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* In ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', in the first season episode "Rory's Dance", Rory and Dean decide to go to the Chilton Prom together, and Dean honks his horn when he's outside Rory's house to pick her up. Emily, however, has other ideas, and tells Rory to wait for Dean come to the door to ask for her because it's "proper" (also so she can meet him). Dean does come to the door, and Rory has to tell him it wasn't her idea.
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'''Liza:''' Your cab's here, Mr. Darling.\\
'''Mr. Darling:''' Excellent, let's go down--\\

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'''Liza:''' '''Liza (Annie):''' Your cab's here, Mr. Darling.\\
'''Mr. Darling:''' Darling (Chris):''' Excellent, let's go down--\\
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* A recurring motif in ''Film/LaLaLand''. At the beginning of the film, Sebastian blares his horn angrily at Mia while stuck in a traffic jam, but as they grow closer to each other, Sebastian sounds his car horn in the same manner whenever he picks Mia up for a date at her apartment. [[spoiler: This also comes into play towards the end of the film after Mia returns to Colorado, and Sebastian goes looking for her. When she hears his car horn, she immediately knows that he came all the way from Los Angeles just for her.]]

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* A recurring motif in ''Film/LaLaLand''. At the beginning of the film, Sebastian blares his horn angrily at Mia while stuck in a traffic jam, but as they grow closer to each other, Sebastian sounds his car horn in the same manner whenever he picks Mia up for a date at her apartment. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This also comes into play towards the end of the film after Mia returns to Colorado, and Sebastian goes looking for her. When she hears his car horn, she immediately knows that he came all the way from Los Angeles just for her.]]



** Also at the end of the movie, when the girls leave the police station, and ''[=*=]beep-beep[=*=]'' [[spoiler: Lisa]] is the one there to offer them rides home.

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** Also at the end of the movie, when the girls leave the police station, and ''[=*=]beep-beep[=*=]'' [[spoiler: Lisa]] [[spoiler:Lisa]] is the one there to offer them rides home.



'''Homer''': Shut up!\\

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'''Homer''': '''Homer:''' Shut up!\\



'''Homer''': I'm over as far as I can go!\\

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'''Homer''': '''Homer:''' I'm over as far as I can go!\\



'''Homer''': Alright! Alright! I'll ''walk in the MUD!''

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'''Homer''': '''Homer:''' Alright! Alright! I'll ''walk in the MUD!''
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* "Advertising/AmericanHondaPresentsDCComicsSupergirl": ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, her wards, and the Little Old Lady's students are singing one song while travelling when they hear a blaring, insistent honk. The group turns around to see B. B. Wolf's truck speeding towards them and then shoving them out of the road.
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* As many dashcam videos will show, some drivers (including those who are behind the wheel of the car with the camera itself) think [[TooDumbToLive blasting the horn is a good substitute for putting their foot on the brake.]] Many, ''many'' minor accidents could have been averted had the driver chosen the obviously-correct action to take!
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* As many dashcam videos will show, some drivers (including those who are behind the wheel of the car with the camera itself) think [[TooDumbToLive blasting the horn is a good substitute for putting their foot on the brake.]] Many, ''many'' minor accidents could have been averted had the driver chosen the obviously-correct action to take!
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* As many dashcam videos will show, some drivers (including those who are behind the wheel of the car with the camera itself) think [[TooDumbToLive blasting the horn is a good substitute for putting their foot on the brake.]] Many, ''many'' minor accidents could have been averted had the driver chosen the obviously-correct action to take!
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--> ''[Beep-BEEP]''
--> '''Liza:''' Your cab's here, Mr. Darling.
--> '''Mr. Darling:''' Excellent, let's go down--
--> ''[Beep-BEEP]''
--> '''Liza:''' Another cab's here, Mr. Darling.
--> '''Mr. Darling:''' Excellent, let's go down--
--> ''[Beep-BEEP]''
--> '''Liza:''' ...A ''third'' cab's here, Mr. Darling.
--> '''Mr. Darling:''' Three cabs... One for Mary... One for me... And one for... my... hat.

