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Line 4: [[Do Not Try This At Home]]. There are a lot of moving parts underneath a vehicle that can chew up a human body real good. And if you fall off - and you will - not only will you hit the road at high speed, you stand a good chance of being run over by the very vehicle you were riding on. {{examples~~\|Examples:~~}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * In ''[[Baccano ~~(Light Novel)\|Baccano~~!]]'', Rachel temporarily travels underneath the Flying Pussyfoot train after escaping from the captive diner car. Line 17: == [[Film]] - Animated == * ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]''. Bernard, Miss Bianca and Joey get under McLeach's truck to follow him when he goes after Cody. * ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)\|Pinocchio]]''. Jiminy Cricket hitches a ride on the coach that takes children to Pleasure Island. * This is how the title character in ''[[Banjo the Woodpile Cat]]'' goes to the city. * ''[[Toy Story (franchise)\|Toy Story]] 3'' too, IIRC. * In ''[[Bolt]]'', this is the means by which Penny and Bolt infiltrate the lair of their [[Show Within a Show\|show's]] [[Big Bad]]. It is reprised a few times throughout the film in different contexts. * At the very beginning of ''[[Cars\|Cars 2]]'', Finn McMissile actually clings to the underside of Tony Trihull with his magnetic tires in order to sneak into the Lemons' oil rig. Line 30: * The ending to ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'' shows the hero happily driving away, only for a last minute [[Jump Scare]] revealing a monster hiding under his semi trailer. * In ''[[Hanna]]'', the main character does this. * Jim West in the ''[[Wild Wild West (~~Film~~film)\|Wild Wild West]]'' movie does this, using a cart designed to let him move between the train they were on, and a chase train. Unfortunately, the rope connecting him breaks. == [[Literature]] == * In ''[[~~The~~ Odyssey ~~(Literature)~~\|The Odyssey]]'', Odysseus and his crew are trapped within a cave by Polyphemus, a man-eating shepherd cyclops. Odysseus and his crew escape by clinging to the underside of Polyphemus' sheep. * In the first ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' novel, Sam uses this trick to get around in Iran. * In the [[Halo]] prequel novel ''[[The Fall of Reach]]'', John and his squad of saboteurs infiltrates an enemy base using this method. The gate guards were [[Genre Savvy~~\|genre savvy~~]] enough to scan the underside of their vehicles with a mirror-on-a-stick. Having none of that, they brought their own mirrors to reflect an unoccupied portion of the underside back at the guards. The kicker was that [[Crowning Moment of Awesome\|this was a training exercise, and the Spartans did this when they were fifteen]]. * In ''Terror Valley'' by [[JTJ. T. Edson]], Calamity Jane sneaks out of the mission by hiding in a 'possum-belly'; a sheet of rawhide attached to the bottom of a wagon for carrying firewood. == [[Live Action TV]] == * ''[[MacGyver]]'': Mac clings underneath a truck to escape the cops in the episode "Jerico Games". * In the ''[[Burn Notice]]'' episode "Besieged", Fiona attaches herself underneath a fuel tanker in an attempt to infiltrate a [[Right -Wing Militia Fanatic]] compound. She has a harness spefically designed for this purpose. * In one ''[[CSI]]'' episode, a woman tries to escape from a prison in this way and suffers [[Ludicrous Gibs]] from getting caught in the moving parts. {{spoiler\|Subverted when we find out that she was already dead - the killer was getting rid of the body}}. == [[Western Animation]] == * Sideshow Bob does it the ''[[The Simpsons (~~Animation~~animation)\|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Cape Feare" in a parody of the scene in ''[[Cape Fear]]''. * The magician does this in ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'' on the underside of a train, in an attempt to get his hat back. * ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': This is how {{spoiler\|Zuko}} gets inside Zhao's compound, during "The Blue Spirit" episode, by hiding beneath a layer of dirt in the road. Then grabbing the undercarriage of a supply wagon as it passes over him. It takes him straight inside the fortress. Line 58: [[Category:Escape Tropes]] [[Category:Sublime Rhyme]] [[Category:~~Underside Ride~~{{PAGENAME}}]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~