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* Lynn from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is extremely superstitious, especially around sports. One example is the infamous episode "No Such Luck," where Lynn, and pretty soon the whole family, starts to believe that Lincoln is bad luck after he attends one of Lynn's baseball games and her team loses.
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* Whether DonaldDuck is actually unlucky or brings it all on himself varies DependingOnTheWriter; in one [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse comic]] Donald is superstitious and that causes him to bring harm on himself (such as a BlindShoulderToss after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spilling_salt spilling salt]] brings in an angry customer). In the end, his nephews tell him that the Aesop is "being superstitious is bad luck".
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* Whether DonaldDuck WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is actually unlucky or brings it all on himself varies DependingOnTheWriter; in one [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse comic]] Donald is superstitious and that causes him to bring harm on himself (such as a BlindShoulderToss after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spilling_salt spilling salt]] brings in an angry customer). In the end, his nephews tell him that the Aesop is "being superstitious is bad luck".
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* The music video for Music/StevieRayVaughan's cover of "Superstition" invokes an awful lot of bad luck charms, which leads to the entire band getting taken out one by one.
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* The music video for Music/StevieRayVaughan's cover of "Superstition" invokes an awful lot of bad luck charms, which leads to the entire band getting taken out one by one.
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* In ''Film/EskimoDay'', Shani is superstitious through and through:
** She tries to start the car on the third attempt, saying "please, not first time, not second...". When it starts the third time, she says "thank you, car".
** She is horrified by the sight of a single magpie.
** She avoids the cracks, taking comical big steps in her high heels.
** She blocks the path under a ladder, to prevent Neil and Bevis from taking that route.
** She tries to persuade a black cat to cross her path, without success.
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* In ''Film/EskimoDay'', Shani is superstitious through and through:
** She tries to start the car on the third attempt, saying "please, not first time, not second...". When it starts the third time, she says "thank you, car".
** She is horrified by the sight of a single magpie.
** She avoids the cracks, taking comical big steps in her high heels.
** She blocks the path under a ladder, to prevent Neil and Bevis from taking that route.
** She tries to persuade a black cat to cross her path, without success.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS17E14PercysLuckyDay Percy's Lucky Day]]", Percy feels as though he has some bad luck when he accidentally mistakes a green hankerchief for a green flag, tears a sack of mail, and runs over some fallen pumpkins on the line (courtesy of a careless [[BrattyHalfPint Bill and Ben]]). Stephen gives Percy a horseshoe to represent as a lucky charm to help him regain his confidence, but when Percy realizes that he lost the charm, he has to find confidence in himself to help pull Bill and Ben back onto the rails.
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** Inthe ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS17E14PercysLuckyDay Percy's Lucky Day]]", Percy feels as though he has some bad luck when he accidentally mistakes a green hankerchief for a green flag, tears a sack of mail, and runs over some fallen pumpkins on the line (courtesy of a careless [[BrattyHalfPint Bill and Ben]]). Stephen gives Percy a horseshoe to represent as a lucky charm to help him regain his confidence, but when Percy realizes that he lost the charm, he has to find confidence in himself to help pull Bill and Ben back onto the rails.rails.
** In "Thomas' Not-So-Lucky Day", Thomas has a run of bad luck in Italy when he moves under a ladder, spills bags of salt, and a black cat crosses his path. To turn his bad luck around, Thomas follows Lorenzo's strange, superstitious advice, and this works. At the end of the episode, he learns from Gina and Mia that good luck doesn't come from superstitions, but rather it comes from working hard and thinking positive.
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** In "Thomas' Not-So-Lucky Day", Thomas has a run of bad luck in Italy when he moves under a ladder, spills bags of salt, and a black cat crosses his path. To turn his bad luck around, Thomas follows Lorenzo's strange, superstitious advice, and this works. At the end of the episode, he learns from Gina and Mia that good luck doesn't come from superstitions, but rather it comes from working hard and thinking positive.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had "That Old Black Magic", where Timmy visits a theme park on [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Friday the 13th]], and several bad luck superstitions happen to him. It later turns out that all bad luck is caused by anti-fairies. They would go on to be recurring villains, though "bad luck" would be dropped in favor of "being evil".
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* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': In [[Recap/TangledTheSeriesS2E12Curses "Curses!"]], Rapunzel is cursed by Madame Canardist after finding her telescope, which Canardist says is hers but Rapunzel knows that's not true. Rapunzel at first denies curses are real, while Hook Foot believes that every bad thing that happens near Rapunzel is due to the curse. Eventually, Eugene leads Rapunzel to realize that bad things happened because she ''believed'' she was cursed, which allows Rapunzel to get over it.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' episode "Mini-Maximum Trouble", the others discover Wasabi is extremely superstitious when he spills some salt. Fred takes it upon himself to prove there is no such thing as bad luck by doing assorted "unlucky" things like walking under a ladder. Immediately afterwards, everything starts going wrong for him. [[Spoiler: It turns out his "bad luck" is being caused by Minimax, who has become a villain due to a short circuit.]]
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* The ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' episode "Mini-Maximum Trouble", the others discover Wasabi is extremely superstitious when he spills some salt. Fred takes it upon himself to prove there is no such thing as bad luck by doing assorted "unlucky" things like walking under a ladder. Immediately afterwards, everything starts going wrong for him. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: It turns out his "bad luck" is being caused by Minimax, who has become a villain due to a short circuit.]]
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* The ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' episode "Mini-Maximum Trouble", the others discover Wasabi is extremely superstitious when he spills some salt. Fred takes it upon himself to prove there is no such thing as bad luck by doing assorted "unlucky" things like walking under a ladder. Immediately afterwards, everything starts going wrong for him. [[Spoiler: It turns out his "bad luck" is being caused by Minimax, who has become a villain due to a short circuit.]]
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* ''{{Series/Mash}}'': Col. Potter makes Radar remove a Korean good-luck totem from the middle of the camp because it's blocking traffic, after which a bunch of bad things happen -- from a lighter not working to a bus crash (literally). Radar puts a horseshoe up in Potter's office to ward off the bad luck. Klinger also mentions that he's wearing a blue bead necklace because the Korean who sold it to him said it would ward off evil spirits.
