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Someone does something that puts them, or the people around them in a bad or unpleasant situation. Hindsight reveals that although they had good intentions, their actions were not in their best interests. If questioned about why they did it, they'll often respond with the reason for everything that has ever been done by anyone at any time and any place: "It seemed like a good idea at the time!" This is also used sometimes as an explanation for Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Stupid actions. Contrast I Did What I Had to Do, which does the same as in this case, but for Lawful Neutral or Lawful Stupid actions and their moral, rather than strategical, consequences. Often goes hand in hand with Alcohol-Induced Idiocy for obvious reasons. Sometimes goes hand in hand with Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy. If the plan somehow still works — and is stated or implied to work not despite but because of how ridiculous it seems — that's Refuge in Audacity and/or Crazy Enough to Work. Compare the situational trope, Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, as well as Actually a Good Idea, Didn't Think This Through, I Was Young and Needed the Money, Not Quite the Right Thing. |
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In the novel Knight Life by Peter David, Merlin says any question can be answered by one of three statements: "Everybody has to be somewhere," "God told me to do it," and "It seemed like a good idea at the time." | |
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The Horrible Histories: 20th Century novel lists a whole bunch of useless 20th century inventions that seemed like good ideas, but weren't. They're even referred to with the acronym "SLAGIATT" - "Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time!" | |
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Adam-12: Several episodes where officers — both Malloy and Reed, and then other officers as well — are shown making serious mistakes that seem to work out well initially but later on have not-so-good outcomes or might not have made good outcomes, and an authority figure pointing said mistakes out. One of the most notable examples: Malloy making several judgment mistakes in "A Jumper-Code 2", in the concluding call of the episode (a possible jumper on a tall ledge); Malloy makes a high-risk move that, while it works out well, could have gotten either him and/or the jumper killed or badly hurt. Sometimes illustrated through the character of Officer Ed Wells, the cocky officer who often acts before he thinks. His attitudes are spelled out perfectly in "A Dead Cop Can't Help Anyone," where the first call we see him work — Wells and his partner barging in on a domestic dispute and narrowly avoiding getting shot — turns out well enough, but a second call (a psychotic gunman randomly firing at passersby in a residential neighborhood) ends with him getting shot as he was running toward the house to try to subdue the gunman. Don't worry: Wells is OK, and he'll be back in the future. |
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse. Jesse Stone suggests Dr. Dix take up fishing. | |
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "Demons of Deception" ("Verdun" and "Paris") | |
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In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer, taking advice from Moe and the barflies, hires a private eye to spy on Lisa so she'll think he's a good father. When the time comes to pay the bill, Homer refuses, citing the detective's overspending, and he retaliates by freeing some animals from a research facility and framing Lisa. As Homer and Lisa are hiding in a motel, Lisa asks who could want to frame her, and Homer, feeling guilty, confesses to the whole thing: | |
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On Parks and Recreation a young grade-school girl visits the office on a class assignment to learn about government, and finds Ron Swanson to talk with. He happily shares his disapproving views on the government and taxation, and gives her a going-away present of a Claymore mine, telling her "Protect what's yours." Her mother later visits, furious at her daughter being given ordnance, and Ron utters the trope phrase. | |
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iCarly episode "iSell Penny Tees": | |
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In the opening quote for one of the chapters in The Grimnoir Chronicles, this is the defense offered by the people who accidentally caused the Dust Bowl by magically altering the weather. | |
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Said word for word by Loki in issue #16 of Loki: Agent of Asgard when their best (and only) friend began to question why they turned her soul into a piece of magical jewellery. Come to think of it if you apply this reasoning to most of young Loki's plans they begin to make a strange amount of sense... sometimes they even work. | |
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In Monsters, Inc., Mike sums this up in a sarcastic rant after he and Sully get banished to the human world. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "The Case of the Killer Pizzas," when Baxter Stockman used a remote device to command the trio of Xenomorph Xeroxs to attack the turtles, Donatello uses his bo staff to knock it out of his hand and into the sewer river. Unfortunately, without the remote, the creatures were completely out of control and attacked everyone. What's more, Raphael points out that the remote could've been used to subdue them if "Mr. Homerun Slugger" hadn't knocked it into the water. Donatello sheepishly says this. | |
