We Are Not Going Through That Again - TV Tropes

Psy-Crow: Oh well. Here we go again!
Earthworm Jim: Hold it! You are not going to do a "here we go again" ending on my show!

• Digimon Tamers ended with the Digimon returning to the Digital World for good, only for Takato to find a portal back. The epilogue drama CD Digimon Tamers Original Story: Message in the Packet would then confirm that they had no choice but to seal it off with concrete to prevent Reality Bleed, although the story continued regardless in two sequel dramas released in 2018 and 2021.
• The end of Dragon Ball Super had the heroes survive the Tournament of Power, which they barely won, and are all set to go back home. The Zen-O's then ask Goku if he has any more fun ideas for them. But before Goku can answer, Beerus quickly zips in, covers his mouth and drags him away since the last idea he gave them resulted in said tournament and nearly got their universe erased.
• Naruto: As Kaguya Otsutsuki is being sealed away, Black Zetsu, who acted as The Man Behind the Man throughout the series, concludes that he'll have to try reviving his master all over again. Then, Naruto shows up and cheerfully tosses Black Zetsu in with Kaguya, leaving the two of them sealed away together.

• Disney Ducks Comic Universe:
  • In one Uncle Scrooge story, "The Pauper's Glass", Scrooge McDuck loses his memory from looking into the titular glass. At the end, Donald Duck and his nephews manage to restore Scrooge's memory. After hearing what had happened, Scrooge asks to see the Pauper's Glass once more, and Donald snaps, "Oh, no you don't! We're not going to go all through that again!"
  • In Don Rosa's "The Money Pit", after a harrowing incident in which Donald was briefly Buried Alive trying to dig up rare coins in Scrooge's money bin, Scrooge puts him to work dealing with something less likely to get him killed... namely, cataloging Scrooge's old mail. After a bit of this, Donald complains about being overworked, saying that one of the stamps seems to be upside-down. Rather than tell their uncle that he's found a real-life rare stamp and set him off again, Huey, Dewey, and Louie agree with their uncle that he needs a break.
• Firefly: The Sting: At the end, when Jayne asks if they can go back to the spa, the ladies all shout "NO!"
• Goofy: One comic has a family's car break down in front of Goofy's house, and they ask to stay until it's fixed. They proceed to take advantage of Goofy's generosity in almost every way imaginable, eating all his food, running up enormous long-distance call charges, asking him for money to pay the mechanic... They finally leave, and when another car breaks down in front of the house and the driver goes to Goofy's house to ask for help, he's greeted with automatic weapons fire.
• The Smurfs: Played with in one comic in which one of the Smurfs dreams of travelling to outer space in a spaceship he builds. Not wanting to disappoint him, Papa Smurf concocts a convoluted plan to drug him and make him think he's travelled to another planet populated by Smurflike humanoids called Swoofs. So convoluted, in fact, that after Astrosmurf "returns" (after drinking a similarly drugged beverage given to him by the Swoofs), another Smurf contemplates doing the same thing, only to be overridden by the rest of the village, who practically yell the trope name at him. They do go through it again, though, in the Animated Adaptation episode "Dreamy's Pen Pals".
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In the second of the "Shadow Saga" (Issue #2) in Sonic Universe. Shadow requests Sonic's help in destroying a deadly cannon of Eggman's all the while we see a compressed rendition of Sonic Adventure 2 played side by side with the current timeline story. Eventually, that ends with Shadow plummeting to Earth after helping to stop the Biolizard as Sonic tries to reach out for him and presumed dead. While in the present Shadow has managed to use his powers to keep the cannon from firing and nearly drops to his death after exhausting it. This time, however, Sonic grabs him before he does citing "Yeah, we're not going through that again."

• Adventures of a Line Hopper: In the "Patrol" chapter of The Seventh Segment, the Doctor and Donna sub in for Buffy when the Scoobies go on patrol, except the Doctor is insistent on giving vampires a chance and keeps stopping the others from staking them. The chapter ends with the worn-out Scoobies visiting Buffy, with Xander speaking for them all that they are never going to patrol with the Doctor ever again.
• Family Guy Fanon: The ending of "Between Sanity and Madness" has Francis' own father Josiah shows up to the Griffin house, wishing to live with the family. The response of the entire Griffin clan, after going through hell and back with Francis and Thelma for the whole episode and only recently being able to get them on a good term with Peter, is to immediately book it to the car and drive off.

  Francis: Oh, nonononononono! No way in Hell we're going though this again. Everyone! Into the car!

