If watching people getting unexpectedly hit by monstrous forms of mass transportation over and over again when I know it’s coming is wrong, then I don’t want to be watching whatever is right.
That’s my way of informing you that Pajiba’s resident super-cutting wizard, Harry Hanrahan, is back with another instant classic to go in his YouTube trophy case already occupied by The 160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes of All Time, The 100 Greatest Quotes from The Wire, and The Sean Bean Death Reel. I honestly did not realize getting hit by a bus in film and television was trope-y enough to fill up twelve plus minutes of supercutting action, but behold — it sure as hell is.
Favorites like Mean Girls, all the Final Destinations, seemingly everyone from from Lost, and — of course — Meet Joe Black included. Which means not all modes of transportation doing the surprise people smashing are strictly buses, but “Hit by an Assorted Vehicle” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Kinda/sorta NSFW-ish due to all the death by bus. Enjoy!
Consider me forever curious as to how the hell Harry researches and compiles all these clips.
Source: Pajiba
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“Consider me forever curious as to how the hell Harry researches and compiles all these clips.”
I think the imdb has a ‘hit by a bus’ tag for everything this happens in.
It takes a sick fuck to watch that whole thing nonstop.
As such a freak, and noting that not all of these were bus hits, I am disappointed in the lack of Jason Lee getting smashed by a fire truck in Enemy of the State.
For some reason, I kept thinking of this clip from Slackers in 2001:
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Also, do you ever notice that Hollywood seems to use the same old NYCT buses in every movie?
Robocop FTW
Now I have SEPTA as one more thing to be constantly terrified of.
Devon Sawa’s entire career got hit by a bus.
Good to know that the average city bus is typically driven by a murderer and / or has the same breaking distance as a landing 747.
My name is Ot-to. I like to get blot-to
Are buses now made without horns? Good god woman!
A little surprised they left out Ving Rhames in Pulp Fiction. It was a POV shot and everything. The Simpsons parodied that scene too. They could’ve tossed that in there too.
Hah, so great. I was impressed by some of the gore in a few of them. Particularly the first Supernatural one which was when things started to take of.
It SHOULD have ended with Ed Norton in Fight Club running out and just barely having the bus stop in time!
I never watched Supernatural but now seeing they have multiple entries in this video I think I made the right decision.
It’s amazing how many of those buses looked like cars, trucks & ambulances