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Percussive Maintenance
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Also known as "Technical Tap", this is a method of repairing malfunctioning devices by hitting 'em really hard. This is a case of Truth in Television, as many people will often do this with malfunctioning machinery, frequently with surprisingly mixed results. A common variation involves a character, having tried every method they can think of to get something to work and after working for hours with no success, hits the malfunctioning device solely for the purpose of Percussive Therapy, only for the device to respond to the Percussive Maintenance and start working again. Compare Percussive Therapy where a character hits things solely for their own emotional benefit, rather than the proper functioning of whatever they're hitting, Pressure-Sensitive Interface, when pushing the interface's buttons harder makes it work better, and Have You Tried Rebooting?, another common way of fixing malfunctioning technology. Contrast Percussive Shutdown where the hit is intended to stop a thing from working. Compare and contrast Healing Shiv, a weapon or technique designed specifically to heal and repair things attacked by it. For use on life forms, see the Dope Slap, Get A Hold Of Yourself Man, Facepalm, Beat the Curse Out of Him, or Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!. |
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The Fonz on Happy Days, using this trope to get the jukebox to play free songs and as a way to fix some cars. This is, of course, to show how The Fonz can channel Rule of Cool like magic. To the point where he knows how and where to strike the jukebox to play whatever song he wanted. Lampshaded in one episode where he hits the brick wall of a building to turn the exterior light off. Richie Cunningham is stunned near-speechless, to which the Fonz simply explains, "It's a gift." | |
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In Batman: Arkham Asylum, there's a part where Batman needs to use a control panel to turn on a ventilation system. Instead of approaching it and using it manually, he throws a batarang, effectively destroying the panel. The ventilation system turns on as if Batman had used the panel properly. | |
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In the first minute of Technology Connections video CED Part 2, Alec does this to fix a Repetitive Audio Glitch on his CED machine. | |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Skipper tries to smack a malfunctioning flashlight. It works... for all of about three seconds, and then fizzles out again. | |
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In an episode of Peter Gunn, Lt. Jacoby puts a nickel in a candy machine but nothing comes out. He smacks it a few times to no avail. After he walks away, Peter casually hits the machine once, and a chocolate bar drops out. | |
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In Lavender Castle, Isambard often applies this to the Paradox's engine whenever they need a bit more speed. This backfires at one point when after a short burst, the engine explodes leaving them sitting ducks. | |
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Apollo 14: While running through the pre-PDI checklist, Al Shepard and Ed Mitchell noticed that the abort light had come on, indicating that the computer had gone straight into abort mode. If this happened during the actual burn the computer would abort the descent and that would be mission over as there'd no longer be enough fuel for another attempt at landing. They got the light to go out by tapping on the console with a pen. Of course this was only a temporary fix, and a more elegant solution required some in-flight reprogramming of the guidance computer (by tricking it into thinking it was already in abort mode, so it would not monitor the status of the abort button). The moment is recreated in the Apollo 14 episode of From the Earth to the Moon. | |
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Similarly, in Devil May Cry 4, Nero finds that the controls for lowering a drawbridge refuse to operate. He walks away in frustration... and then whirls around and shoots the uncooperative console. It sparks and then explodes, after which the red light turns to green and the drawbridge lowers (It should probably be noted that he looked pretty surprised when this happened, suggesting that the shooting of the controls wasn't deliberate Percussive Maintenance so much as him venting the aforementioned frustration). Dante once gets into trouble hitting the jukebox; he hit it a little too hard, as he punched it with enough force that the metal on the jukebox bent inwards from the impact, leaving his fist in a crater that he just made. | |
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Devil May Cry 5: In one of the ending cutscenes, Nico kicks her jukebox in order to make it work while Nero is busy fighting the demons on the road. | |
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Norma in Tales of Legendia kicks the machine in order for the bridge to appear to each of the four monuments in chapter 6. | |
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The Battlefield series toys with this trope somewhat. The Engineer in each game in the series is usually equipped with some kind of tool or device that allows them to repair vehicles as long as said tool is in contact with said vehicle. Battlefield: Bad Company has a Drill. Yes, you drill health into tanks and jeeps. As long as you know the drill. (It's really more of a battery-powered socket drill, but that doesn't change the fact that you repair things by grinding them with the drill) |
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In one episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, Snoopy imitates the Cheshire Cat and makes himself invisible. Unfortunately, he eventually overdoes it and can't get visible again. Lucy got him back by applying this technique, saying it's just like when the image of a television goes out. | |
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In Gravity, Sandra Bullock's character is in disbelief of the readings, so she taps one of the instruments of the Russian space station to make it show the correct oxygen level. | |
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Used by Peter Ustinov's character Jules in We're No Angels (1955). He opens a lockbox by meditating, then tapping it with the edge of his hand. | |
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Even better: In the game's predecessor, The Medic can heal teammates with his axe. This is carried onto the sequel with the Crusader's Crossbow for the Medic- shoot it at enemies, it hurts them. Shoot it at your teammates, and that bolt lodged in their heads heals them. | |
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Han Solo uses this method to fix a sputtering Millennium Falcon, in The Empire Strikes Back. Given the general state of the ship and Han's personality, it's a minor miracle that he only does this once. This was apparently an ad-lib by Harrison Ford when the lights on the Falcon prop failed to illuminate as expected. It would seem that hitting the prop actually did fix it. | |
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In Wild ARMs 2, using Brad's kick ability on a malfunctioning computer terminal in the prison level makes it work again, giving you access to a room with a few bonus stat boosters. | |
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TaleSpin: This is Wildcat's Modus Operandi. Just about every problem he faces he fixes with a hit from a mallet. Lampshaded in one episode where Baloo is trying to repair the Sea Duck's engine after flying through a sand storm, and says, "What would Wildcat do?" He hits the engine with a mallet and it promptly dumps a pile of sand. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Touma meets Mikoto for what he thinks is the first time when he just lost ¥2000 (roughly $20) to a juice vending machine. She gets her supply of beverages by kicking the shit out of the machine. She explains it with the mechanics having rusted due to age, he explains it with the constant application of violence. Then, to regain his lost money, she hacks the machine, bombarding them with cans. | |
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At one point in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a locker is opened by hitting it just right. | |
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Judgment: When Yagami poses as a maintenance worker, he gets asked to fix the building's air conditioner and in a moment of desperation, asks the guard watching to look behind as he gives it a kick to jumpstart it. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Sora's ridiculous banging on the keyboard when he, Donald, and Goofy are searching for information on King Mickey and Riku on Ansem the Wise's Xehanort's computer is one of the causes*the other is Donald throwing himself on the keyboard to tackle Stitch that alerts the Master Control Program and gets the trio zapped inside. | |
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The Sergeant from True Magic proves that this works on magical devices just as well as physical ones. | |
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In The Time of Your Life, Nick tells Willie to fix the pinball machine when the flag is stuck by giving it a whack. This causes the flag to go up and down repeatedly before it rights itself. | |
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In Bottom, episode "Contest", Richie tries to fix some dodgy TV reception by waving his palm above the set and giving it a sharp smack, causing it to go off completely. Eddie quickly gets up and successfully fixes it with another smack. Richie, impressed, smacks it again causing the television to explode, throwing him to the floor. | |
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Andor: When prepping a derelict ship to escape in Pegla has Jezzi hit the gauges to get them to show the actual fuel level after they stay on empty even after the tanks have been filled. | |
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The Whiteboard: Doc demonstrates the procedure, in this strip. | |
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Lucky Star: When a CRT television goes on the fritz, Miyuki mentions having heard of cases where banging on it helped. Konata, having heard of that too, tries it, and it works. When Hiyori tries it later on her frozen desktop computer, however, it goes completely dead. | |
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In the first episode of The Expanse, Jim Holden and Naomi Nagata board an elevator on the Canterbury, and a panel on the wall starts beeping annoyingly. Naomi slams her fist against it and the noise stops, and the elevator starts working normally. | |
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In Iron Eagle, Charles "Chappy" Sinclair turns his jukebox on by kicking it, and off by slapping it. | |
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The famed jukebox scene was subverted in an episode of Cheers when Cliff tries to fix the bar's broken jukebox by kicking it. It obviously doesn't work. | |
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Over The Hills: In episode 4, "Turbulent Times", the brakes on one of Dai's coaches keeps coming on. Mr. Edmonson usually rectifies it by whacking the brake with a hammer. | |
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Zone of the Enders: Dolores, I, the title character, a Humongous Mecha Robot Girl, applies this to herself when she inexplicably throws a jealous fit after James recovers a female enemy pilot. | |
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Ace Ventura has to do this while his problematic car is under attack by an angry man. | |
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In the Mahoraba manga, Megumi tries to fix a gas stove like this, calling it the "Russian Repair Method", possibly as a Shout-Out to Armageddon. It blows up (comedically) in her face. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D": When the hard drive holding Coulson's personality doesn't display immediately his face on TV, Deke slams his fist on it to make it start properly. | |
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How do you get Dominic Deegan out of a trance? While it didn't work, Dominic's mother's trick was worth a try. The next attempt will probably work better. | |
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon: When Sam's car (not Bumblebee but some old "sad piece of shit") won't start, angry as he already is, his best resource is to open the hood and start kicking the engine frantically. It's a mix of this and Percussive Therapy. | |
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Eureka: The episode "Best in Faux", when Stark tells Carter the computer is malfunctioning: Also the episode "Dr. Nobel". After managing to shut down the device that's been threatening global destruction, it seems to stop, then malfunctions and resumes the countdown. The scientist who built it spends a few seconds thinking, then kicks it. It stops... for a while, anyway. |
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In Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon, the barkeep turns his jukebox on by kicking it, then tells Chocobo that changing audio tracks is done the same way. | |
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Thomas & Friends: In "Whistles and Sneezes", Gordon's crew fix his jammed-open whistle by knocking it into place with a hammer. In "Toad's Bright Idea", Gator's lamp often fizzled out, and in order to get it working again, his driver had to knock it. Eventually, it stopped working altogether, and Toad let Gator borrow one of his lamps. |
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Old World of Darkness: In Changeling: The Dreaming, Nockers can fix machines by smacking and/or threatening them. | |
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Averted on Beavis and Butt-Head when the title duo try to get their TV working again with numerous kicks. Pieces fly off, but that's all that happens. Due in part to a citywide power outage and in part due to the permanent power outage in their brains, they don't notice. | |
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Tales Series: Norma in Tales of Legendia kicks the machine in order for the bridge to appear to each of the four monuments in chapter 6. Pascal in Tales of Graces F fixes a broken Valkines Cryas by beating on it with a mallet. When questioned on it she confesses that she was "Kinda just wingin' it." |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Fix-It Felix Jr. fixes everything — brick walls, the bars of a prison cell, his face, the shattered remnants of a go-cart made of cake and candy — by whacking them with his gold hammer. Note that the hammer only fixes. Felix is trying to break those prison bars, making them even stronger instead. Calhoun frequently shakes and hits the motion-detector she's using to track Cy-Bugs, as it has trouble functioning through all the sweets that constitute Sugar Rush's landscape. It doesn't do much good, though. |
