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Mid-Life Crisis Car
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This car is probably red, usually a convertible, always expensive and zippy, and necessarily driven by a middle-aged man. If he's been around for a while, this will be the first time he's shown any tendency to care about what he drives. It is almost always Compensating for Something. Sometimes a motorcycle can fill the same function. Very often becomes The Precious, Precious Car. Compare Cool Car (which generally comes with more weapons and gadgets and things), Hummer Dinger. Contrast The Alleged Car. Often referred to as a "Midlife Chrysler." Truth in Television when you're not lucky enough to have been born wealthy: it takes time to amass enough money for a Cool Car. |
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One of the more unpleasant characters in Cujo by Stephen King dubs this "sports car menopause". | |
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In an episode of The Cosby Show, one of Cliff's friends enters a mid-life crisis after his wife divorced him for being too boring. The first thing he does is go to the car dealership and try out the fastest, most expensive car they have. By the end of the episode he decides not to buy it though. | |
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Red from That '70s Show buys a Corvette in the 4th season, which has been waiting 25 years to get because he had kids. | |
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In The Simpsons' episode YOLO, Kirk van Houten gets a red convertible and tells Homer he signed up in a hip music course. Homer laughs at him, but later he suffers from a midlife crisis too and gets depressed. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: An old acquaintance of Agent Coulson tells him he's having a midlife crisis, what with the airborne mancave, renewed idealism, surrounding himself with attractive agents, and yes, the flying Corvette named Lola. Having just recovered from a Not-So-Near-Death Experience, he quips that it's "More of an afterlife crisis." A later episode has Coulson on the run, and when he attempts to buy a car, the seller immediately assumes he's looking for one of these. |
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Grand Theft Auto Online: One of the possible sports cars that you can steal in the Vehicle Cargo mission series is a Porsche 918 Spyder-Expy with the license plate M1DL1F3... well, at least its (former) owner was honest about it. | |
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In Camp Lazlo, Lumpus gets a huge monster truck that he names "Hammy" after suffering a mid-life crisis in "Peace Frog". | |
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Discussed Trope in Crazy, Stupid, Love where Emily asks for a divorce from Cal, her husband of 25 years. In the aftermath she comments that she might be having a midlife crisis, and doesn't know how to handle it because the movies only ever show men buying ridiculous cars. | |
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In an episode of Scrubs, Dr. Kelso comments that during his midlife crisis he bought an overpowered cigarette boat. | |
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In Please Like Me, John's father buys himself a Porsche - despite his son and girlfriend mocking him for it. | |
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Bob's crisis returns in Incredibles 2, when he's stuck as a House Husband trying to raise the kids (a sulky teenager, a hyperactive pre-teen, and a high-maintenance toddler) while Helen is off living the superhero life. At one point, he sees his former Cool Car from his Glory Days now owned by a collector who can't even figure out how to work it, and he's tempted to take it back. By the end of the film, he has a new family-sized one. | |
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A variation in Red Dwarf. Kryten, a service mechanoid with a life expectancy of six million years, has a mid-life crisis at about three million years of age. While he does not buy a new car (impractical where he lives anyway), he does upgrade his chassis to a very goofy-looking "sporty" model. | |
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Early in Paper Mario: Color Splash, Mario encounters a Toad at Bloo Beach Bay who's determined to sail to the edge of the world. One of the other Toads thinks he's having a midlife crisis and tells him to "buy a convertible and be done with it". | |
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In Robots and Empire, it is mentioned that older Spacers have a tendency to buy bigger and more powerful robotic servants. | |
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The Cinema Snob apparently has one picked out for when it's his time to have this. | |
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On the midlife crisis level of Life: the Game, "new car" is on the shopping list. | |
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The Venture Brothers - after Rusty is called "old" he gets a 1970 Corvette, frightful "mod" clothes, and a ratty-looking wig in the episode "Mid-Life Chrysalis". | |