• At the end of the fanfic Fanfic Is Crapsack, the "trollfic," a diabolical entity embodying horrible fan fiction, tries to make a comeback as a minuscule, slowly-growing glob hiding in the cracks in the floorboards of the Ponyville Library. Twilight Sparkle drives it out of the floor by pouring boiling coffee on it, then destroys it by smacking it with a copy of Diana Hackney's Rules for Writers. It pops like a cyst, leaving behind a little spot of soot.
• Not actually at the end, but in Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Dende cites this trope when he decides to nix immortality from the resurrected Shenron, not wanting another Freeza dropping in and causing trouble.
• Healin' Good 💖 Host Club: When Tamaki gets sick in Chapter 3 and the twins wonder what they're gonna do now, Haruhi says “Simple. We let Tamaki recover in peace and enjoy the quiet until he comes back to school.”
• In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, the Red Lotus Quarto decide to tackle the Dead Carnival Car — CarnEvil on the Infinity Train — which has them fighting for their lives against the undead and lots of gorn with the ending have them on board a zeppelin against the Organ Man. After Chloe defeats him, she decides that she wants a do-over because she didn't beat Tokkentaker and felt like the ending was anti-climatic. The other members immediately drag her away before she decides to put the token back into Umalaut's mouth.

• Throughout Monsters, Inc., George keeps getting socks stuck to him, and Charlie keeps calling 23-19. The third time this happens, Charlie tries to call the 23-19 again but George shoves the sock down Charlie's throat and throws him into the door, not wanting to be attacked by the CDA again.
• The end of Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School had the girls finishing up their term at the prep school and Ms. Grimwood asking Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy to help with the next incoming batch (the daughters of a Martian, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Godzilla). The three promptly decline...by jumping into their van and driving off as fast as they can.
• In Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry, it's not said verbally, but Tom and Jerry, fed up with the constant racing thanks to their contracts, beat up J.W. when he said that they need to start the race all over again because it ended in a tie.

• Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid: Having spent a terrifying and miserable trip getting hunted by anacondas, the survivors are eager to get back to civilization and they wish it wouldn't take a day to get there. Then their guide says he knows a shortcut. Given the role taking shortcuts to get to the MacGuffin played in getting people killed, they chorus "No!"
• At the end of Kingdom of Heaven, Richard the Lionheart rides to greet Balian and tries to recruit him for another crusade. Balian simply responds: "I am the blacksmith".
• Never Say Never Again Bond quits the service at the end of the film, though he does wink at the camera when he says it.
  • The title came from a statement Sean Connery made when he said he'd never play Bond again after making Diamonds Are Forever.
• Tremors 2: Aftershocks had Earl act this way at the beginning. It didn't take.
• In Freaky Friday (2003), the titular "Freaky Friday" Flip is caused when an older Chinese woman (the mother of the owner of a Chinese restaurant) gives the characters magic fortune cookies. At the end, the same Chinese restaurant is catering the big wedding, and the restaurant owner's grandma gives the grandpa and little brother the magic fortune cookies and the restaurant owner tackles them to prevent them from opening the cookie.
• At the end of the Boris and Natasha movie, Boris blows up a crate of time travelling MacGuffins that individually reverse time for ten seconds when damaged. This causes time to reset to the beginning of the movie. Then they decide that they don't want to literally go through all the grief they went through over the course of the film a second time, so instead of delivering a priceless treasure to Fearless Leader and starting the plot, they sell the treasure and retire to Tahiti.
• At the end of Strangers on a Train, the main character finds himself in a train carriage with a stranger who recognizes him and tries to strike up a conversation. Having just gone through a hell of an ordeal resulting from someone else on a train recognizing him and striking up a conversation, the main character gets up and goes to another compartment without saying a word.
• Carry On Henry: Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell call for the executioner to go ahead and chop their heads off rather than help King Henry VIII arrange yet another royal divorce.
• The Woman in the Window, after the protagonist Richard awakens in his chair at his club and realizes the majority of the film's events were All Just a Dream, he steps out on the street in front of the painting he saw in his dream, when a woman asks him for a light in the same way another woman, Alice, did in his dream. Having just gone through a hell of an ordeal in his dream for socializing with Alice, he adamantly refuses and runs down the street.
• Towards the end of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, after the kids have escaped Jumanji and adjusted to their Character Development, they hear Jumanji's drums again. They promptly crush the Jumanji console with a bowling ball and throw it into a dumpster. Though its beating drums during the end credits suggests it still exists somehow. Sure enough, they do have to go through that again in the sequel.
• In Zathura, once the main characters return to Earth, Walter only has this to say to Danny:

  Walter: [calmly] Don't push that button.

