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** Furthermore, he doesn't recognize Poof even though the episode takes place '''after''' "Bad Heir Day." Earth to Denzel, you know Denzel Jr. AKA DJ, aka Poof? That fairy whom you raised briefly as your own son and formed a loving bond with? [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|He's! Floating! RIGHT! IN! FRONT! OF! YOU!]]
* In "Playdate of Doom", Foop escapes from Abracatraz and tricks Cosmo and Wanda into thinking that Jorgen authorized his release and that he's reformed and ready for a playdate with Poof. He then spends the episode tricking them into thinking Poof is misbehaving so they'll [[It Makes Sense in Context|put Poof in a playpen that will send him to a pocket dimension]]. That Cosmo and Wanda would trust Foop, who had previously tried to destroy two worlds and ''kill'' Poof, anywhere near their son based on the (nonexistent) word of ''Jorgen'' destroys their credibility as parents. They never once suspect that Foop might be behind everything. Timmy finds out quickly and tries to warn them. Newsflash, Wanda, you're the [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Being]] of this show, not Timmy!
* Crocker gets '''another''' one of these in the episode "Teacher's Pet". The episode itself was bad enough (seriously, what's with the mix-n-match critters instead of, ya know, [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|an episode about being Crocker's pet?]]); but the BIGGEST [[
** And since when does Crocker praise ANY of his students? The only logical explanation for Crocker's [[Out of Character]] behavior is '''[[Verbal Tic|FAIRY GODPARENTS!!!]]'''
*** [[Depending on the Writer|Crocker's actually usually indifferent or appraising of AJ depending on the episode]]. ''Teacher's pet'' isn't the first time.
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* "Big Man on Hippocampus", starting from when Peter is diagnosed with amnesia and continuing through the end of the episode. Peter forgetting who his family was is understandable; forgetting what a telephone is, less so.
** Also, Lois acts all hurt and tearful about the amnesiac Peter becoming a bachelor because he can't remember their commitment, saying that being married is supposed to mean "being faithful". Yeeeah, what about at the beginning of the episode, where LOIS, under NO amnesia and in front of Peter, kisses the host of "Family Feud" and tells him "I wanna be your wedding ring" in a sexual voice. [[Double Standard|So Lois can be unfaithful to Peter, but Peter can't be unfaithful to her afterward?]] Especially given that Peter has an ''excuse'', while Lois has none? That the episode is expecting us to feel sorry for Lois and ignore her [[Hypocrite|hypocrisy]] is a big Wallbanger.
* Much has been said about Quagmire's [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to Brian on this wiki. It is related to the [[
** Note well: in the very same episode, when Quagmire's sister is getting beaten by her boyfriend, Quagmire runs outside to yell at Brian over his sister getting beaten. He's blaming Brian for something that isn't his fault without motivation, and chewing Brian out is more important to him than trying to rescue his own sister.
*** Wasn't the point Quagmire was making not that that Brian does all of those things, but that he acts intellectually and morally superior to everyone all the time in spite of them? That's one thing Quagmire himself ''doesn't'' do. The fact that he himself acknowledges his flaws and asks him "what gives you the right to judge anyone?" does seem to support this.
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** What makes this episode even more of a Wallbanger is that, according to the show, [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|the Cretaceous period was 200 million years ago, and leptictidia lived during the Cretaceous]].
* The episode where Jimmy makes a bunch of clones of himself to do a bunch of chores while he goes to see an astronomical event that only happens every couple thousand years. At the end, he simply freezes them all so that he can "[[Deadly Euphemism|declone]]" them, except for the evil clone who got away.
** What's funny is that the entire ''[[Blade Runner]]'' movie exists to point out how much of a [[
** When Evil Jimmy came back, he made an ''evil clone'' of Earth! When Jimmy is on Evil Earth, he runs to the clones of his parents for help. After all, "they may be evil, but they're still my parents, right?" Riiiight. Technically, they're his parents' offspring, his ''siblings,'' if anything. Oh, yeah, and they've never even seen him before. But they're still his parents!
** If the writers [[You Keep Using That Word|are using "clone" to mean "copy"]] in those two episodes - this program is, in theory, about a kid who loves science. The sound contradicts the sense here.
