History GoneHorriblyRight / LiveActionTV

** [[spoiler:A Nazi escaped justice by pretending to be Jewish, even getting a concentration camp tattoo. Things probably got a bit awkward when his son wanted to "rediscover" his family's faith and became very involved with his father's "lapsed" religion...]]
*** Assuming he married a Jewish woman, his son was, in fact, Jewish.
** A better example is the cage fighter was so afraid of a stalker harming his family that when his friend, a homeless veteran, died after an accident he decided to set the body on fire and fake his own death. The fighter is eventually found, but he burned the body so thoroughly that there's no proof the homeless vet wasn't murdered and the DA was forced to charge him. Although Mac told him he might not be found guilty...and worked to get the veteran the proper burial he deserved.

** In another episode, when he has to go to a Catholic charity as part of his apology about Seattle's climate (ItMakesSenseInContext), he changes one of his jokes so he wouldn't end up repeating a regularly done tasteless joke due to a nun's comments. It worked. Unfortunately, he also ended up unintentionally telling [[FunnyAneurysmMoment an even less tasteful joke relating to a priest and fishermen when Seattle's archbishop was lost at sea]].

* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': The narrator wants to become like Ogata, and Kanako promises him to help him. The problem is that the narrator completely fails to see that Ogata was bullied and embarrassed until he chose death. When the narrator [[spoiler: is beaten up, drugged and handed over to the prostitution ring, he very well became like Ogata, but not to his advantage to say the least.]]

'''Doctor:''' Fifty people don't just disappear. Where. Oh. You didn't have the parts, so you used the crew.\\

'''Rose:''' We found a camera with an eye in it, and there was a heart wired in to machinery.\\

* In "All About You-Niverse," Alex tries to avoid a punishment by entering a MagicMirror to an alternate world where everything she says is accepted as gospel truth. At first she's happy to be the center of attention, but she soon discovers that everyone is taking her words literally, to their own detriment. Things go from BadToWorse when Mirror!Harper, following Alex's commands, shatters the magic mirror, leaving Alex potentially trapped in the You-niverse forever.

* ''Series/TrueBlood'': In season 4, the recently appointed King Bill attempts to get revenge on Eric for breaking up his relationship with Sookie by sending Eric to a meeting of Wiccans who are believed to be practicing necromancy. While Bill claims he's doing this to protect vampires (since necromancy can be used to control/enslave them), the reality is Bill wants Eric to be compromised (i.e. have a spell cast on him) so he can have a reason to have Eric executed. Needless to say, Eric ends up going to the meeting and gets a spell placed on him that erases all of his memories and gives Bill the opportunity he wanted. However, what Bill didn't count on is that said witch (Marnie) who cast the spell did so in a panic and ended up summoning a 400 year old angry spirit named Antonia who wants to exterminate vampires from the face of the Earth. When Antonia fully possesses Marnie's body with her permission, she begins a campaign against Bill and his kingdom. By the end of it, 4 out of 5 of Bill's sheriffs are dead, the Festival of Tolerance (which was a PR occasion to celebrate peaceful relationships between vampires and humans) ends in disaster, a bunch of other vampires and humans either are killed or get seriously injured, and Bill ends up on the run from the Authority because they blame him for the entire fiasco. The irony is Bill doesn't even execute Eric despite having the opportunity to do so, which means he brought this entire mess on himself for nothing.

* ''Series/TrueBlood'': In season 4, the recently appointed King Bill attempts to get revenge on Eric for breaking up his relationship with Sookie by sending Eric to a meeting of Wiccans who are believed to be practicing necromancy. While Bill claims he's doing this to protect vampires (since necromancy can be used to control/enslave them), the reality is Bill wants Eric to be compromised (i.e. have a spell cast on him) so he can have a reason to have Eric executed. Needless to say, Eric ends up going to the meeting and gets a spell placed on him that erases all of his memories and gives Bill the opportunity he wanted. However, what Bill didn't count on is that said witch (Marnie) who cast the spell did so in a panic and ended up summoning a 400 year old angry spirit named Antonia who wants to exterminate vampires from the face of the Earth. When Antonia fully possesses Marnie's body with her permission, she begins a campaign against Bill and his kingdom. By the end of it, 4 out of 5 of Bill's sheriffs are dead, the Festival of Tolerance (which was a PR occasion to celebrate peaceful relationships between vampires and humans) ends in disaster, a bunch of other vampires and humans either end up dead or seriously injured, and Bill ends the season on the run from the Authority who blame him for everything that's happened. The irony is that Bill doesn't even execute Eric despite having the opportunity to do so, which means he brought this entire mess on himself for nothing.