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* An episode in season one of ''Series/TheMentalist'' had a witch who had cast a death spell on the BodyOfTheWeek. After Patrick meets her, he prompts her to cast a death spell on Cho. During the rest of the episode, Cho had more than one close call...
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In the episode "Bad Day at Black Rock," Sam accidentally invokes (by touching) a cursed rabbit's foot. He has incredibly good luck for a while until he inevitably loses it (as father figure, Bobby puts it "Everyone loses it"), and then Sam's luck goes extremely bad. Not a straight example perhaps, because the rabbit's foot is a cursed object, so it isn't just superstition - though how it works is based on superstition - because touching the rabbit's foot really IS good and then bad luck.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In the episode "Bad Day at Black Rock," Sam accidentally invokes (by touching) a cursed rabbit's foot. He has incredibly good luck for a while until he inevitably loses it (as father figure, Bobby puts it "Everyone loses it"), and then Sam's luck goes extremely bad. Not a straight example perhaps, because the rabbit's foot is a cursed object, so it isn't just superstition - though how it works is based on superstition - because touching the rabbit's foot really IS good and then bad luck.
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* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' references The Brady Bunch story when J.D. buys his own tiki necklaces for a group vacation. They joke around about certain things happening to them being bad luck, even mimicking the sound used for the Brady story, but overall it was just some arguments between couples and not actual bad luck.
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'' had Tim throwing away a chain letter (sent to him by Al) and refusing to believe there is bad luck associated with it. After a series of mishaps he is on the edge of believing, but Jill then reads off a list of all the AmusingInjuries he has had over the past couple of years and concludes his current streak really isn't all that different from his normal life.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{My Name Is Earl}}'' Randy makes Earl stay where he is because a black cat crosses his path; then just as the 5 hours (or however long it's supposed to take for the bad luck to dissipate) is up, it crosses his path again. Earl takes this as a sign from Karma to do a list item where he stole a woman's cat.
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'' had Tim throwing away a chain letter (sent to him by Al) and refusing to believe there is bad luck associated with it. After a series of mishaps he is on the edge of believing, but Jill then reads off a list of all the AmusingInjuries he has had over the past couple of years and concludes his current streak really isn't all that different from his normal life.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{My Name Is Earl}}'' Randy makes Earl stay where he is because a black cat crosses his path; then just as the 5 hours (or however long it's supposed to take for the bad luck to dissipate) is up, it crosses his path again. Earl takes this as a sign from Karma to do a list item where he stole a woman's cat.
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* A common theme in ''Series/{{Gilligans Island}}''. Examples: In "Waiting for Watubi", Gilligan unearthed a tiki idol and was convinced it would bring bad luck. In "Voodoo", The Skipper was convinced that a voodoo witch doctor had turned Gilligan into a chimp.
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* A common theme in ''Series/{{Gilligans Island}}''.''Series/GilligansIsland''. Examples: In "Waiting for Watubi", Gilligan unearthed a tiki idol and was convinced it would bring bad luck. In "Voodoo", The Skipper was convinced that a voodoo witch doctor had turned Gilligan into a chimp.
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* In the ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' episode, "Bad Luck Day at Shining Time Station", it's Friday the 13th, and Schemer encourages his nephew, Schemee, to sell fake good luck charms he made, such as vinyl horseshoes, plastic four-leaf clovers, and rabbit's feet made from his mother's wool coat. However, Schemee takes his uncle's technique of scaring people into buying them a bit too far.
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* In ''Series/HomeImprovement'' had Tim throwing away a chain letter (sent to him by Al) and refusing to believe there is bad luck associated with it. After a series of mishaps he is on the ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' edge of believing, but Jill then reads off a list of all the AmusingInjuries he has had over the past couple of years and concludes his current streak really isn't all that different from his normal life.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Col. Potter makes Radar remove a Korean good-luck totem from the middle of the camp because it's blocking traffic, after which a bunch of bad things happen -- from a lighter not working to a bus crash (literally). Radar puts a horseshoe up in Potter's office to ward off the bad luck. Klinger also mentions that he's wearing a blue bead necklace because the Korean who sold it to him said it would ward off evil spirits.
* An episode in season one of ''Series/TheMentalist'' had a witch who had cast a death spell on the BodyOfTheWeek. After Patrick meets her, he prompts her to cast a death spell on Cho. During the rest of the episode, Cho had more than one close call...
* In an episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' Randy makes Earl stay where he is because a black cat crosses his path; then just as the 5 hours (or however long it's supposed to take for the bad luck to dissipate) is up, it crosses his path again. Earl takes this as a sign from Karma to do a list item where he stole a woman's cat.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' references ''The Brady Bunch'' story when J.D. buys his own tiki necklaces for a group vacation. They joke around about certain things happening to them being bad luck, even mimicking the sound used for the Brady story, but overall it was just some arguments between couples and not actual bad luck.
* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': In "Bad Luck Day at Shining Time Station", it's Friday the 13th, and Schemer encourages his nephew, Schemee, to sell fake good luck charms he made, such as vinyl horseshoes, plastic four-leaf clovers, and rabbit's feet made from his mother's wool coat. However, Schemee takes his uncle's technique of scaring people into buying them a bit toofar.far.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "Bad Day at Black Rock", Sam accidentally invokes (by touching) a cursed rabbit's foot. He has incredibly good luck for a while until he inevitably loses it (as father figure, Bobby puts it "Everyone loses it"), and then Sam's luck goes extremely bad. Not a straight example perhaps, because the rabbit's foot is a cursed object, so it isn't just superstition - though how it works is based on superstition - because touching the rabbit's foot really IS good and then bad luck.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Col. Potter makes Radar remove a Korean good-luck totem from the middle of the camp because it's blocking traffic, after which a bunch of bad things happen -- from a lighter not working to a bus crash (literally). Radar puts a horseshoe up in Potter's office to ward off the bad luck. Klinger also mentions that he's wearing a blue bead necklace because the Korean who sold it to him said it would ward off evil spirits.
* An episode in season one of ''Series/TheMentalist'' had a witch who had cast a death spell on the BodyOfTheWeek. After Patrick meets her, he prompts her to cast a death spell on Cho. During the rest of the episode, Cho had more than one close call...
