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* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', the Ganmen's controls don't have a clear connection to the operation. When asked how to operate one, Simon says you just move the levers back and forth and it does what you want.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' - Any time Kaiba uses his hax skills. Summed up quite nicely in [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|the abridged series]]:
{{quote|'''Computer''': [[Rapid-Fire Typing|It looks like you're just pressing the same buttons over and over again]].
'''Kaiba''': That's because I learned how to hack by watching old episodes of ''[[Star Trek]]''. }}
* In ''[[Heroman]]'', the remote control that Joey uses to control Heroman only has one button.
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* In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Parallel Universe", Holly invents the "Holly-Hop Drive", a device intended to move the ship instantly to any point in space (although it actually instead moves the ship into an [[Alternate Universe]]). Much to the crew's scorn, the drive is just a red box with two buttons: "Start" and "Stop". In the words of Holly: "If you want to start it, press Start, and you can work out the rest of the controls for yourself."
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** The sonic screwdriver seems able to perform any and all tasks required, just by pointing and buzzing. It has cut, welded, unlocked locks both electronic and mechanical, detonated marsh gas, disabled androids, changed channels on a military communications screen, manipulated multiple computer systems and, of course, unfastened screws. No explanation for its versatility-sans-external-controls has ever been advanced onscreen, but when Amy Pond had to use the screwdriver in "Let's Kill Hitler", Rory commented that it (at least that incarnation of it anyway) had a psychic interface.
*** On occasion, the Doctor gives the screwdriver to a companion to use. His instructions (except for the barbed wire case above) are never more complicated than "point and click", though.
** Oddly, in the TARDIS we have the inverse: the same function is sometimes activated by different controls. The Doctor and Adric use different controls to open the TARDIS doors in ''Logopolis'', the 9th Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS by twisting a dial whereas the 10th Doctor does it by throwing a particular lever, and so on. One companion had a control that only worked when she took two paces to the right and tried again.
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