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A Ferris Wheel is the most useful ride for TV and movies because it is both big and tall (a hero saving people from a spinning teacup ride gone amok isn't impressive) and slow (If a rollercoaster doing a hundred miles an hour leaves the tracks it boggles the mind that any hero but a [[Super Speed]]ster could find a convenient phone booth, change, and return in time to do anything but help gather up the dead). Ferris Wheels are also large open structures with a lot of rods and beams that let athletic types show their stuff. [[Walking Disaster Area|Having a hero in the area]] thus generally causes any Ferris Wheel to suffer a sudden massive breakdown.
It should be noted that if a Ferris wheel ''did'' break off and roll away, it wouldn't get very far. The wheel itself isn't very structurally sound, and would collapse under its own weight.
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* In 100%Strawberry the main character and his on again off again girlfriend are stuck in the Ferris wheel when it stops. Then their door opens up and they almost fall out. Go go Romance Comedy!
* [[Case Closed]] - In [[That One Case]] for Satou, her partner died rather than choose to disarm a bomb in a Ferris wheel so he can send her the directions to another bomb that the bomber had hidden, and the location would not be given in full unless the timer was allowed to run out.
* The main characters in ''[[Girls und Panzer|Girls und Panzer Der Film]]'' disrupt their opponents' tank formation by shooting a Ferris wheel off its axis. They don't plan it quite as well as they might've, and are nearly run over by the wheel themselves.
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* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart's Inner Child", Otto's inattentiveness and Willie's laziness causes the Ferris wheel to break loose and run amok through Springfield's "Do What You Feel" festival.
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' has Zim rigging a wheel with rockets in an attempt to launch the giant hamster Peepi into space. Peepi trashes the wheel in anger once it realizes what's happening.
* A Ferris Wheel crashes out its supports in [[Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]], except it then is used as a ''[[Rule of Cool|spaceship]]''
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* Happens in the last episode of ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' as part of the storm of [[Take Our Word for It]]. At one point the girl [[Butt Monkey|Dante]] likes starts [[Anything That Moves|making out with it]].
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