• Played for Drama in Blood Meridian. The book's Gainax Ending is open to interpretation somewhat, but a common theme throughout the story is is You Can't Fight Fate. The Big Bad Judge Holden speaks at length about "the dance" of life and how the only real choice one has is whether to willingly participate or refuse. The Kid, now The Man, comes across a dance floor and leaves, giving Holden the opportunity to horrifically murder him as he chose to fight fate after a lifetime of bending to its whims while receiving its protection and lost.
• At the end of Bored of the Rings, Frito, having returned to his digs, is visited by a mysterious stranger who thinks he's the kind of person that takes quests. He slams the door, locks it and swallows the key.
• In the final Harry Potter book, Harry gets the Elder Wand and has the opportunity to keep it (leading to a possible Here We Go Again! ending), but decides to put it back in Dumbledore's grave to end the cycle of violence after using it to repair his old wand. Ron asks if he's sure and Harry tells him "That wand's more trouble than it's worth. And quite frankly, I've had enough trouble for a lifetime."
  • In the film he goes further; he snaps the wand in two and throws it into an abyss.
• In the short story "Chivalry" by Neil Gaiman, a little old lady finds the Holy Grail going cheap in a second-hand shop, and buys it because she thinks it'll look nice on her mantelpiece. Much excitement ensues. At the end of the story, she's back in the same shop, and finds an exotic oil lamp but decides, on reflection, to leave it where it is.
• I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew: The protagonist endures all manner of miseries and hardships trying to get to Solla Sollew "where they never have troubles, at least very few." When he reaches it, he finds that the one door into town is locked and can't be opened, and the town has been abandoned as a result. The ex-doorman invites him to come with him to Boola Boo Ball "where they never have troubles, none at all!" The protagonist decides to turn around and go home, as what troubles he had at home aren't nearly as bad as what he's endured thus far. And if they are, he brought a baseball bat this time.
• During Galaxy of Fear, DV-9 goes on several adventures but ultimately puts himself on a bus, tired of the constant danger and excitement. He reappears in the last book and helps the others, for a moment, but declines to leave with them for this reason.
• In the epilogue of John Dies at the End, John and Dave are trying to have a game of basketball when they are drawn into another parallel Earth and asked to save it from a monster invasion. They find an excuse to leave, and let some teenagers with attitude handle it instead.
• "—And He Built a Crooked House—" ends with John Teal proposing an idea for another house after they escaped from the tesseract, but stops when he ducks Homer Bailey's punch.
• At the end of Ellis Parker Butler's Pigs is Pigs, a railroad agent's strict adherence to the rules over a shipping rate dispute leads to a bureaucratic delay and a pair of guinea pigs breeding into the thousands. By the time he's shipped every last guinea pig to the head office warehouse, he's had a change of heart in this regard.

  "Wan wagonload more an, I’ll be quit of thim, an’ niver will ye catch Flannery wid no more foreign pigs on his hands. No, sur! They near was the death o’ me. Nixt toime I’ll know that pigs of whaiver nationality is domistic pets—an’ go at the lowest rate."
  He began shoveling again rapidly, speaking quickly between breaths.
  "Rules may be rules, but you can’t fool Mike Flannery twice wid the same thrick—whin ut comes to live stock, dang the rules. So long as Flannery runs this expriss office-pigs is pets—an’ cows is pets—an’ horses is pets—an’ lions an’ tigers an’ Rocky Mountain goats is pets—an’ the rate on thim is twinty-foive cints."

• At the end of the first book of Watchers of the Throne, Guilliman offers Tieron the position of his personal remembrancer - essentially a biographer and propagandist - as a reward for his service on Terra. Tieron turns it down, having decided that after the terrors of the past few months, he feels just about ready to retire. He sticks to it, too, to the point where he's no longer a point-of-view character in the sequel.

