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* The plan in VideoGame/NeverwinterNights is incredibly simple. Retrieve the four reagents so that the clerics can assemble a cure for the plague, everyone lives HappilyEverAfter. [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Easy, right?]]
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* The plan in VideoGame/NeverwinterNights ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' is incredibly simple. Retrieve the four reagents so that the clerics can assemble a cure for the plague, everyone lives HappilyEverAfter. [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Easy, right?]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', in the episode “Mo Mommy, Mo Problems” Linda wants to go to rich Kingshead Island and [[OnlyHereForTheFreeSnacks eat the food set up for the open houses on Mothers Day]], but the family winds up entangled in a real estate plot when she gets too personally involved with one realtor.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', in the episode “Mo Mommy, Mo Problems” Linda wants to go to rich Kingshead Island and [[OnlyHereForTheFreeSnacks [[JustHereForTheFreeSnacks eat the food set up for the open houses on Mothers Day]], but the family winds up entangled in a real estate plot when she gets too personally involved with one realtor.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', in the episode “Mo Mommy, Mo Problems” Linda wants to go to rich Kingshead Island and [[OnlyHereForTheFreeSnacks eat the food set up for the open houses on Mothers Day]], but the family winds up entangled in a real estate plot when she gets too personally involved with one realtor.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's explains her plan to secretly attend Tyler's birthday party: "We'll meet at Tyler's, I'll do my thing, and then we'll bounce. Easy-peasy." It starts falling apart when Mei leaves her bedroom window open, prompting her mother to enter to close it, leading to her finding out everything Mei has been doing and showing up at the party just in time to see Mei attacking Tyler.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's explains her plan to secretly attend Tyler's birthday party: "We'll meet at Tyler's, I'll do my thing, and then we'll bounce. Easy-peasy." It [[NiceJobBreakingItHero starts falling apart when Mei leaves her bedroom window open, open]] prompting her mother to enter to close it, leading to her finding out everything Mei has been doing and showing up at the party just in time to see Mei attacking Tyler.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's explains her plan to secretly attend Tyler's birthday party: "We'll meet at Tyler's, I'll do my thing, and then we'll bounce. Easy-peasy." It starts falling apart when Mei leaves her bedroom window open, prompting her mother to enter to close it, leading to her finding out everything Mei has been doing and showing up at the party just in time to see Mei attacking Tyler.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's explains her plan to secretly attend Tyler's birthday party: "We'll meet at Tyler's, I'll do my thing, and then we'll bounce. Easy-peasy." It starts falling apart when Mei leaves her bedroom window open, prompting her mother to enter to close it, leading to her finding out everything Mei has been doing and showing up at the party just in time to see Mei attacking Tyler.
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** ''Film/TheLadykillers2004'': Attempt to rob a casino, and silencing the only witness.
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** ''Film/TheLadykillers2004'': Attempt to rob a casino, and silencing the only witness. The robbery goes A-OK, the getting rid of the witness (a little old lady) part ends with ''[[EverybodyDiesEnding all]]'' of the crooks dead [[SelfDisposingVillain by their own blundering]]. EpicFail, much?
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** ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' (2000): Ulysses Everett [=McGill=]'s CatchPhrase is ''"I got a plan"'' or some variant thereof. By the end of the film, his two companions have been through enough to dread hearing those words.
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** ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' (2000): Ulysses Everett [=McGill=]'s CatchPhrase CharacterCatchphrase is ''"I got a plan"'' or some variant thereof. By the end of the film, his two companions have been through enough to dread hearing those words.
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** ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere2001'' (2001): A blackmailing scheme gone wrong.
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** ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'': Some GoldDigger seeks revenge on a lawyer who prevented her from making a killing.
** ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' ("The beauty of my plan is... its simplicity"). The meat of the movie comes from the fact that several groups of people have simple plans, [[GambitPileup and they all run afoul of each other]].
** ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'': A bunch of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive shady executives']] plot to take over a company after their boss abruptly commits suicide: hire some dope whose bad ideas will lower the company's stock, allowing them to buy it up. [[SpringtimeForHitler But their dope had a pretty good idea]].
** ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere2001'': A blackmailing scheme gone wrong.
** ''Film/BloodSimple'': Hiring a private detective to kill your philandering wife isn't as easy as they say.
** ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' is probably their best example: Hire two crooks to kidnap your wife, and get your rich, tight-fisted father-in-law to pay the ransom. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong
** ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'': Some GoldDigger seeks revenge on a lawyer who prevented her from making a killing.
** ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' ("The beauty of my plan is... its simplicity"). The meat of the movie comes from the fact that several groups of people have simple plans, [[GambitPileup and they all run afoul of each other]].
** ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'': A bunch of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive shady executives']] plot to take over a company after their boss abruptly commits suicide: hire some dope whose bad ideas will lower the company's stock, allowing them to buy it up. [[SpringtimeForHitler But their dope had a pretty good idea]].
** ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere2001'': A blackmailing scheme gone wrong.
** ''Film/BloodSimple'': Hiring a private detective to kill your philandering wife isn't as easy as they say.
** ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' is probably their best example: Hire two crooks to kidnap your wife, and get your rich, tight-fisted father-in-law to pay the ransom. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong
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* In ''Literature/{{Tolivers Secret}}'', the plan is for Ellen--on her mission in disguise as a boy to deliver her grandfather's message within a loaf of bread for the revolutionaries--is to pay an oysterman or farmer at the docks to take her across the bay in his boat to Elizabethtown, where she can simply walk into the Jolly Fox Tavern and deliver the message in the bread to the owner, Mr. Shannon. Said plan is thrown off the rails when two boys steal Ellen's bread, setting off a series of mishaps for Ellen as she's forced to take a boat with redcoat soldiers, walk for two miles through the woods alone at night, hitch a ride with a stranger, and [[spoiler:fight a wild boar to get the bread out of its mouth.]]
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* In ''Literature/{{Tolivers Secret}}'', the plan is for Ellen--on her mission in disguise as a boy to deliver her grandfather's message within a loaf of bread for the revolutionaries--is to pay an oysterman or farmer at the docks to take her across the bay in his boat to Elizabethtown, where she can simply walk into the Jolly Fox Tavern and deliver the message in the bread to the owner, Mr. Shannon. Said plan is thrown off the rails when two boys steal Ellen's bread, setting off a series of mishaps for Ellen as she's forced to take a boat with redcoat soldiers, walk for two miles through the woods alone at night, hitch a ride with a stranger, and [[spoiler:fight a wild boar to get the bread out of its mouth.]]
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* In ''Literature/{{Tolivers Secret}}'', the plan is for Ellen--on her mission in disguise as a boy to deliver her grandfather's message for the revolutionaries--is to pay an oysterman or farmer at the docks to take her across the bay in his boat to Elizabethtown, where she can simply walk into the Jolly Fox Tavern and deliver the message in the bread to the owner, Mr. Shannon. Said plan is thrown off the rails when two boys steal Ellen's bread, setting off a series of mishaps for Ellen as she's forced to take a boat with redcoat soldiers, walk for two miles through the woods alone at night, hitch a ride with a stranger, and [[spoiler:fight a wild boar to get the bread out of its mouth.]]
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* In ''Literature/{{Tolivers Secret}}'', the plan is for Ellen--on her mission in disguise as a boy to deliver her grandfather's message within a loaf of bread for the revolutionaries--is to pay an oysterman or farmer at the docks to take her across the bay in his boat to Elizabethtown, where she can simply walk into the Jolly Fox Tavern and deliver the message in the bread to the owner, Mr. Shannon. Said plan is thrown off the rails when two boys steal Ellen's bread, setting off a series of mishaps for Ellen as she's forced to take a boat with redcoat soldiers, walk for two miles through the woods alone at night, hitch a ride with a stranger, and [[spoiler:fight a wild boar to get the bread out of its mouth.]]
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** De Guiche plans to [[ArrangedMarriage marry]] Roxane to [[TheBeard De Valvert]] to bully her into being TheMistress.
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** De Guiche plans to [[ArrangedMarriage marry]] Roxane to [[TheBeard De Valvert]] Valvert to bully her into being TheMistress.
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* Being written by the same author as ''Webcomic/{{Marilith}}'' above, it's really no surprise that this shows up in ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}''. [[spoiler:With all of their powers swapped]], [[MadScientist Dr. Universe]], [[GravityMaster Greta Gravity]], and [[spoiler:[[TheHero Spinnerette]]]] need to steal one of the CK mines responsible, to study how to reverse the process. Simple enough: last time [[GeneralRipper General Evescroft]] used one on you for protesting, so protest again, and when he tries to use another one on you grab it and run. It's barely even illegal. Except he quickly realizes [[SpotTheThread something is up]], captures all three of them without using a CK mine, and decides it's time to make Universe AnOfferYouCantRefuse.
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* Being written by the same author as ''Webcomic/{{Marilith}}'' above, it's really no surprise that this shows up in ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}''. [[spoiler:With all of their powers swapped]], [[MadScientist Dr. Universe]], [[GravityMaster Greta Gravity]], and [[spoiler:[[TheHero Spinnerette]]]] [[spoiler:Spinnerette]] need to steal one of the CK mines responsible, to study how to reverse the process. Simple enough: last time [[GeneralRipper General Evescroft]] used one on you for protesting, so protest again, and when he tries to use another one on you grab it and run. It's barely even illegal. Except he quickly realizes [[SpotTheThread something is up]], captures all three of them without using a CK mine, and decides it's time to make Universe AnOfferYouCantRefuse.
