History Main / EmergencyTaxi

* In ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim 2,'' Jim would call a cab to exit a level when the plank-on-a-stone seesaw he usually uses breaks.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Quarantine}}'', you play as Drake Edgewater, who drives an emergency Hover-Taxi in KEMO City. Half the population has gone bonkers due to a drug in the city's water supply, and the rest are relying on being picked up by you just to survive. The majority of the gameplay consists of taking passengers where they need to go while killing as many enemies as possible along the way. Your cab can get blown up if it takes too much damage, though.

-->'''Garfield:''' Yeah I know you all picked "C." But if you want to go count the vote, get your own show.
** Garfield does this again to escape the Buddy Bears and their constant educational tidbit sprouting. It doesn't work, since one of the bears is driving the cab he's in (His driver's license is even place on the back of the driver's seat!)
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Him Diddle Riddle", one of the challenges is to defeat a large monster without superpowers. The girls do this by tripping the monster over, Buttercup calling a taxi which shows up just in time for the monster to land on it, and having the taxi drive the monster away.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Whenever you need a ride from Benny the cab, just stick out your thumb. Eddie Valiant does this involuntarily when he and Jessica escape from the Weasels (used as the page image).

* In ''TabletopGame/DontRestYourHead'', an anywhere-anytime taxi is one of the Madness Powers a character can develop. There's just always a cabbie nearby who will take you anywhere, getting you out of harm's way -- for a bizarre, arbitrary, and more often than not abstract fare.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has this done in-universe in an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon. When Scratchy finally catches Itchy and blows him up with more dynamite to eliminate a small town, he whistles for a cab to immediately escape the mouse's demise.

* ''WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs'' has a Gashouse Gorilla belt one of Bugs Bunny's pitches out of the ballpark, which would have won the game for the Gorillas. Zooming out of the park, Bugs hails a taxicab that stops immediately for him. "Follow that ball!" he directs. Subverted when the driver starts going the opposite way; the cabbie is another Gorilla. Bugs leaps out of the taxi, and catches a metro bus instead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Him Diddle Riddle", one of the challenges is to defeat a large monster without superpowers. The girls do this by tripping the monster over, Buttercup calling a taxi which shows up just in time for the monster to land on it, and having the taxi drive the monster away.

->'''Dolores:''' Now just go! Just go! Go! GO! GO!! ''GO!!!''

* ''WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs'' has a Gashouse Gorilla belt one of Bugs Bunny's pitches out of the ballpark, which would send the game into extra innings. Zooming out of the park, Bugs hails a taxicab that stops immediately for him. "Follow that ball!" he directs. Subverted when the driver starts going the opposite way; the cabbie is another Gorilla. Bugs leaps out of the taxi, and catches a metro bus instead.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''If you ever need a ride, just stick your thumb out'']]

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Whenever you need a ride from Benny the cab, just stick out your thumb. Eddie Valiant does this involuntarily when he and Jessica escape from the Weasels.

Things are getting crazy. Maybe you're being followed and tormented practically anywhere by the ImplacableMan, some fearsome creature, or something else. Maybe you set a bomb for that pursuer and need some way to get yourself out of there before [[HoistByHisOwnPetard you blow up along with the bomb.]] Whatever the situation, there is one word you can yell out to solve your problem:

Things are getting crazy. Maybe you're being followed and tormented piratically anywhere by the ImplacableMan, some fearsome creature, or something else. Maybe you set a bomb for that pursuer and need some way to get yourself out of there before [[HoistByHisOwnPetard you blow up along with the bomb.]] Whatever the situation, there is one word you can yell out to solve your problem:

Things are getting crazy. Maybe you're being followed and tormented piratically anywhere by the ImplacableMan, some fearsome creature, or something else. Maybe you set a bomb for that pursuer and need some way to get yourself out of there before [[Main/HoistByHisOwnPetard you blow up along with the bomb.]] Whatever the situation, there is one word you can yell out to solve your problem:

[[Main/TheTaxi TAXI!!!!!!]]

Just hope that [[Main/ImplacableMan the guy you're trying to get away from]] [[Main/NotMyDriver isn't the one driving the cab.]]

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}}'', this is one of the standard-issue "cartoony things." If you are in trouble or danger and need a taxi, no matter where you are, no matter what you're doing, raise your hand and yell the magic word and a vehicle will pull up immediately. Whether that vehicle is a taxicab, a tandem bicycle, or the USS Nimitz is up to the [[GameMaster Animator]]'s whim or a random table.

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