Consolation World Record: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Herman's Head]]'': Herman is out to set a world record for continuous working at one sitting. He discovers that one of his colleagues is planning to sing at a night club, and leaving work to watch her would preclude him breaking the record. He watches her anyway. The next day, the record book authorities come in, and Herman wonders why. Turns out that he broke a record: eating the most sunflower seeds in one sitting! He'd been eating them the entire time.

* In an episode of ''[[Sanford and Son]]'', Fred attempted to set the record for longest time staying awake. He missed the mark by less than a minute, yet Bubba and Roger (the son of Lamont's girlfriend) each set their own records in their efforts to help Fred along (Bubba for most repetitions of one song, Roger for marathon basketball bouncing). Note how the man from Guiness took Roger and Bubba's word for how long they'd been at their particular tasks, but wouldn't give Fred the benefit of the doubt for a minute's worth of consciousness.

* On ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', Bobby and Cindy failed to break the record for consecutive hours on a seesaw, but they set a record for consecutive hours ''by children'' on a seesaw. Plus they were in the newspaper.

* ''[[MASH]]''. Klinger decides to sit up a pole in protest about his not being allowed to leave the Army. When the others realise he's close to breaking a world pole-sitting record, Colonel Potter orders him to stay up there, even though he's decided to come down. "It's either that or swallowing 24 goldfish!" Klinger breaks the record, and is allowed leave in Tokyo instead.

* The short-lined USA sitcom "Campus Cops" featured this plot point. In it one of the main characters was trying to set a World Record for "Most Sexual Thoughts" in a 24 hour period. However with the record in sight, his machine malfunctions, and he is horrible electrocuted. While recuperating, he learns he has in fact set a new record for Most Electricity withstood by a human being.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Spongebob asks him if he wants to try and win another one now, but Patrick tells him "No, I've got to protect my record!" and goes back to lying under his rock.

* In the ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' episode "World Records", Arnold and his friends attempt multiple times to set a world record, failing every time - until they get the record for most attempts to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.

* In the ''[[Simpsons]]'' episode "Sweets and Sour Marge", Homer and the town of Springfield attempt to build the world's largest human pyramid. This does not go well; however, the town is awarded "Fattest Town".

* There was an episode of the comic ''[[The New Archies]]'' in which the class tries to break the record for longest submarine sandwich. It was a valiant effort, but the sandwich simply wasn't made long enough. Jughead, however, does land the record for eating it in the least amount of time the representative had ever seen -- and Jughead wasn't even going for that!

* Not sure if this ever appeared in the cartoon, but there was a book of ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' stories in which Skeeter tries to set a record, and after multiple failures Kermit declares that she set the record for most attempts to break a record without actually succeeding.

* In ''[[Yvon of the Yukon]]'', the entire town tries to break a world record in order to get back on the map (it had been removed due to being a small town with a long name), but their repeated attempts drive the records guy insane until he gives them the world record for "Craziest Town in the World"

* In the ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'s Berry Bitty Adventures'' episode "Berry Bitty World Record," the girls attempt to break a record in order to win a vacation for Berrykin Bloom, with Orange Blossom in charge of organizing their attempts. In the end, they don't break any of the records they were aiming for, but the judge (who turned out to be a friend of theirs) tells them that Orange broke the record for "most consecutive hops", since she spent the whole day going from girl to girl on her pogo stick.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==