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Hamster-Wheel Power
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One humorous way to demonstrate that a mechanical device is primitive, of amateurish construction, or simply underpowered is to have it propelled, not by internal combustion or electricity, but by Pocket Pet Power. Hook it up to a wheel-shaped or spherical cage, and let a small animal — usually a hamster or mouse — run its little legs off inside to generate torque. The larger the device, and the tinier the animal, the odder this arrangement looks. In a science-fiction setting, the animal may even be a robot, and may or may not have a conspicuous power cord leading back to the generator. More-plausible variants, which use large animals or human workers to turn their wheels, also appear in fiction. These aren't particularly funny and may be Played for Drama if the arduousness (and boredom) of walking inside a wheel for hours on end is emphasized. (See: Powered by a Forsaken Child.) Other odd methods of powering a device by muscle action, such as pedaling or pushing levers, may also rate as variants of this trope, provided they're similarly Played for Laughs or melodrama. A common power source for Homemade Inventions or Bamboo Technology. Often combined with Rube Goldberg Device for maximum wackiness. The Sister Trope of Wheel of Pain may also apply, if it's for a slave-driven variety of the serious version, or if being the power source is a form of torture or punishment. |
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hololive - Holo no Graffiti: Hakos Baelz's debut episode ends with her powering the office via hamster wheel, as punishment for attempting a rat-based revolution. | |
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Let's Go Luna!: In the episode "Lights Out!", one of the gang's methods for powering Senor Fabuloso's hat light is to have someone run on a hamster wheel that is connected to the hat light and powers it. This doesn't work, as the wheel's runner runs out of running energy and gets launched off the wheel. | |
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Super RWBY Sisters: At the climax of "JINX's Star Allies", following their capture by the Shroobs, the Squeak Squad is forced to run on hamster wheels. After being set free, Daroach notes how embarrassing it was. | |
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The time-travel device Sonic and Tails use near the end of the book Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension is cobbled together using a treadmill as the power source. The faster the duo run the quicker they travel in time; this becomes a plot point. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), a fairly often-used occurrence is to use Sonic's speed to power various devices, usually by having him pedal on a modified bike, or running on a treadmill. Amazingly he's even used this to power not one, but two Humongous Mecha! | |
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Mystery Case Files: One of the locks in Ravenhearst opens when you get a mechanical mouse to enter and use a wire exercise wheel. | |
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Timberborn: One option for supplying power for buildings is a power wheel that a beaver walks on. It's not powerful, but it is constant for as long as your beavers are working, making it Boring, but Practical. In particular, it provides just enough power to keep a lumber mill or other basic powered building humming along when a drought freezes your water wheels. | |
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In Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, Sophocles has a hamster wheel on the side of his desk. His Togedemaru runs on it to generate power. | |
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In an episode of Bones Booth & Brennan visit an organic farmer who makes smoothies out of his vegetables, using a stationary bicycle to generate the electricity to run the blender. Brennan thinks it's ingenious; Booth thinks it's this trope. | |
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In the Honorverse, the Solarian League is the largest, most powerful nation in the setting, but because it is so massive it hasn't actually had to deploy its battle fleet in literal centuries. When war breaks out between the Solarian League and the Star Kingdom of Manticore, it sends a large portion of its fleet to the distant Manticore star system. Since the Manticoran fleet far outclasses the Solarian fleet when it comes to actual combat power, the Manticorans joke that they're amazed the Solarian ships made the journey, and joke that they didn't think the hamsters in the engine room had that much energy. | |
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In The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Phineas devises a car, powered by a hamster on a treadmill - which is on cocaine. | |
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The Dark Souls games have many elevators that operate without any visible power source. As a joke on this, the especially-enormous Blighttown elevator in Dark Souls is all run by a single, small dog in the upper wheel. | |
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In the Dennis the Menace episode "Wheeling and Double-Dealing", Winston's perpetual motion race car is powered by three rats running on a wheel. | |
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The main characters' ship in Melonpool is powered by Sammy the giant hamster running on a wheel. | |
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In Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, turning the crank on a generator was determined to be Superman's best way of helping humanity, resulting in his preserved body being labeled as "a transitional power source". | |
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In the House of Mouse short "Futuremania", Ludwig Von Drake shows Donald a personal future where everything is powered by his three nephews on treadmills. | |
