History Main / DrivesLikeCrazy

-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcM9Uou77j4 She Drives Like Crazy]]"

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* Any of the old 1980s commercials featuring Vince and Larry the Crash Test Dummies (at least ones where they actually drive), and they don't wear seatbelts either (seeing as they're supposed to encourage you to wear them by acting like morons).

--->'''Calvin:''' We avoided the tree, didn't we?\\
'''Hobbes:''' By going down the gulley and into the pond, yes.

* Two young Scots are visiting America and speeding along the road when they are stopped by a police officer. The officer says to the driver, "You were going 70 miles per hour. The speed limit is 45 miles per hour. I have to give you a ticket." "But the sign says I can go that fast," says the driver, pointing to a nearby road sign. "That says ''Route'' 70," says the officer, exasperated, "That's not the speed limit, it's the road number." Then he notices that the guy in the passenger seat looks like he is going to throw up. He asks the driver, "What's wrong with your friend there?" The driver responds, "Oh, we just got off Route 130!"[[note]]This joke is doubly funny to people from [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey South Jersey]], since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Route_70 New Jersey Route 70]] intersects [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_130 U.S. Route 130]] in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey. About 20 miles away, it intersects Route 206.[[/note]]

* Peter Fox from ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}''. He's such a bad driver, he can make a station wagon go [[UpToEleven much faster than usual]]. Once he even somehow manages to exceed the speed limit while parallel parking.

* Two young Scots are visiting America and speeding along the road when they are stopped by a police officer. The officer says to the driver, "You were going 70 miles per hour. The speed limit is 45 miles per hour. I have to give you a ticket." "But the sign says I can go that fast," says the driver, pointing to a nearby road sign. "That says ''Route'' 70," says the officer, exasperated, "That's not the speed limit, it's the road number." Then he notices that the guy in the passenger seat looks like he is going to throw up. He asks the driver, "What's wrong with your friend there?" The driver responds, "Oh, we just got off Route 130!"[[note]]This joke is doubly funny to people from [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey South Jersey]], since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Route_70 New Jersey Route 70]] intersects [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_130 U.S. Route 130]] in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey. About 20 miles away, it intersects [[UpToEleven Route 206]].[[/note]]

* ''WebVideo/SomeCallMeJohnny'': Johnny's brother, Elliot, is this everytime he takes the wheel in ''VideoGame/LANoire'', intentionally going out of his way to run over as many pedestrians, objects, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs pedestrians with objects]] and [[UpToEleven even going as far as to]] [[https://youtu.be/6W2f8A6Dn4M?t=2071 wreck havoc on the game's physics]] ''[[UpToEleven just by driving!]]''

* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition''. Any character with the Reckless Driver skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.

The TropeNamer is the Music/WeirdAlYankovic {{car song}} "[[WomenDrivers She]] Drives Like Crazy". Compare DriverFacesPassenger. See also CaptainCrash, DinkyDrivers, TheTroubleWithTickets, CarMeetsHouse, DrunkDriver, and KidsDrivingCars. Often a cause of WatchThePaintJob or ThePreciousPreciousCar, or may be a reason someone DoesNotDrive. If the driver is ''deliberately'' trying to kill someone with their driving skills, that's CarFu. Someone in a ChaseScene or WackyRacing can be excused for this sort of behavior, unless they're having far too much fun.

* Still another joke involving religious figures involves a priest and a cab driver who are killed in an accident. While both are good enough to get into heaven, the priest is simply waved in, while St. Peter gives the cab driver a robe of gold and a crown of jewels. When the priest asks why the cabbie gets all the neat swag, St. Peter responds "Listen pal: while you preached, people slept. While he drove, people prayed!"

* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'':
** Cruella de Vil drives her hot rod in a manner more fitting a monster truck, fishtailing all over the place and plowing through thickets to try and reach the escaping puppies.
** Horace and Jasper also do this, swerving all over the road as they attempt to cut off the fleeing truck the dogs are on.
* Gogo drives like crazy in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', but that's pretty standard, since they ''are'' being pursued by a supervillain at the time. The real mention is Wasabi, who creates an inversion when he still drives legally ''even when pursued by Yokai.'' Gogo takes over by sitting on Wasabi's lap.
-->'''Go-Go:''' ''[incredulous]'' Did you just put your blinker on?!\\

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{TheLittleMermaid1989}} The Little Mermaid]]'': In the "Tour of the Kingdom" sequence, Eric hands Ariel the reins to the carriage, and she ends up driving over a ravine. However, after jumping the ravine, she seems to ease up a bit.

* Madame Medusa in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', whether she's using her jet ski or [[StockFootage Cruella de Vil's car, even]]. She was originally [[WhatCouldHaveBeen meant]] to ''be'' Cruella, but she was eventually made into a new character animated using footage from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', especially the driving.

