History Main / WhoIsDriving

** In "Thomas comes to Breakfast", Thomas decides to creep outside the shed, and "wheesh" loudly to make the others jump. He believes he can move by himself, but this only happens because a careless cleaner had meddled with his controls. He then finds himself moving along unable to stop, and crashes into the station master's house, while he and his family are having breakfast.* Happens when Chef decides to join Chris in the main body of the plane during ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]''.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' had Thomas realize that he's moving all by himself without a driver and crashing into a house at the end of the track he's on.
* Happens when Chef decides to join Chris in the main body of the plane during ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]''.

* "Series/StargateAtlantis": At the end of "Sateda", Ronon has just been rescued by Sheppard, Teyla, McKay and Beckett aboard a Puddle Jumper. They share a few moments before realizing that none of them are piloting.

A Doritos commercial has a boy on a school bus with some Doritos in hand, which leads to everyone crowding around him for one... including the bus driver.

--> '''McKay:''' [not in the cockpit] Me.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], the Doctor and his companions are chasing a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and jump onto his private jet just as it's taking off. Unfortunately they realise they've been LuredIntoATrap when it turns out the man they were chasing isn't on board.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'', On the way to college, Max and PJ are trying to read the map, but Max is confused about which way is the right way to go and PJ admits that he has no sense of direction, so Bobby decides to help them read the map by pointing to the correct locations. Thing is, Bobby's supposed to be driving the van, and ends up driving it right through a cornfield.

* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'': This happens with a blimp at the beginning of the Orange Islands arc. Twice. With the same blimp.

** Similarly in ''Film/SilverStreak'', after the BigBad has killed the train's engineer, an official in railroad's control doesn't believe that the train is a runaway, because of its DeadmansSwitch. He actually says "If the engineer's dead, then who's driving the train?" Smash cut to the deadmans' switch, which was being held down by a heavy toolbox.

* In the third ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' film, ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheHauntsOfEvil''. The gang is on Doraemon's boat sailing along the Congo River, when Gian - who's supposed to be steering - goes to the deck to join the others in taunting some crocodiles. Doraemon suddenly asks this question when seeing the whole gang on top deck, seconds before the boat hits some rocks and starts sinking in the gator-infested river. Gian expectedly blames himself over the incident later on.

** In the first episode, Sector V hijacks a ice cream truck to grill info on the driver (ice cream men are {{Mooks}} work for the BigBad in this cartoon). They soon come across a blockade and Numbuh 4 goes to Numbuh 1, who are on top of the truck, to tell him this:

** In Operation: C.A.K.E.D.T.W.O., where Numbuh 1 boards the Delightful Children's airship, only to find that it's a decoy, with Lizzie and four other kids posing as the Delightful Children:

'''Numbuh 1:''' Yes, that and why no one seems to be steering this ship... ''(Cue MassOhCrap from everyone before it crashes.)''
** In the series finale "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S," Number 1 starts to feel depressed while they're in one of their flying machines, and his teammates rally around him to give him a successful pep talk. Number 1 immediately springs into action giving everyone their orders.

'''Numbuh 1:''' ''([[CasualDangerDialogue deadpan]])'' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Steer the ship, we're about to hit a mountain.]]

* ''Fanfic/MariaCanpbellOfTheAstralClocktower'': When Maria's carriage is finally repaired, she needs to go somewhere in the rain, so she tells her driver to go home. Her boyfriend and his coworker spend several minutes trying and failing to get Maria to understand that ''carriages aren't supposed to be able to move without a driver''. Apparently, as a reincarnate from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', Maria's carriage will just automatically move exactly as she wishes, no matter whether she's paying attention or even awake.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', we see Air Force One caught in a bad storm. Upon being told that the pilot has bailed (whether that means he abandoned the plane or succumbed to motion sickness is left unclear), then-President Bill Clinton asks who's flying the plane. The answer: Everyone. In that everyone left on the plane was fighting over the wheel.
** Later that episode, after Freakazoid alters history by averting the Pearl Harbor attack, we see the same situation unfold, only with [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain The Brain]] as the President of the United States. Much like a similar incident in his own show, Pinky took the wheel.

* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'': Occurs many times on the bus. Yumi hangs it in "Number Please".

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** Near the end of the 1952 WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short "Two Weeks' Vacation", Goofy runs into [[RunningGag the trailer he kept running into throughout the cartoon]], where a wild party is being held in the back. As he finally passes the trailer, he shouts "Why don't you watch where you're going?", only to find to his shock that the driver has decided to join the party and there's nobody driving the car.

* Another variant comes from ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', where the Cat and the kids are in pursuit of Larry and Nevins in the Cat's wacky [[CoolCar S.L.O.W.]]. The kids' fish complains someone else should drive after the Cat runs a red at an intersection. He agrees, and shifts the steering wheel over ''to Conrad'' (who is only 12 years old, as the Cat [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]]). Sally wants a turn, so the Cat passes a ''second'' steering wheel over to her. Then Conrad [[OhCrap realizes two people can't drive at the same time]]. The Cat agrees -- "We should all drive!" A ''third'' steering wheel pops up in front of him, and soon the S.L.O.W. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome is sent into a tailspin because of three people all attempting to control it.]]

* In ''[[https://youtu.be/xU6NCwX4tdk this]]'' ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' fancomic, the JoJos are all on a plane and Josuke is wondering which JoJo is flying. It then turns out to be Joseph Joestar... [[RunningGag with the plane soon crashing down]].