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->''"You know, you never really know a car until you've driven it through a wall. This little baby did good!"''
-->-- '''Sam Axe''', ''Series/BurnNotice'', "[[Recap/BurnNoticeS3E16DevilYouKnow Devil You Know]]"

A {{comedy trope|s}} where someone drives a car straight into a building. It's usually designed to poke fun at the driver, either because they [[DrivesLikeCrazy Drive Like Crazy]], are too old or too young to drive, are driving TheAllegedCar, have a wonky navigation system, or maybe [[DriverFacesPassenger just aren't paying attention]]. It doesn't always have to be a house, but it usually is, largely to get a comedic reaction out of the unfortunate inhabitants of said house.

It's almost always PlayedForLaughs, and more interestingly, with no lasting consequences; nobody gets hurt, nobody gets emotionally traumatized, the car usually stops right after crashing through the wall and thus minimizes the damage, and the house is usually [[SnapBack right back to normal in the next episode]]. Compare this to RealLife, where driving a car into a building can cause serious and lasting damage to the driver, the car, the building's occupants, and the building itself. As always, Administrivia/TropesAreTools, and it can be PlayedForDrama with [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome more realistic consequences]], but unless it's done on purpose (and sometimes even then), it's usually difficult for the audience to take this trope seriously.

The trope was most pervasive in {{sitcom}}s in TheEighties and [[TheNineties '90s]], but it's still common since then (if only because sitcoms have such a tendency to recycle each other's plotlines and tropes). That's another reason why it's so common to drive into a house -- many sitcoms will [[StandardizedSitcomHousing mostly take place in such houses]].

See also ThereWasADoor. If they hit ''people'' with the car, see CarFu.

We need to start the [[VerySpecialEpisode Very Special Episode on drinking and driving]], a common cause of RealLife cases where people drive their cars right into houses. It is also done by criminals who ram through the building they want to rob. To thwart this, some businesses with high-value merchandise set up strong concrete bollards in front.

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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* A 2012-ish State Farm commercial features a former customer who has "just combined" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORe888O928U his auto and home]].
* One commercial shows a guy driving a CoolCar when his GPS tells him to turn right, and he does -- plowing into a store. Only then does the GPS continue "...in 50 feet". This is why all RealLife GPS navigators tell you this distance first.
* The U.S. Department of Transport [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeoB3tIb2RI subverted this trope]] (and [[BreakingTheFourthWall broke the fourth wall]] in the process) in a 1990s-era PublicServiceAnnouncement.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* PlayedWith in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'''s second chapter. Due to the unpredictable effects of Rukia's [[EasyAmnesia memory-eraser device]], Ichigo's family thinks that the giant hole in their wall, which was put there by the Hollow Fishbone-D when it attacked them, was caused by a truck plowing into the house in the middle of the night:
-->'''Isshin:''' What a miracle! A truck crashes into our house and nobody gets a scratch!\\
'''Ichigo:''' ''(playing along)'' Double miracle, none of us even woke up!\\
'''Karin:''' Some miracle. The jerk left us the repair bills. This family, geez...
* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/DeathNote'', when Soichiro Yagami stops a TV station from broadcasting threats from the second Kira by driving a van through their front door. He had to do it that way, as the second Kira was watching the building and could kill Soichiro if he shows his face (which had already happened to the first guy to walk up to the building). There was remarkably little collateral damage, but the door was made of glass and he was driving a reinforced police van.
* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': During the practice match against St Gloriana, one of Gloriana's Matilda II tanks crashes into a storefront after being outmaneuvered. In a twist, the shop owner is ecstatic about this outcome because it means he's going to be getting a big insurance payout for the damage.
* In ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'', Ryuji and Eikichi crash a car through the wall of [[{{Yakuza}} Yokokawa]]'s building to deliver the 100 million yen they owe him. They don't care about the CollateralDamage since they have an ace in the hole ([[spoiler:an EmbarrassingOldPhoto]]).
* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Germany did this once, according to WordOfGod, apparently because he is so confident in technology that he insisted on following the GPS instructions exactly.
* In ''Manga/InoHeadGargoyle'', Shizuka drives a truck through the wall of Rin's office as part of her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* ''Anime/LupinIII'':
** In the ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' episode [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E35 "Gorilla Tactics"]], Jigen and Goemon crash through a restaurant during a failed attempt to corral the gorilla's jeep.
** In another ''Part II'' episode, [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E69 "Zenigata Getcha into My Life"]], Zenigata crashes his jeep through Lupin's vacation home, leading to this gem in the English dub:
--->'''Lupin:''' Uh, contrary to what [[ReallyGetsAround you might've heard]], my bedroom's NOT a drive-through.
** In ''Anime/LupinIIICrisisInTokyo'', Lupin crashes his car into the dentist's office where Jigen is having an appointment. They then [[RefugeInAudacity proceed to drive the car out of the building, leaving through the front door.]]
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'', Phineas builds a full-sized remote-control racing car and is running it through the city streets from the roof. Fat Freddy wants to play, but he crashes it straight through a bank. After Disney's Beagle Boys take the opportunity to ransack the place, the Freaks hide the car and leave town.
