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2[[caption-width-right:350:Just another Indian attack on my normal commute to the airport.]]
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4->''"Hey, look you guys, they are being followed by a movie."''
5-->-- '''Creator/{{Joel|Hodgson}}''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E01TheCrawlingEye The Crawling Eye]]"
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7Back in the early days of motion pictures, when woolly mammoths trudged through the streets of Hollywood, scenes still took place in areas where a full film crew would be practically impossible. One of the most popular and common varieties of such a scene was when the characters were driving, either for a car chase or for a leisurely chat. For obvious reasons, it was very impractical for directors to have their whole camera crew perched on the hood of a moving car being driven by remote control by someone in the trunk (although today there are such things as cameras that can be rigged onto the hood of a vehicle).
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9Thus, there was something called "rear window" projection, wherein the moving background was filmed separately, then projected onto a screen behind the actors, who sat in a mockup of a car and acted as normal. This was also known as a "process shot".
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11Unfortunately, rear projection can cause a number of problems that can ruin the illusion and make it obvious you're not in a car, like:
12* The steering of the driver clearly not matching the movement of road.
13* The car going around corners on its own while the driver isn't even moving the wheel.
14* The driver wildly twisting the steering wheel left and right when the driver is driving on a straight road.
15* A conspicuous lack of wind or movement on the part of the passengers when they are in an open vehicle or clearly have the windows down.
16* The scenery vibrating or moving around to a degree that the passengers would be rattling around like peas in a rattle and the vehicle would be bottoming on its springs. Especially noticable if the back projection is slow - cranked to give an impression of speed.
17* Characters spending a dangerously long time [[DriverFacesPassenger looking at the person in the passenger seat]].
18* A noticeable difference in film quality between the live actors and the pre-filmed backdrop, especially if you're filming in HD, which makes said quality differences blatantly apparent. This has an unfortunate retroactive effect if you are upgrading an old film to HD quality.
19* On vehicles with an automatic transmission with the gear selector on the steering column, being obviously in the "parked" position.
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22Rear projection essentially fell out of use with the advent of the ChromaKey, which nonetheless kept some of its problems. It was finally sealed up with the prevalence of computer graphics, miniaturization of camera technology, and special-built flatbed-like vehicles to carry and film cars (such as the one [[http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q26/extremehead/crash91.jpg shown here]]). Used nowadays, rear projection or poorly done chroma key is mostly considered a SpecialEffectFailure, or a special shoutout to films of the past. The [[TropeNamer trope name is a reference]] to how they always end up looking like Creator/ConanOBrien who has a recurring [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XMeUWMDyOg comedy bit where he "drives" his desk]] out of the television studio using ([[StylisticSuck deliberately cheap-looking]]) rear projection effects.
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24Has almost zero overlap with the typical activities of the DeskJockey. The alternative term "Obvious Blue Screen" is a reference to the BlueScreen or ChromaKey (which may be involved in later occurrences of the trope) and not to the UsefulNotes/BlueScreenOfDeath.
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32* Progressive Insurance has actor Creator/DennisQuaid driving a car, turning to look at the audience, explaining (while not watching the road) that you shouldn't have to pay for other driver's inattentiveness. He then [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this, by saying he's not actually driving, and the camera dollys back to show he's in a stationary car on a platform being towed down the road by a pull truck with a camera crew in front of him.
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36* A relatively recent dramatic example is the taxi ride sequence Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/PulpFiction''. Tarantino had access to better technology but used this technique as a {{homage}} to movies of the 1940's, especially noir flicks.
37* Given a vigorous LampshadeHanging (as is everything else) by ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', which moves from speeding and traffic accident backdrops to raiding Indians, with the driver turning the wheel wildly on straight sections and going straight when the background's showing a windy road, culminating with the Indian attack in the picture. The passenger, however, reacts to all of it.
38* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' makes use of outrageous backdrops, such as showing the Colosseum in Rome when Drebin is allegedly driving in "Little Italy".
