Parking Garage: Difference between revisions

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The reasons for this are many. A parking garage is an inherently boring place. There is ''nothing'' to do there but park one's car or drive it out of the garage. Since in a time-sensitive movie or TV show this is padding, no scene taking place in a parking garage will consist of a single character getting into a single car and driving away.

Related: Any scene set under an elevated section of highway.

 

== Anime ==

* Becomes a plot point in [[The Movie]] of ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]''. Togusa is on stakeout in his car when he notices that the automatic doors for the parking garage take longer to close than they normally would. He then finds out that the pressure-sensitive floor picked up far more weight than the two people he saw walking in. {{spoiler|The reason is because mooks with optical camouflage snuck in behind them.}}

* An episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' takes place in a mall parking garage.

* The Grave Digger, one of the scariest antagonists on ''[[Bones]]'', kidnapped Bones and Hodgins from a parking garage.

* In the pilot of ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', SD-6 has decided that the risk of Sydney Bristow and all she knows leaving the organization are too great and send assassins after her. They come after her in a parking garage. This is only the first of many such scenes in ''Alias''.

* {{spoiler|Doctor Melfi}} is sexually assaulted in a parking garage on ''[[The Sopranos]]'' in the episode "Employee of the Month".

** In "Waka-Gashira Wipeout" in ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]'', the player kills one of the two heads of Yakuza during a Yakuza-Colombian Cartel meeting on top of a parking garage while driving a Cartel gang car, in order to frame the Cartel for the murder of a prominent Yakuza member.

** In "Guardian Angels" in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', Colonel Cortez stashes a gun for use in the mission in a parking garage, where the player is also joined by Lance Vance.

*** "Ran Fa Li" has the player tasked in retrieving a car in San Fierro International's massive underground carpark for the Triads, which leads to the player being ambushed by gang members from the rival Da Nang Boys.

*** Players in ''San Andreas'' may also stumble across a scene reminiscent of the Rodney King beating in the parking garage of the Los Santos headquarters.

* Parodied in the episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' when the Griffins become a reality TV show and Meg Griffin is kicked off the show for being boring; she later has to meet her parents in a parking garage, where they're wearing trenchcoats, fedoras, and sunglasses (and Peter offers her a cigarette).

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' where the Simpson kids go to meet an informant (who turns out to be Mr. Smithers) in a garage. He goes to great lengths to conceal his identity (wearing a trench coat, smoking, standing in the shadows, etc.) but the effect is ruined when Homer drives up and turns on his headlights.

 

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