* In ''[[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy Volume 4]]'', Knockout manages to [[CarFu throw a car]] at Silver Sword, miss, and have it crash right through the wall of the upper floor of the police station.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** In ''Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold'', Thomson and Thompson accidentally crash a mosque's morning prayer service by driving their jeep through its wall [[FellAsleepDriving while being asleep]].
** In ''Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair'', Tintin drives a stolen tank to the Bordurian border, only to find the road blocked by heavy trucks and the border protected by anti-tank obstacles -- so he drives the tank straight through the guardhouse.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* At least one ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip involved Odie driving Jon's car through his living room. Jon's chair (with Jon in it) ends up overturned.
* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' strip, Jeremy manages to ''hydroplane'' the car while pulling it ten feet forward into the garage and puts it through the back wall of the garage.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''/''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', there is a scene where Sheldon, Penny, and supercomputer HEX (temporarily fritzed thanks to Sheldon) crash the Travelling Engine through the wall of a house in Lynwood, Long Island, in an almost exact replica of the trope's appearance on ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' (seen below). It turns out that HEX and Sheldon have interfered with the timeline, and when HEX fixes the timeline, only then do they find out that Frank and Marie would have crashed their own car through the wall anyway, a few minutes later. Hence the wall is a victim of the fate of Narrative Causality.
* ''Fanfic/OfLoveAndBunnies'' has the [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Astro Megaship]] crashing into [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Adam and Tanya's]] front lawn during a Ranger Kegger. The space pirates who attack follow not long after (and [[CurbStompBattle proceed to get their butts kicked]]), while Andros [[MySisterIsOffLimits begins to chase Zhane around]] (apparently he and Karone were, uh, "busy" when the pirates attacked).
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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': As soon as Gladys thinks she's finally rid of the vermin that have ransacked her neighborhood, they return by hijacking the Verminator's van, ramping off a speed limit radar, and into her house.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'', Harley comes to the Squad's rescue by driving the RV through the wall of the strip club. Unfortunately for her, getting out is not quite so easy.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''. Ming pulls into the parking spot in front of the Daisy Mart so quickly, it appears for a moment that she's going to crash into it.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* One of the earliest examples on film was 1924's ''Kid Speed'', featuring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Oliver Hardy]]. The title character accidentally reverses his racing car out of a garage and into the local sheriff's home.
* In Film/TheThreeStooges' ''Yes We Have No Bonanza'' from 1939, the title characters drive a car into a police station.
** Later on, ''Film/TheThreeStooges Go Round the World in a Daze'' ends with the Stooges driving a police van through the wall of the Reform Club.
* Subverted in ''Film/TwentyEightDays'', where a drunk Gwen does this and almost kills a child, leading to her being forced into rehab.
* A famous scene in ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' has the protagonists drive a limo through a collapsing office building.
* In ''Film/TheATeam'', the interns of a mental institution are watching a Platform/ThreeDMovie and see a humvee going into the camera -- just as a real humvee crashes through the wall to rescue Murdock.
* In ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', a miscommunication with an airport ground worker causes a Boeing 747 to wander straight into the terminal.
* In ''Film/TheArtOfWar'', Neil Shaw realises a bomb has been planted in a cafeteria by someone who's just walked out. He drives his vehicle straight into it rather than waste time jumping out of his car.
* ''Film/AskAPoliceman'': When Dudfoot attempts the damage the Chief Constable's car so it will look like he's been in an accident, he starts the car, only to discover it is still in gear, and drives it straight through the window of Harbottle's shop.
* In ''Film/BankShot'', Ballentine drives the scraper into a barn in order to hide it. However, El has selected the wrong barn, and it is too small for the scraper. As a result, Ballentine demolishes the entire structure.
* In ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', the police [[ChaseScene chase]] the eponymous duo [[LemmingCops through a mall]]. Both the Brothers themselves and the police repeatedly drive into shops.
-->'''Elwood:''' The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year!
* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'':
** In the first movie, Mad Dog and Batman end up parking their truck in the hotel lobby, in the first instance of their "no brakes" RunningGag.
** In the sequel, an old woman driving a car waves at the chimpanzee driving the limo. When the chimp [[FlippingTheBird flips her the bird]] in response, she does an insulting gesture with her arms, which causes her to lose control of her car as she takes both hands off the wheel, and it crashes into the shop of a gas station.
* The horror film ''Film/TheCar'' plays this trope straight, with the eponymous driverless Satanic vehicle plowing through a woman's house and killing her to avenge her earlier [[TemptingFate taunting it.]]
* In ''Film/CopOrHood'', CowboyCop Stan Borowitz enters the house of Commissioner Bertrand's widowed wife by deliberately ramming his car (a Caterham Super Seven) into the living room's terrace doors.
* In the opening scene of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the Joker orders his driver to crash the getaway bus through the front entrance of the bank (in reverse, no less), with the specific intent of [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing off the last of the other robbers.]] It works, and the bus is somehow still in good enough condition after this to drive away from the scene of the crime.
* In ''Film/DeathMachines'', the assassination of one of Mr. Gioletti's men involves smashing a truck right into the restaurant where he's eating.
