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Failing a Taxi
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A character, on a city street, is trying to hail a cab. No matter how many times they yell, "Hey, taxi!", no taxi stops for them. This can be played for comedy, such as trying to show a country-bumpkin just how tough the big city can be. Or it can be played for a drama. One simple and frequent plot is when the lack of a taxi will slow the hero down in their quest. Another is if there's a sinister reason no taxi will stop for the protagonist in particular, often demonstrated by showing one that just ignored them stopping for somebody more "suitable;" for instance, the inability of a black man to catch a taxi is a too-frequent Real Life occurrence that fiction often comments on. |
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In a sketch on Chappelle's Show about monsters who happen to be African-American (or African-Americans who happen to be monsters), it's unclear whether the mummy is unable to hail a cab because he's a mummy or because he's black. This makes him late for his appointment with his parole officer. | |
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North By Northwest begins in New York City — a man hails a cab, and Roger cuts in with his secretary, claiming she's pregnant, and takes it. She chides Roger, who assures her his lie let the guy think he was doing them a favor. | |
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The opening credits of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? show Terry failing to hail a bus. | |
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In Clockwise, Brian twice tries to hail a taxi without success. The second time, he falls over the bonnet of Laura's car, as she comes out of her driveway: he then demands a lift from her. | |
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In Meet Dave Number 2 eventually has the robot grab a car in mid-drive. | |
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In the Jim Carey live-action version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the race-card version of this trope is used. The Grinch tries to hail a taxi, but it speeds on by, and the Grinch screams to the air that it's just because he's green. | |
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In Spirou and Fantasio à Moscou, Fantasio is trying to get a cab in the middle of Moscow, with no success. Meanwhile, Spirou is digging through the material they got from the KGB (which they work for at the moment) and shows Fantasio the spiffy new KGB badges they've been given. Six cabs immediately stop for them... driven by some very nervous-looking cab drivers. | |
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The Madeline animated series: while visiting New York, Miss Clavelle's cries of "Taxi!" get no attention whatsoever. Madeline solves the problem with an earsplitting whistle. | |
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Happens in Cats Don't Dance when Danny makes it to the taxi first before poor Sawyer whose day he's been inadvertently ruining. | |
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A segment on Sesame Street talking about how we use our hands to communicate ("Hand Talk") involved a man hailing a taxi, only to have it drive right by, with a waving fake hand in the back. | |
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Played with in the Daffy Duck cartoon "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery": Daffy (as Duck Twacy) hails a taxi, which zooms up, and tells the driver to "follow that car!" The taxi zooms off without Daffy, who says to us "Keeps 'em on their toes!" | |
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In Inside Man a Sikh (often mistaken for Arab, in post-9/11 New York) man suspected of being a bank robber is complaining about often being suspected of being a terrorist because he's Arab-looking. The detective questioning him, played by Denzel Washington, drily remarks "I bet you can get a cab, though" - referring to the fact that many cab drivers in New York are Sikhs, and many black people can't get a cab. | |
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A white man starts slowly turning into a black man in The Twilight Zone episode "Shades of Guilt." He at one point tries to hail a cab, only for it to pass him over in favor of a white man as a passing black man quips, "Happens all the time, don't it?" | |
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Persona 5: When Makoto gets Kaneshiro's goons to take her to their boss, the Thieves follow them. Ryuji tries hailing a taxi, but the first one blows right by him. The second one, Ryuji stands in the street to force them to stop, and it barely brakes in time to not run him over. | |
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In The Incredible Hulk Returns, Don Blake tried to hail a cab by wimpily lifting his arm and calling "Hey, Cab" but they all passed him by. Then Thornote In the TV movie Thor and Blake are different people, unlike in the comics. used his lung power to bellow "HEY! CAB!" and one stopped abruptly. | |
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In The Great Muppet Caper, taxis don't stop for Kermit and company until Gonzo jumps in front of one. | |
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In Quick Change, the heroes have robbed a bank and are futilely trying to flag down a cab to get to the airport: | |
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Earthworm Jim 2: Normally Jim uses a Seesaw Catapult to exit a completed level, but if it breaks, he'll hail a taxi to exit. Sometimes, the taxi just drives right by him and he chases it offscreen. | |
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Early in Gargoyles, the Trio needs a means of getting back to the castle before dawn after spending the night exploring their new home, as their wings are getting tired from gliding. Brooklyn notices someone hailing a taxi and decides to try it. It doesn't work, since the taxi driver got too freaked out when a gargoyle jumped up in front of him. Demona has no problem with it though, at least in her human form. And all she had to do was Show Some Leg. |
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The Law & Order episode "Rage" centers around the murder trial of a black stockbroker who killed his white mentor after the latter discovered that he had scammed the brokerage out of millions of dollars. At trial, the killer's lawyer argues that he committed the crime out of "black rage," essentially claiming that he was driven to kill by society's pervasive racism. After the conclusion of the trial, prosecutor Jack McCoy reflects that, while the defendant's legal claim was bogus, the racism he saw around him was not. He then hails a cab...which deliberately swerves to avoid a black man who had hailed it seconds before. | |
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Variation in The Wiz: Dorothy sees and approaches a parked Oz cab on two occasions early on — each time, it switches on an "OFF DUTY" light and drives off before she can reach it. Later on, she and the other main characters ignore the cabs entirely (or even stand on them) while singing "Ease on Down the Road". This is probably supposed to symbolize their choice of a more challenging, but also more rewarding, path. | |
