [[Angst Nuke]]}}) and the King of the [[Hyperspace Arsenal]].

* Take a powerful, macho martial artist and throw him into a [[Gender Bender]] cursed spring. Then add liberal doses of [[Comedic Sociopathy]], [[Unwanted Harem|way too many]] [[Stalker with a Crush|girls after him]] (not to mention [[Attractive Bent Gender|the guys...]]), a [[Tsundere]] fiancee, and a [[Lord Error-Prone|couple of]] [[Dirty Old Man|perverts]]. Welcome to [[Ranma Half]]. Oh, and let's make his rivals the King of [[Wangst]] who [[Disproportionate Retribution|blames]] [[The Power of Hate|Ranma]] for it all (and {{spoiler|gains the ability to channel it into an [[Angst Nuke]]}}) and the King of the [[Hyperspace Arsenal]].

* ''[[School Rumble]]'': High school romance comedy. Idiot delinquent (Harima) has a secret, obsessive crush on an even more clueless classmate (Tenma), who is in love with a complete oddball (Karasuma), who is in love with food (curry). Tenma's [[Yamato Nadeshiko|quiet, gentle]] sister Yakumo, her [[Ojou]] friend Eri, and the [[Hello, Nurse!|hot school nurse]] may or may not have feelings for Harima, depending on the rumors you believe and the time of day. Also, both Tenma and Harima's cousin Itoko think Harima is in a relationship with Yakumo. [[Class Representative|Class rep]] Hanai is loudly in love with Yakumo (thus seeing Harima as his rival), while two or three girls may or may not have feelings for ''him''. And that's just the beginning.

* The entirety of ''[[~~To Love Ru (Manga)|~~To Love Ru]]''. The manga sequel ''[[To Love Ru Darkness]]'' opts instead for having more plot, though still being comedic.

* The entirety of ''[[To Love Ru]]''. The manga sequel ''[[To Love Ru Darkness]]'' opts instead for having more plot, though still being comedic.

* Tons of examples in [[One Piece]]. The rather off-the-wall thought processes of the Straw Hats and plenty of other characters make everything comedic fodder. The idea behind a stretchy hero is, in the first place, to make serious situations funny.

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== Literature ==

* Referenced in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld ~~(Literature)~~/Jingo|Jingo]]'': "Any homely featured man who for whatever reason has to [[Disguised in Drag|disguise himself as a woman]] will inevitably become [[Attractive Bent Gender|attractive to otherwise perfectly sane men]], with, as the ancient scrolls say, hilarious results." Unfortunately, laws of reality had to go against {{spoiler|Nobby}} and admit defeat.

* Referenced in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'': "Any homely featured man who for whatever reason has to [[Disguised in Drag|disguise himself as a woman]] will inevitably become [[Attractive Bent Gender|attractive to otherwise perfectly sane men]], with, as the ancient scrolls say, hilarious results." Unfortunately, laws of reality had to go against {{spoiler|Nobby}} and admit defeat.

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', one of the short stories can best be described as "Harry has a day off. [[Hilarity Ensues]]." It's [[Crowning Moment of Funny|glorious]], too.

* In [[The Pale King]], [[David Foster Wallace]] gets [[Mistaken for Special Guest|mistaken for David F. Wallace]] due to a screw-up with the IRS's records and has to spend his first few days in the Peoria REC [[Feigning Intelligence|attending meetings he knows nothing about]]. The ''other'' David gets stuck in a bureaucratic nightmare because the IRS already has records of him arriving and won't allow him to register.

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'''Wash''': Wacky fun. }}

* ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'': [[Villain Protagonist|Hyacinth]] tricks Richard into stealing a car, and then she blames him, but neither of them is known to suffer any legal consequence.

* ''[[~~Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|~~Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Becoming":

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Becoming":

{{quote| '''Spike''': "Let me guess. Someone pulls out the sword...The demon wakes up, and wackiness ensues."}}

** Also in episode "Tough Love":

{{quote| '''Willow''': "So we made a triangle with our bodies, and that's when I called Xander 'obtuse' and he got really grumpy. And then Dawn said we were 'acute' triangle and, well... hilarity ensued."}}

* In the "Save Our Bluths" ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'' episode the narrator described their dinner party emergency as a "relatable situation with a promise of comedy", to emphasize something more conventionally sitcomy over the family's massive incestuous implications.

* In the "Save Our Bluths" ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' episode the narrator described their dinner party emergency as a "relatable situation with a promise of comedy", to emphasize something more conventionally sitcomy over the family's massive incestuous implications.

