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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':
** While the Gaang's ship is under attack, Sokka says, [[Rock Bottom|"Things couldn't get much worse!"]], then a giant sea serpent pops out of the water.
{{quote|'''Sokka:''' The universe just loves proving me wrong!
'''Toph:''' That's 'cause you make it too easy!" }}
::However, things go wrong in the next few scenes. In prison, a Dai Li agent delivers Long Feng his meal, but also quietly reassures Long Feng that the organization retains loyalty to him, not the King. Toph goes to meet her mother, and ends up being captured in a metal box by Master Yu and Xin Fu. The Kyoshi Warriors arrive before the Earth King, who formally welcomes them. {{spoiler|Unknown to the king, however, they are actually Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee, disguised in Kyoshi Warrior garments and makeup, setting the stage for the (temporary) takeover of Ba Sing Se...}}
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' has "Harley's Holiday", where a semi-rehabilitated Harley Quinn ends up being pursued by the police, as well as Batman and Robin, after a simple misunderstanding. After taking [[Spoiled Sweet]] Veronica Vreeland hostage, she then ends up being pursued by gangsters who wish to ransom off the debutante. After Veronica realizes Harley really doesn't mean her any harm, she agrees to drop all charges, provided she gets out of this in one piece. A delighted Harley states: "For the first time today, things are finally looking up!" [[Batman: The Animated Series/Funny|Enter Veronica's hysterical Army general father, bearing down on them in a tank, Patton-style.]]
* Waspinator, the designated [[Butt Monkey]] of ''[[Beast Wars]]'' gets it in "Changing of the Guard":
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** "Bad Connection": Odd complains at the beginning that he never has any conflict with his parents like a normal teenager. After XANA makes them, along with almost everyone else at the academy, [[Brainwashed and Crazy]], they spend most of the episode trying to kill him. When the mob corners him, we get this line:
{{quote|'''Odd:''' ''(unconcerned/resigned)'' I promise never to complain about not having conflicts with my parents again.}}
{{quote|'''Jérémie:''' I'm putting it to sleep. Odd would kill me if the Super Scan went off in the middle of his film.
'''Aelita:''' At any rate, there's not much chance that XANA would launch an attack during the three minutes the film lasts. }}
{{quote|'''Sissi:''' Or else what, a monster's going to squirt goopy goo all over my face, huh, Ulrich?
''([[Drool Hello|guess what happens next]])'' }}
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{{quote|'''Jonathan:''' Okay, we should be perfectly fine as long as no one says --
'''Evelyn:''' I think we lost him!
'''Jonathan:''' ... [[You Just Had to Say It|Why'd you have to say it?]]
''(the Scarab King [[Offscreen Teleportation|suddenly pops out of nowhere]])'' }}
* Egon Spengler of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' once remarked, "Sometimes I think the universe just waits for me to get cocky."
* In the ''[[Robot Chicken]]''
** And later in that same special, Palpatine's borderline [[Humiliation Conga]] of problems (including his tray table breaking and spilling coffee in his lap, the airport losing his luggage, his new chair bolted to the floor ''and'' right under an air conditioning vent) ends with him saying to a guard, "Here, wanna watch me tempt fate?: ''Could this day get ANY worse?'' See, I said it ironically, so I should be safe." When next we see him, Vader is throwing him down to his death.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
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'''Smithers:''' Will you be donating that million dollars now, Sir?
'''Burns:''' Nooo, I'd still prefer not. }}
{{quote|'''Homer:''' Don't be upset, Marge. At least it's not raining! ''(after a pause... nothing happens)'' See?}}
* ''[[Family Guy]]''
** "Dial Meg for Murder" subverts this trope into a comment on the audience's racist assumptions: When Brian talks Meg out of robbing Mort Goldman's pharmacy and the two leave, Mort comments, "Well, at least I didn't get robbed!" Then, "How can I help you four fine black gentlemen today?" The show then cuts away to continue the story, leaving the viewer's familiarity with the trope and with common racial stereotyping to conclude the scene.
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** From their ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Family Guy Presents Laugh It Up Fuzzball|parody]] "Something Something Something Dark Side:"
{{quote|'''Rebel 1''': I think we're doomed.
'''Rebel 2''': Nah, unless they got any [[Buffy-Speak|big giant robot camels]] I think we're okay.
''AT-AT walkers appear in the distance.''
'''Rebel 1''': Uh, Jim? Robot camels... }}
{{quote|'''Stewie:''' Well, it could be worse. At least I'm not getting stabbed by some random guy on the street. ''(starts raining)'' See, it's the exact opposite! ''(gets stabbed)''}}
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''
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'''SpongeBob:''' I don't think this can get any worse!
