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* Using various items as parachutes was part of an experiment on ''[[Brainiac: Science Abuse]]''.
* The ''[[MythBusters]]'' tested an inflatable raft as a parachute. It technically worked, but was not reliable.
** They also tried [https://web.archive.org/web/20090420112533/http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/mb2/content/view/64/27/ the plywood parachute]. It didn't work... at all.
* An odd example: In one episode of the 2010 ''[[Human Target]]'' TV adaptation, Christopher Chance and his client use one to stop from great speed, rather than fall safely.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': While ''[[The Skydivers]]'' doesn't use this trope at any point, Tom Servo quips that one character's enormous, sculpted hairdo could be used in this way.
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