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In the Rick and Morty episode "The Ricks Must be Crazy", when Rick's car power supply fails, he takes Morty inside the battery, where Rick explains to Morty that he created a "Microverse" and waited until a sentient life form evolved that he then gave gooble boxes, a device that generates electricity when used to exercise by walking in place. After Morty tries to explain that Rick essentially enslaved an entire planet, Rick responds that since the people of the Microverse created a complex society where anyone who gets old and dies is replaced by someone younger, Morty replies "that's just slavery with extra steps", to which Rick just brushes him off. When they encounter Zeep, basically an Expy of Rick, Zeep reveals that to power his world, he created a "Miniverse", waited until a sentient life form evolved, to which he gave flooble cranks, a lever-based exercise devise that generates electricity, and thus render the gooble box obsolete. When Rick mentions that Zeep enslaved an entire planet, Zeep responds that since the people of the Miniverse created a complex society, they aren't slaves, when Rick says "that's just slavery with extra steps", Zeep just brushes him off. When they go into the "Miniverse", they encounter a scientist named Kyle who created a "Teenyverse", and when a sentient life form evolves, he'll give them a blooble yank, a pulley-based exercise device that will render the flooble crank obsolete. When Zeep tries to explain that he's planning to enslave an entire planet, Kyle responds that since the people of the "Teenyverse" will live in a complex society, they won't be slaves. As Zeep mentions "that's just slavery with extra steps", he attacks Rick when he realizes why they are there. As they are arguing, Kyle realizes why he was born, climbs into his ship, and crashes it, stranding Rick, Morty, and Zeep in the Teenyverse. At the end, once they manage to exit the Teenyverse, and after Rick destroys Zeep's Miniverse, they enter the car, and when it starts, Morty asks how that's possible, to which Rick responds that Zeep would realize that either everyone needs to keep using gooble boxes, or Rick "would have to toss a broken battery". | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger Prowess: Lord Japper has Weslie run on a large hamster wheel-like apparatus to power the ferris wheel at his amusement park. Wolffy plays a prank on Weslie by spinning the wheel the other way, causing Weslie to lose balance and spin along with the wheel as Wolffy laughs at him. | |
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One of the electricity generators in The Universim is a giant hamster wheel that Nuggets must run in. | |
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In Starmancer, a treadmill is the first form of power generation you obtain. When colonists use one, their job is set to "Pretending to be a hamster." | |
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In Chapter 2-3 of Super Paper Mario, this is one of the punishments that Mimi uses for those tricked into her slave labor. You can do this yourself to earn the money needed to pay for a crucial hint to pay off your own debt. | |
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Large-scale versions have also appeared in Discworld, powered by golems (the Big Penny in Making Money), trolls (the riverboat from Witches Abroad), oxen (the Wonderful Fanny from Snuff) or human prisoners (the door-opening device in Small Gods). A subversion in Eric was a giant wheel propelled by damned souls (and, briefly, by the Luggage), but it didn't power anything and was merely one of Hell's torments. | |
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Elementary: A white mouse in a wheel powers part of the Rube Goldberg Device shown in the opening credits. | |
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Adventures of Captain Vrungel (and the novel it was based on) plays with this trope. When the eponymous Captain saves a bunch of squirrels from forest fire and tries to unload them in a zoo, local Obstructive Bureaucrat tries to charge him with contraband, since the animals obviously aren't included in the ship's cargo manifest. To fend off the charge, Captain declares the squirrels to be part of his ship's propulsion system and proves it by quickly building two giant squirrel-powered paddle wheels. | |
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The Muppet Show: When the theater lost power, Dr. Honeydew rigged a giant hamster wheel generator that ran on "Beaker power". When Beaker got tired, Honeydew activated a power booster — he released a tiger inside the wheel to chase Beaker. | |
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Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: In “Jazzberries Unplugged�, Buddy thinks he can power the House Of Jam after the generator goes out by running on a treadmill. Needless to say, this doesn’t work very well… on its own, but when combined with a few solar panels and windmills (don’t ask where he got those) it can, in fact, power The Shock’s massive pile of amps. | |
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The ships of the piratical Clan Skurvy are powered by teams of Skaven running on giant treadmills, allowing them to move in reverse. In Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, they move using their captains' Intimidate skill rather than Sail or Row as usual. | |
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In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, Sir Integra frustratedly assumes The Major is powered by this when he is revealed to be a cyborg. He just replies, “His name is Hamburg.� | |
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Parodied in The Absent-Minded Professor. The evil businessman, Alonzo Hawk, switched Model T's on Professor Brainard in a cruel joke. The "flight" of the car was ostensibly powered by a flock of doves; its engine was a hamster in a wheel. The joke would have worked, had Brainard not remembered that his car had a radio in it, and this one did not. | |
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At the end of "Boobs in the Woods", Daffy Duck takes out the motor out of Porky Pig's car, so Porky forces Daffy to pedal the crankshaft instead. When he complains that Porky had no right to do that, Porky produces a license that allows him to do just that (a Call-Back to a gag about licenses earlier in the cartoon). | |
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Syberia: One puzzle in the Voralberg Factory involves getting a clockwork rat into a wheel to provide power. This is also a bit of foreshadowing for the sequel, where you need to get a youki into similar contraptions to provide motive power for other devices. | |
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A decidedly non-comedic example in The Lost Regiment, where thousands of Cartha slaves are forced by the Merki to walk in huge wheels for hours each pay, powering their primitive manufacturing facility. This is because they don't have time to build efficient steam engines to do the job, not that the Merki care about the fates of a bunch of slaves, who drop like flies from the exhaustion. Later, the more advanced Bantag do the same, although their leader Ha'ark is determined to improve the process with steam engines. | |
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My Little Pony: A New Generation: The Just Prance game played by Sunny and Alphabittle is powered by a pair of armadillos running on wheels behind the cabinet. | |
