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* Implied in the movie ''[[Sahara]]''. Dirk and Al [[MacGyvering]] a boat to explode ([[Long Story]]), with a quick explanation that despite them calling it "The Panama Maneuver," they were actually in Nicaragua. After the boat explodes, an amazed side character asks the duo how they got it to work right the first time. Dirk sheepishly admits that it ''didn't'' work the first time...
* The movie ''[[Apollo 13]]'', while the ill-fated crew was stuck in space, they needed to temporarily move from the command module to the lunar module--and the carbon dioxide filters in the two modules were incompatible. Mission Control took a handful of its best people, stuck them in a room, and gave them all the spare parts the crew had available:
{{quote| '''Technician''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}C2YZnTL596Q We gotta find a way to make this [filter 1] fit into the hole for this [filter 2] using nothing but that.]}}
** And a [[An Aesop|lesson was learned]] about [[Boring but Practical|making everything compatible with each other]].
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