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11	[[quoteright:465:[[Film/DirtyDancing https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dirty_dancing_car_change.jpg]]]]
12	[[caption-width-right:465:Nobody puts baby in a backseat with the wrong clothes.]]
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14	While changing the location of a show, a character, usually female, is pushed for time and changes her clothes in the back seat of a moving car. You can definitely expect to see a shapely leg waving around behind the driver as tights are pulled on.
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16	This may indicate that this character doesn't care about being seen nude or changing in public due to AmbiguousInnocence, she's a ShamelessFanserviceGirl, or it's simply that she was forced to do this because she's in a hurry and wouldn't normally change so publicly.
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18	Speaking of the driver, he will usually be male. The situation is often PlayedForLaughs as the changing character will [[NoPeekingRequest generally caution the driver]] to watch the road [[EatingTheEyeCandy instead of his passenger]]. Said driver will [[DistractedByTheSexy struggle to do so]]. May overlap with WatchingTheReflectionUndress if the driver uses the rearview mirror to sneak a peek.
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26	* Variant in a [=QuickChek=] commercial, in which a driver who's on his way to a sports event (where he's the coach) has to change his shirt in the ''front'' seat while stopping at one of the titular convenience stores for an oil change, only to see a woman in the car nearby staring at him. Later, at the game, it turns out her son is one of the other players, resulting in the following exchange:
27	-->'''Player:''' Coach, meet my mom.\
28	'''Mom:''' Do you always change at [=QuickChek=]?\
29	'''Coach:''' Just every three thousand miles.
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33	* ''Manga/GhostTalkersDaydream'': One early scene has Misaki changing in the backseat while Kadotake is driving. When she accuses him of peeking, he [[DriverFacesPassenger turns to face her]] and vehemently denies it, which causes him to almost crash the car since he wasn't watching the road.
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37	* ''ComicBook/BlackCatMarvelComics'': In issue #1, after a BlackTieInfiltration where Felicia had to wear a fancy black dress, she makes her escape from the event in a car driven by her henchmen. The ensuing ChaseScene has her changing out of the dress and into her SpyCatsuit uniform while in the backseat of the car.
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41	* ''WesternAnimation/HappyHalloweenScoobyDoo'': Daphne, as they flee in Elvira's car, [[InsaneTrollLogic suggests that she and Elvira swap outfits so that if the monsters go after Elvira for her celebrity status, they'll target Daphne instead]]. Elvira, oddly, buys it. In truth, it was actually Daphne pulling a non-lethal variant on KillAndReplace, and she'd done it before with Creator/PhyllisDiller.
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45	* ''Film/TwentySevenDresses'': The opening sees Jane hiring a cab for the whole night to shuttle between the two weddings she's bridesmaiding for on the same night. She tells the cabbie she'll dock his fare for every time he looks, and at the end of the night, she hands him less money than expected and says, "You know what you did." He nods as if that's fair.
46	* ''Film/BendItLikeBeckham'': After Jess's father agrees to let her slip out of her sister's wedding party to play in her football team's playoff game, she has to change out of her sari and into her uniform in the backseat of Tony's car. We aren't shown anything titillating, and Tony, who came out to her as gay earlier in the film, naturally doesn't pay any attention.
47	* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'': in the second movie, JJ and Victor get distracted seeing the shadows through the privacy screen of the "nuns" undressing in the backseat of their military limo, nearing going off the road multiple times.
48	* ''Film/DirtyDancing'': After doing a dance performance, Johnny and Baby are seen driving back home, with her changing out of her fancy dress in the backseat of the car as he drives. This is because she is keeping her activities a secret from her family and doesn't want to be seen in such an exotic outfit by anyone who knows her. Johnny takes the opportunity to sneak a peek through the rear-view mirror as she changes.
49	* ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'': To characterize Jamie as a big city girl who's always rushing, one of her introductory scenes is of her changing clothes in the backseat of a taxi while talking with her dad on the phone at the same time.
50	* ''Film/IronMan2'': During the climactic battle when ComicBook/BlackWidow changes into her [[SpyCatsuit standard battle outfit]] in the back of the Stark Industries limo while "Happy" Hogan is driving. Happy naturally can't stop himself from glancing in the rearview mirror but stops do so when he almost hits another car.
51	* Played purely for comedy in ''Film/JohnnyDangerously''. Johnny, Lil, and an accomplice are escaping by car after busting Johnny out of prison, and the two men make a point of changing outfits ''and'' the car's color from the backseat (Lil had layered shelf paper over it [[CrazyPrepared for just that purpose]]), but every time they do, they somehow get immediately spotted and another APB goes out with a description matching their new disguise. They eventually wind up dressed as nuns and driving a getaway car covered in "duckies and bunnies", to the police dispatcher's incredulousness.
52	* ''Film/LoganLucky'': While driving away after helping Joe escape prison, Mellie says she got some clothes for him since he can't stay in his [[InstitutionalApparel obvious prison clothes]] without attracting attention. He starts changing in the backseat on the spot, though not before he gives her a mocking NoPeekingRequest.
53	* ''Film/MagnumForce'' has a variation where a prostitute takes a taxi and proceeds to stuff the money she's just earned [[VictoriasSecretCompartment in her bra and panties]]. Realising the cab driver is watching her, she pretends to flash him. Unfortunately the fanservice scene does a MoodWhiplash when her pimp turns up and murders her for trying to hide the money from him.