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As of The Sims 3's "Generations" Expansion Pack, Sims can have a Mid-Life Crisis once they reach adulthood. One of the wishes that can be triggered during their MLC is to purchase a new car worth at least 10,000 Simoleons, and doing so will earn your sim a lot of Lifetime Happiness points. The icons for both that wish and the Mid-life Crisis LTR are red cars. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: In "This Old Mouse", Brain invents a device that lets him get a glimpse of his future. Expecting to see himself ruling the world, he is horrified when he sees that he's still trying to take over the world every night as an old mouse. In an effort to escape the futility of his existence, he decides to "live life in the fast lane" and gets a human-sized red convertible, modified with ropes and cranks to enable him to turn the steering wheel. | |
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In the latter books of the Amber Brown series, Amber's father drives around a very fancy sports car that Amber's mother refers to as "your father's middle-aged-man-starting-over car." In Amber Brown Horses Around, it's revealed that it's a red sports car that he calls his Hot Tamale, though Amber's mother is now calling it the "Midlife Folly" as a snarky rhyme. | |
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Naturally comes up in Car Talk. One suggested midlife crisis car, the Mazda Miata, is personified in The Musical by a Lady in Red who seduces the middle-aged protagonist desperate for a replacement for The Alleged Car. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Act Your Age", Dr. Doofenshmirtz laments that he's never had a mid-life crisis, so he builds an inator that causes him to have one. One of the things he does is test-drive a fast, red convertible sports car... which he promptly crashes. When he asks the dealer if they have something else, the salesman says "We have another one just like it, but in yellow". We later see Vanessa driving it, implying he gave it to her after he decides to stop using the inator for his own safety and just remain simple. | |
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In Better Call Saul, Mike explicitly describes Daniel's circus wagonnote a BRIGHT YELLOW Hummer H2 with red flames on the side as one to Nacho. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: One mission opens with aging Mafia Don Salvatore Leone eagerly showing off his brand new, "top of the line" convertible sports car that he apparently bought on a whim, while his jaded moll, Maria, snarks about his obvious mid-life crisis from the passenger seat. At the end of the mission, you'll find the same car completely wrecked on a tree by the edge of Sal's driveway. | |
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Steve McDonald's midlife crisis dune buggy in Coronation Street. His wife Michelle is not impressed. Not at all. | |
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A female example: Joanna Clore in Green Wing asks a salesman which of two cars will make her look younger: the salesman deadpans, "Neither. They are just cars." | |
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The Finnish comedy cartoon Pasila featured a chronic speeder who drove a SUV big enough to fit another SUV in the trunk. He claims the car is not a penis extension, but constantly slips off the Freudian slope when he talks to anyone about it for any extended period of time. | |
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In an episode of Boy Meets World, Alan Matthews wants to get a midlife crisis motorcycle, but he eventually decides against it. | |
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In Nobody Hutch doesn't own a car but has the keys for a car belonging to his would-be killers. However rather than taking the sensible car, he gives into temptation and steals his neighbor's vintage muscle car. | |
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In the TV Movie A Woman Scorned The Betty Broderick Story, the titular character taunts her soon-to-be ex about he should pose for the cover of "Midlife Crisis Magazine", citing his much younger (21 years old) new girlfriend, and of course, his flashy red sports car. | |
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The second victim of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Pal Merkatis, was a middle-aged gang doctor who owned a bright green sports car. He ended up causing a hit-and-run before his murder because of a clogged muffler. | |
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In The Good Place, Michael whips a red car out of nowhere in the episode Existential Crisis. | |
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Futurama: During Lrrr's midlife crisis we briefly see him trying out a small red hovercar. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: Timmy's dad buys a cool car that he doesn't allow Timmy to ride in. Hilarity Ensues when Timmy wishes to be said car. The reason his father doesn't let him ride in the car is because it's VERY lacking in safety features, and while he realizes how dumb he's being by driving it around, he wouldn't endanger his son by letting him ride in it. So it's kind of cute, in a weird way. In the episode "Wishy Washy", Timmy's dad falls in love with it. His mom then tries to destroy it. |