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* This Troper got serious pissed during "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" and "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" both of which essentially show that even when Lisa isn't being a [[Soapbox Sadie]] [[Mary Sue]], she's perfectly capable of being a [[Jerkass]] to Bart in ways that he would never be to her. The end of "The Great Wife Hope" is an even more blatant example of fraternal [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]; even if they were having a fight, the fact is the writers assumed "girl punching out boy" would be hilarious, even though the last we saw of Bart was him [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|heroically defending Marge]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|from a larger, adult opponent]].
* Speaking of "On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister", it's outrageous that Lisa gets away with a restraining order on Bart, [[Disproportionate Retribution|after he only made a fart prank and teased her a little bit]] when she was being an annoying [[Soapbox Sadie]] anyway. Then no, she doesn't stop there as she gets a stick with a philips head screw-driver and pokes it at him and forces him into horrible conditions. After that when Marge finally somewhat calls her out, Lisa responds by saying that she can't remember anything nice Bart has done, [[Sarcasm Mode|because clearly hugging her on the hockey field never happened]]. Then after Bart makes a huge idol,...everything is [[Status Quo Is God|suddenly just better]], without any [[Karma Houdini|consequences]].
* The ending to "The Old Man And Lisa" comes across as a big-time [[
** Take a closer look at all the creatures caught. There were not only fishes of all kinds and sizes but also crustaceans and even a ''freking whale''. That net is not "morally ambiguous" it's a [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]].
*** ... [[Analogy Backfire|but even weapons of mass destruction are morally ambiguous, depending on how one intends to use them]]. (See also [[Shoot the Dog|the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]].) Oh, and if you have to look closely at it to notice the whale, then, well, they probably could have been clearer about it than that. The point is, he used sea life, but it was going to be put to practical use. Lisa automatically treating this as indefensible comes across as closed-minded at best, especially when Burns calmly explains what it's being used for.
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== ''Transformers'' ==
* ''[[Transformers]] [[Beast Machines]]'': After treating him like [[The Load]]; insulting him; calling him useless to his face and behind his back, even after he relearns to transform; and, in general, being more or less completely hostile to their old friend - the Maximals are ''surprised'' when Rattrap goes to desperate measures - namely, cutting a deal with Megatron - to get some firepower and be of some use to the team.
** And then you get a ''bigger'' [[
*** Megatron isn't the only one who suffered from this as Rattrap, the same guy who prided himself on [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|fighting dirty]], actually proceeded to fulfill his end of the deal despite knowing that attacking Megatron at the time could win the Maximals the war. Worse, ''he'' was the one who realized that Megatron was weak in the first place. The [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Weak_Component Transformers Wiki] stated it best: "...either side could have potentially won the war right there, but the two characters with the least scruples suddenly became interested in fair play for no reason [[Just Eat Gilligan|(other than to keep the series from ending, obviously)]]."
** The biggest Wallbanger of all was that not ''only'' are the Maximals surprised, but they also ''attack'' Rattrap, an ''ally,'' for protecting Megatron, even though it was the most tactically stupid thing they could possibly do. If they had left well enough alone or given him five seconds to explain, then come sunrise, Rattrap would have walked back to the team with a mech-suit arsenal of super-weapons with which to pulverize Megatron's forces. Did they do that? No. They attacked Rattrap. Then they delivered [[An Aesop]] to him about not attacking your friends or defenseless people because ''he responded''.
** Commentaries explained Megatron's behavior. As the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|supposed savior]] of Cybertron has placed himself in position where he would have to keep his word as part of his new beliefs. As for Rattrap, he admits he originally ''intended'' to double-cross Megatron, but thanks to Megatron's playing to Rattrap's bruised ego, kept him from killing him
* Speaking of ''Beast Machines'', the entire premise of the show is a sham; supposedly, the entire "technological perfection" vs "nature and free will" argument that the show's premise is based on was meant as a philosophical look into whether one can "live" in an increasingly technological society, and whether there can be a balance between industry and nature. Sweet, [[Anvilicious]] tripe, but here's the problem: by the time of ''Beast Wars'' continuity, Cybertron was ''already'' pursuing that balance, having developed technology to incorporate organic beast modes into their systems for leisurely exploration into other planets, and as [[The Scrappy|Nightscream]] explains in his intro, had all ''internalized'', in an off-screen upgrade. Rumor has it that [[Executive Meddling]] demanded continuity not be followed for the show, but Nightscream's statement remains in this show's own canon. So, to give [[An Aesop]] about technorganic balance, the show had to ignore the same technorganic balance the Transformers were ''already working toward''? Or was the Oracle just too impatient to wait for the planet's evolution to technorganics on its own, and decided to force the evolution to happen on its own timeclock?