You've probably dealt with one. The ones who see yield signs as merely friendly suggestions. They think [[Creator/DaveBarry yellow means "proceed while gesturing"]] and [[Creator/DenisLeary red lights mean "stop... if you want to"]]. Orange construction signs are to them [[UnstoppableRage what red is]] [[BullSeeingRed to a bull]]. They curse out the oncoming traffic for not diving off the shoulder fast enough. They refuse to use turn signals, so as not to give away their plans to "enemy" drivers. They absolutely do not give one lonely mountain-dwelling [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] about the rules of the road — ''especially'' not speed limits. They will probably have a lot of near misses and cause other drivers to have accidents (whether on the road or [[BringMyBrownPants in their pants]], take your pick; meanwhile the maniacs behind the wheel avoid any major crashes themselves, besides perhaps a FruitCart, and if they survive, [[NeverMyFault will yell "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!!"]]), their car will be covered in dents, any passengers are in for a traumatic experience... and woe betide any driver who ''dares'' to pass them. Expect them to pop up on a SadistShow as a LethalKlutz sooner or later. If it's ''very'' soon, it may overlap with RunningOverThePlot.

[[DiscreditedTrope To the extent that it is still a living trope]], this is often a stereotype of [[WomenDrivers women]], {{Asian|Drivers}}s, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Asian women]], [[RambunctiousItalian Southern Europeans]], [[HollywoodNewEngland New Englanders]] (''especially'' those from Massachusetts or Maine), elderly drivers, many a DerangedTaxiDriver, and the HollywoodPoliceDrivingAcademy. In Russia, this is associated with Caucasian drivers[[note]]as in, from the Caucasus Mountains, not the commonly used term for white people in the rest of the world[[/note]]. (God help you if you're stuck behind... in front of... beside... or on the sidewalk near a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs taxi driven by an old half-Asian, half-Italian]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot former policewoman from Massachusetts.]])

[[DiscreditedTrope To the extent that it is still a living trope]], this is often a stereotype of [[WomenDrivers women]], {{Asian|Drivers}}s, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Asian women]], [[RambunctiousItalian Southern Europeans]], [[HollywoodNewEngland New Englanders]] (''especially'' those from Massachusetts or Maine), elderly drivers, many a DerangedTaxiDriver, and the HollywoodPoliceDrivingAcademy. In Russia, this is associated with Caucasian drivers[[note]]as in, from the Caucasus Mountains, not the commonly used term for white people in the rest of the world[[/note]]. (God help you if you're stuck behind... in front of... beside... or on the sidewalk near an [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs old Asian]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot woman.]])

* There's a joke in the the Philippines that goes: Westerners say Filipino drivers don't know how to drive on the road. Filipinos say those Western drivers don't know how to ''survive'' on the Philippines' road.

--->'''Jumin:''' My father dragged me there but I came back by myself.
--->'''Zen:''' Did you drive? Are you crazy?
--->'''Jumin:''' No. The driver drove. That's why I'm still alive.

[[DiscreditedTrope To the extent that it is still a living trope]], this is often a stereotype of [[WomenDrivers women]], {{Asian|Drivers}}s, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Asian women]], [[RambunctiousItalian Southern Europeans]], [[HollywoodNewEngland New Englanders]], elderly drivers, many a DerangedTaxiDriver, and the HollywoodPoliceDrivingAcademy. In Russia, this is associated with Caucasian drivers[[note]]as in, from the Caucasus Mountains, not the commonly used term for white people in the rest of the world[[/note]]. (God help you if you're stuck behind... in front of... beside... or on the sidewalk near an [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs old Asian]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot woman.]])

Has a complex relationship with BadassDriver, as they both tend to scare everyone around them. The difference is the the Badass Driver actually knows what they are doing, and how pull off such stunts.

* A Visa commercial has a Thai taxi driver pick up Creator/PierceBrosnan and (assuming he's carrying the actual Film/JamesBond on a mission) fulfill this trope. As a tie-in to ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', Heineken would do [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrFZWObBOGI something similar]] with Creator/DanielCraig in Spain.

[[DiscreditedTrope To the extent that it is still a living trope]], this is often a stereotype of [[WomenDrivers women]], {{Asian|Drivers}}s, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Asian women]], [[RambunctiousItalian Southern Europeans]], [[HollywoodNewEngland New Englanders]], elderly drivers, many a DerangedTaxiDriver, and the HollywoodPoliceDrivingAcademy. In Russia, this is associated with Caucasian drivers[[note]]as in, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord from the Caucasus Mountains]], not the commonly used term for white people in the rest of the world[[/note]]. (God help you if you're stuck behind... in front of... beside... or on the sidewalk near an [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs old Asian]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot woman.]])

-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "[[TropeNamer She Drives]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcM9Uou77j4 Like Crazy]]"

Antonym of the BadassDriver... most of the time.

-->'''Jane:''' ''[while being strafed by a fighter jet in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA Online]]]'' I'm trying to drive erratically, but it's no more or less erratic than I normally drive.