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Achievement Hunter:
- At the beginning of the GO! series, Geoff reveals that he would pay for a pizza party for every person who gets five wins. By the end of the twelfth episode, the scoreboard is reading 3/3/2/2/2 and Michael points out that, pretty soon, he's gonna be hosting back-to-back pizza parties. Geoff just looks at the scoreboard in total disbelief. After Ray won the first pizza party, Geoff decided that the scoreboard would be reset every time someone in the group gets five wins, which became effective the first episode after the first pizza party.
- In the first Heist in their Let's Play Grand Theft Auto series, Ryan tried to pull a Joker and killed Geoff when the Fake AH Crew had been whittled down to just the two of them so he could take all the money for himself. It was only after he killed Geoff that he realized Geoff was the one that was carrying the money, and "took it to the grave" when he died.
Best of the Worst: In "Black Spine Edition #3," Mike and Jay establish the rules of playing Jenga with mystery VHS cassettes: Each player keeps the tapes he pulls from the tower, and the gang will watch the loser's collection of tapes after the tower falls. As the game drags on and the tapes begin to mount in each player's collection, a worried Rich can be heard off-screen asking if they'd thought the rules out properly. Ultimately the gang watches about a dozen videos in one sitting, though they turn off several prematurely and select only a handful to actually discuss.
Bleach (S) Abridged: Kusaka's plan to frame Hitsugaya for attacking Kyoraku fails partially because Hitsugaya happened to verifiably be elsewhere at the time (he was in a fight with other Soul Reapers), and partially because he failed to consider the plausibility of his frame job; Hitsugaya putting Kyoraku in the hospital would require Hitsugaya (a newbie who is talented but still has yet to fully master his power) to be able to beat up Kyoraku (the second-strongest Shinigami after Yamamoto). Naturally, everyone calls shenanigans the instant they hear of it.
Break It to Make It: Whenever contestants are allowed to pick their tool of choice to break the target item with, there is a chance of them picking something without considering how effective it would truly be.
The CollegeHumor video "The iPhone 7 is Just Worse" skewers Apple's introduction of the iPhone 7, specifically how it removes the 3.5 mm headphone jack, without realizing that this creates many new problems for users.
Tim Cook: It's all about simplicity, everything will run through one port. Now, you might be asking yourself, "What if I want to charge my phone... (in realization) while listening to music?" Shit!
Critical Role:
- During the second campaign, Jester gets bored during a long sea voyage and decides to pass the time by scrying on the Traveler... AKA the deity that grants her her power, and personally guides her to the right place when she scries.
  The Traveler: ...Curious.
  Jester: Oh shit... I wasn't really thinking about that one.
  The Traveler: No, you were not. (Cuts the divine connection.)
- Jester tends to do this a lot. One Running Gag is that she never thinks about what to say before she uses Sending, hits her word limit, and ends up having to cast the spell multiples times.
- In a much less humorous example, Ashton decides to trick the rest of Bells Hells into letting them absorb the shard of Rau'shan, even though he had been warned multiple times by multiple extremely powerful and knowledgeable beings that that would most likely kill him. He barely survives the ordeal, and all he gets for his trouble is a new arm made of volcanic stone, and a permanent two point reduction of his Constitution modifier. On top of this, the fact that they lied about it immediately broke every bit of trust the Hells had in them, and the episode immediately after is almost entirely dedicated to the Hells confronting them about just how stupid that idea was, and failing to cope with nearly seeing Ashton die in front of them. Ashton even admits afterwards that they weren't entirely sure why they did it, just that they wanted to blame someone other than themself for their problems, and were desperately looking for a connection to their birth family, who died when he was too young to properly remember them.
- The prequel arc Downfall has mortal avatars of the gods infiltrate the flying city of Aeor to destroy its god-killing superweapon with minimal collateral damage. As the gods are on the cusp of victory, an Aeorian archmage uses a Wish to give every mage in the city the knowledge of how to recreate the weapon and urge them to flee... so the gods crash the city and Leave No Survivors in order to erase the threat to their existence.