** What'e even worse, is that, when you [[Fridge Logic|think about it]], this story could've been told far more competently and logically by ''keeping'' continuity with ''Beast Wars'' instead of disregarding it. Think about it; by the end of ''Beast Wars'', the survivors have been altered anatomically to the point where it's unknown how or even ''if'' they could be reverted back to their original forms (btw, just ''how'' did the virus in ''Beast Machines'' override the Vok enhancements in the Maximals, but let Megatron keep his Dragon form?), and they are now privy to forbidden knowledge, not just of the Great War (that, as established below, was meant to be classified), but of the dirty little secrets of both the Maximal and Predacon ruling councils. So, if the executives wanted a "[[Rage Against the Machine]], nature vs. technology" story, they could've used ''that'' as a basis, with the Maximals being hunted down by the general populace for their mutations (which, if the "Vok are the evolved Swarm" theory is used, could be contagious, fulfilling the "technorganic Cybertron" ending they were going for), and the government in order to shut them up and keep their knowledge from sparking a revolution. Just another example of how these [[Wall Banger
** One more on ''[[Beast Machines]]'': The End of BW had Megatron's ass kicked in a major way, and him badly humiliated by being a hood ornament on their entire ride home. He was damaged in the fight. The transit through space couldn't have been kind. But lo and behold, all this is ignored with some vague time-dilation talk so that he can now become supreme ruler and nineteen kinds of invincible. That's right, total and utter defeat ensures your supreme victory.
* ''[[Beast Wars]]'' has a huge [[
** Perhaps many or all of the remaining G1 Transformers were, like Ravage, working for the same government(s) that were tightly controlling the records of the events of the events of G1?
*** The [[All There in the Manual|follow-up prequel/sequel comics explicitly show that this isn't the case]]. Most of the remaining G1 Transformers are ''doing nothing of importance'' on Cybertron.
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*** Beast Wars wasn't fully based on either the cartoon or comic, but a blend of both. It was deliberately left vague with elements from both.
**** Hey, Optimus Prime came back to life (''twice''), so why can't Prowl and Ironhide?
** The biggest [[
*** There are two explanations for that, one [[In-Universe]] and one meta. The in-story explanation is that, while this is what Megatron originally set out to do, he had second thoughts about messing with history and tried to avoid it for the first season. The meta explanation is that the staff (who made stuff up as they went along in the early stages) had yet to decide if the setting was Earth.
**** They had them all take on the characteristics of Earth fauna and yet weren't sure this was Earth?
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**** Though the [[In-Universe]] brings up another Wall Banger, again related to Ravage; [[All There in the Manual|according to supplementary media]], Megatron's plan to change history would've resulted in the destruction of all Transformers, as it required killing Optimus Prime, the holder of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which in turn was the only thing that could kill Unicron. No Prime, no Matrix, no way to stop Unicron from omnomnoming on Cybertron. Megatron likely knew this, and thus put it off as a last resort plan, only implemented when he had no other choice. However, Ravage was ''also'' present during the Unicron incident, and would also know the inherent dangers to the history-changing plan. So why would he be so easily convinced by Megatron to do it? Yeah, it took seeing a recording from the original (G1) Megatron detailing the plan to make him join up, but why? If anything, he should've pointed out that the plan was made before the threat of Unicron was even known (because Megatron would've been transformed into Galvatron, during that time, meaning the message would've been made before then) and continued to haul him in. Or is Ravage's devotion to the Decepticon cause just ''so'' great that he'll ignore ''his own experiences'' with the group to slag up history on orders from his dead commander made centuries ago? And before you answer, please keep in mind that, in his Beast Wars origins, Ravage ''left'' his fellow Decepticons for the Tripredacus council after his reformatting out of some disillusionment on his part, so he ''does'' have at least some history of abandoning the Decepticons if he feels it prudent to.
***** Megatron seems to fall further and further into megalomania as the series progresses. Initially, all he seems to care about is getting Energon. It's only one failure after the next that his ambitions start growing. Seems like every defeat, he comes back with a greater and stronger ego. It's entirely possible that he did have the message from the original Megatron but didn't rightly care about it initially, and it's only after his growing psychosis that "KILL OPTIMUS PRIME, KILL THE UNIVERSE" started to sound like a good idea.
