In one episode of Leverage, Nate does this from outside the elevator- his team are on the top floor, and Sterling is taking the lift up. In an episode of Ellery Queen (the TV version), a dying man pushes certain buttons in an elevator to indicate the office number of his killer. 
When they stop at a floor that's under renovation Peter sees an AK-47 being held by a Janitor Impersonation Infiltration guy who kept his back to the elevator (Peter seeing the reflection in some brightly polished marble tiles) leading to the plot of the episode.
Kung Fu: the Legend Continues: two flowergirls do it at the hotel where a wedding reception is being held. In Workaholics, while the guys (minus Ders) & Alice are high on acid at a hotel, Blake mashes the up and down buttons like he's playing a manic arcade game. (Fun fact: Something like this actually happened to story author Stephen Wyatt he brought it up on the DVD commentary.) 
In the Doctor Who story 'Paradise Towers', set in an enormously tall apartment building, the Kangs do this, and the protagonists get stuck in an elevator they've done it to while fleeing from the monsters. In Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, the main character does this to her nemesis Cynthia whenever they're in the elevator together. After words he does this think that the entire elevator is some sort of rocket. Corduroy Lost And Found: Corduroy does this at first thinking that the elevator's buttons are part of some sort of game. In A Series of Unfortunate Events, the children do this when they're in the Hotel Denouement, and they're trying to slow down the antagonists. The suave assassin says, with a little smile, 'Kids', but he does not assassinate them at that time. Then the teenagers playfully push all the buttons and get off! It is a tense ride as the elevator stops at every floor. 
So do some teenagers, easing the tension. Before the door closes the assassin gets on. Being chased by a mysterious assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Joe Turner (Robert Redford) and Kathy Hale (Faye Dunaway) flee her apartment via elevator.An elevator arrives just in time to save her, but unfortunately her button pushing summons a second elevator which the Queen uses to follow her up to the landing pad. Ripley frantically hits the buttons on the service elevator, as she's being chased by a pissed off Queen Alien and the entire station is exploding around her. Happens in Serendipity, as one of the Contrived Coincidences that keep the leads apart.Elf: Buddy presses all the buttons to make them light up like a Christmas tree, then exits at his floor leaving the other elevator users to stop at every floor.When an elevator stalls in You've Got Mail a person hits all of the buttons in a vain attempt to get the thing to go somewhere.
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