* ''Film/DickTracyVsCueball'': While chasing Cueball from The Dripping Dagger, Pat--who is recovering from yet another TapOnTheHead--drives his police car into a shopfront.
* In ''Film/EyesOfLauraMars'', Laura drives into a warehouse in a failed attempt to stop [[spoiler:Donald]]'s murder.
* ''Film/FreebieAndTheBean'': One ChaseScene ends with Freebie and Bean's car flying off the Embarcadero Freeway and smashing into the apartment of a very confused elderly couple.
* An extreme example occurs in ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', where [[spoiler:the detached bridge of the ''NSEA Protector'', arriving from space, crashes through a convention center parking lot and stops right on the stage of the ongoing ''Galaxy Quest'' convention]]. True to form, nobody is hurt.
* ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', Beauregard the cab driver plows into the lobby of the Happiness Hotel. Although in this case, it was purely intentional. And his idea of a U-turn is going straight through into the kitchen.
-->'''Beauregard:''' What's your room number?\\
'''Kermit:''' What?\\
'''Fozzie:''' I don't know, but we're on the second floor.\\
'''Beauregard:''' Oh, I'm sorry. I can only take you as far as the lobby.
* In ''Film/HighSchoolUSA'', when J.J.'s crew are preparing to modify J.J.'s car, they are waiting for Crazy Leo to arrive with a big engine. Leo arrives by driving a bus through the wall of the warehouse.
* Seen with a small plane and a restaurant in ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld''.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** In ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', the car carrying Jaws and his goons in hot pursuit of Bond's Lotus Esprit ends up down a cliff and crashing through the roof of a small house. The car explodes, but Jaws just walks out through the door, dusting himself off.
** In ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', Bond returns a rental car by driving it by remote control through the windows of the storefront.
* ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'' parodies the scene from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' with a car chase featuring a Lotus. In this case, they barrel through a department store, leading to some visual gags as many fragile things are knocked over and bystanders jump out of the way. And it finishes the same way, but the goon drivers are not so resilient.
* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': Alan drives Carl's police cruiser into the Sir Sav-a-Lot to save Sarah, Judy and Peter from Van Pelt. It's not his fault though -- the car had been damaged earlier and is shown to have been leaking brake fluid.
* The climatic mansion raid of ''Film/KillersOnWheels'', when the horde of biker punks led by Michael raids Guo's villa to retrieve Michael's brother, Johnny. Guo managed to put up quite a fight and kill several bikers, until Michael managed to steal Guo's tractor and drive it into the villa, smashing the building's entire front... [[spoiler:and runs over Johnny who's all tied up in the center of the entrance hall]].
* ''Film/LastActionHero'' has Jack Slater driving a huge 4x4 truck into the BigBad's ocean-view mansion.
* In the first ''Film/LethalWeapon'' movie, Joshua drives a car through Murtaugh's front window in an attempt on his life. PlayedForDrama, in that the repairs are going on for the rest of the movie, and later movies reference how much work had to be done.
* Seen in ''Film/TheLostBoys'' as part of a BigDamnHeroes moment, heralded by the car's horn playing "La Cucaracha".
* Happens twice with one house in ''Film/MalibusMostWanted'':
-->'''Tec:''' Doesn't anyone know where the goddamn driveway is!?
* In ''Film/MoneyMovers'', Eric surprises a group of car thieves in a car showroom by driving the patrol car through the plate glass window and onto the showroom floor.
* The climax of ''Film/MrNiceGuy'' has Creator/JackieChan's character, finally fed up with everything, drive a vehicle through the villain's house. Given that the house was made largely of glass and the vehicle in question was an enormous earth mover, the "car" won that fight.
* In ''Film/OnceUponASpy'', Valorium's minions gain access to the NASA lab to steal the X-2 supercomputer by driving a semi-trailer straight through the wall.
* In ''Film/OneWeek'', Creator/BusterKeaton and his wife build a house from a kit, then learn it's on the wrong lot, so they tow it with their car. It gets stuck over a railroad track as a train is approaching -- they duck for cover and watch as the train goes over a switch and runs past the house. Just as they're sighing with relief, another train coming the other way plows through it.
* Seen in ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'', with a burned-out car and a motel room.
* In ''Film/PulpFiction'', Vincent drives straight into Lance's house, as a result of his panic over [[spoiler:Mia being about to die]].
* BlackComedy movie ''Film/RoughNight'' has this happen in the climax, with one of the protagonist's boyfriends doing this to meet his girlfriend who he thought was planning to dump him, as a gesture of true love which came upon him while high as a kite. It also results in an AccidentalHero moment when [[spoiler:he runs over a gunman who was going to kill his girlfriend and co]].
%%* ''Film/Sahara2005'': Well, it's not actually a ''car'' as such, but... Well, it has to be seen to be believed. (no it doesn't, please elaborate on this)
* ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979'': During the car chase, Jackson misses a turn the other vehicles make and instead drives the limo through the glass window of a showroom, and then out the window on the other side to rejoin the chase.
* ''Film/SilverStreak'' climaxes with a ''train'' crashing into Chicago's Union Station.
* ''Film/Sunburn1979'' opens with Thoren's blackmailers in a restaurant, wondering when he'll show up and pay them. Suddenly Thoren's car smashes into the restaurant and [[EveryCarIsAPinto bursts into flame]], killing him.