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At the climax of the first movie, Marty can't get the DeLorean started until he despairingly hits his head against the steering wheel, at which point the car and its equipment spontaneously roar to life. | |
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In Warhawk, this trope is literally played straight: A few whacks from a wrench will repair vehicles and defenses. | |
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In Garry's Mod, the easiest way to fix a spazzing contraption (when the physics engine breaks and sends everything spinning around wildly out of control) is to pull out the Physgun, grab the contraption, and repeatedly smash it against the nearest wall until it stops spazzing. Unfortunately, delicate player-made mechanical objects (such as guns and engines) require much more finesse to fix - performing Percussive Maintenance on these will usually make the problem worse. | |
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In The Cat in the Hat, the Cat uses a "Phun-o-meter" to determine how well-adjusted Sally and Conrad are. He uses it on Sally first, and after getting a reading of "Arsonist", the Cat has to tap it to get it to display the correct reading of "Control Freak". Played for Laughs immediately afterwards when Conrad gets a reading of "Bed Wetter": | |
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71: Into the Fire have the student soldiers attempting to fix a mortar (prior to facing the North Korean army) by kicking it. | |
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In the Duck Dodgers episode "The Mark of Xero", Dodgers does this to his Mechanical Horse. | |
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Tish in The Weekenders bangs the top of a television while trying to hook it up after several failed attempts to fix it properly. It starts working, causing her to remark "Why does banging the television always work?" Carver claims that it's a matter of showing the TV who's boss. | |
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The scene mentioned above from Martian Successor Nadesico also occurs in Super Robot Wars Judgment, only with even MORE Mad Scientists and Gadgeteer Geniuses standing around with no idea on how to deal with the malfunctioning Hyperspace Communicator before Ruri applies some Percussive Maintenance, stunning everyone when it actually WORKS... | |
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Half-Life 2: Due to an oversight, the player is never shown inserting new magazines into their SMG. They just slap the bottom of the gun and magically reload it. | |
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Mr. Bean: He attempts to use Percussive Maintenance in "Mind The Baby, Mr. Bean" to cheat at one of those token pusher machines. It doesn't end well: As soon as he manages to get the machine to drop all the tokens, a kid comes along and nabs all the coins. Never mind that token pusher machines do not work that way. In another episode, Bean fixes a flickering neon sign by giving it a good whack. Then it gets brighter and brighter until it goes out. |
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Parodied on Brass Eye, where viewers were advised by unwitting celebrity guests to bang on electricity wires with large hammers to stop the north of Britain from being catapulted into Finland. | |
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In Volume 4 of RWBY, "Kuroyuri", The farmer boy, Oscar, tries to buy a train ticket to go to Mistral, but can't due to an insufficient amount of Lien. Hazel, who happens to be there at the time, helps him by pounding the top of the machine hard enough to dent the metal, resulting in it spitting one ticket out. He then tells Oscar not to let small obstacles get in his way. Ozpin states that Hazel is someone from his past, and tells Oscar that Hazel is not someone to take lightly. | |
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WarioWare: Get It Together!: Deconstructed. Smacking game bugs in a game world seems like an awesome way to deal with them. However, the whole reason the game took place is because Wario tried doing this in the "real world" to fix bugs that were a result of his own sloppy programming. It unfortunately made things worse, as the game subsequently sucked everyone up once he got it 'working' again, and when everyone finds out, they're pissed, complete with 5-Volt-esque fury stances. | |
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Dawn of War: While the Imperium uses its once advanced tech to build everything it needs, the Eldar use their very advanced (easily mistaken for magic) technology and Chaos uses actual magic to build everything, the Orks simply have their Gretchin hit a dropped-in pile of scrap with wooden mallets until it resembles an actual structure. | |
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Another Soviet standard, the AK-47 and its clones and offspring are infamous for their simplicity and reliability. On the off chance anything does go wrong with one, though, there's more than a few incidences where the solution was "hit rifle with hammer." Debris causing stoppage? Hit the receiver with a hammer til the debris falls out. Firing pin eating chunks of the primers? Hit the firing pin with a hammer until it stops doing that. Handguard catch fire because you overheated it? Hit the furniture with a hammer until it's extinguished or the furniture falls off, whichever causes your rifle to stop being on fire first. Bolt is stuck due to a stovepiped or disintegrated brass? Pry the (remains of) brass off with pliers and hit the charging handle with a hammer until it moves again. Because of its simplicity —"an elegantly simple nine-pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood," as it was famously put in Lord of War— the AK can take this abuse in stride and keep working right through the fix. | |
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In A Goofy Movie, Max and Goofy are visiting an incredibly lame opossum-centered Theme Park. The Chuck-e-Cheese-ish animatronic band gets stuck at one point (repeating the same phrase over and over like a stuck record), until an employee whacks the base with an elbow. All better. | |
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In Commando, Cindy couldn't get the seaplane to start. Then John Matrix pounds the control panel. | |
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During Mihoshi's introduction in Tenchi Muyo!, she stomps her foot to correct her cruiser when it starts acting up. It actually makes her look pretty cool before the rest of the episode establishes her as a complete bubblehead. | |
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In the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the members of Celestial Being try to get the titular Gundam's Twin Drive system to work but never seem to get it to stable operation, even with the hypothesized 'best combination' of 0 Gundam's and Exia's GN Drives. Guess how Setsuna gets it to work when the mothership gets attacked a few minutes later. | |
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Oblivion: Jack does this to make the Bubble Ship restart when it gets struck by lightning the first time. | |
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: The protagonists manage to rent a car from a very, very low-cost rental agency and proceed to fly to the moon (they were already in space and the car's a spaceship). Being a budget rental, everything goes wrong as they try to land. At one point the computer (which controls the rockets) fails. The husband hits it. No go. He hits it again. No go. His wife hits it nearly hard enough to crack the casing. It comes back on. (Briefly.) | |
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Scrubs: Elliott's sorority sister hits a Jukebox and after it turns on, she says "Hey, I'm the Fonz!" There was also an Imagine Spot in which J.D. fantasized about being the Fonz, and performing Percussive Maintenance on a patient in a coma. The Todd claims that he saved a dying patient by giving him a high five. "The Miracle Five!" Dr. Cox replies, "Great story. It begins with a fundamental lack of understanding about the human body and ends with you shattering some old guy's hand." |
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In North West Frontier, the locomotive Empress of India has a tendency to suddenly and violently leak steam, which is corrected by Gupta hitting the offending pipe with a wrench. When Captain Scott tries the same thing, he's rewarded with a faceful of oil. | |
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In Power Rangers Samurai, the method for clearing jams in the Lightzord's disk launcher system is to smack the Lightzord in the butt. | |
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In Cracked: "I've even seen people who insist that their televisions or vehicles require a special touch that only they know, a touch that usually turns out to be a pretty substantial punch or kick, which I guess makes their superpower physical abuse?" | |
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In Freefall, those who try this are considered "one of those people" by robots. | |
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The title character of Judge Dredd uses this to get a Mark 4 Lawmaster (flying motorcycle) to work. | |
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Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop, from whom comes one of the alternate names of the trope, claims, "My ship works better when I kick it." His attempt to fix an antique Betamax player in the same fashion, however, does not turn out so well. There's another point where they're trying to watch a television whose screen won't show anything until, after a pause, Spike brings his heel down on the top. | |
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Power Rangers: Power Rangers Zeo has a visiting Cestro (the Blue Aquitar Ranger, The Smart Guy, basically the Alien Rangers' Expy of Billy and so often working alongside Billy. Like Billy, his solutions usually involve lots of techie-sounding made-up words) make something in the command center work by banging his fist on it, causing a shower of sparks to erupt. He says "there, it's fixed!" It works. In one episode of Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, "It's Hammer Time", after Pink Ranger and Techno Wizard Rose fails by using her own methods, Yellow Ranger Ronny does this to fix the main computer. It works. Power Rangers RPM: In the second episode, Dillon and Ziggy notice a bunch of Grinders setting up a weapon to attack the Yellow Ranger's zord. Dillon tries to start his car, but can't because it's out of fuel. A hard whack on the steering wheel later and he gets it going again, running on the fumes. One-upped later on during the Road Attack Zord's debut. It's out of control, but Flynn says to hit it; he designed the thing to shut down from a solid smack to the center. In Power Rangers Samurai, the method for clearing jams in the Lightzord's disk launcher system is to smack the Lightzord in the butt. |
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During the Garfield in Paradise arc, Odie and the local mechanic are trying to get a classic car to start in order to drop it into a volcano to appease it. They try every repair job they can think of until Odie taps the carburetor with a hammer...at which point the car roars to life and takes off. | |
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In Tower of God episode 56, Hwaryun gets a vending machine to work by hitting it with the side of her palm. Khun is implied to try the same thing but only hurts his hand. Weirdly enough, it's Justified, even Foreshadowing, since she's later revealed to be a Navigator with the ability to see what path will lead to the desired result. | |
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During an episode of King of the Hill, the horn on Hank's truck is stuck blaring, thanks to Bobby hitting it by accident with the lawn tractor. After a few moments, Dale, annoyed at being disturbed while meditating just as he was about to achieve inner peace, walks outside, delivers a kick to the truck's side, and the horn stops. | |
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One event in the first Galaxy Angel has Tact facing a malfunctioning coffee machine, and he can ask any of the three Angels present for help with it. If he chooses Forte, she steps up and starts kicking the machine until it works. Another event also has Tact visiting Milfie in her room when she's trying out a popcorn machine, which she chops when it doesn't work and the thing ends up blasting the popcorn all over the room and leaves the two in a rather compromising position. | |
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In Meta Runner, Tari meets a bystander struggling with a broken vending machine, Tari just gives it a slight tap and fixes out its drink. | |
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On an early episode of Sesame Street, a Dalek-like robot named S.A.M. (standing for Super Automatic Machine, of course) arrives on Sesame Street (he meant to go to Mulberry Street), asserting repeatedly that "machines never make mistakes; machines are perfect — are perfect — are perfect." The humans have to thump him hard to make him stop repeating the phrase, for which he thanks them. | |
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Discworld: In Hogfather, Archchancellor Ridcully asks if the term "Reboot" means to kick the computer. Ridcully also gets surprisingly good results by threatening to hit HEX if it doesn't start doing what it's told, although this has more to do with HEX being at least partly sentient by this point than anything else. | |
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The first Mortadelo y Filemón live-action movie combines this with a "Eureka!" Moment of all things. Dr. Bacterio has invented a device that he just can't get to work. He's sure that something is missing but doesn't know what. When his radio stops working, he hits it to get it going again. That's when he realizes what is missing: "Of course! Beatings!" He proceeds to beat the crap out of the device with his shoe, and it works! It's the only part of the movie that is even remotely funny, and the German dub completely ruins it because the joke went right past the translator. | |
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In Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories: Leaping School Festival, Homura tries to do this on her malfunctioning TV, first with punches, then with a Dragon Kick. All she gets from this is a completely broken and unusable TV. "Finishing blow!" ("Todome da!") indeed. | |
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In RollerCoaster Tycoon, mechanics fix broken-down shops by kicking them. | |