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Supergirl extradited her enemy Reactron to New Krypton illegally so he got trialed and punished for his crimes (something Earth's courts seemed unwilling to do). Nonetheless, Lex Luthor had turned him into a ticking human bomb which blew the planet and the Kryptonian race up. In Bizarrogirl, Kara is still blaming herself for it, stating: "I thought I was doing the right thing." | |
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This was the reason given for the production of The Day the Clown Cried, a movie about a Holocaust-era clown, that will never be allowed to see the light of day until at least 2025 when the copy Lewis gave to the Library of Congress is finally allowed to be screened. | |
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Possibly the only reason United Passions was made. It's a movie praising the executives of FIFA, even though it was made at the time of a massive FIFA scandal. It grossed $900 in the United States and might possibly be the worst movie in history. | |
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Mayday: The root cause of some of the disasters caused by pilot error. "Kid in the Cockpit" concerned a famous Russian case where a senior airline pilot allowed his teenage son to take the controls of a brand new Airbus A310. The teen inadvertently disabled the plane's autopilot and the flight crew, unfamiliar with the state-of-the-art aircraft, failed to bring it back under control. Tragic hilarity ensued. An especially needless tragedy given that the investigators found that everything would have been fine if they had just let go of the control column. | |
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The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan episode "The Gypsy Caper". Suzie, Alan, Anne and Tom are exhausted, Tom spots a hive and suggests they partake of the honey as a natural energy source. Unfortunately, the bees aren't too thrilled about that and the group ends up getting a second wind by fleeing and diving into a lake. | |
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What the Fuck Is Wrong with You? is full of these moments. | |
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Squirrel Boy: Andy says something along the lines of this when he mentions that he's been slowly replacing his bedroom door with graham crackers as a trio of rat gangsters are breaking it down. | |
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In one Dilbert strip, the Pointy-Haired Boss suggests encouraging their most rebellious employees, since their mode of thinking allows for them to come up with new ideas. Dilbert then informs him that all the rebellious employees either left to start their own company, or were laid off in the last round of budget cuts, to which Wally suggest that there's a bunch of sarcastic employees in the company. | |
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The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden cites this word for word when he admits that he may have kinda thrown himself out of a moving car. He had a plan. Sort of. | |
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In the Discworld series, Nanny Ogg's primary method of functioning is explicitly described as, "Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and to do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down." | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In Season 1, Ahsoka says this word for word in response to Anakin scolding her for engaging Grievous in combat alone. | |
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The Order of the Stick: When we first meet Haley's dad, he's rotting in a prison. He later admits that he's trying to overthrow the local Evil Empire, and thought that being a Play-Along Prisoner would be a great way to find allies. He hit a snag when it became apparent that breaking out would not be so easy. Upon finding Girad's Gate, Roy decides to destroy it to prevent Xykon from using it. Unfortunately, this action drives the gods to believe they need to destroy the world to prevent the Snarl from escaping. Haley says this about her tendency in older strips to both dungeon-delve with a bare midriff and get into Designated Girl Fights "while hurling offensively gender-charged insults". |
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A Real Life example for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Introducing paid mods into a passionate, decades-old community with no prior warning wasn't the most well-thought out plan. Insisting it was for the best intentions didn't help. The feature was removed amid intense backlash mere days later. | |
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This explanation gets used a lot in Nodwick. Especially by Yeagar, who has the wisdom of a lemming. | |
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Hannibal has this exchange where Mason Verger explains how he ended up in his current state, with some help from some drugs Lecter gave him during one of their "therapy sessions": | |
