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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse

446 statements
85 feature instances
50 referencing feature instances

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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse	comment	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.
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse	fetched	2024-04-07T11:01:37Z
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_13f25032	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_13f25032	comment	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	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_1471e656	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½: 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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_1b5eec6e	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_1ca82882	comment	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	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_2250e67e	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_22e860f4	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_237c99fd	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_257f783b	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_26ef902d	comment	In Home (2015), when Oh repairs Tip's car, he accidentally wires the brakes and gas backwards.
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_27b0262b	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_28b2079a	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: The Trope Namer is "Duck Dodgers in the 24Â½th 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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_35d98631	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_3a10cbfe	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_3a322a82	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_3f3abe9	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_432dcf2f	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_43a51e42	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_468bebb0	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_49ad83ee	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_4c095a1f	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_4c300a8c	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_4c4e08ca	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_4c949405	comment	The Hair Bear Bunch: Square Bear's invisible motorcycle goes in reverse after he says "Geronimo!" backwards.
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_5690420f	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_5a0e633d	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_62a7de21	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_62a7de21	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_68feb0fc	comment	Thoroughly Modern Millie had this when Millie is attempting to drive Grayson's car for an escape.
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_691be369	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_73660c17	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_749ab143	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_79328e7	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_7a5368c1	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_7e41486c	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_81692f99	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_850c9f7d	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_850c9f7d	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_85ed5b96	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_86a85dd6	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_8aef1fcf	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_8f1f4b97	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_95a8c491	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_99007357	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_9a1a8272	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_9a7088bc	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_9b530c26	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_9dcbb23b	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_a04b0ca3	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_a183d57f	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_a29b0bea	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_a40b1126	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_a413d7dd	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_a495544e	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_a867e442	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_ab131a45	comment	The "forward when going in reverse" variation appears in the short Mike's New Car.
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_abc65d15	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_b36b9a04	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_b6c4ced3	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_b6d7f4a8	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_b7e28d45	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_b7e28d45	comment	Son in Law: Crawl looks back to drive in reverse, but rides the tractor forward through the fence.
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_b8b584cf	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_b8b584cf	comment	Zits: "N for neutral, R for reverse... and D for disaster."
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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_b9b7ebab	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_c090b10d	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_c090b10d	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_c326a648	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_c43df4d8	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_cc9f7417	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_d25b42c6	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_d4d2054b	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_d68df17d	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_d68df17d	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_da02c1ef	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_da958d70	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_de976635	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_e100e140	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_e365af07	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_e3a1067	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_e4732abc	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f0b55dd	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f0b55dd	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f123a7d3	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f123a7d3	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f519a74f	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f519a74f	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f669ee3a	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f6eed39	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f7558a18	comment	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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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_febb8460	comment	In the movie version of NausicaÃ¤ 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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NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind (Manga)	hasFeature	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_febb8460

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Had the Silly Thing in Reverse	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
Had the Silly Thing in Reverse	processingCategory2	Motor Vehicle Tropes
Sally Forth (Wood) (Comic Strip) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Zits (Comic Strip) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Again (Breath of the Wild) (Fanfic) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Four Lions / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Freaky Friday (1976) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Hellzapoppin' / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Independence Day / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Power Rangers (2017) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Some Like It Hot / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Son in Law / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
We're the Millers / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Sourcery / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers (Machinima) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
RigsOfRods	seeAlso	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Azumanga Daioh (Manga) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind (Manga) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Disasters at Sea / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
MythBusters / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Odd Squad / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Wolf Like Me / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Video Game) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (Video Game) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Rigs of Rods (Video Game) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Sonic Superstars (Video Game) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Summertime Saga (Video Game) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers (Web Animation) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
The Gmod Idiot Box (Web Animation) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
React (Web Video) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Lackadaisy (Webcomic) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Spooky (Webcomic) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Duck Dodgers in the 24Â½th Century / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Ego Trip / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Home (2015) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Muppet Babies (2018) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Sym-Bionic Titan / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Taz-Mania / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Transformers: BotBots / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
T.U.F.F. Puppy / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Girls und Panzer / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Looney Tunes / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse

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