

(The serpent is then hit by enemy fire and begins to attack them instead.) Sokka: The universe just loves proving me wrong, doesn't it?



After the group fall into a Pit Trap, one of the companions remarks that it couldn't possibly get any worse. Parodied in one episode of The Legend of Dick and Dom."Well at least it can't get any worse".cue the gale force winds. That's So Raven: Raven got stuck in a limo's moon roof when going to prom.The fact that this gives Tony seven years' bad luck really shows she shouldn't have said that. At exactly that moment, her father Tony, climbing around on the roof, loses his hold on the Traveling mirror, and it falls off to smash into a thousand pieces at Virginia's feet. She decides, and says aloud that at least things can't get any worse. Played straight in The 10th Kingdom: Virginia despondently sits down on a set of steps in Kissing Town after she finds out Wolf spent all the money he'd won at gambling on dinner instead of buying the Traveling mirror, and subsequently walks out on him, thinking he's a selfish bastard who doesn't really love her.Even though "It can't get worse," the thought is definitely there. Prompting Dean to ask "I wonder how bad (this luck is going to get)." Elsewhere, a couple of hunters find Sam's picture on that restaurant's website, starting their hunt for poor Sam. Within a minute of losing the foot, Sam spills hot coffee in his lap, knocks over a waiter, and slips on the pavement. If Sam loses it, he'll be dead in a week. As long as it's in Sam's possession, it'll give them good luck. While it's not actually said in Supernatural, the boys (Sam, specifically) get a hold of a cursed rabbit's foot.When his father asks how, Lamont notes "It could snow." Sure enough, it instantly starts snowing right there and then. In Sanford and Son the pair have a disastrous camping trip and Lamont notes that it could be worse.Early in Lost's first season, Jack tells Hurley, "Things could be worse," to which Hurley replies, "How?" This is the episode in which we first learn of the Others.In Greek, after living with super-annoying by-the-book consultant Lizzie for a month, Casey comments that "We've hit rock bottom, and there's nowhere to go but up." On cue, Lizzie announces she's arranged a mixer.with the geekiest frat on campus.Played with in Monty Python's Life of Brian, when a Jewish Official is about to have a man named Matthias stoned to death for saying "Jehovah" (saying the name of God was a blasphemy).Look Who's Talking, with the mother complaining about the chores of motherhood, and then being visited by her mother.Subverted in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: "Worse? How could it get any worse? Take a look around you, Ellen, we're at the threshold of Hell!" Things do actually start to get better at that point, and ultimately Clark Griswold gets his one true happy ending of the whole series.Played in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: Immediately after complaining that he doesn't know how much more he can take, Harold gets attacked by a raccoon that snuck into the car.Cue a Gilligan Cut to Felicity sleeping with Fat Bastard to plant a tracking device on him. In Austin Powers The Spywho Shagged Me, Austin visits his frozen self after losing his mojo, saying that at least things couldn't get any worse.
