History Main / DriveInTheater

* The commercial for ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'' that was part of the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast's "It's Thinking" ad campaign depicted video game characters at a drive-in, watching trailers for upcoming games. There was also a fan-made commercial for the cancelled Dreamcast port of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' that was merely this same commercial but with ''Half-Life'' gameplay and box art sloppily pasted in. View the original ad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tuKt9pxJzQ here,]] and the ''Half-Life'' version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDjFRH6hzA8 here]].

* Website/{{Wikipedia}} describes the Australian feature ''Film/DeadEndDriveIn'' as "a 1986 science-fiction Ozploitation Film about a teenage couple who become trapped in a drive-in theater which is really a concentration camp for societal rejects who are fed a steady diet of junk food, rock and pop music, and movies."

* ''Film/OurManFlint'': One of the fantasy make-out areas inside the GALAXY base is designed to look like a drive-in theater.

Some history:

'''The Beginning:''' The drive-in theater was created in 1933 by chemical company magnate Richard M. Hollingshead Jr., who opened the first one in Pennsauken Township, UsefulNotes/NewJersey. It was popular enough that [[FollowTheLeader similar theaters began to open around the country]]. The drive-in became known as a place where a family could enjoy watching movies from the privacy of their car.

'''The Rise:''' Drive-ins really took off after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII; by their peak in the late [[TheFifties 1950s]] and early [[TheSixties 1960s]], there were more than 4,000 drive-ins all across America. While they continued to show mainstream Hollywood fare for families, they also became popular with teenagers, who would come to see the latest {{B Movie}}s (which usually dealt with ScienceFiction monsters, juvenile {{delinquents}}, and [[TheNewRockAndRoll early rock & roll]]). Of course, teens also took advantage of the privacy factor, which made drive-ins notorious as "[[MakeOutPoint passion pits]]" (equivalent to "Creator/{{Netflix}} and chill" in TheNewTens). In the popular imagination, drive-ins are still associated with these tropes derived from the 1950s. However, this heyday couldn't last...

'''The Fall:''' Drive-ins gradually declined for a number of reasons. The real estate they sat on became too valuable to "waste" on a business that could operate for only a few hours a day, a few months of the year, and even then was subject to bad weather. The 1970s energy crisis drove up the cost of gas, making outings to drive-ins more expensive, while the subsequent adoption of daylight saving time meant that movies started later in the summer months. Meanwhile, audiences began turning to cable TV and [[HomeVideoTropes home video]] for their movie fix, or hitting up the then-new concept of the multiplex theater. Some drive-ins responded by changing their emphasis from family fare to the [[DarkerAndEdgier increasingly violent and sexually explicit]] exploitation and [[HorrorTropes horror]] films that were, ironically, the successors to the 1950s {{B Movie}}s.

'''The Resurgence:''' Beginning in TheNineties, and continuing thru the TurnOfTheMillennium and still going strong in TheNewTens, drive-ins have enjoyed a {{revival}}; a few new theaters have even opened in the last few years. Some of this is due to Baby Boomer nostalgia, although many current drive-in visitors are too young to remember the medium's heyday. Also, a "guerrilla drive-in" movement has developed to show films in parks, parking lots and other open urban spaces. Although it's unlikely that drive-ins will ever again be as numerous as they were during TheFifties, it seems that they're here to stay -- at least for the foreseeable future.

** One of the settlements the player can establish in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' is a drive-in.
* In ''VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert'', one of the places that could be attacked by the giant ants was the local drive-in.

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* ''Film/NorthvilleCemeteryMassacre'' includes a scene where a bunch of motorcycles pull up to a drive-in theater (specifically, the now-abandoned Jolly Roger Drive-In in the UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} suburb of Taylor).

