This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Dark Sasami: Anybody remember The Last Starfighter? I keep thinking about the Chekhov's Big Red Button on the Gunstar's dash, the "Don't Press That" Death Blossom button. But unless my memory was playing tricks on me, wasn't it...blue?
Lale: Moved the pole example to Schmuck Bait.
Vandalite: Anyone ever play Ratchet and Clank? There's one mission where you have to destroy a ship. on the bridge there's a big red button that obviously activates the self destruct, but just to lampshade it a bit, when you get close an on-screen message pops up and asks 'Push the shiny red button?".
Rob Mandeville: I half-remember an episode of Super Friends when somebody sabotages a NASA flight by pushing what the narrator called "The Don't Push button".
Andyroid: Pulled this example. It's not a running gag, it's a one-off joke about Forbidden Fruit and Schmuck Bait from Thief of Time
- A running gag among some characters in the Discworld is that if you hid a big red button in a cave somewhere and nearby affixed a sign that says "Ends-The-World Button—absolutely do not touch", the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
