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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'' and ''III'', the
** Only when it's
** Which is a bit of [[Fridge Logic]], because apparently, in the future, people have 'hover conversions' of their older cars to make the car fly through the air
* In ''[[The Cat from Outer Space]]'', the title character is looking for a few kilograms of a common (from his point of view) but unknown (to humans) substance to fix his spacecraft. Cue [[The Reveal]]:
{{quote|'''Frank:''' Wait, that's ''gold''.}}
* In ''[[Monsters, Inc.]].'', the monster civilization gets all its energy from... the screams of children. {{spoiler|And the laughs, which are far more powerful.}}
* In ''[[My Favorite Martian (film)|My Favorite Martian]]'', the eponymous Martian's spaceship has broken down, and is now missing a critical engine part. Much agonizing ensues as the Martian despairs of creating a new one... until he bothers explaining what it does. It's an alternator. He's then able to repair his ship simply by ripping an alternator out of a car and plugging it in.
* In the Carl Reiner movie ''Spirit of '76'', a time machine sets off for 1776, but runs out of the fuel tetrahydrozeline, and ends up in bicentennial year 1976 instead; fortunately, they learn that tetrahydrozeline is the active ingredient in Visine eyedrops.
== [[Literature]] ==
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