'''The Fall:''' Drive-ins gradually declined for a number of reasons. The real estate they used became too valuable to "waste" on a business which could operate for only a few hours a day, a few months a year, and even then was subject to bad weather. The 1970s energy crisis drove up the cost of gas, making outings to drive-ins more expensive, while the subsequent adoption of daylight saving time meant that movies started later in the summer months. Meanwhile, audiences began turning to cable TV and [[HomeVideoTropes home video]] for their movie fix, or hitting up the then-new concept of the multiplex theater. Some drive-ins responded by changing their emphasis from family fare to the [[DarkerAndEdgier increasingly violent and sexually explicit]] exploitation and [[HorrorTropes horror]] films that were, ironically, the successors to the 1950s {{B Movie}}s.

* When Music/RascalFlatts covered "Life Is A Highway" for ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', the music video took place at a drive-in with the movie playing on the screen and real-life counterparts to the main characters in the lot.

* Finn and Marceline crash one of these in at end of the the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Go With Me".* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Roger gaining some old 80's movies and a pack of cars mistakenly sent to the Smith house. Steve, in another attempt to get a girl, has Roger play the movies on the side of the neighboring house while Steve, his friends, and the current girl of his attention and her friends watch from the cars as a makeshift drive-in.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'': The characters are watching parodies of other Creator/{{Pixar}} films at the end of the movie; since they're all vehicles of some sort, of course it's a drive-in theatre.

* The one-hour ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' special "Runaway Reptar", begins with the babies at a multi-screen drive-in theater to see a Reptar movie.

* An abandoned drive-in is present in the ''Stilwater'' of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', just north of Stilwater University, and used as part of one of the [[ProfessionalKiller Hitman]] Activities. Complete with boarded up building, old speakers on poles, rusted up cars, and [[{{Hobos}} homeless bums]]!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* The Jersey Drive-In is the battleground for the penultimate episode of ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' in "Universal Remote". It's mentioned that Coop destroyed all the other drive-ins in Jersey. They also sneak Goat in the trunk of Megas because sneaking people into the drive-through is a "time-honored tradition".
* ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' episode "Spins a Web" shows the students seen into a Movie Within a Show on a drive-in screen in which they soon find themselves. As with most shows to feature a drive-in that isn't a period piece, a BMovie is being shown.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Drive Insane" features the Warners crashing Dr. Scratchansniff's date at a drive-in theater. There's a joke featuring them bouncing around in the car that will go over the heads of kids [[ParentalBonus but will mean plenty to adults]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' episode "Future Scope" features a drive-in movie theater, one of many RetroUniverse aspects of the series.
* The one-hour ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' special, "Runaway Reptar", begins with the babies at a multi-screen drive-in theater to see a Reptar movie.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Good Times, Bat Times" begins at a drive-in theater.
* Part of the ''WesternAnimation/PacMan'' episode "Pacula" took place at a drive-in theater.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' movie has a parody of snack bar advertisements in which friendly, anthropomorphic snack food mascots are replaced by the metal band Mastodon.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' episode "At the Drive-In". Watching the movie, Little Dog comments on how bad the movie is and wonders why people would go there. Cue the [[AutoErotica bouncing and rocking cars]]. When they first tried to get in, Little Dog tried to buy ''one'' ticket but the woman at the booth noticed they were in two. Little Dog said Big Dog was his dog and she told him pets weren't welcome. Little Dog then drove away, hid Big Dog inside the trunk, returned and bought a ticket. Big Dog entered for free. Little Dog also wanted to enter for free so they exited and Big Dog drove back in, buying a ticket. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Little Dog was happy he entered for free]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'':
** In "At the Movies", the two go to a drive-in, but since they naturally don't have a car, they wander around. They flush an M-80 down a restroom toilet, steal the snack bar's candy in the ensuing commotion, and are confronted by a security guard who shoots himself in the foot before he can apprehend them.
** Subverted in the 2011 {{revival}} episode "Tech Support": the boys go to the site of an shuttered drive-in ("Abandoned drive-ins kick ass!"), only to find an office building in its place.
* The credits of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' were "projected" onto a drive-in screen.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper's Haunted Christmas]]'' begins with the Ghostly Trio wreaking havoc at a drive-in.
* Synergy, the supercomputer of Jerrica "WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}" Benton and her family, was found at the Starlight Drive-In.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RubySpearsSuperman'' episode "Bonechill", the titular villain makes the monsters from a BMovie shown at a drive-in come to life.
* Finn and Marceline crash one of these in at end of the the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Go With Me".
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Roger gaining some old 80's movies and a pack of cars mistakenly sent to the Smith house. Steve, in another attempt to get a girl, has Roger play the movies on the side of the neighboring house while Steve, his friends, and the current girl of his attention and her friends watch from the cars as a makeshift drive-in.
* Was the focus of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' when Riley starts working there but finds the manager too strict and has him replaced with a film director [[spoiler:who promptly gets the place closed down due to horrible management]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
** In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbCandaceGetsBusted Candace Gets Busted]]", Doofenshmirtz used to watch drive-in movies from one of his windows (despite being unable to hear the stories) until a new condo was built between the drive-in theater and the headquarters of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated. He could have solved the trouble by moving his chair and the lamp to another window but he instead tried to move the building away.
** Many years before the show, Doofenshmirtz dated Linda Flynn, taking her to a drive-in. He smuggled her in in the trunk of his car to save on the ticket price.
* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch sneak off to a drive-in movie in "The Bear Who Came to Dinner" (about Square Bear faking an injury). Botch secretly tags along and calls Peevly to squeal on them.
* At the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Popcorn Pandemonium", Rocko and Heffer treat Mr. Bighead's big-screen TV like a drive-in, as there isn't a drive-in theater in O-Town. After Heffer and Mr. Bighead inadvertently destroy the TV with a channel-changing war (the former wants to watch a sci-fi movie, while the latter is trying to watch a football game), Rocko and Heffer go to the Googa Plex cinema, getting the main plot underway. At the end of the episode, a disaster with Filburt's glasses and the [[OutOfControlPopcorn popcorn storage room]] results in the theater being destroyed, making its remains look like a drive-in.

