History DrivesLikeCrazy / WesternAnimation

** The 1950 cartoon ''WesternAnimation/MotorMania'' has Goofy as Mr. Walker, a mild-mannered suburbanite who [[JekyllAndHyde quite literally becomes a different person behind the wheel]]: the ill-tempered reckless driver Mr. Wheeler.
** Max actually plays clips from this short in an episode of ''House of Mouse'', to get even with his dad for not letting him get a car.
** Goofy gets to be a bad driver again in the feature film ''A Goofy Movie'', with one notable instance where he is reading the road map ''while driving'', causing Max to tell him to put the map away after he nearly had a head-on collision with a truck.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

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* Leni Loud from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' has failed her driving test 14 times, and, as Lori notes, she can't even drive a lawnmower without Lincoln and his sisters "speaking Leni". However, she's downplayed this trope after finally getting her license in "Driver's Dread".

** In early episodes, [=SpongeBob=] states that he does know how to drive quite well and memorized all the boating rules, but he just gets nervous behind the wheel and can't focus. Due to {{Flanderization}}, he became genuinely stupid and frequently caused [[WalkingDisasterArea massive property damage]] to the ''entire city'' during his tests, before his old characterization was restored following the second movie.

** In early episodes, Spongebob states that he does know how to drive quite well and memorized all the boating rules, but he just gets nervous behind the wheel and can't focus. Due to {{Flanderization}}, he became genuinely stupid and frequently caused [[WalkingDisasterArea massive property damage]] to the ''entire city'' during his tests, before his old characterization was restored following the second movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': Hoo boy, [=SpongeBob=], to the point that this trope should be renamed "Driving Like [=SpongeBob=]".

--->'''[=SpongeBob=]''': [[LetsGetDangerous Ya don't need a license to drive a sandwich.]]

** Homer also has his moments. Once, while driving down the road, covered his chest with nacho makings... then, needing to make room for the last ingredient, leaned his seat back so far that he couldn't see out the windshield at all. Another time, he's too busy singing about the fact he's about to crash into a chestnut tree to actually attempt to avoid the tree. He has also been observed making fondue while behind the one, once had an oven in his car that he used while driving and tried to drive with a bucket stuck in his head with only two tiny eye-holes. He also once had a smoke machine operating in the car, to which he said something to the effect of "This is stupid, even for me." Homer's ability to get frequently distracted behind the wheel has sometimes lead to Lisa [[KidsDrivingCars being forced to take the wheel instead]], and her lack of reaction seems to suggest that this has long since become a ''normal'' thing for her.

** This is typically averted with ''Bart'' of all people, who has been [[KidsDrivingCars a competent driver from a young age]] and at one point drove three of his friends to Knoxville, Tennessee ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield apparently a long road trip]]) without any incidents in the actual process of travel. However, in "Burns' Heir" he's gifted a car by Mr. Burns and drives it straight through a Santa's Village due to not being able to see over the dash, and the episode "Little Big Girl" contains an OpeningShoutOut where—after managing to attain a legal driver's license from the town—he takes his typical skateboard trip home from school in Homer's car instead and hits all the pedestrians he usually passes on the way.

** This is typically averted with ''Bart'' of all people, who has been [[KidsDrivingCars a competent driver from a young age]] and at one point drove three of his friends to Knoxville, Tennessee ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield apparently a long road trip]]) without any incidents in the actual process of travel. However, the episode "Little Big Girl" contains an OpeningShoutOut where, after managing to attain a legal driver's license from the town, he takes his typical skateboard trip home from school in Homer's car instead and hits all the pedestrians he usually passes on the way.

--> '''Lisa''': [[WackyParentSeriousChild Yeah, I got it!]]

** The [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen]] demonstrates these tendencies in one episode. When she can't go across Tower Bridge because it hasn't lowered, her response is to ''jump the gap''. Keep in mind that she's doing this in a bus filled with kindergarten-age children.[[note]]And not to mention Her Majesty actually can drive normally and excellently in real life so apparently her Peppa Pig counterpart is the exact opposite.[[/note]]

** He can never pass his driving (boating) test properly, ''[[UpToEleven not even in his dreams]]''. Once his teacher passes him just to get him out of her class, but becomes overwhelmed by guilt and fear thanks to an ImagineSpot of [=SpongeBob=] running over pedestrians, causing mass destruction, and herself being publicly shamed on the news.

* Leni Loud from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' has failed her driving test 14 times, and, as Lori notes, she can't even drive a lawnmower without Lincoln and his sisters "speaking Leni". As of "Electshunned", she ''still hasn't tried again''.

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': [[OnlySaneMan Slinkman]] of all people turned into this when he had the IdiotBall. First he nearly wrecked a bus full of children due to the horrible shock of Lazlo agreeing to sit next to a [[GirlsHaveCooties girl]]. Later on, he was mocking and deliberately crashing through every sign he saw -- ''still'' in a bus full of children -- because he was disappointed with their latest field trip.

** He also appeared in a couple of educational shorts in the 1960s, playing various types of bad drivers seen in the then newly constructed freeway system.