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[[File:cbwy 2062.gif|link=Peanuts|frame| Charlie Brown's finest hour.]]
 
{{quote|''"Waspinator happy at last."''
 
{{quote|''"Waspinator happy at last."''|'''[[The Chew Toy|Waspinator]]''', giving the very last line of ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars]]''}}
 
So they've been [[The Chew Toy|constantly injured]], the [[Butt Monkey|butt of every joke and misfortune]], and it seems [[Cosmic Plaything|the universe itself just likes screwing with him]]. So what's happening now? Huh... he's happy?
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Compare [[Karmic Jackpot]], [[Earn Your Happy Ending]].
 
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* The [[Trix]] rabbit is occasionally given a chance to actually ''try'' the cereal depending on the outcome of a poll. People vote for him to get it ''every time'', and by now you would think the company would get that people [[The Woobie|really feel sorry for the guy]] and hate those [[Cereal Vice Reward|greedy kids]].
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*** Charlie Brown does get at least one victory in the comics. During the last part of its run, he helps Rerun by defeating a bully in a game of marbles.
*** Another time was when Lucy was berating Charlie Brown at her psychology booth for wasting his life he spent the morning cleaning his closet shelf. To prove her point, she asked Linus what he was doing that morning. When he said he just watched TV, Lucy was humiliated seeing her argument explode in her face while Charlie made the most of this great turn of events with a smug "My closet shelf is real clean!"
* Downplayed in ''[[Looney Toons| Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]''; Daffy is a guy who always seems to get the short end of the stick in his rivalry with Bugs. In the movie, however, he becomes the hero, something everyone - Bugs included - is willing to acknowledge. Bugs is even willing to make him an equal partner in his new film endeavor. Unfortunately, just as Daffy's luck seems to be improving, he is flattened by the Looney Tunes iris, and Porky's [[Catch Phrase]] indicates the end of the movie.
* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': Lumpus has a mad crush on Jane Doe, but his efforts to get her to realize that always backfire hilariously. Jane frequently misinterprets his motives, leading her to see him as A) a friend, or B) a jerk. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Failure]] is Lumpus' only option, as Jane gets together with and even ''marries'' everyone except Lumpus. The second-to-last episode focuses on the two, and is called {{spoiler|Wedding Bell Blues}}. [[Happily Married|Guess]] [[Official Couple|what]] [[Happily Married|happens]] at the end?
** Of course, the last episode then [[Yank the Dog's Chain|yanks it away from him]] and {{spoiler|he ends up in jail.}}
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