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Sister trope to [[Auto Erotica]].

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* The famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSWS2XWtOcU Peugeot 207 commercial with ladybugs].

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Big Fish]]'' has a rocking trailer, but it turns out there's just a [[Hell Hound]] inside.

* A van is rocked this way in the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' feature ''[[Hobgoblins]]'', much to the hosts' disgust.

** Don't forget that the car made cartoon bouncing noises with each bob.

* Occurs in the opening of ''[[Idiocracy]]''.

* ''[[Titanic]]'': In a car that's on a ship.

* Subverted in ''[[Whip It]]'', the dad's car is seen doing this, accompanied by loud shouts from the dad. Turns out he's watching a particularly exciting football game.

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* On ''[[Bones]]'', Booth and Brennan went undercover as circus folk, and to pretend they were a couple, they rocked their trailer back and forth to make it look from the outside like they were doin' it.

* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'': In the second episode, there's a flashback of the [[Victim of the Week]], a car safety tester, meeting his girlfriend, a promotional model for the same car company. This is followed by the display car in the showroom rocking back and forth, with the windows steamed up. Bonus points for the car being on a turntable.

** Also referenced in the second episode of season 2. Chuck notices the bumper sticker "Mimes do it with imagination" on a van just before they open it to find a dead mime. Emerson comments that the bumper sticker should have said "If this van's a-rockin', I'm being murdered."

* Subverted in ''[[Mama's Family]]''. In the episode "There Is Nothing Like the Dames", Thelma is trying to impress a small group of snooty upper-class women with a backyard dinner so they will let her join them. Unfortunately, Vinton and Naomi's trailer sits in the driveway, an obvious eyesore. On top of that, during one scene, the trailer starts rocking, horrifying the women... until Thelma finds out that Vinton was only trying to fix a broken table leg.

* ''[[Seinfeld]]''. In one episode, Jerry gets a van from an old friend. Elaine suggests that Jerry should outfit it with one of the troponymous bumper stickers. Also, near the end of the episode, Jerry and George catch George's parents rockin' the van.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* A less explicit version is in ''[[Grabbed By the Ghoulies]]'', where the hero is sometimes chased by walking coffins that conceal plump, amorous vampire girls. If one catches him, he's yanked inside, and the coffin rocks for a few seconds (With ♥s drifting out and everything) before letting him go.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Subverted (though not in [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|the usual way]]) in ''[[Questionable Content]]''.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Subverted in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':

''(Interior shot of car reveals he's eating junk food)'' }}

** Played [[Up to Eleven]] in the episode where Homer visits Marge in prison: when Marge jumps on Homer, the trailer gets knocked over.

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