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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
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A device or technique is used... in reverse. Commonly, it is setting a car to reverse. In comedies, or a comedic moment anyway, a new driver will pull forward, only it's in reverse. Conversely, they may put the car in gear as if it's in reverse, look behind themselves, and then drive forward. Often a Sub-Trope of Driving Stick. Compare this to Backwards-Firing Gun for a more lethal way to do something wrong. See also Wiper Start, for more comedic driver incompetence, Reverse Polarity, Reverse Telescopic Vision, Read the Map Upside Down, and Aerosol Spray Backfire. |
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_13f25032 | type |
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Animator vs. Animation has an interesting example: the Skeleton from "Monster School" aims better when Red reverses it's bow. | |
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_1471e656 | type |
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In Moving Violations, the bad cop's squad car suffers a mechanical fault after a collision, forcing him to drive backward during the concluding car chase. As he's losing his temper, he proceeds to deliberately back up into someone's garden and through a brick wall. | |
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Ranma ½: Happens once in a Filler episode when Akane attempts to drive a go-kart. In the English script, likely as a Shout-Out to the Trope Namer, Akane even says this nearly word-for-word. | |
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The Sheep in the Big City episode "Oh, the Ewemanity" involved Sheep becoming gigantic after getting hit with a growth ray. General Specific at one point accidentally makes himself taller with the same growth ray due to thinking he can shrink Sheep to normal size by aiming the ray backwards. | |
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American Graffiti: Toad, driving his friend's car, waits to drag race someone at a stoplight. He jumps the gun when the left-turn signal goes on and backs up - then when the light turns green he accelerates backwards into a car behind him. | |
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_2126592a | type |
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Girls und Panzer First-time driver Hana almost crashes her Panzer IV into the hangar's back door. She didn't even know how to start the thing a moment before, so not noticing it was in reverse is excusable. During the championship match against Kururomine, Momoga tries to move her Chi Nu Type 3 away from an ambush, but engages reverse by mistake. Though it moves her closer to the opponents, and her squad takes a fatal hit, it saves the flag tank from the kill shot by Taking the Bullet instead. |
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Star Trek: Enterprise. In "Azati Prime", Travis Mayweather is trying to fly a Xindi-Insectoid shuttle. He hits a control that makes it go backwards into the wall of the launch bay. | |
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In the Psych episode "You Can't Handle This Episode", Shawn picks up something and asks what it is. He's told that it's a rocket launcher, and he's pointing it at himself. | |
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In Some Like It Hot, Josephine (Tony Curtis) is trying to impress Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) by showing her 'his' yacht (it actually belongs to someone else). They get in the motorboat used as the tender for the yacht, but he can only get it to work in reverse. | |
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Pixar Shorts: The "forward when going in reverse" variation appears in the short Mike's New Car. In the short Lifted, the alien novice who just failed his abduction test gets pity from his tester, who lets him fly the ship back. He crashes it downward first. |
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In Home (2015), when Oh repairs Tip's car, he accidentally wires the brakes and gas backwards. | |
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MythBusters: Inverted and thankfully averted, as Jamie reminds Adam that since his excavator is facing backwards on the dump truck, he doesn't have to set it to reverse. | |
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A variant in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando: Fake Ultimate Hero turned Big Bad Captain Qwark attempts to use Angela's Helix-o-Morph to neutralize the monstrous tendencies of the original Protopet and take credit for saving the Bogon Galaxy from the disaster that he had orchestrated, but it instead mutates and grows giant, becoming the game's Final Boss. After the Protopet is subdued, the reason why it transformed the way it did turns out to be that the Helix-o-Morph's batteries were simply in backwards. | |
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Looney Tunes: The Trope Namer is "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century", when Duck Dodgers initially launches his rocket ship into the ground. In "Mad as a Mars Hare", Marvin accidentally set his space-time gun in reverse, resulting in Bugs becoming a neanderthal rabbit. Witch Hazel had the same problem with her broom in "A Witch's Tangled Hare". (She tends to have mistakes with brooms a lot. In another cartoon, she grabs a broom, and it starts sweeping the floor — with her on it. "Silly me," she says, red-faced, "that was my sweeping broom!") |
