History Main / MotorcycleDominoes

* In ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'', you can knock over a bunch of motorcycles. Nothing happens, though the text says that "Someone has to answer to four angry people!"

[[caption-width-right:350:[[VisualPun The Domino's Effect]]]]

* In "A Life In A Day" from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', while [=SpongeBob=] is asking what made the biker gang all cranky after Patrick has enough of trying to live like Larry, he accidentally knocks all of the motorbikes in this effect. The bikers point out Patrick did exactly that to tick them off, resulting in them knocking [=SpongeBob=] in the air from the motorcycle circle.

* In "A Life In A Day" from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', while [=SpongeBob=] is asking what made the biker gang all cranky after Patrick has enough of trying to live like Larry, he accidentally knocks all of the motorbikes in this effect, resulting in the biker gang knocking him in the air from the motorcycle circle.

* Joke example: A small Norwegian truck driver walks into a GreasySpoon, and a group of bikers pick on him: pushing him around, taunting him, etc. The truck driver does nothing, just eats his meal as if nothing were going on. Then he leaves, and one of the bikers says to the waitress, "That Norwegian isn't much of a man, is he?" The waitress replies, "No, and he's not much of a truck driver either. He just ran his truck into a row of motorcyles parked outside."

A variant of this is a hero character walking into the wrong bar or otherwise ending up on the wrong side of a group of bikers and being tossed on to the street beaten and bloody by a jeering mob. The beaten hero then takes revenge by sabotaging the motorcycles in this way with his own vehicle, or doing something like tying them together so that anyone attempting to chase him ends up dominoing their own side.

It should be noted that this is ArtisticLicense, as in real life groups like this usually have a low ranking or prospective member guarding the motorcycles at all times - and something like this would fail to happen whether accidentally or by design.

* ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979'': After being thrown out of the biker bar, Selsome pauses to gloat over the fact that none of the bikers noticed him pocketing the fox tail. As he does so, he knocks over one of the bikes: triggeriing a domino chain reaction. Seconds later, the bikers are chasing him again.

* Turk does this in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', before JD arrives to heroically stop the bikers from pummeling Turk. The part about the bikers getting angry is then subverted, as JD makes up for the knocked-over bikes by buying them cappuccinos.
* TV Variation: in the first episode of the failed late [[TheEighties 80s]] Van Patten project ''Series/TheMaster'' ([[TheMovie feature-lengthified]] and [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 dubiously immortalized]] under the title ''Master Ninja''), the guy the camera is pointed at most of the time is first shown being thrown bodily out of a bar by a biker gang. In retaliation, he hooks their bikes together with steel cable and baits them into chasing his van, so that when they speed off, [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse the bikes pull themselves apart and send their riders flying onto the concrete]].

It should be noted that this is ''ArtisticLicense'', as in real life groups like this usually have a low ranking or prospective member guarding the motorcycles at all times - and something like this would fail to happen whether accidentally or by design.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E9RoadHogs Road Hogs]]", Mickey's scooter, which is sentient, knocks over some also sentient motorcycles owned by a gang of hog bikers and immedialty after that, Mickey accidentally knocks the sitting bikers themselves and they fall like dominoes as well.

* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers'': You do this to distract a bunch of futuristic bikers (The Monochrome Boys) at a bar, all to steal some matches.

* In "A Life In A Day" from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', while Spongebob is asking what made the biker gang all cranky after Patrick has enough of trying to live like Larry, he accidentally knocks all of the motorbikes in this effect, resulting in the biker gang knocking him in the air from the motorcycle circle.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Onward'', Wilden accidentally knocks over the pixies' parked bikes, angering them and necessitating an escape.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[VisualPun The Domino's Effect]]