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--> ''[Beep-BEEP]''
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-->''[Beep-BEEP]''\\
'''Liza:''' Your cab's here, Mr. Darling.
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Darling.\\
'''Mr. Darling:''' Excellent, let's go down--
--> ''[Beep-BEEP]''
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down--\\
''[Beep-BEEP]''\\
'''Liza:''' Another cab's here, Mr. Darling.
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Darling.\\
'''Mr. Darling:''' Excellent, let's go down--
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down--\\
''[Beep-BEEP]''\\
'''Liza:''' ...A ''third'' cab's here, Mr. Darling.
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Darling.\\
'''Mr. Darling:''' Three cabs... One for Mary... One for me... And one for... my... hat.



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--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': Shut up!
--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': I'm over as far as I can go!
--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': Alright! Alright! I'll ''walk in the MUD!''

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-->
-->''[Toot Toot!]''\\
'''Homer''': Shut up!
--> [Toot Toot!]
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up!\\
''[Toot Toot!]''\\
'''Homer''': I'm over as far as I can go!
--> [Toot Toot!]
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go!\\
''[Toot Toot!]''\\
'''Homer''': Alright! Alright! I'll ''walk in the MUD!''



-->'''Marge:''' You don't know Homer like I do. He's sensitive and sweet.
-->'''Homer:''' ''(HONK!)'' [[InstantlyProvenWrong Marge! Get your butt out here!]]

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-->'''Marge:''' --->'''Marge:''' You don't know Homer like I do. He's sensitive and sweet.
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sweet.\\
'''Homer:'''
''(HONK!)'' [[InstantlyProvenWrong Marge! Get your butt out here!]]
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* In ''Film/TheScreamingSkull'', the Reverend Snow and Mrs. Snow arrive at Eric and Jenni's palatial country home in a honking car. The horn toots off camera while Eric and Jenni are having a private moment, and Jenni suddenly wonders who it could be.
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Not indicative of the trope. The honking horn is supposed to signify the car's arrival for another character.


* ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'': Serves as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Anthony Marston, a rich and egocentric young man who likes driving fast cars and thinks other people have only themselves to blame if they're too slow to get out of the way.
-->Down the steep track into the village a car was coming. A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the nature of an apparition. At the wheel sat a young man, his hair blown back by the wind. In the blaze of the evening light he looked, not a man, but a young God, a Hero God out of some Northern Saga.\\
He touched the horn and a great roar of sound echoed from the rocks of the bay.\\
It was a fantastic moment. In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards, more than one of those present remembered
that moment.
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* ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'': Serves as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Anthony Marston, a rich and egocentric young man who likes driving fast cars and thinks other people have only themselves to blame if they're too slow to get out of the way.
-->Down the steep track into the village a car was coming. A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the nature of an apparition. At the wheel sat a young man, his hair blown back by the wind. In the blaze of the evening light he looked, not a man, but a young God, a Hero God out of some Northern Saga.\\
He touched the horn and a great roar of sound echoed from the rocks of the bay.\\
It was a fantastic moment. In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards, more than one of those present remembered
that moment.
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** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', the mission "Drive Misty For Me" requires the player to honk your horn while parked outside Misty's apartment to let her know they've arrived.

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** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', the mission "Drive Misty For Me" requires the player to honk your a car horn while parked outside Misty's apartment to let her know they've arrived.
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* In ''Film/TheGate'', a honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains to Glen that she's going out shopping with her friends. The honking is then heard ''again'' as Alexandra's friends grow friends impatient while Glen continues arguing with her. When the scene finally cuts to the friends waiting in the car, they actually start to drive away without her for taking too long, before Alexandra shouts at them that she's indeed coming with them.

