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Have You Tried Rebooting?

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Have You Tried Rebooting?	comment	Whenever technology misbehaves, restarting or power cycling it usually solves the problem. This is Truth in Television, as explained here. Asking users to restart their devices is certainly easier than actually fixing things. See also Cut the Juice, the slightly more direct approach. Not to be confused with a Soft Reset. Various Game-Breaking Bugs that freeze a game or otherwise cause problems can be overcome by restarting the system you're playing it on. Just keep in mind that this may set you back by rolling back unsaved progress. Compare Read the Freaking Manual.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: The Raiden Shogun is an Artificial Human created by Raiden Ei, to protect and guide the country while Ei meditates. When Ei begins to consider changing eternity, when the whole point of the Shogun was to maintain an unchanging eternity, the Shogun starts developing glitches. Paimon suggests turning her off and on again. While the Traveler facepalms, Ei blandly says the Shogun was designed to never cease functioning.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_18e0635f	comment	In We Lost Our Human, the climax of each playthrough has Ham and/or Pud attempting this with the universe. How well it works depends on what choices you make in the story, and on how many playthroughs you've undergone.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_1a4438ee	comment	In All Guardsmen Party, when the team discusses how to deal with a techpriest who nearly got them killed several times, another techpriest suggests turning him off an on again. With their laspistols. Turning him back on might be difficult, but it's worth a try.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_1c555606	comment	Linus Tech Tips: Discussed in the Techquickie episode "Why Does Rebooting Fix So Many Problems?" Linus explains that programs can experience errors they cannot fix by themselves, and that a computer might just get cluttered with processes after staying on a long time.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_1d99f592	comment	Reverse Jurassic Park:
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise: Ridiculously, this was the solution to a ship-threatening problem. When Klingons sabotage the computer running the warp core, Trip restarts it to restore the computer to default settings. The ridiculous part is that the ship was stuck in MAXIMUM WARP at the time, and they were restarting the ENGINE. (The Enterprise's sister ship, Columbia, expanded its warp field to carry Enterprise during the restart.) Also finally revealed was just how it was possible for Soong, the creator of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, to be so Crazy-Prepared: his family had spent at least two centuries planning the androids, and at least some of them were really paranoid.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_23ad2480	comment	In "First Vacation" from Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024), John as a Newhart Phone Call with his mother, Denise, and after asking why she called three times asks if she's tried turning it off and then back on.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_261c8d3f	comment	Referenced in The Simpsons when they ran a Futurama Crossover. Bender gets sent back in time to the Simpson's time where the memory circuit containing his primary mission stops working. Professor Frink restores his memory with a "delicate procedure we call 'unplug and replug'" doing just that with the HDD in Bender's head.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_3f4a104b	comment	A series of Dilbert strips had Dogbert working in tech support, and had several jokes based on the concept. In one strip, he advises the customer not just to restart the computer, but restart everything. "Cancel your garbage service, renounce your citizenship, and yank out your phone." Another went like this:
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_43576f5	comment	In one episode of Supernatural, Sam is brainwashed into being a tech support worker (long story). His job consists of him saying this over and over again.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_4b790c7a	comment	In Iron Man 2, Rhodes finally has his hijacked suit freed when Black Widow reboots it.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_4d238cb5	comment	In one episode of RoboCop: The Series, this is done as part of a series of emergency repairs on the title character. It's not done casually, as shutting down his robotic parts has the potential to damage his organic parts, thus hypothetically killing Alex Murphy to repair RoboCop.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Howard has a prototype robotic arm grabbing him by the... let's just say it's somewhere personal, and is sent to the hospital. The nurse asks if they tried turning the computer controlling the arm off and then on again, and while Howard loudly objects to the idea, the nurse does just that and the arm lets go. However, Howard's main objection was that he could not be sure if the rebooted robot arm would release its grip first or if it would instead move while still holding on to the sensitive body part which could do serious injury to Howard. Another episode makes reference to this. Sheldon's been working literally all night on a physics problem, and he's continuing to do so while at lunch with the guys. Howard jokingly asks Leonard if he's tried rebooting him (since he's stuck), to which Leonard laughs and replies, "No, I think it's a firmware problem."