• In an episode of A.N.T. Farm, the A.N.T.s plan a heist to steal a painting that Fletcher made and some guy is claiming credit for. The heist is a success; however, Fletcher had put an exact replica of the painting in its place, rendering the whole thing pointless. When he tries to reform the group and give a rundown of their roles again, Chyna stops him.
• Done repeatedly in a single episode of The Cosby Show. It's Thanksgiving and there's a huge storm raging outside. Despite that, Clair keeps sending Cliff to get stuff that she'd forgotten to get ahead of time. Each time he returns from the store, the first thing he says is "I'm not going back out there". He keeps going back out there. Incidentally, the final store run ends up being superfluous as Clair manages to get what she needs from a neighbor while Cliff was out, and the rain stops the moment he gets back.
• Dinosaurs:
  • In "Green Card", the WeSaySo Corporation lays off its employees when there are no longer any trees to push down. B.P. Richfield tells them that, according to the Chief Elder's manual on finger pointing, four-legged dinosaurs are to blame, and are no longer allowed on the same side of the swamp unless they either marry two-legged dinosaurs or learn to walk on two legs if not even get the surgery to remove the extra legs. Roy steps up and asks for Monica DeVertebrae's hand in marriage to keep her from being deported, which she agrees to on the grounds that the marriage be platonic. Mr. Richfield soon hires back all his employees because the government wants them to build a wall to keep the four-legged dinosaurs out, except for Roy, due to his relationship with Monica. By the end of the episode, WeSaySo stops blaming four-legged dinosaurs for society's problems after they risk their lives to save those of the two-legged ones despite the two-legged ones having been hired to build the wall. When Earl sees a news report where the Chief Elder decides to make amphibians the new scapegoats, he turns off his television set and mutters "Shut up!"
  • In "Life in the Faust Lane", Earl watches a TV show called Lifestyles of Those We Envy, which advertises an expensive coffee mug that catches his interest. He sells his soul to the Devil for the mug, causing him to put it ahead of his family and friends. Earl eventually realizes the error of his ways and is able to return the mug since it's still under warranty. The Devil sends Earl back to last Thursday, where he is seen watching Lifestyles on his TV set. He is about to join Fran in bed when Lifestyles goes to a commercial break for expensive possessions. Not wanting to go through that experience again, Earl shuts off his TV.
• In one episode of Drake & Josh, after taking the fall for helping Megan hide a sheep from their parents, the boys decide against doing the same when she brings home a zebra.
• The Flash (2014): At the start of season 3, Barry messes up the timeline by going back in time. He goes back in time again to fix what he did. This results in a timeline that is mostly fixed, but not quite the same as his original. He goes back in time to fix it as well... only for Jay Garrick to smack him out of the Speed Force and give him a stern talking-to on the consequences of repeated time travel.
• In The Monkees episode "Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth", the band, having just finished ensuring that a horse that they were stuck with by a kid got a good home, are approached on the beach by another kid who just happened to be looking to get rid of a camel. The instant they see this, the Monkees run away as fast as they can before the kid can say anything and given that the show cuts to a music sequence with them on a dune buggy and motorcycles, they are apparently really serious about avoiding getting stuck with another beast of burden.
• In Season 4 of Person of Interest, Harold Finch tries to invoke this on the rest of Team Machine, but they all slowly work on him to bring him around.
• By the end of the sixth episode of A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017), the Baudelaires have realized that Mr. Poe is and always shall be completely and utterly useless, so rather than go with him and be dumped God-knows-where and go through the same bullshit once more, they choose to take control of their fate and stow away in a truck to the Lucky Smells lumber mill.
• The Suite Life on Deck episode "Maddie On Deck" is about Maddie catching the attention of a prince, who turns out to be an eight-year-old boy. The prince proceeds to attempt to force her into marriage. In the end, she has caught the attentions of the prince's brother, Timmy, and has a We Are Not Going Through That Again moment. As it turns out, Timmy was actually a hot guy around the same age as her.
• The Twilight Zone (2019): In "Try Try" by the next time loop Mark decides not to interfere with Claudia and leaves her alone.
• Wizards of Waverly Place: In "Harperella", Harper reads the story of Cinderella to a group of children. However, since it is a magical book as Alex attempted to warn her, Harper gets sucked into the book and becomes Cinderella. It gets out of control when the pages get stuck together mixing the story between Cinderella and The Three Little Pigs with special guest appearance David Blaine. After the story is finally finished and Harper is freed back to the real world, a little girl asks her to read the story again. Unable to handle reliving everything she went through, Harper panics and yells at the kids to Get Out!.
• Star Trek
  • Used in Star Trek: The Original Series after the Downer Ending of "City on the Edge of Forever". After being Forced to Watch Edith Keeler die to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, the Guardian of Forever offers to send them on more Time Travel adventures. Captain Kirk's only response is a curt, "Let's get the hell out of here."
  • In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "Those Old Scientists", the Enterprise crew attempt to send Brad Boimler back to his own time, only for Beckett Mariner to come through the portal instead, much to their chagrin. When another opportunity to send Mariner and Boimler back to the future is found, the likelihood of D'Vana Tendi and Sam Rutherford also coming through the portal immediately presents itself, which the Enterprise crew (clearly fed up with visitors from the future at this point) promptly shuts down.
• Odd Squad:
  • In "By the Book", Otto remarks that he doesn't want to revisit the events of the episode, where the two criminals that he was interrogating got luxury privileges (spa treatments, reservations for the best chairs in Precinct 13579, trick-or-treating, a Staring Contest) due to the mandatory rules stated in the Odd Squad rulebook.
  • In "Swamps N' Gators", once Olive and Otto escape the titular game, Bradley holds up another game and asks them if they want to be zapped into it. Both agents rightfully answer with a unisonant "No!"
  • At the end of "Otis's Day", Owen comes up and explains that he found a mansion for the Noisemaker to live in following his exit from the Odd Squad Villain Protection Program. However, since the Noisemaker decides to not pull a Heel–Face Turn after all, the mansion is up for grabs, leading Otis to suggest that it be split among other agents. Olympia, who had already gone through the harrowing ordeal of sharing a single room in the previous episode, promptly shuts him down.

    Otis: But this is huge. We should share it with other agents-
    Olympia: Noooooo!!

  • In "Dr. O: Party Time, Excellent", after Dr. O's goodbye party turns disastrous, Olympia suggests that she, Oprah, Otis and Oona throw Dr. O's replacement a welcome party. Their collective response is to walk away from her, and she misconstrues it as them being on board with the idea and starting to plan for the new party.

• In Amiga Power, Stuart Campbell's review of the Hit Squad rerelease of SimCity just said: "Look, I'm not reviewing Sim City again. No way. Forget it."

• In Peanuts, Charlie Brown is returning home from the best summer camp visit of his life helping and gaining a new friend. As his bus pulls out, he sees a new crop of kids who could use some help, but he sits back with a satisfied smile and says "Let them go, I've done my hitch."

