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For the most part, the cast of a TV series is normally depicted in their home environment. It's usually their house or apartment, maybe the office. But, for this episode, they need to be someplace distant. Thus, they need to go on a Road Trip. The trip itself is important and needs to be part of the plot of the episode. Only one leg of the trip needs to be seen for this trope to apply. (Normally the focus is on the outbound trip, leaving home and going ''to'' the distant location, but the return trip could be just as interesting.) Bonus points should be given for showing both the inbound ''and'' outbound legs of the trip. Additional bonus points can also be given for showing what goes on at the far end of the road trip.
Can and often does overlap with the VacationEpisode. Sometimes overlaps with BottleEpisode.
The RoadTripEpisode has a feature length counterpart: the RoadMovie. The Road Movie is not a Road Trip Episode unless that one movie is part of a tightly networked series of films and is the only one that features a Road Trip.
Road Trips come in 3 main flavors:
!!Type 1: The Family Car
The most common type.
The group piles into a family sized vehicle and one of them is the driver, usually the owner. The vehicle in question need not be an actual car. Acceptable alternatives include boats, and horse-drawn carriages or wagons.
* Type 1a: The trip is a round-trip and is completed. The return trip need not be mentioned or seen.
* Type 1b: For whatever reason, they never arrive at the intended destination.
!!Type 2: Public Transportation
Only slightly less common than a Type 1.
The group travels to someplace truly distant. Trans-continental and trans-oceanic trips are common here. In a proper sci-fi setting, [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar trips]] are possible. The family car is usually only depicted as getting the group ''to'' the terminal. At the terminal, the group boards a train, a bus, an airplane, a ship or maybe even a [[CasualInterstellarTravel starship]]. Nobody in the regular group is depicted as being in control of the trip.
!!Type 3: The Alternate Transport
A rather rare type.
The regular group is ''Always'' depicted as traveling. (Think ''Franchise/StarTrek''.) The mode isn't terribly important here. What ''is'' important is that they have left the main transport and taken off in a smaller alternate for whatever reason. Might or might not involve a sub-plot.
!!Episodic works featuring Road Trip Episodes:
[[AC: FanFic]]
* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has a Type 1a in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Insane Road Trip".]]
* The WWE fanfic ''Grapefruits'' series of stories are crack-fics that combine 1a and 2. They deal with teams of superstars traveling to far-off locations in order to procure alcohol and porn magazines for Vince [=McMahon=], and the wild and crazy adventures they have along the way.
[[AC: NewspaperComics]]
* {{Garfield}} and Jon (and sometimes Odie) go on Type 1a road trips occasionally.
** They've also gone on Type 2 ones.
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* Due to a blockade, Marcus and Dr. Franklin leave ''Series/BabylonFive'' and embark on a Type 2 on board a slow freighter to Mars in order to meet with LaResistance.
* The original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'' sent crew members on Type 3 trips in a great many episodes. The [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined reimagined]] series was a little more restrained about it.
* An episode of ''TheDrewCareyShow'' has the main cast piling into the Buzz Beer van and travelling to New York in an attempt to sell the beer outside a baseball game.
* ''Series/GoldRush'': Each season opens with a type 1a trip that delivers the miners to their gold mine in the slowly thawing far north.
** A few low-grade secondary type 1a trips are undertaken during the course of the mining seasons in order to obtain more mining resources. (Loans, materials, machines and equipment)
* ''Series/ILoveLucy'' had a several-episode arc where Ricky got cast in a Hollywood movie, so Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred drive a Type 1a cross-country to get there, stopping in (in subsequent episodes) Ohio, Tennessee, Albuquerque (Ethel's hometown), before finally getting to Hollywood, where they meet (through several more episodes) tons of [[TheCameo Celebrity Cameos]].
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] this one. Because Harmon Rabb is a trained fighter pilot, he flies to ''Cuba'' in one episode. [[spoiler: He almost blows the actual mission.]]
