History Main / DownLADrain

*** Sometimes when switching to [[AxCrazy Trevor]], he'll be in the middle of throwing some poor sap off a bridge and into the canal.

* In ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', Sector Seven are chasing after the Autobots, Sam, and Mikaela, and they wind up there, as well subsequently capturing Bumblebee not far from the 4th Street bridge.

* The film ''Film/{{Brick}}'' involved a murder that took place in a tunnel in the viaduct system.

''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension'' was shot at the Sepulveda Dam, which holds back part of the river as a flood control measure.

* The guys of ''Series/AdamTwelve'' visit it a time or two in the series.
* The end credits PowerWalk sequence for

* The Los Santos storm drain system appears in a particularly memorable mission on ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''. Before and after that, it's a good way to slink around half the city, as it has slopes that lead to street level everywhere, and there's absolutely no traffic.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' also has them in its version of Los Santos, and they get used in several missions.
** The climax of the Jewel Store Job has the player escape from the cops through the sewers and out into the river.
** In the mission "Hood Safari", after Franklin, Trevor, and Lamar get into a huge shootout with the Ballas, they escape from the cops by jet skiing through the river.
** In the mission "Fame or Shame", Michael and Trevor chase Lazlow up the river and humiliate him as revenge for him embarrassing [[PapaWolf Michael's daughter Tracey]] on national television.
** Sometimes when switching to [[AxCrazy Trevor]], he'll be in the middle of throwing some poor sap off a bridge and into the canal.

* Also a playable track in ''{{VideoGame/Blur}}''.

** In the mission Hood Safari, after Franklin, Trevor, and Lamar get into a huge shootout with a rival gang, they escape from the cops by jet skiing through the river.
** In the mission Fame or Shame, Michael and Trevor chase Lazlow up the river and humiliate him as revenge for him embarrassing [[PapaWolf Michael's daughter Tracey]] on national television.

* The guys of ''Series/AdamTwelve'' visit it a time or two in the series.
* The end credits PowerWalk sequence for ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension'' was shot at the Sepulveda Dam, which holds back part of the river as a flood control measure.

It's kind of like the urban car chase equivalent of KirksRock. May overlap with AbsurdlySpaciousSewer. Not to be confused with DownTheDrain.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX0uspBwDw8 music video]] for {{Music/Chicago}}'s ''Stay the Night'' was filmed in and around the LA River. Legend has it that then-lead singer Peter Cetera did his own stunts.

** In one episode Bart and Lisa miss the school bus, and Marge chases the bus around the drain system so that it stops and they can catch it.
** This location's overuse in car chase scenes was made fun of in another episode when Abe races a rival group of seniors through a similar ditch in Springfield.
** In the movie, Homer uses part of a similar ditch to get onto the dome.

* A few tracks in ''VideoGame/SplitSecond'' are set in a storm drain system obviously based on LA's.

* There's some driving down the L.A. river in the film ''Film/{{Drive}}''. Since The Driver seems to see himself as a character in a film, this is a direct nod to the trope itself.

* WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryInc'': How the Mystery Van enters the underground tunnels in "Gates of Gloom".

* In ''Film/TheWonderfulIceCreamSuit'', Villanazul metaphorically uses this as part of his WorldOfCardboardSpeech to inspire the people of the barrio to "cross the river" from the WrongSideOfTheTracks.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' season 4 has Coulson race Robbie Reyes into here.