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Yogi's Gang: Magilla powers up the ark's flying mechanism by running on a treadmill. | |
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Yogi's Gang | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5c9afb42 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5ce4cd79 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5ce4cd79 | comment |
Grounded includes an upgrade option for its zipline system: a geared line-trolley that can propel zipliners along upward-slanting or horizontal cables. Its power source is a cute little aphid that runs on top of a tiny treadwheel. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5ce4cd79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5ce4cd79 | featureConfidence |
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Grounded (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5ce4cd79 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d354f8 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d354f8 | comment |
Appears twice in Red Dwarf, first in White Hole when the ship's power is turned off and the Cat makes Lister peddle in an attempt to fry an egg with a hairdryer (before insisting he power the electric blanket while he sleeps) and secondly in a metaphorical sense when Ace Rimmer attempts to train Rimmer to take on his mantle by encouraging him to 'be the cougar running free', and Rimmer's efforts are visualised as a hamster in a wheel. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d354f8 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d354f8 | featureConfidence |
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Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d354f8 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d4153a8 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d4153a8 | comment |
In Mortal Engines, Tom Natsworthy has a tamed rat powering some of his Old Tech in his room in the Museum. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d4153a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d4153a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mortal Engines | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_5d4153a8 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6242873c | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6242873c | comment |
In Oxygen Not Included, the Manual Generator is your starting Power building, and your main source of power for much of the early game. It's an oversized hamster wheel that your Duplicants run on in order to charge your batteries and provide power to your space station's machinery. Eventually, you can tech up to coal, diesel, and hydrogen power plants, but since the hamster wheels only need a duplicant with nothing better to do, produces no waste product, and produce very little heat, it remains viable well into the late game especially as jump-starters to power plants that require a pump of some kind to feed them with. As a bonus, whichever duplicant is on the wheel gradually improves their physical stats. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6242873c | featureApplicability |
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Oxygen Not Included (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6242873c | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_62cafa4 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_62cafa4 | comment |
Mad Max: Fury Road. Giant treadmills are used to power the vehicle lifting platforms in the Citadel, given that slave labor is cheaper than 'guzzoline' in this After the End world. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_62cafa4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_62cafa4 | featureConfidence |
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Mad Max: Fury Road | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_62cafa4 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_63228870 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_63228870 | comment |
Much of the advanced technology in the Skyward series is powered by taynixes, brightly colored slug-like creatures with the unique ability to use cytonics without attracting the delvers. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_63228870 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_63228870 | featureConfidence |
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Skyward | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_63228870 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c1d09b4 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c1d09b4 | comment |
In Fallout 4, the "Power to the People" quest is about Vault 88's attempt to turn exercise, a "waste of time and energy," into something productive. Hence, an exercise bike that powers the Vault! The Overseer particularly wants to try stuff like administering addictive Buffout on the cycle or using Electric Torture to get better results. Ted, on the Pre-War research team, just wanted to make a good exercise bike with a nice environmental enhancer. Everyone hated him. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c1d09b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c1d09b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fallout 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c1d09b4 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c9f142d | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c9f142d | comment |
The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge has Hamsters of Doom who provide power to the house by running in wheels. However, they stopped running due to not being fed. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c9f142d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c9f142d | featureConfidence |
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The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_6c9f142d | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_70c7b114 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_70c7b114 | comment |
On Gilligan's Island, Gilligan pedals a stationary bicycle in order to generate power for the radio and a few other devices. At least once the stationary bicycle became non-stationary, sending Gilligan flying through the underbrush. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_70c7b114 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_70c7b114 | featureConfidence |
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Gilligan's Island | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_70c7b114 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7185e4b0 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7185e4b0 | comment |
