History Main / OffLikeAShot

Compare RunningOnTheSpot, WheelOFeet and SpeedEchoes. WhooshInFrontOfTheCamera usually occurs after this.

* This was one of ''Jackie Gleason'''s trademark shticks, accompanied with the CatchPhrase "And away we go!". Often led to a [[ThePratfall pratfall]] of some kind.

* Most any Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon. WesternAnimation/{{Snagglepuss}} always used this pose to deliver his {{catchphrase}} ("Exit, stage left!").

* Most any Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon. Snagglepuss always used this pose to deliver his {{catchphrase}} ("Exit, stage left!").

* Done by Mr. Jinks in the Cartoon Network Shortie, ''Harasscat'' in order to try to get Pixie and Dixie. However, he doesn't do the pose.

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* Mashiro responds to an opportunity to mock Arika in episode 5 of ''Anime/MaiOtome'' by running off in a classic OffLikeAShot.

* Done by Mr. Jinks in the Cartoon Network Shortie, ''Harasscat'' in order to try to get Pixie and Dixie.

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Compare RunningOnTheSpot, WheelOFeet and SpeedEchoes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]], of all ponies, strikes this pose just before attempting to catch up to a brainwashed Rainbow Dash in the second half of the two-parter "The Return of Harmony."

* Some depictions of ''SonicTheHedgehog'' use this.

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This posture is held for a moment, just long enough to be seen, and then the character is off and running, accompanied by a sound not unlike that of a ricocheting bullet.

* Most any Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon. Snagglepuss always used this pose to deliver his {{catchphrase}} ("Exit, stage left!").

* Parodied in ''{{Freakazoid}}'' by the titular character ending the stance by running at normal speed with hands extended in a superhero-in-flight pose and voicing a 'whoosh' sound. The parody is furthered whenever Freakazoid proves he really ''can'' move with super speed. There is little regard given as to why he does the first or how he does the second.

* This was one of JackieGleason's trademark shticks, accompanied with the CatchPhrase "And away we go!". Often led to a [[ThePratfall pratfall]] of some kind.

->''"Beep-beep! Zip-BANG!"''

* Christopher Reeve almost did this when he appeared on ''TheMuppetShow'', leaving Veterinarian's Hospital "Faster than a speeding bullet"

* Con Smith in ''{{Killer7}}'' takes exactly this pose when he activates his extra-speed power.

-->-- Kid watching a [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Road-Runner]] cartoon ([[RecursiveReality ''in'']] a Road-Runner cartoon)

-->-- Kid watching a [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Road-Runner]] cartoon ([[RecursiveReality ''in'' a Road-Runner cartoon]])

* Mashiro responds to an opportunity to mock Arika in episode 5 of ''{{Mai-Otome}}'' by running off in a classic OffLikeAShot.

* Most any {{Hanna-Barbera}} cartoon. Snagglepuss always used this pose to deliver his {{catchphrase}} ("Exit, stage left!").

-->-- Kid watching a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Road-Runner]] cartoon (''in'' a Road-Runner cartoon)

* The title hero of ''Film/TheMask'' often gets going with that kind of gesture. Furthermore, it was referenced in a little comic scene of Clark Kent in ''LoisAndClark'' getting dressed and leaving the same way, complete with the same self compliment, "Smokin'!"

* The Landlady in ''KungFuHustle''
* Neo in ''TheMatrixReloaded'' does a version of this before he starts flying.

Any character who is about to dash off on a high-speed run inevitably, takes -- just for a moment -- a pose that looks like they're winding up for a pitch in a baseball game: one leg raised, the other bent slightly, the body twisted at the waist away from the direction of travel, with arms raised and bent at the elbows and often canted at an angle. Although their entire upper body is turned away from the direction they'll be running in, their head is always facing that way.