* On ''Famous In Love'', Alexis is tired of the reality TV show that is costing her friends and affecting her acting career. So she decides to fake a mental breakdown, pretending to shave her head and then breaking into a house that's owned by a family who know her friend Sloane (who helps in the scheme). This puts her in a mental ward where her agent shows up to rant the show has been canceled. Alexis figures she can just check herself out until she's informed that she's under a 72 hour hold until a doctor can examine her. Meaning it will be on record that she spent the weekend in a mental ward which will affect her career majorly.

** Cersei does everything in her power to ensure Joffrey sits the Iron Throne. Needless to say, most of Westeros has her to thank for the reign of [[TheCaligula King Joffrey]].

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': At the start of Season 3, Mohinder injects himself with a serum to give him powers like the other heroes. He does indeed get powers similar to ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''. Unfortunately, he then starts sticking people in webs. Also in "Villains" the company wanted to get Sylar to kill again so they could analyze his ability. They got him to kill again but they also turned him into a murderous psychopath that ending up killing several of their agents.

** Then comes the BigBad of TheMovie, the original SOUGO who attempted to create an alternate version of himself to distract the multiverse so that he could go on with his plans. To say that this work too well would be a MASSIVE UNDERSTATEMENT. As he ended creating a version of himself that was VASTLY superior to him in every way. To the point that even a mere portion of his power was capable of stomping him into the ground, and that's after he had absorbed the powers of his minions.
* In one episode of ''Series/KenanAndKel'', Kenan, Kel and plenty of others are accidentally locked in the freezer room due to Kel's stupidity. In order to make the room more warm, Kel turns up the thermostat to make it warmer. They get their wish, but it ends up becoming ''too'' warm due to Kel inadvertently breaking the thermostat.

** A downplayed example in "The Juror No. 6 Job" when Hardison creates a fake identity for Parker so convincing it gets called for jury duty. Though it ends up being a good thing.

* ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily The New Addams Family]]'': When Morticia became a decorator, she expected to express her creativity by doing a different thing at each house she visited. However, she did such a great work at her first customer's home her next potential customers insisted she did the same thing at their homes.

--->'''DOCTOR:''' What happened to the ship, then? There was a lot of damage.\\
'''DROID:''' Ion storm. Eighty two percent systems failure.\\
'''DOCTOR:''' That ship hasn't moved in over a year. What's taken you so long?\\
'''DROID:''' We did not have the parts.\\
'''MICKEY:''' Always comes down to that, doesn't it? The parts.\\
'''DOCTOR:''' What's happened to the crew? Where are they?\\
'''DROID:''' We did not have the parts.\\
'''DOCTOR:''' There should have been over fifty people on your ship. Where did they go?\\
'''DROID:''' We did not have the parts.\\
'''DOCTOR:''' Fifty people don't just disappear. Where. Oh. You didn't have the parts, so you used the crew.\\
'''MICKEY:''' The crew?\\
'''ROSE:''' We found a camera with an eye in it, and there was a heart wired in to machinery.\\
'''DOCTOR:''' It was just doing what it was programmed to. Repairing the ship any way it can, with whatever it could find. No one told it the crew weren't on the menu.

Then they create time windows just so they can find Madame de Pompadour in 18th Century France and bring back her brain once she is as old as the ship, also named Madame de Pompadour, as they believe that when that happens, the ship and her brain, which the droids want to use as their central computer will be compatible.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlintheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace]]:The clockwork repair droids have the simple instruction. "Repair any damage the ship suffers" Unfortunately, the programmers hadn't read Asimov's Laws of Robotics, meaning that the droids considered the ship's crew as spare parts for the ship. Then they create time windows just so they can find Madame de Pompadour in 18th Century France and bring back her brain once she is as old as the ship, also named Madame de Pompadour, as they believe that when that happens, the ship and her brain, which the droids want to use as their central computer will be compatible.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlintheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace]]:The clockwork repair droids have the simple instruction. "Repair any damage the ship suffers" [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the programmers hadn't read Asimov's Laws of Robotics, meaning that the droids considered the ship's crew as spare parts for the ship. Then they create time windows just so they can find Madame de Pompadour in 18th Century France and bring back her brain once she is as old as the ship, also named Madame de Pompadour, as they believe that when that happens, the ship and her brain, which the droids want to use as their central computer will be compatible.]]
--->[[spoiler: '''DOCTOR:''' What happened to the ship, then? There was a lot of damage.\\]]