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero: Part of the plot is helping Mimic build a device to repel evil from Scuttle Town and using one of these as its power source. It's slightly more plausible in that the hamster is zombified and thus doesn't have a need for things like eating or sleeping to keep it from running the amount of time needed. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7185e4b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7185e4b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7185e4b0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_74c659e6 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_74c659e6 | comment |
Rocket Age: Some of the worst-off Martian Principalities are forced to resort to using slaves in wheels to provide some little power to the palace. Understandably this is seen as pathetic by everyone else. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_74c659e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_74c659e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_74c659e6 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_77e22425 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_77e22425 | comment |
In Pinky and the Brain, many of Brain's devices are powered by Pinky running along the wheel in their cage. Justified as they are mice. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_77e22425 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_77e22425 | featureConfidence |
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Pinky and the Brain | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_77e22425 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_79328e7 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_79328e7 | comment |
The Arkansas Chuggabug in one episode of Wacky Races runs on squirrels. The squirrel speeds up when Luke feeds him H.R.P.: "Hot roasted peanuts, for more power!" | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_79328e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_79328e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wacky Races | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_79328e7 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7b7f461d | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7b7f461d | comment |
The Super Mario World (1991) episode "The Wheel Thing" involves Mario and Luigi attempting to aid the cave people by introducing cars into their society. With the internal combustion engine nowhere near feasible with their current tech, Goombas are used to power the cars. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7b7f461d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7b7f461d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Super Mario World (1991) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7b7f461d | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c038c18 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c038c18 | comment |
Phineas and Ferb: Norm the Robot Man runs on squirrel power. Drusselstein, home of the Doofenshmirtz clan, runs on a big shaft driven by rabbits, as seen in "The Doonkleberry Imperative". It stops working when they upgrade to "goat power" but the citizens can't agree upon which way the goats should turn. |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c038c18 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c038c18 | featureConfidence |
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Phineas and Ferb | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c038c18 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c60fb0f | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c60fb0f | comment |
The Simpsons: One issue has the town nearly dragged into nuclear war between Mr. Burns and his rival, and as a result, the government outright bans any nuclear technology in town for several months. As a result, power is supplied to the town by making all of Burns' employees run on giant hamster wheels. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c60fb0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c60fb0f | featureConfidence |
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The Simpsons (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7c60fb0f | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7d122312 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7d122312 | comment |
This is how many devices work on The Flintstones, such as the record player. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7d122312 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7d122312 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Flintstones | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7d122312 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7fc1aff4 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7fc1aff4 | comment |
Mentioned in Stray, when one of the young Antvillage robots speculates that a Zurk running in a wheel could generate power. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7fc1aff4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7fc1aff4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Stray (2022) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_7fc1aff4 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_84986bf9 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_84986bf9 | comment |
In RuneScape, Ashdale and Zanaris both have flour mills powered by a cow in a wheel. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_84986bf9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_84986bf9 | featureConfidence |
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RuneScape (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_84986bf9 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_85555ea3 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_85555ea3 | comment |
Day of the Tentacle: Dr. Fred's lab features a hamster-powered generator, which is pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Finding it and getting it running in the future is the key to powering Laverne's Chron-O-John. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_85555ea3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_85555ea3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Day of the Tentacle (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_85555ea3 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8575b308 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8575b308 | comment |
My Little Denarians: Discord foils Nicodemus' plan of running away and leaving him to fight the heroes alone by turning the engine of his car into a hamster ball. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8575b308 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8575b308 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Little Denarians (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8575b308 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_87e00d8e | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_87e00d8e | comment |
