History Main / AirGuitar

* Motor Ed from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' enjoys air guitar and "Woaaaah!" noises. [[VerbalTic Seriously]]. So does [[HarmlessVillain Dr. Drakken]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'': Tino plays air guitar when he fantasizes of playing "Extreme Jacks" when looking for a sport he can participate. He had an agreement from Tish to never air guitar again. He does it again in the end of the episode.
* During ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow'' episode "World Anthem", Victor Volt tries to play the show's theme on a real electric guitar...but fails miserably. Then he shouts, "Throw me an ''air guitar''!" and immediately plays much better. This skill comes in handy when trying to counter Doctor Doctor's own song which would [[ItMakesSenseInContext literally "hypnotize the world" if successful.]]

** ''Total Drama Island'': "Up the Creek" features Cody doing this in the confession outhouse to celebrate partnering up with Gwen for a challenge; halfway through his solo the camera cuts to Gwen talking about how she thinks Cody is childish and annoying, then it cuts back to Cody (who is still playing) to prove her point.
** Rock & Spud, The Rockers from the ''Ridonculous Race'' SpinOff air guitar regularly, and Rock almost always does so after finishing a task. [[spoiler: Their air guitar skills even won them the leg in Finland.]]
* The end of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' features Steve and Snot playing air guitar to Joe Satriani's "Always With Me, Always With You."
* Episode 72 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' had Stumpy and Olaf play air guitar to Music/{{Jimi Hendrix}}'s music.
* ''WesternAnimation/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventures'' has Bill & Ted (like in the live action movie) do this. The medieval maidens even do it in an episode where they are reunited with the boys.

* At least one song in the ''VideoGame/JustDance'' series of games feature this...[[UpToEleven and then some!]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' short ''Riley's First Date?'', Riley's Dad ends up playing, with Jordan on air bass, after finding common ground in their music choices. Dad's Anger also ends up playing following...

* The title characters of ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' do it whenever they're happy. Their {{Evil Twin}}s in the sequel develop a "stealth" version (subtly twiddling their fingers as if picking guitar strings) because their boss despises air guitaring. The ending of the sequel has a newspaper headline announcing "Air Guitar cures air pollution".

'''Opus:''' ''(on the floor)'' Fatally embarrassed, the famous air guitarist slumps, dead and defeated.\\

-->'''Portnoy:''' ''(holding up lit pocket lighter)'' More!
-->'''Milo:''' Shall I let the Air Groupies in now?

-->'''Portnoy:''' ''(holding up lit lighter)'' More!

-->'''Steve:''' Shall I let the Air Groupies in now?

-->There's no guitar, it's only air!\\
I never won an award for real guitar!\\
They're just jumping around in tight pants!\\
There's already a job where you do that,\\
[[TakeThat it's called the lead singer!]]

* The video accompanying the ending theme for ''LightNovel/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'' has Yozora doing this...next to Sena, who's playing an actual electric guitar.

* Prussia from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' plays the guitar on a broom in one story.

Twin brother of the Air Drums. Less common versions are Air Violin and Air Piano; orchestral works usually elicit Air Conducting instead. Compare to ThatSynchingFeeling. A variant is the "substitute guitar". Tennis racquets and (in the UK and Australia) cricket bats are commonly used for this. See InstrumentalWeapon when this is done with weapons.

Twin brother of the Air Drums. Less common versions are Air Violin and Air Piano; orchestral works usually elicit Air Conducting instead. A variant is the "substitute guitar". Tennis racquets and (in the UK and Australia) cricket bats are commonly used for this. See InstrumentalWeapon when this is done with weapons.

[[caption-width-right:297:EXCELLENT!]]

* In the second ending of ''Manga/XxxHolic'' Maru, Moro and Mokona play air guitar, bass and drums.

* Prussia from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' does this with a broom in one story.
* In the ending of ''Anime/{{K}} Return of Kings'', Ren Goto does this... [[{{Adorkable}} on his sword]].

* [[SoBadItsGood Horribly]] invoked in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxOyGK1pMk music video]] for Music/{{Journey}}'s "Separate Ways" ... in some shots, the members of the band are shown playing air guitar, air keyboard, and air drums. Yes, ''real musicians'' are pretending to play the instruments they ''actually know how to play''.
* Slightly less badly, "(I Just) Died In Your Arms" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOwHzCHfgA starts off with]] an air...cello?
* Awesomely invoked in Music/{{Meshuggah}}'s video for "New Millenium Cyanide Christ." The video features the band headbanging in their tour bus, with the guitarists air guitaring (featuring the lead guitarist's accurate air soloing), the drummer hitting air drums with his real drumsticks, and the lead singer lip-syncing into a ballpoint pen. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_tSyJBsRQ Your mind will be blown.]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jx8zeY-a1A music video]] for "Chunky Chunky Air Guitar" by The Whitlams is a mockumentary about the 9th Annual Air Guitar World Championships.

* The music video for Area 7's "Nobody Likes A Bogan" features the tennis racquet/cricket bat substitute variant.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1n5H1ITqQ8 "Air Guitar"]] by comedy band Music/{{Tripod}} and Creator/TheUmbilicalBrothers, a miming comedy duo, is all about how ridiculous it is for somebody to win an award for air guitar.
--> "They're just jumping around in tight pants.
--> "There's already a job where you do that.
--> [[SelfDeprecation "It's called a lead singer."]]
** Then the Umbilical Brothers interrupt and they duel between a real guitar and an air guitar.

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* In the introduction to ''WebComic/KidRadd'', it's mentioned he's real cool, but by mid-'80s standards, and Radd does air guitar just to make that clear.

** Continued in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' with V, who plays the Air Violin and can conduct an Air Orchestra.

* ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'': When Bernard and Bianca go to Wilbur to take them to Australia, they find him singing along to the radio, including an air guitar solo.

No one's watching. Go ahead, rock along to [[EarWorm that song that won't leave your head]]. We won't tell anyone.

* When ''Literature/XandriCorelel'' first meets her love interest Diver, he's singing along to music and occasionally pausing to play air guitar.

[[caption-width-right:297:You, too, can be a pro air guitarist in these easy steps.]]

* In one of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s DVD extras Creator/JensenAckles does an epically funny mime to "Eye of the Tiger", including using his leg as an impromptu replacement for a guitar.

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[[caption-width-right:282: You, too, can be a pro air guitarist in these easy steps.]]

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