Car Meets House/Playing With

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  • Basic Trope: A car drives into a house
  • Played Straight: Charles drives into Alice and Bob's living room one night.
  • Exaggerated:
    • See page image.
    • Charles drives into Alice and Bob's second-story bedroom somehow.
  • Justified:
    • Charles Drives Like Crazy
    • Charles is drunk
    • Charles is an inexperienced driver
    • Charles is a senior citizen that happens to be, well, not as good a driver as he used to be.
    • Charles is distracted (by a cell phone, bickering kids in the backseat, or whatever the case may be.)
  • Inverted: A moving house plows into a stationary car
  • Subverted: Charles swerves to miss Alice and Bob's house...
  • Double Subverted: ...but plows into their toolshed, unattached garage, swimming pool, etc., instead.
  • Deconstructed: This could cause serious injury or even death and usually requires expensive and time-consuming repairs.
  • Reconstructed: Some way, somehow, no one is hurt or killed, and the repairs are covered by Alice and Bob's homeowner's insurance and by Charles' car insurance and finished quickly.
  • Parodied: Charles just keeps driving through the house as though nothing happened, and drives through the whole neighborhood...literally.
  • Averted: Charles does not drive through Alice and Bob's house.
  • Enforced: Rule of Funny.
  • Lampshaded:
    • "Thank goodness we were wearing our seatbelts!"
    • "My insurance should cover this...sorry to bother you!"
  • Invoked:
    • Charles gets rip-roaringly drunk at Carl's Bad Tavern, and gets behind the wheel as he proceeds to go home.
    • Charles intentionally crashed his car into Alice and Bob's house, for whatever reason.
  • Defied: Charles makes a good faith effort to drive safely, sanely, and soberly. Which means not plowing into anything, be it a house or another car or a tree.
  • Discussed: "Did he just drive into their house?!"
  • Conversed: "Yup. And I'm amazed no one was hurt!"
  • Played for Laughs: Someone makes a remark similar to that under "Lampshaded" at the end. (And of course, no one is hurt, and the property damage is repaired quickly.)
  • Played for Drama: Someone is actually injured or killed.

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