** Another episode has Harm and Mac, on their first mission together, driving into the desert to find the people who [[spoiler: stole the US Constitution]]. Both are a bit cagey, as Harm can't help but notice that Mac [[IdenticalStranger looks just like a former lover of his who was murdered]], and because Mac knows that [[spoiler: the man who stole the Constitution is a family friend of hers.]]
** Yet another episode has Harm, Mac, and Budd driving a rental car to the site of their next case, due to there not being enough money in the budget to buy them plane tickets. On the way, they end up at a ''{{Series/Quantum Leap}}'' convention, complete with [[CreatorCameo Donald Bellisario addressing a group of fans.]]
* ''LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went on multiple trips.
* ''Series/TheLoveBoat'': In an interesting twist on the trope, the job of the regular cast was to facilitate type 2 trips for the guest stars.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Members of the [=NCIS=] crew are on a Type 2 international flight when a body is discovered.
* One episode of the British comedy ''OneFootInTheGrave'' had Victor and Margaret stuck inside their car in a traffic jam for the entire episode for a Type 1b.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Several Type 3s using the Starbug.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Several different crew members took shuttles to get someplace the Enterprise wasn't going.
* ''That70sShow'': The gang traveled out of town so the boys could check out a college.
[[AC: Radio]]
* ''{{Adventures in Odyssey}}'' has two mini-arcs involving road trips. One is Connie and Joanne going to Washington D.C., and another is Eugene and Bernard.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': "The Road Worrier" sees Daria and Jane take a road trip with Trent and Jesse to go to Alternapulooza. It ends up being a Type 1b, but Daria and Trent do get some "quality time".
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' seems to have gone on more than one with their "Road To..." episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': have gone on a variety of different Road Trips.
* One ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode aptly titled "Road Trip" is kind of a subversion of Type 1a: The entire episode takes place while the family is coming ''home'' from a road trip.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 2, with the Mane Six and Spike taking a trip by train to Appleloosa. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]] definitely counts as Type 1a, with Pinkie Pie tagging along on a trip with the Apple family to see a distant relative who might hold the key as to whether or not Pinkie really is a distant cousin of Applejack.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' features an episode where Bart and some of his friends take Type 1 in order to visit a world fair [[spoiler: that turns out to have closed years ago]].
** There's an episode when Homer takes Bart on a road trip to a motivational camp across the country due to incident in school and was on a "no fly list" in the airlines.
* A series of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' had the three-part series finale "Dalmatian Vacation".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', a simple delivery turned into one of these, much to Chowder's joy. Unfortunately, they were delivering explosive fruit.
* The third ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' MadeForTVMovie doubled as this when the titular hero and his friends had to travel cross-country to obtain three magic gems.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Thanks for the Crabapples, Guiseppe", where Ice King and some of his fellow wizards hop on a van and take a trip to Butt Mountain.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''s "Hammerchlorians" arc dedicates several pages to a Type 1a road trip.
* An early ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' arc had the crew of the ''[[WhatAPieceOfJunk Savage]] [[CoolStarship Chicken]]'' embarking on a Type 1a to an abandoned colony ship. It was technically a salvage mission, but Sam and Helix both called it a road trip.
* ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'': [[http://obstinatemelon.deviantart.com/gallery/25038206?offset=48#/d4iv06o Page 271]] has everyone pile into [[TheAllegedCar The Buggy]] and do stereotypical road trip things like suggest travel games, ask "are we there yet?" incessantly, sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", and [[spoiler: get carsick]].
* ''Webcomic/ZeusGodlyGoodtime'' uses this as backdrop for [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Zeus and Kratos]] to spend some father-son time together. Too bad the surprise-destination Zeus planned ends up being VideoGame/NintendoLand...
[[AC: Web Original]]
* ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'': Plenty of [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar]] type 2 and 3 trips.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail156.html "road trip"]], Strong Bad and the Cheat attempt to go on a Type 1a road trip, but end up getting locked in the car with no way to start it for the duration of the episode, turning it into a Type 1b.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' And ''that'' was our road trip. Or, more accurately our car trip, since we didn't go on any roads. Or, even more accurately, our car, since we didn't go on any trips either.
