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== Films -- Live Action ==
== Films -- Live Action ==
* ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]''
* ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]''
** 007 shears the top off a doubledecker bus by going under a low bridge in ''[[Live and Let Die (Film)|Live and Let Die]]''.
** 007 shears the top off a doubledecker bus by going under a low bridge in ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]''.
** This is one of many mishaps that happens to Bond's Renault in ''[[A View to A Kill (Film)|A View to A Kill]]''.
** This is one of many mishaps that happens to Bond's Renault in ''[[A View to a Kill]]''.
* The long chase scene in ''The Seven Ups'' ends with one of these. Only the front half of Roy Scheider's car gets sliced off, though.
* The long chase scene in ''The Seven Ups'' ends with one of these. Only the front half of Roy Scheider's car gets sliced off, though.
* In ''[[The Toxic Avenger]] Part 2'', during the final chase scene Toxi's cab driver is unable to avoid this fate. After a moment of silence, everyone in the cab freaks out and when the driver starts ranting about how his cab's been ruined, Toxi tells him to chill out 'cause he now has a convertible and hands him a pair of sunglasses (and he does!). Oddly enough, the little Jesus statue in the back is unharmed.
* In ''[[The Toxic Avenger]] Part 2'', during the final chase scene Toxi's cab driver is unable to avoid this fate. After a moment of silence, everyone in the cab freaks out and when the driver starts ranting about how his cab's been ruined, Toxi tells him to chill out 'cause he now has a convertible and hands him a pair of sunglasses (and he does!). Oddly enough, the little Jesus statue in the back is unharmed.
* In ''[[The Mummy Returns (Film)|The Mummy Returns]]'' they do this to the second floor of a double decker bus.
* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'' they do this to the second floor of a double decker bus.
* Happens to a police car in the live-action [[Walt Disney|Disney]] comedy ''No Deposit, No Return''.
* Happens to a police car in the live-action [[Walt Disney|Disney]] comedy ''No Deposit, No Return''.
* ''[[Terminator]]''
* ''[[Terminator]]''
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**** Both. The T-1000 morphed down into the cab to dodge the impact; the actor leaned over to dodge the expense of another costly special effect.
**** Both. The T-1000 morphed down into the cab to dodge the impact; the actor leaned over to dodge the expense of another costly special effect.
** ''[[Terminator]] 3'' does this with a hearse, badly damaging the terminator trying to cut though the roof in the process.
** ''[[Terminator]] 3'' does this with a hearse, badly damaging the terminator trying to cut though the roof in the process.
* Averted in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. They're already ''in'' a convertible, and it suffers no damage whatsoever when it goes under a truck.
* Averted in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. They're already ''in'' a convertible, and it suffers no damage whatsoever when it goes under a truck.
* In ''[[Smokey and The Bandit]]'', Sheriff Buford T. Justice has this happen to him when he can't avoid a truck carrying a concrete I-beam. He continues to drive the roofless police cruiser at high speed across several states for the rest of the movie.
* In ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'', Sheriff Buford T. Justice has this happen to him when he can't avoid a truck carrying a concrete I-beam. He continues to drive the roofless police cruiser at high speed across several states for the rest of the movie.




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* Happened in an episode of ''[[Megas XLR]]'' when Coop was taking a driving test at the DMV.
* Happened in an episode of ''[[Megas XLR]]'' when Coop was taking a driving test at the DMV.
* Slight variation in an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' when Jon drives under a billboard and Garfield makes the comment.
* Slight variation in an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' when Jon drives under a billboard and Garfield makes the comment.
* Variation in the '90s ''[[X-Men (Animation)|X-Men]]'' animated series, when Cyclops pisses off [[Wolverine]].
* Variation in the '90s ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' animated series, when Cyclops pisses off [[Wolverine]].
{{quote| '''Wolverine:''' Tell Cyclops I made him a convertible.}}
{{quote| '''Wolverine:''' Tell Cyclops I made him a convertible.}}
* In one episode of ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters (Animation)|Extreme Ghostbusters]]'', the gang is being chased by the metal-eating [[Jersey Devil]], who blasts the roof of Roland's car. Eduardo then makes the comment.
* In one episode of ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'', the gang is being chased by the metal-eating [[Jersey Devil]], who blasts the roof of Roland's car. Eduardo then makes the comment.
* In the ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode "Dungeons and Wagons", when Stan, Francine, and Roger are fleeing the street racing kidnappers, Roger dumps everything to reduce the car's weight leading to one of the kidnappers driving under the tanker truck and becoming a convertible.
* In the ''[[American Dad]]'' episode "Dungeons and Wagons", when Stan, Francine, and Roger are fleeing the street racing kidnappers, Roger dumps everything to reduce the car's weight leading to one of the kidnappers driving under the tanker truck and becoming a convertible.
* Happens to Cruella [[Devil]]'s car at the end of ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'', while she is chasing the moving van the titular dogs were travelling in.
* Happens to Cruella [[Devil]]'s car at the end of ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'', while she is chasing the moving van the titular dogs were travelling in.
** Her car was ''already'' a convertible, though the top was up at the time.
** Her car was ''already'' a convertible, though the top was up at the time.


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