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Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines: Every idea Klunk comes up with for the Vulture Squadron to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon seemed like a good idea at the time. Once it's implemented, Epic Fail is imminent. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Jade destroys Shendu's physical form after they beat him at the end of season 1. Unfortunately this allows other forms of evil beings to come forth, since the world NEEDS a Balance Between Good and Evil. The only reason it seems things float towards the good side of things is because said evil is sealed, NOT destroyed. It also happens when Jackie destroys the talismans. He had hoped that their power would be destroyed and would end people misusing them, but unfortunately their powers can't be destroyed; only their hosts (which were the talismans at the time) can. Their powers then sought out new hosts and he inadvertently started the talisman hunt all over again. |
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In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, the cubi race are mentioned to be the kings of this, due to their emotion reading talents making them very emotional. Fights with them are compared to fighting someone who's blind drunk. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Emperor's New Cloak": The Stock Phrase is also used in "The Way of the Warrior," when Sisko is rather surprised to find Dukat on the side of the Cardassian Civilian Government instead of Cardassian Military. Facing a revolution, Dukat had to consider what was best for... well, Dukat. (He tries to play it off as being an apolitical servant of the state and the people, but he's fooling nobody and he knows it.) Sisko uses the phrase to defend the Federation's No Transhumanism Allowed laws, since genetic engineering produced A Villain Named Khan. |
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That Mitchell and Webb Sound:'' The host of "Norm-ill or Met-ill", a show revolving entirely around the premise of stating whether something is metal or not, falters when the format runs into a problem, such as the two panellists pointing out some things can be both. He mutters that it had seemed like such a great idea to begin with, and tries pressing on. | |
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Solaris (2002): | |
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Pokémon: The First Movie. Maybe don't create the world's strongest Pokémon to use for your own personal gain/world domination without any way to control it. Also see Gone Horribly Right. | |
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In RuneScape, if you tease the bandit "Narf" about his name, he mocks yours (your username) in return, and your character replies that it seemed like a good idea when they were signing up! | |
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In Commander Kitty, while the line itself is never said, it's the title of a strip where the truth comes out about Zenith Central... and in light of what's been revealed so far, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. | |
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This is a common occurrence on Taskmaster, which involves contestants assigned deceptively simple yet often incredibly goofy tasks to complete. The contestants are filmed completing them in isolation and are sworn to secrecy once they are done, meaning they have no idea how well (or not) they've done compared to the other contestants. They're also often forced to complete the tasks under time limits or similarly strict limitations, meaning that they often rush into doing the first thing they can think of regardless of how well-advised (or not) it is in hindsight. This means that a contestant will often leave the location shoot believing they've completed the task quite well only to cringe in mortification in the studio when their attempt is played back to an audience and shown in comparison with their competitors. For example, in Series 1 Frank Skinner completes a "do the best thing that will look amazing when played backwards" task by doing some push-ups, only to then have to watch the far more creative things his competitors come up with, leading to this: | |
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Red vs. Blue, in episode 52 Have We Met?: It later emerges that this iteration of Church had somehow wound up inside Caboose's mind, as the latter's mental image of Sister, and had then been sent back to Sidewinder by a malfunctioning temporal distortion unit. Whatever the 'good idea' he had was, it's never explained. |
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In Namesake, Selva explains her plan to prevent people from being brainwashed by poppies, mainly turning them into inanimate objects (since your head can't be infected by poppies if you don't have a head) in these terms. | |
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My Hero Academia: During the USJ arc, Jiro shoves Kaminari into a group of villains so he can shock them, even though she and Momo will also be zapped in the process. The latter scolds her for this, and in the Japanese version, Jiro apologizes and says she thought it was a good idea at the time. In the English dub, she instead sarcastically apologizes and says she'll ask before trying to saving them next time. | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie, Crow attempts to escape the Satellite of Love by digging a tunnel through space. When asked why he decided to bore a hole through the hull of the ship, he responds, "I calculated the odds of this working versus the odds that I was doing something incredibly stupid and... I went ahead anyway." | |
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The Professionals. In "Mixed Doubles", Bodie and Doyle worry that a berserker fanatic might attempt to kill a foreign head of state, so load their revolvers with dum-dum rounds to be sure of dropping their target instantly. At the same time two hitmen are planning his assassination, and to be sure of killing their target use the same ammunition. After all the shooting is over... | |