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Can and often does overlap with the VacationEpisode. Sometimes overlaps with BottleEpisode.
The RoadTripEpisode has a feature length counterpart: the RoadMovie. The Road Movie is not a Road Trip Episode unless that one movie is part of a tightly networked series of films and is the only one that features a Road Trip.
Road Trips come in 3 main flavors:
!!Type 1: The Family Car
The most common type.
The group piles into a family sized vehicle and one of them is the driver, usually the owner. The vehicle in question need not be an actual car. Acceptable alternatives include boats, and horse-drawn carriages or wagons.
* Type 1a: The trip is a round-trip and is completed. The return trip need not be mentioned or seen.
* Type 1b: For whatever reason, they never arrive at the intended destination.
!!Type 2: Public Transportation
Only slightly less common than a Type 1.
The group travels to someplace truly distant. Trans-continental and trans-oceanic trips are common here. In a proper sci-fi setting, [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar trips]] are possible. The family car is usually only depicted as getting the group ''to'' the terminal. At the terminal, the group boards a train, a bus, an airplane, a ship or maybe even a [[CasualInterstellarTravel starship]]. Nobody in the regular group is depicted as being in control of the trip.
!!Type 3: The Alternate Transport
A rather rare type.
The regular group is ''Always'' depicted as traveling. (Think ''Franchise/StarTrek''.) The mode isn't terribly important here. What ''is'' important is that they have left the main transport and taken off in a smaller alternate for whatever reason. Might or might not involve a sub-plot.
!!Episodic works featuring Road Trip Episodes:
[[AC: FanFic]]
* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has a Type 1a in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Insane Road Trip".]]
* The WWE fanfic ''Grapefruits'' series of stories are crack-fics that combine 1a and 2. They deal with teams of superstars traveling to far-off locations in order to procure alcohol and porn magazines for Vince [=McMahon=], and the wild and crazy adventures they have along the way.
[[AC: NewspaperComics]]
* {{Garfield}} and Jon (and sometimes Odie) go on Type 1a road trips occasionally.
** They've also gone on Type 2 ones.
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* Due to a blockade, Marcus and Dr. Franklin leave ''Series/BabylonFive'' and embark on a Type 2 on board a slow freighter to Mars in order to meet with LaResistance.
* The original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'' sent crew members on Type 3 trips in a great many episodes. The [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined reimagined]] series was a little more restrained about it.
* An episode of ''TheDrewCareyShow'' has the main cast piling into the Buzz Beer van and travelling to New York in an attempt to sell the beer outside a baseball game.
* ''Series/GoldRush'': Each season opens with a type 1a trip that delivers the miners to their gold mine in the slowly thawing far north.
** A few low-grade secondary type 1a trips are undertaken during the course of the mining seasons in order to obtain more mining resources. (Loans, materials, machines and equipment)
* ''Series/ILoveLucy'' had a several-episode arc where Ricky got cast in a Hollywood movie, so Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred drive a Type 1a cross-country to get there, stopping in (in subsequent episodes) Ohio, Tennessee, Albuquerque (Ethel's hometown), before finally getting to Hollywood, where they meet (through several more episodes) tons of [[TheCameo Celebrity Cameos]].
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] this one. Because Harmon Rabb is a trained fighter pilot, he flies to ''Cuba'' in one episode. [[spoiler: He almost blows the actual mission.]]
** Another episode has Harm and Mac, on their first mission together, driving into the desert to find the people who [[spoiler: stole the US Constitution]]. Both are a bit cagey, as Harm can't help but notice that Mac [[IdenticalStranger looks just like a former lover of his who was murdered]], and because Mac knows that [[spoiler: the man who stole the Constitution is a family friend of hers.]]