* Seen in ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'', when Ricky Bobby is re-learning how to drive.
* In ''Film/{{Taxi}}'', Emilien keeps failing his driving test because he does this every time.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** In ''Film/TheTerminator'', the Terminator starts his epic rampage through the police station by crashing a car through the front desk.
** It seems to be a RunningGag that OnceAnEpisode, whoever says "I'll be back" will come back by driving a vehicle into the relevant building. Crashing through the structure is optional. In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', after telling Sarah and John Connor, "Stay here, I'll be back", he proceeds to walk past a SWAT team, procure a van, and drive right to where he had left the Connors, before telling them to get in.
* ''Film/{{Twister}}'':
** The two main characters drive their truck ''through'' a house during the climactic storm chase. They had little choice, though, what with the tornado dragging the house out onto the road right in front of them.
** One of the tornadoes also picks up a station wagon and slams it into the side of a service garage where the protagonists are taking cover.
* Played with in ''Film/WhenInRome'': In one key scene, several men are driving in a tiny car and drive into a museum, straight through the front door, drive around inside, and even go up in the elevator, while [[RuleOfFunny not damaging anything at all]].
* ''Film/{{Whitewash}}'': Six months ago, Bruce drunkenly crashed his snowplow into a Chicken King, resulting in him losing his license for three years. He is now broke, as snowplow driving was his livelihood.
* In ''Film/TheWorldAccordingToGarp'', as Garp and his wife are being shown a prospective house by a realtor, they notice a Cessna-style plane heading towards them, barely clearing the other houses in the neighborhood, before it slams into the house they're in. After they check that the pilot was all right, Garp immediately wants to buy the place. His wife starts to object, but he says that the odds of a ''second'' plane hitting the house are astronomical and that they'd be safe there.
%%* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' What makes ''The Hole in The Wall'' bar a [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov Name]]? Because the Beast was driven through its wall.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', Marco steals a tank and doesn't know what to do with it after he's done, so he parks it in the space of the enemy Chapman's house. Chapman had gotten to be something of a ButtMonkey by this point.
-->'''Marco:''' You know Chapman's house? Nice two-story.\\
'''Jake:''' ''(sighs)'' How many stories is it now?\\
'''Marco:''' Uh, zero?
* Played for horror in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', as the title car kills a character in this manner. It helps that Christine has the machine version of a HealingFactor.
* In ''Literature/EyeOfAFly'', a car smashes into a corner pet store, destroying the cheaply-made building and killing a family that lives on the second floor.
* In ''Literature/SaveTheEnemy'', Zoey fails to break into a house through the window, so she instead drives a car through the locked door.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Happens on ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'' to [[spoiler:Max and Caroline's cupcake shop, right after they sold it]].
* ''Series/TheATeam'' episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS1E4ProsAndCons Pros and Cons]]" has Hannibal, BA, and Murdock drive a car into a police station as part of a plan to get themselves arrested.
* Done intentionally at least twice in ''Series/BurnNotice'':
** The season 1 finale has Michael crash his brother's truck through a warehouse wall in order to rescue Fiona from drug smugglers. Michael narrates that when doing this, you should aim for an area with windows because there aren't any load-bearing beams there.
** The season 3 finale has Fiona drive her car through a small-time arms dealer's wall into his living room with the express intent of scaring the shit out of him.
* Seen in ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', complete with Chuck comprehensively mocking Casey's one-liner.
* In the pilot of ''Series/CommonLaw'', Wes drives his car through the window of a gas station where his partner is having a shoot-out with some robbers.
* This has happened multiple times on ''Series/CoronationStreet'', including a broken-down lorry crashing into a recently converted garage (and [[spoiler:exposing a dead body hidden in the concrete]]), and a Metrolink tram falling off a viaduct and into the local corner shop.
* In an episode of ''Series/CougarTown'', a car goes through Jules' office.
* Has happened in the past in ''Series/{{Coupling}}'':
-->'''Steve:''' What, in a relationship, is the worst thing to come through your front door?\\
'''Patrick:''' A Volkswagen.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' featured a variant where the car crashed into a restaurant and killed several people.
* On DIY Network's ''Disaster House'', a show all about doing horrible damage to a house before showing how to repair it, their last stunt saw them try to damage the house by placing a garbage truck on the roof. The truck weighed about 20 tons, and despite being lowered slowly on the roof by a crane, it fell clean through. Then an insurance agent told them the damage was ''so'' severe that it would be cheaper to just bulldoze the house and build a new one. This basically was the end of the series.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' minisode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2011RNDSSpaceAndTime Space]]", when Rory explains [[DrivesLikeCrazy how bad a driver Amy is]]:
-->'''Rory:''' I let her drive my car once.\\
'''Amy:''' Yeah, to the ''end of the road''.\\
'''Rory:''' Where, according to Amy, there was an unexpected house.
* In ''Series/{{Dog}}'', a burning car once drove into a cafe [[OffWithHisHead with a decapitated corpse inside]] in the main character's eyes.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' involved a car driving through the front wall of a restaurant.
