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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* A 2012-ish State Farm commercial features a former customer who has "just combined" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORe888O928U his auto and home].
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* 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).
{{quote|"Funny! I never noticed that car before."}}
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* '''Not''' a [[Truth in Television]] - In [[Real Life]] cars crashing into houses is a serious matter and sometimes a deadly one. Very rarely does it happen without any consequences.▼
** One prominent example occured in Saxony, Germany, when a car that crashed into a ''church roof'' seven meters above the ground. After flying for 37 meters.▼
* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted however]]. In Missoula, Montana, a 44-tonne lorry crashed into a house, but no-one was hurt.▼
** The clip was shown on ''Police Stop! 7'' in the United Kingdom.▼
* Didn't this happen to [[Billy Joel]]?▼
* The Pennsylvania Railroad managed to run a GG1 locomotive into the main concourse of the Washington D.C. Union Station in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140327184837/http://steamlocomotive.com/GG1/prr4876-crash.shtml 1953].▼
** The ''[[Silver Streak]]'' example in the above Film category is likely an homage to this event.▼
* The September 11 terrorist attacks actually did this with aircraft.▼
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** "You miserable engine! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oicH4MTvAbw Just look what you've done to our breakfast!] Now I shall have to cook some more!"
* In ''[[Regular Show]]'' Mordecai and Rigby do this with a limo in the episode "Benson be Gone". To the second story of the house, ''without a ramp''.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* '''Not''' a [[Truth in Television]] - In [[Real Life]] cars crashing into houses is a serious matter and sometimes a deadly one. Very rarely does it happen without any consequences.
▲** One prominent example occured in Saxony, Germany, when a car that crashed into a ''church roof'' seven meters above the ground. After flying for 37 meters.
▲* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted however]]. In Missoula, Montana, a 44-tonne lorry crashed into a house, but no-one was hurt.
▲** The clip was shown on ''Police Stop! 7'' in the United Kingdom.
▲* Didn't this happen to [[Billy Joel]]?
▲* The Pennsylvania Railroad managed to run a GG1 locomotive into the main concourse of the Washington D.C. Union Station in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140327184837/http://steamlocomotive.com/GG1/prr4876-crash.shtml 1953].
▲** The ''[[Silver Streak]]'' example in the above Film category is likely an homage to this event.
▲* The September 11 terrorist attacks actually did this with aircraft.
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