--->[[spoiler: DOCTOR: What happened to the ship, then? There was a lot of damage.\\
DROID: Ion storm. Eighty two percent systems failure.\\
DOCTOR: That ship hasn't moved in over a year. What's taken you so long?\\
DROID: We did not have the parts.\\
MICKEY: Always comes down to that, doesn't it? The parts.\\
DOCTOR: What's happened to the crew? Where are they?\\
DROID: We did not have the parts.\\
DOCTOR: There should have been over fifty people on your ship. Where did they go?\\
DROID: We did not have the parts.\\
DOCTOR: Fifty people don't just disappear. Where. Oh. You didn't have the parts, so you used the crew.
MICKEY: The crew?\\
ROSE: We found a camera with an eye in it, and there was a heart wired in to machinery.\\
DOCTOR: It was just doing what it was programmed to. Repairing the ship any way it can, with whatever it could find. No one told it the crew weren't on the menu.]]

--->[[spoiler: DOCTOR: What happened to the ship, then? There was a lot of damage.
--->DROID: Ion storm. Eighty two percent systems failure.
--->DOCTOR: That ship hasn't moved in over a year. What's taken you so long?
--->DROID: We did not have the parts.
--->MICKEY: Always comes down to that, doesn't it? The parts.
--->DOCTOR: What's happened to the crew? Where are they?
--->DROID: We did not have the parts.
--->DOCTOR: There should have been over fifty people on your ship. Where did they go?
--->DROID: We did not have the parts.
--->DOCTOR: Fifty people don't just disappear. Where. Oh. You didn't have the parts, so you used the crew.
--->MICKEY: The crew?
--->ROSE: We found a camera with an eye in it, and there was a heart wired in to machinery.
--->DOCTOR: It was just doing what it was programmed to. Repairing the ship any way it can, with whatever it could find. No one told it the crew weren't on the menu.]]

[[spoiler: --->DOCTOR: What happened to the ship, then? There was a lot of damage.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlintheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace]]:
The clockwork repair droids have the simple instruction. "Repair any damage the ship suffers" [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the programmers hadn't read Asimov's Laws of Robotics, meaning that the droids considered the ship's crew as spare parts for the ship. Then they create time windows just so they can find Madame de Pompadour in 18th Century France and bring back her brain once she is as old as the ship, also named Madame de Pompadour, as they believe that when that happens, the ship and her brain, which the droids want to use as their central computer will be compatible.
--->DOCTOR: What happened to the ship, then? There was a lot of damage.

* The events of ''Series/{{Jericho}}'', depending on your point of view. [[spoiler:Namely, John Smith's plan to severely weaken Jennings & Rall and its hooks in the US government.]]

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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' season 2: CorruptCorporateExecutive Holland Manners goes out of his way with a plan to corrupt Angel, first bringing his sire Darla BackFromTheDead as a human, and then hiring [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]] Drusilla to turn Darla back into a vampire right after Angel just went through hell and back to save her and convince her to live out her life as a human, while pinning Angel down and forcing him to watch Drusilla do so. Subsequently, he arranges a wine tasting, only for Drusilla and Darla to crash the party with the intent to slaughter him and the rest of the Wolfram & Hart employees there as revenge for being used as pawns. When Angel shows up, Manners begs him to [[SaveTheVillain save them]], but Angel instead throws an IronicEcho at him, locks the doors, and lets Drusilla and Darla do as they please. He definitely succeeded in corrupting Angel, all right.