• Our Miss Brooks: "Exchanging Gifts" involves the re-gifting and exchanging of a tie and a handkerchief with the loud design of "a big yellow tree on a cliff by the ocean with a purple owl on top of it playing a bugle. Both presents are for Mr. Boynton, who had just returned to Madison from a biologists' convention. The confusion is sorted out by the end (Miss Brooks never missing an opportunity to snark over the ridiculousness of the design), only for Mrs. Davis to ask Miss Brooks an important favor at episode's end:

  Mrs. Davis: Just a minute, Connie. I have a little favor to ask of you. You know, everyone gave Mr. Boynton a welcome home gift today except me. Unfortunately, I'm a little short of funds so I can't buy him anything. But if you don't mind, I'd like to iron that muffler you gave me last Christmas, and give it to him in the morning.
  Miss Brooks: Please, Mrs. Davis. I've just had....
  Mrs. Davis: You know the one I mean, Connie. The one with the yellow tree on the cliff by the ocean with the purple owl....
  Miss Brooks: You're a little late, so Goodnight Mrs. Davis!

• The ending of Telltale Games' Back to the Future: The Game. Upon finally arriving home, Doc and Marty are visited by Marty's future self in an inverted homage to the first movie's Sequel Hook. Then two more future Martys show up. They all insist they come back with them into the future to fix the timeline. Doc and Marty simply get back into their own DeLorean and drive away, leaving the three alternates to fight amongst themselves.
• Fate/Grand Order: a Running Gag in the "Gudaguda" Events (which are ridiculous) is for the conflict to finally be resolved, only for Mash to show up and declare that someone else has gotten stuck in a similar situation, and the cast to reply "Nope, we're not doing that again!"
• When ToeJam & Earl are leaving Earth in two-player mode, Earl asks, "Can I drive?" ToeJam, knowing how that got them into the accident that led them to be stranded on Earth in the first place, responds, "No!"

• Spirit Hunter: NG: At the end, when Kaoru floats the idea of getting back into the supernatural, Akira rebuffs her. After all the danger that the occult put him and his companions through, he's done with it.

• The Amazing Digital Circus: "Fast Food Masquerade": Caine's next adventure was going to be another horror-themed adventure called "The Curse of the Violent Psychopath Butcher", but Pomni interrupts and stops him before he can finish describing or send them to that adventure, as she doesn't want another traumatizing horror adventure after having gone through one the previous episode.

• Wapsi Square: Monica is not going into the jungle again. Too many bug bites.

• Arthur: In "D.W. Flips", D.W. decides she wants to do flips on the balance beam after seeing an athlete do it on television. When she tells Jane about this, Jane reminds her of the other times she wanted to do things, but didn't want to practice them, and gave up after just a few days. First, it was T-ball (D.W. claimed she could only hit balls that moved), then it was ballet (D.W. claimed to have weak knees), and finally, it was violin lessons (D.W. claimed she could have been good at it if her music teacher didn't make her use the bow). By the end of the episode, D.W. gives up after nearly falling off the balance beam in an attempt to do a cartwheel on it, but when she sees a horse, she decides she wants to learn horseback riding now. Jane refuses to sign her up for lessons.
• Ben 10: In "They Lurk Below", the Tennysons get attacked by aliens when visiting an underwater resort designed by one of Grandpa Max's friends. After escaping, said friend offers to take them to another resort he built... on the moon. Needless to say, the Tennysons politely decline the offer.
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: In "Snoopy and the Giant", a beanstalk grows in the garden that Woodstock has Snoopy make for him. When Snoopy and Woodstock climb the beanstalk, they come to the Giant's castle and find a room full of cookies. The Giant, who resembles Bill Meléndez, captures Woodstock, and Snoopy has to save him. When Snoopy and Woodstock get back home, Snoopy cuts down the beanstalk with a chainsaw, and when Woodstock tries to plant a new garden, Snoopy takes the key to his tractor.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000): In "Home is Where the Fun is", Jetta spends the entire episode with her mother trying to get to the Titanic Tower in the city, which is supposed to offer spectacular views of Birdwell Island. While Emily and Clifford enjoy an entire day back home enjoying the island's simpler pleasures, Jetta and her mother encounter nothing but trouble the entire way, from dealing with a Big Honking Traffic Jam, to standing in a very long line, to having to climb a very tall staircase when the elevator is out of order. They finally make it up to the building, only to have their view ruined by a fog. When they get back home, Jetta's mother makes it very clear that she has no intention of ever repeating that trip again.

  Jetta: Maybe next time, you can come to the Titanic Tower with me, Emily Elizabeth.
  Jetta's Mother: "Next time"? Next time, we're going to the zoo.

• Danger Mouse:
  • "Danger Mouse on the Orient Express" has DM and Penfold in Venice museum where they are reunited after escaping from Greenback and Penfold lost a document in his care to a fish in the Grand Canal:

    DM: So you gave them the slip, eh?
    Penfold: Yes chief, but the fish...
    DM: Not "fish." "Slip."
    Penfold: "Chip?"
    DM: For the fish.
    Penfold: [after a beat] Can we start again?
    DM: Hardly, Penfold. We've been through it fourteen times already.