** Yet another episode has Harm, Mac, and Budd driving a rental car to the site of their next case, due to there not being enough money in the budget to buy them plane tickets. On the way, they end up at a ''{{Series/Quantum Leap}}'' convention, complete with [[CreatorCameo Donald Bellisario addressing a group of fans.]]
* ''LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went on multiple trips.
* ''Series/TheLoveBoat'': In an interesting twist on the trope, the job of the regular cast was to facilitate type 2 trips for the guest stars.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Members of the [=NCIS=] crew are on a Type 2 international flight when a body is discovered.
* One episode of the British comedy ''OneFootInTheGrave'' had Victor and Margaret stuck inside their car in a traffic jam for the entire episode for a Type 1b.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Several Type 3s using the Starbug.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Several different crew members took shuttles to get someplace the Enterprise wasn't going.
* ''That70sShow'': The gang traveled out of town so the boys could check out a college.
[[AC: Radio]]
* ''{{Adventures in Odyssey}}'' has two mini-arcs involving road trips. One is Connie and Joanne going to Washington D.C., and another is Eugene and Bernard.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': "The Road Worrier" sees Daria and Jane take a road trip with Trent and Jesse to go to Alternapulooza. It ends up being a Type 1b, but Daria and Trent do get some "quality time".
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' seems to have gone on more than one with their "Road To..." episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': have gone on a variety of different Road Trips.
* One ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode aptly titled "Road Trip" is kind of a subversion of Type 1a: The entire episode takes place while the family is coming ''home'' from a road trip.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 2, with the Mane Six and Spike taking a trip by train to Appleloosa. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]] definitely counts as Type 1a, with Pinkie Pie tagging along on a trip with the Apple family to see a distant relative who might hold the key as to whether or not Pinkie really is a distant cousin of Applejack.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' features an episode where Bart and some of his friends take Type 1 in order to visit a world fair [[spoiler: that turns out to have closed years ago]].
** There's an episode when Homer takes Bart on a road trip to a motivational camp across the country due to incident in school and was on a "no fly list" in the airlines.
* A series of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' had the three-part series finale "Dalmatian Vacation".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', a simple delivery turned into one of these, much to Chowder's joy. Unfortunately, they were delivering explosive fruit.
* The third ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' MadeForTVMovie doubled as this when the titular hero and his friends had to travel cross-country to obtain three magic gems.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Thanks for the Crabapples, Guiseppe", where Ice King and some of his fellow wizards hop on a van and take a trip to Butt Mountain.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''s "Hammerchlorians" arc dedicates several pages to a Type 1a road trip.
* An early ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' arc had the crew of the ''[[WhatAPieceOfJunk Savage]] [[CoolStarship Chicken]]'' embarking on a Type 1a to an abandoned colony ship. It was technically a salvage mission, but Sam and Helix both called it a road trip.
* ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'': [[http://obstinatemelon.deviantart.com/gallery/25038206?offset=48#/d4iv06o Page 271]] has everyone pile into [[TheAllegedCar The Buggy]] and do stereotypical road trip things like suggest travel games, ask "are we there yet?" incessantly, sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", and [[spoiler: get carsick]].
* ''Webcomic/ZeusGodlyGoodtime'' uses this as backdrop for [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Zeus and Kratos]] to spend some father-son time together. Too bad the surprise-destination Zeus planned ends up being VideoGame/NintendoLand...
[[AC: Web Original]]
* ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'': Plenty of [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar]] type 2 and 3 trips.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail156.html "road trip"]], Strong Bad and the Cheat attempt to go on a Type 1a road trip, but end up getting locked in the car with no way to start it for the duration of the episode, turning it into a Type 1b.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' And ''that'' was our road trip. Or, more accurately our car trip, since we didn't go on any roads. Or, even more accurately, our car, since we didn't go on any trips either.
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Can and often does overlap with the VacationEpisode. Sometimes overlaps with BottleEpisode.
The RoadTripEpisode has a feature length counterpart: the RoadMovie. The Road Movie is not a Road Trip Episode unless that one movie is part of a tightly networked series of films and is the only one that features a Road Trip.
