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Unrelated to steam engines and Stirling engines.
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* This occurred once or twice on ''TheRockfordFiles''. However, the interesting part was not the explosion, but rather Jim's attempt to explain what happened to his insurance agent.
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See EveryCarIsAPinto for cars blowing up [[RuleOfCool that have no reason to.]]
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A subtrope of VehicularSabotage. See EveryCarIsAPinto for cars blowing up [[RuleOfCool that have no reason to.]]
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* ''TheProfessionals'' ("The Purging of [=CI5=]"). Bodie and Doyle have just escaped a bomb in their phone, and Doyle worries there might be another in the car they've just gotten into. He suggests Bodie wait across the street while he starts the ignition. Bodie just gives him a contemptous look and says "Oh just [[HoYay stick it in!]]" (There's no bomb).
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* ''TheProfessionals'' ("The Purging of [=CI5=]"). Bodie and Doyle have just escaped a bomb in their phone, and Doyle worries there might be another in the car they've just gotten into. He suggests Bodie wait across the street while he starts the ignition. Bodie just gives him a contemptous contemptuous look and says "Oh just [[HoYay stick it in!]]" (There's no bomb).
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* In the ''MiamiVice'' pilot, this is what happened to Crockett's first partner.
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I understand that in today\'s go-get-em lifestyle, not everyone has time to add things such as articles and conjunctions. I brought some extra ones for you.
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* JamesBond in the 1970s had a car that was boobytrapped as an alarm. Car thief jimmied the lock, car exploded.
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* JamesBond in the 1970s had a car that was boobytrapped as an alarm. Car A car thief jimmied the lock, and the car exploded.
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* Spoofed in the ''{{Community}}'' episode "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design", when a car belonging to Annie is rigged to blow to scare her and Jeff off investigating the college's night school and the mysterious Professor Professorson... except the car in question is a small model car on a diorama she's constructed, and the 'explosion' is a handful of small, insignificant sparks.
-->'''Jeff''': Looks like someone sent us a message... a tiny, thoroughly underwhelming message.
-->'''Jeff''': Looks like someone sent us a message... a tiny, thoroughly underwhelming message.
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* ''TheProfessionals'' ("The Purging of [=CI5=]"). Bodie and Doyle have just escaped a bomb in their phone, and Doyle worries there might be another in the car they've just gotten into. He suggests Bodie wait across the street while he starts the ignition. Bodie just [[WeDieTogether gives him a contemptous look]] and says "Oh just [[HoYay stick it in!]]" (There's no bomb).
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* ''TheProfessionals'' ("The Purging of [=CI5=]"). Bodie and Doyle have just escaped a bomb in their phone, and Doyle worries there might be another in the car they've just gotten into. He suggests Bodie wait across the street while he starts the ignition. Bodie just [[WeDieTogether gives him a contemptous look]] look and says "Oh just [[HoYay stick it in!]]" (There's no bomb).
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* ''TheProfessionals'' ("The Purging of [=CI5=]"). Bodie and Doyle have just escaped a bomb in their phone, and Doyle worries there might be another in the car they've just gotten into. He suggests Bodie wait across the street while he starts the ignition. Bodie just [[WeDieTogether gives him a contemptous look]] and says "Oh just [[HoYay stick it in!]]" (There's no bomb).
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* The non-fiction "Prince of the City" mentioned how the corrupt cop testifying against his former colleagues would have his bodyguards check his car for explosives every day. Showing typical cop humor, the bodyguards would then cower with their fingers in their ears while he turned the ignition.
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* The non-fiction "Prince of the City" mentioned how the City". The corrupt cop testifying against his former colleagues would have his police bodyguards check his car for explosives every day. Showing typical cop humor, the bodyguards would then cower stand on the street with their fingers in their ears while he turned the ignition.
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* The non-fiction "Prince of the City" mentioned how the corrupt cop testifying against his former colleagues would have his bodyguards check his car for explosives every day. Showing typical cop humor, the bodyguards would then cower with their fingers in their ears while he turned the ignition.
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* ''Hunter''. A journalist writing a story on the mob is apparently blown up in his car. Later his wife is shocked to find him [[NotQuiteDead turn up at their home]] in the middle of the night; when she asks who was in the car he replies: "The unluckiest car thief who never lived."
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* ''[[TheDresdenFiles White Night]]'' has Murphy's car wired with a pipe bomb by one of the villains, who doesn't want her and Harry looking into a series of serial killings. Fortunately, Harry was just a little bit pissed off from a meeting the scene before, so he lets off a hex to blow off some steam... which just happens to activate the car bomb's detonator while he and Murphy are across the street.
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* ''DueSouth'': The fate of Ray's second ([[RunningGag or third]]) [[CoolCar '72 Buick Riviera]]. Rigged to the driver's side door handle in this case. [[hottip:* :However, Ray, the intended target, wasn't the one who opened the door. [[TearJerker Poor Louis]].]]
