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* In an episode of ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', Vyvyan is on a train and looks at a sign saying "Do not look out the window." He wonders why... sticks his head out the window and gets decapitated. Fortunately he gets better.

* In Primary Phase/Fit 2 of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Ford and Arthur find themselves aboard the Heart of Gold spaceship. As Arthur observes a console he sees a button that has the sign "Please do not touch this button." He presses it anyway and a sign lights up reading "Please do not touch this button again."

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* Five Man Electrical Band's protest song "Signs," on the refrain:
-->Signs, signs, everwhere signs\\
Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind\\
Do this, don't do that\\
Can't you read the sign?
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* In Primary Phase/Fit 2 of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Ford and Arthur find themselves aboard the Heart of Gold spaceship. As Arthur obsrtves a console he sees a button that has the sign "Please do not touch this button." He presses it anyway and a sign lights up reading "Please do not touch this button again."

* In Primary Phase/Fit 1 of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Ford and Arthur find themselves aboard the Heart of Gold spaceship. As Arthur obsrtves a console he sees a button that has the sign "Please do not touch this button." He presses it anyway and a sign lights up reading "Please do not touch this button again."

* ''Film/Interceptor2022'' opens on a sign warning that deadly force is authorized against trespassers on a military base, only for the camera to pan across a [[WhiteShirtOfDeath white-painted boom gate splattered with blood]] as the villains kill everyone inside. Though it was apparently an InsideJob so they weren't technically trespassing.
* In the Film/JamesBond movie ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', a mook ignores the "Burglar Protected" sticker on the window of Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo when trying to break into it. Then again he didn't expect the car to ''[[DisproportionateRetribution explode]]'' when he broke said window with his gun.

* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'': When George gets into the inner workings of the plant to sabotage it and shut it off, when he gets to the end, there is a sign that says "WARNING! DO NOT STICK YOUR FINGER IN THIS HOLE!". No points for guessing what exactly George does next. (Bonus points to the producers, though, for including George doing a mischievous EyebrowWaggle [[BreakingTheFourthWall to the audience]], as if to say, "Yeah, you know EXACTLY what I'm going to do!")

* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' has a sign that says "WARNING! DO NOT STICK YOUR FINGER IN THIS HOLE!". No points for guessing what George does next.

* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "Holidays", Bill pulls down a list of ridiculously strict rules on the wall of their holiday chalet. Underneath is a sign saying '250 pound penalty for removal of notice'. Bill hurriedly sticks it back.

* The ''Series/SesameStreet'' special ''Film/DontEatThePictures'' features one of these in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Guess what it says. (This was in fact a real sign that was in the museum at the time.) ExtremeOmnivore Cookie Monster find this difficult.

* In the first ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' game, inside Rapture Farms, there are various signs of this kind. For instance, near the beginning, "NO TALKING! To fellow employees", referring to the game mechanics of Gamespeak. Indeed, if the player DOES try to talk to one of his fellow employees who is next to a Slig, and the employee responds, the Slig will shoot and kill him. Obviously, Rupture Farms takes their no-talking policy very seriously.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', the Ruins have signs warning you to stick to the path and not step on the leaves, each of which can only be read by not doing as the sign says.