History Main / LowSpeedChase

* Homer and Bart fleeing an angry mob in a parade float that tops out at 5 m.p.h.

** Kenny gets into a huge police chase in a battery-powered toy car.

** There's a tricycle race of appropriate speed between Eric and Kyle in "Cartoon Wars". A police car somehow loses control trying to keep up.

* ''Film/TheHeat'' has the overweight, out-of-breath and possibly slightly concussed Sgt. Mullins pursuing a drug dealer whose [[GroinAttack groin she just pulverised]] by yanking him down onto the fence he was trying to clamber over, both of them shambling and groaning. She eventually takes him down by throwing a watermelon at his back, knocking him down.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Kenny gets into a huge police chase in a battery-powered toy car.

* The ''FatherTed'' episode "Film/{{Speed}} Three" where Father Dougal is trapped on a milk float that will explode if the speed drops below eight miles an hour. Among other chase tropes, includes a scene where the float is careering towards a huge pile of CardboardBoxes, and Ted has to move them out of the way... [[OverlyLongGag one by one]].

* The ''VivaPinata'' cartoon had a chase on really slow moving forklifts.

* In ''SouthPark'', Kenny gets into a huge police chase in a battery-powered toy car.

* ''CockneysVsZombies'' has a scene where an elderly man with a Zimmerframe is chased by a [[ZombieGate shambling zombie]].

* In ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Reese's driving lesson turns into an EscalatingChase, eventually culminating in his leading the whole thing through the test course and passing with flying colours.

With that simple change, all the usual staples - the SheetOfGlass, the LemmingCops, the WronskiFeint - become ridiculous, while tropes like SloMoBigAir and EveryCarIsAPinto become downright surreal. Expect heaping helpings of {{Overly Long Gag}}s as characters desperately brace for an impact that's a long time coming. Relies heavily on WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome

** In the {{MST3K}}ed ''Film/SpaceMutiny'', the final chase is down an inside corridor between what looks like a handful of modified baggage carts (Mike and the Bots referred to them as 'floor waxers'). It's hard to look action-packed when it's pretty clear that any of the actors could get out on foot and run laps around the pursuers and pursued. The climactic showdown between the Hero and Villain ended with a chase in said carts, which is as undignified as one would imagine.

** In the {{MST3K}}ed ''Filom/SpaceMutiny'', the final chase is down an inside corridor between what looks like a handful of modified baggage carts (Mike and the Bots referred to them as 'floor waxers'). It's hard to look action-packed when it's pretty clear that any of the actors could get out on foot and run laps around the pursuers and pursued. The climactic showdown between the Hero and Villain ended with a chase in said carts, which is as undignified as one would imagine.

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* {{MST3K}} did this a lot, as it seems many low-budget movies [[EnforcedTrope didn't have the budget]] or influence to get permission to cordon off roads or exceed the speed limit.
** In the {{MST3K}}ed ''Space Mutiny'', the final chase is down an inside corridor between what looks like a handful of modified baggage carts (Mike and the Bots referred to them as 'floor waxers'). It's hard to look action-packed when it's pretty clear that any of the actors could get out on foot and run laps around the pursuers and pursued. The climactic showdown between the Hero and Villain ended with a chase in said carts, which is as undignified as one would imagine.
** Similarly, the EdwardDWoodJr movie ''Jail Bait'' features a car chase at about 20 MPH, possibly because Wood couldn't afford stunt drivers or insurance.

* The stair lift chase in the German movie ''[[DerWixxer Neues vom Wixxer]]''. It even ends in an [[EveryCarIsAPinto Every Stairlift is a Pinto]] moment.

* The ''FatherTed'' episode "{{Speed}} Three" where Father Dougal is trapped on a milk float that will explode if the speed drops below eight miles an hour. Among other chase tropes, includes a scene where the float is careering towards a huge pile of CardboardBoxes, and Ted has to move them out of the way... [[OverlyLongGag one by one]].

* The stair lift chase in the German movie ''[[DerWixxer Neues vom Wixxer]]''.

* In an episode of ''TheClevelandShow'' set in New York, Cleveland orders a taxi driver to chase after another taxi driver. However, being New York, there's so much traffic that Cleveland could have caught up to the driver by walking.

* ''{{The Fairly Odd Parents}}'': Timmy is trying to outrun his mind-controlled friends, who are trying to capture and brainwash him. However, their scooters are set to a mere 2 mph - any faster would mean they would spill their milk (the source of the mind control).

* One RobotChicken sketch featured a baby Terminator and robot dog battling it out in an epic low-speed chase.

* The ''FatherTed'' episode ''{{Speed}} Three' where Father Dougal is trapped on a milk float that will explode if the speed drops below eight miles an hour. Among other chase tropes, includes a scene where the float is careering towards a huge pile of CardboardBoxes, and Ted has to move them out of the way... [[OverlyLongGag one by one]].

* In an episode of ''7thHeaven'', Simon, a new driver, gets into a low speed car chase aided by his grandfather who has dementia but who is supposed to be helping him learn to drive.
* There are a few occasions of this in ''DoctorWho'', usually due to SpecialEffectsFailure - ''Warriors of the Deep'' featured the Myrka, which was unfortunately unfinished; as a result, it can barely move, and so characters can't really 'run' away from it. ''Day of the Daleks'' features a motorised tricycle on which the Doctor and Jo attempt to escape from the Ogrons (because Jon Pertwee had thought the tricycle was [[RuleOfCool cool]] - which, again, doesn't appear to go notably faster than walking speed.

* ''TheSimpsons'' had Sideshow Bob try to make an escape in the Wright Brothers' plane, while police cars drove slowly behind him trying to catch him with nets.
** Also, Chief Wiggum chasing the duck who took his badge.
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