# Need help ID'ing a (sitcom plot?) re: bad driving

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**Created:** [April 30, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-iding-a-sitcom-plot-re-bad-driving/785602 "2017-04-30T21:42:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![jrbor76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jrbor76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrbor76)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-iding-a-sitcom-plot-re-bad-driving/785602/1 "2017-04-30T21:42:30Z")

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… So this one’s been driving me batty for a couple of weeks now…

There was one show, I’m guessing a sitcom but could also have been a sketch comedy, probably from the 80s or maybe early 90s. One episode’s plot and/or B-plot involved these two characters. Character A needs to learn how to drive. Character B claims he (for simplicity’s sake, let’s assume they’re both hes) aced his driver’s exam and offers to teach Character A how to drive.

It turns out Character B is a bad driver. I mean, _really_ bad. As in, somewhere between gleefully incompetent and maniacally reckless. Needless to say, the lesson does _not_ go well for Character A.

The kicker at the end is, it turns out Character B took his driving test in a place so (small/backwards/isolated/etc.) that he couldn’t hit anything on the road, because there was literally _nothing to hit_.

I’m 99% sure this was a sitcom or sketch comedy (no way that would’ve been played for drama). It’ driving me bonkers (pardon the pun) that I can’t remember. Please help?

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-iding-a-sitcom-plot-re-bad-driving/785602/2 "2017-05-01T16:37:55Z")

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Well, there was [Toonces, the cat who could drive a car.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n1cqbvCpDg)