* The ''[[Father Ted]]'' Christmas special begins with Ted finding [[Away in A Manger|a baby left on his doorstep]]... which is swiftly reclaimed by the mother, who had gotten the wrong address. Ted and Dougal are left musing over all the hilarious situations they could have gotten into while trying to take care of a baby... then conclude that it wouldn't have been funny at all.

* The ''[[Father Ted]]'' Christmas special begins with Ted finding [[Away in a Manger|a baby left on his doorstep]]... which is swiftly reclaimed by the mother, who had gotten the wrong address. Ted and Dougal are left musing over all the hilarious situations they could have gotten into while trying to take care of a baby... then conclude that it wouldn't have been funny at all.

* Referenced in ''[[~~Community (TV)|~~Community]]'':

* Referenced in ''[[Community]]'':

{{quote| '''Jeff''': "If you're lying to me, if my father isn't coming, if a car pulls up and anyone other than my father steps out, say an actor or you in a wig, if you pull any Ferris Bueller, Parent Trap, Three's Company, FX, FX2: the Deadly Art of Illusion bull... I will beat you. And there will be nothing madcap or wacky about it."}}

* Evoked by name in an episode of ''[[Myth Busters]]'' which involved testing the slipperiness of banana peels and their conductivity to comical pratfalls. After an already hilarious starting test which Jamie managed to fail by virtue of laughing too hard to get up after a fall, the Mythbusters decide to try for a comparison test and cover their testing field in [[Refuge in Audacity|animal birthing lubricant]]. As Adam notes of the proceedings, "Hilarity will ensue." Adam promptly validates his guess mere moments later.

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* [[Magicka]] oh so much. Easily accessed nuke spells, no mana bar, squishy player characters, and friendly fire? Check, check, check, and check. Seriously. Go watch [[Yogscast]] and [[Total Biscuit]] play Magicka together. Half the hilarity is from watching them kill one another. Both on purpose AND by accident. And a majority of the deaths are Simon's fault.

* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' is this in spades. It happens a few times in the main storyline, but at least 90% of [[Sidequest|Sidequests]] are able to be summed up as "Red takes a job and then [[Hilarity Ensues]]."

* A lot of ''[[~~Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|~~Team Fortress 2]]'' 's appeal comes from the fact they took the team-based warfare of ''[[~~Team Fortress Classic (Video Game)|~~Team Fortress Classic]]'' and threw in, among many things, one key element: '''a sense of humor'''. The general idea with TF2 is that if you're going to pit two teams against each other, you might as well [[Rule of Funny|have fun doing it]]. A 2011 update invokes this trope by name, describing the Payload Race game mode (where the teams compete to escort their team's cart to the goal first) thusly: "''Two teams, two carts, two tracks. Hilarity ensues.''"

* A lot of ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' 's appeal comes from the fact they took the team-based warfare of ''[[Team Fortress Classic]]'' and threw in, among many things, one key element: '''a sense of humor'''. The general idea with TF2 is that if you're going to pit two teams against each other, you might as well [[Rule of Funny|have fun doing it]]. A 2011 update invokes this trope by name, describing the Payload Race game mode (where the teams compete to escort their team's cart to the goal first) thusly: "''Two teams, two carts, two tracks. Hilarity ensues.''"

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** Technically, he referred to [[Mugging the Monster|running into an archmage]] while trying to rob a "librarian". But he won.

* ''[[New School Kids]]'' has this as the missing events during the ''Yeahijinks'' comic.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [[Ctrl Alt Del]]:

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]:

{{quote| '''Ethan (angrily)''': YOUR BALLS AND MY FOOT! HA HA HA! [http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20060915 HI-LARITY ENSUES!]}}

* [http://revfitz.com/msi187.html This]''Mr. Square'' is a self parody on it's weekly updates, "I'm deppressed blah blah something random" followed by a panel with nothing but "Hillarity Ensues!"

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'''Homer''': Well, Sister Bernadette will leave the convent and start a softball team... with sexy results. }}

** In one ''Simpsons'' comic, Bart convinces professional [[Butt Monkey]] Milhouse van Houten that [[Mad Scientist|Professor Frink's]] dumpster has rendered him (Milhouse) invisible. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]], because when Bart's thought bubbles include the phrase "hilarious hijinks", he concludes he spends way too much time reading program descriptions in the TV guide.

* Lampshaded in the "Sweet Smell Of Success" episode of [[~~Fosters~~ Home for Imaginary Friends]]:

* Lampshaded in the "Sweet Smell Of Success" episode of [[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]:

{{quote| '''Bloo''': But imagine what would happen if someone spotted me and I became a big celebrity! That would lead to all manner of crazy and hilarious consequences, don't you think?}}

* Lampshaded somewhat again by Homer. I cannot remember the episode, but it contained the line "Alright, just go ahead and sue me! Everybody else does! The average settlement is $68000."