# Drive-through window scenes in movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2013, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872 "2013-02-20T09:45:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/1 "2013-02-20T09:45:26Z")
First one that comes to mind is Anthony Anderson in **Harold and Kumar**. Naturally, that leads to **Dude, Where’s My Car?** (“And den?”). Then there’s **American Beauty**. Any others? It has to be a scene at the window, though, not the front counter. ---
**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/2 "2013-02-20T10:51:44Z")
Charlie’s Angels has a short one with them ordering a lot of food and Drew Barrymore fixing the intercom. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/3 "2013-02-20T11:35:05Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > Charlie’s Angels has a short one with them ordering a lot of food and Drew Barrymore fixing the intercom. That is an excellent scene. Don’t Tell Mom the babysitter is Dead has two or three such scenes. There’s a Buffy episode in the early seasons with one. I want to say Killer Klowns From Outer space has one, but I’m not 100% sure. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/4 "2013-02-20T13:05:25Z")
If you’re also willing to accept drive-through scenes from TV shows, there’s [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8N800bP-R4) from the short-lived “Dana Carvey Show” (with Steve Carell). ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/5 "2013-02-20T14:45:47Z")
Wayne’s World has a memorable drive-through scene where Wayne purposely cuts out his voice repeatedly to give the order taker a hard time, implying that the intercom is malfunctioning, and then his order is repeated back to him flawlessly. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/6 "2013-02-20T14:48:37Z")
_Wayne’s World 2_ had one. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I think this is the gist of it: the cashier’s voice keeps cutting in and out on the crappy speaker, so Wayne decides to imitate it. He starts leaving out random syllables when he’s making his order. The cashier still manages to get the order down exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/7 "2013-02-20T14:49:41Z")
Nice simulpost! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/8 "2013-02-20T14:50:08Z")
_American Graffiti_ has a few. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kepler1571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/db5fbb/32.png) [@Kepler1571](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepler1571)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/9 "2013-02-20T15:02:39Z")
Drive Thru (2007) is an\* entire movie \*based around these scenes, with “Horny The Clown” offing teens in various unsavory ways. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/10 "2013-02-20T15:14:02Z")
in case you’re interested. here’s a drive thru prank from Youtube, where the car was apparently empty. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVrJ8DxECbg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVrJ8DxECbg) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/11 "2013-02-20T15:58:55Z")
_American Beauty_’s is a beaut, if I may coin a phrase. My wife and I have never stopped laughing over the innocuous “FREE NAPKINS!” sign in the background even though it has nothing to do with the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/12 "2013-02-20T17:09:22Z")
_Married to the Mob_ has Dean Stockwell addicted to a fast-food joint called Burger World, which almost proves to be his demise when Chris Isaak, as the drive-through attendant, comes out with guns blazing and shoots it out with Stockwell and his thugs in the parking lot. _Rings!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/13 "2013-02-20T17:15:32Z")
Home Fries, with Drew Barrymore. She’s a fast-food worker. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/14 "2013-02-20T17:19:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _American Graffiti_ has a few. 😉 Those were at a **drive-in** and the OP is looking for scenes at a **drive-thru** window. There aren’t any carhops at a drive-thru. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/15 "2013-02-20T17:29:04Z")
_Clerks 2_ - I don’t remember it well enough to know for certain if there are any drive-through-specific scenes, but it takes place at a fast food restaurant that definitely has a drive-through. _Menace II Society_ - Caine gets into a car in a drive-through lane and robs the driver (_and_ makes him buy him a double cheeseburger). ---
**Author:** ![sideshowkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5e9695/32.png) [@sideshowkar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sideshowkar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/16 "2013-02-20T17:38:49Z")
Lethal Weapon 2 - more the aftermath of going through the drive-thru than a scene taking place at one (although it does start there), ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/17 "2013-02-20T18:08:54Z")
Fandango… _“Give me three chili dogs and a malt.”_ ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/18 "2013-02-20T19:55:54Z")
_The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia_ had a funny scene with Sue Bob going through a Taco Bell drivethrough: Sue Bob: Yeah, gimme a quesadilla, the steak and cheese fajita only, with cheese and steak only… Taco Bell: We don’t have fajitas Sue Bob: You don’t have fiestas? Taco Bell: I’m sorry, could you repeat that? Sue Bob: Why’s it on your sign if you don’t have it? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/19 "2013-02-20T20:16:03Z")
I just saw a rerun of **How I Met Your Mother** where they flashbacked to when Marshal got the Fiero. His older brothers let him have it if picked up a coffee order form them, _naked_. Then they went ahead of him and bought out all the lids & trays. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872/20 "2013-02-20T20:34:18Z")
There’s [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf6hQWfRcyA) classic Beavis and Butthead episode. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-through-window-scenes-in-movies/650872.md?page=2)