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* 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]] ==
* There's a short story about a friendly alien coming to earth and befriending some human children. He is seeking a legendary device that somehow knows how to keep hot things hot and cold things cold. He leaves happily with a thermos.▼
** Is the alien a Letonian, by any chance? ▼
** [[Fridge Logic|How can one travel through space without this knowledge?]]▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* The eternal fight against the contamination of our environment with [[wikipedia:Dihydrogen monoxide hoax|Dihydrogen monoxide]] makes use of a variation of this trope, counting on the intersection of ignorance and [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] to evoke a fear reaction to the very existence of ''water''.
▲* There's a short story about a friendly alien coming to earth and befriending some human children. He is seeking a legendary device that somehow knows how to keep hot things hot and cold things cold. He leaves happily with a thermos.
▲** Is the alien a Letonian, by any chance?
▲** [[Fridge Logic|How can one travel through space without this knowledge?]]
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