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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NojiCsZQSr8 This] Staples Easy Button commercial.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* [[Time Crash|Something very close to this]] happens in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. If you make a wish with indefinite duration (as opposed to instant wishes like "heal someone's crippled hand" or "save someone from the brink of death"), your wish is somehow tied to the passage of time. {{spoiler|Homura's}} wish to save someone already dead turned her life into a [[Groundhog Day Loop]], although she could control when she went back.
** In the finale, {{spoiler|Madoka}} pulls an even more audacious one. {{spoiler|Backed by the enormous amounts of karma Homura's time-loops have built up, she wishes to personally destroy every Witch, past, present and future - including hers. Cue Ultimate Madoka one-shotting her own evil future self and leaving the normal flow of time.}}
* In the [[Firesign Theatre]]'s album ''Eat Or Be Eaten'', a gamer tries to go to band 100 of a 99 band disk, and is sucked into the game.▼
{{quote|'''Player''': What the FUUUUUUUUU-}}▼
* At the end of [[George Carlin]]'s special ''Life Is Worth Losing'', he talks about a broken water main in [[Los Angeles]] leading to more and more bizarre developments, eventually resulting in a wormhole opening above Earth, and all the dead people flooding out.▼
== Comic Books ==
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* In "The Gate of the Flying Knives", a short story that is part of the ''[[Thieves' World]]'' anthology series, the bard Cappen Varra (who has absolutely no magical abilities whatsoever) permanently destroys a dimensional portal with applied geometry. Specifically, as the portal takes the form of a large scroll that has one side in one dimension and another side in the other dimension, by giving the scroll a half-twist and then sticking the ends together he turns it into a Mobius strip -- which of course only has one side, and thus, can no longer function as a portal. Confronted with this metaphysical paradox, the scroll/portal disintegrates.
== Live
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'': Using an [[Neglectful Precursors|Ancient Project]] to create a super-energy source, [[Insufferable Genius|Doctor Rodney Mckay]] accidentally makes particles that defy the laws of physics. The result? He [[Never Live It Down|repeatedly gets called out]] for [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|destroying an entire solar system]]!
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', this would be the result of detonating {{spoiler|Davros'}} "reality bomb".
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{{quote|'''Crichton''': (commenting on his brand spanking new [[Our Wormholes Are Different|Wormhole]] [[Superweapon Surprise|Weapon]]) ''Okay boys and girls, here are the rules. Find a penny, pick it up. Double it, you've got two pennies. Double it again: four. Double it 27 more times, and you've got a million dollars and the IRS all over your ass. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows, but it all adds up... quick. ...It eats the whole universe, a monumental black hole, a giant whirling headstone marking the spot where we all used to live and play and slaughter the innocent.''}}
* ''[[Square One TV]]'' had the [[Show Within a Show]] "Oops!", where a mathematician makes a mistake that causes a certain disaster to happen, eg incorrectly multiplying 603 by 7 causes Galloping Gertie to collapse.
== Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy ==
▲* In the [[Firesign Theatre]]'s album ''Eat Or Be Eaten'', a gamer tries to go to band 100 of a 99 band disk, and is sucked into the game.
▲{{quote|'''Player''': What the FUUUUUUUUU-}}
▲* At the end of [[George Carlin]]'s special ''Life Is Worth Losing'', he talks about a broken water main in [[Los Angeles]] leading to more and more bizarre developments, eventually resulting in a wormhole opening above Earth, and all the dead people flooding out.
== Tabletop Games ==
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