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In one episode of Young Sheldon, George has a fight with his wife Mary about the family moving to Oklahoma for his job. This leads to him going out and buying a red Fiero. | |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): Parodied with Dale, who hasn't found any success since his old show got cancelled, driving a rusty old car meant to be driven by humans (modified so he can reach the wheel and pedals). | |
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Subverted in Arthur, King of Time and Space: Merlin buys a new car and explains it's because of his midlife crisis ... only it's not a sports car, and he only got it because the commercial had a Led Zeppelin song. | |
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Referenced twice in FoxTrot when both Roger and Andy were having difficulties with aging. In one arc, Roger got a toupee and Andy worried it was a sign of him hiding aging insecurities, mentioning this trope as another possible step. Later, when Andy turned 42 and had her own mid-life crisis, she briefly considered getting a Ferrari before she moved past it. | |
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In Leverage, the team asks Nate if he's buying a Mid-Life Crisis Car with his cut of their money, and mock him when he says he's getting an electric car. Then, he jumps into his Tesla Roadster, and they watch in awe as he drives away, agreeing that he's definitely having a midlife crisis. | |
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In Californication, Hank Moody buys a Porsche after he earned some money from a writing gig. His agent Charlie Runkle is a bit worried though he should be used to Hank's irresponsibility by that time. | |
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The Incredibles: Bob Parr buys a black sports car with the money he's earning with secret superhero work (the idea that he's going through a mid-life crisis is brought up in the movie). This becomes a Chekhov's Gun when he uses it to destroy Syndrome's plane at the end. Of course by that stage he's reconnected with his family, so it's no longer Compensating for Something. |
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Doctor Who: In "Smith and Jones", Martha's father is driving such a car when he first appears, complete with a (much younger) girlfriend the script compares to a Big Brother evictee. | |
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Parodied in Camp Camp, when Nurf decides that being cool means being an adult with a steady job, while Space Kid's idea of being cool is being a racecar. Nurf claims Space Kid as a sports car he bought during his recent mid-life crisis. | |
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CSI has an episode with Gil Grissom acting as though he's starting to go into mid-life crisis. Brass advises him, "Buy a convertible. It's cheaper." | |
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"He Got What He Deserved", a song in MID-LIFE! the Crisis Musical, has one of the ladies lament that her husband "traded in our mini-van / for a shiny sports car, naturally it's red." | |
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In American Beauty, Lester buys a 1970 Pontiac Firebird. He's not compensating for something, but rather pissing off his wife (who would later interrupt their first intimate encounter in years because she was afraid he would spill beer on her sofa). | |
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Stan's dad gets one in South Park when he and his wife divorce for the episode. | |
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Family Guy: Peter's car after he finds out that Chris is much larger than him in a certain... area. This whole sequence is a pisstake on the concept, with Peter's car being extremely phallic, him driving in-and-out of a tunnel repeatedly before the car gets crushed by an oncoming semi-truck, and a passing bus full of supermodels giggling at him as he looks sad and mutters "Ow, my pride..." | |
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Referenced in the song "Mid Life Chrysler" by Collin Raye. | |
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Walt replacing his aging POS light green Pontiac Aztek with a new black Chrysler 300 in Breaking Bad is a (relatively) sensible example. In a straighter (though vicarious) example, he also gets his son a bright red Dodge Challenger at the same time (in season 4, he had earlier gotten Walt Jr. a different bright red Dodge Challenger, though that was specifically at Walt. Jr.'s instigation). | |
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Friends: Ross and Monica's father mentioned buying a Porsche when he turned fifty. A few seasons later he gives it to Monica as an apology for using the boxes with all her childhood relics to block flooding water in order to protect the car. Ross buys one of these. Too bad it's so small it gets stuck in the parking space and he spends most of the time trying to drive out. He also quickly abandons the car when an old, bald gentleman shows up driving the exact same car. |
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