The "what gets you in to trouble is what gets you out" line of thought was often the set up for many screwball comedies where the hero, say Danny Kaye, is brash about something unintentionally and then later uses the ability to act that way to get him out of the situation in the end. More times than not the trouble is unintentionally gotten into. You see the same pattern in fairy tales and many heroic adventures where the hero, say brave little tailor type bluffs his way into trouble only to bluff his way out of it.