  • In "The Statue of Liberty Caper," DM and Greenback go through a series of "I guessed your guess would be the guess I guessed you guessed" sessions. When Greenback splutters "What?!" at DM's recent go, DM replies "I'm not saying it again, Greenback. I can't!" Greenback and Stiletto sigh in relief.
• Dave the Barbarian: In one episode, the gang are visited by Lula's sister Molly, who is actually Thor's hammer Mjolnir. After they get them back together, they're visited by Neptune's trident and immediately shut the door.
• The Earthworm Jim episode "Hyper Psy-Crow" almost has a Here We Go Again ending, but when Jim comes in and complains about it (even using this exact term), they decide to Drop the Cow instead. The dialog:

  Psy-Crow: Oh well. Here we go again!
  Jim: Hold it! You are not doing a "Here we go again" ending on my show!
  Psy-Crow: (mockingly) Well, what kind of ending do YOU want Mr. Too-Good-For-Standard-Cheesy-Cartoon-Endings?!
  Jim: What do you think?
  Psy-Crow: The cow thing?
  Jim: And… Cue the cow!
  (a cow falls on Psy-Crow)

• Family Guy:
  • In "Holy Crap", Peter reconciles (somewhat) with his devoutly Catholic father Francis with help from the Pope, realising that while they might not like anything about each other, they still love each other. Francis gets a new job as a guard for the Pope, and is able to move out of the Griffin house. Cue Peter's mother needing a place to stay immediately after the plot is wrapped up. Peter responds to this by rallying the entire family into an Escape Pod.
  • In "Love, Blactually", Stewie and Brian have lied to Loretta, saying that Cleveland wants to get back together with her, in order to allow Brian a chance with his ex (Cleveland's then-current girlfriend.) Loretta comes to Cleveland, saying that she's sorry she cheated on him and does want them to be a family again... and he considers it, though he doesn't want to give up Carolyn. When he finally does talk to Loretta, he tells her that the time they shared was special and he does care about her, but also that he's moved onto a new chapter of his life and that she should do so too.
  • In "Thanksgiving", where Joe's son Kevin comes to Thanksgiving after faking his death in Iraq, the episode ends with another Kevin saying the first one is an impostor. Peter lampshades this saying that there's no more time left in the episode.
• The Flintstones episode "Dr. Sinister" where Fred and Barney just come back after being shanghaied into a terrifying James Bond-like adventure with Madame Yes. As they're trying to explain things to their wives, who should show up at the front door but Madam Yes, this time asking them to fix a flat tire. Fred promptly slams the door in her face then begins boarding it shut in a mad panic.

  Wilma: Fred, where are your manners? That poor woman is in trouble.
  Barney: (Helping Fred barricade) Leave him alone, Wilma! He knows what he's doing!

• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
  • In "Emancipation Complication", Foster's becomes overcrowded with imaginary friends, so Li'l Lincoln gets the idea to market the imaginary friends so they can be sold to new owners. Li'l Lincoln really wants to make a handsome profit from selling the imaginary friends and turn Foster's into a casino, but his plans are foiled by Mac, Frankie, Mr. Herriman, Bloo, and Madame Foster herself, and he has to buy back every last imaginary friend he sold. During the closing credits, Foster's is once again overcrowded. Bloo tries to market the friends himself, but they all tell him "Shut it!"
  • In "The Buck Swaps Here", Mac, Frankie, Madame Foster, and the imaginary friends go to a swap meet. There, Bloo wants to a statue of a mongoose fighting four cobras, but it costs $300.00. Bloo calls the vendor a ripoff artist, but Mac stops him before he can kick him in the shin like he did to the vendors at the mall in a previous episode, "Store Wars".
  • In "Schlock Star", Bloo tries to join the Pizza Party band^note , but gets kicked out for being less than helpful. Out of revenge for being refused and for letting Mac become the band's manager, he forms his own band named Taco Fiesta together with Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco, but they soon become their own band without Bloo. Eventually, Bloo forms another one-imaginary friend band called the Bloo Sabbath Experience Mach III, which is just himself in various costumes at the upcoming concert held at Foster's. This backfires since despite all the effort he put into his rock star image, he forgot to write a song. After Pizza Party and Taco Fiesta see how much Bloo struggles trying to perform, they compromise and provide the music for their next concert while Bloo provides the special effects. Upon hearing this, Frankie shouts "NEVER AGAIN! No more concerts, EVER!" and reveals that Bloo's special effects literally set the house on fire, which the fire department is in the process of putting out.
• One incident in Freaky Stories was a film noir story set during a Used Future, about a travelling salesman who came across a mysterious hitchhiking young lady and picked her up while he was driving on the road one night, helping to return to her residence. He investigates after she vanishes, so he arrives at her residence (a swanky mansion guarded by a robot butler), and meets an old woman...who happens to be the same lady. The guy was traumatized enough that the next time he saw a young lady hitchhiking, he floored it.
• In the Futurama episode "A Clockwork Origin", when the Planet Express crew is searching for the missing link, Hermes finds another of Fry's dogs. Hermes hides it from Fry and throws it in the soup the first chance he gets to avoid another Tear Jerker scenario.
• In one episode of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, while on a cruise, the girls help a washed-up Elvis Impersonator make a comeback. When he asks them if they can do the same with his old bandmates, Ami lets out a Big "NO!" and the girls jump off the ship and swim to shore.
• The Penguins of Madagascar, "Treasure of the Golden Squirrel". After the penguins had been involved in an exciting treasure hunt involving a cursed artifact, a pigeon gives them a silver feather and instruct them to guard it with their lives. Skipper is excited at the prospect of a second adventure, but when he turns around he finds that the others have left, wanting no part in it.
• Popeye: At the end of one episode of the treasure seekers segment, a descendant of Joan D'Arc wants to hire Popeye and Olive to seek one of her artifacts. They refuse.
• Regular Show:
  • In "Eggscellent", Rigby is put in a coma trying to eat a giant omelette, which triggered his egg allergy, and the only thing that can wake him up is winning the net hat given as a prize to anyone who can successfully eat the whole thing. After Mordecai eats the omelette and gets the hat, they see an advertisement for a restaurant that will give free T-shirts to anyone that can eat a giant steak. Rigby suggests they attempt that challenge as well, and in response the rest of the staff try to remove his hat to put him back in his coma.
  • In "Sleep Cycle", Mordecai and Rigby get no sleep after watching a marathon that ran for an entire weekend and have to fix their sleep cycles by going through a magical life-or-death challenge (again). When they see a commercial for another marathon and are prepared to do it again, Skips punches out the TV and orders them to go to sleep.
  • In "Gamers Never Say Die", Mordecai and Rigby find a secret map on one of their video games and go to follow it. Though to do so, they had to steal Benson's car battery to keep the TV and game console powered, which he's mighty pissed off about and tracks them down. After going through an underground area and dodging traps, they find the secret room of the developer and get gold badges for their trouble before Benson activates another trap and causes the room to fly off. Just as it does, the spirit of said game developer congratulates the two on their find and offers another hunt via another map. Benson will have none of it, pushes the two into Skips' van, and drives off.
• Rocket Power: In "Snow Day", Sam tells his friends about Snow Day, prompting Otto to decide to have one so he can avoid an assembly. In the end, Sam asks if he told Otto about rainy days and Otto reacts by closing his eyes and saying he's not listening.
• Rugrats:
  • In the 1991 series episode "Baby Commercial", Betty takes Phil and Lil to a TV studio to be filmed for a commercial for Tighties diapers. Phil and Lil cause as much havoc as two babies could be expected to get into, from rubbing off their stage makeup to wandering around the set, giving Jonathan, the director, a nervous breakdown. However, despite all the odds against him, the agency executives are very pleased with the final product of his commercial, so he pesters Betty for another gig. Unfortunately for him, Betty has had enough and refuses to let Phil and Lil star in any more commercials.
  • In the 2021 series episode "The Favor", After Susie pulls Josh's stick out from a tree, he tries to do something nice for her in return. However, Josh is very bad at being good, as every time he attempts to do something nice for Susie, he ends up making things worse for other kids. By the end of the episode, Josh put his stick back in the tree so he doesn't owe anybody any favors, since trying to be nice was too much work for him. However, Nina pulls it out again and returns it to him. Josh runs away from Nina, not wanting to do any favors for her.
• The Secret Saturdays: Happens at the end of "Once More the Nightmare Factory" after the team has escaped from Argost's cryptid-infested mansion:

  Doc: It's over. We won.
  [Drew, Doyle, and Zak motion to warn Doc of the large seagoing cryptid behind him]
  Doc: No. We won. I'm not turning around and looking at it. We won.

