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Rental Car Abuse
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When renting a car, a character will often adopt an attitude of "It's not my car so damage isn't my problem" and proceed to drive like a maniac. By the end of their vacation, the rental car will undoubtedly become The Alleged Car. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Less often is the accidental variant, where someone is naturally a Directionless Driver, Drives Like Crazy or is simply hopeless at Driving Stick and unintentionally destroys a rental car. Don't Try This at Home, obviously. Note that in real life abusing the rental car may cost you — rental cars often have large insurance excesses unless you pay for the waiver and wheels/tyre/overhead damage are almost always excluded. In some well publicised cases rental companies have attempted to impose fines by using vehicle trackers to see if any speed limits have been exceeded and burying a fine per infringement in the small print — the first the renter knew is when several hundred dollars were debited from their credit card. |
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Clark Griswold is the accidental version in National Lampoon's European Vacation, being generally questionable driver to begin with, drives his rented Citroën DS into a too small gap and getting it stuck. | |
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In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Raul Duke rents "The Red Shark", a red Impala convertible for the first trip, which he drives off a two foot concrete slab at the rental office in LA and generally drives like a maniac. It gets off easy compared to "The White Whale", an El Dorado convertible rented for the second trip, which is driven into Lake Mead, has its tires over-inflated to 75 PSI as "an experiment", vandalised by Duke and Gonzo in a stupor, is jumped over a highway median, through a fence and down a runway at 100 MPH, among other misadventures which leave it completely destroyed by the book's end. | |
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In the pilot episode of Haven, FBI agent Audrey Parker swerves in her rental to avoid a crack in the ground and ends up dangling over the edge of a cliff. She's saved by Haven Police Officer Nathan Wuornos, and they watch as the car tumbles to the ocean below. Far below. | |
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The Simpsons: In the episode "Bart on the Road", Bart, Nelson, Milhouse and Martin all decide to secretly hire a car and drive to Knoxville, Tennessee for spring break, since Bart has a fake driver's license and Martin has $600 he earned in his day of work experience. Bart mistakes "cruise control" for "keeps you on the road even if you need to turn", driving through a corn field. Later, they end up crushing their rental car and stuck without a way to get home. In The Stinger, Marge gets calls from Tennessee State Police asking whether her son's car was crashed in Knoxville. "Gone Boy" has Homer buy a rental car and encourage the rest of the family to be as careless with the car as possible, to the point that he even asks Bart to pee in it when Bart tells him he has to go. |
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Toonsylvania featured this kind of joke in the Night of the Living Fred segment "Voodoo Vacation". While on vacation with his family, Dedgar Deadman drives their car off a cliff. As if to justify it when his wife Stiffany expresses her concern for her husband's recklessness, Dedgar gleefully yells "It's a rentaaaaaaaaaal!" as they go over the edge. | |
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On Top Gear (UK), in their race around the northern part of New Zealand in series 20, Jeremy insists his (blue) Toyota Corolla the fastest car in the world because he rented it. He also took six collision report forms. He crashes it several times and by the end of the race he has had to replace it with a red Corolla. Another episode has an accidental example. The guys are commissioned to make automotive themed art pieces and they decide to cut up a car with plasma cutters. While Richard and James do the cutting, Jeremy checks the invoice and discovers the car is a rental. |
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In the Archer episode "Edie's Wedding", Archer rents a Lincoln Continental and drives through a wooden gate screaming "RENTAL CAR"... then complains when it becomes damaged and drives poorly. | |
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On Seinfeld, Jerry's car is stolen and he must temporarily rent a replacement, but finds his reservation is not held by the rental company and he's forced to take a smaller car. | |
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At the beginning of Meet the Parents, Greg rents a car but does not purchase the insurance after he gets the agent to admit the insurance is just a profit grab. Then his father-in-law convinces him to throw a cinderblock at the bulletproof glass on his custom RV, which then bounces off and smashes the rental car's windshield. | |
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In the T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Pup Daddy", Dudley complained about how the team was acting when they were accidentally turned into babies by him. One of those incidents involved trashing the Tuffmobile, which Dudley lamented was a rental. | |
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The first Jackass movie has the "Rent-a-car Crash Up Derby" segment in which Johnny Knoxville uses a rental car in a destruction derby. | |
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Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends: In the second half of the pilot, after Sh'lainn is taken to the Alliance base, Nick rents the biggest sport utility available, insured to the hilt. He then proceeds to drive it straight into the Alliance's fortified front door. The resulting explosion blows it open. | |
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In Days of Thunder, when rival drivers Cole Trickle and Rowdy Burns are forced to ride together to a dinner meeting, neither man is willing to relinquish the car keys to the other. Their solution? Rent a second car... and engage in full contact street racing all the way to the valet stand that leaves both vehicles smoking wrecks. | |
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Shortly after arresting the evil Acme Chairman in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, superspy Damian Drake and everyone else in the Acme boardroom must flee a spaceship that comes crashing into the room. Once the craft comes to a stop, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck casually emerge. | |
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One episode of Star Trek: Voyager sees Voyager being sent back in time to 1996 in Los Angeles. Tom and Tuvok decide to test drive a truck in order to further their investigations to get back to their time. Trouble starts at the observatory they drove to, and the rental truck gets vaporized by a mook who managed to get his hands on a phaser. | |
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