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'''Goofy:''' ''(sitting at the table with them, eating popcorn)'' Why, ''I'm'' driving!|The [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon ''Mickey's Trailer''}}

 

The characters are in a larger vehicle and the driver comes back to where the passengers are in order to have a conversation, leading to the obvious question of who is driving now. Once the [[Lampshade Hanging|you-know-what has been hung]], the vehicle crashes. Can also happen if an animal (such as a bear) is revealed to be driving, or a person who [[Drives Like Crazy]].

 

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In the [[Three Stooges]] short "Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise," the boys somehow all end up in the back seat of a moving car, the driverless condition of which is only noticed as they approach a cliff, and Curly calmly and chirpily remarks, "Hmm...don't look now, but I think we're about to be killed!"

* In ''[[Ice Age]] III: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', the [[Crazy Awesome]] Buck captures a pterosaur and proceeds to commandeer it like an aircraft, with the possums Crash and Eddie in tow, in order to rescue Sid - which leads right into this trope as all three of them check on Sid. Apparently the pterosaur can't be trusted to ''[[Fridge Logic|fly by itself.]]''

* In ''[[Astro Boy]]'' his friends catch him out of the air in a flying car. They all start asking if he's okay. Then he wonders who's driving. Cut to the robot dog at the steering wheel.

 

* Happened once on ''[[Firefly]]'', with Wash hanging out with the rest of ''Serenity'''s crew until the ship's proximity alarm goes off:

** Of course, it's not as though they're going to run into something in outer space.

* Happens in the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My Road to Nowhere" when several characters go on a road trip:

'''Ted:''' ''(Taking both hands off the wheel and turning completely to face her)'' None taken. }}

 

== [[Music]] ==

* ''[[Kids Praise|The Search For Psalty's Missing 9]]'': Psalty and the kids are on a plane, trying to find Risky Rat, and Charity Churchmouse tells them she's pinpointed the rat's exact location. After hearing where he is, Psalty realizes that Charity was the one flying the plane. But Charity assures him it's all right, since Blooper, Psalty's pet dog, took over.

'''Charity''': I'm a mouse, what's the difference? }}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' Occurs many times on the bus. Yumi hangs it in "Number Please".

* [[Trope Namers|The trope namer]] is one of the animated episodes of ''[[Clerks]]'' that involved an anime-inspired sequence with this famous statement by the overenthusiastic narrator: "Who is driving?!...Oh my God! Bear is driving! How can this be?!"

** It's not the only time Otto has done this. "Who's driving the bus?" "What bus?"

* The [[Classic Disney Short]] ''Mickey's Trailer'' (1938) had a scene where Goofy, who was driving, stepped back into the trailer to have lunch with his pals. All sorts of near-misses and almost-crashes occurred.

* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' [[Christmas Special]] had Johnny, Little Suzy, Donny Osmond, and a pilot flying on a plane to the North Pole. At one point, the characters begin to break into song including the pilot, at which point Johnny asks "Who's flying the plane?" To which the pilot answers "Duh! I am!", while he is most obviously not. The plane drops out of the sky like a rock.

* Happens when Chef decides to join Chris in the main body of the plane during ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]''.

* On an episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', thanks to some [[Too Dumb to Live|less than brillant]] moves of the cast, Jimmy is left trying to fly a plane. It takes Lucius a few seconds of conversing with him in the passenger section before realizing that no one is flying the plane.

* All over the place at the end of the ''[[Wacky Races]]'' episode "Speeding For Smogland." A chain reaction crash causes Luke and Blubber, Red Max, Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth, the Gruesome Twosome, and Dick Dastardly and Muttley to be jettisoned from their cars into each other's cars. Dastardly is in the lead in the Arkansas Chuggabug, but the announcer informs him that he'll be disqualified for not being in the correct car. He stops and another chain reaction crash sends everyone back into their correct cars.

** Muttley has been seen driving the Mean Machine whenever Dastardly is otherwise pre-occupied.

* Happens to a speedboat in ''[[Almost Naked Animals]]'' in the episode where Howie runs into his [[Imaginary Friend]].

* In the first episode ''[[Kids Next Door]]'', Sector V hijacks a ice cream truck to grill info on the driver (ice cream men work for the big bad, you see). They soon come across a blockade and Numbah 4 goes to Numbuh 1, who are on top of the truck, to tell him this

'''Numbuh 1''': Then whose driving?! (CRASH) }}

* In one episode of ''[[The Critic]]'', Jay's parents, Franklin and Eleanor, are on vacation and flying on their private plane. Franklin goes to check on the pilot and discovers its a penguin..whose been drinking.

* One episode of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' had Thomas realize that he's moving all by himself without a driver and crashing into a house at the end of the track he's on.

* [[Danger Mouse]] leaves Penfold in the Mk. III driverless for a spell while he battles Count Duckula in "The Great Bone Idol." Later in "Beware Of Mexicans Delivering Milk," he has his Mk. III on autopilot after his strength is sapped drinking spiked milk (he's so weak he says "If I'd had the strength, I'd blow my nose").

** "What A Three-Point Turn-Up For The Book" is even more bizarre. The Mk. III takes off without our heroes and assumes mischievous and even sinister traits. When DM finally corrals it, he finds the wirings of a washing machine installed.

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Vehicle Tropes]]