History Main / ParallelParking

* In one [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney short]] ''Two-Gun Goofy'', Pete rides into a Western town and parallel parks his horse, bumping into those in front and behind him.

* A ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short titled "Wild Wife" had a ChewToy woman speedily hit the parked cars in front and back of her twice apiece. This is probably a [[ValuesDissonance "woman driver" joke]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Dining Goofy", Goofy took parallel parking ''[[LiteralMinded literally]]'' and stacked various cars on top of each other (including Disney/{{Cinderella}}'s coach, [[Film/TheLoveBug Herbie]], and a [[Film/{{Tron}} lightcycle]].

* [[MundaneUtility Using chi powers to]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt8-S_R3C98 parallel park]] is one of the things Sing wants to promote in ''ShaolinSoccer''.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': During the traffic safety film ''X Marks The Spot'', an early scene has a MatchCut of a car fading into a narrow gap between two cars parked curbside. Tom Servo remarks, "Ah, parallel ''universe'' parking." The car's driver has to leave the space the old-fashioned way -- as Crow puts it, "He uses the Braille system".

* ''Film/BonnieAndClyde''--while the title characters rob a bank, their driver C.W. Moss parallel parks down the street and has trouble getting out as they make their getaway. This gives one of the bank tellers enough time to to jump on the car's running board, and when Clyde shoots him he becomes the first murder victim of their crime spree.

* In one [{WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney short]] ''Two-Gun Goofy'', Pete rides into a Western town and parallel parks his horse, bumping into those in front and behind him.

* In one old ''[[Creator/WaltDisney Disney]]'' cartoon placed in the wild west, Bruno comes to town as a villain and parallel parks a horse, bumping into those in front and behind him.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyO6QnhTEqY This video]], from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}''. Really, it's possible in any video game that lets you control the vehicles to a similar degree.

* One time on ''The Late Show With DavidLetterman'' they had a remote camera watching some 16-year-olds take their driving test. The parallel parking was particularly bad. For that matter, a semi-recurring segment is having interns parallel park outside the Ed Sullivan Theater.

* In "Taking the Rap for Mr. Boynton", Miss Brooks "helps" Mr. Boynton parallel park his car. [[WomenDrivers She advises him to back up just a little more . . . resulting in him crashing into Mr. Conklin's new car.]]

* ''TheBluesBrothers'': Elwood J. Blues has to be one of the best in history. Able to do an e-brake slide into any spot.
* ''AceVentura 2'': ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPM7ugLeXhY Li~ike a glove!]]''

* The bodyguard Tyrone in ''{{Snatch}}'', who'd earlier been talked up as a great driver, smashes hard into a van (ironically containing the guy his bosses are looking for) while backing into a space "big enough for a jumbo jet."

* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'': During the traffic safety film ''X Marks The Spot'', an early scene has a MatchCut of a car fading into a narrow gap between two cars parked curbside. Tom Servo remarks, "Ah, parallel ''universe'' parking." The car's driver has to leave the space the old-fashioned way -- as Crow puts it, "He uses the Braille system".
* A ''{{Tosh0}}'' bit had various stereotypical poor drivers ([[AsianDrivers Asian woman]], 15-year-old girl with her learner's permit, etc) try to parallel park a massive Hummer. The only one who succeeded was the girl.
* Reese's driving test in ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' frustrates him to the point that it turns into a low-speed police chase, which continues for hours until he's nearly out of gas, at which point he leads the LemmingCops round the entire test run, acing every obstacle and finishing with an inch-perfect parallel park. [[MundaneMadeAwesome What do you mean it's not awesome?]]

* On ''{{Seinfeld}}'', George actually claims to be really good at parallel parking, he just didn't count on another guy trying to drive into the space front first while he was backing up. [[CavemenVsAstronautsDebate A massive, all-night argument begins between the two drivers over whether front-first parallel parking is acceptable in the civilized world.]]
* One episode of ''TopGear'' involved James May and Jeremy Clarkson driving huge classic cars around London to showcase how fantastic (read: impractical) these cars are in the modern day. One of the producer's challenges involved parallel parking in downtown London, which, as it turns out, was impossible for the cars to do as they are, in fact, longer than the parking spaces themselves.

* ''PhineasAndFerb'': one episode focuses on Candace practicing this.

* ''{{Futurama}}'':

* The spectacular one is done in ''TheIncredibles'', when Mr. Incredible lands the [[ItMakesSenseInContext van that was launched from a rocket]], then skids perfectly into a vacant parallel spot.

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* ''MythBusters'' tried to determine whether men or women were better drivers, and one of the tests was parallel parking (It was a statistical draw, although women tended to either easily place the car precisely or panic and mess up, while men tended to place the car at a "good enough" point and thus showed less deviation from the mean.

* In ''WapsiSquare'', Tina breaks her wrist while parallel parking. She [[NoodleIncident runs over it]].
* In ''NobodyScores!'', every attempt at parallel parking results in [[EpicFail increasingly implausible accidents]].

* In one old ''[[WaltDisney Disney]]'' cartoon placed in the wild west, Bruno comes to town as a villain and parallel parks a horse, bumping into those in front and behind him.

* {{Doug}}'s sister Judy once failed to get her driver's license after failing to correctly parallel park. She finally got it right at the end [[YouWereTryingTooHard when most of her concentration was on chewing Doug out]] for having promised she would drive him and Patti somewhere, which was why he needed her to pass in the first place.

* Every season of ''[[CanadasWorstDriver Canada's Worst Driver]]'' has a parallel parking challenge, but the most extreme may well have been in Season 2. It required the nominees to reverse a Winnebago over a hundred metres uphill, then park between a Mercedes and a BMW. At least two nominees parked perfectly. Others... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin see the show's title]].

** In one episode, Amy complains that she is useless at parallel parking, and then easily drives in since hovercars can just move sideways. [[AsianDrivers She then suddenly moves forwards and back to hit the two cars anyway]].

* There's a Mentos commercial where some jerk pulls into an open parking spot right when our heroine wants to leave, sandwiching her in. Cue a Mentos and a bright idea; she recruits the help of some beefy construction workers to pick up her car and ease it out.

* Gru from ''DespicableMe'' is perfectly able to parallel park, even though his car puts a semitrailer to shame. He deliberately rams into the cars in front of and behind him anyway. [[ForTheEvulz 'Cause he's evil]].

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyO6QnhTEqY This video]], from {{Halo}} 3. Really, it's possible in any video game that lets you control the vehicles to a similar degree.

** Another episode had them trying to determine how practical Italian Supercars are in London ([[AwesomeButImpractical see above]]), the parking test being made even more difficult by the cars' poor reareward visibility [[WithFriendsLikeThese and the hosts secretly pushing the other cars closer together to make the task impossible.]]

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