Dimension 20:
- In Fantasy High Sophomore Year, Kristen decides to try to intercept an enemy going from the top to the bottom of a tower by "using a ribbon dancer to fly down" [sic]. She goes through with it despite multiple warnings from everyone else at the table and having a -3 to Dexterity rolls, falls ten stories, and immediately breaks her ankle on impact with the ground.
  Brennan: Hey, I have great news. You make it to the first floor way before Angwyn does.
- In Dimension 20: A Crown of Candy, Theobald has a homebrew magic item, Swirlwarden, that allows him to move as a reaction to take an attack for an ally. During "Deep Bleu Sea", Theobald has been knocked into the ocean and is rapidly sinking because of his armor, but one of his allies gets attacked within Swirlwarden's activation range, allowing Theobald to save himself. Brennan clearly didn't think about the implications of this specific interaction, but allows it to go through.
  Murph: Can I use Swirlwarden to try and get up into the boat?
  Brennan: [beat] ...You absolute motherfucker.
- Brennan has another homebrew example in Fantasy High Junior Year. Ice Feast grants immunity to the stun condition and fire damage. The intent seemed to be to give the Bad Kids a helpful tool against Porter before the final battle, since his signature ability inflicts stun and one of his legendary actions deals fire damage, as well as being a Brick Joke about a mistake Ally made in the last Fantasy High campaign. What Brennan didn't seem to think about was that the battle took place above a shifting pool of lava, so he seems genuinely shocked when Riz submerges himself in the lava to both hide and protect himself as he realizes the lava is only a hazard to the enemies.
- In Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey, an executive for the company that designed the "Sundry Sydney" line describes it as being poorly conceived from the get-go, with no one who could afford such an expensive android wanting a single one that mashes together all her various functions instead of getting multiple specialized models for a comparable cost. The most obvious lack of forethought is giving her a permanent Arm Cannon so she'll be a more effective bodyguard without considering that a Sexbot that keeps on pointing a laser gun at you is a concept with rather niche erotic appeal.
This post on Facts from a Cardboard Box. The writer had gotten a Vaporeon, a Jolteon, a Flareon, a Leafeon, and a Glaceon and he was training the three Eevee he had left... on Route 20. For context, in Pokémon X and Y, that's where the Moss Rock is. If an Eevee levels up near a Moss Rock, it evolves into a Leafeon. Luckily, getting new Eevee isn't particularly hard in that game (assuming you know where to look) and Wonder Trade meant they weren't outright wasted.
In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, Jiang Wei makes a plan to capture Deng Ai that involves giving a known double agent command of Shu's entire commissariat train and placing said double agent between the army and their home base. This obviously doesn't end well.
FoxTale2614: In "jays last wish", Captain Soto wishes that any pain he feels is dealt upon Nadakhan a hundredfold, and he then asks Echo Zane to injure him to critically damage Nadakhan. When he asks Echo to break his leg, it doesn't work because Nadakhan doesn't have legs.
The Funniest Minecraft Videos Ever: During the "Prison Escape" video, Tommy gets very close to escaping... until he messes up his lever use. The positioning of the doors prevents him from glitching through the second-last door with lever in hand, and Jack Manifold can't hand him the lever while the door is closed... and opening it requires the lever.
Tommy: Okay, well, if you open the– fuckFUCKFUCKFUCKFU–
Game Changer:
- In "Sam Says", one of the prompts Sam gives is "say something we'll have to bleep". His excitement for the challenge (and for further prompts in the episode) rapidly dissolves when Lou looks directly into the camera and says that the official stance of Dropout as a company is that O. J. Simpson^* was innocent, "whoever killed those people" is still out there, and the company has emails discussing it.
  Sam: ...My excitement has flipped to fear, for this episode.
Gary: Landlord of the Flies: Gary has a habit of failing to think ahead before he acts.
- When the police come to investigate a report of him stealing a tenant's luxury goods, he continuously lies and says he has no clue where they went – even after the police begin finding them, one by one.
  "This is the first, and a prime example, of Gary's inability to plan for future events. One could assume that after finding the TV, they would likely continue to search. Unless you have thought of a really unique hiding place, just fess up, because they're probably going to check your desk and under your bed."
- Gary attempts to screw the house's door shut to prevent Dan from retrieving his belongings, failing to consider that he could call the police and get in through a window.