* The second ''Literature/SnarkoutBoys'' novel by Creator/DanielPinkwater deals with the secret history of the drive-in as a major plot point. The book claims that the original "drive-in" was a stage show in UsefulNotes/{{Romania}} in the 1800s, which the peasants hated so much that they burned it down and drove the purveyor out of the country. The climax of the book is at the world's largest drive-in theater, founded by a descendant of the original inventor. [[BrickJoke A Romanian pyromaniac shows up and sets the entire lot on fire.]]

* Creator/IanFleming's ''Literature/DiamondsAreForever'' has a scene in UsefulNotes/LasVegas where Literature/JamesBond is in a cab being pursued by a pair of gunmen, and the driver attempts (unsuccessfully) to shake them by going to a drive-in where a movie is playing.
* Joe Lansdale's "The Drive-In" takes place [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in one of these theaters]].

* In "Everything's Changed" by Music/{{Lonestar}}, the narrator laments all of the things that have changed in his hometown — but the one thing that stays the same is how much he still loves her. One of the things that's changed is "That old drive-in is a new UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}".
* PostPunk band Music/AtTheDriveIn, who take their name from a lyric in Music/{{Poison}}'s "Talk Dirty To Me."

* In 1958, Gary Shelton (later known as TeenIdol Troy Shondell) released a single called "Kissin' at the Drive-In".
* "Drive-In Saturday" by Music/DavidBowie.
* In "Night Moves", Music/BobSeger remembers a time when he and his girlfriend were "Tryin' to make some front page drive-in news".
* The Velvet Monkeys' song "Drive-In".