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In The Trash Pack webseries episode "Snot My Problem," Trash-A-Pillar and Scummy Screen feel this way when it comes to a link. | |
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Bob's Burgers: Tina is backed into a corner when classmate Tammy blackmails her with the threat of reading Tina's "erotic friend fiction" to her crush Jimmy Junior — her mom reassures her, and tells her to take control of the situation and read her fiction herself to the whole class. It's only after she repeats her advice to Bob that she sees what a bad idea it is. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Journey to Babel," Spock's father, Sarek, gives this as the reason why he married Spock's human mother: Though, given how the couple are never shown as other than Happily Married, it sounds like it was actually the logical thing to do. |
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In Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, after the Kremlin explodes, Ethan is taken to hospital and is suspected to be responsible for the explosion. The Russian cop Sidorov is sent to the hospital to investigate, but Ethan manages to free himself and climbs out of the window to jump down into a refuse container, but realises that it's way too high. | |
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In the 2nd episode of Malcolm in the Middle, when Malcolm's Mother (who had been interrogating Malcolm and the boys believing that they were responsible for the destruction of one of her dresses) finds out how the boys had been surviving her punishments, Malcolm and the boys get desperate and they attempt to flee once they get found out by creating a tunnel. When their mom (who had calmed down) goes to re-confront them, she finds their room completely destroyed, while Malcolm puts the icing on the cake: | |
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On Attack of the Show!, they tested the Sham Wow! and the Zorbees, and used substances such as vomit. Kevin nearly threw up on camera. And then they tested the Slap Chop on sheep eyes... |
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One Piece: The corrupt World Government admitted privately that they made a major mistake with the Whitebeard War. They managed to capture the late pirate king Gol D. Roger's son Portgas D. Ace, and wanted to not only end Roger's bloodline but also use Ace as bait to draw in Whitebeard so they could defeat Whitebeard and his crew. Unfortunately, several outside factors made things go south very fast. While the World Government had no control over the outside factors that turned what should have been a great victory into a Pyrrhic Victory, it should have been obvious to the World Government that things wouldn't go down so simply, to say nothing of the fact that they really didn't consider the ramifications in the long term. They admitted they only wanted Ace dead because of his parentage, not because he was particularly threatening in and of himself. Whitebeard was on life support and would have died anyway in a few more years. In short, the World Government attempted to fix a problem that was already going to be solved anyways, and ended up bringing far greater problems as a result: Ace's brother Luffy tried to rescue him at the super prison Impel Down. When that didn't work, Luffy made a huge jailbreak that ended up releasing some of the most dangerous prisoners in the world. The Government's reaction to that was to cover it up so they wouldn't lose the people's faith, despite the fact that if such prisoners start something (which they will), the escape will be exposed anyway and the government will lose face for both the escape and lying to the people. This was so bad that Sengoku, the Fleet Admiral, resigned over it. Taking down Whitebeard created a power vacuum and disrupted the delicate balance of power among the strongest and most influential groups of pirates in the world. After the war, so many of the government's forces were stretched thin that the government could barely keep a lid on the ensuing chaos. While they did succeed in beating Whitebeard, with his final breath, Whitebeard confirmed that the world-famous treasure that belonged to Roger and that everyone was looking for did in fact exist. Fleet Admiral Sengoku reacted with a look of both fear and rage when Whitebeard did this, as he knew that with the word out, more pirates would now venture out to find One Piece, and an even bigger and more chaotic age of piracy would begin. With his final breath, Whitebeard basically invalidated every aim the World Government had by starting this war, making all of the Marine's spent resources and sacrifices a complete waste. The biggest blunder of all was the arrogant view of the World Government that Whitebeard was just another pirate, albeit a very powerful one. Whitebeard was far more than that to many people, and it was the respect he commanded from others that caused Red-Haired Shanks to make sure that Whitebeard and Ace would get the burials they deserved. The World Government couldn't even put the heads of both Whitebeard and Ace on display as a warning to other pirates like they wanted to. |
