Someday This Will Come in Handy: Difference between revisions

* Inverted in ''[[Paycheck]]'', where Ben Affleck's character is given the (temporary) foreknowledge of his own future, and based on this he gives himself an [[It May Help You on Your Quest|envelope full of odds and ends]] that he ''will'' need in the near future. However, he gets his memory wiped and must reverse engineer his own future to survive.

* Charles Morse from ''[[The Edge]]'' is a collector of useless trivia... some of which comes in very useful when he is stranded in the Arctic.

* In ''[[Dude, Where's My Car?]]'' one of the main characters regularly watches ''Animal Planet''. This eventually comes in handy as he learned that sometimes animals use tools like sticks {{spoiler|or straws}} and also something useful about {{spoiler|ostriches.}}

* In ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'', a load of very specific information about old cars comes in handy at the end of the trial. So does Vinny's newly acquired knowledge of how to cook grits.