Shoot the Fuel Tank: Difference between revisions

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** In another episode, shooting a propane tank merely results in a cloud of cold gas, unless there happens to be an open flame nearby...

* In one episode of ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' Carter attempted to shoot a German fuel truck with a flaming arrow as it passed by the camp. {{spoiler|He shot the arrow into the wall beside the window instead. Newkirk took the bow from him and did it properly.}}

* Averted in ''[~~http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/~~Main/~~ptitlevmngga4bce7b~~ It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia]'' when Mac and Charlie attempt to fake their deaths to avoid Charlie's father. They decide to stage a car crash, and destroy the car so that the Police will think their bodies were incinerated in the explosion. First they attempt to blow it up with an Mk 2 Hand Grenade, however the frag grenade fails to do any major damage. Next they attempt to blow it up by shooting it with a pistol, which doesn't have any effect at all.

* Averted in ''[[Main/ptitlevmngga 4 bce 7 b|It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia]]'' when Mac and Charlie attempt to fake their deaths to avoid Charlie's father. They decide to stage a car crash, and destroy the car so that the Police will think their bodies were incinerated in the explosion. First they attempt to blow it up with an Mk 2 Hand Grenade, however the frag grenade fails to do any major damage. Next they attempt to blow it up by shooting it with a pistol, which doesn't have any effect at all.

* This was the fate of one of Vecchio's Buick Rivieras in ''[[Due South]]''.

* Averted in ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' when one of The Cousins shoots a parked truck's fuel tank - and it just results in gas spilling from the tank. After a while, however, he tosses a lit cigarette into some nearby dry grass, and after the brush catches fire...