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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 Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' had a
* 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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**** That and he's like 50 in the movie. Which means it's been several decades since he's flew one in his academy days, I'd like to see you drive a car you drove in high school. (That is if you're like 30 now.)
** In ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'', Chekov and Scotty have a similar moment trying to pilot their captured Klingon ship: "Where's the damned anti-matter inducer?"
* In ''[[Star Wars]] [[The Phantom Menace|Episode I]]'', Anakin does a literal
* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'': The flamethrower on Nite Owl's ship is mistaken for a cigarette lighter by Laurie. According to Dan, The Comedian also almost made that mistake back in the day, and when Dan and Laurie save the tenants of a burning building, one of them almost uses the button to [[Something Else Also Rises|light his blunt]].
* In ''[[Independence Day]]'', Russell Casse, now sobered-up, accidentally starts a missile launch sequence while preparing for takeoff. After frantically stopping it, he mutters to himself "I picked a hell of a day to quit drinking...".
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* Hiro in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' does a literal Wiper Start when trying to start his and Ando's car in Las Vegas.
* A Wiper Start happened to Clegg in an episode of ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' when asked to drive strangers' cars in Foggy's attempt to set up American-style valet parking.
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' used a literal
* Invoked on ''[[Top Gear]]'' by Richard Hammond, while hypnotised into believing he didn't know how to operate a car.
** And when he reviewed the Cadillac CTS:
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* One ''[[Paranoia]]'' module features a vehicle with a couple dozen controls ("button", "switch", "slider") with no labels and no manual, forcing the [[PC
{{quote|Player: I push the button on the far right.
GM: [[Cryptic Conversation|Sounds like something big just fell off.]] }}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* One preview of the game ''[[Steel Battalion]]'' came with a specialized $200 controller to simulate driving a [[Humongous Mecha]] which mentioned that the
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Bree starts the wipers in the ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' episode "Learning To Drive".
* There is a [[Metroid]]/[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]/[[Futurama]] crossover short called ''Metroid Confusion'', in which [[Space Pirate
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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