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Car and driving noises. "Wildest Police Chases"/"Wildest Security Camera Video"-type programs are big on this. Squealing tires and crunchy crashes are all dubbed in after the fact, especially in the cases featuring security camera footage, which rarely features an audio track.
 
Mainframe hackers used to refer to this as [http://cosman246www.comcatb.org/jargon./html#/G/green%20lightning-lightning.html green lightning] <ref>or "compatibility logic" when the suits were around</ref> after an unfixed bug in an IBM terminal monitor; the term came from the bug being left in [[Viewer-Friendly Interface|so people would think the computer was "doing something".]]
 
See also [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], [[Audible Sharpness]], [[Mickey Mousing]], [[Radio Voice]], [[Vinyl Shatters]], [[Beeping Computers]], [[V8 Engine Noises]] and the semi-related [[Extreme Graphical Representation]]. Related in concept is [[The CSI Effect]] and [[Eagleland Osmosis]]. Nothing to do with [[Coconut Superpowers]] (except insofar as both relate to ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''). Thankfully, this won't be [[Television Is Trying to Kill Us|causing any real-world casualties]]. We hope. Compare [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]] and [[Small Reference Pools]]. Also see [[Necessary Weasel]].