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_5aca0f8e	comment	In Peppa Pig, this is Daddy Pig's go-to way of fixing almost anything run by a computer including Mr. Dog's car wash.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_5c52caf	comment	In Max0r's Incorrect Summary of Devil May Cry 5, Griffin is changed from a snarky raven into a constantly glitching entity because he runs on Windows Vista. Near the end of the game after Dante defeats the "Bowser Squad", (Griffin, Shadow, and Nightmare) Griffin glitches one last time before Dante says "Have you tried turning it off and back on again? I am a technical genius."
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_63230cb	comment	Referenced a few times with the Androids in Dragon Ball Z Abridged: After 17 is first activated: After 16 has been badly damaged and has a giant hole in his head:
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_6ea7e95c	comment	The 8-Bit Guy brings this up a few times: One of the criticisms with modern-day computers as compared to the ones he grew up with like the Commodore 64 evokes this when he describes how tech support back then was genuinely helpful and came from actual trained experts, while tech support today is incredibly unhelpful and comes from an untrained temp worker who can barely speak English and whose "help" is limited to more or less telling you to try rebooting, updating, and uninstalling software that didn't come with the computer. And again in his "Tales from Tech Support" video he recalls a co-worker who would basically do this to weasel out of any caller whose problem he couldn't fix. He'd advise them to do a defrag, run scandisk, and then reboot, and call back if it didn't work. Naturally it almost never did, but it would always be some other poor tech support guy who picked up when those customers called back more irate than ever. Naturally, this meant said co-worker would also take much more calls than the others since he was effectively shooing away people as quickly as possible, and he had the gall to brag about how much better at tech support he was than everyone else.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_70814599	comment	In the Stargate SG-1 episode "Solitudes", Carter reboots the Beta Gate's DHD to try and get a connection, which fails, to her dismay. However, this causes a seismic vibration, which ultimately leads to her and Jack O'Neill being rescued by the SGC.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_746814ae	comment	In Arthur, "The Longest Eleven Minutes" has Arthur, Muffy, Buster, and Ladonna disappointed when their internet cuts out. They call Brain for help, and he advises them to unplug and replug the router; however, they've already tried this (unsuccessfully), and instead play outside while waiting for the internet to come back on.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_75149ccd	comment	X-Wing Series: In Wraith Squadron, Kell's instructions to fix Donos's R2 unit, Shiner, basically consist of inserting a Restraining Bolt into Shiner and using it merely as a switch, to turn him off and back on. This broke the programming loop Shiner was stuck in due to an ion-and-EMP mine that everyone had run into earlier.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_764768c	comment	When Estelle and Joshua reach Zeiss in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Tita is called away to help troubleshoot the Capel, but is unable to find the problem. However, after a city-wide blackout caused by the Black Orbment forces it to reboot, it works flawlessly.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Hilariously, a simple system restore is the solution to a ship-threatening alien program in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Contagion". In the future, we apparently won't remember the purpose of protected backup archives. It takes Data doing the same thing as a natural function of his programming (his creator Soong was Crazy-Prepared like that) to remind Geordi. Star Trek: Enterprise: Ridiculously, this was the solution to a ship-threatening problem. When Klingons sabotage the computer running the warp core, Trip restarts it to restore the computer to default settings. The ridiculous part is that the ship was stuck in MAXIMUM WARP at the time, and they were restarting the ENGINE. (The Enterprise's sister ship, Columbia, expanded its warp field to carry Enterprise during the restart.) Also finally revealed was just how it was possible for Soong, the creator of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, to be so Crazy-Prepared: his family had spent at least two centuries planning the androids, and at least some of them were really paranoid. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Swarm", when the Doctor starts running into increasingly serious failures and memory issues from having been running actively for much longer than his programmers anticipated,note as an Emergency Medical Hologram, the intent was that he would supplement or fill in for the actual medical crew in an emergency, but Voyager is stranded years away from replacement crew and the entire medical team is dead, so the EMH has to serve as Voyager's de-facto Chief Medical Officer rebooting him is one of the solutions proposed. The problem isn't that it wouldn't work, but rather that it would work too well; it would reset him to factory default and wipe out all the Character Development he's gotten since first initialization.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_8c02bb93	comment	This is actually how you reach the final level of X-Men (1993). The X-Men will be met with Professor X, who tells the team how to finally escape the Danger Room by telling them to defeat and reset the computer putting them through the mess. Professor X points out specifically that you must be the one to reset the computer. Once you defeat Mojo, find the computer and destroy it, you must literally hit the reset button on your Sega Genesis to get to the next stage (lightly, not hard)
