One thing I've often wondered: why did James West always wait until the "James West escaping from captivity" incidental music started before he'd release his switchblade boot knife, gymnastically cut his ropes and escape? Was it so that the music would mask the noise?
It's something that's really held me back in life: whenever I'm captured and tied up by villains, I keep waiting for my signature incidental escape music* to start before I make my break.
*No, I don't know what it is, that's the point: I've never heard it. But I'm sure I'd know it if I did.