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In Portal 2 you're given the opportunity to remove Big Bad GLaDOS' control over the facility and replace her with Wheatley, a cheery, kindhearted robot that's done nothing but help you. Seems like a great idea, right? Well, keep in mind that you should have noticed by this point that the "cheery, kindhearted robot that's done nothing but help you" is in fact an idiot. But the immediate effect is that anyone who gets put in charge of the facility is driven insane (good job turning your only friend into a homicidal maniac) and said friend is actually a literal Idiot Ball; "He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived." And you just put him in charge of the facility that was taking great effort to kill you before you put a vicious idiot in the driver's seat. This statement could probably be the unofficial motto for Aperture Science in general. Which is exemplified by the Mantis DNA project, in which the second batch of test subjects gets used for a new test: fighting an army of Mantis Men. |
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In the Rugrats episode "Chuckie is Rich," Drew foolishly invests the majority of Chaz's new money into a product that seemed promising...until it failed and the company went bankrupt. He uses this as his excuse. | |
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Another real life example. Back in 1988 Nintendo wanted to develop a CD peripheral for the SNES. They first partnered with Sony, but after discovering the deal gave Sony unprecedented control over the games on it, they bailed and partnered with Philips. This made Sony none too happy at the betrayal. The SNES never got a CD add-on, Philips got temporary rights to misuse Nintendo IPs, and Sony got busy preparing for the formal announcement of the PlayStation with the CD video game technology they now had to hand. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero indeed. | |
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In B.P.R.D., this is how Director Manning justifies preserving the remains of Sadu-Hem in a laboratory, after it regenerates and escapes: | |
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In Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Commander Nebula thought it would be a good idea to put Star Command's control system in an escape pod... including a self-destruct switch, and this gets exploited by Zurg when he finds it out. | |
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In Bitter Tears: An Anon-A-Miss Fic, this is the best Scootaloo can come up with when she's asked why she went along with the Anon-A-Miss scheme. Rainbow Dash is rather Disappointed by the Motive when she finds out, saying that at least Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle had a flimsy motivation with jealousy over the attention Sunset Shimmer was getting from their sisters; Scootaloo doesn't even have that. | |
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The scientists of the Open Sado Project in 7 Seeds. One of them discovered a new type of Lizard Ant, who seem partial to the energy bars that the scientists eat themselves. One of their later hologram-recordings mentions that the ants escaped their original glass nest and are roaming around freely, with some of the scientists hallucinating. It's not exactly clear how many years passed between this event and when our protagonists finally encounter it, but by the time they do, the facility is a mess of huge holes, filled with these and other huge ants and even larger earthworms and they all suffer from hallucinations which make them disorented. And this is all cause the scientists were doing their job, trying to continue the regular life of scientists in a facility meant to replicate the world for the protagonists whenever they awaken after The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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In The Addams Family, Gomez tells the giant squid in the cellar that this is why the United States has the Electoral College (Used as a throwaway joke). | |
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White Sheep (RWBY): When Ozpin explains the security features around the Relics, Yang and Jaune immediately start poking holes in the logic. Ozpin awkwardly mutters that whoever designed the Vaults surely did the best they could at the time. Yang rolls her eyes and says they already figured out that it was him. Later, Ozpin says it was a confusing time and he was in a rush, though whether that's true or if he's just trying to cover himself is unclear. | |
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The Thundermans: In Season 3's "Kiss Me Nate," Max is jealous when his girlfriend Allison is auditioning for the lead female role in the school play alongside Nate, who gets the male lead in every play he auditions. Fearing he could lose her, he has Phoebe audition for the same role Allison is trying out for. His plan works, with Phoebe getting the lead and Allison getting one of the supporting roles... until Allison brings up the part she got has to have a big kissing scene with Nate's character, which Max didn't know of until now. Phoebe lampshades such by quipping "You should've read the play." | |