* The episode "Heavy Metal War" of the [[Transformers Generation 1|original series.]] Basically, Megatron challenges Optimus Prime to a one-on-one battle to end the war. Naturally, being the [[Big Bad]], he cheats by transferring the powers of the other Decepticons to himself, and uses them to win the battle. Where's the [[
** Speaking of "Heavy Metal War," note that it was the first appearance of the Constructicons, who are said to have just been built by Megatron. But in Season 2's "The Secret of Omega Supreme," the Constructicons are said to be old friends of Omega that were forcibly reprogrammed by Megatron. (The time of these events is before the ''Ark'' crashed on Earth.) And then a flashback in Season 3's "The Five Faces of Darkness" five-parter shows the Constructicons... building Megatron. *beat* The term "continuity nightmare" is often used to describe this.
* Also from the original series is "Megatron's Master Plan" which involves the most idiotic of all deceptions. It should have been blatantly obvious to someone of average intelligence that the "Autobots" in the tapes were impostors that were acting REALLY badly. Also add in that the humans have witnessed repeated Decepticon attacks and that the human going along with this is already known to be untrustworthy.
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== Other ==
* ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]]'' has a hell of a [[
** The first, and main one, is the fact that Pi and Harvey were too stupid to realize that if the Greendale Library didn't have the books they wanted, they could have either asked the librarian if she could borrow the books from another library so Harvey and Pi could have them, used the school's library to get the books they needed (Pi even said his future of transportation project was for science class at Greendale Junior High), buy the books at a bookstore or through an online retailer, go to another library in another town, or forgo books and use the Internet for all their research needs.
** Secondly, Harvey's life going to hell because he flunked the entrance exam to his dream school and stupidly took his best friend's advice to go after something that falls into his lap is his own damn fault, not because of what Sabrina did. And even if Harvey did have the book he needed to get into Lawyer's Hospital University, there's no guarantee that he'll pass, as past episodes reveal that Harvey isn't exactly one of the brainy students (he's more of the jock/video game nerd/skater boy types).
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** "The Man Who Would Be Bat". Detectives Bennett and Yin are pursuing The Batman and decide they can find him by following actual bats. These bats lead them to Wayne Enterprises, where the creepy Dr. Langstrom is using them to research a cure for deafness for his pink-clad little niece. Bruce decides to help by giving the little girl a hearing aid. Hearing aids do not work that way.... It turns out the girl can hear—which Bruce should have figured out, since she answered the door after he ''knocked.'' Finally, he learns that Langstrom has been researching bats so he can turn into a giant bat that drains blood from the living. ''[[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]].'' And he shoots globs of sticky spit. Bennett has to say, loudly, "What is this stuff?!" in true cliche fashion. Get Langstrom to drink the insta-cure. The End.
*** Not to mention if Langstorm knew his employer (Which he should, he works for the guy) - he wouldn't have said it's for his deaf niece. Bruce Wayne is a famous philanthropist, of course he's going to help a little girl out.
** The biggest [[
* The episode "Tasumi Unmasked" of ''[[The Replacements (animation)|The Replacements]]''. In what is quite possibly the worst excuse for [[The Nth Doctor|changing a character design]] ''ever'', Tasumi suddenly goes from being a real-life [[Sentai]] hero complete with armor with working weapons... to [[Chickification|being a Japanese pop star]] who moved to America while cosplaying as a [[The Nineties|'90s]] [[Anime]] character to disguise herself. It's impossible to believe, even in a setting as weird as ''[[The Replacements (animation)|The Replacements]]''; and their attempts to Lampshade it don't make it go away.
** She was kicked out of her band by orangutans for having thumbs. [[You Fail Biology Forever|Orangutans also have thumbs]].
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* In ''[[Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos|Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos]]'', the plot of "Menace from Space". If you're in the process of launching a space shuttle, and you know that terrorists have already infiltrated the airbase and are trying to board the shuttle at that very moment, you stop the countdown and abort the launch. You do ''not'' allow the shuttle to take off with the terrorists aboard so they can use it as a platform for their [[Wave Motion Gun]].
* In Shriek's second appearance in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', he terrorizes the whole city because he blames Batman for his hearing loss ({{spoiler|it was an accident}}) and for his ending up in jail. In the news segment, every single person interviewed supports Shriek. Not once is it mentioned that he was sent to jail because he tried to murder {{spoiler|Bruce Wayne}} by dropping a building on him. The subsequent attempt to drive {{spoiler|Bruce}} insane could have been covered up, but it's hard to cover up an entire building collapsing. Also, how does this justify Shriek holding an entire city hostage? It's no wonder Bruce gets disgusted and threatens to leave Gotham to Shriek.
