Parallel Parking: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'': Elwood J. Blues has to be one of the best in history. Able to do an e-brake slide into any spot.

* ''[[Ace Ventura]] 2'': ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPM7ugLeXhY Li~ike a glove!]''

{{quote| '''Alvy''': Don't worry. We can walk to the curb from here.}}

* [[Mundane Utility|Using chi powers to]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt8-S_R3C98 parallel park] is one of the things Sing wants to promote in ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]''.

* One time on ''The Late Show With [[David Letterman]]'' they had a remote camera watching some 16-year-olds take their driving test. The parallel parking was particularly bad. For that matter, a semi-recurring segment is having interns parallel park outside the Ed Sullivan Theater.

* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': During the traffic safety film ''X Marks The Spot'', an early scene has a [[Match Cut]] of a car fading into a narrow gap between two cars parked curbside. Tom Servo remarks, "Ah, parallel ''universe'' parking." The car's driver has to leave the space the old-fashioned way -- as Crow puts it, "He uses the Braille system".

* On ''[[Seinfeld]]'', George actually claims to be really good at parallel parking, he just didn't count on another guy trying to drive into the space front first while he was backing up. [[Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate|A massive, all-night argument begins between the two drivers over whether front-first parallel parking is acceptable in the civilized world.]]

* One episode of ''[[Top Gear]]'' involved James May and Jeremy Clarkson driving huge classic cars around London to showcase how fantastic (read: impractical) these cars are in the modern day. One of the producer's challenges involved parallel parking in downtown London, which, as it turns out, was impossible for the cars to do as they are, in fact, longer than the parking spaces themselves.