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This trope, being over-used, is often subverted by having the character to whom the '''Zany Scheme''' is proposed simply shoot the whole thing down as ridiculous, and switch to another plot. An [[Double Subversion|even further subversion]] occurs when the ''sensible'' plot then fails while the zany one succeeds.
Has some elements in common with a [[Rube Goldberg Device]], and can overlap when the plan involves a large number of physical things being triggered in a series, the first item triggering the second, which triggers the third, and so on. Contrast with [[A Simple Plan]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has Asakura and some of the girls from Negi's class come up with one of these (during the [[Beach Episode]]) to help Negi and Asuna make up after a fight. The plan: rather than you know, talk it out, they decide to pretend that Negi is drowning so that Asuna can rescue him. Then [[Gag Boobs|Chizuru]] decides to embellish it a little by adding some [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|fake sharks]], played by Natsumi and Ku Fei, to the mix. Naturally, they fail to tell Negi their plan, so he freaks out when he's suddenly pulled underwater and attacked by sharks. As such, he attacks a shark with Martial Arts, only to find that ''the shark knows Kung Fu''. The plan fails miserably, by the way.
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* Several of the chapters in ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' revolve around these, most notably Rabbit's plans to kidnap Roo and "unbounce" Tigger.
== [[Live
* ''[[The Honeymooners]]''. Ralph Kramden is practically the [[Trope Namer]].
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' uses one of these most every episode.
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* ''[[Top Gear]]'': it's never just "How easy to drive is this this Ford Fiesta?" it's "Could this Fiesta evade bad guys while driving through a shopping centre? Could it do a beach assault with the Royal Marines?" The really zany schemes are just for their own sake, such as "Buy a cheap car and turn it into a boat", inevitably preceded by the words "[[Catch Phrase|How hard]] [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|can it be?]]"
* Subverted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Impossible Astronaut", The Doctor winds up in the Oval Office, where he agrees (at gunpoint, which happened a lot in that episode) to help Richard Nixon find someone, he then proceeds to say (with dramatic music) "I'm going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilize, street-level maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, 12 jammy dodgers, and a fez." All he really needed (and got) were the maps.
* On ''[[Hyperdrive]]'', {{spoiler|Teal}} constructs an intricate plan that falls somewhere between Zany Scheme and [[Gambit
* Happens a lot in ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''. Likely most episodes in fact, although some, like the 'Peckham Spring' episode pretty much come to mind here.
* Used and sometimes [[Lampshaded]] on every episode of ''[[Kenan and Kel]]''.
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== [[Radio]] ==
* Oh so very often on ''[[The Goon Show]]'', which - thanks to being written by [[Spike Milligan]] - was able to make ''perfect sense'' ([[It Makes Sense in Context|within the context of the show, anyway]]) of a plan to drain a Scottish loch by making Ned Seagoon believe it granted immortality.
* Almost every episode of ''[[The Navy Lark]]'' involved either; a Get Rich Quick scheme by [[
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In [[13]], Evan comes up with a few of these to get his friends into an R-Rated movie.
{{quote|'''Evan''': And all I have to do is...}}
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* The ''[[Commedia Dell'Arte]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]], since the lower-class characters, or "Zanni", typically came up with schemes of this kind.
=== Opera ===
* ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' teems with zany schemes. To stop the Count getting his aristocratic hands on Susanna, for instance, she and her fiance Figaro decide to outwit him by arranging an assignation between her and the Count but sending the page Cherubino dressed as a girl in her place. When the plan is rumbled they hit upon a new one: this time neglected Countess will disguise herself as Susanna and meet her own husband in the garden. Hilarity ensues, to the accompaniment of some of the most meltingly beautiful music ever written.
** The aria that Tim Robbins plays over the prison loudspeakers in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' comes from
== [[Video Games]] ==
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{{quote|'''Yukari:''' An explosive? For real?!
