History Main / HonkingArrivingCar

* In the pilot of ''Series/Hunter1984'', Rick Hunter asks Dee Dee [=McCall=] to become his partner while she's in undercover as a DirtyHarriet. Hunter starts honking his horn while she's talking to her pimp, who naturally thinks she's letting a potential customer go to waste.

* In ''Thrashin''', while Corey is busy trying on hats and sunglasses and looking at himself in the mirror, Bozo is waiting outside and repeatedly honking his car horn to tell Corey to hurry up.

* Early in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty and Jennifer are [[AlmostKiss suddenly interrupted pre-kiss]] by a honking horn and a male voice shouting, "Jennifer!" Jennifer acknowledges her dad has shown up to give her a ride home.

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* ''ComicBook/AmazingFantasyNumber15'': The car that almost hits the freshly-bit Peter honks right before Peter jumps towards a wall to dodge it, and in the process discover his newly acquired superpowers when he sticks to it.

Compare: BigHonkingTrafficJam, where fictional traffic jams are frequently accompanied by the sounding of horns.

* Early in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty and Jennifer are [[AlmostKiss suddenly interrupted pre-kiss]] by a honking horn and a male voice shouting, "Jennifer!" Jennifer acknowledges her dad has showed up to give her a ride home.

* In ''Film/CarWash'', one of Duane/Abdullah's unexplained absences from the titular car wash (that ultimately get him fired) is shown to involve, in part, one of his Black Muslim peers rolling up in a customized VW Bus and honking the horn to call him over.

* Part of a punchline at the end of the ''Series/EerieIndiana'' episode "The Broken Record." Syndi spends much of the episode doing a ride-along project with Eerie policemen. Her parents wish she'd have a safer assignment, and in the last scene they are relieved when she tells them that she asked her teacher for a new project assignment... only for a truck horn to blare outside, cuing Syndi and her parents to her new ride-along project following the Eerie fire department in their firetruck.
* In ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', in the first season episode "Rory's Dance", Rory and Dean decide to go to the Chilton Prom together, and Dean honks his horn when he's outside Rory's house to pick her up. Emily, however, has other ideas, and tells Rory to wait for Dean come to the door to ask for her because it's "proper" (also so she can meet him). Dean does come to the door, and Rory has to tell him it wasn't her idea.

* The ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode [[Recap/LawAndOrderS19E18PromoteThis "Promote This"]] from Season 19 begins with a Hispanic day laborer sitting on a corner waiting for a job offer, until a car pulls up and honks its horn. The man hurries to the car and gets inside.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in the ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' Series 4 episode "Dangerous." Alfie Solomons arrives outside Tommy's residence and instructs Ishmael to "hit the call of prayer," which cues him to sound the car horn, but he doesn't do it aggressive enough for Alfie's liking so Alfie lays on the horn for an extended period of time, not even letting up when Tommy steps out of his house and continuing to let it blare out until Tommy walks straight up to him.

* PlayedForLaughs and a RunningGag throughout ''Theatre/PeterPanGoesWrong''. A car horn sound effect is used for a just-arrived cab outside the Darling residence... only for the sound effect to mistakenly repeat twice more in the ensuing scene, prompting the cast to ad lib that "three cabs" have arrived outside. The sound effect is inadvertently heard at other inopportune times throughout the rest of the ''Peter Pan'' performance in Neverland, prompting Chris, playing Captain Hook, to absurdly acknowledge "a cab's" off-screen presence in the most preposterous scenes.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'' series, a car horn can be heard whenever the school bus or car pool arrives to take the Sim to school/work.

** Played with in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWeWas "The Way We Was"]]. Teenage Homer is walking on the side of the road, after he ran out of money to pay for his limousine rental for the prom, and Marge arrives in her own car to offer Homer a ride, after Artie Ziff brought her back home. However, Homer initially mistakes Marge's friendly tooting of the horn on her arrival for some blowhard driver being overly aggressive.

* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': This is how [[KosherNostra Manny]]'s driver lets him know he has arrived. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Manny, this turns out to have been Richard Harrow honking the horn just after having shot the driver, with the horn distracting from the gunshot noise, which the former finds out [[BoomHeadshot the hard way]] upon opening his door.]]

* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': This is how Manny's driver lets him know he has arrived. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Manny, this turns out to have been Richard Harrow honking the horn just after having shot the driver, with the horn distracting from the gunshot noise, which the former finds out [[BoomHeadshot the hard way]] upon opening his door.]]