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{{quote|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}RepTEN4J3sU Ooops! Heh...had the silly thing in reverse!]|''[[Duck Dodgers in the 24½th
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.
Often a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Driving Stick]]. Compare [[Backwards-Firing Gun]]. See [[Wiper Start]] for more comedic driver incompetence. Frequently seen as part of the misadventures of [[Women Drivers]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': one of Yukari's trips starts out with the car [[Drives Like Crazy|careening all over the yard before returning to its initial position]], at which point she notices she was in reverse.
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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.
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* ''[[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 the 24½th
** 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 ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' episode "Superdoo!", two inept alien criminals are scheming to recover their stolen power crystal. One of their plots involves destroying the summer camp with an alien bazooka; unfortunately, the one holding the bazooka is holding it backwards, and it ends up destroying the dam behind them instead.
* In a ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: [[The Animated Series]] episode'', J finds an alien [[Fire-Breathing Weapon|flamethrower]] and threatens the monster of the week with it. Then it turns out the weapon was really pointed at his own head, the thing he thought to be the scope really being where the flames came from. Leads you to wonder...why would a flamethrower have a ''scope''?
* ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'': in the flashback episode, Ilana and Hobbes, her bodyguard, are able to tank-jack, but since the bodyguard was too wounded, Ilana had to drive the tank. The first thing she does at the controls is drive the tank in reverse.
* 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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