Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

The Road Trip Moment: En route to California for little Oli꧒ve’s beauty pageant, the Hoover family suffers a major setback when grandpa Edwin (Alan Arkin) dies.

Why It’s Crazy: The f🍷amily sneak his body out of the hospital, pile him into the va✨n and illegally transport his corpse over state lines to reach the pageant in time.

The Blues Brothers (1980)

The Road Trip Moment: On the road to reform their old blues group, Jake (John😼 Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) are pulled over for running a red light. When the trooper reali🌱ses Elwood’s license is suspended, the pair drive off with the cops in hot pursuit.

Why It’s Crazy: In a jam, the brothers opt for a direct way out of their predicament: by driving right t🏅hrough the midd💯le of a mall.

National Lampoons Vacation (1983)

The Road Trip Moment: During the Griswolds’ cross-country vacation to theme park Walley World, they pick up Ellen’s a🥀unt Edna and her dog, Di💛nky and stop for the night at a campground.

Why It’s Crazy: Clark (Chevy Chase) forgets to untie Dinky from the bumper - but only realises ho🔯urs later when a✤ passing cop spots the dog’s leash dangling from the rear of the car.

Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies (2004)

The Road Trip Moment: On their quest for the perfect boigah, Harold and Kumar indulge their charitable natures🦹 and pi🙈ck up a hitchhiker.

Why It’s Crazy: It’s Neil Patrick Harris. High-as-a-kite on ecstasy, whose in𒉰ebriated state means he has no charity - he steals their car while the pair are in a convenience store.

Road Trip (2000)

The Road Trip Moment: Josh (Breckin Meyer), E.L. (Seann William Scott), Rubin (Paulo Costanzo) and Kyle (DJ Qualls) hit a deadend when they approach a dilapidated bri🉐dge - meaning they’ll have to backtrack for hours, or attempt to fly over it...

Why It’s Crazy: 🌜They soar through the air, and land unharmed. The car however, is totalled. Any thoughts of auto repair quickly exit their minds as Josh’s trusty four-wheeler explodes.

Moving (1988)

The Road Trip Moment: On the road to their new life in Idaho, Arlo Pear (Richard Pryor) and his family look out from their trusty station wagon and spot Brad Williams the squeaky-clean young man they’d hired to drive Arlo’s Saab cross-coun♔try for them.

Why It’s Crazy: Brad is one of many personalities of the person they entrusted with the task of driving Arlo’s prid🌳e and joy. As he passes them by, the Pears look on in horror: the car has been vandalised, and behind the wheel sits Williams, dressed up like a deranged hooker.

The Sweetest Thing (2002)

The Road Trip Moment: During hꦓer upstate road trip with Courtney (Christina Applegate), a visit to a dingy loo for Christina (Cameron Diaz) quickly goes south as she attempts to unravel the mystery behind the hole in the toilet wall...

Why It’s Crazy: It’s a glory h♋ol꧟e. She puts her face up to a glory hole while an interested member pokes her in the eye.

Borat (2006)

The Road Trip Moment: During a trip round the States, Kazakh TV journalist, Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) and his producer Azamat (Ken Davitian) fling cash at a gaggle of cockroac⭕hes while spending an evening at a B&B.

Why It’s Crazy: The idiotic duo believe the cockroaches are in fact the Jewish couple who run the B&B after some sort of impossible ༒metamorphosis.

Bustin Loose (1981)

The Road Trip Moment: Convict Joe Braxton (Richard Pryor) wangles a deal with his parole officer, who forces him to drive a bunch of schoolkids cross-country. When th🌳eir buღs gets stuck in the mud, Joe gets out to survey the damage.

Why It’s Crazy: Rather bizarrely, he enlists a group of KKK clansmen, who happened t♚o be walking by, to help lift the vehicle back o𝓡nto the road.

Joy Ride (2001)

The Road Trip Moment: Two brothers, Lewis (Paul Walker) and Fuller (Steve Zahn) fool about on a ch꧂eap CB radio during their trip back home. Lewis’ high-pitched fl🦄irtations rouse the attention of a trucker, Rusty Nail, whom they genuinely fool into believing he’s a woman.

Continuing t♛he chuckles, they agree for Rusty to meet them at their motel - but give him the wrong room number as a prank.

Why It’s Crazy: “A bit of a laugh” with a guy who’s an absolute psychopath and things get murderous, fast. He brutally slaughters the innocent chap in the adjacent roomꦕ and begins his pursuit of the teens with a gritty determination.