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In the Skin Horse storyline "Unsinkable" we're introduced to Cinderblock, The Big Guy of the superhero team AG-I, who is also responsible for calibrating their supercomputer. Nera thinks this combination of brains and brawn makes Cinderblock like She-Hulk. When they see how Cinderblock "calibrates" the computer, Jonah amends this to "just regular Hulk". | |
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In Final Fantasy VII there is a malfunctioning vending machine in the break room of the Shinra building. If you try to hit it, the lady present will stop you. But if you return here during the "Raid on Midgar" event much later in the game, the lady is gone and you can bash the machine for a strength source. | |
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In the 2021 remake of Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space War, The Dragon Dracorl had the heroes cornered in his battleship, too heavily-armed for Nobita and friends (even if they're giant-sized at the moment due to the Shrink Light's effects wearing off) to fight from up close. Just then, Nobita and friends are ambushed by several of Dracorl's tanks and drones, at which point they retaliate by grabbing several of Dracorl's machines and pounding on them, causing them to misfire and take down Dracorl's battleship. | |
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In the Small Wonder pilot episode, Jamie fixes a malfunctioning Vicki by slapping her, remarking that it's how Ted fixes the stereo. In the third-season episode "Bank Hostages", Vicki herself performs this on an errant ATM: "That's how my father fixes me." | |
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On Doc McStuffins, in "Stuck Up", before giving his toy, a bulldozer named Riggo, to Doc to fix, the boy had tried banging it with no success. | |
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Averted and parodied in The Perishers. On a couple of occasions Wellington has attempted to fix Marlon's buggynote (go-kart) by hitting it with a hammer. This only ended up making things worse, due to the fact that Wellington would rather sell Marlon a new buggy than fix the old one. | |
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The Transformers "Cosmic Rust". After trying to get the matter duplicator to work to replicate more Corrorstop to cure the Autobots of said disease, it's the normally patient and mild-mannered Perceptor who resorts to this. "Desertion of the Dinobots" has both Autobots and Decepticons malfunctioning due to the degradation of a critical element in their systems, Cybertronium. This can result in things like the loss of flight capability, being stuck in one mode or another, or even being stuck partially transformed. At one point, Jazz is stuck in his vehicle mode, unable to transform. Ironhide's solution is a none-too-gentle kick that finally gets Jazz into robot mode. |
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A Boy Made of Blocks: A barista whacks the coffee machine like a malfunctioning TV set. | |
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The Octonauts: In "The Great Swamp Search", Ranger Marsh tries this on a malfunctioning radio. It doesn't work, but Captain Barnacles is able to get it to work with a more delicate touch. | |
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In Thor: The Dark World, Jane's response to a meter apparently malfunctioning is to smack it against the side of a dining table. Darcey says she did the same thing before bringing it to her. When the readings don't change Jane realizes it's not actually malfunctioning. | |
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Johnny Test. With Earth under alien invasion, and the twins stuck trying to get the Earth's defense grid going, Susan can't figure it out, so Mary gets it going with a good swift kick. | |
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Gotrek & Felix: In Daemonslayer, Thanquol's new seeing crystal seems to work perfectly when he first tries it out, but its picture is quickly replaced by a haze of static that stays there until he gives it a sound thump to the side. | |
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In Jak II: Renegade, during the first Pump Station mission, Daxter attempts to steal Jak's glory by turning the pump's main valve. Sadly, the valve is not only too heavy for Daxter to even MOVE, it's completely STUCK! So Jak fixes the problem by hitting the pipe, which instantly unsticks the valve...and promptly sucks Daxter on a ride through the pipes! | |
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In one episode of Bored a PlayTech customer finds, much to his horror, that "hit it" is Rowan's preferred method of repair. It's also the title of the episode. | |
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The Legend of Genji: When Genji's little sister begs him to fix the broken TV in their apartment, he just bangs the TV with his fist and it immediately starts working again. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Trespass", a large group led by Obi-Wan and Anakin is investigating a droid base, the inhabitants of which have all been decapitated... not far from a Republic base where the same thing had happened. Obi-Wan attempts to use a computer to find answers and has no success. Anakin gives it a good punch, and the hologram comes up. Also played with in "Wookiee Hunt", where a Jedi Youngling finds his Jedi Mind Trick works much better on a captured Trandoshan after Chewbacca punches himnote the Trandoshan, not the kid in the head. |
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Makai Kingdom gives us the Wrench weapon, which can repair vehicles with the Tech Bash skill. | |
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The X-Files: Fight the Future: Mulder can't get his drink out of a vending machine. At first he whacks as if he might fix it, but then he just shakes it angrily. There is actually a bomb hidden inside that unplugged machine. | |
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Captain Marvel: Done with a Skrull tapping on Carol's forehead, of all things, as they are watching her memories. With Talos even telling the guy who did it "that did something, do it again" like they're working with a glitchy old television. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry Rena "fixes" a sulking Mion the same way, saying it's how she fixes her TV. A more serious example occurs at the end of Meakashi-hen. Whereas Shion seems to gain some grip on everything that had happened as she fell, in the game, she hit a roof and landed there, and that was what allowed her to overcome her insanity... and then she decided to roll off that roof too. Another serious example is in Tsumihoroboshi-hen, when Rena takes the class hostage and started "fixing" Mion... while holding her cleaver blade facing the other way. A semi-serious example of either this or Dope Slap occurs in the manga version of Tatarigoroshi-hen, where Mion smacks Rena in the back of the head to get her out of one of her dark moods and/or get her to shut up about Oyashiro-sama's curse. |
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This ability to do this was added with the skill tree rework in PAYDAY 2, with a perk that gives players a 50% chance to repair a drill with a melee attack, finally allowing the players' frustration to be put to good use. | |
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April and the Extraordinary World: Pops is trying to get the guidance system on the flying machine working. He eventually whacks it, and somehow activates the welcome video for the kidnapped scientists. Later Julius is attempting to get the ray gun he took off a lizard working. After flicking through several settings ineffectively, he thumps the top of the gun. This causes the gun to fire and blast off the arm of the guard's exoskeleton. | |
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At the beginning of Jack Frost (the family version, not the serial killer version), Michael Keaton's character is going to a music gig with his band but then decides to go back to spend Christmas with his family. His best friend gives him his car. A snowstorm starts, and the guy is trying to see where he is going. Then the windshield wipers stop working. This is when he tries Percussive Maintenance on the dash to try to get them working again, as his friend showed him before. Unfortunately, he loses sight of the road and drives off a cliff. | |
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Metal Slug: Happens near the end of Metal Slug 3, when the player has to escape from the alien mothership. The formerly kidnapped member pushes some keys on a console/computer and then gives it a kick, and only then the hatch opens to release them. In Metal Slug 7/XX onwards, one of Tarma's unique abilities is the Slug Kick, i.e. kicking mechanical Slugs with a chance of restoring their health. Sometimes the Slug Kick averts this trope, however, damaging the vehicle instead. The first stage of Metal Slug 7/XX has turrets operated by rebels early on, which they fire by kicking. |
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A quarry foreman in Fallout: New Vegas also references this if you ask him about the machinery he uses. | |
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Bob Barker was fond of kicking and/or slapping stuck set pieces on The Price Is Right. The pricing game Squeeze Play was the most common victim. | |
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Iron Kingdoms: The Bodger class has this as one of their main class features. At higher levels, they can even do this at range ("Toss a Hammer At It"). | |
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In Turning Red, Abby pounds a projector with her fist to get it to turn on. | |
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Flight of the Intruder: Virgil Cole, a U.S. Navy bombardier, uses the Fix to keep his A6 bomber's balky primitive computer in line. | |
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Digimon Adventure: Taichi did this a lot. Used with some success in the fifth episode when Taichi rescues Andromon from under a pile of gears by kicking the gears. Also attempted in the sixth episode, where Koushiro's computer is acting up. Typically, both Taichi and Agumon say that all it needs is a good whack and charge at Koushiro, who then moves out of the way causing Taichi and Agumon to Cross Counter one another. Subverted nicely in Our War Game, where Taichi hits his father's computer (the monitor, not the main system) when WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon on the internet slow down. The computer promptly does a BSOD... completely paralysing their Digimon. |
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Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening features Percussive Maintenance in its most basic form, with Dante punching a jukebox to get it to play ("This party is gettin' crazy!"). | |
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Schlock Mercenary has Tagon asking a medical computer whether it couldn't do illegal biomodifications or wouldn't. The computer asked the difference, and Tagon explained that hardware that can't do something gets replaced. Hardware that won't do something gets abused until it will, or until it can't. It then agrees to perform illegal biomodifications. | |
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Referenced in Minority Report. When John has Precog Agatha hooked up to a recording device to see her visions and sees one he saw before, he tells the techie he's shanghaied into helping him to "slow it down." He responds by asking, "Slow it down? What do you want me to do, whack her in the head?" | |
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During the intermission chapter of Infinity Train: Boiling Point, Hazel gets so frustrated when a Passenger scanning machine One-One shows them repeatedly fails to register them, they begin hitting the scanner to get it to work. They end up destroying it in the process. | |
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The robot Kryten on Red Dwarf was known to do this to himself on occasion. He’s also mentioned to have done this to the bio-printer to get it working in “Officer Rimmer�. |
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The Dark Knight: Joker's attempt at an Unflinching Walk is foiled when the explosives don't go off. He looks around in annoyance and smacks his detonator until the explosions resume. | |
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Limbo of the Lost requires the player to open a pipe by whacking the valve... WITH THOR'S HAMMER. | |
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Ringworld: Teela Brown activates her sky-cycle's emergency booster at a key moment by fainting and smashing her face on the control panel, thus saving her life. The emergency booster required several controls to be hit in a specific order, at least one of which was recessed and thus much harder to hit accidentally. The other characters take this as proof that she was literally Born Lucky (a plot point in the story). | |
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In The Last Jedi, a First Order officer assumes the monitor showing the status of Supremacy's shield is on the fritz, and taps his finger on the display to restore it to normal. In reality, this was caused by DJ lowering the shield in that area, allowing Finn, Rose, and himself to board Supremacy. | |
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In one scene in Army of Two, either Salem or Rios is trying to get into a room containing a circuit breaker needed to activate a monorail. When trying to flick the switch to open the breaker room, it doesn't work, even with a few hammer blows from the contractor's fist. It isn't until he headbutts the switchbox that the door opens. | |
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In Star Trek: First Contact, Geordi points out a red light on the second engine valve during Cochrane's historic warp flight. Cochrane flicks the offending light a couple times, then whacks the side of the panel. It stays on. Having failed to correct it, he just brushes it off as unimportant. Cochrane also successfully does this with a jukebox. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations: Ezio solves a Clock Punk puzzle that has been underwater and presumably has some gunk in the gears. It grinds to a halt, and he kicks it to get it moving again. In one of Ezio's kill animations with the hidden blades, one of the blades fails to extend properly at first and he smacks its sheath against his victim's head a couple of times to get it to extend. |
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The Langoliers: Captain Engle does this to the radio in the plane when he can't reach anyone else. Of course it doesn't work, given the circumstances, but it's the thought that counts. | |