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* In ''Film/TheGate'', a honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains to Glen that she's going out shopping with her friends. The honking is then heard ''again'' as Alexandra's friends grow friends impatient while Glen continues arguing with her. When the scene finally cuts to the friends waiting in the car, they actually start to drive away without her for taking too long, Alexandra, before Alexandra she shouts at them that she's indeed coming with them.
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* In ''Film/TheGate'', a honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains she has to leave with her friends to go shopping. Alexandra's friends impatiently honk a second time while Glen continues arguing with her.

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* In ''Film/TheGate'', a honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains she has to leave Glen that she's going out shopping with her friends to go shopping. friends. The honking is then heard ''again'' as Alexandra's friends impatiently honk a second time grow friends impatient while Glen continues arguing with her.her. When the scene finally cuts to the friends waiting in the car, they actually start to drive away without her for taking too long, before Alexandra shouts at them that she's indeed coming with them.
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* In ''Film/TheGate'', a honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains she has to leave with her friends to go shopping.

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* In ''Film/TheGate'', a honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains she has to leave with her friends to go shopping. Alexandra's friends impatiently honk a second time while Glen continues arguing with her.
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* In ''Film/TheGate'', a honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains she has to leave with her friends to go shopping.
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** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E13TheOldManAndTheKey "The Old Man and the Key"]], after Lisa comments that they have no way of traveling to Branson, Missouri, a novelty horn interrupts, and a bus headed to Branson, MO stops directly in front of the Simpsons' house. However, when Ned, Rod, and Todd Flanders get on the bus, Homer insists that they "wait for the next one."
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* In ''Film/TheHotChick'', after Jessica repeatedly drives over a gas station's dinger hose in efforts bring out a station attendant to no avail, she finally tries using her car horn. Meanwhile, inside the station, the attendant is actually tied up by Clive, who is robbing the place. When Clive exits the station and attempts to flee the scene, she makes ''him'' service her car.

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* In ''Film/TheHotChick'', after PlayedWith in ''Film/TheHotChick''. After Jessica repeatedly drives over a gas station's dinger hose in efforts bring out a station attendant to no avail, she finally tries using her car horn. Meanwhile, inside the station, the attendant is actually tied up by Clive, who is robbing the place. When Clive exits the station and attempts to flee the scene, she makes ''him'' service her car.
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** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E5EIEIAnnoyedGrunt "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"]], The SouthernGentleman honks a novelty car horn when he arrives outside the Simpsons home in his RV at dawn for his duel with Homer.
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** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E5FatManAndLittleBoy "Fat Man and Little Boy"]], Goose Gladwell makes several entrances in a wacky CoolCar while sounding a novelty horn that plays "La Cucaracha."
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** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', the mission "Drive Misty For Me" requires you to honk your horn while parked outside Misty's apartment to let her know you've arrived.
** Likewise, a few early-game missions in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' require you to honk your vehicle's horn to get the attention of someone you're giving a ride to. You also have the option of doing this when picking up a friend to hang out with them, which will get them to enter your vehicle without you having to park too close to them.

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** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', the mission "Drive Misty For Me" requires you the player to honk your horn while parked outside Misty's apartment to let her know you've they've arrived.
** Likewise, a few early-game missions in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' require you the player to honk your their vehicle's horn to get the attention of someone you're they're giving a ride to. You The player also have has the option of doing this when picking up a friend to hang out with them, which will get them to enter your the player's vehicle without you having to park too close to them.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':
** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', the mission "Drive Misty For Me" requires you to honk your horn while parked outside Misty's apartment to let her know you've arrived.
** Likewise, a few early-game missions in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' require you to honk your vehicle's horn to get the attention of someone you're giving a ride to. You also have the option of doing this when picking up a friend to hang out with them, which will get them to enter your vehicle without you having to park too close to them.
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* In the ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' Season 6 episode "Prom Again!" Kara and Kenny Li have a conversation in which Kara reveals her decision to attend college in National City. When a car horn honks outside the high school, Kara says, "That's Alex. I have to go."