* A verse from Music/NatKingCole's "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer":
-->''Don't hafta tell a girl and fella about a drive-in\\
Or some romantic moon it seems\\
Right from the moment that those lovers start arrivin'\\
You'll see more kissin' (WolfWhistle) in the cars than on the screen''
* From Music/RoxyMusic's "Virginia Plain":
-->''Last picture shows down the drive-in\\
You're so sheer, you're so chic\\
Teenage rebel of the week''

* Music/BobSeger's "Night Moves", which also features Matt [=LeBlanc=] as one of the moviegoers. The song was recorded in 1976, but the video was filmed in 1994 to help promote his GreatestHits CD.
* The Hooters' "And We Danced" has the band performing at a drive-in theater.
* Music/BryanAdams' "Summer of '69" video features him painting the screen at a drive-in theater during the second verse. He falls asleep on the job and is still up there when the movie starts.
* The video for Jon Music/BonJovi's "Blaze of Glory" from the ''Film/YoungGunsII'' soundtrack has him performing the song at a decrepit drive-in atop a cliff in the American southwest. Scenes from the movie play on the screen (until the screen catches fire, reflecting a [[{{Pun}} blaze]] in the film scenes being shown).
* The video for Music/LanaDelRey's cover of "Doin' Time" takes place in a drive-in showing a movie about a GiantWoman, played by Del Rey. When a woman in the drive in is cheated on, the giantess steps out of the screen to exact revenge.

* ''VideoGame/{{Vigilante 8}}: 2nd Offense'' had a level set in a desert which featured one of these; driving through the screen would get you a power-up and (depending on the character) is necessary to complete the level.

* One of the fields in ''[[VideoGame/BackyardSports Backyard Baseball]]'' is Starlite Orchards Drive-In.
* One of the stages in the first ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' has a drive-in theater. It even plays a full-length movie during one mission.

* The multiplayer map "Drive-In" from ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' is set in an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin abandoned drive-in]]. Besides having an arcade with ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' games, the old movie screen has a chunk torn out of it to make an effective sniping post.
* One of the levels in ''VideoGame/TwistedMetalBlack'' is a drive-in theatre. A well placed missile can destroy the screen.

* The third location VideoGame/AlanWake visits in ''American Nightmare'' is an old drive-in theater out in the UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}} desert. [[spoiler:He uses the film projector there to finally destroy Mr. Scratch.]]
* In the first level of ''VideoGame/MysticWarriors'', the protagonists have to fight their way through a drive in lot, whee the screen is showing the opening sequence from ''VideoGame/SunsetRiders''.
* One of the fighting levels in ''VideoGame/RivalSchools'' is a drive-in lot.

* A Creator/CheechAndChong skit, Pedro and Man at the Drive In, has the titular characters sneak a couple of their friends into a drive in theater. Hilarious antics ensue when Man accidentally breaks the key in the trunk's lock and has to go find a crowbar to get them out. And totally forgets.

* ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheStarlightDriveIn'', an award-winning graphic novel written by Michael Sangiacomo, is an anthology of stories set at a single drive-in over 53 years.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': In the first issue, the Autobots go to a drive-in theater during their first night on Earth, thinking that cars and trucks are sentient and that the drive-in is a church of some sort. It takes them a while to realize it's the little fleshy things ''inside'' the cars that are the ones watching the movie.
* ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Dead: Hunger]]'' has zombies attacking unsuspecting moviegoers at a rundown drive-in theater.

* ''Film/{{Targets}}'' ends with a sniper taking potshots at patrons at a drive-in theater. He is eventually faced down by Creator/BorisKarloff's character.
* ''Film/SpiesLikeUs'': A Star Wars-style anti-missile system is hidden underneath an old run-down drive-in theater.
* ''Film/OurManFlint'': One of the fantasy make-out areas inside the GALAXY base is designed to look like a drive-in theater.
* A tornado attacks one during ''Film/{{Twister}}'', complete with ShoutOut to ''Film/TheShining'', matching the "Here's Johnny!" scene to the tornado crashing into said theater.
* ''Film/{{Grease}}'' had a couple of scenes at one, including the musical number "Sandy".
* There's an especially bad slasher film called ''Film/DriveInMassacre''.
* There's another DTV slasher film simply called ''Drive-In'', and it's surprisingly decent.
* ''Film/{{Explorers}}'' has a memorable scene where the home-built spaceship flies slowly across the screen of a drive-in movie theater in the middle of a campy 1950's sci-fi schlockfest. A patron in one of the cars complains that the special effects look fake, thinking it's part of the movie, and claims to be able to see the string. Then the ship turns and zooms right over his head, and he spills his popcorn in shock.

