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''In fiction, road signs mean '''''exactly''''' what they say.''
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* ''[[Pee Wee's Big Adventure]]'' has a series of signs of upcoming curves, each increasingly twisty and ridiculous. Followed by falling rocks.
** This scene is noted for [[Special Effects Failure]], as you can see the signs moving along a track toward the camera.
* One of the ''[[Cannonball Run]]'' films showed a racer sticking numbers to a speed limit sign, changing it from 55
** They were driving a Lamborghini. So yeah...
* ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' has a map that says that there's a fork in the road. Sure, the road branches into two, but there's also a GIANT fork in the road! (which is apparently a real landmark)
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== Literature ==
* Invoked in the short story "Absolute Limits", in which frustrated government scientists note that everyone on the highway always breaks the speed
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** Special note: this would fall under [[Genre Blind]], too. The scheme was to get Rhinokey arrested for speeding.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' once featured a characteristically bizarre version in which the signs announced "killer clams", "cheese graters" and, horror of horrors, [[Edutainment Show|"EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION"]].
* In ''[[Wacky Races]]'', many of the times [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]], it involves him flipping a directional sign so the arrow points in the other direction. Or he yanks a real road sign out of the ground so the others will miss the turn, or changes a 35
* In the opening credits of ''[[I Am Weasel]]'', Weasel's driving a convertible with a hot blonde. But he passes a road sign that reads "LOGO". He leaps out of the car in the direction the sign indicates, and jumps into the logo for the show.
* This was a favorite gag of [[Tex Avery]]. If a character passed a "Fork ahead" sign, he would then bump into a giant fork sticking out of the ground. A "Hairpin turn" sign would indicate that the road would look ''exactly'' like a hairpin. And when characters stop at a school crossing, what should cross the road but a schoolhouse on two legs.
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