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* In ''[[Falling Down]]'', William Foster decides to give a road crew doing make work and snarling traffic "something real to fix" but can't figure out how to operate his rocket launcher. A kid observing the traffic jam helpfully informs him.
* ''[[L.A. Story]]''. Harris K. Telemacher remembers when this once happened to him.
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* Ben in ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]'' storms away from the food court while Sera calls after him to stay. A passerby tells him he ought to stay, and does so in such a way that it seems he has some sort of plot significance. He doesn't.
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'':
** After Lt. Barclay gained (and later lost) huge amounts of knowledge, as he's talking with Counselor Troi they pass by a chess game. He moves one piece and says "checkmate in nine moves."
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Barclay: I don't! }}
** In the [[Grand Finale]], Picard is in the past, on the first voyage of the ''Enterprise-D''. He demands something of the engineering crew, and O'Brien says that they'll have to "burn the midnight oil." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiIlJaSDPaA Data happens to be passing by and mentions that it would not be advisable to do so.]
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== Jokes ==
* Old joke, possibly originating with Redd Foxx:
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The mental patient is still watching him through the fence. The motorist desperately looks into the storm drain, but the lug nuts are gone.
The patient is still watching.
The motorist paces back and forth, trying to think of what to do - and the patient says, "Take one lug nut off each of the others tires,and you'll have three lug nuts on each."
"That's brilliant!!!" says the motorist. "What's someone like you doing in an asylum?"
"I'm here because I'm crazy," says the patient, "not because I'm stupid." }}
* An old Jewish joke concerns a fishmonger who puts up a sign that reads, "Fresh Fish Sold Here Daily." A passerby tells him that four of the words are unnecessary, so the fishmonger paints over all the words except "Fish". He starts to put up the sign again, when another passerby says, "You don't need a sign. Your fish can be smelled from a mile away!"
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