'''Patrick:''' Nonsense! ''(produces a bike pump to hook up to the paint bubble, inflating it further)'' }}
{{quote|'''Squidward:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|AAAND THE PIZZA'S COLD! OH THIS IS TERRIBLE! NOT THE '''PIZZZZZA!''' Oh, how could it get any worse?!]] ''(kicks their boat that is out of gas, which rockets back up to a full tank, and DRIVES AWAY ON ITS OWN)''}}
{{quote|'''SpongeBob:''' I'm every bit as cool as Larry. And if I'm not, let me be struck by... ''(thunder clap)'' ...a flying ice cream truck. ''(Cue falling ice cream truck.)'' AND LIVE! ''(Ice cream truck suspends in mid-air just above SpongeBob, then falls on him.)''}}
* ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]''
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* In ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' movie "Wishology: The exciting middle part"...
{{quote|'''Timmy:''' The Darkness is never coming back!}}
* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': One of the mini-shorts has a camper raking a big pile of leaves and saying "I can't imagine having to do that again." The plot of the short has Skip and Chip driving an out of control speedboat, so we expect the speedboat to ram into the leaves. {{spoiler|Instead, it rams into another campmate who happens to walk by.}}
* In the 2nd episode of ''[[Slacker Cats]]'' Buckley and Eddie are arguing about who will steer the car and who will do the breaks. They both decide to steer.
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{{quote|'''Boy:''' So far so good. There's no one around. I'm in luck!
''(the barrel of a blaster rifle appears from off-screen pointing at him)'' }}
{{quote|'''Pilot 1:''' Don't worry! Nothing can penetrate our craft's armor!
'''Brak:''' Fire sleep missile! ''(missile is fired and hits)''
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** "Pirates from Below". The enemy leader is waiting for a mine attached to the Quest's underwater probe to detonate. Unfortunately for him, Race Bannon has removed the mine and let it drift up to the leader's ship.
{{quote|'''Enemy leader:''' Their time is almost up. It is just a matter of seconds. ''('''BOOM'''!)''}}
{{quote|'''Race Bannon:''' Well, so far so good, eh doctor?
'''Dr. Quest:''' And surprisingly peaceful.
'''Turu the Terrible:''' ''(detects them and starts making its warning call, then attacks)'' }}
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'':
** After the Killer Bass' tent is burned down, an angry Courtney declares that things couldn't get any worse. On cue, it starts to rain.
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** In "A Hard Day's Knight", Candace agrees to dress up like a princess for their medieval fair. After a few moments she wonders "Wait a sec. Could this be one of those things that backfires horribly on me? Nah." Throughout the rest of the episode, she suffers indignity after indignity.
** In "Doof Side of the Moon", Candace teams up with Irving's brother Albert to bust Phineas and Ferb for their latest project, a skyscraper so gigantic that it reaches to the moon. Albert assures Candace that the tower is so huge, "no force on Earth" could get rid of it before her mom comes home. This is only [[Exact Words|technically true]], as Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Lunar Rotate-inator causes the moon to turn around, dragging the tower away in the process.
* Shows up a few times in ''[[My Little Pony:
** In the very first episode, Twilight Sparkle brushes off Princess Celestia's advice to make some friends, saying "The fate of all Equestria doesn't depend on me making friends". By the next episode, it's clear that actually, it does.
** In "Look Before You Sleep," Twilight ends up lecturing Applejack and Rarity after their bickering spoils Twilight's first slumber party, and ends her rant with "Is there anything else that could possibly go wrong?!" The thunderstorm outside swiftly worsens, and a lightning bolt strikes a nearby tree and threatens to send it crashing into Twilight's house.
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'''Danny:''' Have you seen his grades? '''(together with Tuck)''' ''Never gonna happen''.
'''Dash:''' Hey! This is Fenton wipe! *glares at Danny*
'''Sam:''' "Never" is karma's doorbell. Ding-dong, it's for you.}}
* From the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''; April tends to get kidnapped a lot, but in "Return of the Fly", she was kind of asking for it:
{{quote|'''April:''' Gee guys, this is really boring, I wish something would hap-
''Cut Off as Baxter Stockman sneaks up behind and grabs her.'')}}
* In ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'', Kara (as in [[Supergirl]]) is known for having a foul temper, and in the episode “#AngerManagement”, [[Green Lantern| Jessica]] decides to use hypnosis to try to cure her of it. Once she does so she decides to find out if it works by telling Kara she accidentally mixed their laundry and turned her favorite boots green, suggests Kara spruce up her room with a life-size cutout of [[Superman]] (Kara's envy of her cousin is another of her faults in this series) replaces all her soda with soy milk, and suggests she replace her favorite leather jacket with a burlap sack. Zee, who is witnessing this incredibly dangerous tempting of fate, is literally cowering behind a couch in terror by the time Jessica finishes, realizing that if it did not work, Kara will likely tear Jessica from limb, but miraculously, the hypnosis worked.
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