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Taz-Mania: Happens at the end of "Bird-Brained Beast" when the Platypus Brothers back their truck over Taz as they are leaving. | |
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Commando: Cindy tries to fire a missile launcher, but it's facing backwards and it blows up a structure behind her. | |
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In Yellow Submarine, the Sub is traveling perilously close to the Vacuum monster, so Old Fred instructs the Beatles to put it reverse only to come perilously close to another monster. | |
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Rick and Morty: In "Thats Amorte" Rick tries to use a Men in Black-esque memory eraser on a doctor, but ends up using it backwards and accidentally wipes his own memories. In the next scene, Morty uses the device to restore Rick's memories and Rick implies that this isn't the first time he's done this. | |
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A running gag in Austin Powers; in the first movie, he gets a vehicle stuck in an impossible position while trying to back up. In the sequel, he knocks over every possible object around him just trying to go forward. | |
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Super Mario Bros. Z had a scene where Professor E. Gadd drove his Poltergust 3000 backwards, in a direct homage to the Duck Dodgers scene. | |
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Hellzapoppin': While trying to move the prop truck off the lawn, Chic Johnson backs it into the statue they had just unlaoded, demolishing it. | |
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In the Discworld novel Sourcery, the heroes are attempting to escape from a doomed city in Klatch but cannot get the magic carpet they have stolen to start. Despite repeated and more urgent repetitions of the operating word "Up!" it refuses to do anything. Finally the Wizzard Rincewind comes out of his sulk, assesses the situation, and intones the command "Down!" At which the carpet takes off. When the others ask how he did it, Rincewind replies that he paid attention to the spatial co-ordinate logic of the situation. | |
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World of Warcraft has a scene with a Dwarf test driving a new tank a Gnome just built. Due to being built on the spot with random parts, the gearbox was in backwards, and the tank takes off in reverse. | |
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In the fourth episode of The Transformers, Spike and Bumblebee have just finished spying on the Decepticons and learned their Evil Plan. Bumblebee transforms into car mode and then drives himself backwards off the cliff onto the surprised Decepticons. Just how bad a driver are you when you forget that the car is in reverse when you're the car? | |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series: In "Yaarp", when Pleakly tried to capture Experiment 613 (Yaarp) with the vacuum attached container, instead of sucking in Yaarp, it blew him into a wall of the cave, causing Pleakly to say "Darn thing's still in reverse!" | |
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The Benny Hill Show. A spoof of The A-Team had Mr. T firing a LAWS rocket the wrong way round, and blowing up a public lavatory another member of the Team was using. | |
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The Hair Bear Bunch: Square Bear's invisible motorcycle goes in reverse after he says "Geronimo!" backwards. | |
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In the DuckTales episode "Superdoo!", two inept alien criminals are scheming to recover their stolen power crystal. One of their plots involves destroying the summer camp with an alien bazooka; unfortunately, the one holding the bazooka is holding it backwards, and it ends up blasting the forest behind them instead. | |
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In Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Percival's first attempt to shoot a bow somehow sent the arrow directly backwards (into Donny). Given that Percival is the Knight of Death, not "the knight of hitting inanimate targets", this may have been Foreshadowing. | |
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Azumanga Daioh: One of Yukari's trips starts out with the car careening all over the yard before returning to its initial position, at which point she notices she was in reverse. Poor Kaorin suffers a complete Color Failure upon this revelation. | |
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Thoroughly Modern Millie had this when Millie is attempting to drive Grayson's car for an escape. | |
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The Men in Black gag is re-used in an episode where Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones compete as their MIB characters against the stars of The X-Files | |
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In Four Lions, one of the Jihads fires a missile launcher the wrong way, missing the American aircraft and demolishing the terror training camp he was staying at, killing many people. The video gets on the news as a comedy clip, much to the man's embarrassment. | |
