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* ''Sev Trek: Puss in Boots'' (an Australian CGI spoof of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''). Lt. Gaudy Regurge gives a highly-technical explanation of how they'll defeat the alien vessel. Captain Pinchhard gestures Commander Piker over and says quietly, "I didn't understand a word of that." Piker responds, "Sounds good to me!"

* ''[[Red Dawn]]''. Colonel Tanner lays out a plan to attack a Cuban base using military terminology like "flanking manoeuvre" and "grazing fire on this defilade". Unfortunately none of the guerrillas, a group of civilian [[Child Soldiers]], can understand what he's going on about, so he just mutters "[[I Need a Freaking Drink]]" and starts over.

**For the record a "defilade" is a position on the reverse slope of a hill (I.E. there is a hill or bend in terrain between your guys and theirs). "Grazing fire" is fire that is below 2 meters (in other words [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|a bit above the grass]] and straight forward). As opposed to plunging fire which is fired in an arc and "plunges" (figure out the difference by playing with a lawn hose. A flanking manoevre is "going toward his side". In other words all it means (if used properly in the movie of course) is, "keep their heads down while some of us can get round" which they always do in Westerns for good reason.

**For the record a "defilade" is a position on the reverse slope of a hill (I.E. there is a hill or bend in terrain between your guys and theirs). "Grazing fire" is fire that is below 2 meters (in other words [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|a bit above the grass]] and straight forward). As opposed to plunging fire which is fired in an arc and "plunges" downward on the target (figure out the difference by playing with a lawn hose). A flanking manoevre is "going toward his side". In other words all it means (if used properly in the movie of course) is, "keep their heads down while some of us can get round" which they always do in Westerns for good reason.

* ''Airport'': Capt. Vernon Demerest, played by Dean Martin, stops a know-it-all kid from broadcasting the fact that the plane is turning around: "You have a young navigator here! Well, I'll tell you son... Due to a Cetcil wind, Dystor's vectored us into a 360-tarson of slow air traffic. Now we'll maintain this Borden hold until we get the Forta Magnus clearance from Melnics."

* ''[[I, Robot (film)|I Robot]]'' had Susan Calvin talk about how robotic brains work using a lot of this.