- Gabe's account of his trial notes that Gary's defense for his actions never amounted to much more than "I was angry at the time", without any logical explanation for why he would act unnecessarily belligerent towards Gabe and the police.
  "The whole trial reminded me of when you get in trouble as a little kid, and an adult asks, 'What were you thinking? No really, I want to know what you were thinking.' And you never had an answer other than 'I don’t know/I was angry/I was really drunk.'"
Highcraft: In "2b2stoned", Joko trying to swim several thousand blocks to meet up with the group. He drowns, just in case you were wondering.
The plan that Leeroy's raid group comes up with for taking on the Rookery in the Leeroy Jenkins Video fails to account for two key facts (aside from Leeroy charging in and rendering the whole thing pointless):
1. Scattering the whelps of the Rookery only keeps them off you for a few seconds and will likely bring more to bear on you — you really want to hatch as few of them as possible. Fear rotation is rather pointless in the Rookery anyway due to the rate at which the eggs respawn.
2. The paladin ability Divine Intervention does not allow a protected character to use any skills and is very much wasted on mages (who primarily rely on skills such as AOE attacks) and has the added "bonus" of killing the paladin who uses it, removing a character with the ability to tank and heal from the general fight.
Marble Hornets: Half of what Jay does. For example, breaking into Alex's home. He drops his flashlight, and then runs into the Operator.
- Jay never considers that near-constantly posting videos about his investigation online where literally anyone can see them might get him negative attention, or sabotage any attempts at subterfuge.
Monde's Threads is a Youtube channel from a Memphis-based seamstress. The videos she's best known for involve women who bought knock-off dresses from cheap "fast fashion" site like Wish or Shein, which end up looking nothing like the advertised product in addition to fitting poorly and having the quality of toilet paper, and they desperately go to Monde for her to turn it into a presentable gown for their prom, wedding, etc. The end results are miraculously beautiful compared to the glorified rags the women started with, but for the combined cost of the dress and alterations, one can't help but wonder if they could have found something nice off the rack to begin with.
This trope is lampshaded in The Music Video Show's Cobra Starship Snakes on a Plane episode:
"Alright. All the snakes are been released. Now to get off this plane." (Looks around with an Oh, Crap! face.)
In the NFL Quarterbacks On Facebook convo "The Fantasy Draft," Tom Brady establishes the rule that the draft order is established by going from least handsome to most handsome. This comes back to bite him as he gives himself the last pick, by which point the only starting QB remaining is... Mark Sanchez.
In Noob, there was a period during which the guild's Only Sane Man leader decided to basically take time off and gave command to the guild's de facto Lancer. Unfortunately, the guy is a misogynist who can't stand stupid people and all the other members of the guild are three women and a not very bright guy. When complaints arise, temporary command gets transferred to the senior member of the women...AKA the guild's Manipulative Bitch and The Scrooge.
A common plot in Not Always Right/Not Always Working goes like this: Entitled Person (demanding customer or Pointy-Haired Boss) demands something from Put-Upon Employee. Put-Upon Employee informs Entitled Person that whatever they're asking for is a bad idea for whatever reason. Entitled Person ignores Put-Upon Employee's advice, usually rudely insisting that Put-Upon Employee do exactly as they're told, if not outright threatening them. Put-Upon Employee does the thing, hopefully after making Entitled Person sign a paper trail. Entitled Person either flounces off having tricked their way into being more inconvenienced than usual or sees the results of their demands and usually pitches a fit and blames Put-Upon Employee for not trying harder to stop them. Put-Upon Employee deals with the results of said tantrum (hopefully by having enough evidence to put the blame firmly on Entitled Person), then posts the story to the forum.
- Not Always Legal has this story of a security firm springing an unscheduled training drill, with an actor in a fake explosive vest, at a nuclear containment facility guarded by armed military police with shoot-to-kill orders.
- Not Always Working has at least three stories of workers making demands and threatening to quit if they don't receive them, only for the boss to accept their resignation and show them the door. Quitting voluntarily also disqualifies them for severance or unemployment pay, and the first quitter is specifically shown discovering and regretting this.
