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A character is coming down the sidewalk. Maybe they're really moving because they're being chased by the cops. Maybe they're just strolling, but they aren't watching where they're going. Suddenly, the door to a car parked on the street swings open, and *THUD* -- they slam right into it. Also known as "
A common variant is to have the tripper on a bike and be sent head over heels. Bonus points if the door opener leans out and delivers a [[Quip to Black]]. A cousin to the [[Offhand Backhand]].
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== Advertising ==
* An Australian car insurance ad has a guy trying to pick the lock on the car door. Suddenly, the door opens and knocks him out, before closing again. The hook was, "Unless your car can take care of itself, you should talk to us."
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* ''[[Empire Records]]'' uses this trope during the scene where Lucas is chasing Warren after the latter was caught shoplifting. After finding different escape routes blocked by Lucas more than once, Warren finally finds himself apparently in the clear. He runs away down the sidewalk... right into the suddenly-opened door of the car in which Lucas was hiding.
* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' uses the bicycle version on a lady rolling down the street, [[Guns Akimbo]].
* Hammond ([[Eddie Murphy]]) did this to a criminal in ''[[
* The 2007 ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movie uses this with Barricade attacking Sam.
* Played the motorbike variation straight in 2003's ''[[The Italian Job (2003 film)|The Italian Job]]''.
* ''[[The Gumball Rally]]'' pulls this one on the accident prone Lapchik. On a motorcycle.
* Happens to Gregor when he's running away in Arles in ''[[Ronin (
* Happens twice in ''[[Children of
** Although the engine isn't on, a situation which Theo is frantically trying to rectify at the time.
*** Probably the only car chase where the car is ''in neutral''.
* Tallahassee of ''[[
* Happens in the movie ''[[Click]]''. It's then repeated multiple times by the protagonist's reality altering remote control.
* In ''[[
* A deleted scene from ''[[The Incredibles]]'' puts a twist on this, when super-strong Mr. Incredible uses his arm to knock a motorcyclist fleeing the cops off his bike.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Inception]]'', Saito floors the Cobol Mercenaries with his car door to rescue Cobb.
* Smith uses a car door to take out a machine-gun-toting mook hanging out of the side of a van in ''[[Shoot
* The Ewoks pull this on a speedbike-riding stormtrooper in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.
== Live
* An FBI agent drops a sex offender with this in the season 4 pilot of ''[[Veronica Mars]]''.
* ''[[Knight Rider]]'', featuring a car that ''can'' take care of itself quite handily, frequently featured variations on this trope.
* An episode of ''[[The Bill]]'' had this happen to a criminal fleeing the police. His lawyer was all set to make an official complaint against the officers involved, but the revelation that it was actually a member of the public who knocked down his client took the wind out of his sails.
* ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]'' caught a snatch thief in the pilot by opening the door of his car to clock the perp.
* A variation shows up in a first-season episode of ''[[Law and Order]]'', when Det. Logan hides around a corner and swings a trash can lid into a fleeing suspect's face.
* ''[[Lost]]'': This happens to Sawyer in the background of one of the many, many flashbacks of the series.
* This happened to Deputy Junior a few times in ''[[Reno 911!]]''.
* Brian 'Memory' Lane does this in the ''[[New Tricks]]'' episode "Good Morning Lemmings": opening the door of the surveilance van to flatten a fleeing suspect.
* Magda Szubanski stirred up a hornet's nest by suggesting on an episode of ''[[Good News Week]]'' that drivers should deliberately do this to cyclists.
* One of AJ's 'junior mafia' buddies does this accidentally on ''[[The Sopranos]]''. When the biker gets up to complain, the guy beats him up further.
* Rizzoli's brother does this to a fleeing suspect in an episode of ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]'', so he can keep to the [[Exact Words]] of his promise to Rizzoli that he would not leave the car.
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== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
* [[Denis Leary]] talks about this when ranting about cyclists in [[New York]].
* [[Jeff Dunham]]'s Walter puppet talks about running down a man who parks in handicap spots to "make an honest man out of him." When his actually handicapped mother gets out of the car to scream at him, Walter takes her out with the door.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://www.stickdeath.com Stick Death]{{Dead link}} has a series of ads for SD Security Systems, which makes car theft prevention devices that kill the potential thief. One of these automatically opens the door hard enough to fling the would-be carjacker 50 feet.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' has used a locker door for this gag.
** Ditto ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]''.
** And ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''.
* This happened once with Eugene in ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'', with the bike variant, except the door is open to start with and he spots it. However, the bike's brake cables are broken, and, not surprisingly (it is Eugene, after all), he ends up in the hospital in a full-body cast.
* One ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch has a guy stuck in traffic do this to a motorcyclist cruising between lanes.
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* The Irish minister for the environment once caused a number of [[Strongly Worded Letter|letters to the editor]] when he opened the door of his limo and clocked a cyclist in this manner.
* A commonplace fear of many cyclists. Even if it doesn't happen that often, there are the accidents caused by swerving to avoid it.
** Depending on where you ride, it is actually frighteningly common, especially in cities like [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]] where streets are narrow with on-street parking. Also, while pedestrians aren't usually seriously hurt by getting doored, bicycles have a lot more momentum. So drivers, look before you unlatch, and cyclists, assume every car is loaded.
*** You can try to look in the driver or passenger side mirror. If you're cycling next to the cars, chances are you can see the inside of the car in the side mirrors. If you see a person, you can maybe also see whether they intend to open the door or not and where they're looking. At any rate, lower your speed near parked cars just in case. You can't see the backseat of the car in the side mirrors.
* Bob Roll, a Tour de France commentator for Versus and former cyclist, was at the medic car when he was in the tour. The doctor then accidentally opened the car door, sending Bob flying. The whole event was caught on video. Keep in mind that a member of the official medical staff did this to a cyclist in the ''Tour de France''.
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