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As a tie-in to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Mattel produced a toy broomstick with a vibrating feature to help simulate the feeling of flying. The product was quickly pulled when the company learned several pre-teen to adult females were really enjoying this experience... | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Everything Zaphod Beeblebrox ever does, except when caught up in a plan related to finding out who really rules the universe in later volumes. Of course, this seems to have been the main reason Zaphod pulled said plan on himself by altering his own memories; even he questions his own judgment on this one. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In Season 1's "Boating School," after SpongeBob fails his boating test for the 38th time, Patrick decides to help him by placing a walkie talkie in his head which he hides under a hat, while he gives him the directions. The technique works, and SpongeBob makes it through without a hitch... until Mrs. Puff jokingly comments it would be cheating, causing SpongeBob to realize he cheated and flips out, failing again. In Season 4's "The Lost Mattress", Mr. Krabs is having sleeping troubles because his mattress is old and lumpy, so SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward buy him a new one and toss the old one out. But then Mr. Krabs reveals not long after that his old mattress has all his money in it, and he winds up falling into a coma where only his money can revive him. Worse still, since Squidward took all the credit, the police threaten to send him to jail unless Mr. Krabs gets his mattress back. In Season 13's "Frendiversary", SpongeBob is celebrating the anniversary of his friendship with Squidward, which is only one-sided as Squidward tries in vain to avoid the occasion as possible. As a last resort, he erases every memory of him from SpongeBob's memory book and from his brain, giving the sponge amnesia and unable to remember him, finally giving Squidward peace. But then Mr. Krabs reveals this also erased SpongeBob's memory of the combination to the Krusty Krab safe which contains the secret formula, because he attached it to one of his memories with Squidward to begin with; because Squidward was responsible for causing SpongeBob to forget the combination, Mr. Krabs forces him to spend time with him to help him regain his memory. |
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El Goonish Shive Daniel Elliot Shive, the author, says this when asked about the comic's name. He also claims Elliot will likely feel this way about "her" decision in this comic. As promised: "It honestly seemed like a good idea at the time." |
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Dimensional Links: Mask's opinion of the Garo mask, which disguises him as a Garo ninja and makes ReDeads dance. Din's justification for putting the majority of her power into the Triforce, which then fell into the hands of Ganondorf. |
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Colour Wheel: This is why Red gave his robot lasers. | |
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SHAZAM! (2019): In the climax of the first movie, Shazam broke the Wizard's staff to prevent Sivanna from using it against him and his siblings. Unfortunately, the second film reveals that the staff was a Cosmic Keystone, keeping the realm of the Gods sealed off from the human world and striped of magic. By breaking the staff, Billy ended up inadvertently releasing the Daughters of Atlas and restoring their powers. | |
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Throughout Season 9 of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Grogar created a Legion of Doom with Chrysalis, Tirek, Cozy Glow and King Sombra. However, during the Grand Finale, it's shown that the actual reason Grogar gathered the villains together was that Grogar was actually Discord assuming Grogar's form the whole time. He wanted to prove to Twilight that she was ready to become the ruler of all of Equestria by having her defeat all of her strongest villains. Discord admits that it seemed like a good idea to try and play the Stealth Mentor. Discord even says "it all made sense in my head" when he explains himself. The rest of the cast does not let Discord get away with this. | |
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In the Doctor Who episode “Cold War�, the Eleventh Doctor had reset the HADs, which caused the TARDIS to relocate to the South Pole and strand him and Clara on the Soviet submarine Firebird. | |
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In the finale of Digimon Adventure 02, Anti-Villain BlackWarGreymon performed a Heroic Sacrifice by using his body to seal the Japanese gateway in order to stop the Myotismon-possessed Owikawa from getting to the Digital World. Two factors end up turning this into a Senseless Sacrifice. First, through a convoluted ricochet into another world, Myotismon (now MaloMyotismon) gets into the Digital World anyway, enabling him to launch his master plan to claim both worlds as his own. Second, BlackWarGreymon's seal makes it difficult for the Digidestined back on Earth to get to the Digital World in order to help the others. | |
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The Magnificent Seven: | |
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In Star Wars Rebels, Bo-Katan Kryze asks a sheepish Sabine Wren why did she have to name a weapon that killed Mandalorians specifically, after her (Bo-Katan's) sister, a pacifist. | |
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This is a running gag in Prequel, where it's referred to as a "BEST IDEA." Highlights include dismantling a swinging pendulum to use it as a weapon. | |
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Without a Paddle. Del Knox has spent 30 years in a cabin after partnering with D.B. Cooper in his famous skyjacking. | |
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The inclusion of 3D glasses with The Raveonettes album Lust Lust Lust must have seemed like a fun gimmick at the time, but unfortunately it rendered the album ineligible for the UK Albums Chart. None of their albums since have charted in the UK at all. | |