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A very non-humorous version is part of the backstory of The Pinballs; one of the protagonists, Harvey, was removed from his father's custody because his father had been drinking and put the car in drive instead of reverse while Harvey was walking in front of it, running over Harvey and breaking both his legs. | |
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The opening of Wacky Races has Dick Dastardly putting the Mean Machine in reverse accidentally, causing him to smash into and crack the steel beam on which the other racers have been chained to. | |
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Air Bud: Snively, the villain of the piece, gets into his truck and, fully intending to back out of his driveway, hits the gas. He proceeds to wreck the trash cans sitting in front of him. | |
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: we see how far Ricky Bobby has fallen when he resorts to delivering pizzas, and accidentally takes off in reverse, smashing a woman's shopping cart. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: In "A Piece of the Action", this is just one of the mistakes that Kirk makes while trying to drive a 1920s-style car. It's no wonder Spock didn't care for Kirk's driving abilities. Star Trek: Enterprise. In "Azati Prime", Travis Mayweather is trying to fly a Xindi-Insectoid shuttle. He hits a control that makes it go backwards into the wall of the launch bay. |
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In Goblin Hollow, Ben actually counted on his teen sister-in-law Penny to make this mistake in order to explain the destruction of her gargoyles. | |
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Silver Spoons: Inverted: Grandpa tries to teach Ricky to drive, and his attempt to reverse to car moves it forward, crashing it through a wall, leading to this gag: And the same joke is used in The Stinger when Grandpa tries to drive. And to top it all off, a clip of The Stinger is played in reverse — with the damage being undone — during the closing credits! This time, the car really was in reverse. |
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In the short Lifted, the alien novice who just failed his abduction test gets pity from his tester, who lets him fly the ship back. He crashes it downward first. | |
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A random gag in Space Quest that sometimes happens when Roger Wilco starts up his hover skimmer on Kerona. He accidentally backs it into a wall, then drives out properly. | |
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Summertime Saga: In the climax, MC commandeers an RPG launcher from the Russian gang's armory, but since he's holding it backwards, all it does is destroy the room behind him. Fortunately, Tony, Officer Harold, and Father Keeves come to his aid and dispatch all the mooks. | |
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Sym-Bionic Titan: In the flashback episode, Ilana and Hobbes, her bodyguard, are able to tank-jack, but since the bodyguard was too wounded, Ilana had to drive the tank. The first thing she does at the controls is drive the tank in reverse. | |
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Power Rangers (2017): When the Rangers pilot their Zords into battle for the first time, Billy's Triceratops is running backwards at top speed. | |
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Odd Squad: In "Flawed Squad", Shapeshifter grabs Father Time's staff and attempts to use it to freeze Odd Squad. Father Time points out that she is holding it the wrong way round just before she activates it and freezes all of the villains. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In "A Piece of the Action", this is just one of the mistakes that Kirk makes while trying to drive a 1920s-style car. It's no wonder Spock didn't care for Kirk's driving abilities. | |
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In one Archie I story, Reggie invents a bow and arrow, or as he calls it, a vine and stick. ("A very catchy name!") However, he believes that the way to use it is to pull back on the bow part, which results in the arrow falling off and hitting his foot. Big Moose comes along and gives it a go, but holds in "backwards" (Y'know, properly) and shoots a buzzard out of the sky. Reggie storms off in a huff at Moose's Achievements in Ignorance and continues to shoot himself in the foot. | |
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In Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Nick lets Norah drive his Yugo, and after showing off her "awesome" driving skills, she parks by the curb. When Nick comments on how far away from the curb she is, she goes to reverse closer to the curb and ends up driving forward ... into a fire hydrant. | |
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Tintin: In The Red Sea Sharks, when the Ramona is being menaced by a submarine, Captain Haddock tries to put the ship into full speed ahead, but when he tries to move the ship's engine order telegraph accordingly, the device's handle breaks off in his hand, jamming it at half speed astern. Even better, the sudden change in momentum causes the Ramona to dodge a torpedo. | |
