
It eventually becomes this when the three are jumping back and forth between the paintings in the hallway, dressed up as characters and/or scenery of said paintings. Looney Tunes: Back in Action has a scene in the Louvre where Elmer Fudd is going after Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and the three jump into various paintings.Flip and Nemo run between two rows of large pillars while being chased by guards. Done with slight variation in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.Happens in Atlantis: The Lost Empire when the professors at the Smithsonian try to get away from Milo.In Alice in Wonderland, the Queen of Heart's labyrinth serves as a setting for one between Alice, the Queen of Hearts and the Playing Card Soldiers.Adolf Hitler even makes an appearance in the scene. Happens in episode 32 of Urusei Yatsura.Definitely happens in Pokémon a few times.Parodied in AMV Hell 4 by adding "Yakety Sax" ( The Benny Hill Show theme) and Scooby-Doo footage.A similar gag shows up in an episode of One Piece during the "Thriller Bark" arc, for a Chase Scene where Perona's minion Bearsy chases Usopp through a forest of pillars.
This gag happens in Episode 1 of the 1988 version of Osomatsu-kun, between Iyami and the Sextuplets. Happens in episode 40 of Ojamajo Doremi, although the chase takes place between two adjacent ruins so no doors are opened. Even Osamu Tezuka himself does it with seashells in his experimental film Mermaid. In between slapstick antics, there are repeated scenes of everyone running between columns, complete with the "multiple versions of one character" joke. Happens in episode 9 of Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, where Fololo and Falala are trying to keep Kirby's two halves away from Dedede, Escargoon and the episode's monster Slice N' Splice. A Mental World version showed up in the fourth episode of Kaiba. Also in episode 112 of Inazuma Eleven. In live theater, certain kinds of screwball comedies are known as "door slammers" for a climactic scene or scenes where the whole cast is chasing one another, in one door and out another, everyone just missing everyone else by an instant notable examples include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Lend Me a Tenor. Even with animation, it predates its Trope Namer by some thirty years. This trope is Older Than Television, dating to the old days of French Farce. Related to One of These Doors Is Not Like the Other, a trope in video games that often has characters repeating a single screen just like this, and Fighting Across Time and Space, a different sort of teleportation-based chase scene. In animation, allows tremendous savings on budget, since the same cross-frame run-cycle cels can be used over and over and over for the entire sequence. Usually animated, but can be done in live-action by locking off the camera at the end of the hallway to hide edits and allow room switches. Thus, this trope was discredited as soon as it was created, yet still good for a laugh. All the characters in the chase collide into a pile in the centerĪ Running Gag, literally and figuratively, this one is unique for one reason every instance of the trope subverts itself by the time the scene is over.
A character will suddenly either use a weapon or be seen riding a bicycle or a unicycle.Another character appears: they will either be questioned and then disappear from the plot for good, have this as their debut scene, or get more involved in the plot if they have appeared before.The characters appear more than once in the same frame.The characters being chased start doing the chasing.There are a few different gags used for the climax:
The chaser and one or more groups of chasees enter a door. A static shot down a hallway lined with doors, like a hotel or mansion corridor, comes up in the middle of the chase scene. A very standardized visual comedy sequence.