** YMMV: this could be a [[Fridge Brilliance]] moment. You're the average Joe, there's this superhero you've probably never met who allegedly does some crime-fighting. There's this supervillain who can cause you a LOT of trouble, unless you get rid of the hero. What do you do? Say "hey, let's sacrifice our hero to the villain! Better him than us, amirite?"? Or rather try to convince yourself that you're not a bastard, and come up with a lame "um... Batman sucks! It's all his fault!" scapegoating? Additionally, Batman not being treated as a hero, but with a lot of suspicion has been used in various media before (including both live-action movies featuring the Joker, interestingly). The thing is, what the people of Gotham say is SUPPOSED to make no sense, they're just terrified for their lives. Plus, it makes Batman more of a hero. Not necessarily a [[
* An episode of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' has Toby having to inspect a dam for damage by crossing it on a railway track. Guess what was wrong with that last statement.
** ''James Works it Out'' has James ''pushing a train in a snowstorm without a brakevan'', acting like a complete [[Jerkass]] towards everyone who offers him help, and then finally using an industrial coal hopper ''as a snowplow to dislodge his uncoupled trucks from a snowdrift.'' Find the problems, fellow trainspotters!
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* The existence of the Quarrymen, a KKK-knockoff from ''[[Gargoyles]]'', is a wallbanger in of itself. You can't even blame the [[Canon Discontinuity|canonically false]] ''Goliath Chronicles'' for them; they're canon as well. A great thing about the human prejudice toward gargoyles through most of the series is that it's parallel to real-life racism was ''subtle''; it didn't hammer it into the audience's heads, the audience was allowed to grasp the message on their own. But now we have these villains who hate gargoyles, so they throw sheets over their heads and go out hunting them with hi-tech hammers. Thus, they quite literally [[Incredibly Lame Pun|HAMMER]] the "gargoyle prejudice = racism" message into the audience's heads when it isn't needed.
** It wouldn't have been so bad except for one incident where the Quarrymen set a trap for the Gargoyles by having one of their members pretend to be mugged in a dark alley-because they know the Gargoyles ''help and protect the people of New York.'' Bear in mind that a recruiting drive shown earlier in the series emphasized that gargoyles were evil creatures that attacked people and couldn't be trusted. The Quarrymen must recruit people for their swinging arms and not their brains.
* The ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "The Eyes of Despero" introduces the rather inept Green Lantern G'Nort. Throughout the episode, G'Nort is constantly shown as being very incompetent, and apparently he is only in the Green Lantern Corps because "[[Ultimate Job Security|an influential uncle pulled a few strings]]". Since [[Alien Scrappy|he]], [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Guy Gardner]], and [[Treacherous Advisor|Sinestro]] are apparently all that remain of the Corps, he tags along in their quest to defeat Despero. At the episode's climax, G'nort is given a simple but important task: drain Mogo's power battery into his ring so that Despero can't use Mogo as a weapon. All G'Nort needs to do to accomplish this is say the Green Lantern oath, which of course, he can't remember. As a result, Batman and Gardner almost get killed until G'Nort remembers that he's ''carrying a note with the oath written on it''. What makes this a [[
** Also, about mind controlling Mogo... how the hell can you mind-control A PLANET?! Mogo's core (read "mind") is a central power battery which draws from ALL THE WILLPOWER OF THE UNIVERSE! Control that mind, and you are controlling every mind in the universe!
*** "Influential Uncle?" Who the hell is this guy that can make the ''[[By-The-Book Cop|Guardians]] [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|of Oa]]'' babysit his nephew, when they [[The Stoic|don't even break a sweat]] standing up to [[Sinestro]], [[Darkseid]], and [[Green Lantern/Characters/Sinestro Corps|Parallax]] itself?
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** To be fair the guy behind the trial was a [[General Ripper]] clearly out to get JT (and everyone calls him out on it) and gets chewed out by the Admiral when he finds out, for both his stupid plan (which does almost gets everyone killed) and trying to kill one of the best pilots in the fleet.