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_8e209fd7	comment	Done in a strip of League of Super Redundant Heroes in order to bring a robotic soldier under control.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_9068877a	comment	The Blues in Red vs. Blue have apparently used this technique a few times.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot used this as a Deus ex Machina. The User restarting his computer restores Mainframe after a system crash.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_923ba78	comment	I'm Nobody: When the computers in Castle Oblivion mysteriously start rejecting the operator's inputs, Kirux asks him why doesn't he simply turn it on and off. It should be noted that it's unclear if those computers can be turned off.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_923dd091	comment	In the CollegeHumor video "The Matrix Runs On Windows XP," Morpheus orders the simulation to freeze during the training exercise — but when he tries to unfreeze it...
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: In the episode "Fused", Ben gets stuck as an Ampfibian and Kevin uses a machine to reboot the Ultimatrix. In Omniverse, Blukic and Driba (Genius Ditz, Those Two Guys) were where they weren't supposed to be when trouble started, one says that they should stay put and catch a ride back with Ben and Rook. The other strikes that idea down immediately; they'd be in some kind of trouble if they were found out, and he was not going back to tech support, telling people to turn their computers off and then on again.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_9a9b24fa	comment	In Jurassic Park (1993), after the computer system locks out the operators, it is suggested they try restarting it entirely. It's worth noting in that film it actually works, but it inadvertently trips the breaker switches, meaning that they had to flip the switches back on before the restart could proceed. And those switches are in a bunker on the other side of the complex. Outside. Where the dinosaurs are now running loose. It also turns off the electric fence around the raptor cage, which they're smart enough to notice. It becomes a Running Gag in later movies for this to cause a problem. In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, rebooting the system causes all the lights to come back on, which someone else has turned off to prevent the Indoraptor seeing them. In Jurassic World Dominion they're able to power up the Aerial Deterrent System doing this, but the server room powering back up startles a swarm of giant locusts.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_ac9a45aa	comment	Alien 40th Anniversary Shorts: In "Specimen", the botanical lab detects a biological contamination (a facehugger) and goes into Lock Down with Julie trapped inside. Dev reboots the system to unlock it, turning off all the lights.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: Parodied in episode "The Web", where Gumball and Darwin discover that the adults of Elmore are extremely incompetent when it comes to using modern technology. There is a specific instance when an office worker is talking to an IT employee on his phone about why his computer doesn't work. He says he already tried rebooting his computer, and after being lightly badgered by the IT guy says he'll try it again. He kicks his computer twice, therefore "re-booting" it in the most literal sense of the term. It still doesn't work.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_af566418	comment	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: In the episode "Fused", Ben gets stuck as an Ampfibian and Kevin uses a machine to reboot the Ultimatrix.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_b0e165a7	comment	Parodied in a number of weird ways in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. The real reason two nerds had a kid (also used earlier): In one strip, this is applied to a human being by turning him on (by showing him a video of a naked woman dancing), turning him off (a video of his grandfather masticating a piece of chewing tobacco), then turning him on again. A chimpanzee learns to do a rudimentary form of tech support: "He pointed to the symbol for 'off switch', then the symbol for 'on switch', and then just shrugged for ten minutes." Comic for 2013-08-08: Doesn't work so well when a robot tries it on a human. Turns out, if you turn one of those off (not talking about arousal this time), it won't start again at all. The Strip "On" jokes that computers only want to be rebooted because it's an orgasm to them.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_b29d88cf	comment	You Know Whats Bullshit: The Bullshit Man tries this on his printer when it won't print. It doesn't work.