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* This makes up the premise of the ''Best. Worst. Weekend. Ever.'' miniseries. Zed, Argo and Treece's plan is to attend Comic con behind their parents' backs and show their favourite author a homemade closing issue to the comic series he left on a cliffhanger. The involvement of Treece's stepsister, getting blacklisted, a WildTeenParty, Argo's dog getting lost, and Zed's cybercriminal brother breaking out of juvie leads to one misadventure after another.
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* This makes up the premise of the ''Best. Worst. Weekend. Ever.'' ''Series/BestWorstWeekendEver'' miniseries. Zed, Argo and Treece's plan is to attend Comic con behind their parents' backs and show their favourite author a homemade closing issue to the comic series he left on a cliffhanger. The involvement of Treece's stepsister, getting blacklisted, a WildTeenParty, Argo's dog getting lost, and Zed's cybercriminal brother breaking out of juvie leads to one misadventure after another.
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* During a ''WebVideo/{{Failboat}}'' [[https://youtu.be/5KOVSsSOoKk stream]], Dan rigged up his stream to allow his live chat to control Mario in ''Super Mario 64''. Their goal was to get the first star in Bob-Omb Battlefield. Easy, right? It took nearly three hours, Dan changing the controls multiple times, [[ItMakesSenseInContext multiple clowns halting their progress, the introduction of poop emojis to combat the clowns]], and Fail ''breaking the rules of the stream'' and [[ClusterFBomb swearing up a storm]] to encourage them, but they eventually completed their goal.
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* ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'': The heist in chapter 18 is relatively simple in theory: Bluff their way into a noble Marine officer's party and wait for the timed explosives they set to detonate, then ransack his manor. The plan fell apart when they ran into the Commodore's new subordinate, Chaser Hibiki, who promptly blows their cover early. The crew then have to fight for their lives when it turns out the Commodore is more than a match for Ranma, barely escaping when the explosives give them an opening.
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* Neatly done in ''Film/QuickChange''; the complex, intricate bank robbery that the protagonist and his friends have planned goes off without a hitch. However, what ''should'' be the incredibly simple matter of driving to the airport to make the getaway turns into a convoluted, mishap-ridden nightmare.
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* Neatly done in ''Film/QuickChange''; both ''Film/HoldUp'' and ''Film/QuickChange'' (based off the same book); the complex, intricate bank robbery that the protagonist and his friends have planned goes off without a hitch. However, what ''should'' be the incredibly simple matter of driving to the airport to make the getaway turns into a convoluted, mishap-ridden nightmare.
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** He suffers this to the point where it's made into a character trait ("Things Don't Go Smooth") in the ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' RPG. Mal has the severe version of this trait. Player-made characters can take this drawback as well, giving the GameMaster an excuse to ensure that HilarityEnsues no matter how well the players plan their various hijinks.
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** He suffers this to the point where it's made into a character trait ("Things Don't Go Smooth") in the ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' RPG. Mal has the severe version of this trait. Player-made characters can take this drawback as well, giving the GameMaster an excuse to ensure that HilarityEnsues hilarity ensues no matter how well the players plan their various hijinks.
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* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': "The Birthday Bag" sees Miss Brooks' friends try to throw her a surprise birthday party and buy her an alligator skin purse as a gift. HilarityEnsues.
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* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': "The Birthday Bag" sees Miss Brooks' friends try to throw her a surprise birthday party and buy her an alligator skin purse as a gift. HilarityEnsues.Hilarity ensues.
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* This sort of nonsense is de rigueur in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', but occasionally, you can get a [[http://www.paranoia-live.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6166 subversion]].
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* In the original Ealing studios ''[[Film/TheLadykillers1955 The Ladykillers]]'', the mastermind of a plan to rob a bank shipment gets the idea to involve a [[CloudCuckoolander rather spacey old lady]] as an UnwittingPawn. The robbery itself goes fairly smoothly. Getting the money out of London ''after'' is where [[PlethoraOfMistakes things fall apart]].
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* In the original Ealing studios ''[[Film/TheLadykillers1955 The Ladykillers]]'', the mastermind of a plan to rob a bank shipment gets the idea to involve a [[CloudCuckoolander rather spacey dotty old lady]] as an UnwittingPawn. The robbery itself goes fairly smoothly. Getting the money out of London ''after'' is where [[PlethoraOfMistakes things fall apart]].
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* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', at the end of the game, if you choose to [[spoiler:work with [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder Dimitri]] for one last profitable deal]], Niko laments that everything in his life starts off simple and ends up real complicated (right before his "allies" trigger an absolute clusterfuck with seven different people shooting at him at once).