* In ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', Andrew Klein pulls the rarer "on purpose" scenario to get back at his wife after she burned the notes he needed for an important business meeting.
* On ''Series/{{ER}}'', not two seconds after a pizza delivery guy calls the hospital to inform them that he's been shot and is driving himself in, his car crashes through the front doors of the hospital.
-->'''Tag:''' [[QuipToBlack Did somebody order a pizza?]]\\
''(Opening credits)''\\
'''Doug:''' ''[(To the desk clerk)'' Jerry, call security. Someone's in my spot.
* Seen in ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', as an aging Frank and Marie crash their car into Ray and Debra's living room, with the rest of the episode discussing how old is too old to still be driving. FridgeHorror sets in when you realize that the car flattened their couch -- where they had been sitting just seconds earlier.
* On an episode of ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' the group helps rebuild and repair the home of a family that had the living room and the front of the house destroyed after a drunk driver crashed into it. Ty's "special project" for the episode was to rebuild and restore an antique curio cabinet on the far side of the living room that was smashed by the car.
* Seen in ''Series/FamilyMatters'', after Eddie fails his driving test but takes a girl out for a drive anyway. A bread truck comes into his view, he panics, and he swerves right into his own house.
-->'''Carl:''' Harriette, '''[[NoIndoorVoice THERE IS A CAR IN THE LIVING ROOM!!!]]'''
* On ''Series/FullHouse'':
** In "[[Recap/FullHouseS3E20HoneyIBrokeTheHouse Honey, I Broke the House]]", a grade-school-age Stephanie drives Joey's car into the kitchen after deducing that the "R" on the gearshift must mean "Radio":
--->'''Michelle:''' There's a car in the kitchen!
** "[[Recap/FullHouseS7E02TheApartment The Apartment]]" has a cement truck backing up, again into the kitchen, spilling the wet cement all over.
** In ''Series/FullerHouse'' a now adult Stephanie drives Joey's ([[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute lookalike replacement]]) car into the kitchen. Her youngest nephew then caps off this riotous callback by delivering Michelle's line. Joey states he already has a third identical car waiting at home for him in Vegas, which he will '''not''' be bringing to San Francisco any time soon.
* On the ''Series/TheGoodGuys'', Dan drives a car through a wall in two episodes. Both times it was not going very fast, and the first time he placed a weight on the gas pedal so he would not be behind the wheel. He also only did it because Jack was about to get killed inside and he [[WeNeedADistraction needed a big distraction fast]].
* A ''Series/HappyDays'' episode has Marion forgetting to set her car's parking brake, causing it to roll down a hill and crash into Arnold's diner.
* The Season 7 finale of ''Series/{{House}}'' has [[spoiler:House driving his car into his ex-girlfriend/boss's house, all because of a bad breakup]]. Very definitely PlayedForDrama, and leads to [[spoiler:Cuddy's permanent departure from the show and House going to prison]]. The fallout from this stunt has a massive [[spoiler:negative impact on House for the rest of the series]].
* In ''Series/KnightRider'', Michael uses [[CoolCar KITT's]] Turbo boost to jump into an apartment building.
* In an episode of ''Series/LondonsBurning'', Vaseline is more interested in the couple kissing in his back seat than driving, and promptly crashes the car into someone's lounge.
-->'''Vaseline:''' [[DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo Did the earth move for you, too?!]]
* In ''Series/MiamiVice'', Tubbs busts a televangelist's wife as she's trying to buy drugs. She tries to drive away but smashes her Mercedes into a TV shop, where Tubbs sees her singing on TV.
* A skit on the [[TheFifties '50s]] comedy show ''Film/MyFavoriteYear'' sees a car crash deliberately through a paper wall.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', where the VictimOfTheWeek is a soldier who was killed when someone deliberately drove his car into a nightclub.
* In the ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' episode "Three-Handed Game", an amnesiac agent desperate to find his way back to Steep crashes his motorbike through the window of Steed's living room.
* ''Series/NightCourt'': In a first season episode, a tabloid reporter tried to find some dirt on Judge Harry Stone and uncovered evidence that he had a police record. Stone admitted that once as a teen he "knocked over a liquor store."
-->'''Liz Williams''': You mean armed robbery?\\
'''Harry''': No, I knocked it over. With a car.
%%* ''Series/NoahsArc'': [[spoiler:Chance does not take being cheated on by Eddie well.]]
* In the ''Series/OddSquad'' episode "Undercover Olive", Otto and Oscar, with the help of Orson (the driver), come to Olive's rescue by driving an ice cream van through the wall of the warehouse where the villains' RockPaperScissors competition is being held.
* In ''Series/{{Passions}}'', Ivy Crane drives her car through the front doors of the ''church'' to [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace stop the double wedding]] of Ethan, Theresa, Luis, and Sheridan.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': The first episode of Season 2 ends with Sabrina diverting a pair of trains to prevent them from colliding- only for one of them to end up crashing through the wall into the Spellman family living room, destroying the piano in the process.
* A subversion on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', as Estelle is pulling the car into the garage, where it belongs. But seeing as how Frank has set up his office there to sell computers, it has the same effect.