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* ''DueSouth'': The fate of Ray's second ([[RunningGag or third]]) [[CoolCar '72 '71 Buick Riviera]]. Rigged to the driver's side door handle in this case. [[hottip:* :However, Ray, the intended target, wasn't the one who opened the door. [[TearJerker Poor Louis]].]]
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** The example text presents it like the door opened "on its own". Did they have the time to leave through the window before that happened?
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* ''MagnumPI'': In "Did You See The Sunrise?" one of these, intended for Magnum, kills recurring character Lt. MacReynolds instead. Magnum is [[{{Understatement}} not happy.]]
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* ''MagnumPI'': In "Did You See The Sunrise?" one of these, intended for Magnum, kills recurring character Lt. MacReynolds [=MacReynolds=] instead. Magnum is [[{{Understatement}} not happy.]]
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* In the ''XFiles'' episode "Fire," Mulder and Scully get into their car to find a strange cassette tape on the dashboard. They pop it in, and a voice informs them that by doing so they have armed a bomb hooked up to the car, and opening the door will trigger the explosion. Then the door opens, and Scully jumps--turns out the voice on the tape was just Mulder's NewOldFlame, trying to mess with their heads.
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* In the ''XFiles'' ''{{X-Files}}'' episode "Fire," Mulder and Scully get into their car to find a strange cassette tape on the dashboard. They pop it in, and a voice informs them that by doing so they have armed a bomb hooked up to the car, and opening the door will trigger the explosion. Then the door opens, and Scully jumps--turns out the voice on the tape was just Mulder's NewOldFlame, trying to mess with their heads.
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* DueSouth: The fate of Ray's second ([[RunningGag or third]]) [[CoolCar '72 Buick Riviera]]. Rigged to the driver's side door handle in this case. [[hottip:* :However, Ray, the intended target, wasn't the one who opened the door. [[TearJerker Poor Louis]].]]
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* DueSouth: ''DueSouth'': The fate of Ray's second ([[RunningGag or third]]) [[CoolCar '72 Buick Riviera]]. Rigged to the driver's side door handle in this case. [[hottip:* :However, Ray, the intended target, wasn't the one who opened the door. [[TearJerker Poor Louis]].]]
* ''MagnumPI'': In "Did You See The Sunrise?" one of these, intended for Magnum, kills recurring character Lt. MacReynolds instead. Magnum is [[{{Understatement}} not happy.]]
* ''MagnumPI'': In "Did You See The Sunrise?" one of these, intended for Magnum, kills recurring character Lt. MacReynolds instead. Magnum is [[{{Understatement}} not happy.]]
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* During the make-your-own''TeenGirlSquad'' segment of the first episode of ''StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'', using the car on Whats-Her-Face at the right time will reveal that her dad bought her a car "at a government auction" that turns out to be rigged with one of these. "''[[UnsoundEffect A SPLODE]]!''"
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* Michael's Italian wife in ''TheGodfather'' decides to bring the car around for him. Oops.
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* Michael's Italian wife in ''TheGodfather'' decides to bring the car around for him. Oops. Oops.
** This one is so famous it could be the trope codifier
** This one is so famous it could be the trope codifier
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* In an episode of the LiveActionAdaptation of ''TheFlash'', the main villain dies this way after threatening Barry that [[TheydCutYouUp They'd Cut Him Up]].
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* In an episode of the LiveActionAdaptation of ''TheFlash'', the main villain dies [[DeathBySecretIdentity knows Barry's identity but dies]] this way after threatening Barry that [[TheydCutYouUp They'd Cut Him Up]].
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** And later [[spoiler: you can end on the receiving end of this trick]].
* In ''{{Hitman}}'' one of the missions in Hong Kong requires Agent 47 to use this method. Same goes for one mission in St. Petersburg in ''Silent Assassin''.
* In ''{{Hitman}}'' one of the missions in Hong Kong requires Agent 47 to use this method. Same goes for one mission in St. Petersburg in ''Silent Assassin''.
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* DueSouth: The fate of Ray's second ([[RunningGag or third]]) [[CoolCar '72 Buick Riviera]]. Rigged to the driver's side door handle in this case. [[hottip:* :However, Ray, the intended target, wasn't the one who opened the door. Poor Louis.]]
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* DueSouth: The fate of Ray's second ([[RunningGag or third]]) [[CoolCar '72 Buick Riviera]]. Rigged to the driver's side door handle in this case. [[hottip:* :However, Ray, the intended target, wasn't the one who opened the door. [[TearJerker Poor Louis.Louis]].]]
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* DueSouth: The fate of Ray's second ([[RunningGag or third]]) [[CoolCar '72 Buick Riviera]]. Rigged to the driver's side door handle in this case. [[hottip:* :However, Ray, the intended target, wasn't the one who opened the door. Poor Louis.]
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I could have sworn I knew how to do a spoiler tag. Trying again.
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** FridgeLogic has us wondering why she couldn't just carefully roll down the window and exit through there...
