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Backseat Driver
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When a passenger gives constant advice or orders to the person behind the wheel. The Henpecked Husband's wife or mother-in-law will do this a LOT. The Logical Extreme is a passenger who actually grabs for car controls (usually the wheel). In Real Life, there are legal consequences for this.note Usually, the person who grabs the controls assumes responsibility for the vehicle, which means they are to blame if the vehicle crashes, but have not broken the law if they take over from a suddenly incapacitated driver. The role can occasionally be played by the Guy in Back, reminding the Ace Pilot not to burn up all of their fuel, or warning him of enemies coming up on their six. Of course, this is part of his job, but too much implies a lack of trust between them, or a certain fresh inexperienced quality about the guy in back. Examples |
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony has Luis do jobs for various VIPs hanging around at the club. One of them is a drunken celebrity, Cloe Parker, who makes sexual advances on Luis by grabbing the wheel. | |
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Comedy example: The Naked Gun has Frank entering a vehicle asking them to Follow That Car... and it's a driving school car. | |
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Lisa Simpson of The Simpsons sometimes acts like this. For example, from "Homer the Heretic"... | |
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Master Splinter became quite a backseat driver in the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, regularly commenting on the driver's actions. | |
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In Broadcast News, Jane gives specific, practically turn-by-turn directions to cabbies on a regular basis as part of her "need to be in control at all times"-ness. | |
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In the Rocko's Modern Life episode, "The Big Question", while chasing down a motorcycle, Rocko is given this treatment by Heffer, Filburt and a third unknown person outside of Rocko's driver window. Rocko tells Heffer and Filburt "if you don't like the way I'm driving, then drive yourself"; so they do. | |
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Thor: The Dark World: Loki, of all people, is this to Thor: | |
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In Robin (1993), Tim Drake has to grab the wheel and shove Ives' foot off the gas pedal after Drury Walker tries to carjack Ives and Ives goes into shock and floors it. Ives only comes back to himself sometime after Tim has the car parked. Tim was doing some lighthearted backseat driving before the attempted carjacking as Ives was driving incredibly slowly in an effort to protect his mom's car. | |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Milton Berle's character has his mother-in law (Ethel Merman) taking this role to heart in a race to buried treasure. She bellows "We're the ones in the Imperial and we're in last place?" Later, she continues barking orders to different drivers in different vehicles. | |
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DuckTales (1987), "Super DuckTales": When Launchpad is attempting to start the U.S.S. Jumpstart, both Scrooge and GizmoDuck yell instructions at him from their chairs. Launchpad dismissively calls them "backseat astronauts." | |
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Red Dwarf: In "Dimension Jump", when Kryten is flying Starbug, Rimmer, who has seated himself next to him, insists on trying to boss him around and micromanage the flight. When it becomes clear that all the orders he is giving are unnecessary, Rimmer — being Rimmer — becomes annoyed at Kryten for being a frontseat driver. | |
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Molly of Denali: Parodied/referenced in "Wise Raven and Old Crow." Tooey is feeding milk to Bonky the baby moose, and Trini keeps telling him what to do without actually doing anything herself. Tooey tells her to quit "backseat milking." | |
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Quite literally in Cannonball Run 2 when two of the characters participating go in a car with a very visible driver seat that has a orangutan suppose chauffeuring them. Turns out they're really driving the car from the backseat. | |
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The Owl House: In "King's Tide", Hunter keeps walking around Alador while he's flying the airship and messing with the controls, insinuating he may be able to get them to the Head faster if he took the wheel. This sparks a loud argument between the two, quickly escalating when Gus and Amity start yelling as well. Their Palismen calm everyone down by offering them food, and after Hunter has eaten, Alador lets him take the helm so he can eat something himself. | |
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A severely injured and distressed Dwight McCarthy becomes one in the Sin City story A Dame To Kill For. Subverted in that Marv, the driver, takes his advice. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Game At Clay City", Mr. Conklin appoints himself navigator and gives a steady stream of orders to Miss Brooks. | |
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In an early episode of Kim Possible, Mr Barkin is driving several students in the school's Driver's Ed car, who keep commenting on his driving. | |
