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  • Driver: San Francisco has a ton of hilarious conversations when you shift into someone else's car. It would take far too long to list them all, though Tanner scaring a driver's ed instructor shitless (literally) is one of the highlights.
  • Driving lessons with Tanner!
    Passenger (seeing Tanner driving on the sidewalk): And this won't mean a fail in a test?
    Passenger: And this is safe, yes?
    Tanner: Of course. Look: No cars!

    Tanner (after wrecking the car): "Now the most important thing is to get out of the car before it explodes.
    Passenger: "Get out of the car... Before it explodes..." Got it! Tha—- *Boom*

    Passenger (upon seeing a drift): You know, I always thought the handbrake was there for parking.
    Tanner: Eh, common misconception.
  • In one mission, Tanner has to shift into a car low enough to drive under a truck so he can defuse a bomb under it.
    Tanner: Hey, remember when I said I always wanted to drive under a truck?
    Passenger: Uh... no?
    Tanner: That's okay. I don't, either!
  • Tanner doesn't like comic book geeks.
    Passenger: Your mom didn't want to get a ding on the car! She's going to be so disappointed.
    Tanner: I'm a middle-aged comic geek living with my mother. She's used to disappointment.
  • How about a collection of funny moments?
  • The Talk Like a Pirate car.
  • One passenger is a New Age mystic "positivity engineer" in the vein of The Secret. Some of the first words out of her mouth are "inner turmoil-monkey" and it only gets better from there, particularly when Tanner snarks back.
    Passenger: My inner dolphin is sending you good vibrations!
    Tanner: Mine's giving you the finger.
  • Really, the passengers that Tanner responds to are darn amusing, be it needing them to complete a Dare or happening to shift into the car to take for a spin. Including:
    • A passenger who dared Tanner ten dollars that she couldn't be scared and acts completely deadpan at everything you do.
    • A cop who's going through a sexual identity crisis while Tanner does his best to tune her(?) out.
    • A "reporter" in a taxi who narrates every action with dramatic and cliche exaggeration which annoys Tanner.
    • Shifting into a truck or other heavy vehicle with the passenger remarking it's "insurance scam Friday". If you didn't have a reason to crash into everything, you do now!
    • Finding Winona Clash, a trashy modern rock star that Tanner only half-liked one of her albums.
    • You can find a, according to Tanner, "beautiful" car whose passenger is a thug that needs to whack someone to cover the cost for it. "Beautiful" is in quotation because sometimes the car in question might be a 1968 Fiat Abarth 595 or something similarly vintage and unremarkable.
  • Even though requiring some effort due to the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 being prone to oversteer, in "Drive To Survive" mission, your passenger (and Joni's fiance) Sam has some pretty amusing lines while under the effects of the Congolese Dream Widow's bite, which sounds like he's high as a kite.
    Sam (At the beginning): So tired... *Yawn* Man, everything's gone all rainbow-blurry!

    Sam: So warm and fuzzy, curling up on a big ol' fuzzy bear's tummy... *Yawn* fuzzy-wuzzy...
    Tanner: No! Stay awake! It's a hungry grizzly! It's gonna eat you!
    Sam: What's gotten into you? And why is your head a big balloon?

    Sam: Joni, with your big balloon head - will you marry me?
    Tanner: With chunks of vomit down your front? You might want to save that questions for later.

    Sam (After Tanner crashed the Corvette Z06): That hurt, Joni!
    Tanner: That means you're still alive!
    Sam: I am TRYING to get some sleep here, Mrs. Balloon-head...

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