'''Junpei:''' Nah, all I did was unlock a door... }}
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* Generator's latest Zany Scheme in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''? Using her powers to create shoulder angels to torment Phase, because Phase was peeking at Generator's roommate in the bathroom. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse.]]▼
** {{spoiler|Eventually, the entire school was nearly wrecked.}}▼
** Note that, previously, she was involved in an actual '[[Noodle Incident]]', she animated a stuffed cabbit doll as part of an epic chase, she later rigged that cabbit with enough weaponry to rip a man's arm off, she's obsessed with ''[[Hello Kitty]]'', and she's a trap! Zany Schemes are her forte. (Oh, and don't forget what she had to go through to go to a lesbian hot-tub thing. Even if she's not a lesbian.)▼
** Don't forget when she decided she needed to wear the school's 'pacifist' and 'ultra-violent' armbands, and just switch off on different days. Generator is the ''definition'' of [[Crazy Awesome]]. Emphasis on the 'crazy'.▼
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] is always busy coming up with these for the [[Website/That Guy With The Glassess|Channel Awesome]] staff- such as invading the micro-nation of [[Kickassia|Molassia]] or [[Suburban Knights|searching for magical gauntlets in urban Chicago]]. The site members are now [[Genre Savvy|familiar and tired of his plots]] but they can't complain, or else they're fired. And they kinda enjoy it, even though they won't admit.▼
** Also deconstructed with the Critic. With Kickassia at least, it's heavily implied that he wanted power because he's miserable with his usual life.▼
* One [[Touhou Project|Walfas]] [http://www.walfas.org/flash/nitori_flash.swf flash] was about [[Gadgeteer Genius|Nitori]] intentionally creating a problem just so she could solve it and become a hero. The problem in question was the imminent collision of a ship and an iceberg (sound familiar?) which she attempts to solve by giving [[The Judge|Shiki's]] hat and stick and one of [[Cute Ghost Girl|Youmu's]] swords to [[Catgirl]] Chen, then tossing her overboard so she could destroy the iceberg. She then realizes that Chen (a cat) [[Oh Crap|can't swim.]] {{spoiler|Luckily, it was [[All Just a Dream]].}}▼
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Susan describes Justin's plan for dealing with a problem as a [http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-02-04 wacky hijinks solution.] He doesn't end up going through with it.
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' got a few, especially when [[The Fair Folk|Cessily]] tried to become her school's [[Queen Bee]]. Later she [https://pixietrixcomix.com/eerie-cuties/2013-05-06 privately admits] that only a good friend could follow "all my ideas, even the extra-creative ones".
* ''[[Chasing the Sunset]]'' had this [https://web.archive.org/web/20171001091117/http://www.fantasycomic.com/index.php?p=c185 discussed]:
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'''Leaf''': But my plans work!
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'''[[The Fair Folk|Feiht]]''': ''I'' like them!
'''Ayne''': My point exactly. }}
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* Generator's latest Zany Scheme in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''? Using her powers to create shoulder angels to torment Phase, because Phase was peeking at Generator's roommate in the bathroom. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse.]]
▲** {{spoiler|Eventually, the entire school was nearly wrecked.}}
▲** Note that, previously, she was involved in an actual '[[Noodle Incident]]', she animated a stuffed cabbit doll as part of an epic chase, she later rigged that cabbit with enough weaponry to rip a man's arm off, she's obsessed with ''[[Hello Kitty]]'', and she's a trap! Zany Schemes are her forte. (Oh, and don't forget what she had to go through to go to a lesbian hot-tub thing. Even if she's not a lesbian.)
▲** Don't forget when she decided she needed to wear the school's 'pacifist' and 'ultra-violent' armbands, and just switch off on different days. Generator is the ''definition'' of [[Crazy Awesome]]. Emphasis on the 'crazy'.
▲* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] is always busy coming up with these for the [[Website/That Guy With The Glassess|Channel Awesome]] staff- such as invading the micro-nation of [[Kickassia|Molassia]] or [[Suburban Knights|searching for magical gauntlets in urban Chicago]]. The site members are now [[Genre Savvy|familiar and tired of his plots]] but they can't complain, or else they're fired. And they kinda enjoy it, even though they won't admit.
▲** Also deconstructed with the Critic. With Kickassia at least, it's heavily implied that he wanted power because he's miserable with his usual life.
▲* One [[Touhou Project|Walfas]] [http://www.walfas.org/flash/nitori_flash.swf flash] was about [[Gadgeteer Genius|Nitori]] intentionally creating a problem just so she could solve it and become a hero. The problem in question was the imminent collision of a ship and an iceberg (sound familiar?) which she attempts to solve by giving [[The Judge|Shiki's]] hat and stick and one of [[Cute Ghost Girl|Youmu's]] swords to [[Catgirl]] Chen, then tossing her overboard so she could destroy the iceberg. She then realizes that Chen (a cat) [[Oh Crap|can't swim.]] {{spoiler|Luckily, it was [[All Just a Dream]].}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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