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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 It's Not Awesome?|the ice-cold Coors Light train that automatically lowers the temperature of the air surrounding it to the ''perfect'' temperature for enjoying Coors Light]].
== [[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 (film)|Bewitched]]'', Michael Caine walks out of a series of stone arches to speak with Nicole Kidman; a moment later, as the camera pulls back, a pair of stagehands come by and pick up the large canvas flat on which the arches are painted.
* In a couple of his movies (
* Parodied and subverted in [[Looney Tunes: Back in Action|Looney Tunes Back in Action]]. Brendan Fraser's character is chasing [[Daffy Duck]] around Warner Bros studios. Daffy runs into a painted backdrop of a hallway, as if it were really there. Fraser follows, but because the picture is painted on canvas, he is able to tear right through instead of the traditional injuring himself. Daffy deems this cheating.
* One of the rare times when it's live action and *not* necessarily a parody of cartoons, the film ''[[The Villain]]'' has this trope. While trying to trap Handsome Stranger and Charmin, the titular villain paints a rock formation with black paint. The heroes' carriage goes right into it, prompting the villain to try it himself, with predictable results.
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* ''[[Farscape]]'', a (relatively) serious live-action show, spends an episode inside the subconscious of the main character John Crichton, which is apparently highly influenced by old [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons. Crichton and an animated version of the angry alien warrior D'Argo engage in a series of Coyote-and-Road Runner–style chases, all of which center on Crichton painting wormholes onto the wall, which act as Artistic Expression tunnels.
* Taken to a truly ''maniac'' extent in ''[[The Goodies]]'' episode "Movies": Characters jump in and out of the cinema screen, then in and out of the cinema screen which is on ''another cinema screen'', then running off screen, appearing in the cinema screen inside the cinema screen, then jumping through all the cinema screens. The amazing thing is that they avoid [[Special Effect Failure]] despite the episode being from 1975, and ''live action television''.
** 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''—it's just a piece of round, black paper. Frustrated, he throws the hole away as he stomps off-screen. When the hole lands, Bill crawls out of it again.
* 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 [[Community]], when Abed attempts to convince Troy that he's found a way to cartoon land by adding a cartoon visage of himself at the end of a tunnel painted on a wall and throwing his voice from behind a nearby trash can to make Troy think it's real. Troy comes *this close* to running through the "tunnel," before Abed pops up and stops him. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCN7sLh6Gk You have to believe!]
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* 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 ''[[Tom and Jerry Kids]]'' short with a car race, where the villain McWolf takes advantage of [[Artistic Expression]], by having Droopy drive into a sign and shoving said sign off a cliff (the wolf earlier crashed into a painted tunnel).
* ''[[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.
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