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** This got to the point where people ''pleaded'' with the producers to stop using classic cars on the show. So for Season 6, they instead bought a nice shiny new Camaro! [[Broken Treasure|You can guess what happened to it.]]
** For the 2011 season, they instead bought a used 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T, customized with a Canadian flag paint job to go with the [[Canada, Eh?]] theme of the season
* [[Decided
** Occasionally averted entirely when one candidate does way better than all the rest (and all agree that the candidate should leave), or when only one judge dissents (in Season 5, all judges agreed that Angelina should be the worst driver, save for Cam Woolley who named Mike Butt instead.)
* [[Directionless Driver]]: And it's both genders.
* [[Distracted
* [[Downer Ending]]
** Donna from Season 4 turned out to have a heart ailment and had to leave the show.
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*** Perhaps this is why there was no manual transmission challenge in Season 7.
* [[Drunk Driver]]: Sadly, some of the contestants have indeed done this.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]--[[In
** Colin from Season 2 took none of the show seriously. It resulted in him getting expelled, his car towed, and his keys destroyed.
** Andrew knew about the street race mentioned under [[Drives Like Crazy]], as the drives are always filmed. He was ''pissed''.
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** Later during the same season, Dale's idea of a joke was to attempt to ''run Andrew over''. This got her a real yelling at from Andrew and her nominator, and she unbelievably tried to accuse them of having no sense of humor over the issue (though she later apologized for her actions).
** A subversion: Crystal stopped finding her ''own'' driving habits funny after her brother-in-law Tom Stagno died in a traffic accident.
* [[Due to
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Just about anyone with fair hair can qualify, but especially Angelina, the Season 5 winner. Dale, from Season 6, thought a sign forbade a U-turn. She was being shown a sign that meant "Tourist Information Ahead", which is a brown sign with a question mark--which she then thought ''represented a road'' and the dot at the end the actual information center.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Invoked. You have to work at improving to graduate.
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** In some challenges, obstacles are carved and painted styrofoam. On at least two occasions, they've run out of obstacles before the nominees can complete the challenges.
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: Father Giles and Guy--his brother and nominator--walked away from the Water Tank Challenge laughing after Father Giles stated he thought he did fairly well. {{spoiler|He did: although he got soaked, he didn't collide with anything.}}
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Lauri from Season 7 ... when its not affecting her performance of course! (She was shown driving with a car filled with additional "passengers", mainly pets.)
* [[Ghost Town]]: Season 3 was held in Edgar, a ghost town in Ontario.
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** If nobody does well enough to graduate, the judges may decide to make everyone stay. This happens once a season, but has itself been subverted twice. In both Seasons 5 and 6, when the contestants were asked if they deserved or wanted to graduate, ''each one said no.'' The Season 5 requests was the first time it had happened in ''any'' of the Driver Rehabilitation Programs (there are several similar shows in other countries). Both times, their wishes were honoured.
** In the sixth episode of Season 2, there came about a ''fourth'' option: both Sean and Jodi were considered to be fully rehabilitated (Sean of his speed addiction, Jodi of her fear), and both graduated. To be fair, nobody had graduated in Episode 5 (It would have been Sean, had he admitted that slower was safer).
* [[Spin-Off]]: ''[[
* [[Sure Why Not]]: Season 5's Mike Butt talked about a driving game called Shopping Cart Hockey, where you pushed a shopping cart with a car. It was used as a challenge. Season 6 had something similar with a soccer ball, and Season 7 used oversized curling rocks.
* [[Take That]]: Andrew has stated that in the show's early seasons, many were nominated out of spite. Things have changed since.
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** When introducing the Canada's Worst Parking lot challenge in Season 7, episode 5:
{{quote| '''Andrew''':...what they don't know is that...other annoying cars will be getting in their way stealing spots, honking horns, and generally carrying on like, well, [[Eagle Land|Americans]].}}
* [[Tear Jerker]]--[[In
** The death of Crystal's brother-in-law Tom Stagno--[[Irony|in a vehicle accident.]]
** For Wil from Season Five it was learning just how verbally abusive he was. Melissa, his nominee, later stated he cried for a quarter of an hour.
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* [[Tears of Joy]]: Amy-Lee of Season 4, cried with happiness when she became the last graduate.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Andrew Younghusband has allowed his own vehicle to be used from time to time (for example, Teagan drove it to the rehabilitation center). Subverted in that Fate hasn't shown up to collect...yet.
* [[That One Level]]--again, [[In
** In Season Six, there was a challenge that involved maneuvering a trailer with a boat on it through a narrow laneway of rims and then launching it. Much profanity ensued.
* [[That Poor Car]]: Except we actually see what happens to them.
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** Went the other way during the Season 7, Episode 6 opener, when Andrew mentioned the Dutch Equivalent; the host of that show got struck by the car a contestent was driving.
* [[Watch the Paint Job]]: [[That Poor Car|They never do...]] About the worst example would be the contestants burning out the clutches of five cars. The last contestant was exempted because the producers were out of cars.
* [[What an Idiot!]] ([[In
* [[Wiper Start]]:
** Michael, when trying to start his car to drive to the rehab center in Season 2, popped the hood instead.
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