In Fiction
The 1993 film Cop and a Half portrays a boy on a ride-along, who witnesses a murder.
The TV Series Friends has an episode entitled The One with the Ride-Along where Chandler, Joey, and Ross go on a ride-along with Phoebe's then-boyfriend Gary, who was a cop.
In The Simpsons episode Separate Vocations, Bart Simpson goes on a ride-along with Springfield police officers Eddie and Lou.
An episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, The Ride-Along, involves Ray going on a ride-along with his cop brother, Robert.
In the 2009 film Observe and Report, Ronnie Barnhardt, Seth Rogen's character, goes on a ride-along.
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“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
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