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Sometimes, Rockstar Parking is unavailable to a character. Other times, a space is available but they are unable to maneuver their vehicle into it due to poor parking skills or the space being to small, especially if Parallel Parking is involved. Maybe they were about to enter a space, only for some Jerk Jock in a hummer to cut them off and steal the space. In these cases, they'll have to make do with whatever space is available, or park in a less than courteous manner. Common gags include: Parking next to a fire hydrant (which may need using, causing the firemen to shatter two of the car's windows to lead the hose through) Stealing the Handicapped Spot Parking in a space reserved for a superior Parking in the one available spot that's a long trek away from wherever they wanted to go Parking on the sidewalk or in another place where parking isn't permitted. Oftentimes, the violation will be treated as a Felony Misdemeanor and the driver will receive a ticket from a Traffic Warden. The car might be towed, or may have a clamp applied to the wheel. Obstructive Bureaucracy may be encountered as the driver attempts to pay their ticket or retrieve their car. Contrast Improbable Parking Skills. Can lead to Parking Payback. |
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Parking Wars: the whole point of the show, which follows parking enforcement officers as they write tickets and apply tire clamps. | |
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Megas XLR: While his back is turned, Coop's titular giant robot gets booted and towed for illegal parking. | |
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The Defenders (2017): Jessica Jones is introduced rescuing Trish Walker's car from getting towed after Trish incidentally parks illegally in a loading zone. Trish tries to protest to the parking enforcement officer that she can move it, but he isn't swayed. That is, until Jessica shows up and rips the car off the tow truck's hook and pulls it backwards into a legal space. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer tries to park the family's station wagon in a stall marked COMPACT ONLY against his passengers' advice. He squeezes the vehicle in, grinding both sides of the station wagon against the parked vehicles on either side and asks Marge in the passenger seat: "How am I doing on your side?" In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", Homer's car gets booted after Barney borrows it and parks it illegally at the World Trade Center. The enforcement officer sent to remove the boot and collect the fine takes hours to show up, so Homer enters one of the buildings to use the washroom. The officer arrives just as he reaches the top of one of the towers, and leaves when Homer isn't there. Frustrated, Homer drives the car home with the boot still attached. |
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Harrow: In "Non Sum Qualis Eram" ("I'm not what I used to be"), Harrow "borrows" Fairley's car without asking. When he returns it, he leaves it in a No Standing zone, so when Fairley comes out to find his car, he is immediately handed a parking ticket. | |
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Canada's Worst Driver: None of the contestants can drive, much less park. | |
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Office Space gives a twofer: As part of his interrupted-hypnosis new view on life, Peter nonchalantly parks in the space reserved for his human headache of a boss, Bill Lumbergh. This spawns another Parking Problem gag: Lumbergh arrives later and parks instead in a handicap space, which results in his car getting seriously damaged, then towed. | |
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House of Mouse: In "Dining Goofy", Goofy tries to help Max park cars now that he is no longer needed in waiting tables. He ends up "parallel parking" by stacking several guests' cars (including Cinderella's coach and Herbie) on top of one another. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: While Miss Brooks has trouble parking off and on through the series, "Trial by Jury" features a truly Epic Fail. She leaves her car parked on a hill, another driver bumps her car forward. The parking brake is released, and her car rushes downhill and crashes into a fruit stand. Miss Brooks returns just in time to get the blame. | |
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Reservation Dogs: During her driver's test, Elora is told to parallel park in a space too small for her car. When turning on the Crocodile Tears gets her instructor to switch places with her, his solution for getting out of the parking spot involves repeatedly ramming the adjacent cars until Elora's Alleged Car is freed. | |
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In Delivery Man, David Wozniak, a delivery person for his family's butcher shop, has his delivery truck repeatedly ticketed for parking improperly. He uses the truck to pick up the shop's basketball team uniforms to wear during a team photo, which his family doubts he can retrieve and deliver in time for the photo due to his unreliability. David manages to retrieve the jerseys, but the truck is towed with the jerseys inside. | |
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In Johnny Test, the twins' van is towed for being parked in front of a fire hydrant. | |
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xkcd offers this novel solution to bad parkers. | |
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Afterlife (1996) has the "NP-complete Parking Garages" as one of the highest available Wrath punishments, where a SOUL has to legally park their car to get out of it. And everything that can go wrong with parking will go wrong here: Spaces reserved for the handicapped and VID (Very Important Demons) that will have the SOUL punished if they try to park there, endless hallways full of used-up spaces, spots that seem empty only to have a motorcycle occupying it, wasted spaces from crappily-parked cars (some even use up three spots), and any legitimate free parking space is quickly stolen by demons in gaudy sports cars driving the wrong way. | |
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The Last Jedi: Finn and Rose get arrested on Canto Bight for illegally parking their shuttlecraft on the beach, ruining their chance to meet up with the underworld figure they came to meet. | |
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When cop-in-training John Nolan makes a traffic stop with his watch commander riding shotgun in The Rookie, he fails to park his patrol car far enough from the suspect's vehicle as mandated by department regulations. After being admonished by his supervisor, he spends an excruciating amount of time moving his patrol car forwards and backwards, to the chagrin of the watch commander. | |
