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** The show occasionally lampshades this. At the end of "Tale of a Third-Grade Nothing", Peter actually goes to jail for blowing up a hospital earlier on. Naturally, he gets released just in time for next week's episode. Often combined with [[Karma Houdini]] due to Peter's frequent high scale [[Jerkass]] tendencies, though it is sometimes hard to define which trope he plays on occasion (being a [[Psychopathic Manchild]] has that way).

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' leans more and more increasingly into this trope as seasons pass, frequently bothering or inflicting misery on the other residents of Bikini Bottom (usually his neighbour [[Butt Monkey|Squidward]]) due to his well-intentioned stupidity, and someone else facing the repercussions for it. Combined with his friend Patrick's near equal [[Idiot Houdini]] tendencies the show becomes [[Sadist Show|disturbingly sociopathic]] for a kid's cartoon at times.

* To an extent, the entire Planet Express team of ''[[Futurama]]'' tend to cause endless problems in their botched deliveries. Of course [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|many of them]] (especially [[Villain Protagonist|Bender]]) fluctuate between this and an outright [[Karma Houdini]] at times. Nibber, the [[Team Pet]], seems to undergo this trope due to being a mindless animal (until falling for the above stated [[Unfortunate Implications]] when he is revealed to be [[The Mole]] for a super intelligent race playing dumb).

* Deedee from ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''. She normally means to be playful, but always destroys everything Dexter works hard for with nearly no comeuppance at all.