Road Trips come in 3 main flavors:
!!Type 1: The Family Car
The most common type.
The group piles into a family sized vehicle and one of them is the driver, usually the owner. The vehicle in question need not be an actual car. Acceptable alternatives include boats, and horse-drawn carriages or wagons.
* Type 1a: The trip is a round-trip and is completed. The return trip need not be mentioned or seen.
* Type 1b: For whatever reason, they never arrive at the intended destination.
!!Type 2: Public Transportation
Only slightly less common than a Type 1.
The group travels to someplace truly distant. Trans-continental and trans-oceanic trips are common here. In a proper sci-fi setting, [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar trips]] are possible. The family car is usually only depicted as getting the group ''to'' the terminal. At the terminal, the group boards a train, a bus, an airplane, a ship or maybe even a [[CasualInterstellarTravel starship]]. Nobody in the regular group is depicted as being in control of the trip.
!!Type 3: The Alternate Transport
A rather rare type.
The regular group is ''Always'' depicted as traveling. (Think ''Franchise/StarTrek''.) The mode isn't terribly important here. What ''is'' important is that they have left the main transport and taken off in a smaller alternate for whatever reason. Might or might not involve a sub-plot.
!!Episodic works featuring Road Trip Episodes:
[[AC: FanFic]]
* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has a Type 1a in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Insane Road Trip".]]
* The WWE fanfic ''Grapefruits'' series of stories are crack-fics that combine 1a and 2. They deal with teams of superstars traveling to far-off locations in order to procure alcohol and porn magazines for Vince [=McMahon=], and the wild and crazy adventures they have along the way.
[[AC: NewspaperComics]]
* {{Garfield}} and Jon (and sometimes Odie) go on Type 1a road trips occasionally.
** They've also gone on Type 2 ones.
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* Due to a blockade, Marcus and Dr. Franklin leave ''Series/BabylonFive'' and embark on a Type 2 on board a slow freighter to Mars in order to meet with LaResistance.
* The original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'' sent crew members on Type 3 trips in a great many episodes. The [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined reimagined]] series was a little more restrained about it.
* An episode of ''TheDrewCareyShow'' has the main cast piling into the Buzz Beer van and travelling to New York in an attempt to sell the beer outside a baseball game.
* ''Series/GoldRush'': Each season opens with a type 1a trip that delivers the miners to their gold mine in the slowly thawing far north.
** A few low-grade secondary type 1a trips are undertaken during the course of the mining seasons in order to obtain more mining resources. (Loans, materials, machines and equipment)
* ''Series/ILoveLucy'' had a several-episode arc where Ricky got cast in a Hollywood movie, so Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred drive a Type 1a cross-country to get there, stopping in (in subsequent episodes) Ohio, Tennessee, Albuquerque (Ethel's hometown), before finally getting to Hollywood, where they meet (through several more episodes) tons of [[TheCameo Celebrity Cameos]].
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] this one. Because Harmon Rabb is a trained fighter pilot, he flies to ''Cuba'' in one episode. [[spoiler: He almost blows the actual mission.]]
** Another episode has Harm and Mac, on their first mission together, driving into the desert to find the people who [[spoiler: stole the US Constitution]]. Both are a bit cagey, as Harm can't help but notice that Mac [[IdenticalStranger looks just like a former lover of his who was murdered]], and because Mac knows that [[spoiler: the man who stole the Constitution is a family friend of hers.]]
** Yet another episode has Harm, Mac, and Budd driving a rental car to the site of their next case, due to there not being enough money in the budget to buy them plane tickets. On the way, they end up at a ''{{Series/Quantum Leap}}'' convention, complete with [[CreatorCameo Donald Bellisario addressing a group of fans.]]
* ''LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went on multiple trips.
* ''Series/TheLoveBoat'': In an interesting twist on the trope, the job of the regular cast was to facilitate type 2 trips for the guest stars.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Members of the [=NCIS=] crew are on a Type 2 international flight when a body is discovered.
