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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'': When Yukari arrives at Chiyo's house, her car has its windshield wipers running, on a perfectly sunny day. Needless to say, [[Drives Like Crazy|she's not a very good driver]].
 
== Comedy Album ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Top Secret (Filmfilm)|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 Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (Filmfilm)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' had a [[Wiper Start]] on an escape pod for a space ship.
* 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.
* Sulu does a Wiper Start in a helicopter in ''[[Star Trek IV the Voyage Home|Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]''.
** Of course he then becomes such a skilled chopper pilot that he can accurately slot plexiglass slabs into the hatch of an ''invisible'' spaceship.
**** 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: theThe Search For Spock (Film)|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 [[Wiper Start]].
* ''[[Watchmen (Filmfilm)|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 (Film)|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...".
* In ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'' [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] does this twice. First, when he jumps into the moon rover, he doesn't know how to start it. Second, when he hops into the crane lowering Bloefeld's escape sub, he doesn't know how to operate it and drops the sub into the water.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Bait Car (TV)|Bait Car]]'': A car thief starts the wipers while trying to figure out how to put a vehicle in gear. The cops watching nearby comment that the wipers (and turn signals) are working properly.
* On ''[[CanadasCanada's Worst Driver]]'', a contestant accidentally popped the hood while trying to start his car.
* A [[Women Drivers|female]] designer does this on Restaurant Makeover when she tries to drive Igor's huge delivery truck. Igor has to get a member of the camera crew to drive it.
* Marcia Brady does a this on her road test on ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''. Slightly different, because she's actually a good driver, just extremely nervous. She also manages to cause the convertible top to go up and down before starting the car.
* In one of the episodes of ''[[Eastenders]]'' in which Dot is learning to drive, she turns on the windscreen wipers by mistake while trying to use the indicator.
* 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 (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' used a literal [[Wiper Start]] several times on a spacecraft.
* 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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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Bree starts the wipers in the ''[[Lonely Girl 15Lonelygirl15]]'' episode "Learning To Drive".
* There is a [[Metroid]]/[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]]/[[Futurama]] crossover short called ''Metroid Confusion'', in which [[Space Pirate|Space Pirates]] stole an Arwing from [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Fox]]. Every button on the ship plays ''Whalers On The Moon'' from ''[[Futurama]]''...and they are trying to <ref>whatisthatidonteven</ref> Grandma's ''delicious cookies'' back from the jerk, Samus.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** In one episode, Buzz is trying to take control of a derelict ship. The first button he presses deploys the cup holder. After pressing every other button and failing to accomplish anything (although he does make the wipers work), he finds the crew. Turns out the "cup holder" is actually the steering wheel.
** In another episode, Buzz tries to find the controls of a spaceship and accidentally activates the turn signal. Of course he eventually starts the wipers too.
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'': Shortly after meeting Chip and Dale and seeing Monty for the first time since she was a child, Gadget lights the fuse to the dynamite that will propel their airplane out of the human-sized craft... ''if'' she can remember which control operates that craft's skylight. She finds it, of course, with scant few seconds to spare, but not before activating the wipers.
* In ''[[Futurama]]'' Fry turns on the coffee maker on the Planet Express ship when trying to start it up in "Space Pilot 3000".
** When Zapp Brannigan tries to pilot an orbital restaurant he activates wipers, opens and closes windows, and turns on the turn signal. And then he manages to crash the restaurant into a planet.
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* In a memorable scene in ''[[Justice League]]'', [[Batman]], [[Martian Manhunter]], and [[The Flash]] are trying to figure out the controls of an alien space ship on the front steps of Wayne Manor. [[Martian Manhunter|J'onn]] admits that he doesn't know how to fly the device, and [[The Flash]] suggests pressing buttons. The first one activates the ship's weapons systems, blowing a large hole in the side of the mansion and irking [[Batman]].
{{quote| '''Batman''': [[This Is Sparta|That's. Not. Helping.]]}}
* A Wiper Start is only the first of many things to go wrong with ''Mike's New Car'' on the ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' DVD.
* The titular character of ''[[Wall E|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 (Animation)|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.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==