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Techmoan made a video about Mini Showa Retro Consumer Electronics Toys from Japan. This miniature smartphone-run TV offers a simulated version of this. Occasionally the "horizontal hold" would go haywire, and the fix is to slap it. | |
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Hondo Ohnaka's Not-So-Big-Score: When one of Hondo's devices won't turn on, he hits it several times in anger before being told that it didn't turn on because he was hitting the off switch and not the on button. | |
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In one Super Robot Wars manga, a character suggests "fixing" Tifa Adil's Demonic Possession problem with this. Garrod, obviously, isn't too happy at the start. | |
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The Julie Andrews Movie Musical Thoroughly Modern Millie (as well as the The Musical adaptation for the stage) featured an old-timey elevator that you had to tap-dance in to get started. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Thor: The Dark World, Jane's response to a meter apparently malfunctioning is to smack it against the side of a dining table. Darcey says she did the same thing before bringing it to her. When the readings don't change Jane realizes it's not actually malfunctioning. In Thor: Ragnarok, the bracers that allow Valkyrie to remote-control the guns of her ship are acting up, and she has to slap her wrists a few times before they deign working. Captain Marvel: Done with a Skrull tapping on Carol's forehead, of all things, as they are watching her memories. With Talos even telling the guy who did it "that did something, do it again" like they're working with a glitchy old television. |
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Grrl Power: Sydney does it to her own brain to "reset her reflexes" so that she stops jumping straight to the violent reaction every time she's surprised. Somehow, it works. When Sydney gets cramps, she threatens her ovaries and then punches them at full force, resulting in her doing a forward flip straight onto her face. |
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In Thor: Ragnarok, the bracers that allow Valkyrie to remote-control the guns of her ship are acting up, and she has to slap her wrists a few times before they deign working. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who story Shadow of Death, when the Doctor is trying to rewire an automatic door without success, the narrator says "In frustration, he smacked the controls with the palm of his hand", and we immediately hear the door opening sound effect. | |
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Overwatch has Torbjorn, who repairs his sentry by hitting it with his Forge Hammer. Uniquely, a Torbjorn can only repair his own sentry with his own hammer—fellow Torbjorns can't help each other out. | |
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Apocalypse: Kincaid doesn't press buttons on control panels, he kicks them. There's also a cutscene where he uses the butt of his machine gun to smash an electronic pad to forcefully open a door. | |
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Fallout 2 gives you this option when you're trying to get the Vault 13 computer to work. "Kick the computer in that special way" | |
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This is how Al fixes Ziggy's handlink in Quantum Leap, so often it's practically a Character Tic. Although it sometimes does more bad than good. In the third-season episode "The Great Spontini", he actually manages to break the handlink, and is seen with a different model from that point forward. | |
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The Wacky Musical Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Intergalactical Magical Radio: One of the kids suggests to Ronald that they can get the radio station working by hitting it as his father does with the television during the track "We'll Be Listening for the Signal". Ronald points out that such a technique isn't recommended on delicate equipment, but decides it can't hurt to try anyway. | |
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Farscape: The episode "The Flax" features a particularly dodgy ship that only really works when the engines are thumped with a stick. A variation of this occurs when Aeryn awakens Pilot (one of the many organic components of a Living Ship) from a coma by pumping him with adrenaline and kicking him. With both feet. If a Luxan is bleeding and the color is inky-black, the wound must be struck as hard as possible until the blood turns to a clear color. Yes, an entire species whose first aid procedure consists of Percussive Maintenance. It's that kind of show. |
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The Sims: In The Sims 3 you can "upgrade" appliances by... hitting them with hammers. And let's not forget fixing broken appliances by poking them with a screwdriver. If only... This also happened in The Sims social network app, where the Sim repaired anything that's broken by hitting them with a wrench. |
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This is used a number of times on The Basil Brush Show, usually without success. | |
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Lampshaded in Stargate SG-1. While trying to frantically repair the Odyssey before the ship comes under fire, Vala rams a power crystal into one of the slots despite the fact that it's not supposed to fit there. Vala then remarks that it almost never works. | |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II has Section trying and failing to fix a CLAW drone. Frustrated, Harper kicks it, and it immediately starts mowing down every bad guy in sight. Apparently, in the futuristic world of 2025 filled with robots and cutting-edge computers, it's still a tried and true method of fixing things. | |
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Doraemon: The early chapter that introduces the Time Cloth (one of the series' most recurring, frequently-used gadgets) have Nobita and Doraemon watching the Nobi household's old, cranky television set, and the screen finally fuzzing up causing Nobita and Doraemon to celebrate "finally, we're getting a new TV!" only for Nobita's mother, Tamako to come over and land a chop on its side, fixing the screen. At which point a frustrated Doraemon decides to just take out the Time Cloth and de-age their TV set to brand new. Tamako even lampshades the trope briefly, "You just need to know where to hit." An example that doesn't involve technology shows up in Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights, when Sinbad, Doraemon, and Nobita try spying on the escaped slaver, Abdil, through Sinbad's magic Pool of Visions. The pool suddenly gets fuzzy, and Sinbad hits its sides with his staff, so it becomes clear again. But then it starts getting fuzzy once more - cue Nobita, Doraemon and Sinbad hitting the whole thing simultaneously, to no avail. Nobita even lampshades "this thing is like an old TV!" In the 2021 remake of Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space War, The Dragon Dracorl had the heroes cornered in his battleship, too heavily-armed for Nobita and friends (even if they're giant-sized at the moment due to the Shrink Light's effects wearing off) to fight from up close. Just then, Nobita and friends are ambushed by several of Dracorl's tanks and drones, at which point they retaliate by grabbing several of Dracorl's machines and pounding on them, causing them to misfire and take down Dracorl's battleship. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine In the pilot episode Chief O'Brien, trying to transport Odo back after a bit of sabotage on the Cardassian ship, is frustrated with his inability to make the transporter work because it's an unfamiliar system and the Cardassians intentionally trashed the station before they left. Fed up, he kicks the console out of sheer frustration — and Odo promptly materializes on the pad. The novelization of the episode takes it a little further — his foot actually hit the control he was missing on the unfamiliar control panel. In "The Siege", Kira and Dax are trying to get working an abandoned spacecraft from the Occupation era that the Bajoran resistance cobbled together. After a while Dax gets exasperated trying to fix this heap of junk in the cramped space available and starts hitting things. In "Little Green Men", Quark and his family crashland in Roswell in 1947, but their Universal Translators aren't working so they can't explain their situation. They try slapping their heads to get them working again. The assembled military and scientists decide to copy them in an attempt to communicate and proceed to Dope Slap themselves, much to Quark's amusement. |
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In the Taiwanese video game Richman 8, a News would randomly occur as the game processes, demonstrated by a Newslady and a television. Sometimes, the Newslady will hit the fuzzing television before its screen works properly, and announce the News afterwards. | |
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Time Lord, a Doctor Who tie-in RPG released in the 1990s: It's possible to equip characters with this ability (called "Bench-Thumping" in the game). | |
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In Metro 2033, when you are exploring an old Soviet military base, you spend a couple of minutes flipping some switches to get an old elevator working. After that fails one of your comrades hit the control panel and starts the elevator. | |
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Earlier in the series, in Mass Effect 2, Miranda gets pissed off at a slow elevator during her loyalty mission and hits it with her omni-tool, causing it to speed up and shut off the muzak. | |
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In Mass Effect 3 there are a couple of sections where Shepard needs to send one of his squadmates off to hack an important device. If you send James to do it, however, the game makes it clear he's not the techy type by having him kick the thing. Repeatedly. Earlier in the series, in Mass Effect 2, Miranda gets pissed off at a slow elevator during her loyalty mission and hits it with her omni-tool, causing it to speed up and shut off the muzak. |
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Steven Universe: In "Kindergarten Kid", Peridot kicks a malfunctioning cannon, yelling at it to work. For reference, Peridot is a tech genius who comes from an alien species that makes humans look like cavemen in comparison... and this trope is still her first resort. | |
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In Pretty Cure: Magic of the Rainbow, Yuri attempts to fix a skippy CD player by kicking it. | |
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In Zootopia, in the scene where Judy is trying to start the subway car, the car starts, begins to shut down only for Judy to bang on the console to restart it. | |
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In Wacky Races, the Slag brothers often do this to their stone-age car. Once though, the car hits back. The other racers also do this from time to time; Peter Perfect once fixed his car that had completely fallen apart with one swift kick. | |
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In the opening of WarGames, one of the Air Force launch officers reports a warhead alarm on one of the missiles. The other officer tells him, "Tap it with your finger". He then taps the indicator light and it goes out, showing that the warhead was fine, it was just the alarm light was seated incorrectly. | |
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The Fonz himself is featured in The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, employing his trademarked fix in order to, among other things, repair a time-traveling flying saucer, vehicle of choice of the gang in the cartoon. In several chapters, the Percussive Maintenance (usually in the form of a finger snap) is even seen stopping and reversing inertial momentum (!). | |
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Used in Aliens by head-smacking: "Drake, check your camera... [bash] that's better". The novelization expands this scene. Drake mentions that he learned that in training: | |
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Thundercats 1985 has an episode where Wilykit and Wilykat get into one of the Thundercats' old suspension capsules to take shelter from a storm, only for the lid to get stuck, leaving them trapped. They're still in there at the end of the episode, but the other Thundercats can't think of a way of opening the capsule without harming them. However, Snarf then gives the capsule "a good kick" which causes the capsule to spring open, freeing the Thunderkittens. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Lampshaded in "Hide and Seek" when Dr. Doof tries to get his Incredibly Obvious Bug working by after repeatedly hitting his monitor. | |
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The Rockmen in FTL: Faster Than Light take this approach to repair, judging by their animation. They get no penalties for this. They're also immune to fire, so put out fires in your ship by stamping on them. | |
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Engineer's Creed: "If it moves, and it shouldn't move, use duct tape. If it doesn't move, and it should move, use a hammer." Add a can of WD-40, a pocket knife, and a six-pack, and you have the Redneck (or Red Green) Tool Kit. | |
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The Flintstones: Fred Flintstone is a master TV repairman, provided he has his club. | |
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Better Call Saul: In "Magic Man," DDA Oakley tries to buy some pretzels from the courthouse vending machine, except it's the last one in stock, so he has to hit the machine once to get it to fall down. In "50% Off," two tweakers try to buy ten packets of cocaine from a Salamanca dealer. The dealer normally distributes the drugs by dropping the packets down the drainpipe one by one. In trying to send all ten down at once, they get stuck in the drainpipe. The two tweakers begin making a scene, which means that Krazy 8 has come down personally to fix the problem. While he's up on a ladder trying to unjam the drainpipe, the police show up in response to the disturbance being caused by the tweakers, and everyone runs except Krazy 8, who is stuck on the ladder. |
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Heavy Metal segment "So Beautiful and So Dangerous". One of the aliens tries to open a compartment to obtain a bag of drugs. When pushing a button fails to do anything, he kicks it and it slides open. | |
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Planet Earth Is Blue: On the day of the Challenger launch, the TV set shows only static. The teacher hits the side, and the image comes into focus. | |