* In an episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' Randy makes Earl stay where he is because a black cat crosses his path; then just as the 5 hours (or however long it's supposed to take for the bad luck to dissipate) is up, it crosses his path again. Earl takes this as a sign from Karma to do a list item where he stole a woman's cat.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' references ''The Brady Bunch'' story when J.D. buys his own tiki necklaces for a group vacation. They joke around about certain things happening to them being bad luck, even mimicking the sound used for the Brady story, but overall it was just some arguments between couples and not actual bad luck.
* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': In "Bad Luck Day at Shining Time Station", it's Friday the 13th, and Schemer encourages his nephew, Schemee, to sell fake good luck charms he made, such as vinyl horseshoes, plastic four-leaf clovers, and rabbit's feet made from his mother's wool coat. However, Schemee takes his uncle's technique of scaring people into buying them a bit too
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "Bad Day at Black Rock", Sam accidentally invokes (by touching) a cursed rabbit's foot. He has incredibly good luck for a while until he inevitably loses it (as father figure, Bobby puts it "Everyone loses it"), and then Sam's luck goes extremely bad. Not a straight example perhaps, because the rabbit's foot is a cursed object, so it isn't just superstition - though how it works is based on superstition - because touching the rabbit's foot really IS good and then bad luck.
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* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' where Billy spilled salt and failed to toss some of the salt he spilled over his left shoulder, leading to an entire run of bad luck that only gets worse, including breaking several mirrors, black cats, stepping on a crack (that does break his mother's back), and so on. He gets so desperate that he tries to find every manner of lucky item he can (including at least four lucky horseshoes), culminating in him attempting to rip up a FourLeafClover but getting attacked by gophers. It turns out that had he thrown the salt when he was supposed to, a bad luck causing snail wouldn't have been able to get into his brain and wreak havoc like it had been to that point.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', there was an episode pertaining to all the bad luck. At the end of the episode, with the girls' bad luck beginning with a misread legend, Yumi calculates that they gained 199 years of bad luck in a single day. Fortunately, when the legend is read correctly, they realize they actually gained a hundred years of ''good luck'', then lost 99 of them. (The trio doesn't see that the day is Friday the 13th, presumably causing them to lose the one they have left and break even.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', there was an episode pertaining to all the bad luck. At the end of the episode, with the girls' bad luck beginning with a misread legend, Yumi calculates that they gained 199 years of bad luck in a single day. Fortunately, when the legend is read correctly, they realize they actually gained a hundred years of ''good luck'', then lost 99 of them. (The trio doesn't see that the day is Friday the 13th, presumably causing them to lose the one they have left and break even.)
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* There was an episode In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' Brain gets so sick of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' where Billy spilled salt and failed a conversation on superstition brought on by inane Baseball rituals that he attempts to toss some of the salt he spilled over his left shoulder, leading to an entire run of prove bad luck that only gets worse, including wrong by repeatedly ducking under a ladder, dancing on the pavement crack and breaking several mirrors, black cats, stepping on a crack (that does break his mother's back), and so on. mirror. [[HilarityEnsues Bad luck ensues.]] He gets so desperate that he tries to find every manner of lucky item he can (including at least four lucky horseshoes), culminating in him attempting to rip up a FourLeafClover but getting attacked by gophers. It turns out that had he thrown the salt when he was supposed to, a fix his bad luck causing snail wouldn't have been able to get into his brain and wreak havoc like it had been to that point.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', there was an episode pertaining toby bringing a bag carrying good luck charms around with him all the bad luck. At time. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, with he finds he's been carrying around the girls' wrong bag, but everyone considers the sports clothes inside instead to be other good luck charms.]]
* It's a one-shot, but the Creator/TexAvery short ''WesternAnimation/BadLuckBlackie'' is about a kitten who enlists the help of a black cat to give bad luckbeginning with a misread legend, Yumi calculates to the bulldog that they gained 199 years of bad luck in a single day. Fortunately, when the legend is read correctly, they realize they actually gained a hundred years of ''good luck'', then lost 99 of them. (The trio doesn't see that the day is Friday the 13th, presumably causing them to lose the one they have left and break even.)kept tormenting it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', there was an episode pertaining to
* It's a one-shot, but the Creator/TexAvery short ''WesternAnimation/BadLuckBlackie'' is about a kitten who enlists the help of a black cat to give bad luck
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', Alex breaks a mirror and is convinced she'll have seven years of bad luck. Sam and Clover try to convince her otherwise, but unlucky things keep happening to her and she tries to quit being a spy so she won't hold them back. In the end Sam and Clover walk Alex under a ladder, telling her that the two forms of bad luck cancel each other out. Then Alex is back to normal, but Sam and Clover become unlucky.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'' had "Martha Changes Her Luck", in which Martha believes she is cursed as she starts having bad luck after she walks under a ladder ''and'' breaks a mirror.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', Eliza befriends an aye-aye who she insists isn't the cause of the bad luck that plagues her, calling that a silly superstition like walking under ladders, while she walks under a ladder.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Friday the Thirteenth", it's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Friday the thirteenth]] and Arnold's and Gerald's families insist they carry around good luck charms and avoid unlucky things. Arnold and Gerald try to prove superstitions are false, but end up with bad luck. [[spoiler:Because Wolfgang gave it to them.]]
* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger breaks a mirror in Rabbit's home, and Rabbit tells him that means seven years bad luck. Tigger dismisses it, as it wasn't ''his'' mirror that broke, and he tries to help Rabbit avoid bad luck, which just results in Rabbit getting one misfortune after another. Eventually, it's revealed that the mirror belonged to Pooh, so Tigger tries to help him avoid bad luck, with the same results. Eventually, after everyone but Tigger suffers from bad luck, it become apparent that Tigger is the one who is unlucky, so he's cast out. The others feel sorry for him and reverse the bad luck by "fixing" the mirror (taping a picture of Tigger onto the mirror so that he thinks it's his reflection). Christopher Robin later reassures Pooh that the whole "broken mirror equals seven years bad luck" thing was just a mere superstition.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'' had "Martha Changes Her Luck", in which Martha believes she is cursed as she starts having bad luck after she walks under a ladder ''and'' breaks a mirror.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', Eliza befriends an aye-aye who she insists isn't the cause of the bad luck that plagues her, calling that a silly superstition like walking under ladders, while she walks under a ladder.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Friday the Thirteenth", it's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Friday the thirteenth]] and Arnold's and Gerald's families insist they carry around good luck charms and avoid unlucky things. Arnold and Gerald try to prove superstitions are false, but end up with bad luck. [[spoiler:Because Wolfgang gave it to them.]]
* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger breaks a mirror in Rabbit's home, and Rabbit tells him that means seven years bad luck. Tigger dismisses it, as it wasn't ''his'' mirror that broke, and he tries to help Rabbit avoid bad luck, which just results in Rabbit getting one misfortune after another. Eventually, it's revealed that the mirror belonged to Pooh, so Tigger tries to help him avoid bad luck, with the same results. Eventually, after everyone but Tigger suffers from bad luck, it become apparent that Tigger is the one who is unlucky, so he's cast out. The others feel sorry for him and reverse the bad luck by "fixing" the mirror (taping a picture of Tigger onto the mirror so that he thinks it's his reflection). Christopher Robin later reassures Pooh that the whole "broken mirror equals seven years bad luck" thing was just a mere superstition.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' Brain gets so sick of a conversation on superstition brought on by inane Baseball rituals that he attempts to prove bad luck wrong by repeatedly ducking under a ladder, dancing on the pavement crack and breaking a mirror. [[HilarityEnsues Bad luck ensues.]] He tries to fix his bad luck by bringing a bag carrying good luck charms around with him all the time. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, he finds he's been carrying around the wrong bag, but everyone considers the sports clothes inside instead to be other good luck charms.]]
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}}'' short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpvd6dS9pM0 "The Stupidstitious Cat"]]. A very superstitious cat wants a bird for breakfast, and Buzzy the Crow is targeted. Buzzy uses the cat's superstition to outwit the cat. [[spoiler:Buzzy then freaks out when he discovers it's friday the thirteenth.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "Tough Luck", the Chan family receives a cursed Irish emerald that gives the owner bad luck. The only way to nullify the curse is to return the emerald to its tomb in Ireland, or for someone to receive it willingly. [[spoiler:Having it stolen, however, leaves the curse with you.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "Tough Luck", the Chan family receives a cursed Irish emerald that gives the owner bad luck. The only way to nullify the curse is to return the emerald to its tomb in Ireland, or for someone to receive it willingly. [[spoiler:Having it stolen, however, leaves the curse with you.]]
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* A sort of version occurs in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. Rico gets a fortune saying he will meet a foul end. Skipper assures him that it's just a superstition. Julien, wanting Rico to believe the fortune, sets up a bunch of incidents to make Rico believe he's having bad luck. [[spoiler: it later turns out that meeting a foul end meant that a duck (waterfowl) would crash down on him, meeting its "end".]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Fortune Cookie" shows Benson getting a streak of good luck, while Rigby gets the opposite. When the group visits a Chinese restaurant and Benson gets a fortune of good luck while Rigby gets the opposite, Rigby becomes jealous and switches the fortunes when Benson's not looking. Benson reads his new fortune, which predicts bad luck, and mindlessly discards it. The rest of the episode shows Benson on a streak of bad luck, with Rigby getting the opposite.
* It's a one-shot, but the Creator/{{Tex Avery}} short ''WesternAnimation/{{Bad Luck Blackie}}'' is about a kitten who enlists the help of a black cat to give bad luck to the bulldog that kept tormenting it.
* The first act of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mr Bogus}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus}} Bad Luck Bogus]]" dealt with Bogus getting an overwhelming streak of bad luck after inadvertently breaking the bathroom mirror whilst trying to get rid of his overbearing Aunt Bogunda (An {{Expy}} of [[Film/{{Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World}} Mrs. Marcus]], no less). Because of that, Bogus finds himself at the receiving end of all of kinds of unusual incidents, ranging from getting smacked by a sentient tube of toothpaste, slipping on a bar of soap, and not to mention being menaced and tormented by a huge and rather ugly lookalike that somehow entered the house by use of the broken mirror ([[{{It Makes Sense In Context}} The mirror acts as a portal to Bogus's homeland called Bogusland]]).
* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Fortune Cookie" shows Benson getting a streak of good luck, while Rigby gets the opposite. When the group visits a Chinese restaurant and Benson gets a fortune of good luck while Rigby gets the opposite, Rigby becomes jealous and switches the fortunes when Benson's not looking. Benson reads his new fortune, which predicts bad luck, and mindlessly discards it. The rest of the episode shows Benson on a streak of bad luck, with Rigby getting the opposite.
* It's a one-shot, but the Creator/{{Tex Avery}} short ''WesternAnimation/{{Bad Luck Blackie}}'' is about a kitten who enlists the help of a black cat to give bad luck to the bulldog that kept tormenting it.
* The first act of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mr Bogus}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus}} Bad Luck Bogus]]" dealt with Bogus getting an overwhelming streak of bad luck after inadvertently breaking the bathroom mirror whilst trying to get rid of his overbearing Aunt Bogunda (An {{Expy}} of [[Film/{{Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World}} Mrs. Marcus]], no less). Because of that, Bogus finds himself at the receiving end of all of kinds of unusual incidents, ranging from getting smacked by a sentient tube of toothpaste, slipping on a bar of soap, and not to mention being menaced and tormented by a huge and rather ugly lookalike that somehow entered the house by use of the broken mirror ([[{{It Makes Sense In Context}} The mirror acts as a portal to Bogus's homeland called Bogusland]]).
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* A sort There was an episode of version occurs in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. Rico ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' where Billy spilled salt and failed to toss some of the salt he spilled over his left shoulder, leading to an entire run of bad luck that only gets worse, including breaking several mirrors, black cats, stepping on a fortune saying he will meet a foul end. Skipper assures him crack (that does break his mother's back), and so on. He gets so desperate that it's just a superstition. Julien, wanting Rico he tries to believe the fortune, sets find every manner of lucky item he can (including at least four lucky horseshoes), culminating in him attempting to rip up a bunch of incidents to make Rico believe he's having bad luck. [[spoiler: it later FourLeafClover but getting attacked by gophers. It turns out that meeting had he thrown the salt when he was supposed to, a foul end meant bad luck causing snail wouldn't have been able to get into his brain and wreak havoc like it had been to that a duck (waterfowl) would crash down on him, meeting its "end".point.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Friday the Thirteenth", it's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Friday the thirteenth]] and Arnold's and Gerald's families insist they carry around good luck charms and avoid unlucky things. Arnold and Gerald try to prove superstitions are false, but end up with bad luck. [[spoiler:Because Wolfgang gave it to them.]]