Optimistic Bricks:
- In So... They Made More LEGO Sonic Sets..., Metal Sonic attempts to claim the trophy for the Best Sonic Villain that Dr. Eggman had won earlier in the video, and decides the best way to do so is to download the data for the Biolizard and use the red Chaos Emerald to teleport it to Green Hills. Needless to say, the moment the Biolizard emerges from the box to the LEGO set associated with it with a roar, things don't end well.
Party Crashers:
- In "Mario Party Superstars is TOXIC", Vernias skips the Item Shop on the penultimate turn because he can only use one item with his Triple Dice next turn, only to realize too late that he could've bought a Skeleton Key to reach the Day Boo on the final turn.
- In "Mario Party but it's Simon Says 2", when the group gets Paint Misbehavin', Sophist's rule for the minigame is that everyone can only fire seven shots. Vernias begins firing immediately, only to realize after firing his fourth shot that he should have been saving them for the end. Everyone naturally makes fun of Vernias for this.
- In "I became a RAID BOSS in Mario Party...", Brent uses his two Cursed Dice on Sophist before visiting the Item Shop, not realizing that they could've acted as protection against Sophist's Plunder Chest, as whatever item the user steals is randomly selected from the victim's inventory, meaning any item that Brent will purchase will realistically get stolen immediately afterward due to it being the only item he currently has in his possession:
  Sophist: Good job removing your buffer.
  Brent: Yeah, true, that Cursed Dice kind of acted as protection for the Plunder Chest.
- In "I’m Sorry, Vernias", Vernias wins Toadstool Titan and receives 10 coins, despite the fact he was trying to remain at 0 coins so he could use his Bowser Phone on himself to gain 30-50 coins:
  Vernias: (After winning.) Wait, what have I done?! What am I doing?!
- In "Mario Party but there's a killer on the loose", Vernias forfeits Pokey Pummel because he knows that Brent will just mash for his life and win, forgetting that in Mario Party Superstars players receive 3 or 2 coins when placing 2nd or 3rd place respectively in a minigame, which would've gave him enough coins to purchase the Star that's 1 space away from him, as he only had 19 coins.
- In "These animations went too far...", when the topic of Nick's pink sweater is brought up, Vernias questions why he never saw Nick wearing it during the three months he lived with him, to which Nick immediately asks him to name the months they were living together. Upon listing the first month, Vernias quickly realizes that he only lived with Nick during the summer, in which wearing a sweater would be unnecessary.
- Happens to everyone while playing What Goes Up in "Mario Party but THIRD PLACE WINS" due to them all wanting to lose the minigame. Vernias plays the minigame normally, only to realize after hitting the first checkpoint that he wanted to lose. Sophist accidentally gets the first checkpoint too, after previously laughing at Vernias for doing so, and decides to play the minigame normally because he can’t go down. Nick and Brent both jump around at the bottom, only to realize at the end that their jumps give them a small amount of height, with Nick getting 3rd place on the minigame by 1 yard.
In Princess Phaedra Breaks, the king attempts to ensure prosperity for his kingdom by deliberately Invoke and Exploit the narrative law of your stereotypical fantasy story: his daughter gets kidnapped by a demon, then rescued by some hero whom he then marries her off to, ensuring a Happily Ever After ending. Except that events keep looping, because Phaedra isn't happy with being kidnapped, then forced to marry whomever saved her. (Or alternately, it's because fairy tales and their ilk are constantly retold and reimagined.) The more they loop, the more miserable Phaedra becomes, until she resolves to take matters into her own hands and break free from the narrative by any means necessary.
In the "puppy bloopers" of a YouTube video about entitled parents, the narrator's takes keep getting interrupted by his dog, so he gives the dog a squeaky toy to distract the dog from whining. The following blooper is a take interrupted by the dog squeaking the toy.
In Regular Pat's "Kingdom Hearts World Watch" videos, he looks at the various Disney properties that haven't been adapted to the series and discusses their potential to appear in Kingdom Hearts IV. While the first two videos are restricted to the Disney Animated Canon and Pixar movies, in the third video Pat went a bit overboard by including dozens of live-action Disney-owned movies in the survey on the flimsiest of pretexts (such as numerous largely forgotten movies based on Disney park attractions, just because Pirates of the Caribbean had already appeared in the games). Pat repeatedly acknowledges that he made his job harder by including so many movies that are very obviously not getting into Kingdom Hearts and that he has almost nothing to talk about.