* In this children's show ''[[Caillou]]'', the main protagonist Caillou is excited about going to the circus with his friends. When his little sister wants to come he tells her no. She starts crying and his father reprimands him saying his friends might not even take him to the circus and he's all like "BUT THEY PROMISED!" The episode then starts giving out [[An Aesop]] about keeping promises. WHAT. THE. HELL. His friends' parents DIDN'T EVEN CALL THE FUCKING HOUSE TO TELL THEM THAT THEY CHANGED PLANS! The main point is that Caillou was being disrespectful (as usual) to his sister and not that his friends blew him off (which they never did)!
** Oh, there's an even '''bigger''' [[
*** This was probably intended to be a more rational, less scare 'em straight alternative to the equally [[Wall Banger
* What happened to Baxter Stockman in [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon]] in "Revenge of the Fly". In the episode, he's turned half the town into bug mutants and the only way to change them back is by using Shredder's Retromutagen Ray on them. All fine and dandy, but why didn't the turtles think to use it on Baxter Stockman, whose entire motivation for revenge on the turtles is the fact that he's a giant mutant fly and that he wants to be human again? Instead they kick Baxter into a dimension portal (that he's [[Idiot Ball|conveniently standing next to]]), wrestle the gun away from him, shut off the machine and strand him in another dimension, and then destroy the gun. [[What the Hell, Hero?]]?
** It's simple, in the episode where Baxter gets turned into his current form, the transformation is a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Fly]]'' and as such he ''can't'' be undone by the gun. Secondly even ''before'' his transformation he was shown as a crazy enemy, probably if given the chance the Turtles would've probably sent Shredder, Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang in after him.
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* ''[[BattleTech]]''. Towards the end of the show, Adam Steiner breaks into the Jade Falcon compound where his brother is being held. How do you ask? By walking up to the chainlink fence, grabbing it at the bottom and lifting a portion up so he can crawl underneath. Wait... what?! [[Fridge Logic|Why didn't the prisoners escape that way in the first place?]]
* ''[[Tale Spin]]'', while usually a rather enjoyable and heartwarming show, wasn't void of these moments either. Episodes like "Save The Tiger" and "Your Baloo's In The Mail" are notable for evolving the Baloo ([[The Ace|yeah]], [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|THAT]] [[Gentle Giant|Baloo]]) into almost the same [[Idiot Ball|idiotic]] [[Jerkass]] territory as [[Family Guy|Peter Griffin]] and [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]] had as of recently. Rebecca, while hardly void of abusive moments to Baloo herself at times, came off as a borderline [[The Woobie|Woobie]] for the hell she put with on these occasions. "[[Downer Ending|Baloo's In The Mail]]" especially enters [[Dude, Not Funny]] territory for many fans.
* ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]] The Series'': Much of the early seasons revolved around [[The Men in Black]] ditching their overall mission to protect Earth from dangerous aliens in favor of humiliating [[Butt Monkey|Agent J]] every chance they got. One of K's favored tactics was purposefully withholding vital facts about the [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] of the aliens they were about to encounter until J screwed everything up and it was too late (that J was a newbie and it was his partner's responsibility to educate him about such things never figured into it). One of the many [[Wall Banger
** It's even worse than that. As the bodyguard will take too long to regenerate, the Men in Black decide to have an agent go undercover in an alien bodysuit to protect the diplomat. Fair enough, but you should already know who they give the assignment to. What follows is a J getting a cram session about the alien species' culture (habits, language, etc.) and then "comedic" pratfalls endured by the disguised agent while on the job. The Wallbanger becomes evident because K and virtually every other agent seen knew all about this species. Why waste valuable time getting the newest agent up to speed and go through all of this when anyone else could've done the job?
** Following Zed's retirement, a weakened Alpha crashes an alien ship and steals the body parts of the alien criminals inside. With his new powers and body made of [[Badass|Badass Incarnate]], he captures Agent J and uses a [[Mind Probe]] on him to learn Zed's location. After he leaves, Agent L rescues J and reveals Zed's not retired: every last one of J's fellow agents was pulling a [[Massive Multiplayer Scam|Massive Multiplayer]] [[Batman Gambit]] on J to trick Alpha into reading J's mind, with armed agents lying in wait at the "retirement" spot. In other words; the Men in Black knew Alpha would attack the alien ship and, rather than spring a trap at the ship against a weakened Alpha, they let him upgrade himself with the alien goodies that made him [[Nigh Invulnerable]] and planned to take him down afterwards. The plan falls apart spectacularly, as Alpha picked up on J not being entirely fooled by Zed's phony retirement.
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