Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Difference between revisions

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* [[Brick Joke]]: Three of them -- two with short air times, and one that had been hanging for about an hour -- come together to great effect: {{spoiler|A hotel clerk swaps their credit cards, Neal puts his wallet in a rental car's glove compartment asking Del to remind him to remove it, and Del flicks a cigarette out the window only for it to bounce back in unnoticed. Del reveals he had the credit card and returned it to Neal's wallet -- just as the car catches fire incinerating the wallet.}}

* [[California Doubling]]: Averted. The film was shot on location in New York, Wichita, St. Louis and Chicago.

* [[The Cameo]]: Two from other John Hughes movies; [[Shes Having A Baby|Kevin Bacon]] competes with Neal for a car, and then [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off ~~(Film)~~|Ben Stein]] announces that all flights have been cancelled...and smiles.

* [[The Cameo]]: Two from other John Hughes movies; [[Shes Having A Baby|Kevin Bacon]] competes with Neal for a car, and then [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ben Stein]] announces that all flights have been cancelled...and smiles.

* [[Car Meets House|Car Meets Hotel]]: They back their burned out car into the motel room wall, then quickly flee.

* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Averted, sort of: At the beginning of the film, Kevin Bacon has a [[Cameo]] as another commuter who races Neal for a NYC taxicab. Later, there's a scene where Neal's wife is watching television; while you can't see the screen, the audio is of Kevin Bacon in a scene from another John Hughes film, ''She's Having a Baby''.

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** Same with ''Dutch,'' another movie about a pair of dissimilar people from different class backgrounds struggling to get home to Chicago for [[Thanskgiving Episode|Thanksgiving]]... And ''also'' written by John Hughes.

* [[Groin Attack]]: "I've never seen a man picked up by his testicles before..."

* [[If I Wanted XI Would Y]]

* [[If I Wanted X, I Would Y]]

* [[It Got Worse]]: After Neal misses his cab at the start everything goes downhill.

** [[The Chew Toy|And]] [[Played for Laughs|THAT]] [[Finagle's Law|MEANS]] [[Beyond the Impossible|EVERYTHING.]]

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* [[Road Movie]]

* [[A Simple Plan]]: For God's sake, Neal just wants to get home for Thanksgiving.

* [[~~Someones~~ Touching My Butt]]: "Those aren't pillows!''

* [[Someone's Touching My Butt]]: "Those aren't pillows!''

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Del is revealed to be one of these.

* [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]]: A rare in-media example! The first time we hear this song is when Neal's luck reaches an all-time low once he {{spoiler|misses the fucking ride back to the fucking rental car headquarters and is fucking forced to walk down the fucking highway and across a fucking runway}}, and again, during the first part of the closing credits, after "Every Time You Go Away."

* [[The Stinger]]

* [[Talking to ~~The~~ Dead]]

* [[Talking to the Dead]]

* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]

* [[Technology Marches On]]: If mobile phones were as common back when this movie was made like they are today, this would have been a very short movie.