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{{quote| '''Stephanie:''' I sorta... drove Joey's car... into the kitchen.<br />

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'', Phineas builds a full-size remote-control racing car and is running it through the city streets from the roof. Fat Freddy wants to play, but crashes it straight through a bank. After Disney's Beagle Boys take the opportunity to ransack the place, the Freaks hide the car and leave town.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[The Cannonball Run]]'', Mad Dog and his partner end up parking their truck in the hotel lobby.

** In the sequel, an old woman driving a car waves at the chimpanzee driving the limo. When the chimp flips her in response, she does an insult gesture with her arms, which causes her to lose control of her car as she takes both hands off the wheel and it crashes into the shop of a gas station.

* Used in ''[[Talladega Nights]]'', when Ricky Bobby is relearning how to drive.

* Done with a Boeing 747 and an airport terminal in ''[[Airplane!]]''.

* ''[[Silver Streak]]'' climaxes with a ''train'' crashing into Chicago's Union Station.

* Happens twice with one house in ''[[Malibus Most Wanted]]''.

* 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.

* 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.

{{quote| '''Elwood:''' The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year!}}

* In one of the ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' movies, criminals drive a car through Murtag's front window in an attempt on his life. The repairs are going on for the rest of the movie and later movies reference how much work had to be done.

* ''[[Twister]]'' featured the two main characters driving their truck ''through'' a house during the climactic storm-chase. They had little choice, though, what with the tornado dragging the house out onto the road right in front of them.

* 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'.

{{quote| '''Michelle:''' There's a car in the kitchen!}}

* 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.

* A ''[[Happy Days]]'' episode has Marion forgetting to set her car's parking brake, causing it to roll down a hill and crash into Arnold's diner.

* Happens in an episode of ''[[Chuck]]'', complete with Chuck comprehensively mocking Casey's one liner.

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

{{quote| '''Steve:''' What, in a relationship, is the worst thing to come through your front door?<br />

'''Amy:''' Yeah, to the ''end of the road''.<br />

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

* On [[DIY Network]]'s ''Disaster House'' a show where they do horrible damage to a house, then show how to repair it, the last thing they do to the house to see if they can irreparably damage it is to try putting a garbage truck, which weighs about 20 tons, on the roof of the house. Slowly lowering the garbage truck onto the roof with a crane, it still falls through. An insurance agent who is on site to watch says the damage is so severe it would be cheaper to bulldoze the house and build a new one than to repair the damage and make the house structurally sound. This basically was the end of the series.

* In ''[[Knight Rider]]'', Michael uses [[Cool Car|KITT's]] Turbo boost to jump into an apartment building.

 

== [[Radio]] ==

{{quote| "Funny! I never noticed that car before."}}

 

** 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.

{{quote| '''Grampa:''' This building got in my way!}}

** 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.

* In ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'', after Gosalyn and Darkwing switch bodies.