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A lot of times, a predator is trying desperately to [[Road Runner vs. Coyote|catch his prey]] but the prey proves to be [[Super Speed|much too quick]]. How do you stop a creature that never stops moving? Have it run into a wall, of course! How do you do that? Simple, draw a tunnel over it.
So the villain takes his brush and creates a realistic looking tunnel in [[Cartoonland Time|three seconds]]! The prey comes along and the villain hides behind a rock to see the creature stupidly run into the solid wall. The prey runs towards the tunnel [[Achievements in Ignorance|and disappears into it]]. The villain may be baffled, but decides that he needs to go after his prey. He begins to run into the tunnel, and either crashes directly into the solid wall, or ''gets run over by a train or bus that has somehow come through the tunnel''.
We usually never see where the prey ends up after entering the tunnel, nor is it ever made an issue.
Compare [[Portal Picture]] for when [[Applied Phlebotinum]] is involved and the characters are taken to [[Another Dimension]]. Also related to [[Art Initiates Life]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A commercial currently (2010) playing in the United States for the Sour Patch Kids candy uses this as part of the "first they are sour and then they are sweet" campaign.
* A Coors Light commercial also playing as of 2010 has an artist painting a tunnel onto a wall, then adding a little bit of light for an oncoming train...which turns into the "Silver Bullet", [[What Do You Mean
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In [[Jack to Mame no Ki]] during the final fight against Tulip the giant, Jack's dog Crosby paints a picture of a train tunnel on a wall and runs through it, naturally Tulip crashes into it and temporarily knocks himself out.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the 2005 film version of ''[[Bewitched (
* In a couple of his movies (
* Parodied and subverted in [[Looney Tunes: Back in Action
* One of the rare times when it's live action and *not* necessarily a parody of cartoons, the film ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* Taken to a truly ''maniac'' extent in ''[[
** Done earlier in "Invasion Of The Moon Creatures", when Bill, dressed as a rabbit ([[It Makes Sense in Context]], promise) runs next to a hole and jumps down the rabbit hole to get rid of Graeme, who is chasing him. Graeme attempts to jump in also, but hits the ground. Confused, he touches the hole, and manages to ''pick it up''
* In a sixth-season cast sketch on ''[[Sesame Street]]'', Bob and Luis assemble a billboard picture of a railroad tunnel. No sooner do they assemble the picture properly than a train comes out.
* Subverted in [[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Toon (
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* A tunnel painted on the side of a cliff face may act as a real tunnel when the [[Looney Tunes|Road Runner]] escapes into it, but for Wile E. Coyote it remains solid rock (as in their first cartoon, "Fast and Furry-ous"). Or it may injure the Coyote when a very real truck or train exits it and runs him over as he stands in front of it. In one cartoon, Wile E. puts a painting of a broken bridge in the middle of the road to get the Road Runner to stop. When the Road Runner just rips through the canvas, Wile E. goes after him, ''enters'' the painting and falls off the cliff therein.
** In an early ''[[Pac-Man
* The exact same thing happened in an episode of ''[[Johnny Test]]'' with a lot of [[Shout
* A ''U.S. Acres'' segment on ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' did the tunnel version of this gag with Booker and the Worm. According to Orson, this gag is required in every chase scene.
* ''[[Wacky Races]]'': Dick Dastardly used a landscape painted on a piece of upright solid steel to try and wreck the other racers. Not only did they drive into it unharmed, but a ''bus'' drove out of it and flattened him.
** ''[[Wacky Races]]'' also used a few of the original ''Road Runner'' gags almost unaltered, with Dastardly of course standing in for Wile E. Coyote.
* One episode of ''[[I Am Weasel]]'' made fun of this.
* Spoofed in a ''[[
* ''[[The Fairly
** But he then spazzes out and hits the cliff and the rock falls on him.
* Clyde Crashcup from ''[[The Alvin Show]]'' "invents" by drawing things in midair.
* In the 1930s, there was a whole slew of ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' shorts in which the pictures on book and magazine covers, food labels or billboards came to life.
** The ''[[
* In one ''[[Pink Panther]]'' short, Pink sees a picture of a sailboat hanging crooked, but when he straightens it, the water on the picture pours out of the frame.
* In ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' Scratch and Grounder try this trick on Sonic. Of course, they botch it.
** Another episode inverts it, where Sonic finds the perfect place to paint a tunnel, only the tunnel's already there, so he simply paints over the tunnel, leaving Scratch and Grounder confused when they hear a train coming, but don't see where it could be coming from, until they're hit by it.
* An episode of ''[[House of Mouse]]'' involving [[Donald Duck]] and [[The Three Caballeros
* On one Droopy cartoon, Spike paints a tennis court blue and installs a diving platform so that when Droopy tries to dive in he would drop to his death instead. Droopy dives, but instead of splattering on solid concrete he splashes into what is now real water. Spike then tries it himself... and shatters into a million pieces.
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