![]() The button is a genre-spanning apparatus that’s tested weak wills and spurred cartoonishly cataclysmic events for decades. ![]() Lo and behold, what happens? The disobediently curious character presses the red button. Usually one character instructs another to never, under any circumstances, press this button. The big red button trope is up there with the slapstick banana peel and plummeting anvils. But by then the conspicuous crimson buttons had already seeped into American pop culture. The joke was lost in translation and bombed. ![]() Credit: APīack in 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jokingly gifted Russia’s then-Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov a bulbous red “Reset Button” to usher in a new era of American-Russo relations. A “reactor trip” button in Florida’s Crystal River Nuclear Plant.
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