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The climax of the action movie Big Bullet has Sergeant Bill and his trainees infiltrating a military plane hijacked by terrorists to prevent it from taking off. Bill's youngest rookie, Apple, managed to get herself in the cockpit, and after some failed attempts to stop the plane from moving by pressing dials and knobs on the controls, she instead decided to kick the pedals in desperation. It works. | |
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Fallout: In the 3D games, a common jam animation involves the player character whacking the malfunctioning weapon. Actually a part of the drill for clearing a jam on many military rifles. In the Alien DLC, the jam animation on the alien laser rifle (while in first-person view) doesn't show the replacement of any cartridges or batteries. In short, it seems as if you reloaded the gun by just whacking it a few times. A quarry foreman in Fallout: New Vegas also references this if you ask him about the machinery he uses. Dead Money has a console that can activate some security turrets to help you deal with the Final Boss of the DLC, provided you can pass one of two skill check. One requires you to have sufficient Repair. The other needs you to simply bash it in and requires a high Unarmed skill. Fallout 2 gives you this option when you're trying to get the Vault 13 computer to work. "Kick the computer in that special way" |
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In Far Cry 2, you have weapons that constantly jam. Part of the unjamming process can include beating the crap out of your gun to unjam it. Such ways include whacking the side of your stove-piped shotgun, slamming the lid down of your LMG, or tapping (hardly) on the slide of your jammed pistol. | |
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Star Trek: In Star Trek: First Contact, Geordi points out a red light on the second engine valve during Cochrane's historic warp flight. Cochrane flicks the offending light a couple times, then whacks the side of the panel. It stays on. Having failed to correct it, he just brushes it off as unimportant. Cochrane also successfully does this with a jukebox. In Star Trek Into Darkness, Kirk manages to realign the housing of the warp core by kicking it with both feet. This is actually a slightly more realistic example, as the goal in this case is to force the core back into position as opposed to banging on it until it works. |
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Warehouse 13: Claudia uses this method in one episode, and mentions it by name, in order to get the holographic display projector to work properly. Artie also resorts to this method whenever his computer decides not to cooperate. When the time machine breaks, this is the method they use to repair it. |
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In Mega Man Legends, Megaman is stuck in an electrical trap and the Bonnes come over to free him. Tiesel looks over the trap and asks Tron how to stop it. She responds by giving the trap a swift kick, which works. | |
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Director Irvin Kershner said it was an homage to The African Queen where Humphrey Bogart's character Charlie Alnutt beats the engine of his boat to get it to start it back up again. | |
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In Pixelface, Romford's hard reset function involves picking him up and dropping him. Possibly a Shout-Out to the Apple Computers example described in the Real Life section. | |
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Subverted in one episode of Yumeiro Pâtissière. Ichigo tries to fix an oven by karate-chopping it. The oven starts functioning... but explodes in less than fifteen seconds. | |
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In Final Fantasy X-2, the commsphere that Shinra threw into the Farplane Abyss malfunctions and won't connect. Leblanc whacks Shinra's control panel with her fan-weapon and suddenly it connects. | |
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A regular enough practice in Girl Genius. Very few "Sparks" are subtle, especially when they're in a hurry. | |
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Ashes of the Past: In Chapter 1 (Chapter 2 if you count the Prologue), when Dexter fails to register Ho-Oh, Ash hits the machine with his hand to restore its memories. It registers Ho-Oh... and reports that it has data on pretty much all Pokémon in existence up to this point... and then reveals himself to have become a fully functional AI. | |
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Hogan's Heroes: "It's a German machine — all it understands is force!" | |
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Done in Armageddon (1998), when the crew was stranded on an asteroid: The Russian cosmonaut fixed the ship by banging the engines with a wrench, possibly in a Shout-Out to Star Wars | |
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In the introductory cutscene for Donkey Kong 64, King K. Rool's shiny new gun is being readied by his idiot mook Kremlings. It starts to power down for no discernable reason, so one of the Kremlings gives it a nice head-butt, which causes it to power back up again. | |
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During the making of Banjo the Woodpile Cat, the broken-down thirtieth-hand movieola the crew were using to run the pencil tests malfunctioned. Don Bluth, beyond frustrated, tried getting it back into order with a swift kick. It ate the film. At that point, despite being on a budget that only charitably could be called shoestring, Bluth and the others managed to find enough money for a new movieola. | |
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On Saved by the Bell, AC Slater could use this to make lockers open. | |
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M*A*S*H: Trapper is writing a letter home in the Officer's Club, and the jukebox started to skip. He tries a Fonz-style repair, but all it does is jostle the needle off of the record altogether. Also attempted by Hawkeye on a jeep, as he said he once had a car that "only understood a swift kick in the radiator". |
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Lexx's indestructible assassin Kai finally suffers serious damage — which he calls being "out of alignment" — when he jumps down to a planet from a spaceship in orbit. The solution? Make another jump and land on his other side. It takes a couple of tries, but it works. | |
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Lost: In the episode "Namaste", Miles uses Percussive Maintenance on the Dharma security monitors. And in a later episode, a character slaps around an atomic bomb in order to get it to explode. This is presented as a good thing. |
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NCIS: This is Gibbs' favorite method of fixing technology. Subverted in that he has broken a truly alarming number of computers and cell phones. Lampshaded when he gives his phone to Kate to fix and she merely drops it in the trash and replaces it with an identical phone from the stash she keeps in a desk drawer. This is also his favored method of fixing subordinates. Gibbs once gives a slap to Mr. Mass Spectrometer to stop it from growling. This time, it works. (Thankfully, he's doing this while Abby has her back turned.) Tony DiNozzo in a later episode is shown to use this method to score free candy from the machines in the break room. Ziva is seen doing this as well. Unlike Tony, she is actually applying this to a vending machine in a hospital where she has spent most of the episode. Upon seeing her do it, Tony remarks something along the lines of "you know you've been somewhere too long when you know how the machines work." |
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In one episode of Taxi, Louie demonstrates this twice when the other cabbies try to unlock a briefcase belonging to a big shot who rode in Bobby's cab. Louie first opens it with a punch only to close it shut right away so he can charge the cabbies for his service, and then opens it again just by pointing at it. | |
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Vera: In "Home", Vera wins the trust of the young son of the Victim of the Week when the Vengeful Vending Machine at the hospital doesn't give him his chocolate, and she hits the machine in the right way to jar the chocolate loose. | |
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In Densetsu no Stafy 4, when Saimami tells Starly that the water filtration system of Tear Lake is broken, she recommends just giving it a good smack—in this case, a Star Spin—to fix it. | |
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At the climax of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Colony 4's Ferronis encounters an issue during the assault on Origin, and, upon being told by the colony's engineers that it wouldn't start up, acting commander Bolearis elects to 'show it who's boss' by kicking its gigantic engine a few times. The engineers initially protest that it doesn't work that way, but, sure enough, it starts right up. | |
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In Darker than Black, Hei apparently fixes his landlady's TV by hitting it with his hand. This is our first hint at what Hei is capable of. | |
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Back to the Future: At the climax of the first movie, Marty can't get the DeLorean started until he despairingly hits his head against the steering wheel, at which point the car and its equipment spontaneously roar to life. Averted at the beginning of the movie, when Marty smacks the time circuits and they stay dead. Played straight in Back to the Future Part II, when Doc hits the time circuits to stop them from glitching. |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Terminal Provocations", when Badgey freezes while loading a cargo recovery training simulation, Rutherford gives him a kick to get him working again. It works but drives Badgey to murder as soon as the safeties fail. | |
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Dark Heresy has it as a talent to unjam weapons. The Technical Knock is a swift prayer to the Omnissiah and a swift smack to the jammed weapon. It always works. | |
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Red vs. Blue shows Wash trying to repair a radio, and when the Reds arrive to help out (i.e. bringing Lopez Dos.0), he gets more and more frustrated as the Reds and Tucker bicker, until finally, he punches the radio out of frustration. It works. But only because Lopez Dos.0 fixed it offscreen. | |
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Inverted in one instance in Specter of the Past, where for once the Falcon is working fine until Chewie, manning the communications, gets mad at the guy on the other end and smashes the switch. | |
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The second-season premiere of Dollhouse features a more futuristic version of this when Paul Ballard, trying to save Echo from capture by arms dealer Martin Klar, repeatedly punches the Active, hoping to coax out a personality that can defend itself. He eventually brings out the same fighter imprint that tried to ambush him in the previous season, and Echo manages to turn the tables on Martin and subdue him. | |
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A more "realistic" example, in an episode of Crayon Shin-chan has the Nohara family's television fuzzing up. Mitsae Nohara then attempts to fix it by slapping its side, and later its top when it starts showing double images, only to make it shut down instead. | |
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Lupin III: The Columbus Files has Goemon doing this to the motorboat's engine. Lupin tries to do the same thing later but just breaks it further. | |
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At one point in Flight of the Intruder, the navigation computer in the protagonists' A-6 Intruder attack jet flakes out. Tiger Cole claims that the manual says to "kick the damn thing" to get it to start again. Justified in that the likely cause for that computer to fail is for the internal gyroscopes to get stuck, with the kick knocking them loose again. | |
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In an episode of The Dreamstone, Sgt Blob manages to get the Urpneys' current mech working again after it broke down underwater. | |
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In Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Big Bad robot Mad Scientist Dr. Nefarious has a habit of having screaming outbursts that make his circuitry overload causing him to freeze in place and broadcast a random soap opera. The problem is easily solved by someone (usually Lawrence) whacking Nefarious in the head (an act that Lawrence calls "the best part of (his) day"), after which Nefarious proceeds as if nothing had happened. | |
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In a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fanfiction set after The Eye of Argon, Mike mentions how he snapped Crow out of his Heroic BSoD by repeatedly banging his head against the desk until he shut up. | |
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Daria: Daria does this with Trent's van, "The Tank". After it makes a certain, strange noise, there's a ten count, followed by a punch to the dashboard, and suddenly everything's right as rain. | |
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Hilda: In Episode 10, Victoria van Gale can be seen giving several machines at the weather station a good punch or kick to make them function. | |
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In Splash, when the character played by Tom Hanks gets stranded on the boat, it doesn't start until he opens the casing and whacks it with a hammer. At which point it promptly fires up, lunges forward, and pitches him overboard. | |
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Daredevil: In "Rabbit in a Snowstorm," the office Wi-Fi at Nelson & Murdock is acting up, frustrating Matt and Foggy as they try to research case law. To fix it, Karen smacks the router a few times, which gets the connection working again. | |
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Bug Fables: In the "Helpers Needed at Once!" sidequest, Malbee requests the party to fix several malfunctioning Mender bots by rebooting their systems. When Kabbu asks how to do that, Malbee answers that they need to whack them until their system is reset. Kabbu gets worried because he believes it will hurt their feelings, but both Leif and Malbee assure him they don't have any. In the Rubber Prison, when the team has to activate the computer in the security room, it doesn't work even when they activate the backup generator. Leif encourages Kabbu to kick it, which makes Kabbu worried since it's the valuable technology, but Leif insists Kabbu must kick it. Once he does, the computer starts working. |
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Red Planet: "No joy on all scenarios for engine ignition. That includes hitting the console." | |