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In the Futurama episode "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid", Fry addresses the now stupidified citizens of New New York by megaphone, only he's holding it backwards. A pigeon flies in and squawks into the megaphone, knocking Fry on his ass. | |
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Ms. Marvel (2022) has Kamala Khan start and end her driving exam by accelerating full-speed in reverse into another car. The driving examiner's car, to be specific. | |
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Independence Day: Steven at first, accidentally, when piloting the captured UFO. He then turns the control instructions upside down and retapes them to the dashboard. | |
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In The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Captain Haddock takes aim at the villain with a bazooka... and promptly takes out the dam behind them. | |
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The pilot movie has Zurg and his minions preparing to fire the Zurgatomic Ray, having just installed the Crystallic Fusion Cell (read: giant battery). It powers up... and nothing happens. Zurg asks the minions if they made sure the plus end went into the plus part, and the minus end to the minus part. | |
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Spooky: One comic has Tombstones put on a pair of steampunk wings backwards. Despite claiming to have followed the instructions, he doesn't notice until he powers them up and they start smacking him in the face. | |
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The "forward when going in reverse" variation appears in the short Mike's New Car. | |
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Last of the Summer Wine: When Edie is learning to drive, she engages reverse instead of first and nearly backs into the protagonists. Her husband Wesley, who's used to her driving, merely comments "Sometimes she does that." | |
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In Hunk, drunken TV presenter Garrison Gaylord accidentally gets his jeep stuck in reverse and rockets backwards along the pier until stopped by Hunk. | |
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In Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, among a snippet of news reports being done by Kim Baker is one about the first licensed woman driver in Kabul, Afghanistan, during which said driver goes in reverse and smashes into a stack of goods at a market. Baker deadpans, "That sucks. That sucks for women." | |
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Celebrity Deathmatch: The Men in Black gag is re-used in an episode where Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones compete as their MIB characters against the stars of The X-Files In one episode where a Humongous Mecha (piloted by the band 98 Degrees) goes out of control and starts wrecking the city, Steve Austin brings out an enlarging ray and tells Nick to use it on him so he can bring down the Mecha himself. Unfortunately, Nick points it backwards and hits Jessica Simpson instead. (Fortunately, she manages to do the job just as well.) |
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Son in Law: Crawl looks back to drive in reverse, but rides the tractor forward through the fence. | |
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Zits: "N for neutral, R for reverse... and D for disaster." | |
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Invoked in D.C. Cab, when one of the cabbies covertly adjusts the hack inspector's shift lever and causes him to unintentionally back his car into a restaurant window. | |
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In an episode of Scrapheap Challenge where the challenge was a drag race, one team had no option but to turn their car 180 degrees and put the silly thing in reverse because that was the only gear that worked. | |
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Enforced in License to Drive: Due to the damage he's done to his parent's car, Les can only go in reverse as he drives his pregnant mother to the hospital. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Time of the Doctor", a wooden Cyberman threatens the Doctor with an arm-mounted flamethrower. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver on the Cyberman to no apparent effect, then explains that his device was set to make the Cyberman's own weapon fire backwards. The Cyberman promptly flips its weapon around to point in the opposite direction, only to incinerate itself instead of the Doctor when it tries to kill him. The Doctor then admits to the burning wreckage that his screwdriver doesn't affect wood. | |
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Justified in The Gods Must Be Crazy, since the driver was a Bushman utterly new to any technology more advanced than a bow, and it was a shit car at that. | |
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Justified in Critters, in which the alien bounty-hunters have no clue how a car works and only succeed in making it go in reverse. The driver naturally looks over his shoulder when he starts it a second time, only to have it move forward. | |
