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Billboard Epic

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 In America, driving long distances are practically a cultural phenomenon. So businesses take advantage of this by putting up huge signs along major roads. This trope happens when these billboards are meant to be read sequentially as you keep driving.
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 In Rat Race, Merrill and Vera stop their car next to a lady selling squirrels on the side of the road to ask her where to find the interstate. She offers to sell the ladies a squirrel repeatedly, and, finally, Merrill angrily declines and asks her if she knows where to find the interstate. She answers that she does, then she explains a short-cut to it, giving Merrill and Vera directions. They follow her directions, which eventually leads them off the road; going this direction, they unexpectedly drive their car down a steep, rocky, hazardous incline, unable to stop. Sequential separate signs on the slope read, in order, "YOU" "SHOULD" "HAVE" "BOUGHT" "A" "SQUIRREL"; after the final sign, they careen off a ledge in their car into a pile of wrecked cars below. Having landed front-first, the rear of the car falls down, propelling the contents of a wrecked car ahead of them onto their windshield - a skeleton holding a bag that reads "I <3 squirrels".
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 A Saturday Night Live commercial sketch has entire novels literally printed on billboards. They show all the people benefiting from this: a family takes a Sunday drive so their kids can read Swiss Family Robinson; a trucker claims, once he finishes reading Sartre, he can get his degree; an elderly couple speaks about this being how they want to spend their retirement. And then the punchline:
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 In Enchanter, if you keep going west from where you started at the Eastern Fork, you can read the signs that go like this:
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