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_b6b24d18	comment	The IT Crowd: The Establishing Character Moment for both Roy and Moss shows each of them giving callers this advice in their own idiosyncratic style: A later episode has the team rigging a tape recorder to the phones where all callers are simply told to turn it off and then on again regardless of what the problem is. If someone says they have, it continues "Have you tried making sure it's plugged in?" And believe it or not, it works. It becomes a Running Gag for the show and a catchphrase for Roy. One episode has Roy lampshade how it's become a catchphrase and he makes a bet with Jen not to say it the rest of the day.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_b712435c	comment	The very first episode of Leverage has the crew sabotage a receptionist's computer so they could send in Elliot disguised as an IT tech. While intercepting the mark's call to the real IT department, Parker asks her if she tried rebooting, and Hardison (listening over the radio) proudly tells the others that he taught her to do that.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_b9aa83b5	comment	The Programmer from Citizens of Earth can reboot his own body. True enough to this trope, doing so will fix absolutely everything with him, giving him full restoration of HP and energy, removal of all debuffs, and even resurrecting him if he died between starting the reboot and completing it. The disadvantage of this skill is that Programmer becomes useless for the two turns it takes to reboot, and most battles (even boss battles) are rather short.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_c275af7	comment	At the beginning of Skyscraper, Will tells his wife to do it to her phone. Becomes a Brick Joke when she does it at the end of the movie to successfully bring on the fire extinguishing systems of the Pearl.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_c4a22754	comment	Episode 60 of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series has Melvin struggle with Millennium Item tech support, and the first thing they suggest is to reboot the Millennium Rod.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_d482e71f	comment	Subverted in a skit in French and Saunders involving Jennifer's laptop freezing and Dawn repeatedly trying to fix it by suggesting that they "close it and open it again". After twenty minutes of trying everything, including a reboot, they simply close and open the lid and sure enough, it works again.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: When the internet stops and plunges the world into chaos, Kyle travels to the center of the internet, where he finds that it's a giant router. He simply unplugs it and plugs it back in, and the internet is up and running again.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_e79477d2	comment	Slipped in for laughs in Black Mesa, by a scientist who suggests to a guard whose computer has hit a blue-screen, "Try hitting Control-Alt-Delete".note Hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del while on a blue screen in Windows 9x will reboot the system. On Windows NT the system automatically reboots on a blue screen by default. This in particular is aimed at the original Half-Life where said guard is using a computer like he's typing, but its monitor has bluescreened.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_ec2c69cb	comment	TMNT: During a montage of what the turtles have been up to since splitting up, we see that Donatello is a Tech Support worker who has to deal with such people on a daily basis.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_ef076a36	comment	In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Swarm", when the Doctor starts running into increasingly serious failures and memory issues from having been running actively for much longer than his programmers anticipated,note as an Emergency Medical Hologram, the intent was that he would supplement or fill in for the actual medical crew in an emergency, but Voyager is stranded years away from replacement crew and the entire medical team is dead, so the EMH has to serve as Voyager's de-facto Chief Medical Officer rebooting him is one of the solutions proposed. The problem isn't that it wouldn't work, but rather that it would work too well; it would reset him to factory default and wipe out all the Character Development he's gotten since first initialization.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_f65f0362	comment	In Mission to Mars, when the onboard computers on the ship malfunction after a meteor strike, the solution used is to power cycle them, forcing a hard boot. On systems that were too expensive to ever test such a thing on.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_f74b5f80	comment	In the Babylon 5 episode "Ceremonies of Light and Dark", this is the last step in resetting the command codes, which is needed after the station seceded from the Earth Alliance. Unexpectedly, this causes a minor problem in the form of the activation of a long-forgotten, and completely obnoxious, personality program,note voiced by Harlan Ellison, in one of the show's more delightful Truth in Television moments which they have to spend the rest of the episode disabling. Special mention goes to Garibaldi getting so fed up with it that he shoots the speaker in the elevator.
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Have You Tried Rebooting? / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Also finally revealed was just how it was possible for Soong, the creator of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, to be so Crazy-Prepared: his family had spent at least two centuries planning the androids, and at least some of them were really paranoid.
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