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* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Wallaby", Rocko flies over such hazards as a patch of cacti, a fork graveyard ("Pointy End Up"), and a toxic waste dump, only to land in a mattress junkyard in "[[LampshadeHanging an unbelievable stroke of luck]]". Then a spring pops out of the mattress Rocko landed on and catapults him onto a cactus.

* Mac has a variation of this in one of his Project Badass clips in ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. He actually does land on the mattress. He just bounces off and lands on the street a couple of feet below, still managing to hurt himself.

* This happens to Yosemite Sam in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''High Diving Hare''. It's especially playing with expectations because throughout the skit he usually lands in the water.

* In a scene from ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'' a clip of Sideshow Bob's prison escape shows him about to jump into a truck full of pillows, but when he jumps the truck drives away and he instead lands in a truck filled with barbed wire.

* In one ''{{Iznogoud}}'' story, the titular [[EvilChancellor great vizier]] and the Caliph both wind up on a sled, descending a slope at high speed towards a building.
-->'''Narrator:''' Fortunately, there is a door. And fortunately, it is open.
-->''Next panel: Sled crashes to the right of the door, Iznogoud cushioning for the Caliph''
-->'''Narrator:''' Unfortunately, it's a little to the left.

* Subverted in a ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' cartoon. Homestar is sledding down a ridiculously steep hill, and Strong Bad moves a mattress Homestar had placed to cushion his fall. [[spoiler: It turns out, Homestar had filled the mattress with a variety of knives and other deadly things to ensure his death to avoid being taken on a boring date by Marzipan. By moving the mattress, Strong Bad actually saved Homestar's life.]]

* The ''JohnnyBravo'' episode "A Star is Bruised":. Johnny the stuntman falls right next to the big air-cushion (after it seemed like this would be the end of his series of painful accidents).
* ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', episode "A Plain Shortage of Planes": Seeing Dick Dastardly fall, Muttley quickly sets up a water-filled inflatable pool, then snickers as this trope happens to Dastardly.

* ''TheSimpsons'':

* Used as a RunningGag in ''TheFairlyOddParents'' whenever Crocker (or Timmy) enters the "Crocker Cave". Each time he ends up missing the mattress he was supposed to land on and moves it over to where he was.

* In SluggyFreelance :: 4U City Red, Riff and alt-Rammer fall onto a dumpster of pillows. A closed dumpster. With a metal lid. Alt-Torg [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/110428 later lampshades]] this trope.

* Stevie from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' hits a massive ramp and gets launched into the air. Quick cut to a man raking a huge pile of leaves in his yard, and then Stevie crashes into a tree trunk in the background.
* ''GetSmart'': A [=KAOS=] agent fell victim of this trope at the end of a CourtroomEpisode when he jumped off a window after his plan to discredit key witness Maxwell Smart was foiled. Notably this is the first time Max used his "missed it by that much" CatchPhrase.

* TheGreatRace - Professor Fate flees a high-up boardroom by arranging for his flunky Max to be waiting below in a car with a trampoline fixed to it. He lands perfectly, but bounces high, Max takes off at that point, and...

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bendin' in the Wind". As Bender is falling, he cries, "Somebody fat get in my way!" The camera is focused on a fat guy on the bottom, but Bender lands instead on the skinny woman next to him.

** Played with in 'Homer the Heretic' with Ned, trying to help the unconscious Homer out of his burning house, tosses his mattress out the window so he can throw the man down to the ground safely. Homer does hit the mattress, only to have it spring him back up and into the burning house.

* On ''TheSimpsons'', when sneaking out of work to go on the Duff Brewery tour, Homer perfectly hits the mattress attached to the top of his car...or at least he would have, if Barney hadn't driven forward about 8 feet to look at something he thought was Diana, Princess of Wales.
** I remember a ''Simpsons'' episode where Barney is subject to a series of three or four nasty injuries based on an ''industry'' of soft items - e.g., falling onto the roof of a mattress company, then being run over by a truck carrying pillows, etc.

** Played with in 'Homer the Heretic' with Ned, trying to help the unconcious Homer out of his burning house tosses his mattress out the window so he can throw the man down to the ground safely. Homer does hit the mattress, only to have it spring him back up and into the burning house.

* Sometimes on the ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner'' cartoons, Wile E. decides to be CrazyPrepared and put a trampoline at the bottom of a cliff so that he lands safely when he falls. Sometimes he misses. Sometimes he hits the trampoline but simply rips through the canvas and hits the ground, or the canvas wraps around him.

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* ''GetSmart'': A [=KAOS=] agent fell victim of this trope at the end of a CourtroomEpisode when he jumped off a window after his plan to discredit key witness Maxwell Smart was foiled.

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* One ''DextersLaboratory'' episode begins with Dexter entering his lab by dropping in through a tube and landing next to a chair. He drags it into its proper place, muttering about Dee Dee moving it again.

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* This happens to Yosemite Sam in the ''LooneyTunes'' short ''High Diving Hare''. It's especially playing with expectations because throughout the skit he usually lands in the water.

* One ''[[DextersLaboratory Dexter's Laboratory]]'' episode begins with Dexter entering his lab by dropping in through a tube and landing next to a chair. He drags it into its proper place, muttering about Dee Dee moving it again.

* Subverted in a ''HomestarRunner'' cartoon. Homestar is sledding down a ridiculously steep hill, and Strong Bad moves a mattress Homestar had placed to cushion his fall. [[spoiler: It turns out, Homestar had filled the mattress with a variety of knives and other deadly things to ensure his death to avoid being taken on a boring date by Marzipan. By moving the mattress, Strong Bad actually saved Homestar's life.]]

* In the ''GetSmart'' movie, when about to land after a big skydiving scene, Max tells Agent 99 to aim for the haystack because it's softer. She ignores him and they land on the ground next to it.

* Played with in the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bendin' in the Wind". As Bender is falling, he cries, "Somebody fat get in my way!" The camera is focused on a fat guy on the bottom, but Bender lands instead on the skinny woman next to him.
* Sometimes on the ''WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner'' cartoons, Wile E. decides to be CrazyPrepared and put a trampoline at the bottom of a cliff so that he lands safely when he falls. Sometimes he misses. Sometimes he hits the trampoline but simply rips through the canvas and hits the ground, or the canvas wraps around him.