In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "Cyborg the Barbarian", Cyborg gets sent back in time and his drained power cells are recharged by a combination human hamster wheel/waterfall-powered dynamo. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_87e00d8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_87e00d8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Teen Titans (2003) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_87e00d8e | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8aa7c509 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8aa7c509 | comment |
Star vs. the Forces of Evil In "Quest Buy", it's revealed the power source of Star's magic wand is a tiny unicorn running on a treadmill (they're called "millhorses" in The Magic Book of Spells, and the wand has had several different ones over the years). In "Freeze Day", all of time itself is run by Father Time running inside the Wheel of Progress. When Star makes time stand still, Father Time gets off the wheel for the first time in literally forever and now doesn't want to go back inside the wheel and start time running again. At the end of the episode, they discover that giant hamsters roam in Father Time's dimension and Star says she's figured out how to start time back up without Father Time having to get in the wheel. Marco naturally thinks she means to have a hamster run in the wheel, but instead she transforms the wheel into a hamster-drawn carriage that Father Time can ride around on. She assumes this was also what Marco thought would be the logical solution. |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8aa7c509 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8aa7c509 | featureConfidence |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8aa7c509 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8d814070 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8d814070 | comment |
M*A*S*H: Joked about when the 4077's generator breaks down and their backup one is stolen. There's even a Brick Joke about the hamster being put out of work after Klinger swipes them another unit's backup generator. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8d814070 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8d814070 | featureConfidence |
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M*A*S*H | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8d814070 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8ec33a86 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8ec33a86 | comment |
In Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the Nopon use this to power their technology, with themselves as the hamsters. Typically the runner is a volunteer, but Nopon criminals like Bana are given an extra turn on the wheel as a Cool and Unusual Punishment. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8ec33a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8ec33a86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Xenoblade Chronicles 1 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_8ec33a86 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_90f18253 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_90f18253 | comment |
Battletech: In the parody Critter-TEK', hamster wheels are the standard power source for TEKs. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_90f18253 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_90f18253 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
BattleTech (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_90f18253 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9199db2f | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9199db2f | comment |
Zach Varmitech used a cheetah to power his cheating racer in Wild Kratts | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9199db2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9199db2f | featureConfidence |
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Wild Kratts | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9199db2f | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_990dea86 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_990dea86 | comment |
Moana: The Kakamora use a large Kakamora-powered wheel to deploy a giant drum on their floating fortress. Another pair of them run on cylinders on either end of an axle to reel in a hauling rope. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_990dea86 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_990dea86 | featureConfidence |
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Moana | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_990dea86 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a1a8272 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a1a8272 | comment |
The Odd Squad episode "Xs and Os" has Oona pedaling a stationary bike in order to generate electricity for the lab, as a way of cutting costs from using a lot of electricity. It works for a time but comes at a severe consequence of her not being able to repair and build gadgets, leaving Olympia and Otis defenseless when Headquarters begins falling to shambles. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a1a8272 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a1a8272 | featureConfidence |
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Odd Squad | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a1a8272 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a6329c4 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a6329c4 | comment |
In 20XX, one of the bosses is the Rollster Beta, an oversized hamster-like creature inside a large, bladed wheel. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a6329c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a6329c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
20XX (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9a6329c4 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9ff7441c | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9ff7441c | comment |
The Men from the Ministry episode "A Sense of Power" ends with Britain getting a new power source in the form of thousands of hamsters spinning a wheel-machine. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9ff7441c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9ff7441c | featureConfidence |
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_9ff7441c | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a183d57f | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a183d57f | comment |
Futurama: Animatronio, a Renaissance robot built by Leonardo da Vinci in "The Duh-Vinci Code", is powered by a rat-wheel in his chest. The wooden spaceships that carry people to and from the Amish planet in "Ghost in the Machines" are powered by oxen on a treadmill. |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a183d57f | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a2174d23 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a2174d23 | comment |