** Though it's a pretty thin line here between right and wrong, the creation of Adam in season 4 as a super-strong, human/demon/cyborg. He acted like a human/demon/cyborg. Adam claimed late in the season that everything he'd done, including recreating at least one Initiative soldier as a lesser version of himself and bringing demon forces together under his leadership, was what his creator Professor Walsh had intended, except that she thought she'd be alive to witness it. And presumably that the process would be under her control.
** In season 6 Giles' plan is to have the magic he was lent be absorbed, because it will give the wielder [[spoiler: a connection to all humanity, hopefully snapping Willow out of her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Willow absorbs it and feels all humanity's pain, and either because the world just [[CrapsackWorld sucks too much]] or because she's not in a mood to focus on the positives, promptly decides to end their suffering...[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt permanently]]. Subverted, as it turns out that this was in fact part of Giles' plan all along, and it was the magic Willow absorbed that enabled Xander to talk Willow down and get through to her before she could go through with it.]]
** Also discussed earlier in season 6, after [[spoiler: their attempt to bring Buffy back from the dead goes exactly as planned...resulting in Buffy being ripped out of heaven, waking up in a coffin 6 feet under ground, and having to dig her way out of her own grave]].
** Earlier, in season 5, Tara cast a spell to prevent the other Scoobies from seeing demons because her [[AbusiveParents father]] tricked her into believing she was half-demon and inherently evil, which might not have been so bad on their own... but around that same time, [[PhysicalGod Glory]] forcibly recruited a pack of Lei-Ach demons to kill Buffy. Thanks to Tara's invisibility spell, they easily enter the Magic Box and nearly kill the gang, but Tara, realizing that the spell had gone awry, immediately breaks it, rendering the demons visible again, which allows Buffy to easily defeat them.

* In 2006, [[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert]] reported that Hungary was holding an online naming poll for a new bridge, for which the then-leading entry was the "Chuck Norris Bridge". He then proceeded to suggest that his fans should [[VoteEarlyVoteOften stuff the ballot box]] with "Stephen Colbert Bridge". This trope took effect when the Hungarian officials were tipped off by the fact that "Stephen Colbert Bridge" had over 17 million votes - about 7 million more than the entire population of Hungary at the time.

*** Matt Murdock wanted to inspire others to stand against crime with his vigilante activities. Early in season 2, after escaping being shot at while protecting a witness, Karen speculates to Matt that his second identity was what inspired former marine lieutenant [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]] to do just that, though in Frank's case this involves killing every last gang member he can find in retaliation for the murder of his wife and daughter. Matt is unsettled by Karen's implications.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders "Planet of the Spiders"]]: [[spoiler:The Great One meant to give herself infinite power. It did that — and overloaded her with the arachnid equivalent of Red Rings of Doom. Thus perished the entire Eight Legs species (apart from the few who showed up in the short story "Return of the Spiders" and the audios "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS3E7TheEightTruths The Eight Truths]]"/"[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS3E8WorldwideWeb Worldwide Web]]").]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]]: Davros makes his Daleks into OmnicidalManiac {{Super Soldier}}s — pitiless, racist, and arrogant, intent on exterminating everything and everyone that isn't a Dalek. [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters He isn't a Dalek. Oops.]] He then proceeds to repeat this error in ''every following appearance''.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]]: [[spoiler:Bella]] came to Tranquillity Spa with the aim of [[spoiler:revenge against her estranged mother Kane, which she hoped to accomplish by]] destroying the resort. Since the spa is secretly located on a DeathWorld, [[spoiler:she figures that bringing down the defences to allow the hostile natives in will help... only for problems to ensue when it turns out she severely underestimated the dangers of Orphan 55 and the Dregs.]] In addition, [[spoiler:she also brought along a few bombs, and the smaller bomb ends up destroying the mainframe when it goes off, providing a further impediment to the survivors' escape — including Bella herself.]]

** Dany struggles to convince Drogo to conquer the Seven Kingdoms for their son, but when Drogo finally agrees he basically plans to RapePillageAndBurn the entire continent and Dany's later aversion to the same tactics used merely to pay for transport show that she has no taste for Dothraki warfare. [[spoiler: Turns out a little differently once Dany actually makes it to Westeros, though - apparently losing most of your advisors and friends and then having the last one executed in front of your eyes makes one go on a pillaging and burning spree that would make your late husband proud.]]

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': At the start of season 3, Mohinder injects himself with a serum to give him powers like the other heroes. He does indeed get powers similar to ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''. Unfortunately, he then starts sticking people in webs. Also in "Villains" the company wanted to get Sylar to kill again so they could analyze his ability. They got him to kill again but they also turned him into a murderous psychopath that ending up killing several of their agents.