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Animorphs: When Marco steals Cassie's dad's truck, Jake spends the entire trip yelling at him. For good reason. | |
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Outsider: In ch. 2, as a Loroi shuttle is trying to outrun Umiak torpedoes closing in on it, the pilot snaps a bit at the main character as he's asking questions while she's concentrating on piloting. | |
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Independence Day has the space ship variant where Jeff Goldblum constantly shouts orders to Will Smith who tells him not to be a "side-seat driver". | |
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The Fairly OddParents! episode "Spaced Out" proves this trope applies to spaceships as well. | |
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Averted in The Silkworm. Protagonist Cormoran Strike lets his pretty assistant drive on the Motorway because of his prosthetic lower leg; when they encounter a dangerous collision close up, he tries to emergency-coach her. It turns out that Robin has taken advanced driving classes and handles the danger far better than he ever could have. | |
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Gorkamorka has a skill called Backseat Driver. When a character with the skill is in a vehicle, the driver can use their stats instead of his own for some driving checks. | |
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Pitch Black gives us "co-pilot" Owens. For pretty much all of his screen time, all he does is heap demands on Fry, bitch when she tries to take any action, and generally be an unhelpful noisemaker during an emergency. | |
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Serious example: Taken 2 has Bryan guiding his kidnapped daughter Kim by cellphone (in the car of her abductors) as he both checks the GPS on directions to the US Embassy and fires some shots into the air. Her responses regarding where the shots sound like they are coming from helps him to roughly triangulate her position. | |
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In Star Trek Beyond, Spock and McCoy hijack one of Krall's drone ships. McCoy, who has some experience piloting one, grabs the controls that are slightly above the main compartment, while Spock is busy with the communications equipment in the forward area. As Spock continues to give McCoy advice, the Doctor exclaims, "Damn backseat driver!", causing Spock to shut up about the piloting. | |
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In a Mother's Day episode of Bobby's World, Bobby is asked to come up at an amusement park to give a speech about what he loves about his mother. He starts giving out a lot of personal information about his family including that his dad said she could drive a car from the backseat. She was not happy to hear about that. | |
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Happens all the time on The Amazing Race when teams are tasked with driving themselves. As a bonus, because of the way the camera crew positions themselves in the car, the non-driving teammate is always positioned directly behind the driver. | |
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Done quite literally in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "That's Snow Ghost", while being chased by the titular Snow Ghost, Scooby and Shaggy jump in a snowmobile with Shaggy driving and Scoob behind him. Seeing the Snow Ghost gaining on them, Scooby reaches over Shaggy's shoulder to take the wheel. | |
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A plane varient in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, where Polly and Joe argue on the best route through town during rush hour. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Car," Penny's mom gives her daughter continual running advice during the latter's disastrous first driving experience. Given how badly the girl does, it's more than justified. Mittens, who is stranded in the back seat, adds plenty of snark of her own. | |
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Yusei constantly gives this to Crow in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, showing a Big Brother Instinct attitude and knowing he has more experience Turbo Dueling. | |
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: | |
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During the Sequence 9 mission A Bitter End in Assassin's Creed III, Haythan Kenway cridicizes Connor for the way he steers the Aquila and urges him to hurry up and catch up with Benjamin Church. | |
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Played with thrice in Tomorrow Never Dies: Bond escapes the arms bazaar at the beginning by flying a fighter jet out, only to have a terrorist in the backseat try to strangle him. "Backseat driver" is literally the Bond One-Liner when he ejects the bad guy! Needing a quick escape, Bond is forced to dive into the rear seat of his BMW and drive it from a cell phone screen. Fridge Horror ensues when one realizes, with the extent of the damage suffered to the BMW, Bond would be a dead man had he driven "properly" - and lampshaded with the soundtrack title. Later, both he and Wei Lin are handcuffed together and must jointly ride a motorcycle, complete with bickering. |
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