* One episode of the British comedy ''OneFootInTheGrave'' had Victor and Margaret stuck inside their car in a traffic jam for the entire episode for a Type 1b.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Several Type 3s using the Starbug.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Several different crew members took shuttles to get someplace the Enterprise wasn't going.
* ''That70sShow'': The gang traveled out of town so the boys could check out a college.
[[AC: Radio]]
* ''{{Adventures in Odyssey}}'' has two mini-arcs involving road trips. One is Connie and Joanne going to Washington D.C., and another is Eugene and Bernard.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': "The Road Worrier" sees Daria and Jane take a road trip with Trent and Jesse to go to Alternapulooza. It ends up being a Type 1b, but Daria and Trent do get some "quality time".
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' seems to have gone on more than one with their "Road To..." episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': have gone on a variety of different Road Trips.
* One ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode aptly titled "Road Trip" is kind of a subversion of Type 1a: The entire episode takes place while the family is coming ''home'' from a road trip.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 2, with the Mane Six and Spike taking a trip by train to Appleloosa. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]] definitely counts as Type 1a, with Pinkie Pie tagging along on a trip with the Apple family to see a distant relative who might hold the key as to whether or not Pinkie really is a distant cousin of Applejack.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' features an episode where Bart and some of his friends take Type 1 in order to visit a world fair [[spoiler: that turns out to have closed years ago]].
** There's an episode when Homer takes Bart on a road trip to a motivational camp across the country due to incident in school and was on a "no fly list" in the airlines.
* A series of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' had the three-part series finale "Dalmatian Vacation".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', a simple delivery turned into one of these, much to Chowder's joy. Unfortunately, they were delivering explosive fruit.
* The third ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' MadeForTVMovie doubled as this when the titular hero and his friends had to travel cross-country to obtain three magic gems.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Thanks for the Crabapples, Guiseppe", where Ice King and some of his fellow wizards hop on a van and take a trip to Butt Mountain.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''s "Hammerchlorians" arc dedicates several pages to a Type 1a road trip.
* An early ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' arc had the crew of the ''[[WhatAPieceOfJunk Savage]] [[CoolStarship Chicken]]'' embarking on a Type 1a to an abandoned colony ship. It was technically a salvage mission, but Sam and Helix both called it a road trip.
* ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'': [[http://obstinatemelon.deviantart.com/gallery/25038206?offset=48#/d4iv06o Page 271]] has everyone pile into [[TheAllegedCar The Buggy]] and do stereotypical road trip things like suggest travel games, ask "are we there yet?" incessantly, sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", and [[spoiler: get carsick]].
* ''Webcomic/ZeusGodlyGoodtime'' uses this as backdrop for [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Zeus and Kratos]] to spend some father-son time together. Too bad the surprise-destination Zeus planned ends up being VideoGame/NintendoLand...
[[AC: Web Original]]
* ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'': Plenty of [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar]] type 2 and 3 trips.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail156.html "road trip"]], Strong Bad and the Cheat attempt to go on a Type 1a road trip, but end up getting locked in the car with no way to start it for the duration of the episode, turning it into a Type 1b.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' And ''that'' was our road trip. Or, more accurately our car trip, since we didn't go on any roads. Or, even more accurately, our car, since we didn't go on any trips either.
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For the most part, the cast of a TV series is normally depicted in their home environment. It's usually their house or apartment, maybe the office. But, for this episode, they need to be someplace distant. Thus, they need to go on a Road Trip. The trip itself is important and is normally part of the plot.
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For the most part, the cast of a TV series is normally depicted in their home environment. It's usually their house or apartment, maybe the office. But, for this episode, they need to be someplace distant. Thus, they need to go on a Road Trip. The trip itself is important and is normally needs to be part of the plot.plot of the episode. Only one leg of the trip needs to be seen for this trope to apply. (Normally the focus is on the outbound trip, leaving home and going ''to'' the distant location, but the return trip could be just as interesting.) Bonus points should be given for showing both the inbound ''and'' outbound legs of the trip. Additional bonus points can also be given for showing what goes on at the far end of the road trip.