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* In the ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' Season 6 episode "Prom Again!" Kara and Kenny Li have a conversation in which Kara reveals her decision to attend college in National City. When a car horn honks outside the high school, Kara says, "That's Alex. I have indicating Alex is there to go."pick them up, they slowly walk out of the gym.
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* In ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', outside the high school, as it occurs to Bill that he and Ted are "in danger of flunking most heinously," Bill's stepmom, Missy, pulls up and honks her car horn to offer Bill and Ted a ride.
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* In ''Series/TheGoesWrongShow'' Series 2 play, "Summer Once Again," Robert playing "Roger" makes his grand entrance to Northwood Manor in a car preceded by the honking horn. After Robert calls for a reset of "Scene One" for a second time, because of numerous mistakes, the car horn sound effect is mistakenly cued "three pages early."
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* Part of a punchline at the end of the ''Series/EerieIndiana'' episode "The Broken Record." Syndi spends much of the episode doing a ride-along project with Eerie policemen. Her parents wish she'd have a safer assignment, and in the last scene they're are relieved when she tells them that she asked her teacher for a new project assignment... only for a truck horn to blare outside, cuing Syndi and her parents to her new ride-along project following the Eerie fire department in their firetruck.

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* Part of a punchline at the end of the ''Series/EerieIndiana'' episode "The Broken Record." Syndi spends much of the episode doing a ride-along project with Eerie policemen. Her parents wish she'd have a safer assignment, and in the last scene they're they are relieved when she tells them that she asked her teacher for a new project assignment... only for a truck horn to blare outside, cuing Syndi and her parents to her new ride-along project following the Eerie fire department in their firetruck.
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* Part of a punchline at the end of the ''Series/EerieIndiana'' episode "The Broken Record." Syndi spends much of the episode doing a ride-along project with Eerie policemen. Her parents wish she'd have a safer assignment, and in the last scene they're are relieved when she tells them that she asked her teacher for a new project assignment... only for a truck horn to blare, cuing Syndi and her parents to her new ride-along project following the Eerie fire department in their firetruck.

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* Part of a punchline at the end of the ''Series/EerieIndiana'' episode "The Broken Record." Syndi spends much of the episode doing a ride-along project with Eerie policemen. Her parents wish she'd have a safer assignment, and in the last scene they're are relieved when she tells them that she asked her teacher for a new project assignment... only for a truck horn to blare, blare outside, cuing Syndi and her parents to her new ride-along project following the Eerie fire department in their firetruck.
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* Part of a punchline at the end of the ''Series/EerieIndiana'' episode "The Broken Record." Syndi spends much of the episode doing a ride-along project with Eerie policemen. Her parents wish she'd have a safer assignment, and in the last scene they're are relieved when she tells them that she asked her teacher for a new project assignment... only for a truck horn to blare, cuing Syndi and her parents to her new ride-along project following the Eerie fire department in their firetruck.
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* In ''Film/CarWash'', one of Duane/Abdullah's unexplained absences from the titular car wash is shown to involve, in part, one of his Black Muslim peers rolling up in a customized VW Bus and honking the horn to call him over.

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* In ''Film/CarWash'', one of Duane/Abdullah's unexplained absences from the titular car wash (that ultimately get him fired) is shown to involve, in part, one of his Black Muslim peers rolling up in a customized VW Bus and honking the horn to call him over.
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* In ''Film/CarWash'', one of Duane/Abdullah's unexplained absences from the titular car wash is shown to involve, in part, one of his Black Muslim peers rolling up in a customized VW Bus and honking the horn to call Duane/Abdullah over.

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* In ''Film/CarWash'', one of Duane/Abdullah's unexplained absences from the titular car wash is shown to involve, in part, one of his Black Muslim peers rolling up in a customized VW Bus and honking the horn to call Duane/Abdullah him over.

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