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A short circuit is an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or a very low electrical impedance.

Short Circuit may also refer to:

Film

• Short Circuit (1943 film), an Italian film
• Short Circuit (1986 film), an American science fiction comedy film about a robot that comes to life
  • Short Circuit 2, the 1988 sequel
• Short Circuits (film), a 2006 Slovene film
• Short Circuit (2019 film), Gujarati science fiction comedy-drama film
• Short Circuit (short series), a Walt Disney Animation Studios experimental short series

Literature

• Short Circuit (Wedgelock novel), a 1986 novel by Colin Wedgelock, a pen name for Christopher Priest
• Short Circuit (Haas novel), a 2025 novel by Wolf Haas

Music

• Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus, a 1978 compilation album of English punk and reggae
• Short Circuit (I've Sound album), 2003, or the title song
  • Short Circuit II (album), a 2007 album by I've Sound
  • Short Circuit III, a 2010 album by I've Sound
• Short Circuit: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, soundtrack album for the eponymous 1986 film
• "Short Circuit", a song by Daft Punk from their 2001 album Discovery

Other uses

• Short Circuit (video game), based on the 1986 film
• ShortCircuit, a YouTube channel owned by Linus Media Group

See also

• Short Circutz, a series of animated web short films
• Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz, MTV sketch comedy TV show
• Short-circuit evaluation, a form of Boolean evaluation in programming
• Short-circuit test
• Short (disambiguation)
• Circuit (disambiguation)
• Open circuit (disambiguation)