Here's a good one. In one episode of
The Six Million Dollar Man, a guy kidnaps the Liberty Bell and holds it for ransom. He has it in a truck, wired with explosives. They pay him off, but then he has a heart attack and dies before he can tell them how to defuse the bomb.
Oscar has to offer clemency to a jailed safe-cracker, who is the only person with the knowledge to defuse these bombs. They discover the truck has two other bombs that need to be defused before they can get to the one under the Liberty Bell. With me so far?
So, there is a tense scene where Steve, the criminal, and a bomb squad chief defuse the first bomb. Whew! Lots of sweating. But it took a long time, and now they don't have much time to get to the other bombs.
On the second bomb, here's where it gets silly. They reach a point where they need to do a delicate operation, and it fails. The timer on the bomb starts to rapidly count down to zero at a high rate of speed. So, Steve Austin grabs the entire bomb, and throws it about 100 feet up in the air, where it explodes harmlessly.
What?! Then why didn't he just do that with the first bomb? Why did they waste all that time on it if it wasn't powerful enough to kill everyone in the vicinity?
Steve: Oscar, the bomb under the Liberty Bell will go off in 20 minutes. I could grab the other two bombs, set them off, and throw them way up into the air to explode harmlessly, and then we'll have the whole 20 minutes to work on the main bomb. What do you think?
Oscar: No, better to spend 15 minutes defusing the first bomb, and then hope we can work something out.