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Some characters will occasionally utter this phrase. They're usually people who decide to do something their subordinates failed to do on their behalf.
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== Live-Action TV ==
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* Dick Dastardly occasionally invoked this trope in [[Dastardly and Muttley In Their Flying Machines]].
* [[George of the Jungle|Baron Otto Matic]] twisted the trope in a Tom Slick episode where he entered his lackey Clutcher in a blimp race. As the Baron explained, if you want something right to go wrong, do it yourself.
* [[Garfield and Friends]] episode "The Pizza Patrol" featured a pizza parlor that featured the [[Thirty Minutes or
** In another episode, local mailman [[Meaningful Name|Herman Post]] was fired and his former boss, not able to find a mailman willing to take over the turf out of fear of Garfield, decided to deliver the mail himself. After enduring Garfield, he begged Herman to take the job back.
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