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{{quote|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}RepTEN4J3sU Ooops! Heh...had the silly thing in reverse!]|''[[Duck Dodgers in
A device or technique is used ... in reverse. Commonly, it is setting a car to reverse.
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In comedies, or a comedic moment anyway, a new driver will pull forward, only it's in reverse. Conversely, they may put the car in gear as if it's in reverse, look behind themselves, and then drive forward.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Panty
== [[Film]] - Animation ==
* The "forward when going in reverse" variation appears in the [[Pixar Short]] ''Mike's New Car''.
* In ''[[Tintin (
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* ''[[Independence Day]]'': [[Will Smith]]'s character at first, accidentally, when piloting the captured UFO.
* ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'': Jack Burton and the other protagonists are in his truck ready to escape from Lo Pan's warehouse. Burton throws the truck into gear, they all lean forward...and the truck zips backward, bursting out through a wall.
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'''Gracie Law''': ''Don't you know how to drive this thing?'' }}
* ''[[Commando (
* In ''[[Four Lions]]'', one of the Jihads fires a missile launcher the wrong way, missing the American aircraft and demolishing the terror training camp he was staying at, killing many people. The video gets on the news as a comedy clip, much to the man's embarrassment.
* In ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'', Josephine (Tony Curtis) is trying to impress Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) by showing her 'his' yacht (it actually belongs to someone else). They get in the motorboat used as the tender for the yacht, but he can only get it to work in reverse.
* ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' had this when Millie is attempting to drive Grayson's car for an escape.
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* Justified in ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]'', since the driver was a Bushman utterly new to any technology more advanced than a bow, and it was a [[The Alleged Car|shit car]] at that.
* In ''[[Nick and
* Justified in ''[[Critters]]'', in which the alien bounty-hunters have no clue how a car works and only succeed in making it go in reverse. The driver naturally looks over his shoulder when he starts it a second time, only to have it move forward.
* In ''Moving Violations'', the bad cop's squad car suffers a mechanical fault after a collision, forcing him to drive backward during the concluding car chase. As he's losing his temper, he proceeds to ''deliberately'' back up into someone's garden and through a brick wall.
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** Even explained and lampshaded by the vehicle's driver, James May, that it had a dog-leg first gear (as opposed to left and forward, it was left and back).
* In the ''[[Psych]]'' episode "You Can't Handle This Episode", Shawn picks up something and asks what it is. He's told that it's a rocket launcher, and he's pointing it ''at himself''.
* Similarly, in
* Mayweather in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' when trying to fly a Xindi-Insectoid shuttle.
* ''[[
* ''[[Silver Spoons]]'':
** Inverted in one episode: Grandpa tries to teach Ricky to drive, and his attempt to reverse to car moves it forward, crashing it through a wall, leading to this gag:
{{quote|'''Ricky:''' I thought I was in reverse!
'''Grandpa:''' Well let me put it this way. You ''weren't''.}}
:* And [[Brick Joke| the same joke]] is used in [[The Stinger]] when ''Grandpa'' tries to drive.
* ''[[Lucifer (series)|Lucifer]]'' helps himself to a car in the episode "City of Angels", and promptly does this. He then reasons, "Obviously R is for Reverse, not Really fast".
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]:''
** ''[[Duck Dodgers in
** Witch Hazel had the same problem with her broom in ''A Witch's Tangled Hare''.
** Marvin the Martian likewise "got the silly thing in reverse" when he tried to use a "Time-Space Gun" to project [[Bugs Bunny]] into the future in ''Mad as a Mars Hare''. He instead transformed Bugs into a hulking "Neanderthal Rabbit" who crushed the gun with his bare paws and then squeezed Marvin completely into his helmet.
* In the ''[[
* In a ''[[Men in Black (
* ''[[
* In the Pixar short ''Lifted'', the alien novice who just failed his abduction test gets pity from his tester, who lets him fly the ship back. He crashes it downward first.
* ''[[The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones]]'' was a [[Crossover]] that, plot-wise, was made possible when Elroy tried to use a [[Time Machine]] to visit the future; unless you buy the fan theory that Bedrock exists in [[After the End| a post-apocalyptic future]], he clearly had the setting backwards.
* In ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'', this is how Karen first became the hero Bumblebee. A short, shy, nerdy girl, she hoped to invent a device to make herself grow. Instead, she wound up with one that made her shrink - though of course, she coped, converting it to [[Powered Armor]] and using it to become a hero.
** The season 2 episode “Small Victories” shows she has not abandoned her original plan, but while the new version of her growth ray works for a few seconds, it then causes her to shrink even more than usual, reducing her to microscopic size and putting her in danger of shrinking away to nothing.
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