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** Shinohara actually gets two of these in the film. The second comes when they learn that the evil genius who created the program had a plan to make all the robots in Tokyo to go crazy at once & are trying to figure out what could cause enough ultrasonic waves to make it happen. When a whistling tea kettle causes a nearby figurine in a glass case to shake they realize it's sympathetic vibrations in skyscrapers caused by the wind. Fortunately, it'd take a mind-bogglingly huge building & incredibly powerful winds for a city-wide disaster to occur. Unfortunately a giant factory complex has just finished construction in Tokyo Bay & a record-breaking typhoon is due to hit in three days...

* Naru has these regularly in ''[[Ghost Hunt (Manga)|Ghost Hunt]]'', usually due to an offhand comment from Mai.

* Happens twice in [[Fullmetal Alchemist]], within the same scene. When trying to decipher a code {{spoiler|from Scar's brother's notes, the group takes a break to reassemble Al who is in 'pieces', like a puzzle. May rips the bindings of the notes and with Scar and Marcoh's help reassemble it to see the nationwide transmutation circle (which Ed and Al figured out beforehand). When trying to think there was a silver lining in this, Yoki sneezes and causes the papers to shift. They're annoyed that the papers have been 'flipped over', and Al comes to his realization that the papers needed to be turned over to see the other half of the hidden message: a ''second'' transmutation circle [[Chekhov's Gun|which can be used to reverse the effects of the first.]]}}

== Fan Works ==

* Later seasons of ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'' have relied heavily on episodes in which evidence gathered for one case provides the [[Eureka Moment]] for one or more of the other cases in the episode.

* In a ''[[CSI: NY]]'' episode, Hawkes watches a Jennifer Lopez video during his lunch break. While admiring her, um, ''ass''ets, he remembers they are insured, helping him figure out the case - it's an insurance scam.

** ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'' makes fun of the word itself: the Doctor claims that it translates from Greek as "This bath is too hot."

* [[Unfazed Everyman|Sheriff Carter]] solves problems with literal ''[[Eureka]]'' Moments, followed by saving the town with an [[It's Up to You]] sequence. (Especially ironic since he's the supposedly only normal person in a town full of geniuses.) Sometimes, however, the [[Eureka Moment]] moments come from the geniuses after the sheriff suggests a [[Muggle]] solution.

** Josh and Donna had a few of these over the series. Another one concerned judicial nominees after the death of a Supreme Court Justice, and the declining health of the Chief Justice. Although all the characters were unhappy that they couldn't get the nominees they wanted confirmed, it wasn't until Donna told Josh the story of how her parents got their cats (they went to an animal shelter, and they couldn't decide between two, so they got both) that he has the idea of letting the Republicans name whoever they want for the open seat, if they will accept the Democratic nominee for Chief Justice.

* Spoofed in ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (TV)|Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'' ("The Apes of Wrath") when people start devolving into monkeys due to contaminated water. The hero suddenly puts all the pieces together (the fact that his friends turned into monkeys after drinking a cup of water, the only two people who haven't turned into monkeys aren't drinking the water, and that the water's a sickly green color) and concludes... that he's thirsty.

* On ''[[Good Eats]]'', Alton was agonizing on what to do for an avocado-themed episode (while his assistants are suggesting varieties of guacamole) when one rolls into a sink full of water. He shouts "Eureka!" when he sees that the avocado floats.

* ''[[Ultraman Mebius]]'' has such a moment in episode 34, when watching Ryuu light a campfire by twirling a stick on a piece of wood allows him to develop the [[Everything's Better With Spinning|drill kick]] technique he uses to defeat the [[Kaiju]] [[Monster of the Week|Of The Week]]

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