*The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' In ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', there was an episode "Fortune Cookie" shows Benson getting a streak of good luck, while Rigby gets pertaining to all the opposite. When bad luck. At the group visits a Chinese restaurant and Benson gets a fortune of good luck while Rigby gets the opposite, Rigby becomes jealous and switches the fortunes when Benson's not looking. Benson reads his new fortune, which predicts bad luck, and mindlessly discards it. The rest end of the episode, with the girls' bad luck beginning with a misread legend, Yumi calculates that they gained 199 years of bad luck in a single day. Fortunately, when the legend is read correctly, they realize they actually gained a hundred years of ''good luck'', then lost 99 of them. (The trio doesn't see that the day is Friday the 13th, presumably causing them to lose the one they have left and break even.)
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episodeshows Benson on "Tough Luck", the Chan family receives a streak of cursed Irish emerald that gives the owner bad luck, luck. The only way to nullify the curse is to return the emerald to its tomb in Ireland, or for someone to receive it willingly. [[spoiler:Having it stolen, however, leaves the curse with Rigby getting the opposite.
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*It's a one-shot, but the Creator/{{Tex Avery}} short ''WesternAnimation/{{Bad Luck Blackie}}'' is about a kitten who enlists the help One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' TV series has Spike eating a black cat to give red tree-star which Petrie believes brings bad luck to those eating it. Petrie then grows even more convinced when a series of misfortune befall the bulldog that kept tormenting it.
* The first act of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mr Bogus}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus}} Bad Luck Bogus]]" dealt with BogusGang during their adventure to a geyser field, which culminates in Spike getting an overwhelming streak of splashed in a mud puddle leaving him with a bad smell. However, that stench covering Spike becomes useful in warding off Redclaw and his minions, leading Petrie to believe that his bad luck after inadvertently breaking the bathroom mirror whilst trying to get rid of his overbearing Aunt Bogunda (An {{Expy}} of [[Film/{{Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World}} Mrs. Marcus]], no less). Because of that, Bogus finds himself at the receiving end of all of kinds of unusual incidents, ranging from getting smacked by a sentient tube of toothpaste, slipping on a bar of soap, and not to mention being menaced and tormented by a huge and rather ugly lookalike that somehow entered the house by use of the broken mirror ([[{{It Makes Sense In Context}} The mirror acts as a portal to Bogus's homeland called Bogusland]]).had given them ''good'' luck instead.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Friday the Thirteenth", it's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Friday the thirteenth]] and Arnold's and Gerald's families insist they carry around good luck charms and avoid unlucky things. Arnold and Gerald try to prove superstitions are false, but end up with bad luck. [[spoiler:Because Wolfgang gave it to them.]]
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* The first act of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mr Bogus}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus}} Bad Luck Bogus]]" dealt with Bogus
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'' had "Martha Changes Her Luck", in which Martha believes she is cursed as she starts having bad luck after she walks under a ladder ''and'' breaks a mirror.
* The first act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus Bad Luck Bogus]]" dealt with Bogus getting an overwhelming streak of bad luck after inadvertently breaking the bathroom mirror whilst trying to get rid of his overbearing Aunt Bogunda (An {{Expy}} of [[Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld Mrs. Marcus]], no less). Because of that, Bogus finds himself at the receiving end of all of kinds of unusual incidents, ranging from getting smacked by a sentient tube of toothpaste, slipping on a bar of soap, and not to mention being menaced and tormented by a huge and rather ugly lookalike that somehow entered the house by use of the broken mirror ([[ItMakesSenseInContext The mirror acts as a portal to Bogus' homeland called Bogusland]]).
* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger breaks a mirror in Rabbit's home, and Rabbit tells him that means seven years bad luck. Tigger dismisses it, as it wasn't ''his'' mirror that broke, and he tries to help Rabbit avoid bad luck, which just results in Rabbit getting one misfortune after another. Eventually, it's revealed that the mirror belonged to Pooh, so Tigger tries to help him avoid bad luck, with the same results. Eventually, after everyone but Tigger suffers from bad luck, it become apparent that Tigger is the one who is unlucky, so he's cast out. The others feel sorry for him and reverse the bad luck by "fixing" the mirror (taping a picture of Tigger onto the mirror so that he thinks it's his reflection). Christopher Robin later reassures Pooh that the whole "broken mirror equals seven years bad luck" thing was just a mere superstition.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}}'' short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpvd6dS9pM0 "The Stupidstitious Cat"]]. A very superstitious cat wants a bird for breakfast, and Buzzy the Crow is targeted. Buzzy uses the cat's superstition to outwit the cat. [[spoiler:Buzzy then freaks out when he discovers it's friday the thirteenth.]]
* A sort of version occurs in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. Rico gets a fortune saying he will meet a foul end. Skipper assures him that it's just a superstition. Julien, wanting Rico to believe the fortune, sets up a bunch of incidents to make Rico believe he's having bad luck. [[spoiler: it later turns out that meeting a foul end meant that a duck (waterfowl) would crash down on him, meeting its "end".]]
* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short "I Don't Scare", Bluto takes advantage of Olive Oyl's superstitious behavior to sabotage her date with Popeye.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Fortune Cookie" shows Benson getting a streak of good luck, while Rigby gets the opposite. When the group visits a Chinese restaurant and Benson gets a fortune of good luck while Rigby gets the opposite, Rigby becomes jealous and switches the fortunes when Benson's not looking. Benson reads his new fortune, which predicts bad luck, and mindlessly discards it. The rest of the episode shows Benson on a streak of bad luck, with Rigby getting the opposite.