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Part way into season four of Archer, Ray, having been paralysed in the previous season's finale, arrives at the ISIS underground parking lot, only to find the two handicap spots blocked by Archer's El Camino. | |
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Blondie (1930): In one strip, Dagwood parks his car to go pay for a parking ticket where he is pushed around by Obstructive Bureaucracy telling him to go from office to office. When he finally gets to pay his parking ticket, he spots an officer in front of his car writing him a ticket as he had parked in a 20-minute zone. | |
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The Rolling Stones song Get off of My Cloud has the singer waking up after sleeping in his car parked downtown to find parking tickets on his windshield. | |
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Doctor in Distress (1963): When Sir Lancelot parks in his reserved space at Hampden Cross Hospital, the two adjacent cars are too close, and he is unable to open his doors. When he tries to reverse out, an ambulance parks behind him and forces him to wait until it is ready to move. | |
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At the beginning of GoodFellas, Henry cites being able to double park in front of fire hydrants as one of the cool things about being a gangster. | |
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Kim Possible: In "The Big Job", while Kim throws down with Shego, Ron ends up fighting Señor Senior Jr. over a parking space. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In "Fear of Victory", Batman intercepts a telegram delivery man to prevent the recipient from being dosed with Scarecrow's fear toxin. The terrified delivery man thinks Batman is after him for double parking. | |
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In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Rooney parks his car in front of a fire hydrant in front of the Bueller house. His car then gets towed. | |
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When Mahoney is introduced in the first Police Academy, he's working as a parking attendant. An obnoxious customer insists that he find a parking space even though Mahoney points out there are no more spaces. His boss sides with the customer, so he does it anyway... by tilting the car onto its side wheels and parking between two other cars. (Yes, it does look something like the page image.) | |
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In Snatch., Tyrone claims a parking spot is too tight when there's only one other vehicle on the whole block. Naturally, when the others convince him to park there, he crashes into that vehicle, leading to one of the funniest exchanges in the movie: | |
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In one Archie comic, Archie and his friends find that they have been boxed in by an inconsiderate driver and are unable to pull out. Moose arrives and offers to lift the front end of their car up and point it towards the road. Having done so, the gang thanks him... and he gets into the car in front of them and drives off! In another Archie comic, Moose complains about the parking situation, saying it took an hour to get his compact car out of a certain lot. When told that isn't so bad (seriously?), he says that it ''wasn't'' a compact car when he'd parked it. |
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Malcolm in the Middle: Francis gets 16 parking tickets in Lois' van, causing Lois to be arrested after she is pulled over for a traffic violation. In the episode where Stevie's parents arrange to meet Malcolm's parents at a restaurant, Stevie's dad apologizes for being late after someone without a permit parked in the handicapped stall. Hal's reaction indicates it was him. |
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: One episode opens with the team in their cruiser in a mad race with several other ships for the last parking spot at the local space diner. A single ship leaves the "parking lot", and Buzz maneuvers their (rocket-shaped) ship into it...needle point down. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball has "The Parking", where the entire episode is the Watterson family having a difficult time finding a decent parking spot. When they seemingly do find a good spot at the end, they have to compete with a bunch of other cars appearing out of nowhere. | |
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In On the Buses, Stan parks his bus too close to Vera's in the depot to trap her in the cab: | |
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The video for the Foo Fighters' "Big Me" parodies the Mentos commercial mentioned above, with the band members acting as the construction workers. | |
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The Doctor from Doctor Who is not exactly an expert when it comes to flying the TARDIS. "The Rescue" ends with the First Doctor parking the TARDIS on the edge of a cliff. Sure enough, it immediately tips over, kickstarting the plot of the next serial. In "Fear Her", Ten parks the TARDIS with the door facing a dumpster. He has to take a moment to rotate the TARDIS so that the door actually can open. And technically, he didn't disobey the "No parking in front of gate" sign, because he parked in the gate. In "The Eleventh Hour", Eleven lands (read: crashes) the TARDIS in Amelia Pond's backyard... on its back. He has to use a grappling hook to climb out. |
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In one Kid Radd strip, the guy who's in charge of the Mods states one of his subordinates' parking space will be his after he kills her. | |
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Guys Being Dudes: The Team GO Rocket trio end up parking their Creepy Stalker Van at a shopping center next to the park Go Fest takes place at because it's rather large and Sierra refuses to park next to anyone. | |
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Family Guy: the Christmas season brings anxiety to the Griffin home, with Lois upset at having to redo the gift shopping and Peter rushing so he can be home in time to see his special. Another shopper at the mall beats the family to the last parking spot, so Peter loses patience and parks on top of another car. | |
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The main conflict of the Drawn Together two-parter “Lost in Parking Space� is that the group is going to a shopping mall, but because they had to squeeze their rather big van in between two cars at the parking lot, they end up trapped. | |
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Spongebob Squarepants: A cop is writing a traffic ticket for a car parked by a fire hydrant. A monster eats/destroys the offending car, so the officer picks up the fire hydrant, drops it by another car, and sticks the ticket to that car's windshield. | |
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