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In SSSS.GRIDMAN, when Yuta and Gridman along with the Neon Genesis crew get stuck in place during battle, Rikka opts to unplug the Grid computer to fix it to Utsumi's shock. After Utsumi tries to boot it up again, Rikka just gives it a small kick, bringing it back up and gets the others out. | |
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In Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol the famous This Page Will Self-Destruct trope is spoofed by having Ethan's IMF briefing (hidden in a Russian public phone) fail to self-destruct after five seconds. Ethan walks back and thumps the phone, which finally produces the expected puff of smoke. | |
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Devil May Cry: Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening features Percussive Maintenance in its most basic form, with Dante punching a jukebox to get it to play ("This party is gettin' crazy!"). Also from DMC3's fifth mission, when Dante used an ornate trident to trigger a switch. It didn't work. Guess what he did? He kicked the device, and it worked. Similarly, in Devil May Cry 4, Nero finds that the controls for lowering a drawbridge refuse to operate. He walks away in frustration... and then whirls around and shoots the uncooperative console. It sparks and then explodes, after which the red light turns to green and the drawbridge lowers (It should probably be noted that he looked pretty surprised when this happened, suggesting that the shooting of the controls wasn't deliberate Percussive Maintenance so much as him venting the aforementioned frustration). Dante once gets into trouble hitting the jukebox; he hit it a little too hard, as he punched it with enough force that the metal on the jukebox bent inwards from the impact, leaving his fist in a crater that he just made. Devil May Cry 5: In one of the ending cutscenes, Nico kicks her jukebox in order to make it work while Nero is busy fighting the demons on the road. |
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Good Omens: Lampshaded when one of the Bikers of the Apocalypse takes up the name "Things That Don't Work Even After You've Given Them a Good Thumping". | |
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Die Sendung mit der Maus: In one cartoon, the mouse wants to take a photo of herself. All the photo machine produces are elephants. This trope doesn't help a bit. Why is revealed when the mouse opens the maintenance lid: the machine is a fake and the little blue elephant inside does the pics with crayons. | |
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In NewsRadio, this was electrician/maintenance guy Joe's go-to method for fixing nearly anything, including in one noteworthy case a nuclear power system.note Granted, it was a semi-daydream non-canon episode, but still, who whacks a nuclear anything with a planishing hammer? Subverted neatly in the first season when he's "fixing" Dave's malfunctioning laptop: giving it a whack, he kills it. | |
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In one episode of Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, "It's Hammer Time", after Pink Ranger and Techno Wizard Rose fails by using her own methods, Yellow Ranger Ronny does this to fix the main computer. It works. | |
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An example that doesn't involve technology shows up in Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights, when Sinbad, Doraemon, and Nobita try spying on the escaped slaver, Abdil, through Sinbad's magic Pool of Visions. The pool suddenly gets fuzzy, and Sinbad hits its sides with his staff, so it becomes clear again. But then it starts getting fuzzy once more - cue Nobita, Doraemon and Sinbad hitting the whole thing simultaneously, to no avail. Nobita even lampshades "this thing is like an old TV!" | |
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Happens in Toy Story 3: Apparently the best way to get your Buzz Lightyear back to normal after a hard reset is to drop a TV on his head. | |
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Peter Rabbit: In "Flooded Burrow", Peter and his friends use a vacuum-like device to get the water out of the flooded burrow. Later, when the owl Old Brown threatens to attack, Peter decides to try to reverse it in order to spray him but isn't sure how. Benjamin suggests giving it a kick and does so. He ends up suffering Agony of the Feet for it, but it also works, albeit with a bit of a delay. | |
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Futurama: Subversion: the TV signal goes out because of interference from Bender. Fry hits the TV just as Bender leaves the room, and does Fonz's thumbs-up "Hey!" when the signal returns. Played for laughs in Bender's Game where the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots uses hammer therapy on its patients. In the episode "Bender Should Not be Allowed on TV", Antonio Calculon Junior breaks down. Someone comes by and hits him on the head a couple of times. It doesn't work. This has been known to work on Bender himself. In "Murder On the Planet Express," his gyroscope fully melts and he's unable to maintain his balance, causing him to comment, "I guess I'll be dizzy and uncoordinated for the rest of my—" before Amy smacks him in the head with a golf club, restabilizing him. |
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Dick van Dyke's character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang used this in the form of a kick on the Truly Scrumptious Doll's stand when she stopped rotating mid-song. | |
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Daisy and Onslow operate their TV this way on Keeping Up Appearances, even thumping it in certain spots to bring in the right channels. | |
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An episode of the Disney sitcom Hannah Montana has one of the characters, Oliver, having the nickname "Locker Man" because he is gifted with the talent of being able to open a stuck locker with a series of blows. | |
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Darths & Droids naturally includes a reference to Han's repair technique, including calling it "percussive maintenance" in The Rant. The inanity of the technique is lampshaded by the GM giving Jim a Mechanic check at -12; Jim rolling a 20 is the only reason it works. | |
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The Crown (2016). Queen Elizabeth II tells off the Queen Mother when she starts whacking the television set when it starts fizzing out, pointing out that it's rented. A nearby footman simply tunes the set so the image returns. | |
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The PlayStation tie-in game for Danger Girl has a cutscene where Sydney and JC (the team's Wrench Wench) are in a submarine, and facing a minor leakage. When JC's repeated attempts to fix the leak don't work, she then hits the leaking part with her wrench. | |
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century: In "The Crime Machine", Holmes gets an old subway train working by kicking the control panel. | |
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Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy X, Tidus hits a piece of ancient machinery repeatedly to get it working, even though his teammate is far more efficient with machinery. (As a Funny Background Event, you can see said teammate Face Palm.) In Final Fantasy X-2, the commsphere that Shinra threw into the Farplane Abyss malfunctions and won't connect. Leblanc whacks Shinra's control panel with her fan-weapon and suddenly it connects. Another example in Final Fantasy VIII. Zell does try to fix a machine the traditional way but eventually gives it a kick out of frustration. The machine works fine afterwards. Zell's example is somewhat of a subversion though, as while it will fix the machine and open the door to the dungeon, it also forces you to fight a series of tedious and difficult monster battles. While if you go about the slightly more tedious way of acquiring enough points to open the door normally, you can choose whether or not to fight the monsters. In the same game, Selphie shuts off the power to the missile base by slamming a control panel repeatedly. (This was the intended result) In Final Fantasy VII there is a malfunctioning vending machine in the break room of the Shinra building. If you try to hit it, the lady present will stop you. But if you return here during the "Raid on Midgar" event much later in the game, the lady is gone and you can bash the machine for a strength source. In Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon, the barkeep turns his jukebox on by kicking it, then tells Chocobo that changing audio tracks is done the same way. |
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An episode of The Fairly OddParents! parodies the concept... by jamming an axe into the TV. And it works. Twice. | |
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Portal 2: Wheatley seems to take this method of hacking. For example, he attempts a "manual override" on a wall, by slamming Chell's relaxation chamber into it. Later on, he "hacks" a door by slamming himself into the window to break it. | |
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Rogue in Exterminatus Now knows how to fix his Laser Blade in the field. | |
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VeggieTales: In "The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown", the machine used to tally the votes occasionally breaks down, and Pa Grape uses a wooden mallet to fix it. At one point, he has to hammer it so much that Mr. Lunt and Larry have to improvise a song in the meantime, and they use his "percussion" (and a Chinese takeout menu) as inspiration. | |
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Lampshaded by Dorian from Almost Human, season 1, episode 6, commenting on Kennex's thumping of a staticky radio. | |
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The Karate Kid: In "Homecoming", Miyagi kicks Papa Tony's truck as the last resort to fixing it. | |
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In the Get Smart episode "Schwartz's Island", Siegfried does this to the secret technobabble machine by kicking it. | |
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To quote Ran Kotobuki from one episode of Gals!: | |
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Sola: Matsuri Shihou does this. But it is understandable because she is Really 700 Years Old. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Jotaro kicks a scooter to start it up. Josuke's Stand ability is to restore things to their previous state (or at least what he perceives their previous state to be), which can bring about this trope when he does it by punching things really hard. |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: "Punch" explains that the modern day is so stressful because modern technology isn't fit to be punched any more so you can't take out your anger on it when it doesn't work. | |
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Dogstar: In "The Quick and the Dog", after Zeke's Doom It Yourself attempt to repair the food synthesizer, Alice is able to fix it with a single well-placed thump. | |
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The Alien vs. Predator video games often require you to operate electronic equipment and computers to proceed. If you are not playing as a human, this tends to mean simply smashing the object in question, which somehow always leads to the machines it controls doing precisely what you want. | |
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Muppet Babies (1984): The kids are in an old roofless police car on railroad tracks with two trains coming. | |
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Pascal in Tales of Graces F fixes a broken Valkines Cryas by beating on it with a mallet. When questioned on it she confesses that she was "Kinda just wingin' it." | |
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Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition: The Complete Scoundrel sourcebook includes the skill trick "Opening Tap". It gives a rogue a chance to open a lock without any tools, just by tapping it with a hard, blunt object. | |
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In LEGO Indiana Jones, one of the random animations when using a wrench to fix something is hitting it with the wrench. | |
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Averted at the beginning of the movie, when Marty smacks the time circuits and they stay dead. Played straight in Back to the Future Part II, when Doc hits the time circuits to stop them from glitching. | |
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Peanuts: Lucy used this method to "fix" an invisible Snoopy (he was doing the "Cheshire Beagle trick"), saying that it's the same principle that fixes the picture on a television. An early Sunday strip has a young Lucy walking down the sidewalk holding a teddy bear with a music box mechanism. When it stops playing, she shakes it a bit, then swings it against a fire hydrant with a loud "WHAP!". It starts back up and she walks on. Peppermint Patty and Marcie borrow Snoopy's Sopwith Camel to compete in the 28th Annual Powder Puff Derby. |
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Main Street Meats: At the laundromat, Tommy shows Cherry a machine that'll activate if he thumps his fist on it, allowing Cherry to wash her laundry free of charge. | |
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Halfway through the video for UB40's "Dont Break My Heart", Ali Campbell's lip-syncing is interrupted by the music skipping like a record. He walks over to a jukebox and thumps it, putting the music back on track and continuing where he left off. | |
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In Space Quest V: The Next Mutation, the SCS Eureka's Chief (and only) Engineer Cliffy (that's "Clifford" to you) fixes things by first actually tightening something, then whacking away at them with a wrench or kicking them. Given that the entire Space Quest verse runs on the Rule of Funny, this makes total sense. (He's actually an incredibly competent engineer, rebuilding a destroyed droid and integrating an incompatible piece of tech into the SCS Eureka without any problem) | |
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Deep Rock Galactic has a series of pre-made and comically nonsensical 'construction-ish' animations that play when you are performing any sort of repair or construction in the game. For sentries, satellite uplinks, fuel cells, mini-mules, and cargo crates, you build/activate these items with repeated whacks of a hammer. For other objective items such as pipelines or rock crackers, the series of random animations includes a few brisk whacks with a pipe wrench. There's almost certainly a Shout-Out to Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch somewhere in there. | |
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In Star Trek Into Darkness, Kirk manages to realign the housing of the warp core by kicking it with both feet. This is actually a slightly more realistic example, as the goal in this case is to force the core back into position as opposed to banging on it until it works. | |