* A ''Series/SilverSpoons'' episode had Ricky crash into the mansion when his grandfather, played by John Houseman, gave him an illicit driving lesson. Houseman then had to explain himself to his horrified son.
-->'''Edward Stratton II:''' Those who can't do, teach. I can't... I taught... we crashed.
* Technically hotel instead of house, but done in ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' with new driver [[TheDitz London]].
* In the [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot pilot episode]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Sam rams the Impala into the abandoned home of the Woman In White. Dean was not pleased.
* One ''Series/ThankGodYoureHere'' scenario had the stand-up parachuted in as a yobbish driver who had just crashed through the wall of a house. This was the first episode where the contestant had to enter through somewhere other than the side doors; the catchphrase for that episode became "Thank God you're alive!" The flat he'd crashed into was supposed to be on ''the third floor'' -- sadly, the British version omitted this line from the broadcast, but the Australian version kept it intact.
* ''Series/TopGear'', being about idiots driving cars, has seen this happen on occasion:
** Jeremy Clarkson once did this without even driving -- he lost control of a car he was pushing and sent it into a small shed. No lasting harm was done, though Richard Hammond may have sprained something laughing.
** In another episode, they deliberately drove a Toyota Hilux through a shed as part of a series of tests to see how much abuse the truck could take before it stopped working. The collision didn't do any significant amount of damage.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' has Walden's ex-wife Bridget drive into his living room after she finds out he's seeing someone new.
* In ''Series/{{Wings}}'', Helen does this deliberately to Joe's office -- twice.
* Several such clips are featured on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'', usually a result of the offender being drunk or fleeing from the police. [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Or both.]]
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* Music/CWMcCall: The last verse of "Wolf Creek Pass" ends when the flatbed truck that [=McCall=]'s character is a passenger in, and which the driver has lost control of, crashes into the side of a feed store.
* In the Music/GarthBrooks song "Papa Loved Mama", this is how Papa killed Mama and her lover:
-->''The picture in the paper showed the scene real well;\\
Papa's rig was buried in the local motel.\\
The desk clerk said he saw it all real clear;\\
He never hit the brakes and he was shifting gears!''
* The Magnetic Fields song "Irma" ends with the title character's father driving his Jeep through the wall.
* Happens in the [[http://slugbug.sound-club.org/ Slugbug]] song ''Australia (Land of Magnets)'':
-->''When I tried to drive my car to get some food I backed into my living room, I'm in Australia!''
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* In Music/{{Pink}}'s "There You Go", the climax features her jumping off her motorcycle as it crashes into her ex-boyfriend's window, then she [[FlippingTheBird flips him off]] and rides away with her new man. It was her debut and successfully got the point across that she was ''not'' your older sister's pop star.
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* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** One old Muppet skit has Cookie Monster as a contestant on the game show "Beat the Time", where if he can think of three things that rhyme with "rain", he wins [[TrademarkFavoriteFood a cookie]]. It culminates in a train plowing right into the studio.
** In one "Kermit at Home" sketch, Oscar the Grouch installs a "Bus Stop" sign in Kermit the Frog's living room, which results in the Grouch Bus plowing its way to the newly minted bus stop.
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* In the 25th anniversary episode of ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'', in a spot intended to make fun of Tim Brooke-Taylor's {{sitcom}} career, Graeme and Bill drive straight into Tim's house in their efforts to recruit him.
-->"Funny! I never noticed that car before."
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* One of the pre-release videos for ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' features a [[FlyingCar flying garbage truck]] that crashed into the upper floor of a suburban house.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' has small buildings on many maps that you can drive straight through. Subverted on some maps, though, which mix them with indestructible buildings -- and there are no significant visual cues to let you distinguish between the two until you drive into or shoot one.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/ThinkBeforeYouThink'', Julia drives a car into building in a [[http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20100423-the-question flashback]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/AlfTales'' has Alf crash his car through Orbit Guard Headquarters.
-->'''Sergeant Staff:''' Look what you did to my building!\\
'''Alf:''' Look what your building did to my car!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode "Gazpacho!", Lemon drives a snail bus through the wall of an arboretum.
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'':
** In one episode, Gosalyn and Darkwing [[FreakyFridayFlip switching bodies]] leads to this happening.
** In "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E1DarklyDawnsTheDuck Darkly Dawns the Duck]]", [[CaptainCrash Launchpad]] crashes the Ratcatcher and a car through the walls of the prison and Gosalyn's orphanage, respectively.
* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'':
** In one episode, Timmy wishes to be the most wanted boy in the world, only for the bus driver to crash into his kitchen in a desperate bid for his attention.
** In another episode, Timmy's dad drives the station wagon into the living room:
--->"Hey, who moved the couch into the garage?"
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In one episode, a drunken Stewie crashes Brian's car into the front of [[LocalHangout The Drunken Clam]].
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E7ChickCancer Chick Cancer]]", a car crashes into [[{{Irony}} the Kool-Aid Man's house]], and the Kool-Aid Man suddenly realizes how annoying that is.
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E12ToLoveAndDieInDixie To Love and Die In Dixie]]", Peter and Brian crash their [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard General Lee-ized]] station wagon into the house provided by the Witness Protection Program.
