History YMMV / TheSimpsonsHitAndRun

* NightmareFuel: One of the gags Homer can perform in his first level is to trigger a meltdown at his office in the nuclear power plant. After doing so, [[FridgeHorror a skeleton floats up in the radioactive waste]]. Marge can do the same in the fourth level.

* ThatOneLevel: The final three missions, which force you to drive perfectly and avoid so much as lightly hitting anything if you don't want to knock off the extremely sensitive barrel of nuclear waste strapped to your fender. Worse still is that the last two contain a chase sequence which will absolutely cause you to fail if you can't outrun it on the first pass.

** Also of notable mention is 'Set To Kill', the penultimate mission of the sixth level. It takes some very skilful driving and knowledge of the map to hit all of the laser stands with even a few seconds left on the clock, and also a fair amount of luck when you factor in traffic. The trip back to Krustylu is even worse, giving you only ''fifty seconds'' to get there from the opposite side of the map. You need to go ''flat-out'' and pray to God you don't suffer any major hold-ups, otherwise you're guaranteed to not make it. Even with the [[CoolCar Globex Super Villain Car]], it's damned tough.
*** The reedeeming feature about the above two missions is that they are both backed by the same [[AwesomeMusic very awesome]] rock track noted above, arguably one of the best in the game. So if you keep failing, it also means to get plenty of time to listen to the music!
** 'Kwik Cash', the level that comes after 'Never Trust a Snake'. Your mission is to destroy an armored car.... with Snake's ''[[FragileSpeedster Li'l Bandit]]''. Fortunaly, the only time limit you have is to go to Googolplex and escape Chief Wiggum twice (First at the end of the freeway and the last at the Snake's Hideout.). There's no time limit to destroy the armored car because it takes forever to destroy the toughest vehicle in the game with a sports car.

** Every race in the game (see TheComputerIsACheatingBastard on the main page), but the early levels, alongside levels 4 & 6 are the worst.
** "Monkey See Monkey D'oh," a sidequest in level 6. You have to collect 30 monkeys for Dr. Nick and then get back to him with in a time limit. The problem with this is that they give you ''just'' enough time to get all the monkeys and get to the goal. If you get them all, but fail to make it back to Dr. Nick on time, you have to start the whole thing over again. At least [[EarWorm the music for it is pretty catchy]], but that does little to alleviate anything when it's all you'll be hearing for a while.

* ThatOneSidequest: Every race in the game (see TheComputerIsACheatingBastard on the main page), but the early levels, alongside levels 4 & 6 are the worst.

*** Special mention goes to 'Never Trust A Snake', which makes up for it being [[NintendoHard really difficult.]]

* '''HilariousInHindsight''': Remember the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' gag "Simpsons did it!" By the time you get to the game's final levels it turns out the plot is remarkably similar to an episode of ''South Park'', namely that [[spoiler:Earth is being recorded by aliens to sell as a reality show to the galaxy]]. The really funny part though is that the ''South Park'' episode came first, in March 2003, while ''Hit & Run'' came out in September. And for extra irony, the "Simpsons did it!" episode came out just the previous year; one must wonder if the producers of the two shows planned this out for the timing to be so perfect.

** [[http://youtu.be/oGT9Bc3R-A0?t=2m34s One of Bart's musical cues during free-roam]] is eerily reminiscent of the opening riff to "All Apologies" by {{Nirvana}}.

* ThatOneSidequest: Every race in the game (see TheComputerIsACheatingBastard on the main page), but the early levels are the worst.

* NightmareFuel: One of the gags Homer can perform in his first level is to trigger a meltdown at his office in the nuclear power plant. After doing so, [[FridgeHorror a skeleton floats up in the radioactive waste]].

* [[http://youtu.be/oGT9Bc3R-A0?t=2m34s One of Bart's musical cues during free-roam]] is eerily reminiscent of the opening riff to "All Apologies" by {{Nirvana}}.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu96dB7iq3A It's rather fitting that one of Marge's themes]] seems more-or-less lifted from [[TheSimpsonsS4E7MargeGetsAJob Tom Jones']], "It's Not Unusual".

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: [[http://youtu.be/oGT9Bc3R-A0?t=2m34s One of Bart's musical cues during free-roam]] is eerily reminiscent of the opening riff to "All Apologies" by {{Nirvana}}.

** 'Kwik Cash', the level that comes after 'Never Trust a Snake'. Your mission is to destroy an armored car.... with ''Snake's Li'l Bandit''. Fortunaly, the only time limit you have is to go to Googolplex and escape Chief Wiggum twice (First at the end of the freeway and the last at the Snake's Hideout.). There's no time limit to destroy the armored car because it takes forever to destroy the toughest vehicle in the game with a sports car.

** 'Kwik Cash', the level that comes after 'Never Trust a Snake'. Your mission is to destroy an armored car.... with ''Snake's Li'l Bandit''. Fortunaly, the only time limit you have is to go to Googolplex and escape Chief Wiggum twice (First at the end of the freeway and the last at the Snake's Hideout.). There's no time limit to destroy the armored car because it takes forever to destroy something with the biggest toughness of the game with a sports car.

* '''HilariousInHindsight''': Remember the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' gag "Simpsons did it!" By the time you get to the game's final levels it turns out the plot is remarkably similar to an episode of ''South Park'', namely that [[spoiler:Earth is being recorded by aliens to sell as a reality show to the galaxy]]. The really funny part though is that the ''South Park'' episode came first, in March 2003, while ''Hit & Run'' came out in September.

** "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", this one plays on the final level. The BeetleJuice[=-esque=] music fits very well with the Halloween [[spoiler: zombie invasion]] theme.

* CrazyAwesome: Some of the vehicles, such as Apu's Monster Truck and the RC Car

* ThatOneSidequest: Every race in the game (see TheComputerIsACheatingBastard on the main page)

* NightmareFuel: One of the gags Homer can perform in his first level is to trigger a meltdown at his office in the nuclear power plant. After doing so, [[FridgeHorror a skeleton floats up in the radioactive waste]].

** Any of the [[AutobotsRockOut rock tracks]] that start up. With Bart, that's expected. But with unexpected characters like Marge, Lisa and Apu, you know they're getting serious.

** "Vox Nerduli", obviously a SuspiciouslySimilarSong of the ''StarTrekTOS'' fight music.
** Any of the [[{{AutobotsRockOut}} rock tracks]] that start up. With Bart, that's expected. But with unexpected characters like Marge, Lisa and Apu, you know they're getting serious.

** "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", this one plays on the final level. The BeetleJuice[=-esque=] music fits very well with the Halloween [spoiler: zombie invasion] theme.