** Hardison convinces the Russians in "The Iceman Job" that he's an expert diamond thief - which becomes a problem when they kidnap him and force him to steal a diamond.
** In "The Underground Job", the mine owner is accidentally convinced to fire his workers, shut down his mine, and blow it up - which is a problem since they're trying to help the workers keep their jobs.

* On ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Leslie and Ben have a SecretRelationship in the last few episodes of season 3. In "The Bubble", Ben has a budget meeting with Leslie's mom Marlene, the head of the Department of Education. Ben ends up being so flustered that he messes up the meeting and causes her to ask the city for more money. Leslie gives Ben tips on how to make the meeting go better, such as her mom's likes and dislikes. This ends up working too well and Marlene hits on Ben.

** PlayedWith in a Season Two episode of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' ("Beauty and the Beast"). Goldar kidnaps Kimberly in attempt to turn her into a new queen for Lord Zedd. The spell doesn't work, but Kimberly fakes it by imitating Rita. And a very good imitation it is:

*** "In the Pale Moonlight". Sisko starts a personal log and describes his attempt to bring the Romulans into the Dominion War as a Federation ally. We spend the whole episode waiting to see how it had GoneHorriblyWrong, only to find that [[spoiler:it ''worked'' - but the plan became such a game of XanatosSpeedChess that in the end, it required fabricating evidence, bribing criminals, lying to enemies and allies alike, and eventually killing three innocent men [[note]] The senator and his two aides-- Garak and Sisko apparently completely forgot that the latter two were on the shuttle after finding out that the plan succeeded [[/note]] and one guilty one [[note]] The criminal who forged the evidence for them [[/note]].]]

** The entire plot of the show is that Mike never went to Harvard but his genius at law gets Harvey to hire him as an associate and work for a major law firm. For five seasons, Mike does a terrific job winning case after case...which means that when he's finally exposed in season five, ''every'' case he won is up for appeal and the firm is sued for letting a fake lawyer work for them.

* At the end of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s season six, [[spoiler:Castiel's actions throughout the season--]] working with [[DealWithTheDevil Crowley]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist betraying]] and [[MoralEventHorizon killing friends]][[spoiler:, and [[KickTheDog breaking Sam's mind]] as a distraction all so he can gain the [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity power]] from purgatory's souls--]], ''does'' give him the power to prevent the apocalypse from being restarted. In season seven, it turns out this power [[spoiler:leads him to [[AGodAmI declare himself the new god]], smite ''all'' [[JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope angels who sided against him]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution humans he disapproves of]], and]] has the side effect of unleashing [[EldritchAbomination unkillable monsters]] on the world.

** In the Season 2 episode "Squash It". When Screech and Mr. Belding make the announcement for the annual school carnival, in which the winners, being the ones to sell the most tickets for their respective section of said carnival, get to share a fancy dinner and tickets to see ''Music/WhitneyHouston'', Brian tricks the students in charge of the dunk tank into bailing out so that he and Rachel take over, with Brian being the target, with the motive on Brian's part being that [[DoggedNiceGuy he intends to win the prizes in order to impress Rachel with said dinner and tickets]]. When he and Rachel realize that they won't get many sales due to Brian being too nice, Brian adapts a {{Jerkass}} facade that helps to increase the ticket sales, eventually guaranteeing that he and Rachel win the prizes. The problem? Brian's ruse works so well that the entire student population sans the other main characters turns against him, resulting in him getting dunked so many times that he develops a fever by the end of the carnival and must stay home to recover, while Rachel shares the prizes with her boyfriend from college instead.
** In "Tommy the Tenor", another Season 2 episode, Megan, Rachel, and Lindsay join the Glee Club after Mr. Belding introduces the handsome new music teacher. When the girls realize that they all harbor a crush on said teacher, each of them secretly and separately buys a gag product from a student selling them and uses them later on the other girls before and during a Glee Club rehearsal. It wouldn't have been too disastrous, except for the facts that A) Mr. Belding and the school board director are also present during said rehearsal, and B) [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom one of the gag products gets unwittingly passed around and used by most other Glee Club members as well, so that the Glee Club performance ends up much worse for it.]] Mr. Belding calls the girls out on it after the fact.
** In the Season 6 episode "Mind Games", Mr. Belding, fed up with Screech's shaky organizational skills, has him attend an efficiency seminar. It works and Screech becomes more organized in his role... until he becomes obsessed with efficiency, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prompting Mr. Belding to get Screech to dial back.]]
-->'''Mr. Belding''': [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I've created a monster.]]
** Belding ends up using this as he claims Screech has done such a great job that there's no need for him to keep working for Belding and "fires" him. The idea of leaving Bayside is enough to shock Screech back to his old self.

