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== Film ==
* Used as a joke in ''[[Zenon|Zenon: Girl Of The Twenty First Century]]''. Zenon is from a space station, but when she arrives on Earth, she explodes a test tube because she was thinking in Celsius when all the instructions were in Fahrenheit. [[Critical Research Failure|In a
* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', naturally. ("[[wikipedia:Klick|Klick]]" is military slang for kilometer, in case you were wondering.)
** Also normal person slang in Canada.
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* Like its [[Firefly|originating series]], ''[[Serenity]]'' quietly averts this trope with a single line:
{{quote|'''Wash:''' Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl, 'cause I don't think that's ever gettin' old.}}
== Literature ==
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