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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A specific instance in a work where there is a large group of people inside a vehicle, especially a convertible. The people inside will sometimes stop to speak with or heckle another character. This occurs frequently in shows or movies that take place in High School settings or Teen Dramas, but can occur in any work and to a character of any age. The car in question is nearly always a convertible. It will be inexplicably filled far past capacity, with teens sitting up on the rear deck and drop top, too. The passengers are usually young, very attractive, and far more popular than the victim. If a character is being heckled, the people in the car will typically consist of a mix of mean girls, and/or jerk jocks. They'll come as messengers to either remind the protagonist of how much of a loser he is, or tell them they are going to a really cool party, which the protagonist was not invited to, and they'll will likely get soaked as the car drives off. Even more fun is if the people in the car moon others or throw things at them. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The main purpose for using this trope is to point out just how low the victimized character is on the social ladder. Either they are incredibly unpopular, or too poor to afford a car, let alone a swanky convertible. The character is left to contemplate his own loneliness as the car drives off. This is especially apparent if the passengers are friendly with the protagonist, and ask them to join them despite lack of room in the car. The victimized character is also often young and easily embarrassed. Alternately, this trope can focus on the horrible behavior of the people in the car. If the movie is about the passengers and not the victim, it certainly exposes those characters' true natures. Compare The Freelance Shame Squad and Roadside Wave. |
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In Monsters University, as seen in the trope image above, all the members of Python Nu Kappa pull up to the Oozma Kappa frat house in a convertible to ask if they had heard about a party for the top fraternities. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Viva Ned Flanders", Ned frets about being seen as old-fashioned and sees Grampa and Jasper in a car with young ladies. It turns out the young ladies hijacked their car and they're being held hostage. In "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade", Bart and Lisa are forced to hold hands as field trip partners in Capital City. They are mocked by a random group of four young hipster-looking guys in a retro convertible. In the episode where Edna Krabappel gets replaced by a "cool" new teacher because of Bart spiking her drink with alcohol mid-class). First scene of the episode is a montage of Ms. Krabappel's morning rush to school. While she's in the car she sings along to a song playing on the radio; at that moment a carload of teens in a convertible pulls alongside her and heckle her for it. |
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez: Nicole is a policeman's daughter. When they move to Saint-Tropez from a mountain village, her strict father forbids her to wear revealing clothes. She is an object of ridicule for a bunch of wealthy guys and girls because of her fashion sense. Second time Nicole meets them, they drive in a convertible, slowly following her as she walks down a marina. Nicole fights back and lies that she's a millionare's daugher and claims that her dress is a hot hit in Hawaii. The group, squeezed in their favourite vehicle, make fun of an older guy who drives a small car. They follow him and accidentally bump in his car. A policeman (Nicole's father's subordinate) stands close by, and Nicole, now part of the popular group, manages to make him believe that it was the older guy's fault. |
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In Revenge of the Nerds the Alpha Beta fraternity let loose a bunch of pigs at the Lambda house. When the Lambdas run outside to see what's going on, the ABs moon them from the back of the pig truck and then drive off. | |
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In Rush (Band)'s video for "Subdivisions", one of these is driving around the streets of a suburban neighborhood tormenting the uncool kids. | |
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Crime Doctor: When Morgan is tossed out of the car and Left for Dead, his life is saved by a stereotypical group of college kids in a convertible jalopy who spot him and take him to hospital. | |
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In teen series Ready or Not, best friends Amanda and Busy join a group of older teenagers. Busy is uncomfortable, but Amanda wanted to hang out with cool kids. They take a ride in a car that belongs to Amanda's mum's boyfriend (without his permission). As they drive in the city, they are noisy and make fun of several people. | |
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Famously done in Mean Girls: | |
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Incredibles 2: The first time Elastigirl takes the new Elasticycle out, a carload of cool kids drives up beside her to cheer her on and offer encouragement. | |
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In Robin Carl Ranck had a convertible he and his girlfriend and fellow football players liked to drive around in. Carl was very proud of his car, so of course it got stolen by a bunch of car thieves during a school dance rather early on in the comic's run. | |
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In Satan's Cheerleaders, the rich kids from Baker High travel about in Robyn's new Cadillac convertible: packed full and with three people sitting on the top of the backseat with the top down. Billy uses magic to cause the convertible to run the Ms. Johnson's station wagon off the road. | |
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The Giant Claw features a group of these driving past the protagonists, flouting the warnings to stay off the road at night (since the whole world has become aware of the eponymous monster by this point). Predictably, they're attacked. | |
