If You Want Something Done Right, Do it Yourself

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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.

Examples


Live-Action TV

  • Power Rangers ZEO: After so many monsters failed to defeat the Rangers, King Mondo decided to destroy them by himself. There was a reason the episode where he did it was titled "Mondo's Last Stand", namely a lying writer.

Western Animation

  • Dick Dastardly occasionally invoked this trope in Dastardly and Muttley In Their Flying Machines.
  • 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 Its Free policy. After Garfield tricked the delivery boys into missing the deadline every time one of them had to deliver a pizza, the pizza parlor's owner tried to deliver it by himself.
    • In another episode, local mailman 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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