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Stranger Things: Yuri employs this tactic to fix his plane. | |
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One segment in The Gate to the Mind's Eye features a pair of disembodied eyes breaking their TV by jumping on the remote, which causes the TV to rapidly change the channel. In a cringe-inducing move, one eye floats up beside the TV and bodyslams it back into operation. | |
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In the reboot of Syndicate, Agent Kilo's DART 6 chip is activated by a Mook punching him, this actually Makes Sense In Context as the opening sequence says it is fueled by adrenaline. | |
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The July 9th PvP strip features a bit of vending machine repair. | |
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In Crystal Story, after Hiro is knocked out by Rita with a single slap, the following conversation takes place between the Mercenary Inc members: | |
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In The Strawberry Statement, one of the protestors asks Simon to figure out why the Xerox machine isn't working. Simon presses a few buttons and whacks it a few times before he sees that it's not plugged in. | |
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During theStinger in Wonka, the Oompa-Loompa gets the projector working after it stops by thumping it. | |
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In one episode of Danny Phantom, Jack has Tucker hit one of their devices with a coffee mug when it goes fuzzy. | |
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Mega Man Powered Up: If the protagonist destroys Dr. Wily's combat machine on Normal or Hard, Wily rebuilds it — and makes it fly — by hitting parts of the cockpit with a hammer several times. | |
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: A car bomb resets Cameron back to killer mode. After chasing John and Sarah across the city, she winds up slammed between two trucks and pleads with John not to deactivate her because she's "fixed now". Of course, it's slightly more complicated than that... (It should be noted that there's a high possibility that she was lying when she said that she was fixed.) In another episode, when John tries to buy some "Let's" brand chips from a vending machine, it gets stuck. Cameron hits the machine in just the right spot to make it dispense several products at once and give John his money back. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Pizza Delivery", Spongebob panics and floors a car down the highway until it runs out of gas. Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Squidward gets out of the car and kicks the bumper, causing the driverless car to refill itself and then speed away in reverse, presumably back to the Krusty Krab. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Adeptus Mechanicus, the Imperium's primary source of technology and maintenance thereof, is a machine cult that preserves ancient technical information chiefly in the form of religious doctrine, magical rituals, and superstition that it doesn't really understand. As a result, a great deal of Imperial maintenance rituals are derived from what would have originally been casual bouts of beating, fiddling with and swearing at machines, still done faithfully by rote because nobody remembers which parts worked or why. Dark Heresy has it as a talent to unjam weapons. The Technical Knock is a swift prayer to the Omnissiah and a swift smack to the jammed weapon. It always works. The "Rite of Ignition" is an ancient tradition of Forge World labourers. This is "a form of prayer to the Machine Spirit that involves striking the object in question several times". This is seldom used in the presence of actual Tech-Priests. In Storm of Iron it's implied that the "Chant of Awakening" consists of nothing more than swearing at the unresponsive device while pounding on the buttons. The rulebook appendices also note that a standard Mechanicus ritual for particularly old and revered machinery involves "a rhythmic striking with a special metal tool" Befitting the Orks' general blunt approach to life, their favored way of dealing with temperamental or underperforming machinery is to give it a few solid thumps with a fist or handy blunt object. Horrified Imperial Tech-Priests speculate that Ork Meks brutalize their machine spirits into submission. |
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In Roland Rat: The Series, Fergie the Ferret, the Ratcave's alleged handyman, is usually seen wielding a large mallet, which he whacks things with if he thinks they aren't working right. He's also a Violent Glaswegian who has a similar response if he thinks people aren't working right. | |
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In Getting Straight, Harry can't get The Alleged Car to turn off. He repeatedly hits and kicks the steering wheel, which causes the radio to turn on, but after enough whacks, he manages to get both the car and the radio turned off. | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku does this to himself after blacking out from his first use of his Super-Hearing. When it wouldn't turn off on its own, he managed to get it to stop by giving himself a dope slap. | |
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During the Chop Shop level of The Punisher video game, you can hear one thug struggling with a pop machine that won't give him his soda. Another guy tells him "Stop beating on it dumbass, it don't hardly work as it is!", leading to this hilarious burn, "You don't work either, but beating you gets results." | |
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Referenced on Freaks and Geeks: Mr. Rosso catches Daniel Desario trying to set off the school fire alarm in the hallway: | |
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Team Fortress 2: The Engineer fixes and upgrades his machines by hitting them with his wrench. Just as good: If you hit an enemy or enemy machine with this wrench? Head trauma or a damaged building respectively. The game's "manual" [PDF] (as accessed online) is actually a manual on the Sentry, an automatic gun. The directions included for upgrading and setting up a sentry are all elaborate synonyms of "hit it with your wrench". Even better: In the game's predecessor, The Medic can heal teammates with his axe. This is carried onto the sequel with the Crusader's Crossbow for the Medic- shoot it at enemies, it hurts them. Shoot it at your teammates, and that bolt lodged in their heads heals them. Similarly, the Engineer could heal teammates' armor by hitting them with his wrench. Made even better with the Gunslinger. A robotic hand added as an alternative to the wrench in the new engineer update, it lets you repair your buildings by punching them. |
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In Final Fantasy X, Tidus hits a piece of ancient machinery repeatedly to get it working, even though his teammate is far more efficient with machinery. (As a Funny Background Event, you can see said teammate Face Palm.) | |
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Doctor Who: Used many times by the Doctor, often on the TARDIS controls. Some notable instances: "The Web of Fear": The Second Doctor has reprogrammed one of the Great Intelligence's spheres, but it doesn't respond until he whacks the bench it's on. "The Three Doctors": The Second Doctor fixes a radio by whacking it against the TARDIS console. "State of Decay": The Doctor thumps a malfunctioning scanner in the rebels' base, and it starts working properly again. "Aha! Earth technology!" he remarks. Later on, he does this again to a console in a disused scout rocket to get it working again. The Fifth Doctor is particularly known for this, including a scene in "The Five Doctors" in which he needs to smack the console with his fist to get the doors to open after he has just overhauled the console and supposedly either fixed or upgraded everything that needed it. "The Visitation": Lampshaded when Adric and Nyssa are trying to fly the TARDIS on their own. After a few failed attempts at landing, Nyssa tells Adric to think what the Doctor would do. Adric thinks about it for a moment, pushes a few buttons, and thumps the console. It works. Toward the end of the 1996 telemovie, the Doctor uses the Fix on the TARDIS, one of the producer's many "kisses to the past". In the Davies era of the new series, the TARDIS console has a hammer and a rubber mallet hanging from it for on-the-fly percussive maintenance. "Rise of the Cybermen": The Tenth Doctor attempts to kick the TARDIS back into working order. The exchange goes something like this: Of course, the TARDIS is alive, so this might be a combination of Machine Empathy and Time Lord technology. Or the TARDIS is just kinky. "The Impossible Planet": The Ood do this in their first appearance. They approach the Doctor and Rose while menacingly repeating "We must feed...", then one of them irritatedly whacks his translator device and the output becomes: "We must feed... you, if you are hungry." "The Runaway Bride": The Doctor smacks a computer monitor at H.C. Clements to get it to turn on. "Planet of the Dead": The Doctor kicks the console of the heavily damaged Tritovore spaceship to get it to work while sending out a probe. "The Eleventh Hour": While inspecting a TV hijacked by the Atraxi, the Doctor smacks the remote control to get it to work. "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship": Amy does this to a computer in the Silurian ark while pleading with the ancient system, "How about a picture, huh? Come on, for me?" [whack] "Empress of Mars": The Doctor attempts to send out a distress signal, and the screen starts going hazy. He whaps it alongside the monitor, and then casually leans on the console to pretend it was his intention for it to go as smoothly as intended. |
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Elena of Avalor: In "Model Sister", Gabe tries to fix Princess Isabel's invention by punching it. It starts working again but still has the kinks she was worried about before the invention stopped working. | |
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Blake's 7: Vila, generally noted for his lockpicking abilities, is trying to get out of a hatch that is stuck. He chooses this option instead in a fit of Hypocritical Humor. Justified because the hatch wasn't actually locked, just stiff from lack of use. In "Traitor", when Orac is being its usual stubborn self, Vila states that this is the only way to deal with solid-state circuitry. |
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An FMV cutscene during a mission of the second Crusader game has Denning doing this, with the upgrade of the power outage apparently affecting the entire base. | |
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On Jimmy Two-Shoes, this is how Heloise fixes her Brainiac Booster. | |
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Digimon Adventure: (2020): Whenever Izzy's computer is on the fritz, Tai and Augumon always suggest to whack it until starts working again. | |
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At the beginning of Up, Carl is going downstairs on his Stair Lift, when it stops halfway down. One fist bump later, it's going again. | |
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Attempted in The Blue Iguana. When the IRS agents' car conks out in the jungle, Carl tries to fix it by beating first the engine, then the hood, until Vera yells, "That's obviously not going to work!" | |
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Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai is frustrated that the radio won't work, kicks it... and then it does. | |
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Karin-dou 4koma: Kinka explains this trope after Tamaryu sees her halfheartedly slapping a fan that had just stopped working. Tamaryu's attempt to assist splits the fan in half. | |
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And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird!: Max gives the robot Newman a whack on the head to fix a voice glitch. | |
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Towards the end of TRON: Legacy, Kevin Flynn and Sam Flynn are sneaking around in Clu's "Rectifier" note giant ship that brainwashes programs into being a mindless army. Quorra's been captured, so Sam goes to rescue her while Kevin steals a Light Fighter. There's a Brainwashed program standing guard, so Kevin sneaks up behind it and fiddles with its Identity Disc so it would allow him access. It doesn't work. Frustrated, he bops the program on the head. It works. | |
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City Hunter: Kaori is convinced that if a machine does not work, a punch (or a kick. Or a mallet blow) will fix it. And if it keeps malfunctioning, you are not hitting it hard enough. | |
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Theresia: Dear Emile has a rather extreme example during Dear Martel. The protagonist happens across a dark operating room with a lamp being the only potential source of light...except it won't work. Hitting the lamp with your hand only causes it to turn on for a brief second and your character to comment "Maybe if I hit it harder..." Cue smashing a 2x4 across the lamp so hard that you snap the thing in half, costing you the 2x4, which are pretty limited in this story, moreso than in Dear Emile. It gets the lamp working perfectly though! | |
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The Longest Day: | |
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Demolition Man. During the final battle between John Spartan and Simon Phoenix, Phoenix tries to use a laser-cutting device on Spartan but its power output drops. Phoenix bashes it against a column, breaking the focusing lens, and its power massively increases for a bit (though also consequently less accurate, shooting electrical arcs everywhere) before it burns out completely. | |
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Power Rangers RPM: In the second episode, Dillon and Ziggy notice a bunch of Grinders setting up a weapon to attack the Yellow Ranger's zord. Dillon tries to start his car, but can't because it's out of fuel. A hard whack on the steering wheel later and he gets it going again, running on the fumes. One-upped later on during the Road Attack Zord's debut. It's out of control, but Flynn says to hit it; he designed the thing to shut down from a solid smack to the center. |
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Power Rangers Zeo has a visiting Cestro (the Blue Aquitar Ranger, The Smart Guy, basically the Alien Rangers' Expy of Billy and so often working alongside Billy. Like Billy, his solutions usually involve lots of techie-sounding made-up words) make something in the command center work by banging his fist on it, causing a shower of sparks to erupt. He says "there, it's fixed!" It works. | |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Milo uses this method, in the form of an elaborate series of blows, to fix both the boiler at the Smithsonian and Mole's digging machine. Lampshaded that Milo states that both boilers were made by the same company so he has some working knowledge in that field to justify it. | |