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E3DaBoom Da Boom]]", Peter comments that he loves going to parties at other people's houses because he doesn't have to clean up after himself there. [[CutawayGag Cut to Peter]] driving intentionally into someone's house.
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E11NotAllDogsGoToHeaven Not All Dogs Go To Heaven]]", when word gets out that Brian is an atheist, he gets a brick through the window -- [[CrossesTheLineTwice followed by a car]].
--->'''Brian:''' I thought only he without sin could cast the first Prius.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** A de-aged Leela and Fry get into a hoverboat drag race with some mutants. Leela wins, but because of her small size, she can't reach the handbrake and ends up crashing into the mutant high school.
--->'''Teacher:''' ''([[UnusuallyUninterestingSight unperturbed]])'' That's detention.
** In one episode, Leela flies the Planet Express ship directly into a giant advertising screen -- exactly like she does in the show's opening credits. Fry comments that this is the second time this week she's done that.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss2E10 "Just Desserts"]] The Smith family do this with their mini-van-turned-supervillain-mobile chasing the girls and the professor throughout the Utonium house.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' "Benson Be Gone", Mordecai and Rigby do this with a limo, on the second story of the house, ''without a ramp''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryInc'' episode "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals", Principal Quinlan gets into her office by driving WesternAnimation/SpeedBuggy through the wall. Fortunately for her, it's a FeverDreamEpisode.
* Happens a few times in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud Rosebud]]", Homer refuses to return Mr. Burns' long-lost teddy bear and comments that [[TemptingFate they don't need Burns' money anymore, because they're already financially sound]]. Cue [[ScatterbrainedSenior Abe]] driving the car into their house.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS30E5BabyYouCantDriveMyCar Baby You Can't Drive My Car]]", Homer accidentally crashes his car into Burns' office.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E14MrSpritzGoesToWashington Mr. Spritz Goes To Washington]]", a ''plane'' crashes into the Simpsons' house.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E20ToSurveilWithLove To Surveil With Love]]", as Lisa preaches that no one should give in to stereotypes like "old people can't drive", Abe crashes into the school.
--->'''Abe:''' This building got in my way!
** A flashback in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E13TheOldManAndTheKey The Old Man and the Key]]" shows that Abe lost his license when he drove into a whale's tank at a marine theme park.
--->'''Abe:''' Is this the Dairy Queen?
** In one of the show's CrossoverPunchline {{Couch Gag}}s, WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty's spaceship crashes into the Simpsons household, killing the family in the process.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E9RealtyBites Realty Bites]]", Snake fights Homer to retake his car after it got auctioned off, and they lose track of where they are before they crash into the "Murder House", with Chief Wiggum, who was pursuing them, also crashing into it, destroying the house in the process.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E10GreyDawn Grey Dawn]]" was about the danger of elderly drivers and saw the boys chased through a house, serial-killer style, by a barrage of old people crashing their cars into the building. One of them shows up on the second floor.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [=SpongeBob=] does this practically every time he drives a boat outside the confines of the boating school. In one episode, when all the citizens of Bikini Bottom mysteriously disappear, [=SpongeBob=] makes his own driver's license and starts driving, crashing his boat into his own house several times.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' did this, naturally, with trains:
** In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E14ACloseShave A Close Shave]]", the troublesome trucks push Duck and cause him to crash into a barber shop.
** In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E18ThomasComesToBreakfast Thomas Comes To Breakfast]]", Thomas crashes into the stationmaster's house:
--->'''The stationmaster's wife:''' You miserable engine! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Just look what you've done to our breakfast!]] Now I shall have to cook some more!
* Brock Sampson from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has done this intentionally on more than one occasion. Hank did it once by accident, but while driving Brock's car.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* It's TruthInTelevision, but only to a point -- when this happens in RealLife, the consequences are serious and often deadly:
** In 2009, a driver in Nevada got drunk and [[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/27/nevada.car.crash.home/ tried to kill his ex-girlfriend]] and her new boyfriend this way. Unfortunately for him, he got the wrong house and landed his car on top of a couple who were sleeping in bed. Miraculously enough, the mattress was able to keep the car from crushing them, and their only injuries were burns from the engine.
** San Diego socialite Betty Broderick, after a bitter fight with her estranged husband -- who had sold their home without her knowledge or consent -- drove her car through the front door of the new home that he shared with his mistress. They wound up uninjured.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_raiding Ram raiding]] is a weaponized form of this trope where a robber deliberately crashes their car into a storefront, steals the merchandise, and drives right back out. Some storefronts have put up short concrete barricades or bollards on the sidewalk to prevent this from happening.
** An elderly woman in Northern Ireland had a [[http://irishpost.co.uk/elderly-irish-womans-lucky-escape-van-ploughs-back-window-house/ van plow into her kitchen window]]. She luckily escaped with only minor glass injuries.
** In 2018, a man in Dallas [[https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/09/05/police-say-pickup-intentionally-crashed-fox-4-studio drove his truck into the local Fox affiliate's building]], having previously loaded his truck with [[ConspiracyTheorist flyers detailing the conspiracy theories he wanted the media to share]]. Mercifully, no one was injured, and he was swiftly arrested.