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In The Pelican Brief Grantham has this problem. Somewhat justified in that he was dressed for street surveillance and looked somewhat suspicious, made worse by the fact that he is black. | |
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Skid Row in Little Shop of Horrors is described as "Downtown...where the cabs don't stop." | |
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The first scene of Batman (1989) has a tourist family failing to get a taxi. This one's especially bad because they were getting ready to board a cab when someone else butted in and boarded, even though they were there first. This would eventually lead the father to try to take a shortcut through an alleyway, leading to them being victimized by two muggers at the end of the scene. | |
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In Down To Earth (2001), after being brought back to life for the second time, Chris Rock's character tries to hail a taxi to test if he was reincarnated as a black man. He fails to attract a single cab, much to his delight. | |
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Happens in the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment of Fantasia 2000. Naturally, the character in question is black. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Runaway Bride", Donna Noble tries to hail a cab in her wedding dress, without success. However, they have no money, so they get booted out of that cab quickly due to double rates on Christmas Eve. To get money, the Doctor waits impatiently in line at an ATM while Donna begs for change on the street. Just as the Doctor's getting his money for Donna's fare, he sees her riding off in a cab... driven by a Robot Santa. Cue a climactic chase sequence on the expressway. |
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Defied and parodied in Top Five. Chris Rock tries to invoke this by saying "Black man trying to catch a cab in New York City!" As soon as he holds out his arm, a taxi stops. | |
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This is the subject of a joke in Tootsie. Tootsie is trying to hail a cab and calls twice for a cab in his woman voice. Finally he bellows for one in his man voice and one stops immediately. | |
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An episode of the Disney Channel series The Famous Jett Jackson was about Jett spending some time in a rougher urban area than he was used to and realizing that his sheltered, privileged life isn't typical for a black teenager in America. One of his clues was that he couldn't get a cab to stop for him. (It's a cliché, but still, try finding a storyline like that on Disney Channel today.) | |
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Criminal Minds, from the episode "A Real Rain": | |
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Will happen from time to time on The Amazing Race, and is always played for drama. Most of the time it happens because teams will be tasked with finding a cab in an area that doesn't have many. | |
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In Oz, part of Poet's face is scalded and rendered temporarily pale, at which he remarks "at least I'll be able to hail a cab." | |
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Happens on a few occasions in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race: After Dwayne got a face tattoo in New Zealand, he has trouble getting picked up as he mistakenly got a woman's tattoo. Junior eventually steps in and conveniently covers the tattoo with his ticket to get one to stop. In another episode, the Cadets face the same dilemma (minus tattoos). Eventually, MacArthur jumps into traffic with her badge and commandeers a vehicle. |
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Superman Returns has Lois Lane fall prey to this trope, but she is luckily assisted by a surreptitious super-whistle from Clark Kent. | |
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A Happy Endings episode had Brad, who is black, and Max, who is gay, arguing about whether it is harder to be a black man or a gay man. Brad complains that the other night he couldn't get a cab to stop for him in an extremely expensive suit, while a white man in grungy clothes was picked up almost instantly. | |
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In Just My Luck, when Lindsay Lohan's character gets bad luck, the taxis won't stop for her. As soon as she gets good luck, she can get three taxis to stop with a wave of her arm. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV sometimes taxi cabs won't answer to Niko Bellic in which he will angrily show his disapproval. | |
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In The Adjustment Bureau, the Bureau limits David Norris' options by altering reality so no taxis will stop for him, even though they clearly have no passengers. When one finally does stop, it gets hit by a truck. | |
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Family Guy: Played from the taxi driver's perspective in one episode when Brian takes a job as a cab driver and doesn't pick up Cleveland when he's attempting to hail a taxi. Subverted in that Brian wasn't even thinking of picking up a fare at the time and simply had to run another errand (though Brian is known to have racist leanings, leading to a possible Double Subversion). One of the many uses mentioned in the advertisement for the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man is helping black men hail taxis. Another episode takes place in the fall when the leaves start to change color and Quahog gets its annual influx of New Yorkers driving north to see them. Two of them the episode showcase are comparing the leaves' colors to stereotypical New York things, e.g., "orange like the ball at a Knicks game". The gag ends with "and brown, like the people I don't stop for." |
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Soul: After 22 (in Joe's body) sneaks out of the hospital, she tries to hail a taxi, but fails. | |
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At one point in Transmetropolitan, it takes both Channon and Yelena flashing a cab triver to get one to stop. | |
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles begins in New York City rush hour with Neal trying to hail a cab to the airport. He competes with Kevin Bacon for a cab and loses. He pays another person to take the ride but is stiffed paying him $75 before Del takes the ride. | |
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Stuart Little: At one point, Reginald Stout tries to hail a cab, but has some trouble, probably due to the driver missing him because he's a tiny little mouse. | |
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In an episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, Mimey decides to shorten a trip back to Pallet Town by hailing a car and fails miserably. Pikachu however tries Shaking the Rump, getting a truck to pull over immediately. | |
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Short Circuit 2: Johnny Five is repeatedly ignored by taxis until he resorts to reeling one in with his grappling hook. | |
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