39* Many of Creator/AlfredHitchcock's movies. Notable in ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', where the rear-projection is so bad it sometimes looks like Scottie is driving on the wrong side of the road. Averted in the scene in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' where Roger O. Thornhill gets attacked by the crop duster, where the rear-projection is used rather seamlessly for once. PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/FamilyPlot'', made at a time when this technique had fallen out of vogue.
40%% * The ''Film/AustinPowers'' movies use the technique as a joke.
41* Employed in the otherwise-groundbreaking ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' during the crash of the Dropship.
42%% * Done deliberately in ''Film/KillBill''.
43* Done as a stylistic choice in ''Film/TheMatrix'', when Neo makes his first trip into the Matrix after finding out its true nature. The street outside the car windows looks vague and fake, because it is just that.
44* Done deliberately in ''Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies'', among many other elements (successfully) intended to recreate the "flavor" of '50s and '60s movies.
45* Early ''Film/JamesBond'' films were offenders in this category.
46** While the bobsled chase in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' was mainly shot on the actual run, the actors were not able to actually operate a bobsled so they had to have stunt doubles do the actual sledding instead. They tried to avert the need for this trope as much as possible with tricks such as having the stunt double duck to avoid a bullet as they pass the camera, hiding their face in the process, but in close-up shots of the action where you can easily see their faces, a blue-screen was used. If you look closely, you can just about see the seams in it.
47** ''Film/DrNo'' has a particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} shot of a nervous Creator/SeanConnery being pursued by a car that appeared at least twice as large as his own.
48** This continues until even ''Film/LicenceToKill'', where we see Sanchez and his cronies pretend to drive through long stretches of Mexican highway.
49* One impressive subversion occurs in ''Film/TouchOfEvil'': a fairly long sequence where Charlton Heston is actually driving (and acting) as he sends his car zipping down narrow back-alleys and blowing straight through intersections.
50%% * Done purposefully in the 1960s pastiche ''Film/DownWithLove''.
51* In ''Film/Birdemic2TheResurrection'', this effect is painfully obvious during the convertible driving scene.
52* ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' had a cut rear-projection scene of Luke and [=C3PO=] driving in Luke's landspeeder looking for R2.
53* Notably averted in ''Film/Ronin1998'', with the actors being driven around in right-hand-drive cars (in France, where everyone drives on the right) so they could act in sync with the actual driver and spliced with external shots.
54* Averted in ''Film/BulldogDrummond'' by the simple expediency of having a night-driving scene take place against a pitch-black background.
55* Inverted in the Don Adams ''Series/GetSmart'' movie ''The Nude Bomb''. In one scene, Maxwell Smart is ''literally'' driving a desk (the bad guy had stolen his car and Max was in pursuit). It had ''built-in machine guns.''
56* As noted by [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]], ''Film/ThePumaman'' can rear-project major cities as he flies, like a puma.
57* Used in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' to create the view out Dorothy's window during the tornado.
58* Notably averted, if not [[TropeBreaker broken]], with the famous car chase through the streets of San Francisco in ''Film/{{Bullitt}}''.
59* Averted in ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'', which was shot entirely on location and mostly in one take. There were even [[ThrowItIn a few unscripted collisions]] with other vehicles.
60* Lampshaded in ''Film/StrangeBrew''. Doug takes his hands off the wheel and turns to Bob. He asks if he ever notices how [[DriverFacesPassenger in movies people can drive without looking at the road]] and without the background matching their steering.
61* Bad rear projection can look positively surreal in some old comedies, like when W.C. Fields goes out to milk the elk in ''The Fatal Glass of Beer'' (seen at 3:20 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAKCwXkDl74 on this extract]]), or when a heavily sedated Stan Laurel drives Oliver Hardy home in ''County Hospital'' (at 16:15 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Qz9-W_Sug on this one]]).
62* Oddly averted in Creator/JeanLucGodard's ''Pierrot le Fou''. Most of the driving scenes are real, and seen in medium-long shots. An early scene of Ferdinand driving Marianne home, though, has no bluescreen and no attempt at realism. The two simply sit in front of a plain black background while colored lights flash across them and the prop steering wheel.
63* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' uses this as Rick and Ilsa drive through Paris, then through the French countryside. Creator/RogerEbert admitted that despite his love of ''Casablanca'', this scene looked like [[SpecialEffectFailure the worst rear projection effect he ever saw]].
64* In ''Film/{{Charade}}'', scenes of Creator/AudreyHepburn's and Creator/CaryGrant's characters riding cars and a boat have rear-projection effects. When they ride the boat through tunnels, their dialogue has an echo effect added for realism.
65* Results in an obvious goof in ''Film/{{Topaze}}'', when the cars visible in the street behind Topaze and Coco's taxi disappear into thin air, presumably due to a bad splice.
66* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' uses this when Osgood helps Joe, Jerry, and Sugar escape the last ChaseScene in his motorboat.
67* Parodied in ''Film/BlackDynamite'' where the rear projection shows Chicago Wind's car making some pretty big turns, despite him not looking at the road or moving the steering wheel. Then he turns to look at the road and instantly screams as he's about to run over a cliff that ''wasn't'' in the rear projection.
68* Most scenes from ''Film/TheWagesOfFear'' inside the truck cabins are shot on a sound stage with back projection.
69* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', when the T-1000 climbs on the back of the escaping police car from the insane asylum, in shots featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick the scene noticeably switches from live driving stunts to a stationary police car with the asylum and street becoming rear projection. Many of the nighttime driving scenes, particularly in the police car with its lights turned off, are also process.
70* ''Film/ThreeWiseGirls'' had Boating A Desk in a scene where Cassie takes a ride on Jerry's yacht.
71* In ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' this is used not only for exterior scenery, but also for the rear of the car interior, to create the illusion that Baby the leopard is on the back seat.
72* In ''Film/{{Midnight Lace}}'' as the characters travel by taxi around London.
73* In ''Film/WhiteDog'', Julie plays a small role in a movie that involves sitting in a gondola while footage of the canals of Venice plays on a screen behind her.
74* The climatic ChaseScene in the spy spoof ''Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine'' features plenty of this, though Goldfoot's portrayer Creator/VincentPrice does a nicely hammy job of acting queasy and carsick.
75* Seen throughout ''Film/TheLoveBug'' and its sequels, ''Herbie Rides Again'', ''Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo'', and ''Herbie Goes Bananas''.
76* ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'' has some driving scenes that actually consist of the actors sitting in front of LED screens.
77* Because his fear of flying prevented him from filming on location, Creator/StanleyKubrick used rear projection for ''Film/EyesWideShut'' to depict [[https://i.redd.it/uvf3df42qqfb1.jpg Tom Cruise walking down a New York City street.]]
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81* Used for comedy in ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', due to the necessity of churning out a new, live show every week.
82** Notable offenders include the recurring "Toonces, the Cat Who Could Drive a Car" and "Butabi Brothers" sketches. [[http://ckjcwf.ytmnd.com/ Here's an example of sorts.]]
83** Done with Melissa [=McCarthy=]'s portrayal of Sean Spicer. The crew build a motorized podium (using parts from an electric wheel chair) which she would drive around during sketches, including one situation where she actually drove it through the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di1-jK5x-HQ streets of New York]].
84* Conan O'Brien does this, too, but... he's ''[[TropeNamers actually driving his own desk]]'', "turning" with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOgV-WEE1Ec a prop steering wheel]]. Subverted when he actually [[http://vimeo.com/9004717 drove a motorized desk around the Universal Studios lot and had a drag race with a guy in a forklift]].
85%%* ''Series/TwentyFour'' still does this.
86%%* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' anybody?
87* An episode of ''Series/TheGoodies'' (Punky Business) parodied this and then subverted it. The three Goodies are in the back of a van and we see the road in the van's back window via backscreen projection, then it starts showing footage of punks. The subversion comes when Bill shoves Graeme and Tim out of the back of the van and we see a screen with the punk footage projected onto it, being watched by several policemen.
88%% * The surfing scenes on ''Series/{{Gidget}}''.
