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Rules of the Road
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In fiction, road signs mean exactly what they say. If the speed limit sign says 250, you had better be going 250. If a yellow caution sign warns of an impenetrable snarl of an intersection, a 360-degree vertical loop, or a moose, guess what you're about to see? Further, any law-enforcement along the road will measure your performance according to the road signs (no matter how ludicrous, and even if they've been recently vandalized) and praise or punish you accordingly. Often a version of a Visual Pun. See also Can't You Read the Sign? In a rare version, people who are either Genre Savvy or extremely horror-movie tier violent will disregard or kill the Too Dumb to Live people who are enforcing idiotically vandalised signs. Often leads to jokes regarding the "Slow Children Playing" sign. |
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One The Far Side cartoon had a woman looking at a road sign and warning her driver about "cattle dancing." This activity is depicted on the sign and apparent on the road directly in front of the car. | |
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Looney Tunes: Wile E. Coyote would frequently attempt to utilize these in his pursuit of the Road Runner. Unfortunately for him, Road Runners can't read. | |
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Conchy: When Oom Paul finds himself hemmed in by a No Loitering sign, a One Way sign, and a No Entry sign, he looks annoyed and then flaps his arms and flies off. | |
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There she is!! has a No Cat and Bunny romance road sign. This is enforced by prejudicial cats and bunnies all over the city. | |
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Cracked's 32 Alternate Interpretations of Common Warning Signs. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life parodied this with "Cheese Crossing" and "Slow Children Playing" signs. Also parodied with a PSA training video starring a clown. | |
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Weaponizing this is one of the main powers of Kamen Rider Mach in Kamen Rider Drive. His main equippable upgrades are all based on road signs, and usually give his weapon, the Zenrin Shooter, different effects based on said road signs. For instance, if he uses the power based on a stop sign, he can paralyze enemies with his shots. | |
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The next-to-final dungeon in Persona 4 has "Shadow Crossing" signs strewn all over it, and you had better believe there are a ton of them. | |
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Red Dwarf has some fun with these. Rimmer quizzes Kryten on these while trying to get him certified for piloting a shuttle. Keep in mind this is taking place a few months shy of three million years away from Earth.. | |
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One of the Cannonball Run films showed a racer sticking numbers to a speed limit sign, changing it from 55 mph to 155 mph. They were driving a Lamborghini. So yeah... | |
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In Wacky Races, many of the times Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat, it involves him flipping a directional sign so the arrow points in the other direction. Or he yanks a real road sign out of the ground so the others will miss the turn, or changes a 35 mph speed limit sign to read 85 mph. This one is oft-imitated in other cartoons where there's Wacky Racing. | |
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Garfield and Friends: Garfield and Odie walk up to a crosswalk, and Garfield stops Odie. He points up to the "Don't Walk" sign posted on the signpost and tells Odie he must always obey the signs. Then the sign changes to "Bark". Garfield is confused, but Odie obeys until it displays "Don't Bark". Then it displays "Polka". The two then dance across the crosswalk, with Garfield commenting that he doesn't understand it, but at least he's not getting a ticket. | |
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In Gokujou Parodius (Ultimate Parodius), the highway-esque stage features plenty of yellow caution signs, mostly to indicate how the enemies are going to move. At one point, there is a caution sign for falling rocks, followed by falling rocks. Then there is a caution sign for moose, followed by falling moose. Then there is a caution sign with an exclamation point, followed by falling exclamation points... | |
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In the opening credits of I Am Weasel, Weasel's driving a convertible with a hot blonde. But he passes a road sign that reads "LOGO". He leaps out of the car in the direction the sign indicates and jumps into the logo for the show. | |
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Dennis the Menace (UK): Dennis and his gang attempt to drive a line-marking machine which goes haywire and leaves white lines everywhere on the road. Cars naturally attempt to follow the line and end up driving on the footpath, through the park, etc. | |
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In one episode of Muppet Babies, Fozzie has an Imagine Spot about being in a city of chickens. At a crosswalk, the stop sign changes from "Don't Walk" to "Cluck", and all the chickens start squawking. Fozzie just says "Oh, well" and joins in. | |
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The 'Tank Crossing' sign below was shown once in an episode of Home Improvement. For some reason, it was on the tank's road and not the cart path it crossed. | |
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One of the Freaky Stories shorts involves an incredibly picky police officer, who expects everyone to follow traffic laws EXACTLY. Naturally, once he acquires a Speed Gun, he begins pulling people over for even going 1 Km/h faster/slower than the posted speed limit. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants once featured a characteristically bizarre version in which the signs announced "giant clams", "cheese graters" and — horror of horrors — "EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION". | |
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The cover of a paperback collection of B.C. strips famously featured a "Dip in Road" sign.◊ Sure enough... | |
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Subverted in the Sam & Max episodes. They remark the "One way" sign outside their office is the "least obeyed street sign in the country". | |
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Pop Team Epic: In a strip parodying Mega Man 8, Pipimi hoverboards past road signs depicting jumping (indicating hazards below), sliding (indicating hazards above), and Popuko (who's just standing there with a hitchhiking sign). | |
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The Muppet Movie has a map that says that there's a fork in the road. Sure, the road branches into two, but there's also a GIANT fork in the road! (which is apparently a real landmark) | |
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure has a series of signs of upcoming curves, each increasingly twisty and ridiculous. Followed by falling rocks. This scene is noted for Special Effects Failure, as you can see the signs moving along a track toward the camera. | |
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