Rooting for the loser

Just once, couldn't Dastardly and Muttley have, not won the race, but at least not come in last? I remember one episode where they actually started feeling bad for what htey did, and they SITLL came in last. What gives?
Or the Coyote... I  mean, of course you wouldn't want him to eat the road runner, but... Give the poor guy a break in some way.
And Al from Married with Children. He's not a bad guy... Why is it that whenever somehting good happens at the end of the episode, everything has to go back to normal the very next week?
Some of the losers on TV aren't bad guys. And you do want things to work out for them every once in a while but they never do!

This all leads me to a recent episode of Finneas & Ferb.
Now, I don't watch cartoons for kids too often anymore, but I did catch a recent Finneas & Ferb episode.
It started with Finneas and Ferb's mom actually coming home early enough to catch Finneas and Ferb in the act, and realizing that all those times that Candice(that's her name, right?) was claiming they're up to insane antics was for real.
I was SHOCKED! These things just don't happen in cartoons!
Ed Edd n' Eddys' schemes ALWAYS fail! Daffy Duck always gets the short end of the stick if Bugs is around! And he's not alwyas the bad guy!
Neither is Candice, when you think about it! But there it was... Someone getting a break!

I decided that if this doesn't all end up being a dream or something like that, this would be one of the most significant and awesome episodes of any cartoon I've ever seen.

...

It was a dream.

And not even Candice's dream. It was the Platypus' dream.

Bah.