89* Done in many {{Sit Com}}s, including ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' and ''Series/DharmaAndGreg''. Particularly jarring on {{Sit Com}}s shot at a different frame rate than the backgrounds, or when the footage is rather grainy and of obviously lower quality than the main footage, like in Joey's Big Break on ''Series/{{Friends}}'', when he and Chandler are driving out of Manhattan for Las Vegas. [[ArtisticLicenseGeography The footage is also of the Queensboro Bridge, not the George Washington Bridge]].
90* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'' does this deliberately in the 5th season episode ''[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E04ItNeverEndsWellForTheChicken It Never Ends Well For The Chicken]]''. The whole episode is done as a story that Lucifer is telling to Trixie about something that he did back in the 1940s, and all the visuals are handled like something straight from a noir film of the time. Of course the driving scenes would therefore have to use this trope rather than show the characters actually driving like in most episodes.
91* Nearly all car scenes on ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' budget-savingly took place at night with a car mockup simply placed in front of a black background.
92%% * ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': Played straight in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''.
93%% Lampshaded and played for laughs in a PublicServiceAnnouncement starring [[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Selena Gomez]] and her mom.
94* In ''Series/PushingDaisies'', an episode featured a flashback of Olive as a horse jockey. The racing scene was so obviously green screen they didn't even bother to hide it.
95* One host segment from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' parodied this, with the footage being projected the [[LeaveTheCameraRunning incredibly long driving sequence]] from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate "Manos" The Hands of Fate]]''.
96%% * A staple of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' starting with series 2.
97%% * Parodied several times on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', with the GreenScreen suggestion.
98* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' did this all the time in its later seasons. It looks especially cheap because the backdrop footage is shot at a faster framerate than the bluescreen footage.
99* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' did this with Pee-Wee's scooter in the end credits. It was a combination of this trope and the ChromaKey regularly used by the show.
100* ''Series/PoliceSquad'' did this, and would employ some sort of gag nearly every single time. Some were obvious, like the "Little Italy" gag (which was reused for ''Film/TheNakedGun''), or the bit where Lt. Frank Drebin narrates that he "drove back to the office" and is then shown driving his car in reverse. And some were more subtle, like the times Drebin drives through red lights and barely avoids getting hit by cross traffic, or the bizarre scene where Drebin is seated in the backseat of the car with his disembodied hands steering.
101* Often averted on ''Series/QuantumLeap'', but very visible in the episode "It's a Wonderful Leap", which has Sam driving a taxi against a very obvious Chroma Key background. The episode is heavy on conversations in the cab, and it allows Sam to do things such as check out his brand-new reflection in the mirror - which, in-universe, causes him to take his eyes off the road and hit a pedestrian.
102* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'', being one of the most thorough examples of StylisticSuck out there, HAD to do this, and they didn't even bother with the backdrop, just lights moving on an obviously non functional car. Seen at the beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4_mZh-bj8 that clip]]. Plus there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWTdj7LNQiU that]] awesome motorbike variant.
103* In ''Series/MadTV1995'''s parody of ''Music/TrappedInTheCloset'', there's a scene where Music/RKelly drives in front of a green screen image ''without a car'' (he at least still has a steering wheel).
104* Aussie variety/comedy show ''Series/HeyHeyItsSaturday'' had host Daryl Somers occasionally driving his desk around the studio. Unlike the Conan O'Brien example above, though, he didn't just have the desk mounted onto a normal vehicle, but had the wheels and engine built-in while he stood on a small platform jutting out of the back and using a pair of recessed dials to control it.
105* The more-than usually surreal ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' episode "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE15TheGirlWhoWasDeath The Girl Who Was Death]]" has a car chase sequence in which the super-assassin of the title tries to make Number Six crash his car by making the back-projection road behind him spin around.
106* Done extensively in ''Franchise/PerryMason''.
107* Done in ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' episode "[=EagleClaw=]!" with Eaglebones' motorcycle ride, mixed with real time footage of Eaglebones actually driving down the road.
108* A truly glaring example in an early ''Series/ILoveLucy'' episode; there is no "desk," usually there is at least the windshield frame between the viewer and the characters, usually with windshield removed, whence no rear view mirror, portions of the upper dash may even be visible. In this case there is nothing between Lucy and Desi in the front seat except a steering wheel and a steering column which is visible below where it would be hidden by dash or even engine compartment. In fact the passengers are visible down to, and briefly past, the waist line. Possibly Rule of Funny.
