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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Top Secret (film)|Top Secret]]'' Omar Sharif's character is in a car put into a car crusher. He survives, the car parts crushed into a cube around him. When Hillery tries to get the ballet tickets out of his glove compartment she activates the wipers, causing them to hit him in the nose and squirt washer fluid in his face.
* [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[The
* In [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[Jumanji]]'', [[Robin Williams]]' character accidentally opens the sun roof of a car when trying to start it. Played for suspense rather comedy, as this almost lets giant poisonous mosquitoes into the vehicle.
* ''[[My Fellow Americans]]'' does this to emphasize that neither of the two former presidents has driven ''themselves'' anywhere in years.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Bree starts the wipers in the ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' episode "Learning To Drive".
* There is a [[Metroid]]/[[Star Fox (series)|Star
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The titular character of ''[[WALL-E]]'' does a Wiper Start as one of many things he tries in an attempt to shut off the self-destruct sequence of a spaceship lifepod.
* In an episode of ''[[Wacky Races]]'', Sergeant Blast ends up in the Compact Pussycat (Penelope Pitstop's car). Trying to stop it, he activates the controls that apply face powder and lipstick. Granted these are not standard controls in a car, but it does raise the question of why he thought the brakes would be activated by a button on the dashboard.
* In ''[[Madagascar]] 2'' when the penguins' first attempt in hotwiring a safari Jeep.
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "The Secret of Success", Candace tries to figure out how to steer Phineas and Ferb's all-terrain vehicle (while it's in motion). At first all she manages to do is stuff like turning the radio on and off and turning on the windshield wipers.
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