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Parallel Parking
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Parallel Parking is one of the most difficult things to do when you're driving. This is something that will get almost anybody nervous, especially during a Driving Test, and would try avoiding. That, or somehow a character can pull off something daring and spectacular doing it. Less skilled drivers will usually bump into the cars in front of and/or behind the spot they're either entering or leaving. |
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A Tosh.0 bit had various stereotypical poor drivers (an Asian woman, a 15-year-old girl with her learner's permit, etc.) try to parallel park a massive Hummer. The only one who succeeded was the girl. | |
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Pixar Popcorn: The Western Animation/Cars short "Unparalleled Parking" features the residents of Radiator Springs trying to parallel park. | |
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MythBusters tried to determine whether men or women were better drivers, and one of the tests was parallel parking. It was a statistical draw; women tended to either easily place the car precisely or panic and mess up, while men tended to place the car at a "good enough" point and thus showed less deviation from the mean. | |
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A Looney Tunes short titled "Wild Wife" had the housewife protagonist speedily hit the parked cars in front and back of her twice apiece. This is probably a "woman driver" joke. | |
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Every season of Canada's Worst Driver has a parallel parking challenge, but the most extreme may well have been in Season 2. It required the nominees to reverse a Winnebago over a hundred metres uphill, then park between a Mercedes and a BMW. At least two nominees parked perfectly. Others... well, see the show's title. | |
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In one Disney short "Two-Gun Goofy", Pete rides into a Western town and parallel parks his horse, bumping into those in front and behind him. | |
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In the House of Mouse episode "Dining Goofy", Goofy took parallel parking literally and stacked various cars on top of each other (including Cinderella's coach, Herbie, and a lightcycle. | |
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We Bare Bears: In "Road Trip", it's revealed one of the few things Ice Bear isn't good at is parallel parking. | |
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On Seinfeld, George actually claims to be really good at parallel parking; he just didn't count on another guy trying to drive into the space front first while he was backing up. A massive, all-night argument begins between the two drivers over whether front-first parallel parking is acceptable in the civilized world. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Oone episode focuses on Candace practicing this... with monster trucks. Also comes up in a later episode when Candace is practicing driving with her mom. Candace's neuroses over her brothers, and later some unintended interference from Doofenshmirtz, ends up resulting in her becoming a textbook example of Drives Like Crazy. However, even Candace's mom had to admit that Candace really had parallel parking down. |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Taking the Rap for Mr. Boynton", Miss Brooks "helps" Mr. Boynton parallel park his car. She advises him to back up just a little more . . . resulting in him crashing into Mr. Conklin's new car. | |
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In Wapsi Square, Tina breaks her wrist while parallel parking. She runs over it. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: During the traffic safety film "X" Marks the Spot, an early scene has a Match Cut of a car fading into a narrow gap between two cars parked curbside. Tom Servo remarks, "Ah, parallel universe parking." The car's driver has to leave the space the old-fashioned way — as Crow puts it, "He uses the Braille system." | |
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The bodyguard Tyrone in Snatch., who'd earlier been talked up as a great driver, smashes hard into a van (ironically containing the guy his bosses are looking for) while backing into a space "big enough for a jumbo jet". | |
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Reese's driving test in Malcolm in the Middle frustrates him to the point that it turns into a low-speed police chase, which continues for hours until he's nearly out of gas, at which point he leads the Lemming Cops round the entire test run, acing every obstacle and finishing with an inch-perfect parallel park. What do you mean, it's not awesome? | |
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Gru from Despicable Me is perfectly able to parallel park, even though his car puts a semitrailer to shame. He deliberately rams into the cars in front of and behind him anyway. 'Cause he's evil. | |
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Futurama: The first episode has Leela saying that she can fly the ship, as long as she isn't asked to parallel park. In one episode, Amy complains that she is useless at parallel parking, and then easily drives in since hovercars can just move sideways. She then suddenly moves forwards and back to hit the two cars anyway. Hey, she said she was bad at it. |
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After Annie parks in Annie Hall: | |
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The Blues Brothers: Elwood J. Blues has to be one of the best in history. Able to do an e-brake slide into any spot. | |
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The spectacular one is done in The Incredibles, when Mr. Incredible lands the van that was launched from a rocket, then skids perfectly into a vacant parallel spot. | |
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There's a Mentos commercial where some jerk pulls into an open parking spot right when our heroine wants to leave, sandwiching her in. Cue a Mentos and a bright idea; she recruits the help of some beefy construction workers to pick up her car and ease it out. This was also parodied in the Foo Fighters music video for "Big Me". | |
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In Nobody Scores!, every attempt at parallel parking results in increasingly implausible accidents. | |
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In 7th Heaven, Mary couldn't parallel park during the driving test. She resorted to a crying routing on the evaluator to get the license. | |
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Top Gear: One episode involved James May and Jeremy Clarkson driving huge classic cars around London to showcase how fantastic (read: impractical) these cars are in the modern day. One of the producer's challenges involved parallel parking in downtown London, which, as it turns out, was impossible for the cars to do as they are, in fact, longer than the parking spaces themselves. Another episode had them trying to determine how practical Italian Supercars are in London (see above), the parking test being made even more difficult by the cars' poor rearward visibility and the hosts secretly pushing the other cars closer together to make the task impossible. Yet another segment involved demonstrating the automatic parking system fitted to a car only for it to miss the other cars and hit the wall behind them. After two failed attempts Richard Hammond, who was in the car operating the system, realised he'd accidentally set up the system incorrectly and placed the target area on the wall instead of in the gap between cars. One quick adjustment later the car parked istelf perfectly. |
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Bonnie and Clyde: While the title characters rob a bank, their driver C.W. Moss parallel parks down the street and has trouble getting out as they make their getaway. This gives one of the bank tellers enough time to jump on the car's running board, and when Clyde shoots him, he becomes the first murder victim of their crime spree. | |
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Doug's sister Judy once failed to get her driver's license after failing to correctly parallel park. She finally got it right at the end when most of her concentration was on chewing Doug out for having promised she would drive him and Patti somewhere, which was why he needed her to pass in the first place. | |
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