109* Done purposefully in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': This is seen in Xander's dream in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E22Restless Restless]]" when his girlfriend Anya is driving their ice cream truck. "I think I've figured out how to steer by gesturing emphatically."
110* Like everything else in ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', the back projection when Richie and Eddie are "driving" was [[RefugeInAudacity sped up to such a ludicrous rate that it couldn't help but be hilarious]].
111* Commonly observed in ''Series/YesMinister'' and ''Yes, Prime Minister'', usually when the minister is being driven from the airport to his office.
112* The Series/MythBusters have done this a few times, though generally they show the chroma key background to the audience at some point as a LampshadeHanging.
113* Norwegian comedy trio KLM spoofed this when they parodied a movie from TheGreatDepression era. The road behind the driver is apparently going the wrong way, or upside down. The most hilarious take is when you get a ''sideways'' angle of the driver, and the road is passing ''away'' from you in the window beside him...
114* The 200th episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', "The 200th in the 10th, is a {{Homage}} to movies of TheFifties. As such, this trope is in full force whenever the characters are driving a car.
115* ''Series/ModernFamily'': In "Manny Get Your Gun", the Dunphys are seen driving to Manny's party. The steering wheel fails to turn in spite of curvy streets. In one of the cars, the steering wheel seems to be locked.
116* Brazlian sitcom ''Os Normais'' had an unusually elaborate car scene setup for a series made already in the chroma-key era. The rig basically consisted of a car mockup between two huge rotating physical cylinders with [[WraparoundBackground wraparound backdrops]] of store fronts, buildings and the like printed on their surfaces, so their rotation would give the impression of stuff on either side of the road passing by. The scenes usually took place at night so the middle part of the road was just pitch black darkness the backgrounds faded to. A chase scene from TheMovie that took place during the day (and used deliberately bad MiniatureEffects for external shots of the cars for comical effect, think ''Series/Danger5'') got around this by only showing profile shots of the driver, so only the cylinder itself (outfitted with an appropriate daylight image) would appear.
117* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': Unfortunately painfully obvious in "Three for the Road" where much of the plot involves Mac being in a car with the two guest stars.
118* ''Series/MrRobot'': Used to highlight the unnatural nature of the scenario during [[ParodyEpisode the sitcom sequence in "m4ster-sl4ve.aes".]] Attention is even drawn to it when [[spoiler: Tyrell Wellick]] crashes into the green screen at the back of the set while trying to escape.
119* Used with projection in pretty much any driving scene in ''Series/MurderSheWrote'', even into the mid 1990s when ChromaKey became a more common method.
120* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': While this show is usually pretty good about avoiding this trope, In the Season 15 finale, Vance is driving a car that is clearly still in park.
121* Referenced in ''Series/TopGear'' during the Alfa Romeo challenge, when Jeremy notices how far he can move the steering wheel of Richard's Spider without the wheels moving:
122-->'''Jeremy:''' You could drive this through an American movie!
123* ''Series/DoctorWho'' had the worst case of this in "The Claws of Axos." The effect used blue-screen... ''but the driving footage wasn't overlaid onto the bluescreen.''
124* ''Series/HarryHillsTVBurp'': Done literally when Harry converts his desk into a car, drives out of the studio, then onto the highway... then a racetrack... then a ski slope... then he takes flight before finally returning to the studio.
125* Naturally occurs in ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' as a series that mostly was filmed in the 70s, but [[Recap/ColumboS02E05 Requiem for a Falling Star]] stands out for a fakeout where it looks like the murderer of the episode is fleeing the cops in an obvious Driving a Desk moment... and then the camera zooms out to reveal it is an ''in-universe'' Driving a Desk moment -- she's filming a driving scene for her movie.
126* Parodied on ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}'', where the Countess drives Melissa down an obviously projected road in an obviously stationary car -- so obvious that she has a whole musical number while shimmying around in the carseat.