* The first act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus Bad Luck Bogus]]" dealt with Bogus getting an overwhelming streak of bad luck after inadvertently breaking the bathroom mirror whilst trying to get rid of his overbearing Aunt Bogunda (An {{Expy}} of [[Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld Mrs. Marcus]], no less). Because of that, Bogus finds himself at the receiving end of all of kinds of unusual incidents, ranging from getting smacked by a sentient tube of toothpaste, slipping on a bar of soap, and not to mention being menaced and tormented by a huge and rather ugly lookalike that somehow entered the house by use of the broken mirror ([[ItMakesSenseInContext The mirror acts as a portal to Bogus' homeland called Bogusland]]).
* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger breaks a mirror in Rabbit's home, and Rabbit tells him that means seven years bad luck. Tigger dismisses it, as it wasn't ''his'' mirror that broke, and he tries to help Rabbit avoid bad luck, which just results in Rabbit getting one misfortune after another. Eventually, it's revealed that the mirror belonged to Pooh, so Tigger tries to help him avoid bad luck, with the same results. Eventually, after everyone but Tigger suffers from bad luck, it become apparent that Tigger is the one who is unlucky, so he's cast out. The others feel sorry for him and reverse the bad luck by "fixing" the mirror (taping a picture of Tigger onto the mirror so that he thinks it's his reflection). Christopher Robin later reassures Pooh that the whole "broken mirror equals seven years bad luck" thing was just a mere superstition.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}}'' short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpvd6dS9pM0 "The Stupidstitious Cat"]]. A very superstitious cat wants a bird for breakfast, and Buzzy the Crow is targeted. Buzzy uses the cat's superstition to outwit the cat. [[spoiler:Buzzy then freaks out when he discovers it's friday the thirteenth.]]
* A sort of version occurs in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. Rico gets a fortune saying he will meet a foul end. Skipper assures him that it's just a superstition. Julien, wanting Rico to believe the fortune, sets up a bunch of incidents to make Rico believe he's having bad luck. [[spoiler: it later turns out that meeting a foul end meant that a duck (waterfowl) would crash down on him, meeting its "end".]]
* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short "I Don't Scare", Bluto takes advantage of Olive Oyl's superstitious behavior to sabotage her date with Popeye.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Fortune Cookie" shows Benson getting a streak of good luck, while Rigby gets the opposite. When the group visits a Chinese restaurant and Benson gets a fortune of good luck while Rigby gets the opposite, Rigby becomes jealous and switches the fortunes when Benson's not looking. Benson reads his new fortune, which predicts bad luck, and mindlessly discards it. The rest of the episode shows Benson on a streak of bad luck, with Rigby getting the opposite.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' had an episode where Filbert is selected to appear on a game show for a chance to win a new house. Then he goes to a Chinese restaurant and receives a fortune cookie saying "BAD LUCK AND MISFORTUNE WILL INFEST YOUR PATHETIC SOUL FOR ALL ETERNITY". The rest of the episode is centered on the poor turtle attracting a horde of black cats, walking under ladders, breaking ''an entire store'' worth of mirrors, and repeatedly receiving the same horrible fortune after opening an entire bag of fortune cookies. When he actually makes it onto the game show, his bad luck causes the giant wheel to unbolt and lay waste to half of O-Town...but then it rolls back to the studio and lands on 'WINNER'.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' had an episode where Filbert is selected to appear on a game show for a chance to win a new house. Then he goes to a Chinese restaurant and receives a fortune cookie saying "BAD LUCK AND MISFORTUNE WILL INFEST YOUR PATHETIC SOUL FOR ALL ETERNITY". The rest of the episode is centered on the poor turtle attracting a horde of black cats, walking under ladders, breaking ''an entire store'' worth of mirrors, and repeatedly receiving the same horrible fortune after opening an entire bag of fortune cookies. When he actually makes it onto the game show, his bad luck causes the giant wheel to unbolt and lay waste to half of O-Town...but then it rolls back to the studio and lands on 'WINNER'.
* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short "I Don't Scare", Bluto takes advantage of Olive Oyl's superstitious behavior to sabotage her date with Popeye.
* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short "I Don't Scare", Bluto takes advantage of Olive Oyl's superstitious behavior to sabotage her date with Popeye.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS2E10KazsCurse "Kaz's Curse"]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Kaz is cursed]] by an angry pirate after having insane BeginnersLuck at a game of chance. Kaz denies that curses are real and insists that everything is a coincidence, while his friend Neeku believes that every single even remotely bad thing that happens near Kaz is due to the curse. Eventually, talking to CoolOldLady Mika leads Kaz to realize he ''is'' afraid of the supposed curse, and she shows him how to get over it. Mika lampshades it at the end by remarking that pilots like Kaz tend to be a superstitious lot.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' TV series has Spike eating a red tree-star which Petrie believes brings bad luck to those eating it. Petrie then grows even more convinced when a series of misfortune befall the Gang during their adventure to a geyser field, which culminates in Spike getting splashed in a mud puddle leaving him with a bad smell. However, that stench covering Spike becomes useful in warding off Redclaw and his minions, leading Petrie to believe that his bad luck had given them ''good'' luck instead.
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* One In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' TV series has Spike eating ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', Alex breaks a red tree-star which Petrie believes brings bad luck to those eating it. Petrie then grows even more mirror and is convinced when a series she'll have seven years of misfortune befall bad luck. Sam and Clover try to convince her otherwise, but unlucky things keep happening to her and she tries to quit being a spy so she won't hold them back. In the Gang during their adventure to end Sam and Clover walk Alex under a geyser field, which culminates in Spike getting splashed in a mud puddle leaving him with a bad smell. However, ladder, telling her that stench covering Spike becomes useful in warding off Redclaw and his minions, leading Petrie to believe that his the two forms of bad luck had given them ''good'' cancel each other out. Then Alex is back to normal, but Sam and Clover become unlucky.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', Eliza befriends an aye-aye who she insists isn't the cause of the bad luckinstead.that plagues her, calling that a silly superstition like walking under ladders, while she walks under a ladder.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', Eliza befriends an aye-aye who she insists isn't the cause of the bad luck
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* Parodied heavily in the episode [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow "Superstitious Stimpy"]], where Ren ends up with a lot of bad luck for ridiculing superstitions on [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Tuesday the Seventeenth]], but becomes a SkepticNoLonger once he finds out that [[spoiler:he was born on that day]], prompting them to try various insane ways to cure him of his "bad juju".
