"You took down Captain Bob's steering wheel!?!!" from the movie Hudson Hawk, 1991, a lesson in the "Noodle Incident" tv trope

does anyone know what the story was behind making a big deal about a steering wheel in the movie?

How could you take this down? Captain Bob's steering wheel!

 Remember that night he came in? Nobody could figure where he got this.

The Noodle Incident is something from the past that is referred to but never explained, with the implication that it's just too ludicrous for words—or perhaps too offensive for depiction—and the reality that any explanation would fall short of audience expectations. 

Named for an incident referenced by the characters of Calvin and Hobbes, where the author admitted he decided against ever stating what happened, as he figured nothing he could come up with would be as outrageous as what the readers thought happened

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