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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An old [[DuckTales (1987)|Scrooge McDuck]] story, where the entire plotline focuses on him fiercely competing with another company in some specific area (ultimately, the object [[MacGuffin|was unimportant]]), spending millions on R&D and commercials in an attempt to increase his market-shares, and yet, the competitor kept coming out ahead. Finally, just when he's collapsing in tears, one of his sub-managers comes in to deliver good news: One of the corporations he owns has delivered a smashing financial report, having seized most of the market... in the same equipment, of course. Meaning he's wasted millions competing with himself.
* The ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' are having a cereal party. (The "bowl": The Grand Canyon!) Toilenator wants to be a respected villain, so he flushes the cereal, killing the party... and Mr. Boss' plan to attack them at said party. Whoops!
** "Operation E.N.G.L.A.N.D" revolves around Nigel running from a group of kids who are trying to steal a parcel that he's supposed to deliver to the British KND, at the end of the episode the kids manage to catch up to him and angrily explain that they ''are'' the British KND.
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* "[http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/15/cbs-sends-a-youtube.html CBS sends a YouTube takedown to itself]". The title tells it all.
* [http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/sony-accuses-beyonce.html Sony Entertainment shuts down Beyonce's official YouTube site].
* Music Matters apparently managed to vigilantly slap down... ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130326190423/http://www.slowforward.ro/2010/03/why-music-matters-sucks.html their own ads]'' on Google Reader.
* It is generally a bad idea to be in competition with yourself, resources are needed to maintain an edge in an aggressive market. Those resources have a hard enough time fighting against genuine competitors and maintaining competition against yourself doubles those resources. The only way to make even is by dominating a given market. Say there are three restaurants on a given intersection, all other things being equal those restaurants will acquire 33 percent of that market. If the parent company of one business was to open another branch in the open spot on the intersection it would reduce the market share of the other businesses from 33 percent to 25 percent, including the one they already own. The big difference is that the parent company now controls 50 percent of that market when before they only controlled 33 percent with the one business there. It ends up doing well for the parent company but it hurts the sub-franchise.
* A recent government regulation on the US banking industry is designed to prevent this. The Loss Mitigation department (the guys trying to help you keep your house) would often be in a race with the foreclosure department to see who could get their paperwork through first.
* Detroit police from the 11th precinct got into a fight with police from the 12th precinct. One group was posing as drug dealers and tried to bust people buying drugs. The other group was posing as drug buyers and was trying to bust drug dealers. [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/17/detroit-police-officers-brawl-after-undercover-drugs-raid-goes-wrong]
* One of the more harmless versions of this was in the navy in [[World War 2]] when Buships never got the memo that the paint it was using was flammable. As a result every time a ship put into harbor at Pearl (between Pearl and San Francisco it was still peacetime in a way because of how well-controlled the waters were), they scraped the paint off. In a way this had a [[The Coats Are Off|ceremonial aspect]] and equally to the point, kept sailors from [[Bar Brawl|getting in to much trouble]] in port. So no one bothered to stop the practice.
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