Elevator Failure: Difference between revisions

== Live Action TV ==

* In the ''[[Criminal Minds]] episode "Scared To Death", Reid, Morgan and Hotch are investigating an apartment. While Reid and Morgan ride an elevator, Hotch (wisely) takes the stairs. It gets stuck, and then proceeds to drop suddenly. They hit the emergency button, Morgan tries to pry the door open, Reid panics, and they both scream (well, Reid squeaks) for Hotch before it finally opens and they stumble out. Which can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMb_BC5ndTU here].

'''Reid''': I'll get back to you on that. }}

* In an episode of ''[[LA Law]]'', Rosalind Shays turns to step into the elevator, but it was an error. The bell went off and the door opened, but the car wasn't there and she stepped into an empty elevator shaft.

* ''[[Jam]]'' had a sketch where an office elevator breaks down, but because the security guard has a speech impediment, he isn't able to warn people in time and they all plunge screaming to their deaths.

* One episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show has Rob and Laura (pregnant in a flashback) mugged while in an elevator. The mugger simply pressed the stop button on the elevator so he could hold them up, but pressing the resume button does nothing. The entire episode is devoted to Rob, Laura, and the mugger trying to find a way out and hoping Laura doesn't go into labor while in the stopped elevator. At one point the mugger reads the inspection record of the elevator and finds that just this year they switched inspectors. Dick even climbs out the top of the elevator but only reads a sarcastic comment left by the building workers.

* In the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "CSI Unplugged", Hodges and Henry get stuck in the elevator when the lab and all of Las Vegas loses power.

* In the ''[[Bones]]'' episode "The Blackout in the Blizzard", Bones and Booth are stuck in an old elevator in Booth's apartment building.

* Happens a few times in the ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' games.

* [[Gears of War|Marcus Fenix]] lampshades this tendency in his [[Deadpan Snarker|typical style]] at around the end of ''Gears Of War 2''.

* In ''[[Dead Rising 2]]'', during the beginning of the zombie outbreak, {{spoiler|Somebody disguised as Chuck Green places an explosive device on one of the zombie gates that goes off releasing yet another zombie outbreak}} and when Chuck is on the elevator it suddenly stops in the overtures to the outbreak. Upon forcing the doors open, he almost gets stuck in front of a rampaging zombie coming right at him, but as luck would have it somebody runs right into it and becomes the new target of the zombie, saving Chuck.

* This happens in ''[[Dead Island]]'' at the start when you're escaping from the hotel.