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* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] threw the TARDIS manual in a supernova because he disagreed with it.
** In the original series, in one episode, the Fourth Doctor sees Romana reading it, and when she suggests a control that she notices to be essential in operating the TARDIS (and one that The Doctor has heretofore never used), he says "Hmm... Interesting," and then proceeds to rip the page out of the manual and throw it away.
* In one episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', Tim doesn't think he needs to read the instructions for his new entertainment system because "this is just the manufacturer's opinion of how to put this together." [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** Tim could be the posterboy for Did Not Read the Manual.
* Pretty much the [[Catch Phrase]] of ''[[Canada's Worst Handyman]]''.
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* The ''[[One Must Fall 2097]]'' manual thanks those who have decided to read it before installing/playing the game and chastises those who have not.
* In ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]]'' the character Norton Mapes, a computer worker you have to rescue, has a belt buckle that reads "RTFM".
* The SNES adaptation of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' provides perhaps the ultimate aversion possible: it doesn't come with a manual, instead coming with a slip of paper which states that "[[Catch Phrase|real men don't need manuals]]".
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|Yet another thing the]] ''[[Nethack]]'' [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|DevTeam thought of]]. From their Windows binary download page:
{{quote|'''Step 0: Promise to read Step 2 before telling us the game will not start.'''
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== Western Animation ==
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer attempts to build a barbecue grill, but he drops the English-language instructions into the pool of cement he had started, and is forced to follow the French instructions ("''Le grille?!'' WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!") After a few minutes of frustration, he gives up and tries to do it by himself, predictably leaving behind a jumbled mess.
* One episode of ''[[The Fairly
{{quote|'''Doug Dimmadome''': It was in an old computer manual? Dag nabbit, [[Running Gag|no one ever reads the manual!]] }}
* When [[Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!|Wubbzy]] gets a pet Fleegle, he throws away the manual because he thinks he won't need it. If he'd read the manual, he would have known that feeding a Fleegle candy causes it to [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|grow exponentially.]]
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