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Big Trouble in Little China: Jack Burton and the other protagonists are in his truck ready to escape from Lo Pan's warehouse. Burton throws the truck into gear, they all lean forward...and the truck zips backward, bursting out through a wall. | |
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Top Gear did this in a season 15 episode with on of their Cheap Car segments. James May buys a Mercedes-Benz 190E Cosworth which has a dog-leg gearbox, meaning "left and forward" puts it into reverse while "left and back" is first gear. Once James actually starts driving it muscle memory means he keeps doing "left and forward" and going into reverse. This earns him the ire of Jeremy and Richard who are usually parked behind him when it happens. | |
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Luigi ends up smashing one of his karts in a kart race thanks to doing this. This actually helps him win since everyone else followed his lead, and by the end his kart was the only one that worked enough to finish the race. | |
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Diamonds on Wheels: When Lady Truesdale starts the rally, she has her car in reverse and backs into the car behind her. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett: Boba has stolen several speeders and is instructing the Tusken tribe he's with in their use. He gives the Tuskens a lengthy explanation of how the controls work: moving the handlebars forward makes it go, pulling them back makes it stop. The language barrier and the Tuskens' masks makes it hard to know if they actually understand what he's telling them. He climbs off and asks who wants to try first. One Raider climbs aboard, starts the engine... and goes flying backwards. | |
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In one story from Wally Wood's Sally Forth, a new robot is being tested by having a bazooka fired at it. Unfortunately, the scientist firing the bazooka had it pointed backwards, blasting the President behind him instead. | |
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Dino Attack RPG: As a Shout-Out to the aforementioned example from Independence Day, Rex's first attempt to drive an Iron Predator after several months of inactivity resulted in driving in reverse because the control instructions were accidentally placed upside-down. This also happened to Elizabeth the first time she tried to drive an Iron Predator, demolishing a T-1 Typhoon in the process. |
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: In the penultimate scene of the climactic battle in episode 13, Panty and Stocking fire their Heaven-Ordered BFG from heaven THE WRONG WAY ROUND INTO HEAVEN. Corset can't believe how stupid they are... until a second later when it turns out that the right way because the thing summons a giant foot to stomp him to death. | |
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Similarly, in Stargate Atlantis episode "Condemned", the inmates have plundered the team's grounded ship and are testing out the weapons. They fire the gun correctly, but when the rocket launcher is attempted, they have the thing backwards and end up destroying the building behind them instead of shooting the explosive into the pool in front of them. | |
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In Housepets!, Karishad says he didn't know Keene could drive. Keene immediately reverses straight into the back wall of the garage and says "A rough approximation of it." | |
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Avencast: Rise of the Mage: Invoked; The dictatorial founder of the titular Wizarding School uses a Vampiric Draining machine to execute his political rivals and enhance his own power, so the Player Character sets the machine in reverse to get him Hoist by His Own Petard. | |
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The inverted variation (having it in drive while trying to reverse) occurs in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle. After he and Rocky are gifted a car, Bullwinkle tries to back out of its parking space, but accidentally puts the car in drive instead and rams it straight into a brick wall. Unfortunately, this instance of bad driving is not a fluke. | |
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In Ask a Policeman, Sgt. Dudfoot attempts to move the Chief's Constable's car. However, when he presses the starter, he discovers Brown had left it in gear as it lurches forward and through the window of Harbottle's shop. | |
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The Sopranos: Livia Soprano accidentally drives over her friend while trying to reverse gher car out of the friend's driveway. | |
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In a Men in Black: The Series episode, J finds an alien flamethrower and threatens the monster of the week with it. Then it turns out the weapon was really pointed at his own head, the thing he thought to be the scope really being where the flames came from. Leads you to wonder... why would a flamethrower have a scope? The monster even tells him that it's in reverse, and after J doesn't listen, shrugs "Just trying to be helpful." | |
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In the movie version of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, this happens when a tank is commandeered by unskilled villagers during the castle battle scene. | |
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