54	* ''Film/NunsOnTheRun'': Done as a scene change gag. At one point Brian Hope and Charlie [=McManus=] take a taxi back into London whilst they're still [[DisguisedInDrag both in disguise as nuns]]. The two use the offscreen ride to ditch the outfits, leading to the scene cutting to them arriving and the taxi driver's utter bewilderment when they get out.
55	* At one point in ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', Mia does this in the backseat of the car driven by her chauffeur Joe. Played for slapstick as part of the RunningGag of her being a CuteClumsyGirl, with San Francisco's hilly terrain not helping matters.
56	-->'''Joe:''' I've never put on pantyhose, but it sounds dangerous.
57	* ''Film/PulpFiction'': GenderInvertedTrope. Bruce Willis's character, Butch, who just came from fighting in a boxing match, changes clothes in the back of a cab with the female driver [[WatchingTheReflectionUndress eye-balling him]] in the rear-view mirror.
58	* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'': In the third film, the hitchhiker Snowman picks up decides to change in the backseat, but questions him if he's going to perv on her. He swears he won't, but it is [[DistractedByTheSexy obvious that he does]]. This is different from the first movie, when the future Frog does change out of her wedding dress in the Trans Am but does it while in the front passenger seat.
59	* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Played With. Agent Moira [=McTaggart=] needs to infiltrate the Hellfire Club, but the CIA didn't really have any plans for how to get her inside. Noticing a bunch of scantily-clad women marching in a line inside as part of the entertainment, Moira quickly strips down and dashes out of the backseat of the car to fall in line, allowing her to get inside without anyone questioning it.
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63	* ''Literature/TheClique'': Kristen comes to Massie's car dressed in "ugly" and dull clothes. In the backseat, she pulls them off to reveal something shorter and more fashionable. Massie can't believe that Kristen's parents are this strict since she is [[SpoiledBrat Spoiled Rotten]] on her own.
64	* In the second ''Literature/WearingTheCape'' novel Hope and Jackie are in the back of a limo when they are called to duty. They change in the back, and finish adjusting their clothes when they get out, which leads to all sorts of media speculation.
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68	* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': In "Versus the Wookiee", Sarah needs to change out of her mission outfit and into the uniform for her cover job at the Weinerlicious, and as she's already late, she does so in the back seat as Chuck drives her there. Chuck's gaze is drawn by the view in the rearview mirror until Casey covers it.
69	-->'''Casey:''' Eyes front, soldier.
70	* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Roz is changing clothes in the backseat of Frasier's car. A police officer has him pulled over. It turns into NotWhatItLooksLike when the officer sees Roz in the backseat, her jeans around her ankles.
71	* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': In "Olivia," Olivia escapes the facility where she's being held and swims to New York, where she takes a cab driver named Henry hostage and forces him to get her clothes. She then changes out of her EmbarrassingHospitalGown in his backseat, to his discomfort.
72	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': Tim and Jill get lost in a snowstorm while driving to a wedding, forcing Jill to change into her dress in the backseat. Tim gets DistractedByTheSexy (despite Jill being royally pissed that he ignored her directions) and almost swerves off the road.
73	* The ''Series/LoisAndClark'' episode "Dead Lois Walking" actually has a rare ''front seat'' example of the trope: After Clark breaks Lois out of prison as Superman, we have a shot of Lois in the front passenger seat of Clark's car changing out of her prison uniform and into regular clothes.
74	* ''Series/MrBean'': In the episode where Bean is late for a dentist appointment, he does this ''while driving''. More specifically, he bends over the front seat to get his pants on while keeping his feet on the steering wheel and placing a brick on the gas pedal.
75	* ''Series/TheProfessionals'': {{Parodied\|Trope}} in "Blood Sports" when Bodie ''attempts'' to change in the backseat but can't because Doyle DrivesLikeCrazy and Bodie keeps getting thrown back-and-forth.
76	* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': Maura complains frequently about Jane's habit of "undressing and driving".
77	* ''Literature/WhyDidntTheyAskEvans'' (2022 TV adaptation):
78	** Frankie leaves the hospital where Bobby is recovering and gets changed in the back of a car driven by her family's long-suffering chauffeur. Unfortunately for Bobby, the clothes she changed out of were "borrowed" from him. As Frankie gets changed, she calmly admonishes the chauffeur for consulting the rearview more often than necessary.
79	** GenderInvertedTrope later. After Bobby leaves the hospital still in his scrubs, Frankie gives him a lift so the two can properly discuss matters. He takes the opportunity to change back into his clothes in the backseat, whilst Frankie (now in the front) gives him more than a casual glance in the rear-view mirror. This does not escape the attention of the same chauffeur, with her calmly but sheepishly telling him to "[[HypocrisyNod do as I say, not as I do.]]"
80	* ''Series/TheWire'': GenderInvertedTrope. After Avon Barksdale gets out of jail, Stringer Bell and Shamrock pick him up and bring him new clothes, too. As they drive away from the jail, we see Avon tossing his old clothes out the window of the moving car.
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84	* Implied in ''WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseGreenArrow''. Green Arrow apologizes for being late while intervening in an assassination attempt on Perdita, princess [[spoiler:or rather queen]] of Vlatava. He then quips, "But you try changing clothes in a hybrid!"
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