History Main / HadTheSillyThingInReverse

-->-- ''[[{{Ptitle841pxnwg}} Duck Dodgers in the 24th½ Century]]'' (the TropeNamer)

* ''[[{{ptitle841pxnwg}} Duck Dodges in the 24½th Century]]'': Duck Dodgers initially launches his rocket ship into the ground, citing he [[TropeNamer Had The Silly Thing In Reverse]].

* In a ''MenInBlack: TheAnimatedSeries episode'', J finds an alien [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]] and threatens the monster of the week with it. Then it turns out the weapon was really pointed at his own head, the thing he thought to be the scope really being where the flames came from. Leads you to wonder...why would a flamethrower have a ''scope''?

* ''AzumangaDaioh'': one of Yukari's trips starts out with the car [[DrivesLikeCrazy careening all over the yard before returning to its initial position]], at which point she notices she was in reverse, as seen on the page image.

* In ''{{Some Like It Hot}}'', Josephine (Tony Curtis) is trying to impress Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) by showing her 'his' yacht (it actually belongs to someone else). They get in the motorboat used as the tender for the yacht, but he can only get it to work in reverse.

* In ''{{Some Like It Hot}}'', Josephine (Tony Curtis) is trying to impress Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) by showing her 'his' yacht (it actually belongs to someone else). They get in the motorboat used as the tender for the yacht, but only can put it in reverse.

* In ''{{Some Like It Hot}}'', Josephine (Tony Curtis) is trying to impress Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) by showing her 'his' yacht (it actually belongs to someone else. They get in the motorboat used as the tender for the yacht, but only can put it in reverse.

* ''{{Sym-BionicTitan}}'': in the flashback episode, Ilana and Hobbes, her bodyguard, are able to tank-jack, but since the bodyguard was too wounded, Ilana had to drive the tank. The first thing she does at the controls is drive the tank in reverse.

->Ooops! Heh...had the silly thing in reverse!

* [[NoSenseOfDirection Navigation Officer]] Sub-Lieutenant [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Phillips]] can do this with Naval Frigates in ''TheNavylark'', frequently.

* In a ''MenInBlack: TheAnimatedSeries episode'', J finds an alien [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]] and threatens the monster of the week with it. Then it turns out the weapon was really pointed at his own head, the thing he thought to be the scope really being where the flames came from.

* Similarly, in [[StargateAtlantis Condemed]], the inmates have plundered the team's grounded ship and are testing out the weapons. They fire the gun correctly, but when the rocket launcher is attempted, they have the thing backwards and end up destroying the building behind them instead of shooting the explosive into the pool in front of them.

* ''{{Sym-BionicTitan}}'': in the flashback episode, Ilana and her bodyguard are able to tank-jack, but since the bodyguard was too wounded, Ilana had to drive the tank. The first thing she does at the controls is drive the tank in reverse.

* ''{{Sym-BionicTitan}}'': in the FlashbackEpisode, Ilana and her bodyguard are able to tank-jack, but since the bodyguard was too wounded, Ilana had to drive the tank. The first thing she does at the controls is drive the tank in reverse.

* ''AzumangaDaioh'': one of Yukari's trips starts out with the car [[DrivesLikeCrazy careening all over the yard before returning to its initial position]], at which point she notices she was in reverse.

Often a subtrope of DrivingStick. Compare BackwardsFiringGun. See WiperStart for more comedic driver incompetence.

Compare BackwardsFiringGun. See WiperStart for more comedic driver incompetence.

Compare BackwardsFiringGun.

* In the ''{{DuckTales}}'' episode "Superdoo!", two inept alien criminals are scheming to recover their stolen power crystal. One of their plots involves destroying the summer camp with an alien bazooka; unfortunately, the one holding the bazooka is holding it backwards, and it ends up destroying the dam behind them instead.