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** Recurring teenage villain Cree explained that the only reason she escaped from a prison spaceship was because one of the pilots accidentally pressed the "Blow Up The Engines" button during a fight over trading cards.
{{quote|'''Cree:''' Who else but a bunch of stupid kids would put a "Blow Up The Engines" button on a spaceship?}}
::* Well... Seeing as it's a prison transport ship, ''maybe'' it might have been useful if a prisoner (like Cree) broke free (like she did) with the intent of stealing the ship (which was, indeed, her goal). Cree may have answered her own question there.
:* In an earlier episode, the ice cream [[Monster of the Week]] is defeated when Numbah Three turns on the heater in the ice cream factory. Quote the delightful children from down the lane:
{{quote|'''DCFDL''': Who puts a HEATER in an ICE CREAM FACTORY?!}}
::* The Mook they direct the question to doesn't seem to know; all he does is shrug.
:* In "Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N.", putting the treehouse on lockdown makes it nearly impossible for anyone to enter or leave until sunrise. There is a manual override command, but only Numbuh 5 knows the access code for it - and she isn't allowed to use it. Downplayed here, because while the crisis sorely tempts Numbuh 5 to use it, she ultimately does not.
* He-Man and She-Ra's [[Christmas Episode|Christmas Special]] shows Orko launching a rocket that's manipulated by one easily breakable lever.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' had Professor Farsnworth's glow-in-the-dark nose making machine. About halfway through the episode, he prepares to insert a note from Leela's parents into it to analyze it and hopefully translate it. This exchange took place:
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