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* Subverted in, of all things, a [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] movie (''[[Never Say Never Again]]''). Bond drags a goon into a cupboard and put a device that that looks like a cigarette case in his hand. He tell him it's a gyroscopically triggered bomb that will go off if he tilts it at all. Later, he returns to the cupboard, where the goon has made agonising attempts to keep it level. Bond takes it off him, opens it and takes out a cigarette. It was just a cigarette case.
** Missed the explosion by THIS much!
** Also, there's the classic moment in ''[[
** In ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'', Bond picks up a device that looks like an old-fashioned nasal inhaler and asks the Q (for that movie only) how it works. Q puts it up his nose and sniffs in, and explains how good it is for his asthma.
** And in ''[[
*** Boris, with his [[Nervous Habit]] didn't, and ended up with the [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosive pen]].
* Shaquille O'Neal has a literal shoephone; there's a cellphone embedded in the bottom of the left half of one of his famous Size 22 pairs of shoes. And that's a ''nineties'' cellphone, children.
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** We can't forget the ''Car'' Phone, which had Max accidentally dialing the operator every time he turned the steering wheel. <!-- Is that the exploding paint episode?%% -->
* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' did it during the Reconstruction era.
* ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)||Mission Impossible]]'' used it to a lesser degree.
* ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' was one of earliest instances of this trope on television, with many (though not all) of their gadgets disguised as mundane items.
* Such tools were a major part of Joel Hodgson's prop comedy stand-up routine, and therefore made their way into many of the Invention Exchange segments on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' The most outlandish was a submachine gun hidden inside a casserole dish, complete with casserole.
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* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' has a number of recurring devices, notably her [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]/hair dryer. There are briefing scenes in many episodes, but not all. In her case, it's a stylistic thing; she isn't really trying to [[Secret Identity|hide anything]].
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' has a briefing scene in every episode, and all the gadgets look like they came out of the Barbie doll aisle at the toy store or the contents of a Teenage Girl's purse.
** They also tend to have cutesy names like [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Stuntan Lotion]].
** Items for Male Agents seem to exist as well. Instead of a compact, Jerry (the Girls' boss) has a communicator disguised as a wallet. A humorous example was a fake beard designed to hold items, that the girls had to test once. (It didn't pass. Heavy objects made them fall over and it looked goofy on them)
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