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== [[Anime]] And [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ben -To]]'', {{spoiler|The Monarch}} [[Improbable Weapon User|uses one as a club]].
 
== [[Comics]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the opening scene of ''[[Jackass (TV)|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.
* ''[[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory]]''. During her song "I Want It Now", Veruca Salt grabs a shopping cart, uses it to threaten some Oompa-Loompas, then sends it into a pile of boxes and knocks them down.
* 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]].
* [[Joe Dante (Creator)|Joe Dante]]'s ''[[Matinee (Filmfilm)|Matinee]]'' gave us the movie-within-a-movie ''The Shook-Up Shopping Cart'', a Disney sendup where the usual supermarket shenanigans involve a man who's been transformed into a cart - and a young Naomi Watts plays the man/cart's niece!
* In ''Satan's Little Helper'', the main character gets the serial killer he is obliviously helping out to push him around in a shopping cart, and run random people down.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Johnny and The Bomb]]'': Johnny and Kirsty escape some [[The Men in Black|Men In Black]] by riding a bag-lady's shopping cart down a steep hill.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book [[Discworld (Literature)/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|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.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Married... Withwith 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.
* In the ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode "Obsession", one of the murders centers around a race run using shopping carts and where it is customary to sabotage the other teams.
* 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 (TV)|Jackass]]'' has a fake [[Kenny Rogers]] riding a shopping cart as it gets rammed into a curb. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', whenever the "series of escalating dares" leading to Gob's marriage to [[Amy Poehler]] is mentioned, you see a still of the pair racing in shopping carts. This is, of couse, played with in a later episode.
 
== [[Music]] ==
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* In the first ''[[No More Heroes]]'' game, the assassin Speed Buster is an old lady with a shopping cart full of groceries ... which is actually a disguise for its function as a devastating [[Wave Motion Gun]].
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'': one of the psychopaths uses a modified shopping cart as a weapon. Defeating him will give Frank West that shopping cart.
* ''[[Tatsunokovs Capcom (Video Game)|Tatsunokovs Capcom]]: [[Updated Rerelease|Ultimate All-Stars]]'': one of Frank West's specials has a zombie barreling down the field in a shopping cart, toppling his opponent. In response, Frank screams, "Oh my God!"
* ''Ultimate [[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'': Frank West uses a modified shopping cart as one of his hypers. It has [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaws]] mounted on it.
* There's a flash game called ''Shopping Cart Hero'' where you jump off a ramp in a shopping cart.
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** "Supermarket Mania" had Jon and Garfield go to a supermarket that had shopping carts with crooked wheels, causing them to veer into shelves.
** "Don't Move" had Odie riding down the sidewalk in a shopping cart.
* Near the end of the ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]'' episode, "Madame Blueberry", Bob and Madame Blueberry both commandeer shopping carts in order to race towards the sight of where her house was tipping over, except poor Larry, who just winds up dragging along a little handheld shopping basket instead.
* On ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]],'' Marge rides a shopping cart like a scooter because she is bored. It crashes into a large display, and she walks away like nothing happened.
* The Ladybugs in ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' assassinate unruly members with shopping carts and make it look like an accident.
 
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