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* Parodied heavily in the ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' episode [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow "Superstitious Stimpy"]], Stimpy", where Ren ends up with a lot of bad luck for ridiculing superstitions on [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Tuesday the Seventeenth]], but becomes a SkepticNoLonger once he finds out that [[spoiler:he was born on that day]], prompting them to try various insane ways to cure him of his "bad juju".
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* In the ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' episode, "Bad Luck Day at Shining Time Station", it's Friday the 13th, and Schemer encourages his nephew, Schemee, to sell fake good luck charms he made, such as vinyl horseshoes, plastic four-leaf clovers, and rabbit's feet made from his mother's wool coat. However, Schemee takes his uncle's technique of scaring people into buying them a bit too far.
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* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' where Billy spilled salt and failed to toss some of the salt he spilled over his left shoulder, leading to an entire run of bad luck that only gets worse, including breaking several mirrors, black cats, stepping on a crack (that does break his mother's back), and so on. He gets so desperate that he tries to find every manner of lucky item he can (including at least four lucky horseshoes), culminating in him attempting to rip up a FourLeafClover but getting attacked by gophers. It turns out that had he thrown the salt when he was supposed to, a bad luck causing snail wouldn't have been able to get into his brain and wreak havoc like it had been to that point.
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If worse comes to worse, their bad luck will spread to their friends. Then their superstitious friends may [[TheJinx try to avoid them]] or they will try to avoid their friends [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown so they won‘t catch their bad luck]]. At the end of the episode something will happen that convinces the character they never were or are no longer jinxed, [[StatusQuoIsGod and the bad luck will never come up again.]]
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If worse the worst comes to worse, the worst, their bad luck will spread to their friends. Then their superstitious friends may [[TheJinx try to avoid them]] or they will try to avoid their friends [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown so they won‘t catch their bad luck]]. At the end of the episode something will happen that convinces the character they never were or are no longer jinxed, [[StatusQuoIsGod and the bad luck will never come up again.]]
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* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Lucky Luke discovers his opponent Phil De fer is superstitious and uses this to his advantage by luring him into a saloon which has a black cat crossing by, a mirror lying on the ground which Phil steps on and breaks and a calender falling down notifying it's Friday the 13th. When Luke stands in front of the saloon mirror he knows Phil won't dare to shoot at him, because it might break, thus making him able to fire at him and defeat him.
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* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Lucky Luke discovers his opponent Phil De fer is superstitious and uses this to his advantage by luring him into a saloon which has a black cat crossing by, a mirror lying on the ground which Phil steps on and breaks and a calender calendar falling down notifying it's Friday the 13th. When Luke stands in front of the saloon mirror he knows Phil won't dare to shoot at him, because it might break, thus making him able to fire at him and defeat him.
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** When the Brady Bunch went to Hawaii, they found this cursed tiki necklace that caused things to go wrong.
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* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One with the Giant Poking Device", [[TheDitz Phoebe]] is refusing to go to the dentist because she's convinced that every time she goes to the dentist, somebody close to her dies.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode, "[[Recap/SonicBoomS1E13UnluckyKnuckles Unlucky Knuckles]]", Knuckles thinks he has bad luck after frequently losing to Sonic at Gopher Ball and tries to restore his luck by putting himself in harm's way, the idea given to him by [[ConspiracyTheorist Sticks]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS17E14PercysLuckyDay Percy's Lucky Day]]", Percy feels as though he has some bad luck when he accidentally mistakes a green hankerchief for a green flag, tears a sack of mail, and runs over some fallen pumpkins on the line (courtesy of a careless [[BrattyHalfPint Bill and Ben]]). Stephen gives Percy a horseshoe to represent as a lucky charm to help him regain his confidence, but when Percy realizes that he lost the charm, he has to find confidence in himself to help pull Bill and Ben back onto the rails.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS17E14PercysLuckyDay Percy's Lucky Day]]", Percy feels as though he has some bad luck when he accidentally mistakes a green hankerchief for a green flag, tears a sack of mail, and runs over some fallen pumpkins on the line (courtesy of a careless [[BrattyHalfPint Bill and Ben]]). Stephen gives Percy a horseshoe to represent as a lucky charm to help him regain his confidence, but when Percy realizes that he lost the charm, he has to find confidence in himself to help pull Bill and Ben back onto the rails.
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* In an ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'' comic, Dilat Larat breaks a mirror over his head to free a guy from a curse. As a result, the guy is blessed with seven years of good luck and Dilat is cursed with seven years of bad luck ([[SnapBack that only last for the remainder of the comic]]).
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* In an ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'' comic, Dilat Larat Wa'at Alahf breaks a mirror over his head to free a guy from a curse. As a result, the guy is blessed with seven years of good luck and Dilat Wa'at is cursed with seven years of bad luck ([[SnapBack that only last for the remainder of the comic]]).
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* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'' had "Martha Changes Her Luck", in which Martha believes she is cursed as she starts having bad luck after she walks under a ladder ''and'' breaks a mirror.
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* It's a one-shot, but the Creator/{{Tex Avery}} short ''{{Bad Luck Blackie}}'' is about a kitten who enlists the help of a black cat to give bad luck to the bulldog that kept tormenting it.
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* It's a one-shot, but the Creator/{{Tex Avery}} short ''{{Bad ''WesternAnimation/{{Bad Luck Blackie}}'' is about a kitten who enlists the help of a black cat to give bad luck to the bulldog that kept tormenting it.
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* In ''HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', there was an episode pertaining to all the bad luck. At the end of the episode, with the girls' bad luck beginning with a misread legend, Yumi calculates that they gained 199 years of bad luck in a single day. Fortunately, when the legend is read correctly, they realize they actually gained a hundred years of ''good luck'', then lost 99 of them. (The trio doesn't see that the day is Friday the 13th, presumably causing them to lose the one they have left and break even.)
