And there are more prosecutions that only a partisan bungler, not a diabolical mastermind, would have allowed.

They later committed the crime that would establish them as bunglers of historic proportions — the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

This season's closer shows Hank as a survivor driven by passion as opposed to a happy-go-lucky bungler who somehow manages to survive by accident.

The name bunglers were usually white colleagues, but in rare cases, they were people of color.

A 1958 Cold War novel, “The Ugly American,” painted an unflattering portrait of the U.S. diplomatic corps as a team of loud, supercilious bunglers whose failures aided the rise of communism in Southeast Asia.