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[[File:Flat_what.jpg|link=Exaggerated Trope|frame|[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force|Oh, do NOT TELL ME THAT'S MY CAR UP THERE ON THE ROOF!]]]]

'''''[[Full House]]''''' }}

* A car crashes through a (paper) wall ''intentionally'' as part of a comedy skit being done on a '50s comedy show in ''[[My Favorite Year]]''.

* In ''[[The Terminator]]'', The Terminator starts his epic rampage through the police station by crashing a car through the front desk.

* ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'', Beauregard the cab driver plows into the lobby of the Happiness Hotel.

* ''[[The Three Stooges]] Go Round the World in a Daze'' ends with the Stooges driving a police van through the wall of the Reform Club.

* In ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' the police [[Chase Scene|chase]] the titular duo [[Lemming Cops|through a mall]]. Both the Brothers themselves and the police repeatedly drive into shops.

* An extreme example occurs in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', where {{spoiler|a detached part of the ''NSEA Protector'' crashes into a convention center - true to the trope, no one is hurt}}.

* In ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]'', the interns of a mental institution are watching a 3DFilm. A humvee goes into the camera... just as a real humvee crashes through the wall to rescue Murdock.

* ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' - An aging Marie/Frank crash their car into Ray/Debra's house, during an episode that discusses how old is too old to still be driving.

* ''[[Family Matters]]'' - Eddie failed his driving test, but takes a girl out for a drive anyway. A bread truck comes into his view, he panics and swerves right into his own house.

* ''[[Entourage]]'' - Andrew Klein pulls the rarer "on purpose" scenario to get back at his wife after she burned the notes he needed for an important business meeting.

* One ''[[Thank God You're Here]]'' scenario had the stand-up parachuted in as a yobbish driver who had just crashed through the wall of a house.

* Happened in ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' with new driver [[The Ditz|London]].

* On ''[[Full House]]'', a grade-school-age Stephanie drove Joey's car into the kitchen after deducing that the 'R' on the gearshift must mean 'Radio'.

* Helen does this deliberately to Joe's office - twice - in ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]''.

* On ''[[Top Gear]]'', Jeremy Clarkson lost control of a car he was pushing and sent it into a small shed. No lasting harm was done, though Richard Hammond may have sprained something laughing.

* ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'' featured a serious subversion of this as a car is driven into a night club as a murder weapon. The driver and a soldier inside the club are killed.

* Has happened in the past in ''[[Coupling]]'':

'''Patrick:''' A Volkswagen. }}

* ''[[Noah's Arc]]'': {{spoiler|Chance does not take being cheated on by Eddie well.}}

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' minisode [[Doctor Who/2011 Red Nose Day Special Space and Time/Recap|"Space"]]:

'''Rory:''' Where, according to Amy, there was an unexpected house. }}

* The Season 7 finale of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' has {{spoiler|the titular character driving his car into his ex-girlfriend/boss's house. Because of a bad breakup}}.

* The [[Magnetic Fields]] song "Irma" ends with the title character's father driving his Jeep through the wall.

* Happens in the [http://slugbug.sound-club.org/ Slugbug] song ''Australia (Land of Magnets)''

== [[Music Video]] ==

== [[Radio]] ==

* Graeme and Bill drive into Tim's house when they set out to recruit him for the 25th anniversary episode of ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'' (in a spot intended to make fun of Tim Brooke-Taylor's [[Sitcom]] career).

== [[Real Life]] ==

** In "Da Boom" there's a cutaway gag of Peter doing this intentionally after commenting on how he loves going to parties at other people's houses because he doesn't have to clean up the messes there.

** In "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", when word gets lout that Brian is an atheist, he gets a rock through the window...''[[Crosses the Line Twice|followed by]]'' ''[[Refuge in Audacity|a car]]''.

* One episode of ''[[South Park]]'' concerned the danger of elderly drivers, and had the boys chased through a house serial-killer style by a barrage of old people crashing their cars into the building.

** It's worth noting that one car shows up on the second floor, previously unseen in the corner of the room.

** One episode has a ''plane'' crashing into the Simpsons' house.

** In "To Surveil With Love", as Lisa preaches that no one should give in to stereotypes like "old people can't drive", Grampa crashes into the school.

* When all the citizens of Bikini Bottom mysteriously disappear, [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] takes advantage of the situation by making his own driver's license and driving a mobile boat. More than once does he crash his boat into his own house, and doesn't think of it despite the glaring holes.

** At one point he feels the need to flee the house on foot and makes another hole in the wall instead of using the one the car made.