When Cheaters Win...

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As everyone knows (at some point or the other, but I digress...), cheaters never win/prosper. However, aside from the 1 or 2 Laff-A-Lympics episodes where the Really Rottens actually won the episode, have there been any other moments in animation in which someone who cheats is portrayed as actually winning?
 
In the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Tortoise Beats Hare", Cecil Turtle wins the race (and the bet he made with Bugs) by clearly cheating. He even rubs the fact that he cheated in Bugs' face by the end.
 
I've only seen one episode where the Rottens won, and I remember they accidentally did it honestly because all their cheating attempts failed. I think they were even bummed about it.
 
It's the principle of the thing. These are people that have devoted their lives to cheating and being rotten. That's what makes them happy. They don't want to win, ugh, honestly.
 
I remember a Robot Jones episode where the two evil kids(Can't remember their names), sabotoged Robot's Rubix Cube competition by placing a green sticker on one square of his cube making it impossible to solve, and they got away with it and won.
 
^ I wouldn't remember a single thing about that show except it was sketchy and the robot liked a girl with braces...

There aren't any instances of cheaters winning at the moment that I can think of,but there must be some cases.At least some where they nearly win anyway.
 
Pretty much everybody cheated, all the time, on Wacky Races, except for maybe Peter Perfect, and Dick Dastardly was the only one who ever got called on it. The others all won multiple times.
 
Thing is that the other races were doing what they could to get ahead....not take out everyone else.

And I remember a Secret Squirll ep where Hot Rodney cheated and won, but got his come uppance in the end regardless.
 
In that Droopy episode where he's facing off against the big dog (what was his name?) in a series of sporting events, the other dog cheats and loses in most of them - and hilariously - but oddly enough, I seem to recall that Droopy cheated his way through the log-rolling competition with roller skates while the big dog, for once, was playing it straight.
 
Then he tricked Droopy into signing a confession saying that he cheated in every event, so he came away with the win.

Sure, the girl who gave him the winner's kiss turned out to be hideous, but still, it isn't how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose.
 
Even though Dastardly and Muttley never won in The Wacky Races, they eventually did win a couple of times in Fender Bender 500, a series of shorts that was part of an early morning live action kids show titled Wake, Rattle, and Roll. These shorts were only 5 or 6 minutes long and the two raced against the more famous HB stars like Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, Huck Hound and Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey, etc. It was nice to finally see them win for once, though it was at least 20 years overdue.
 
Cecil also cheats in another race in which he uses hundreds of cousins to dupe him to thinking he lost fair and square.

There's also some cartoon wrestling/boxing matches in which they clearly don't play by the rules in order the humiliate their ruthless opponents.
 
An episode of Care Bears has Beastly, Hugs and Tugs competing on a game show which asks various safety questions. Beastly of course doesn't score a single point until he discovers that pounding his score machine will provide him with some points.

Thus he wins of course, but not the prize he was looking forward to.
 
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