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* ''ILoveLucy'' had a several-episode arc where Ricky got cast in a Hollywood movie, so Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred drive a Type 1a cross-country to get there, stopping in (in subsequent episodes) Ohio, Tennessee, Albuquerque (Ethel's hometown), before finally getting to Hollywood, where they meet (through several more episodes) tons of [[TheCameo Celebrity Cameos]].
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* ''ILoveLucy'' ''Series/ILoveLucy'' had a several-episode arc where Ricky got cast in a Hollywood movie, so Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred drive a Type 1a cross-country to get there, stopping in (in subsequent episodes) Ohio, Tennessee, Albuquerque (Ethel's hometown), before finally getting to Hollywood, where they meet (through several more episodes) tons of [[TheCameo Celebrity Cameos]].
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* ''{{Daria}}'': "The Road Worrier" sees Daria and Jane take a road trip with Trent and Jesse to go to Alternapulooza. It ends up being a Type 1b, but Daria and Trent do get some "quality time."
* ''FamilyGuy'' seems to have gone on more than one with their "Road To..." episodes.
* ''TheFlintstones'': have gone on a variety of different Road Trips.
* One ''{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a.
* The ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode aptly titled "Road Trip" is kind of a subversion of Type 1a: The entire episode takes place while the family is coming ''home'' from a road trip.
* ''FamilyGuy'' seems to have gone on more than one with their "Road To..." episodes.
* ''TheFlintstones'': have gone on a variety of different Road Trips.
* One ''{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a.
* The ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode aptly titled "Road Trip" is kind of a subversion of Type 1a: The entire episode takes place while the family is coming ''home'' from a road trip.
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* ''{{Daria}}'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': "The Road Worrier" sees Daria and Jane take a road trip with Trent and Jesse to go to Alternapulooza. It ends up being a Type 1b, but Daria and Trent do get some "quality time."
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*''FamilyGuy'' ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' seems to have gone on more than one with their "Road To..." episodes.
*''TheFlintstones'': ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': have gone on a variety of different Road Trips.
* One''{{Futurama}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a.
* The''PhineasAndFerb'' ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode aptly titled "Road Trip" is kind of a subversion of Type 1a: The entire episode takes place while the family is coming ''home'' from a road trip.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode where Bart and some of his friends take Type 1 in order to visit a world fair that turns out [[spoiler: to have closed years ago]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' features an episode where Bart and some of his friends take Type 1 in order to visit a world fair [[spoiler: that turns out [[spoiler: to have closed years ago]].
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* A series of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episodes have this trope.
* One of the subplots in ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* One of the subplots in ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
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* A series of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episodes have this trope.
* One of the subplots in ''TinyToonAdventures:''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* One of the subplots in ''TinyToonAdventures:
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* [[http://obstinatemelon.deviantart.com/gallery/25038206?offset=48#/d4iv06o page 271]] of ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'' has everyone pile into [[TheAllegedCar The Buggy]] and do stereotypical road trip things like suggest travel games, ask "are we there yet?" incessantly, sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", and [[spoiler: get carsick]].
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* ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'': [[http://obstinatemelon.deviantart.com/gallery/25038206?offset=48#/d4iv06o page Page 271]] of ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'' has everyone pile into [[TheAllegedCar The Buggy]] and do stereotypical road trip things like suggest travel games, ask "are we there yet?" incessantly, sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", and [[spoiler: get carsick]].
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* ''ChakonaSpace'': Plenty of [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar]] type 2 and 3 trips.
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* ''ChakonaSpace'': ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'': Plenty of [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar]] type 2 and 3 trips.
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In one episode, [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail156.html sbemail 156]], entitled 'Road Trip', Strong Bad and the Cheat attempt to go on a Type 1a road trip, but end up getting locked in the car with no way to start it for the duration of the episode, turning it into a Type 1b.