'Allo 'Allo! has a few episodes where the radio to London has to be replaced and since they lose the batteries in a Gambit Pile Up, they have to power the radio by way of a bicycle. Which leads to a great gag where Leclerc is too exhausted to carry on, but Madame Fanny shows him her legs and he immediately gets a boost. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a2174d23 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a2174d23 | featureConfidence |
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'Allo 'Allo! | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a2174d23 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a5f98cbf | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a5f98cbf | comment |
In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (the video game) there's a rather convoluted puzzle wherein you put a rude French mouse in a wheel and attempt to make him run by giving him the proper motivation (not cheese). Later on, you get a small elephant who can be convinced to run if given a peanut, which results in a door being opened. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a5f98cbf | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a5f98cbf | featureConfidence |
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a5f98cbf | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a75c8ef3 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a75c8ef3 | comment |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: A plane is powered by monkeys. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a75c8ef3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a75c8ef3 | featureConfidence |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a75c8ef3 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a8729c90 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a8729c90 | comment |
In The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy's dad made a computer whose "power source" is a hamster in a wheel. In another episode, Cosmo turns into a hamster to run on a wheel to keep The Most Dangerous Video Game going (since Timmy, Chester, and AJ will die if the power goes out). | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a8729c90 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a8729c90 | featureConfidence |
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The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_a8729c90 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_abfcff6a | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_abfcff6a | comment |
In the Upsidasium story arc of Rocky and Bullwinkle, it is revealed that vehicles in Pottsylvania are revolutionary (which is to say, they "revolve"), thanks to the power of tiny squirrels running in wheels. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_abfcff6a | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_abfcff6a | featureConfidence |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_abfcff6a | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b0f81f82 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b0f81f82 | comment |
Chicken Run: The chickens escape on a plane that runs on pedals. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b0f81f82 | featureApplicability |
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Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b0f81f82 | featureConfidence |
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Chicken Run | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b0f81f82 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b1f8e5ae | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b1f8e5ae | comment |
In The Little Rascals, many of Buckwheat's devices are powered by Pete running on a treadmill, with a bone or a piece of meat suspended above him. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b1f8e5ae | featureApplicability |
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The Little Rascals | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b1f8e5ae | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b5efd918 | type |
Hamster-Wheel Power | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b5efd918 | comment |
The Riddler is subjected to this in Harley Quinn (2019), powering the crew's mall lair for a period of time. He's not happy about it. It bites the crew in the butt later because all that labor bulked him up enough to thrash them all. Fortunately for them, by that point he voluntarily returns to running the mill because he likes his gains. | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b5efd918 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b5efd918 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Harley Quinn (2019) | hasFeature |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_b5efd918 | |
Hamster-Wheel Power / int_ba6cc3a1 | type |
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In Granblue Fantasy, the Odajumoki Gang's Ultra Dog-On-Wheel Battleship Jenkins operates under this mechanism, with a dog in place of a hamster. One of the members mention that dogs are the fastest animal they can get a hold of, made them run on a giant wheel, and subsequently pull boats forward at sea. | |
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In the Betty Boop short "Be Human", Grampy punishes an abusive farmer by trapping him in a pit and making him run on a treadmill (complete with whip) to power his mechanical farm. | |
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The video game The Incredible Machine has two flavors of this; one is a mouse on a wheel that runs when something collides with his box, and the other is a mandrill on a treadmill with a bunch of bananas hidden by a curtain which can be raised by pulling a rope. Since the game has absolutely no concept of thermodynamics, these power sources can be surprisingly effective. | |
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land has this as the fate of the Waddle Dees that the Beast Pack capture, powering the secret lab of the main antagonist. | |
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Final Fantasy X: Ferries are powered by chocobos running in hamster wheels. Justified, since a more advanced engine would presumably break Yevon's taboo against machina. | |
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In The Dark Knight Strikes Again, it's revealed that a major source of electricity for the whole world is actually a giant hamster wheel where The Flash is running in superspeed. | |
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Hamsters came to the rescue when the power went out during Puppy Bowl X, running on wheels to generate electricity for the stadium. The same hamster also powered the scoreboard in Puppy Bowl 11! |