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James Bond encounters some of these in Octopussy. They drive off when he needs a ride to the circus where an atomic bomb is about to be detonated. note Rumor has it that one of the extras is a young Gary Russell, former editor of Doctor Who Magazine. | |
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In Spider-Man, Peter Parker is fantasizing about talking to Mary Jane on the way to school when a giant group of her friends and boyfriend Flash pull up in what Peter even admits to himself is a cool car. | |
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In one issue of MAD Magazine, there is a Dave Berg piece from the 60s or early 70s with a car overloaded with teenage boys. | |
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The TV comedy The Inbetweeners made a classic sketch out of this phenomenon. The four teenage boys of the title, whilst driving down the street, come to grief after shouting "Bus Wankers!" at a waiting queue - then realize it's vitally important to have an escape route as they grind to a halt in a traffic jam. Thus enabling a very large and aggressive bus wanker to catch up with them and express his displeasure. | |
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Rebel Without a Cause: The morning after his arrest, Jim talks to Judy on the way to school. It's an intimate moment, but she proceeds to be whisked away by a car full of popular kids, including her boyfriend. | |
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In Zapped (1982) after Scott Baio's character hit a home run to win a baseball game, he gets this from a carload of teens from the rival school. He responds by unleashing his recently-acquired telekinetic powers on them. | |
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Played straight next to a football field in the 1978 Superman: The Movie. Car full of teenagers (who are entirely irrelevant to the plot after this point) drive up to call him a loser. Leads to a slight Who's Laughing Now? moment when Clark Kent uses his super speed to beat them home. | |
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In the film Forrest Gump a group of kids in a pick-up truck torment Forrest, which forces him to run. | |
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This cropped up in the early days of Spider-Man to emphasize how much of a loner Peter Parker was. In fact, the very first page of his very first appearance shows Flash Thompson and other kids giving him grief from a convertible. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Mid-Life Crustacean", Mr. Krabs, who's in the throes of a mid-life crisis, convinces SpongeBob and Patrick to take him out for a rollicking night on the town. Unfortunately for Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob and Patrick are complete losers whose idea of a "cool" ride is a tandem bike with a wagon attached for him to ride in. A boat with two actual cool kids obligingly slows down to mock them for it, but only Mr. Krabs is insulted. | |
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In the first season of Pokémon, Gary and his cheerleaders occasionally greeted Ash in this manner.◊ Oddly, he was never seen with the car again after being knocked out of the Indigo League. | |
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Once Michael Jordan regains his feet after a slobbery greeting by his bulldog Charles in Space Jam, some passing young people in a convertible hail him with "Michael!" and wave. Jordan turns to regard them, but gives no acknowledgement, perhaps still sore about his dismal performance as a baseball player. | |
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South Park: There was one episode where people from the future repeatedly come to live in their own enclave, called Little Future. A bunch of futurists drive by in a hovercar and wordlessly start jumping the car up and down (as if it were a low rider). On the "South ParQ Vaccination Special", A gaggle of senior citizens, who had just received the COVID-19 vaccinenote at the time the episode aired, COVID vaccines were reserved exclusively for essential workers and individuals age 50 and over with or without underlining medical conditions taunt and drive by unvaccinated South Park residents by and gloating about getting vaccinated and discussing their plans. |
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Trying to invoke this trope backfired in The Facts of Life when the girls, out cruising in a newly acquired car, saw some rivals and wanted to rub it in. While stopped at a red light, they exited their car and smugly ran a lap around it—then realized too late they had locked themselves out of it. | |
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In Kiki's Delivery Service, this happens twice: When Kiki first arrives in her new town, she encounter a rowdy group of kids filling a convertible. It is so full that there are kids on the rear deck, and hanging off the back. This is the first time she meets Tombo. Again, while Kiki and Tombo are together, Tombo is asked to come along with a smaller group of kids in what appears to be the same convertible. Much to Kiki's chagrin, there's a snobbish girl in the car she delivered to who badmouthed her grandmother's birthday gift, a pie she and Kiki worked hard on to make sure it was even made and delivered through a storm. The kids in the car are not particularly mean, and actually speak neutrally about Kiki. However, since she feels uncool and knows the ungrateful nature of the girl in the front seat, her self-consciousness makes her feel like she's a Third Wheel. She leaves to preserve her dignity. |
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In the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a hot rod full of teenagers paces the convoy of army trucks. The lead vehicle even races the hot rod for a little while. | |
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Gravity Falls: In Mabel's fantasy land in "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape from Reality", the seduction that draws Wendy away from the others is a(n imaginary) car full of her friends. | |
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