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* In ''HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', there was an episode pertaining to all the bad luck. At the end of the episode, with the girls' bad luck beginning with a misread legend, Yumi calculates that they gained 199 years of bad luck in a single day. Fortunately, when the legend is read correctly, they realize they actually gained a hundred years of ''good luck'', then lost 99 of them. (The trio doesn't see that the day is Friday the 13th, presumably causing them to lose the one they have left and break even.)
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* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Lucky Luke discovers his opponent Phil Enfer is superstitious and uses this to his advantage by luring him into a saloon which has a black cat crossing by, a mirror lying on the ground which Phil steps on and breaks and a calender falling down notifying it's Friday the 13th. When Luke stands in front of the saloon mirror he knows Phil won't dare to shoot at him, because it might break, thus making him able to fire at him and defeat him.
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* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Lucky Luke discovers his opponent Phil Enfer De fer is superstitious and uses this to his advantage by luring him into a saloon which has a black cat crossing by, a mirror lying on the ground which Phil steps on and breaks and a calender falling down notifying it's Friday the 13th. When Luke stands in front of the saloon mirror he knows Phil won't dare to shoot at him, because it might break, thus making him able to fire at him and defeat him.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' cartoon "Donald's Lucky Day": Donald is a courier delivering a package on Friday 13, and a radio broadcast on the subject puts him on edge. First he narrowly avoids going under a ladder, which leads him to crash into a mirror. Then he finds a black cat trying to cross his path, and spends most of the cartoon trying to elude it. And for added suspense, the package is a TimeBomb.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' cartoon "Donald's Lucky Day": Donald is a courier delivering a package on Friday 13, and a radio broadcast on the subject puts him on edge. First he narrowly avoids going under a ladder, which leads him to crash into a mirror. Then he finds a black cat trying to cross his path, and spends most of the cartoon trying to elude it. And for added suspense, the package is a TimeBomb.TimeBomb that two ruthless criminals sent to their intended target.
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* In ''TheTenthKingdom'', Tony breaks a whole roomful of magic mirrors, and immediately starts to suffer from bad luck - starting with losing his way, and ending with literally breaking his back. [[spoiler:This takes place after he breaks the MagicMirror they'd been chasing for the whole series, too.]] An interesting aspect to this is that when the seven years' bad luck is first brought up, it's in the context of having broken a ''magic'' mirror, rather than an ordinary one--suggesting that this rather than superstition is the reason the bad luck is magically enforced.
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* In ''TheTenthKingdom'', ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'', Tony breaks a whole roomful of magic mirrors, and immediately starts to suffer from bad luck - starting with losing his way, and ending with literally breaking his back. [[spoiler:This takes place after he breaks the MagicMirror they'd been chasing for the whole series, too.]] An interesting aspect to this is that when the seven years' bad luck is first brought up, it's in the context of having broken a ''magic'' mirror, rather than an ordinary one--suggesting that this rather than superstition is the reason the bad luck is magically enforced.
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* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger breaks a mirror in Rabbit's home, and Rabbit tells him that means seven years bad luck. Tigger dismisses it, as it wasn't ''his'' mirror that broke, and he tries to help Rabbit avoid bad luck, which just results in Rabbit getting one misfortune after another. Eventually, it's revealed that the mirror belonged to Pooh, so Tigger tries to help him avoid bad luck, with the same results. Eventually, after everyone but Tigger suffers from bad luck, it become apparent that Tigger is the one who is unlucky, so he's cast out. The others feel sorry for him and reverse the bad luck by "fixing" the mirror (taping a picture of Tigger onto the mirror so that he thinks it's his reflection).
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* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger breaks a mirror in Rabbit's home, and Rabbit tells him that means seven years bad luck. Tigger dismisses it, as it wasn't ''his'' mirror that broke, and he tries to help Rabbit avoid bad luck, which just results in Rabbit getting one misfortune after another. Eventually, it's revealed that the mirror belonged to Pooh, so Tigger tries to help him avoid bad luck, with the same results. Eventually, after everyone but Tigger suffers from bad luck, it become apparent that Tigger is the one who is unlucky, so he's cast out. The others feel sorry for him and reverse the bad luck by "fixing" the mirror (taping a picture of Tigger onto the mirror so that he thinks it's his reflection). Christopher Robin later reassures Pooh that the whole "broken mirror equals seven years bad luck" thing was just a mere superstition.
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* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Lucky Luke discovers his opponent Phil Enfer is superstitious and uses this to his advantage by luring him into a saloon which has a black cat crossing by, a mirror lying on the grow which Phil steps on and breaks and a calender falling down notifying it's Friday the 13th. When Luke stands in front of the saloon mirror he knows Phil won't dare to shoot at him, because it might break, thus making him able to fire at him and defeat him.
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* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Lucky Luke discovers his opponent Phil Enfer is superstitious and uses this to his advantage by luring him into a saloon which has a black cat crossing by, a mirror lying on the grow ground which Phil steps on and breaks and a calender falling down notifying it's Friday the 13th. When Luke stands in front of the saloon mirror he knows Phil won't dare to shoot at him, because it might break, thus making him able to fire at him and defeat him.
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* In an episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Rose gets a call from her sister in St. Olaf, telling her that there's a drought problem, and town natives are being asked to remain celibate for the duration. (An old local superstition says that refraining from sex will cause rain to return; more acceptable than[[VirginSacrifice the usual ideas about that, probably.]] While Rose is one to adhere to tradition, she makes the mistake of taking Blanche's advice and not telling Miles about it, and their relationship starts to suffer as a result. (Fortunately, at the end, Rose gets a call from her sister again who tells her - clearly in the middle of sex - that it's raining, and Rose learns not to listen to Blanche.)
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* In an episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Rose gets a call from her sister in St. Olaf, telling her that there's a drought problem, and town natives are being asked to remain celibate for the duration. (An old local superstition says that refraining from sex will cause rain to return; more acceptable than[[VirginSacrifice than [[VirginSacrifice the usual ideas about that, probably.]] ]]) While Rose is one to adhere to tradition, she makes the mistake of taking Blanche's advice and not telling Miles about it, and their relationship starts to suffer as a result. (Fortunately, at the end, Rose gets a call from her sister again who tells her - clearly in the middle of sex - that it's raining, and Rose learns not to listen to Blanche.)