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True to its tendency of turning sayings into titles, This American Life has done an episode (#306) that's flat out titled "Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time." | |
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Similarly to the Oryx and Crake example, in the Revelation Space universe an intelligent species of "hyperpigs" exists due to genetic manipulations conducted to provide transplant materials. While things are rocky for a long while, a hyperpig ends up being vital to saving all humans and hyperpigs from the Inhibitors. | |
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The producers of The Amazing Race have been quoted as saying this about the Family Edition. | |
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A Real Life example for Spore: there used to be a "Bad Baby!" achievement, which you could only get if a creation of yours was banned from the servers. Naturally, everyone and their mother started deliberately uploading offensive creations in order to get this achievement. It got so bad that the achievement was eventually removed from the game. | |
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In the Hell's Kitchen "Rookies vs. Veterans" season, after a couple of embarrassing losses, one of the veterans says that returning to the show was this. | |
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In the Chakona Space 'verse, chakats are mentioned to be highly susceptible to this. | |
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In Warrior Cats, StarClan thought it was a good idea to hide the secret about their parents from Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather. It wasn't. | |
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From Attack of the Teacher Creature: | |
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode "Tempus Fugitive": | |
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Gossip Girl episode "All About My Brother" | |
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Bethany invokes the trope by name in Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium, when asked why she was at the Conclave. | |
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In White Sand, Kenton spends a long time arguing to be allowed to take the Mastrell's Path exam, but when he enters the arena, his first thought is "remind me again, why did I think this was a good idea?". | |
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Milked for all its comedic worth in Family Guy. Adam West rolls around in nuclear waste in order to gain superpowers — and gets lymphoma. The doctor who he explains this to is taking this all in, and concludes that Adam West is an idiot — much as someone would do were this same feat attempted in Real Life. The irony is that earlier in the story, the Griffins had gained superpowers in a manner quite similar, and Adam West's rolling around in the waste was part of a desperate plot to put a stop to their evil dominion over the town. Of course, he still succeeds — the Griffins feel extremely guilty realizing that Adam West got lymphoma just because they were using their superpowers to be petty jerks. By technicality, that would also make this moment an Unintentional Backup Plan. |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: A radio show revolving entirely around guessing the weight of cats starts running into problems, such as trying to make it more exciting for the audience by hiding the cats from sight. The host keeps breaking off to lament that the show sounded really great at the pitch meeting, before gamely trying to soldier on. | |
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The Mentalist: In "Red Queen", Jane is taken hostage by Hightower and forced to drive off. He's found a few blocks away in a now-wrecked car, at which point Lisbon asks him what happened. Of course, it being Jane, none of this is true anyway; he had actually realized that Hightower was framed and was helping her escape, staging the crash to create a plausible scenario for her disappearance while Hightower, who was never in the car, escaped by other means. |
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In Drawn Together episode "Breakfast Food Killer", that hiding the UCP codes up his butt seemed like a good idea at the time. Though he didn't really have any other place to hide them. | |
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In Heaven's Design Team, Pluto fills the Amazon river with piranhas as a testing environment for her new species, and Mercury puts a couple of caimans to serve as a predator for the piranhas. This bites them in the ass when a freak accident de-ages four of the designers (including Pluto and Mercury) and blows them straight into the river. | |
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Also said word for word in Young Avengers, when the team are dimension-hopping through Crapsack World after Crapsack World: | |
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On an episode of Night Court, Mac’s bigoted grandfather can’t accept that his grandson has married an Asian woman. So Harry orders his grandfather arrested and locks him up in the same cell with Mac’s wife, so the two of them can get to know each other better. Mac is aghast when he finds out, and a crestfallen Harry gives the trope name word-for-word as his defense. Mac responds, “Well, sir, I’m sure human sacrifice seemed like a good idea at the time!� | |
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