History Main / ElevatorButtonsMash

* Bloo in ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' does this when he rides in an elevator with Mac, saying "Ooh, buttons!" He misses one and deliberately goes back and presses it.
* Bobby does this in ''KingOfTheHill'' wondering around the hospital bored while Hank sees the doctor for his constipation problem. He exits the elevator pressing every button while a man and a doctor wheeling a birthing mother enters. The door closes and after a few floor dings, we hear a baby crying.

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* Happens to Wolf and Twitchy in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}} Too''.

* Bobby does this in ''KingOfTheHill'' wondering around the hospital bored while Hank sees the doctor for his constipation problem. He exits the elevator pressing every button while a pregnant woman in labor is wheel-chaired in. A couple of floor dings, we hear a baby crying.

* Bobby does this in ''KingOfTheHill'' wondering around the hospital while Hank sees the doctor for his constipation problem. He exits the elevator pressing every button while a pregnant woman in labor is wheel-chaired in. A couple of floor dings, we hear a baby crying.

* Bobby does this in ''KingOfTheHill'' wondering around the hospital while Hank sees the doctor for his constipation problem. He exits the elevator pressing every button while a pregnant woman in labor is wheel-chaired in. A couple floors up, we hear a baby crying.

* On ''Series/{{Elementary}}, Sherlock offends the janitor at the hospital. So when the two end up in the elevator, the janitor then pushes all the buttons as he leaves.

* An episode of LawAndOrder had a dead body found in an elevator. Using the elevator stop history, they initially determined the floor that the elevator was on before the body was found. An office worker on that floor had initially called for an elevator but went back to his office to retrieve a few items. It was later determined that the elevator in question was also involved in a "double call" where both the up and down buttons were pressed in order so that the murderer was not on the same floor as the dead person and the elevator sent in a different direction so that the murderer could escape.

* Discouraged, as it can be a nuisance for other passengers, especially in buildings with many floors. Some elevators have mechanisms to prevent this, often using the measured weight of all passengers in the car to impose a variable limit on how many floor buttons can be lit up.

* This is treated [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome very dramatically]] in the AquaTeenHungerForce episode ''Dirtfoot''. [[ManChild Meatwad]] pushes all the buttons in the "[[InsistentTerminology Old, abandoned elevator]] complete with ConspicuousCGI, an OrbitalShot and CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* Bloo in FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends does this when he rides in an elevator with Mac, saying "Ooh, buttons!" He misses one and deliberately goes back and presses it.

* Bloo in Fostershomeforimaginaryfriends does this when he rides in an elevator with Mac, saying "Ooh, buttons!" He misses one and deliberately goes back and presses it.

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* Seen in ''[[TombRaider Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life]]''.
* When an elevator stalls in ''YouveGotMail'' a person hits all of the buttons in a vain attempt to get the thing to go ''somewhere.''
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story ''Paradise Towers'', set in an enormously tall apartment building, the Kangs do this, and the protagonists get stuck in an elevator they've done it to while fleeing from the monsters.
* ''{{Elf}}'': Buddy presses all the buttons to make them light up like a Christmas tree, then exits at his floor leaving the other elevator users to stop at every floor.
* ''KungFu: the Legend Continues'': two flowergirls do it at the hotel where a wedding reception is being held. When they stop at a floor that's under renovation Peter sees an AK-47 being held by a JanitorImpersonationInfiltration guy who kept his back to the elevator (Peter seeing the reflection in some brightly polished marble tiles) leading to the plot of the episode.

* In ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', the children do this when they're in the Hotel Denouement, and they're trying to slow down the antagonists. Their father taught them to do it.
* Happens to Wolf and Twitchy in ''{{Hoodwinked}} Too''.

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* In one episode of ''{{Leverage}}'', Nate does this from ''outside'' the elevator- his team are on the top floor, and Sterling is taking the lift up. To slow him down, Nate takes the stairs and runs to hit the Call button on the elevator on every floor.

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* In an elevator chase sequence in ''MassEffect3'', the player's [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection ally]] Commander Bailey exploits the fact that EverythingIsOnline in the Citadel to ''remotely'' press all the buttons in the villain's elevator. Unfortunately, said villain hops to another elevator [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy and makes sure to disable the remote control circuits on this one]].

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* Angelica does this in a ''{{Rugrats}}'' episode when her mom takes her to work.

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* A ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' strip has the Space Pirates pull this on Samus.

* In the ''{{Charmed}}'' episode "I've Got You Under My Skin'', as Prue is hurrying to make it to her interview at Buckland auction house, and telekinetically makes it happen. Though it turns out one of the other passengers was the person she was supposed to meet with.

* In RobertRankin's ''The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse'', Jack is tempted to do this, having never been in an elevator before, but Eddie scolds him not to... but not before he's pushed one button for a floor he didn't mean to get off on.
* In ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', the children do this when they're in the Hotel Denouement, and they're trying to slow down the antagonists. Their father taught them to do it.

* Angelica does this in a ''{{Rugrats}}'' episode when her mom takes her to work.
* A ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' strip has the Space Pirates pull this on Samus.

* In ''Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William [=McKinley=] and Me, Elizabeth'', the main character does this to her nemesis Cynthia whenever they're in the elevator together.

* A ''BrawlInTheFamily'' strip has the Space Pirates pull this on Samus.

* In ''Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth'', the main character does this to her nemesis Cynthia whenever they're in the elevator together.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Paradise Towers", set in an enormously tall apartment building, the Kangs do this, and the protagonists get stuck in an elevator they've done it to while fleeing from the monsters.