* In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', Sean and his dad sit on their roof with a radio and binoculars so they can watch movies showing at a nearby drive-in without having to pay for tickets.
* In ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'', Dotty insists early in the movie that Pee-wee take her to the drive-in on a date. It's not until the end that he actually does it, and also [[spoiler: runs into almost every other character he's met so far, all present in different vehicles and eating different classic movie snacks.]].
* One of the scenes in ''Film/AirBuddies'' has the puppies go to a drive-in theatre and interrupt the showing of ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. A biker gang is there watching the movie, and when the puppies pass by them... they ''literally'' PetTheDog.
* ''Film/NorthvilleCemeteryMassacre'' includes a scene where a bunch of motorcycles pull up to a drive-in theater (specifically, the now-abandoned Jolly Roger Drive-In in the UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} suburb of Taylor).
* In ''Film/RedDawn1984'', the DirtyCommunists turn this icon of American culture into a prison/reeducation camp.
* In ''Film/ThunderboltAndLightfoot'', some of the participants in a just completed vault robbery hide in the (huge) trunk of a 1950s Chevy, which goes over to the nearby drive-in as a vehicle with a couple of regular customers. Unfortunately, the clothes of the men hiding are exposed hanging out of the trunk, which causes the manager to call the police.

* ''Film/TheSugarlandExpress'': The fugitive couple watch a ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'' cartoon on the drive-in screen across from their motel room.
* Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' has Humbert sitting between Lolita and Mrs. Haze at a drive-in showing the Hammer Film ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein''. At a [[ShockingMoments shocking moment]] hands grab other hands, with awkward consequences.
* The original ''Film/ThatDarnCat'' features a ChaseScene at a drive-in.
* ''Film/BloodRage'' begins at a drive-in, where the killer (then a young boy) claims his first victim by hacking up a random patron up with an axe that was lying around... for some reason.
* The killer gets chased to a drive-in by angry bikers in ''Film/NewYearsEvil''. He escapes by knifing one of them and hijacking a car.
* In ''Film/OneCrazySummer'', Hoops and Cookie go to a drive-in that apparently serves popcorn in bags large enough to fill up a fourth of a car (which [[BigEater Cookie]] easily finishes long before the movie ends). Later several characters smuggle in a projector and use it to advertise Cassandra's music in the corner of the screen during a movie.
* In the "Julie" segment of the MadeForTV AnthologyFilm ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'', a student who has [[TeacherStudentRomance an unhealthy obsession with his teacher]] takes her on a date to a drive-in, knocks her out with [[SlippingAMickey a spiked drink]], then takes [[{{Blackmail}} compromising photos]] of her while she's unconscious.
* In ''Film/{{Heat}}'', Neil [=McCauley=] arranges to meet with Roger Van Zant's drop man in an abandoned drive-in. However, an assassin is hiding in the drop man's pickup truck. Chris Shiherlis covers Neil from the roof of the projection building. The two of them take down the assassin (which Neil has difficulty hitting because he's driving over the humps used to angle the cars to the screen). The pickup truck driver tries to flee, but just as he is about to exit, Michael Cheritto shoots him with a shotgun.
* ''Film/MidnightCowboy'' opens with a shot of the Big Tex Drive-In. It's daytime, so the the place is empty save for a boy riding a plastic horse in the playground area underneath the screen.
* ''Film/WhiteHeat'' has a scene where Cody Jarrett and his gang elude the police by driving into one of these.
* In ''Film/NightOfTheLepus'', a police officer interrupts the movie at a drive-in to announce: "There is a herd of [[KillerRabbit giant killer bunnies]] coming this way, and we need your help!" Amazingly, the audience actually takes him seriously.
* In ''Film/DCCab'', kidnapped Albert gets a message to the other cabbies about where he's being held prisoner: a farmhouse where he can hear airplanes and see a windmill and Creator/BruceLee. After some false leads, they find him near a drive-in theater that's playing Bruce Lee movies, its big screen being visible from Albert's position.
* ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' ends with Scott, Hope, and Cassie apparently at a drive-in, until a wide shot reveals they're shrunk down and sitting in one of Hank's VideoGame/MicroMachines watching ''Film/{{Them}}'' on Scott's phone.

