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** Coop's Oil Gauge reads from "Empty", "Needs a Little", "Almost There", "Good Enough", "No really, I'm fine", and "PLEASE STOP!"
** Don't forget the slide-knob heater. "Warm" "Hot" "DANG!"
** More in ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]'' - On [https://web.archive.org/web/20130916073653/http://ppg.snafu-comics.com/index.php?comic_id=111 this page] of the webcomic, Megas' "Super Desperation Moves" consist of "Raging Fury Final Attack", "Megablast Ultimate Weapon", "Armageddon", and "WTF!!? o_O".
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' - [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] with a [[Weather Control Machine]]: Dr. Drakken keeps hitting the same button because, as he says, "These controls are supposed to work intuitively!"
* In ''[[Re Boot]]'', the character Bob uses a keytool called Glitch which has all sorts of functions and transforms into different machines in response to voice commands such as "Glitch! Zipline!" or "Glitch! Scan!" However when Bob panics, he usually just cries "Glitch...ANYTHING!" And Glitch always seems to come up with something that works. Glitch is an intelligent being in its own right, though, so it's [[Justified Trope|justified]].
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* Also the [[Nintendo DS]]. Or any other device with a tactile-sensitive screen. That was the driving principle behind inventing them, after all.
* The mythical "Do What I Want, Not What I Tell You" button compu-forensic specialists have been seeking since the damn things were invented.
* The actual system software called "DWIM" (Do What I Mean), developed by Warren Teitelman (back in the late 1970's ? at Xerox PARC ?) Described by Eric Raymond as "Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided." See [https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000400/http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html
* The right mouse button for computers is something like this. Granted, it takes two presses to do what one wants it to do because the first click creates a context sensitive ''menu''.
* Ipod Touches verge on this, especially the smaller ones which are only a little bit bigger than large buttons. The regular sized ones have exactly one button below the touchscreen which may be redundant (although convenient). The vast majority of the Ipod's features are accessible using only one finger.
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