In tv and movies, When a person or object goes off crashing their way down to the bottom of a cliff and explodes impossibly, is that generally/implicitly a Michael Bay reference?
Or does Michael Bay just want me to think that
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Nah. All 70's car chase movies had ridiculous explosions too.
Yeah, it's been a common trope for years before Bay's heyday: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryCarIsAPinto
Is the Ford Pinto seriously from where all this shit originated??
Thats hilarious. Even when its not a car but something inert like a horse or someone on a bicycle?
No it isn't.
This was happening in movies and TV in the 40's and 50's, decades before the Pinto existed.
Indeed. The linked article calls it out as the trope namer, but that's very different from being the ur-example, which it's not.
In fact the comic at the top of the article is from 1937
Where explosion?