* In ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'', Cliff Booth lives in a trailer behind the Van Nuys Drive-In Theater.

* The first present-day sequence in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' sees Rexy the ''Tyrannosaurus'' being pursued into one and causing mayhem.

** In the 2011 {{revival}} episode "Tech Support", the boys go to the site of an shuttered drive-in ("Abandoned drive-ins kick ass!"), only to find an office building in its place.

* On ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', the two go to a drive-in, but since they naturally don't have a car, they wander around. They take a picture of a hideous she-beast having sex in her van, and spend the rest of the episode fleeing her.
** Another ''B&B'' example: In the 2011 {{revival}} episode "Tech Support", the boys go to the site of an shuttered drive-in ("Abandoned drive-ins kick ass!"), only to find an office building in its place.

->''"If you're going to leave before seeing the next movie, ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis You're Stupid]]!''"''

* There was a one-hour ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' special, "Runaway Reptar", that was partly set at a drive-in theater.

* Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} describes the Australian feature ''Film/DeadEndDriveIn'' as "a 1986 science-fiction Ozploitation Film about a teenage couple who become trapped in a drive-in theater which is really a concentration camp for societal rejects who are fed a steady diet of junk food, rock and pop music, and movies."

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* Variation: In [[https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2022/05/20 this]] ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' script, Marigold mentions seeing movies at a "trot-in theater".

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': The climax of [[Recap/PsychS03E16AnEveningWithMrYang the third season finale]] takes place at a drive-in theater, the group having been directed there by serial killer Mr. Yang's riddles. Shawn's mother Madeleine, having been kidnapped by Yang earlier, is found in her rental car strapped to a bomb. Yang's identity is uncovered and [[spoiler:she]] is arrested following a conversation with Shawn in [[spoiler:her]] car.

* The bad guys on ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' had their base in an old drive-in.
* In an early episode of ''Series/That70sShow'' Eric, Donna, Kelso and Jackie go to the local drive-in to watch ''Film/TheOmen1976'' -- well, actually to make out.
* In ''Series/GreenAcres'', Oliver and Lisa go to a drive-in, while in the pick-up truck next to them, a couple are busy [[MakeOutKids making out with extreme passion]]. Oliver tries to pull the speaker off of the post, but it's too short, it flies back, smashing the driver's side window of that same vehicle. The couple is so busy with heavy necking that ''they never even notice''.

* One of the last episodes of ''Series/ColdCase'' began with a guy getting sniped in a drive-in.
* The ''Series/MissionImpossible'' episode "The Psychic" begins with Briggs receiving his assignment at a drive-in.

* ''Series/TheFactsOfLife'' had an episode that took place at the closing night of a drive-in.

* In "Last Whiff of Summer", the two-part fourth-season premiere of ''Series/TheMiddle'', the Hecks go to a drive-in.
* In one episode of ''Series/CallOfTheWildman'', a RascallyRaccoon has taken up residence in the local drive-in's snack bar and is helping itself to popcorn and chips. Turtleman chases it into the projection booth and catches it, then he and Neal watch the movie being shown that night from the Turtlemobile.