Shopping Cart Antics: Difference between revisions

 

See also [[Doomed Supermarket Display]].

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* The 21st Century insurance company has a commercial with a mass of shopping carts being dropped onto two cars from overhead. The object is to illustrate how both cars get the same damage and repairs, but the 21st Century insurance owner pays less.

* A British anti-drinking PSA had an interviewer trying to persuade pasers-by to do sober things they might do when drunk. One of the suggestions was to climb into a shopping trolley and have a mate shove it into a wall as hard as possible.

 

* In ''[[Ben-To]]'', {{spoiler|The Monarch}} [[Improbable Weapon User|uses one as a club]].

 

* Jason beats an old man to death with a shopping cart during the supermarket massacre in ''[[Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash]]''.

 

* In the opening scene of ''[[Jackass|Jackass: The Movie]]'', the cast are riding in a shopping cart

* There's a [[Jackie Chan]] movie (''[[Rumble in The Bronx]]''?) where a shopping cart plays a crucial role during a fight scene.

* In ''[[Animal House]]'', after the infamous toga party, Larry leaves a drunk girl (whom he met at the supermarket) at her parents' front door in a shopping cart.

* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'': two huge chains of shopping carts were used as a [[Battering Ram]].

* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book [[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]], you get a lot of varied shopping trolley shenanigans as those things are alive (and initially hiding it) due to rather plot-relevant events. But they're useful to store things in. And dangerous when they take off on their own, leaving people running behind them screaming about what's inside them. Or screaming about being inside them. One memorable instance is when one is hijacked and used to store the [[Butt Monkey|Bursar]] in - and it then takes off for the hills. A massive comedic [[Chase Scene]] (complete with [[A-Team Firing|misguided magic blasts]]) ensues. This is not the only such scene, but is one of the stand-outs. In short, there is a whole chunk of Reaper Man devoted to this trope.

 

* ''[[Married... with Children]]'': The Bundys and the Darcys both win a shot at a local grocery store's ''[[Supermarket Sweep]]''-type contest. The Bundys show up with a [[Pimped-Out Car|Pimped Out cart]]. The Darcys find the best cart possible, but it's disqualified for not being from that store so they have to make do with a rickety old cart with wheels that go all which way.

* Done on ''Bit Com'' (a short, live action comedy show that runs as filler between programs on ABC3 in Australia) where the discovery of a shopping cart in the parking lot causes the two main characters to completely abandon their plans in favor of playing with it.

* A ''[[Mad TV]]'' parody of ''[[Jackass]]'' has a fake [[Kenny Rogers]] riding a shopping cart as it gets rammed into a curb. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

== [[Music]] ==

* Gavin DeGraw's music video for "In Love With a Girl".