* It can be even worse when it happens to trains:
** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment 1895 Montparnasse crash]] saw a steam locomotive plow into the main concourse of the Gare de Montparnasse in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}.
** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Pennsylvania_Railroad_train_wreck 1953 Pennsylvania Railroad trainwreck]] happened when a locomotive plowed into the main concourse of Union Station in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. Fortunately, no one was killed, although 43 people were injured (six seriously).
** In 1982, some teenagers threw a switch in New Jersey, sending a Conrail commuter train crashing into a factory, killing the engineer.
** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Hoboken_train_crash 2016 Hoboken train crash]] saw a UsefulNotes/NewJerseyTransit train, whose driver was asleep at the controls, back into the concourse of the Hoboken Terminal.
* But sometimes, when people don't get hurt (and sometimes [[AmusingInjuries even when they do]]), it's just funny enough to be News of the Weird:
** OlderThanRadio: This was how Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's prototype steam-driven car was involved in the very first recorded automobile accident in 1771. Despite the car's top speed being a whopping [[TheAllegedCar two miles per hour]], it was also big and unwieldy and managed to seriously damage a wall when it crashed through a French military building. The damage was probably even worse to Cugnot's reputation -- the French army declined to commission the prototype, and Cugnot eventually died broke and in exile.
** One car in Saxony, Germany crashed through the roof of a ''church'', seven meters above the ground, after flying for 37 meters.
** A 44-ton truck crashed into a house in Missoula, Montana, but no one was injured. The clip was shown in Britain on ''Police Stop! 7''.
** The Jordan's Furniture store in Natick, Massachusetts parodies the ''[[Film/TheBluesBrothers Blues Brothers]]'' example with a large animatronic [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans Mardi Gras]] attraction that includes a car popping through the wall.
** {{Subverted|trope}} in a [[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/car-on-roof-stolen-vehicle-lands-on-fresno-house-proof-is-in-the-picture/ particularly strange example]] emanating from [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Fresno, California]], in which a car gets involved in a wreck and winds up landing ''perfectly'' on the roof of an apartment building. Fresno being [[ButtMonkey Fresno]], the first question the locals had was whether the car was stolen. (It was.)
** This once happened to TheWhiteHouse itself -- in spite of the government having long since put up barricades to prevent this from happening, someone managed to do this anyway, drunkenly arriving from a late-night party. It happened to be [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-agents-investigated-for-late-night-car-accident-at-white-house/2015/03/11/9c853906-c7ff-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html the Secret Service]].
** The driver of a flatbed truck with a car on it was messing around with cell phones and drove off the road, sideswiped a house, and ended up in the backyard pool, as described [[https://loweringthebar.net/2009/08/driver-who-was-texting-and-talking-while-driving-ends-up-swimming.html here]].
** In 2008, after being told to turn down his music (and, he later claimed, hearing voices in his head), a man told police in Wichita, Kansas that he was going to drive his car into City Hall. Several hours later, [[https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/01/07/Car-drives-straight-through-City-Hall/23161199753059/ he made good]] [[https://youtu.be/YwAIO4FFL3E on his threat]], making it all the way through the building, ending up (fittingly) in the building's parking garage, where he was arrested. No one was injured.
* During a tour of England with Music/TheWho, Keith Moon and his driver arrived at a hotel in his Rolls Royce. They stopped out front and were unloading their bags when they were told they couldn't park there. Keith then drove the car right through the front of the hotel, up to the front desk. He then got out, tossed the keys to the shocked desk clerk, and asked "Could you have somebody park that, please?"
* One of the families who appeared on ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' had their old house crashed into by a car.
* Such stories appear on occasion on the web series ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou''. In fact, there was a time when "Car Meets Pizza Parlor" was common enough to inspire running gags and conspiracy theories.
* When Creator/{{Citytv}} Toronto was based at 299 Queen Street West in the early '90s, they embedded their original ''[=CityPulse=]'' [=LiveEye=] news truck (which at that point had been retired, then rescued after being accidentally sent to a scrapyard) into a wall (making it appear as though it was bursting out of the wall) as a work of art dubbed "[[{{Pun}} Breaking News]]". They even rigged it so the front wheels still spun. It's still there even today, though Creator/BellMedia redecoed it to bear [=CP24=] insignia ([=CP24=] being a 24-hour local news channel; CTV/Bell had to sell Citytv to Rogers but kept the rest of CHUM Limited, so they had to redeco it).
* The dramatic bus crash in Shipley, West Yorkshire in 2018. Just after noon, a First bus crashed full-on into an optician's shop front, to the point where it was over halfway inside. Amazingly the shopkeeper had gone out to lunch five minutes earlier and those on board the bus were unharmed (albeit shaken up). Naturally, once the shock had gone, it led to a lot of "Should have gone to Specsavers" jokes.
* In ''Airborne Armour'', about the glider-borne 6th Airborne Armour Regiment which fought in Normandy and the Rhine crossings, author Keith Flint writes of a case in 1943 when a glider carrying a (very small) tank crashed, hurling the tank into a house a hundred yards away. The tank - and its crew, riding inside! - survived.
* This is the reason why some people will hang a ball from a string attached to their garage's ceiling right over where their car's windshield will be in order to avert this trope.
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