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Jeremy Clarkson's general attitude to car maintenance on Top Gear. During the Top Gear Ground Force special, May and Hammond assumed that Clarkson was going to use a hammer to get rid of weeds since that's what he normally uses for fixing everything. He didn't. He got a shotgun instead. | |
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Lampshaded in a first season episode of Veronica Mars: | |
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Welcome to Doomtlis: After the green TV shuts off, Tsuyo tries to do this... Using a baseball bat. Predictably, it ends up destroying the television. | |
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Prince Roger: Julio Poertena carries a big wrench which he uses to adjust the attitude of malfunctioning gear. The twist is that the "wrench trick" is actually better than the standard procedure for removing jammed powered armor. | |
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Ratchet & Clank: In Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Big Bad robot Mad Scientist Dr. Nefarious has a habit of having screaming outbursts that make his circuitry overload causing him to freeze in place and broadcast a random soap opera. The problem is easily solved by someone (usually Lawrence) whacking Nefarious in the head (an act that Lawrence calls "the best part of (his) day"), after which Nefarious proceeds as if nothing had happened. Also makes a brief appearance in the first game, when Ratchet repairs a drill by whacking it with a fist. |
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Dead End: Barney smacks the wifi router with his fist to try and get it working again. | |
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He doesn't learn from the MCP arresting him. In Kingdom Hearts III, after Randal hacks the controls to the factory in Monstropolis, Sora shows a lot of glee in smashing a control panel at Goofy's suggestion if it means escaping from the Unversed. Sully stops him, and they instead opt to make Boo laugh to activate it. | |
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In Time: All Things Come to an End the player repairs an ancient machine by adopting a MacGyvering approach with a wire garotte and power cell. However, it still refuses to function and there are no obvious buttons or switches. A simple thump does the trick. | |
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Pucca: In one episode, Abyo tries to do this with a kick, searching to repair a problem with the time clock of the Master Soo's temple, which because the dragon was sleeping (it was the main mechanism of the clock), it was causing a day loop, which only Garu could detect, but he couldn't repair the problem. Their two attempts caused that the time was going to forward and back respectively. Then, the Master Soo came and with a punch, he can solve the problem with the clock... or well, until that Pucca came later, but that's another story. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Jean's ex-boyfriend Slick can do Fonzie's jukebox trick. | |
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A scientist who's working on excavating a particular old abandoned experimental weapons station in Stellaris can find that the whole place was put together in a slap-dash manner, and the old computers keep fritzing out to the point of audible frustration. They'll have the option of either proceeding carefully or kicking it — choosing the latter will add the "Percussive Maintainer" trait to them, giving them bonuses to researching computing-type techs and archeology speed at the cost of lowering their maximum overall skill cap. | |
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In Bohemian Rhapsody in Red, one of Touhou's companion books, Yukari Yakumo is accused by local gossip rag editor Aya Shameimaru of animal abuse against her shikigami Ran when she's seen whacking her with her umbrella. Following a Running Gag in which Touhou shikigami are equated with computers, Yukari clarifies that she sees Ran first and foremost as a tool, essentially saying she's following this trope. | |
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Digimon Tamers: In the English dub, Calumon is dismayed to discover the schoolyard shed had been padlocked (and later supplemented with even more locks) due to Calumon's nightly break-ins to steal and play with a blacktop marker. Calumon's response is the apply some "gentle persuasion" to break the locks. | |
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Kiki's Delivery Service does this with a Flying Broomstick. Kiki's about to launch off, it has a tough time starting, and she smacks it to get it going. | |
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In Jumpin' Jack Flash, whenever Whoopi Goldberg's computer terminal accidentally tunes into Russian TV signals, she gives it a whack to restore the terminal back to its normal functions. | |
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GURPS: In GURPS 4e if cinematic rules are in effect and the GM allows, it is possible to do this at a big penalty if the kicker is sufficiently skilled. | |
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In Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, the player's lantern has been through "several cycles of impact revitalisation", and needs to be given at least one more. | |
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A futuristic stage in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer has a maintenance droid suggest you do just that in order to get various broken-down mechanics working again. | |
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Hudson Hawk. While Eddie is climbing on top of the Vatican he jostles a television aerial causing the Pope's TV set to have wavy lines. The Pope tries to get the set working by hitting it with his staff. | |
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Rifts: This is an ability of some of the mystically-endowed-mechanic-type classes, like Techno Wizards and Operators, under the punny name "Guerrilla Repairs". | |
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Crewmen in Guns of Icarus Online repair damage to their vessels by running around and hitting various pieces of machinery with a wrench. There's also a special hammer available in the loadout that won't actually repair broken things but will buff their stats if you start hitting the fully-repaired machinery with it. | |
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One issue of Paperinik New Adventures features an old and obsolete Evronian cruiser whose antimatter alternator often makes an annoying noise until a giant-size technician uses the "standard procedure": a powerful punch. This is ultimately subverted: when the cruiser enters battle the alternator, damaged by too many hits, breaks down, crippling the ship until the technician has disassembled the alternator, identified all broken parts, replaced them, and reassembled the device (that is, proper maintenance), a process that takes hours. | |
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Inverted in Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom, during the cutscene where Pliers (ship's mechanic) has found a disc of unknown purpose in a captured Dragon (to the characters, that is — the players know it as a Flash-pak, a bomb capable of burning out an entire capital ship if it hits ANYWHERE on the hull). He doesn't know what it is, so he drops it on the deck, while everyone around him dives for cover — when it doesn't explode, he then picks it up, states that that's apparently not how it works, and resigns himself to some actual work. | |
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Total Drama Legacy: In "A Dark and Storm-y Night", Wayne says in a confessional that "there has never been a problem in [his] life that [he] couldn't solve by punching something", and one example that he gives is punching his computer when it doesn't work. | |
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In an episode of Family Guy, Peter tried to pull this jukebox at the school. Unfortunately, he hit the glass too hard and broke it, cutting his hand rather badly (though this did have the side effect of everyone thinking he was cool). And Fonzie was shown fixing an old guy's erection this way. Ehh! | |
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Another example in Final Fantasy VIII. Zell does try to fix a machine the traditional way but eventually gives it a kick out of frustration. The machine works fine afterwards. Zell's example is somewhat of a subversion though, as while it will fix the machine and open the door to the dungeon, it also forces you to fight a series of tedious and difficult monster battles. While if you go about the slightly more tedious way of acquiring enough points to open the door normally, you can choose whether or not to fight the monsters. | |
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In the TUGS episode "Bigg Freeze", when Ten Cents and Sunshine bring in the pre-fueled emergency light barge to help guide the S.S. Vienna liner into Bigg City Port, they can't figure out how to turn it on. Warrior turns it on by bumping into it. | |
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Shadow the Hedgehog: Shadow manages to not only bypass Eggman's security systems but to bodily enter cyberspace by karate chopping a computer terminal. Charmy also does this later in the game to load up an old recording by Prof. Gerald that gets promptly broadcasted on any monitor on Earth. Interestingly, in both instances, Espio tried to conventionally hack into a database of some sort with little success. |
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In Turtles Forever, Donatello initially ridicules his interdimensional counterpart when he tries to apply this philosophy to their transdimensional portal stick. Guess what Donny eventually has to do to eventually save their shells. | |
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The Transformers (Marvel): In a comic, a two-bit crook finds Megatron, whose cyboneural circuits have been knocked loose in an earlier issue. The result is that Megatron has no free will, and will simply do whatever anyone else tells him. The crook embarks on a crime spree, but when he goes to confront his old boss, he drops Megatron — conveniently reconnecting his circuits, allowing him to Take Over the World once again. | |
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In Barbie: Princess Charm School, this is how Blair makes her old TV work. | |
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In a direct reference to the Fonz, Marshall from How I Met Your Mother is shown to have done this, as one of the many ways he's "beaten the machine". | |
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In one episode of MacGyver (1985), starting a car this way becomes a Running Gag. | |
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ElfQuest: The Rebels #3 page 19 and 20. | |
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Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River: A worker tries to unjam the fifth spillway gate at Parker Dam by hammering it. | |
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Artemis Fowl: The telescreen freezes, and Foaly goes to repair it. Julius hits it to make it go back online, but that not only fails (with the narration making it clear that this almost never works) but he burns his hand because the screen gets hot after a time. | |
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In Mad Love (1995), Casey gets her car started by repeatedly kicking it. | |
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Titan A.E.: A deleted scene that can be found on the special edition DVD features Korso trying to fix a beverage machine by kicking it. It doesn't work, so Cale steps in and fixes it. Within the movie proper, this is how the cockroach chef "fixes" the gravity device in the cafeteria. |
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Kingdom Hearts: In Kingdom Hearts II, Sora's ridiculous banging on the keyboard when he, Donald, and Goofy are searching for information on King Mickey and Riku on Ansem the Wise's Xehanort's computer is one of the causes*the other is Donald throwing himself on the keyboard to tackle Stitch that alerts the Master Control Program and gets the trio zapped inside. He doesn't learn from the MCP arresting him. In Kingdom Hearts III, after Randal hacks the controls to the factory in Monstropolis, Sora shows a lot of glee in smashing a control panel at Goofy's suggestion if it means escaping from the Unversed. Sully stops him, and they instead opt to make Boo laugh to activate it. |
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Used by Tamama in an episode of Sgt. Frog, where he fixes a machine with a rapid-fire punch attack. It does take a few tries to find the attack that works, though. | |
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In The Sopranos episode "Commendatori", Paulie Walnuts deals with a recalcitrant DVD player with what his Army Signal Corps training referred to as a "brogan adjustment". It works about as well as you'd expect a Paulie Walnuts plan to work. | |
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When the crew of Babylon 5 finds on old Earth ship in the Season 2 ep "The Long Dark", Ivanova smacks a control panel to get the ship's systems running. | |
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In Chicken Little, Runt hyperventilates and loses it after a vending machine won't accept his dollar to get a MacGuffin. He then proceeds to unleash absolute vandalism upon the machine with great gusto, which then gives up its soda pop. | |
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A Moody Christmas. In one episode when Dan's brother is fixing an aircon at a customer's house, a kid at the house tries to get a PlayStation control to work by hitting it. | |
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Deadpool: Tech support according to Wade Wilson. | |
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Innerspace underplays this one, but does so perfectly straight. During the startup checklist for the miniaturization pod, one of the status lights refuses to come on. Pilot Dennis Quad takes a moment to look annoyed before repeatedly whacking it with his finger until it finally comes on. | |
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In episode 16 of Happy Heroes, Big M. wants to go inside Doctor H.'s internet router but can't get it working, so he slams it against the table multiple times. Turns out he unplugged the machine by accident. | |
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