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Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! once fought the Screeching Tire, a giant tire about the size and general structural design of Blackhawk's notorious enemy mecha, the Warwheel, and powered and controlled by a villainous gerbil. | |
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Aladdin: Jafar has Iago run atop a horizontal gear to produce power for a scrying device, with which to locate the "diamond in the rough". | |
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Limbo: One puzzle involves luring a creature to a wheel to get it to power a Weather-Control Machine. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: The second episode of Pokémon: The Original Series shows that the Pokémon Center's backup power generator is several Pikachu running on a horizontal wheel around a Tesla coil. There have also been cases where Team Rocket has captured Pikachu and used him to power their latest device for stealing Pokémon. It makes sense, since, much like the example above, Pikachu do generate massive amounts of electricity making them akin to small furry generators. In Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, Sophocles has a hamster wheel on the side of his desk. His Togedemaru runs on it to generate power. |
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Much of the 2x4 technology used by the Codename: Kids Next Door is hamster-driven. One episode centered on Numbuh 3 giving all their base's hamsters a vacation, leaving the team undefended and nearly unarmed. | |
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In Evan Almighty, one of the Bronze Age tools God provides for Evan to build an Ark is a crane powered by Evan's kids walking in a human-sized wheel. | |
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Spelljammer: Gnomes use giant space hamsters to power much of their goofy technology. | |
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Snooper and Blabber are in an auto race competing against a Villain of the Week, who late in the race steals their motor. Snooper wins the race regardless, and when the villain asks how, Snooper opens the hood and shows him: He used Blabber in a hamster wheel. | |
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In False Value, the break room at the Serious Cybernetics Company is equipped with a plasma TV that's powered by a human-sized hamster wheel. | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Puttering around in the Inventing Room, Wonka stirs a fluffy white concoction by pedaling a standing bicycle that powers a blender's beaters. | |
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One of the oddball survivors' communities on Z Nation used never-tiring zombies roped to a horizontal wheel of spokes to generate electricity. | |
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Complaining about her PD's microscopic budget, police chief Arly Hanks claims in Merry Wives of Maggody that her computer is powered by squirrels running in a wheel. She tells Sheriff Dorfer that one of his deputies will have to run background checks on some suspects because her computer's on the blink: one of the squirrels died. | |
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One of the game paths in SPY Fox in Dry Cereal reveals that William the Kid's fortress is powered by dozens of hamsters baited by carrots. Getting a crucial item from a room next door requires temporarily removing all the carrots, which immediately causes all the hamsters to fall asleep, thus cutting the power. | |
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During Mega Man Gigamix's Battle and Chase arc, Auto comes across Napalm Man's crashed car and gleefully opens it up, intent on scavenging it for high-quality parts. Instead of an engine, however, he's disturbed to find a three-person bike along with a KO'ed Charge Man, Crystal Man, and Wave Man inside. | |
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Bolt: At the very end, it's revealed the roll of the Closing Credits is hamster-powered. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "environment", Strong Bad tries to make his energy-sapping, outdated laptop computer more environmentally friendly by rigging it to run on "green" energy... in the form of the Cheat painted green and running on a hamster wheel. | |
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Jokingly suggested by Tom Paris in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Demon" when the ship is dangerously low on fuel. | |
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One of the bosses in Magicka is "The Machine", a massive mechanical Death Trap powered by a single orc on an exercise bike. | |
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The second episode of Pokémon: The Original Series shows that the Pokémon Center's backup power generator is several Pikachu running on a horizontal wheel around a Tesla coil. | |
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An episode of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers involved the Mad Scientist Dr. Nimnul hypnotizing mice and forcing hundreds of them to run on wheels to power his latest evil invention. Monty is among the first to be caught up in it, which is how the Rangers end up on the case. Gadget is able to avoid it at the beginning due to wearing earplugs, but later gets hypnotized as well. Dale tries to reverse hypnotize the mice, but screws it up and ends up hypnotized as well. | |
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One Short Circuits strip from the Mega Man (Archie Comics) comic had Dr. Light invent Mariachi, the robot hamster, who runs in a hamster wheel to power itself as a perpetual motion machine. Proto Man cites this as why he doesn't like him messing with his power core. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: When Jack disguises himself as a snowman during his "What's This?" song, a sled full of caroling elves glides past him. The sled is propelled by a penguin waddling along in a wheel. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory has the titular boy genius attempt to power up his burned-out lab by rigging together dozens of hamsters in wheels. However, they all just tire out within minutes. | |
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Gravity Falls has the good-natured if rather dim-witted Boy Band Sev'ral Timez being employed to run on a treadmill during the events of "Weirdmageddon Part 3" to provide a substantial amount of energy. Turns out you can power a Humongous Mecha with five cloned twits running in unison. | |
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Discussed in Night Court. Bull, whose intelligence level is flaky at best, is having a particularly tunnel-visioned moment; Dan asks him what he has upstairs, a hamster in a wheel? | |
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