Pat: Alright, let's get through a bunch of shit that has no chance and that I regret putting on the survey. To be honest, I did not plan this video out well. I overwhelmed myself for no reason and it's taking too long to make.
In Resident Evil 2 Abridged, Claire finds her brother, Chris's, diary, where he explains that he can't tell Claire about his plans to go fight Umbrella, as doing so could put her in danger. Claire reads this after coming to Raccoon City, which is now overrun with zombies and various Umbrella-made monsters, to look for him after he mysteriously disappeared.
RiffTrax: Kevin Murphy puts the exact phrase into the mouth of the Scott Ian-looking Geat who makes a spectacularly failed attempt to charge Grendel in the 2007 Beowulf RiffTrax.
In The Salvation War, after the demonic general Abigor hears of the defeat of (most of) his cavalry attempting to charge a ridge line with "cowardly mages throwing mage bolts, with mage-bars in the ground and silvery snakes in the ground that cut up demons and their steeds alike" (paraphrasing here), his plan for the second day of fighting is to extend his lines by thinning them — by the time he was done, an almost fifteen-mile-long front! — so as to outflank and envelope the enemy, while ordering the massed use of demonic bolt "fire" to suppress the mages. Too bad he didn't realize that he would only be able to see a small portion of the battle at any one time and thus would have to keep riding back and forth along the lines until he was already on the front lines in the midst of the carnage, with multiple rockets headed his way... they missed him, but he immediately and correctly intuited that he had been personally targeted.
SCP Foundation: Visions of a Better World is a tale detailing a series of possible futures in which the Foundation tries to use this SCP or that one to solve the world's ills, only to have it go horribly wrong because of something they didn't foresee or consider. Just a few examples...
- SCP-239, the reality bending Witch Child, is directed to use her powers to erase things like pollution and war. But she is a flawed human being like any other, with the mentality of any other child...and now has ultimate power at her leisure with nobody to stop her. Reality goes completely bananas, with continents shifting, stuffed and real animals raining from the sky, and moons randomly appearing and disappearing.
- SCP-444, a memetic virus that makes people more docile and brainwashes them into wanting children, is spread across the planet to initiate world peace. People become so peaceful they can't even bring themselves to kill livestock for food and adapt to a vegetarian lifestyle. They keep on having more and more children, but the world starts running out of resources to sustain the bloating population and everybody slowly starves.
- SCP-217, a disease that turns people and animals into clockwork beings, is spread to the population with the logic that nobody will ever get sick again and injuries can be repaired easily. Once every human on Earth is turned into a mechanical automaton, they collectively lose their imagination and curiosity, decide there's nothing worth living for anymore, and die.
- SCP-514, a flock of pigeons that make everyone unable to use weapons, are bred and unleashed on the planet. No more war, hooray! Except that they don't work on dangerous SCPs like SCP-106 and SCP-076, which are now free to wreak havoc since nobody has the power to stop them.
SMPEarth: Deo gets stuck in his own minecart entity cramming trap and needs Tommy to break the minecart so he can play like normal.
The Spoony One puts this in the mouth of the main villain of Highlander: The Source when he gets the Quickening at the top of a tall tower.
- Happened to Spoony himself. He declared on his Patreon page that if a $5K threshold is reached, he would start working on a feature Spoony movie. Once it did, he confessed that he'd never expected it to do and actually had no idea on how to proceed with the movie.
StacheBros: In "Bowser Loses His Memory", Bowser tries to get rid of Mario by flushing him down a toilet, but Goomba reminds him that Mario is a plumber and he could easily find his way out of the pipes. He makes the same mistake in "Petey Piranha Gets Kicked Out".
In Ten Little Roosters, Ryan is nearly attacked by a puma, but then Lindsay distracts the puma by calling to it like a cat. As the puma gets closer to her, Lindsay realizes that it's a really big predator and it's moving quite quickly towards her. She ends up getting mauled for her troubles.
