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The Cannonball Run

  • The 20th Century Fox logo at the beginning of the film is derailed by a red Ferrari and a police car taking out the searchlights during a high-speed chase. As the Ferrari takes refuge in the "0", the police car stumbles around the structure, bumps the power out of the left searchlight and crashes into the one on the right, after which the Ferrari has a good laugh at its misfortune.
  • Dom DeLuise's ability to become a One-Man Army every time he becomes Captain Chaos, putting on a costume and everything. Once he does it while he's driving a car, and Burt can only stare at him in disbelief.
  • The Blind Driving bit with the stock car.
    Mel: I can't see shit, can you?
    Terry: No problem. No problem.
    [drives into a swimming pool]
  • After McClure meets the doctor that Prinzim manages to scrounge up to ride in the ambulance: "Never tell me where you found him!"
  • The battle with the biker gang is a riot of slapstick.
  • The entire concept of Roger Moore playing an eccentric rich guy who thinks he's Roger Moore. Not James Bond, mind you, just Roger Moore.
  • The two Lovely Angels drivers in the Lamborghini invoke I Have Boobs, You Must Obey! to weasel out of tickets. At one point it thoroughly fails when they start opening their suits a bit... Only to find an equally busty female patrol officer completely unfazed by the act.

Cannonball Run II

  • Mel and Terry go to Uncle Cal for a car. He shows up in a limo with a fake front seat and a chimp "driving". While they're trying to negotiate a car, Cal gets into a fight with the chimp...and loses.
    "Boys, I got one condition on your needs. I'm gonna give you the limo, but only if you take this hairy son of a bitch with you!"
  • The starting point of the race as the characters punch in their entry sheet and hit the road. One of the racers complains to the one in front of him telling him to hurry up. He insults back though the complainer has a monster truck for a car. You can pretty much can tell how that ends.
    • Bonus points: the driver whose car gets flattened is director Hal Needham.
  • The mobsters' inept (and rather cartoonish) attempts to snag the Prince. Including:
    • Pincher jaws mounted to a chase car that attach to the Roll's back bumper. Just drive up, hit the button, then slam on the brakes, stop, get out of the car and snatch them. Right? Well it could have worked if their own car hadn't broken in half in the process. "Maybe it only works on American cars, eh Tony?"
    • "Tony, is your seatbelt on?" [looks up and sees] "Ooooh nooo!" A bit of context: they're in a helicopter with a magnet that's powerful enough to "lift a Brinks' truck right off the street." While that's true, the helicopter they're flying doesn't quite have the lifting capacity needed to lift the Prince's heavy Rolls Royce off the road. Of course, the mobster flying the helicopter (while still learning how from a book) didn't take that into account and while they're stuck to the still-speeding Rolls' roof, a tunnel is looming ahead. No points for what follows.
    • A steel cable strung across the road that was meant to rip up the Rolls'. Um... Does ripping up the advertising billboard they strug the cable around count?
    • They did succeed in snatching the Prince on their final attempt thanks to some Genre Savvy on Tony's part. Namely, they have a beautiful woman flash him.
  • The fight scene with the racers vs the mobsters. One hilarious Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Though Captain Chaos can be a One-Man Army, Jackie Chan's big pal, Richard Kiel (yes, the guy that played Jaws in the 007 movies!) sends bad guys LITERALLY flying!
  • Seeing the orangutan flipping people off. Once to an old lady driver, and later to a mobster after slapping him down a flight of stairs during the big fight sequence!
  • McClure is pulled over by a police officer, and tries to explain why he has to keep going.
    McClure: There's been a nuclear accident. We're taking some contaminated material to Connecticut.
    Officer: Why Connecticut?
    McClure: *beat* They ran out.

Speed Zone!

  • Gus invites Lea and Margaret to his hotel room to continue their deal. After he gets out of the hot tub with a towel wrapped around his waist, Margaret's Fuzzbuster goes off.
    Margaret: That's weird. That only happens when there's cops. Say, sugar, whatcha got under there?
    Gus opens his towel and shows his crotch to them.
    Gus: Nothing.
    Lea: You're right about that.
  • Just after the race starts, we find out why Alec was writing down license plate numbers: to report the other racers. Then we have the actual reports:
    • First:
      Alec:(Texan accent) Hello, Virginia Highway Patrol? Uh, yessir. This is Largo Fleen out of Alexandria. I'd like to report a stolen car please. It's a Cadillac convertible. It's white. Kind of a Betty White.
    • Second:
      Alec:(grandmother voice) It's a red Fiero and he ran over my grandson!
    • Third:
      Alec:(housewife voice) It's a white Excalibur and all my wallpaper samples were in the back! Come on, officer! Live up to that badge!
    • Finally, Vic takes a try:
      Vic: The license plate is as follows: R-I-C-H. Uh, I think that spells "Rich.". Kids! With a "K"! For "kids".

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