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I Love It When A Plan Totally Doesn't Come Together

io9.com — It happens to the best dashing science fiction hero: You come up with a preternaturally clever plan to stop the bad guys, involving a totally cunning bit of MacGyvering or hustle... and it totally fails.

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Fangsinmybeard, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4It's good Fangora, but what is the point?
toeMas, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12I might as well go return my Sports Almanac right now
casspa, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2They should have used fly paper for the dinosaur trap, really big fly paper.
tomz17, on 07/16/2008, -0/+11Pinky and the brain?
leerayIG88, on 07/16/2008, -5/+1I like wearing my Fedora hat, makes me think im like Indiana Jones.
CryTekEmployee, on 07/16/2008, -9/+2DoomIV just got unveiled at E3, so sweet.
paulot, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1This is why I never made it in professional sports.
Reaktor5, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2It's all part of the plan.
Vikaas, on 07/16/2008, -5/+1Hulk smash plan!!
Vikaas, on 07/16/2008, -5/+1Hulk smash plan!!
crazyfingers619, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1THE PLANE HAS CRASHED INTO THE MOUNTAIN!
- mrtrevin, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Her life was in your hands, Dude!
willx99, on 07/16/2008, -0/+12dugg for Firefly misfortunes.
mogebier, on 07/16/2008, -9/+3That list made me have to go p00 it was so pointless and bad.
channelx, on 07/16/2008, -2/+4This article has totally FAILED to entertain me.
mrtrevin, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Where's Han Solo? “Had a slight weapons malfunction, but everything's perfectly alright now. We're fine, we're all fine, here, now, thank you. How are you?”
MrFurious2k, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1They should have called this, "If you know the people, plots, and specifics of this list, you're a nerd." Still, it was well done. :)
bwonder, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Pretty much every scheme Scooby and the gang lay out to catch the bad guy... never works as planned... but he always winds up with a toilet seat or something that incapacitates him to the point that Velma can easily remove his mask. Every episode.
diggduggDOOM, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4MCGRUBER!
- mythicflux, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1Wait. Anal lube? Whose the lucky girl? Scott.
PhoenixTril, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4With Stargate SG-1, every other episode seemed to have a plan that failed miserably, but it always worked out in the end.
jnordb, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the reference to the Tripods and the Masters domed cities.
userperson, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1You mean somebody watch Earth Final Conflict besides me... I feel sorry for them.
4bit, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Venture Brothers?
Farscape?
There must be dozens of failed plans in Battlestar?
Lost?

Now that I think about it, are there any shows where everything works?
- Radan, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2That is pretty much what differs a TV series from a regular movie. In a movie the hero usually fails maximum two times and then he succeeds which makes the movie end. A TV series however, the heroes never succeeds, which makes the show go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, until the channel pulls to show from air because of low ratings.
- jnordb, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1uh yeah...the A-team, the Dukes of Hazzard to name a couple....
  - 4bit, on 07/28/2008, -0/+2The A-Team always screwed up the first plan, got locked in a closet with a bunch of welding equipment, and then fixed it on the second pass.
    
    Dukes of Hazzard? Maybe. But something always had to go wrong for Boss and Roscoe to chase them.
drunkard, on 07/16/2008, -2/+1Buried for having the least descriptive sub text possible. Since I have no idea what this is about BEFORE I click any link, I can't reasonably determine if I should even care, therefore I don't care, so buried.
Belin, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Dugg for the Doctor

The four (or more) section format of the classic Doctor really did make sure that nothing worked out right during the first 3 episodes of any story.
Tinu, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1"splodey." I love made up words that make immediate sense.
lennybird, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3I don't get the Firefly one, teaming up with saffron was all part of the plan. They double-crossed her in the end according to plan, right?
Conramic, on 07/16/2008, -0/+0This is depressing... from all of the movies mentioned in this article, I've only seen one of them - Alien.

...and I still don't understand the point he tries to make... :(

All aboard the Failboat.
TBITS, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the Doctor and Firefly.

Technically the second time they teamed up with Saffron everything went exactly as planed.
gogog0, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2dugg for A-team reference in title, i didn't read the article and don't plan on reading it
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