127-->'''Melissa:''' Shouldn't you be...driving right now...
128* [[Recap/TheMinistryOfTimeS03E01WithTimeOnHisHeels The season 3 opener]] of ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'' is a homage to Creator/AlfredHitchcock. As such, the driving scenes use this method deliberately to make them look more like a Hitchcock movie.
129%% * This tended to happen in a lot of tokusatsu shows, including ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' series (carrying over into their American adaptations, ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', ''Series/VRTroopers'' and ''Series/BigBadBeetleborgs''), typically when depicting the in-suit actors together with the giant robot/giant monster/vehicle footage or the like. As time went on, this lessened in favor of better digital effects; the various American shows used green-screening but no rear projection which could look better or worse than the Japanese footage.
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133* Music/{{Chumbawamba}}: Among other things, the video for "Timebomb" shows various people sitting at tables and desks, only for the furniture to accelerate into the road and carry them through the traffic.
134* Used surreally in Music/PepeDeluxe's "Go Supersonic" video. The racecar drivers are just sitting in chairs, holding steering wheels that aren't attached to anything, sitting in front of a projected backdrop... and every camera shot is positioned to draw attention to this. Then, in some scenes, the chair actually do move as if they were cars. At one point, a chair even breaks down and starts belching smoke.
135* The video for Music/{{Yello}}'s "The Race" features one band member sitting in front of a rather abstract rear projection holding an unattached steering wheel. (Surreal, colorful rear projections were something of a SignatureStyle for the band.)
136* In the video for "Vacation" by Music/TheGoGos, they're supposed to be the water skiers seen in the video (and on the album's cover). The band members were actually filmed standing on boxes, invoking this trope.[[note]]The skiers seen in the video's wide shots were professional water skiers who acted as body doubles for the band.[[/note]]
137* Played for StylisticSuck in Music/{{Devo}}'s video for "Through Being Cool".
138* In Music/RebeccaBlack's video "Friday" the car is clearly not moving.
139* PlayedForLaughs in the music video for Music/{{Madness|Band}}'s ''Driving In My Car'', where random footage is used for the backdrop.
140* In Music/RobbieWilliams's ''Millennium'' music video, the background projection suddenly changes from a moving background to what's seen at the end of the film.
141* Music/GreenDay's video for "Holiday" is primarily centered around this trope.
142* Used for humorous effect in [[Music/AbneyPark Abney Park's]] music video of their cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWTQ5y9oziA Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]].
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146* ''Series/HRPufnstuf'': Witchy-Poo drives her FlyingBroomstick with a steering wheel, except her movements of the wheel don't seem to affect which way the broom goes at all.
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150* In the ''Music/{{Madness|Band}}'' JukeboxMusical, ''Our House''. Joe and his friends sit in his [[TheAllegedCar alleged car]] while a moving road is projected into the background to the tune of "Driving In My Car". The road changes to a rollercoaster track, then [[Film/ANewHope Death Star trenches]] while the gang swing lightsabers.
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154* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' features an especially low-tech variation. For any driving scenes in the various in-universe ''Dangeresque'' movies, Strong Bad would film himself in a stationary car, outdoors. To simulate the car's motion, another character would repeatedly run past the window while wearing a prop on their head.
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158* ''WebVideo/ItalianSpiderman'', in its many homages to poorly-made foreign movies, includes this in the motorcycle chase scene.
159* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. Kit sometimes uses green-screened backgrounds to simulate him either driving or jogging somewhere to supposedly get gift cards for a scammer. This can sometimes result in this effect, such as [[https://youtu.be/_rN7QDWAYl4?t=480 here]] where it looks like Kit is jogging in place and the background is moving behind him.
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163* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': In "To Catch a Taz" (a homage to Creator/AlfredHitchcock films, especially ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''), this is revealed to be happening during a chase scene when Wendal gets out of his car (which is on rollers) and casually walks up to Taz as the scenery continues to race by in the background.
164* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Mecha Streisand" when Chef's driving and the background behind him is a live action mountain road.
165* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/{{Carrotblanca}}'', where during a flashback the rear-projection is actually live-action to further distract from the animated characters.
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