The Key Is Behind the Lock: Difference between revisions

 

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In the [[Donald Duck]] story "[http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+206-02 Sagmore Springs Hotel]", Donald, as a Hotel Manager, accidentally locks the combination to the hotel safe inside the safe. In his attempts to open it, he ends up devastating the entire hotel and destroying his uncle's important cheque.

 

== [[Film]] -- Animated ==

== [[Film]] -- Live Action ==

* In ''[[Back to The Future]]'', Marty is locked in a car trunk, along with the keys to the trunk.

{{quote|'''Lazlo''': You locked my son in the trunk?

'''Oz''': No! No, sir. He locked himself in the trunk.

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Blå Tornet]]'', the Guardian has been sleeping on the High Altar for over a thousand years. There are a lot of prophecies about how a chosen one will one day wake him. In the meantime, one of the worst blasphemy someone can do is to touch The Guardians holy sleeping body. It turns out that they artifact needed to wake the Guardian is in fact inside the altar: Only a blasphemer can heal the horrible wrong that happened so long ago, and lead the civilization back on the quest the creators had originally intended.

* A fairly standard situation in the [[Locked Room Mystery]] is for the police to have to break into the Locked Room, because the key is inside with the deceased.

* Subverted in a short story by [[Isaac Asimov]], where people are searching for an uranium asteroid an illegal miner found, and due to the miners dying in an accident, all they have is a statement by a silicon based alien that the coordinates are "on the asteroid" (the alien died right after saying that). {{spoiler|In the end it turns out that the alien wasn't good in astronomy, and the coordinates were actually ''on the ship'' - [[Hidden in Plain Sight|hidden among the registration codes of the equipment]]}}.

 

* Happens in ''[[Corner Gas]]''. Hank had a combination lock that stored the lock's combination.

** Then there was the time he locked his keys in his truck, and didn't notice that his passenger side window was down.

'''Max:''' No I don't, Chief. But I put it in a place where no one will get it.

'''Chief:''' Where, Max?

* In an episode of ''[[Caroline in The City]]'', Del and Charlie get trapped in Del's car due to a snow plow and Charlie accidentally locking the keys in the trunk instead of an ice scraper.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* One strip of ''[[The Far Side]]'' had a pair of aliens trapped on Earth. As a crowd of curious humans approaches them, one of them says to the other "Well, here they come. ''You'' locked the keys inside, ''you'' do the talking."

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Zoë's [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19970923 first line] in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is "Help! I need a phone! I locked my keys in the car with the engine running!" This is also referenced [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20010908 later] when she temporarily moves to a place with normal people. [[And Zoidberg|(Oh, and Clem.)]]

'''Minionbot''': This is because I systematically destroyed all copies of my documentation upon activation.

'''Vexxarr''': What? Why would you do that?

'''Minionbot''': For a very good reason...

'''Vexxarr''': Which is..?

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** And there are also the cars with remote locks and an auto-lock feature.

*** Such cars will generally not engage the lock if the keys are in the ignition, however.

 

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