History Main / ElevatorButtonsMash

* Bobby does this in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' wandering 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.

* In the ''Series/{{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.

* This is treated [[MundaneMadeAwesome very dramatically]] in the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode ''Dirtfoot''. [[ManChild Meatwad]] pushes all the buttons in the "[[InsistentTerminology Old, abandoned elevator]]" complete with ConspicuousCGI, an OrbitalShot and CrowningMusicOfAwesome.

* 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.

* This is treated [[MundaneMadeAwesome very dramatically]] in the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode ''Dirtfoot''. [[ManChild Meatwad]] pushes all the buttons in the "[[InsistentTerminology Old, abandoned elevator]] complete with ConspicuousCGI, an OrbitalShot and CrowningMusicOfAwesome.

* Bobby does this in ''WesternAnimation/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.

* Used to iconic effect in the music video for Music/{{PSY}}'s "Gentleman", his most recent single. This is one of many douchebag moves he performs on hapless Korean celebrities throughout the music video

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', while chasing each other, Agent P tricked Dr. Doofenschmirtz into going into an elevator and pressed all the floors.

* This is treated [[MundaneMadeAwesome 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.

* In an elevator chase sequence in ''VideoGame/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]].

* Baby Plucky does this in TinyToonAdventures at one point "Elevator go down the hole..."

* Used to iconic effect in the music video for {{PSY}}'s "Gentleman", his most recent single. This is one of many douchebag moves he performs on hapless Korean celebrities throughout the music video

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Presents: The Ridonculous Race'', Dwayne accidentally presses all the buttons on the elevator.

* 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.

* Seen in ''[[Film/LaraCroftTombRaider Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life]]''.

* [[DontTryThisAtHome Don't try this in real life]], 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.

* 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.

* Baby Plucky does this in TinyToonsAdventures at one point "Elevator go down the hole..."

* Happens in ''{{Serendipity}}'', as one of the {{Contrived Coincidence}}s that keep the leads apart.

* In the Rowdyruff Boys story "Father Knows Worst" (Cartoon Network Action Pack #2), Brick pushes all the buttons of an elevator as panicked citizens enter it to escape a catastrophe.

* In an episode of ''Ellery Queen'' (the TV version), a dying man pushes certain buttons in an elevator [[spoiler:to indicate the office number of his killer]].

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