* During Season 3 of ''Series/TheWire'', East Baltimore drug kingpin, Proposition Joe, sees up and coming Marlo Stanfield as a threat, but doesn't want to go to war with him because Marlo's men outnumber his and they're more ruthless. So he decides to try to convince Stanfield to join the Co-op, a group of drug dealers from all over Baltimore who work together to keep the peace and get rich. After Marlo refuses, Joe has him setup to get robbed by Omar Little. Because of this, and the police becoming aware of his crew, Marlo agrees to join the Co-op, but this turns out to be a huge mistake for Joe. Marlo begins undermining the Coop. He finds out who Joe's suppliers for the drugs are and win them to his side. And he gets Joe's selfish nephew Cheese to turn against him, which results in Marlo killing him, disbanding the Co-op, and becoming the head crime boss in the streets.

* During Season 3 of ''Series/TheWire'', East Baltimore drug kingpin, Proposition Joe, sees up and coming Marlo Stanfield as a threat, but doesn't want to go to war with him because Marlo's men outnumber his and they're more ruthless. So he decides to try to convince Stanfield to join the Coop, a group of drug dealers from all over Baltimore who work together to keep the peace and get rich. After Marlo refuses, Joe has him setup to get robbed by Omar Little. Because of this, and the police becoming aware of his crew, Marlo agrees to join the Coop, but this turns out to be a huge mistake for Joe. Marlo begins undermining the Coop. He finds out who Joe's suppliers for the drugs are and win them to his side. And he gets Joe's selfish nephew Cheese to turn against him, which results in Marlo killing him, disbanding the Coop, and becoming the head crime boss in the streets.

* On a somewhat ''related'' note to the series above, here's one from ''Series/SmartGuy'', but PlayedForLaughs: In "Gotta Dance". When T.J. gets a performing tap-dancing spot, he considers quitting upon realizing he can't master tap dancing as easily as he can with most academic subjects he's taken on. Floyd insists that T.J. sticks with it, in an attempt to teach T.J. the value of dedication. The problem? Floyd only intends for T.J. to stick with tap dancing until his recital ends, whereas T.J. ends up dedicating himself to tap dancing ''AFTER'' said recital, meaning that, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not only has Floyd lost his safest retirement safety net options (he states at the start of the episode that he was counting on T.J. to have a high-paying job to make Floyd's retirement-age life easier -- in face, if anything, Floyd may have to support T.J. a LOT longer now), he also has to continue to put up with the sounds of tap dancing which, as indicated during T.J.'s rehearsal montage, Floyd could barely tolerate, much less enjoy.]] Floyd is understandably disgruntled by how things unfold.

*** Played to a similar tack in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Arsenal of Freedom". The crew encounters an automated merchant that sold intelligent, adaptable war machines that came in two sizes: anti-personnel and anti-ship. When one was destroyed, the information from that battle was used to automatically build a better one to come at the assailants next. No one appeared to be alive on the planet's surface, leading to the suspicion the machines did their job ''too'' well. [[note]]Funny thing is, it was all just a demonstration of the weapon's effectiveness. All the people on the planet had to do is [[spoiler:agree to buy, thus putting an end to the demonstration]]. [[/note]]

* During Season 3 of ''Series/TheWire'', East Baltimore drug kingpin, Proposition Joe, sees up and coming Marlo Stanfield as a threat, but doesn't want to go to war with him because Marlo's men outnumber his and their more ruthless. So he decides to try to convince Stanfield to join the Coop, a group of drug dealers from all over Baltimore who work together to keep the peace and get rich. After Marlo refuses, Joe has him setup to get robbed by Omar Little. Because of this, and the police becoming aware of his crew, Marlo agrees to join the Coop, but this turns out to be a huge mistake for Joe. Marlo begins undermining the Coop. He finds out who Joe's supplier for the drugs are and win them to his side. And he gets Joe's selfish nephew Cheese to turn against him, which results in Marlo killing him, disbanding the Coop, and becoming the head crime boss in the streets.