History Main / ConsolationWorldRecord

* One episode of ''NedsNewt'' ended up giving Ned the world record for "worst world record attempt ever".

* ''SpongebobSquarepants'': Throughout an episode, Patrick is trying to win an award, since he is jealous of the closetful of awards that Spongebob has. In the end, he finally gets one for... "Doing absolutely nothing, longer than anyone else!"
** Spongebob asks him if he wants to try and win another one now, but Patrick tells him "No, I've got to protect my title!" and goes back to lying under his rock.

* ''{{MASH}}''. Klinger decides to sit up a pole in protest about his not being allowed to leave the Army. When the others realise he's close to breaking a world pole-sitting record, Colonel Potter orders him to stay up there, even though he's decided to come down. "It's either that or swallowing 24 goldfish!" Klinger breaks the record, and is allowed leave in Tokyo instead.

* A motorcyclist who was trying to break the land speed record for motorcycles was awarded the record for the fastest motorcyle crash ever survived: ~200 miles per hour.

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** Spongebob asks him if he wants to try and win another one now, but Patrick tells him "No, I've got to protect my record!" and goes back to lying under his rock.

* In one ''TheNewArchies'' story, the students at Riverdale Jr. High attempt to make the world's biggest sub sandwich. When the representative from the [=McKinnes'=] Book of World Records measures it, however, they're a half-inch short... but Jughead inadvertently salvages the situation by eating the whole thing himself in world record time.

* SpongebobSquarepants: Throughout an episode, Patrick is trying to win an award, since he is jealous of the closetful of awards that Spongebob has. In the end, he finally gets one for... "Doing absolutely nothing, longer than anyone else!"

* HiHiPuffyAmiYumi : "Record Breakers" were the duo attempt to bust world records for a number of ridiculous things. They failed at each miserably, but were eventually awarded "Most Attempts to Break a World Record by a Japanese Singing Group".

* There was an episode of the comic ''TheNewArchies'' in which the class tries to break the record for longest submarine sandwich. It was a valiant effort, but the sandwich simply wasn't made long enough. Jughead, however, does land the record for eating it in the least amount of time the representative had ever seen -- and Jughead wasn't even going for that!

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* On ''HomestarRunner'', the Strong Bad Email "record book", Strong Bad inadvertently earns the record for "Longest Bull Honkey" after objecting at length to The Cheat's suggestion of "most rectangular mouth".

* ''TopGear'' has done this on more than one occasion - Richard Hammond's infamous jet-car crash may or may not have set an official British record for land speed (unofficially the run before the crash was fastest, but apparently the rules required an average speed for more than one run, or something), but it certainly set a British, if not world, record for fastest land crash (again, probably unofficially)... They also inadvertently set the world indoor speed record with an F1 car. And almost set it with a Chevrolet Lacetti...

* Averted in PhineasAndFerb, where they not only get the World's Most Pointless Record for the world's largest bowling ball and the world's largest pinball game, they also get the WMPR for getting the most WMPR in one day.
* One episode of ''GoofTroop'' centered around Goofy trying to win an award for some achievement - any achievement - at his high school reunion, because he thinks his son will be ashamed of him if he doesn't distinguish himself somehow. He gets a father/son award for extreme dedication to each other when Max impersonates Goofy to attempt a ridiculously dangerous skateboarding stunt on his behalf.

* In ''Yvon of the Yukon'', the entire town tries to break a world record in order to get back on the map (it had been removed due to being a small town with a long name), but their repeated attempts drive the records guy insane until he gives them the world record for "Craziest Town in the World"

One day, a character decides that he's going to set a world record. [[HilarityEnsues Oh, the hijinks]]! Unfortunately, something goes horribly wrong, and he or she does not actually achieve the record. Not to worry, though - in the process of trying for World Record A, the character actually set World Record B, without even trying!

* Subverted in one episode of ''Lizzie [=McGuire=]'' where her brother and his friend try to get in the Guiness book of World Records. His parents say he won the world record for most world record attempts. When they open the book though they quickly close it in front of him. As it turns out someone already had that record, poking fun at how cliché this trope is.

* One guy tried to set the speed record, went out of control, and laid down 6-mile skid marks -- the world's longest.

* In one episode of ''WowWowWubbzy'', Wubbzy attempts to break a record (and get a shiny trophy), but is distracted each time by a townsperson in need of help. In the end, he gets a trophy for doing the most good deeds in a day. OrSoIHeard.

* In one episode of ''ClarissaExplainsItAll'', her brother Ferguson tried to make the world's largest rubber band ball for the Guinness Book of World Records. Unfortunately, he didn't realize that he would have to move the rubber band ball ''outside'', it was eventually too big to leave the house and thus he didn't get the record. Subverted, however, in that Ferguson ''did'' break the record, he just couldn't show anybody and thus only his family knew.