Viral Texts:
- "My wife's boyfriend banked on my wife getting alimony from me, but she gets NOTHING": Riana, having cheated on Michael with Shawn, plotted to divorce him in order to bilk alimony out of him in court. However, the cheating wife didn't account that her boyfriend would barge into Michael's messages and gloat about the affair, nor that she would be the one paying Michael the alimony while Shawn gets sued in the process because of a prenuptial contract she signed earlier on.
- "My wife says that she's divorcing me, but she doesn't know I'm her boyfriend's boss": Loreta Bellini demanded her husband, Vittorio, divorce her so she could remarry his higher-earning coworker, Benedetto Barone without him finding out his identity. However, no matter how hard she tried to cover it up, Vittorio found out and had Benedetto fired; the former was actually the latter's boss. After finding out the truth, Loreta tries to get back with Vittorio only to be rejected and sued.
- "Out of nowhere my fiance tells me that she wants to leave me to go back to her ex, and so...": Joy breaks up her Arranged Marriage with Payne to get back with Seth, her ex-boyfriend, while telling the former not to interact with her again. Little did she know that Payne was the one supporting both her family and the company Seth worked at, which resulted in Joy being disowned for torpedoing their main source of income by calling off the marriage. She tries to get back with Payne, but he already knew about her and Seth having affair trips to Dubai with his money. Afterward, Joy's parents' company collapsed and Seth was fired from his job, while Joy herself is reduced to working part-time jobs to support him, only to end up cheated on, robbed out of her money, and eventually ditched by Seth.
- "My husband's girlfriend threatened to take my daughter... which was fine by me!": Flora slept with Sandy's husband, Harvey, and contacted the woman she cuckolded to demand she divorce him. Much to her surprise, Sandy took it in stride but asked for more time to get everything ready for the divorce procedure. When Flora got impatient and threatened to take custody of their daughter, Sally, Sandy also took it well and let her take the girl before revealing Sally was actually born from an earlier affair Harvey had before meeting Flora. The homewrecker became dismayed at the news as she didn't actually want to take Sally's custody; she was just bluffing to hasten the divorce. Predictably, both lovebirds lost their jobs upon being exposed and Sally became even more hostile towards Flora than she was towards Sandy, driving Harvey to divorce again.
- "The day I won the lottery, I found out my fiancee was cheating on me": Jennie squanders $16,000 worth of savings behind Cole's back when he announced having won $2 million in the lottery, thinking she could have a luxurious celebrity life with said money. Even without the ensuing taxes and the fact that most of the stuff Jennie planned to buy wouldn't be feasible on that amount, she made the mistake of not only telling Cole about her parents' debts at that point, but also revealing her affairs with four guys while excusing herself that she broke up with them thinking he would forgive her. Predictably, a pissed-off Cole breaks off the engagement and tells Jennie's parents about the affairs, which drove them to pay Cole the $8000 he demanded and force the cheating woman to work off the debt.
- "Some crazy bimbo tried to steal my hubby thinking he was a CEO! But the CEO was a woman…": Taylor calls Avril to gloat about having stolen her CEO husband, Dan, from her, and becoming pregnant with his child. Little did she know that not only was Dan infertile, but he's actually married to Avril's identical older sister, Jess, who is the actual CEO. Furthermore, the homewrecker made the mistake of announcing her pregnancy to Dan, who panics upon rightly deducing she had affairs with other guys behind his back. After Jess sues the cheating lovebirds for damages, Taylor tops it off by venturing to her other lovers' homes to find her baby's father, accidentally exposing them to their wives and prompting them to sue her to oblivion.
- "My fiancee ghosted me on our wedding day, then married my best friend 8 years later": Manami ghosted Ethan right on their wedding day to find herself a richer husband and went missing for eight years until she latches onto his best friend, Caleb. However, her plan backfires for many reasons — Caleb invited Ethan to the wedding, which allowed the latter to find out her whereabouts, Manami was legally declared dead because she went missing for more than seven years, and her parents have passed away from the stress, despair, and dishonor her stunt caused them earlier on. While Manami filed the paperwork to reverse her legal death declaration, it was too late as Caleb called off the wedding, and thus she condemned herself to a life of solitude and ostracism.
