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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.
* ''[[MythBusters]]'': inverted and thankfully averted, as Jamie reminds Adam that since his excavator is facing backwards on the dump truck, he doesn't have to set it to reverse.
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* 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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