• Sonic Boom:
  • In "Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Days?" Sonic lets Dr. Eggman stay at his house for a few days while the latter's base is under renovation. It later turns out this was a ruse so Eggman could exhaust Sonic and his friends so they'd be too tired to stop his Obliteratorbot. The Obliteratorbot malfunctions and attacks Eggman's base, forcing Eggman to team up with Sonic and his friends to stop it. At the end of the episode, when Eggman's base is destroyed for real, Sonic just decides to drop Eggman off at his destroyed base.
  • In "The Curse of the Cross-eyed Moose", Sticks sends her and her friends on a perilous journey to find a marmoset monkey when she believes they are cursed following her encounter with a cross-eyed moose. At the end of the episode, after Sticks believes the curse is removed, she comes across a moss-covered, seven-legged spider, believing she and her friends are cursed again. Before she can send them on another perilous journey, Knuckles flicks the spider away and says, "Curse broken!"
• Star Wars Rebels: In "Visions and Voices", after getting possessed by a Nightsister ghost as a result of going along with Maul's demands by letting Ezra go to Dathomir with him, as this is only the latest in a string of bad things to happen to him when they've worked with Maul before, Kanan declares that he doesn't care what Maul is holding over their heads next time, they are not working with him again.
• Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City: In the episode “Oven Trouble”, Strawberry entrusts Lemon Meringue with building her a stronger oven, but she ends up getting one that's too powerful and floods her food truck with rainbow fudge batter. After Lemon builds her a smaller oven, Strawberry complains about her old mixer, and Lemon is ready to replace that, too, but Strawberry quickly throws the mixer through the wall of the truck and decides to mix her batter by hand.
• In the World's Greatest Super Friends episode "Lord of Middle Earth", Gleek realizes his fantastic adventure was just a dream. But just as he relaxes, he sees a shadowy figure that looks like the same kind of Troll that was in his dream adventure. Rather than investigate, Gleek simply shrugs and goes back to sleep.
• An episode of TaleSpin begins as Baloo and Louie were being chased by a giant walrus after being talked into a treasure hunt by a girl. After escaping, they vowed not to get involved with an adventurous woman again, only to spend the episode helping a female archaeologist look for treasure. Once that's over, a woman on the streets shows them a map and asks if they're interested in looking for some treasure. The two exchange glances and then promptly rip the map over her head, and leave.

  "...Was it something I said?"

• In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Kicking a Ball & Pretending to Be Hurt", it turns out that the only reason the Titans were so interested in soccer was that all soccer balls in the world were filled with soccer trolls that gave people an overwhelming love for the sport. At the end of the episode, the same happens when they decide to take up bowling and crack the ball open to find that it's filled with a bowling turkey, but Cyborg immediately blows it up with his Arm Cannon.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • In "Plucky's Dastardly Deed" (part of "Son of Looniversity Daze"), Plucky forgets to study before a test, so his shoulder devils convince him to switch his test paper with someone else's. Plucky switches his paper with that of Egghead Jr., the smartest kid in class, but later feels emotional guilt over having done it. When he is about to confess his crime to Foghorn Leghorn, Foghorn reveals that he accidentally dropped the test papers in a mud puddle, and since this happened before he could look at any of them, it means the students will have to retake the test. When Plucky's shoulder devils try to convince him to cheat again, he launches them out of the way so he doesn't have to listen to them and he can retake the test the honest way.
  • In "Toons Take Over", Buster, Babs, and Plucky are tired of doing comedy-based episodes, and they decide to create their own adventurous, dramatic, and romantic cartoon called Dawn of Despair. Cooper DeVille dislikes the cartoon's concept, but does like the idea of having them direct a cartoon, so he makes them directors. After the toons produce Dawn of Despair, DeVille has to approve it before it can be shown to the world. Babs pirates the signal to show Dawn of Despair to the world, causing DeVille to fire her, Buster and Plucky due to a combination of a breach of protocol and his orders and how much of a mess Dawn of Despair was. When Buster and Plucky find out that DeVille and his yes-men found Dawn Of Despair So Bad, It's Good and are laughing hysterically at it, they ask him if he liked it and if he's glad he let them make it. DeVille says yes to both those questions, and Buster and Plucky ask him if he will let them and Babs make another cartoon. DeVille refuses to let them do so, but does give them their jobs back as a reward for making him laugh.
  • In "Grandma's Dead", Duncan Duff, Elmyra's younger brother, is sick with a cold and has to stay home from school. He watches a movie called Nosy Neighbors, which gives him the idea to spy on his neighbors. When one of Elmyra's pet hamsters dies around the same time her grandmother visits, it leads to everyone believing that Grandma is the one who died. Duncan also believes Mr. Bump, his next-door-neighbor, to be the one who killed Grandma (Mr. Bump was actually trying to return a box she dropped). Near the end of the episode, after the truth is revealed, Emily shuts off Duncan's TV just as The Eavesdropper airs, not wanting Duncan to watch that movie and get ideas.
• In the Tom And Jerry cartoon "Duel Personality", Jerry is fed up with being chased by Tom and challenges him to duel (with the traditional ritual of a Glove Slap followed by My Card) to settle things. After a series of disastrous duels that kept ending in draw, the episode ends with Tom chasing Jerry again. However, when Jerry tries to challenge Tom to a duel again, Tom tears up his card and uses the glove to slap him around.
• In a VeggieTales parody of Gilligan's Island called "Larry's Lagoon", Bob and Larry are running a tour-boat service. When Bob goes below deck, he lets Larry take a turn steering, but Larry forgets his promise not to daydream, wrecking the boat and stranding everyone on a Deserted Island. They manage to escape when the Professor (Dad Asparagus) makes a helicopter from nothing but bamboo and coconuts. As Bob and Larry are about to climb aboard...

  Larry: Hey, Bob?
  Bob: Yeah, Larry?
  Larry: Um, next summer, let's just sell lemonade, like everyone else.
  Bob: That sounds like a good idea.