History Main / ParallelParking

* 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]].

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* A ''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]].

* 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.
** Being a Smart Car, it can easily be done with four average people, beefiness optional. This troper has witnessed one being taken up a set of stairs at his workplace as a prank.

* In ''WapsiSquare'', Tina breaks her wrist while parallel parking. She runs over it.

* 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. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome

* After Annie parks in ''AnnieHall'':

* In ''[[{{ptitlescaawhvv}} 7th Heaven]]'', Mary couldn't parallel park during the driving test. She resorted to a crying routing on the evaluator to get the license.

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* 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.

* In ''[[{{ptitlescaawhvv}} 7th Heaven]]'', Mary couldn't parallel park during the driving test. She resorted to a crying routing on the evaluator to get the license.

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** 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]].

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* 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.]]

* In ''[[{{ptitlescaawhvv}} 7th Heaven]]'', Mary couldn't parallel park during the driving test. She resorted to a crying routing on the evaulator to get the license.

* A ''[[{{ptitledzx0p3j9}} Tosh.0]]'' 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. [[{{Ptitle8px80d2wm3pd}} What do you mean, it's not awesome?]]

* {{Doug}}'s sister Judy once failed to get her driver's license after failing to correctly parallel park.

Parallel Parking is one of the most difficult things to do when you're driving. This is something that will get almost anybody nervous, especially during a DrivingTest, and would try avoiding. That, or somehow a character can pull off [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpXf0cmJ64 something daring and spectacular]] doing it.

* 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. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What do you mean, it's not awesome?]]

* In ''NobodyScores!'', every attempt at parallel parking results in increasingly implausible accidents.

Less skilled drivers will usually bump into the cars in front of and/or behind the spot they're either entering or leaving.

* A ''Tosh.0'' bit had various stereotypical poor drivers (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.

Parallel Parking is one of the most difficult things to do when you're driving. This is something that will get almost anybody nervous, especially during a DrivingTest, and would try avoiding. That, or somehow a character can pull off something daring and spectacular doing it.

* ''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."