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== [[Film]] ==
* Variation: in ''Go West'', the [[Marx Brothers]] are on a runaway train. Chico yells to Harpo, "Brake! The brake!" [[Literal-Minded|So Harpo breaks the brake]].
* In the [[W. C. Fields]] film ''[[The Bank Dick]]'' (1940), when asked by the thug in the back seat to give him the wheel, Egbert Souse (Fields) matter-of-factly pulled it off the steering column and gave it to him. This sequence paid homage to the Mack Sennett/Keystone Cops and Hal Roach/Our Gang comedies of the 1920s and 1930s. Model T Fords were generally used for these comic chases.
* ''[[Taxi (film)|Taxi]]'' (US Remake): Belle has one, but it's so she can change her taxi steering wheel for a professional steering wheel. This also happened in the original.
* In ''[[Moonraker]]'', Jaws and some mooks are chasing [[James Bond]] in a speedboat when Jaws takes the wheel a little too literally.
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* In the ''[[Cat in The Hat]]'' live action movie, the cat and two kids are in the middle of a car chase when not only does the cat literally give one kid the wheel, but also fabricates a new one, so they're driving one car with two separate wheels.
* In the animated ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'', Horace and Jasper panic and tear the wheel off their truck when they're about to crash into Cruella.
* Happens in ''Jonah: a [[Veggie Tales]] Movie'': Mr. Asparagus gets his guitar neck caught in the van's steering wheel and wrenches it off trying to get unstuck. Bob is able to plug it back in just in time to swerve to avoid two
* In ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'', Fozzie accidentally pulls the steering wheel off the car when trying to chase down Gonzo, who is [[Balloonacy|floating on a bunch of balloons]].
== [[Jokes]] ==
* In a humorous anecdote that turned up in at least one published collection early in the 20th century, a driver with a penchant for practical jokes had one of these in his car, along with a bar installed in the steering column that would allow him to steer with his knees. Any time he had a passenger in his car for the first time, he would fake getting ill and tell the passenger [[Take the Wheel|"Here, you take the wheel!"]] He'd then yank the steering wheel off and hand it to the panicking passenger.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''The Yawning Heights'' by Alexander Zinoviev had one cadet telling the story about another in his academy. The guy was a decent pilot, but afraid to land, and his instructor planned a sneaky
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Most modern racing cars have quick-release removable steering wheels to save space and to aid safety - it's much easier to quickly jump out of, or extracate an injured driver from a cramped racing car without a steering wheel in the way. The racers attach the steering wheel after they get in the car and remove it before they get out.
* These are available for use in older
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