- "Me ex-husband kept insisting on me doing the chores for him" [sic]: Earlier on, Bryan not only dumped and kicked his wife Carol out of the house to make space for his younger mistress, but also took away her house key and changed the locks of his doors to keep her from entering. However, this backfires big time on Bryan at the start of the story as his mistress dumps him, leading him to demand Carol come back and clean up the pigsty he left in his house — the reason his mistress dumped him in the first place. Even when Carol points it out to him, he loses it and sends divorce papers to threaten her, which also backfires as she was fed up with his crap and decides to sign and turn them in.
- "My wife told me she was leaving me for her boyfriend. Guess where her boyfriend works?": Nancy ditches Sam for a wealthy college student thinking the former's decision to inherit his grandfather's company would leave him destitute. However, she ends up regretting it in multiple ways — when she brought up the alimony to her boyfriend thinking he'll pay it for her, he chews her out as he doesn't have that kind of money and his job offer was rescinded for badmouthing his interviewer, driving her to break up with him. Later on, she begs Sam to lower the alimony since she didn't account that she'd be the one paying it for cheating. When Nancy finds out the grandfather's company became TV-famous for having patents that happened to be on incredibly high demand, she attempts to get back with Sam, but the cuckolded husband reveals that the job offer was from said company; since he had an affair with the new owner's wife, that means he's banned from the premises. To add insult to injury, Nancy squandered all her money on her boyfriend and her affair got her disowned by her family. Even then, she refused to back down and stalked him for a remarriage, which eventually got her fired.
- "My ex-wife tried to sue me for no reason, but then I found out she had cheated on me": Three years after Harry divorced her, Sara tried to extort $100,000 out of him under the pretense of a lawsuit citing he was "cheating" on her by remarrying another woman named Juno and therefore she's in her legal right to sue, complete with a 10-page screed filled with justifications for her "lawsuit". However, Sara not only failed to account that Juno had connections to an actual lawyer to check the document, but she didn't bother to proofread it beforehand as it was full of typos and text slang, on top of nonsensical legal theories, complaining, and comparisons to another man, which clued Harry in on that Sara was having an affair. As a result, he not only sues her for damages, but also reveals to Sara that her boyfriend is married, so his wife will sue her as well.
- "My brother-in-law's wife made fun of me at their wedding speech because she misunderstood me!": At Brenda and Paul's wedding, Becky snatches the microphone and puts the bride on blast for being supposedly unemployed, plain, and a blight on her family, thinking this would lead the groom to call off the wedding. Unsurprisingly, Becky ends up ruining her own reputation as not only was Brenda a famous influencer, but someone recorded the whole thing and posted it on social media, causing her Instagram page to lose followers by the droves and become a pariah. After her own husband divorced her, Becky was forced to work in the countryside.
- "When my wife takes a weekend trip with one of her friends": Amanda took Colson's company credit card on her affair trip with sales manager Maden thinking anything she bought with it would be registered as company expenses. Apparently, no one told her that there's a difference between company expenses and personal expenses, nor that there's financial staff watching over the purchases done with company money to determine if they're viable, nor that credit cards could be suspended. To add insult to injury, she also used the conference room to have secret affairs with Maden, which got caught in the CCTV footage.
An episode of What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?, appropriately titled "Bad Idea Bonanza" featured stories of people in situations where their actions lacked any foresight, such as using a smoke bomb to root out squirrels, slapping a child while on probation, using oneself as a bungee cord to hold down a mattress on a mobile vehicle, or worse yet, cycling in the middle of the road with a tube of cocaine where the sun doesn't shine, wrapping the episode up with the last story featuring a similar situation as the previous one, but with numerous items. Nash's comment near the end of the episode sums it up:
Nash: All these are bad ideas, but these folks went with them because the part of their brain that was supposed to say "no, you're not the exception to reality" was on a coffee break!
This happens on a fairly regular basis in the Yogscast Minecraft Series. Examples include Duncan Jones not planning for a return trip from the Moon to the Overworld (causing Lewis Brindley to loudly berate him), Duncan trying to build an in-game golf course despite not knowing how it would be played (causing Simon Lane to then berate him), Simon building TNT bridges over lava, and many more.

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