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accidentally took off in an English Electric Lightning while performing maintenance checks in preparation for a test flight, having only previously flown...

Original Flavor is exactly like writing a spec script you could submit to the showrunner, but not necessarily in script form. Note that some fandoms, especially...

needing the Princess. The Alleged Car: The Mario Bros. van. All There in the Script: Various scripted plot points were likely never shot, including the reason...

takers known it's usually not in their favor to have such a possibly high maintenance hostage. Alternatively, expect the hostage takers to end up in a world...

show's story and scripting (and a healthy respect to the saga as a whole) have won over many converts in short order. A group of maintenance Autobots (Optimus...

require maintenance to build. An interesting deviation is that you DO in fact need the maintenance to keep your stuff alive: if your maintenance for whatever...

microgravity maneuvering, and eventually expand on the technology to make maintenance easier. Boom: a world full of Humongous Mecha—which, far from being contrived...

Headroom. Duh (also doubles as a Punny Name). Mission Control Percussive Maintenance: On a coffee maker, no less! Reasonable Authority Figure: As president...

known if many pirates actually kept parrots for pets. Parrots are high-maintenance animals that serve no benefit on a ship (unlike, for example, cats, which...

Cutting the Knot (the weakness of string is a sharp blade!). Percussive Maintenance is a subtrope. See also Depleted Phlebotinum Shells, when the weakness...

any of the four corner of the game map, and you'll find a sign with old-script telling you that "Here Be Dragons", which is as good a Hand Wave as any...

had been so stressful, he had Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett write the script for The Empire Strikes Back and had Irvin Kershner direct it. Kershner didn't...

so Futuro clocks her out and steals her gun. Crichton joins him in the maintenance bay, and Futuro says that he knew Crichton would let the beast go, since...

Jean Pierre Jeunet wanted horror, and for some reason, didn't throw Joss' script in a trash can. In 2004, the Aliens got paired up with another cinematic...

Backstory. I Robot, which was actually started as a completely unrelated script named Hardwired until the studio got the rights to the book and decided...

feck." Subverted in That '70s Show. Played with in Thirty Rock, when the maintenance guys are dealing with a gas leak. In the British TV series Ultraviolet...

less often than the games. She's often quite effective in combat, when the script lets her be. The Ditz: Ganon employs an entire army of ditzes, as proven...

surface compression unit." See also Percussive Maintenance. One from a list of humorous discrepancy maintenance reports has the corrective action as "Removed...

addition, an Updated Rerelease of the third game was released with bugfixes, script fixes and updated music. Fan Translations for the third and the fifth game...

Escher's direction. It looks as if it was supposed to miss Escher according to script but seems to hit him in the arm and the head. It doesn't affect him in any...