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* HurricaneOfPuns: Perman's song "Racing Heart" is a barrage of racing puns arranged in an awful love ballad. You can almost understand [[IncessantMusicMadness why Redman eventually smashes the guitar]].
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* SuspectIsHatless: On a lark, Zippo decides to enter the race with [[TwinSwitch a near-exact replica of Coy's car and him wearing similar clothes]], and twice he and Buckman are attacked (Cannonball is attacked by a guy trying to prevent Zippo from winning, Zippo by bikers hired by Redman to prevent Cannonball from winning), purely because the description they got is "man on red Firebird".
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* TheAlcoholic: Cade Redman carries a lot of beer in the back of his Charger and Perman and his mother Sharma not only make note that he drinks beer "like a fish" but are surprised about him making a stop to buy more beer (although at least partially it is to wait for Coy Buckman to catch up [[BarBrawl to try to beat the crap out of him in the store]]).
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* IncessantMusicMadness: Redman spends most of his subplot's time having to hear Perman constantly singing his song "Racing Heart" as he broadcasts it to radio stations across the nation as they race. By the night of the first day (and when they are roughly in the middle of the United States), Redman has enough and smashes Perman's guitar... and Perman borrows Maryann's guitar to continue playing. [[spoiler:The second time he smashes the guitar at the climax, things end up much worse for him.]]
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* CoitusUninterruptus: Apropos of nothing, two scenes in the subplot of Terry and his lover are them talking about where they should be right now in their "drive" through the United States as they are bumping shoes in a motel somewhere in St. Louis.
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* CoitusUninterruptus: Apropos of nothing, two scenes in the subplot of Terry and his lover are them talking about where they should be right now in their "drive" through the United States as they are bumping shoes in a motel somewhere in St. Louis.near [=LaGuardia=] Airport.
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* ChekhovsGunman: The goon with the glasses that is a friend of Bennie is only important to the plot in two scenes: [[spoiler:rigging [[ExternalCombustion the car bomb]] that kills Wolf]] and [[spoiler:killing Zippo with a sniper rifle.]]
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* NoRulesRacing: The only true rules of the race seem to be "you have to cross the finish line to win" and "no taking an airplane".
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The events of the film (and thus the race) seemingly take place over two days.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to other films inspired by Brock Yates' "Cannonball Run", with [[spoiler:three protagonist racers dead (two of them murdered, one killed while attempting murder), two dead secondary characters (who organized the aforementioned murders) and the pile-up massacre.]]
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* ExternalCombustion: [[spoiler:Knowing that Wolf Messer is one of the best drivers among the contestants, and he is entering a Pantera (which is [[CoolCar most definitely one of the most powerful cars among the contestants]]), Bennie Buckman and his friends place a bomb on the Pantera designed to go off once it reaches more than one hundred and fifty MPH. Wolf reaches that speed trying to escape a highway patrolman. [[SacrificialLamb Boom]].]]
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* ExternalCombustion: [[spoiler:Knowing Knowing that Wolf [[spoiler:Wolf Messer is one of the best drivers among the contestants, and he is entering a Pantera (which is [[CoolCar most definitely one of the most powerful cars among the contestants]]), Bennie Buckman and his friends friends]] place a bomb on the [[spoiler:the Pantera designed to go off once it reaches more than one hundred and fifty MPH. Wolf reaches that speed trying to escape a highway patrolman. [[SacrificialLamb Boom]].]]
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* PerpetualFrowner: Cale Redman spends the whole film in a white-hot rage as he is driven to win at all costs. Notably, the only moments he is seemingly happy are when he is trying to hurt Cannonball.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The van team makes it to New York City, but gets lost looking for the finish line and gets side-swiped by a car when they enter a back alley and the van is wrecked. Beutell also makes it to New York, but his car [[TheAllegedCar is so badly damaged]] and he is so far behind that he decides to deliver it as he was supposed to do and let its owners boggle at the wreck as an apparent last laugh. It's pretty heavily implied that many non-protagonist teams were arrested off-screen, making them an example as well.