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In one episode, the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail156.html sbemail 156]], entitled 'Road Trip', "road trip"]], Strong Bad and the Cheat attempt to go on a Type 1a road trip, but end up getting locked in the car with no way to start it for the duration of the episode, turning it into a Type 1b.
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In one episode, [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail156.html sbemail 156]], entitled 'Road Trip', Strong Bad and the Cheat attempt to go on a Type 1a road trip, but end up getting locked in the car with no way to start it for the duration of the episode for a Type 1b.
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In one episode, [[http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail156.html sbemail 156]], entitled 'Road Trip', Strong Bad and the Cheat attempt to go on a Type 1a road trip, but end up getting locked in the car with no way to start it for the duration of the episode for episode, turning it into a Type 1b. 1b.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' And ''that'' was our road trip. Or, more accurately our car trip, since we didn't go on any roads. Or, even more accurately, our car, since we didn't go on any trips either.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' And ''that'' was our road trip. Or, more accurately our car trip, since we didn't go on any roads. Or, even more accurately, our car, since we didn't go on any trips either.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
* ''TheSimpsons'' episode where Bart and some of his friends take Type 1 in order to visit a world fair that turns out [[spoiler: to have closed years ago]].
* ''TheSimpsons'' episode where Bart and some of his friends take Type 1 in order to visit a world fair that turns out [[spoiler: to have closed years ago]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
2, with the Mane Six and Spike taking a trip by train to Appleloosa. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]] definitely counts as Type 1a, with Pinkie Pie tagging along on a trip with the Apple family to see a distant relative who might hold the key as to whether or not Pinkie really is a distant cousin of Applejack.
*''TheSimpsons'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode where Bart and some of his friends take Type 1 in order to visit a world fair that turns out [[spoiler: to have closed years ago]].
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* A series of ''[[SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episodes have this trope.
* ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
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* A series of ''[[SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episodes have this trope.
* One of the subplots in ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* One of the subplots in ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Type 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
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* The third ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' MadeForTvMovie doubled as this when the titular hero and his friends had to travel cross-country to obtain three magic gems.
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* The third ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' MadeForTvMovie MadeForTVMovie doubled as this when the titular hero and his friends had to travel cross-country to obtain three magic gems.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Thanks for the Crabapples, Guiseppe", where Ice King and some of his fellow wizards hop on a van and take a trip to Butt Mountain.
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* In one episode of WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}, a simple delivery turned into one of these, much to Chowder's joy. Unfortunately, they were delivering explosive fruit.
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* In one episode of WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}, ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', a simple delivery turned into one of these, much to Chowder's joy. Unfortunately, they were delivering explosive fruit.
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The group travels to someplace truly distant. Trans-continental and trans-oceanic trips are entirely possible and common here. The family car is usually only depicted as getting the group ''to'' the terminal. At the terminal, the group boards a train, a bus, an airplane, or maybe even a [[CasualInterstellarTravel starship]]. Nobody in the regular group is depicted as being in control of the trip.
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The group travels to someplace truly distant. Trans-continental and trans-oceanic trips are entirely possible and common here.here. In a proper sci-fi setting, [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar trips]] are possible. The family car is usually only depicted as getting the group ''to'' the terminal. At the terminal, the group boards a train, a bus, an airplane, a ship or maybe even a [[CasualInterstellarTravel starship]]. Nobody in the regular group is depicted as being in control of the trip.
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** A few low-grade secondary trips are undertaken during the course of the mining seasons in order to obtain more mining resources. (Loans, materials, machines and equipment)
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** A few low-grade secondary type 1a trips are undertaken during the course of the mining seasons in order to obtain more mining resources. (Loans, materials, machines and equipment)
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* ''LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went multiple trips.
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* ''LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went on multiple trips.trips.
* ''Series/TheLoveBoat'': In an interesting twist on the trope, the job of the regular cast was to facilitate type 2 trips for the guest stars.
* ''Series/TheLoveBoat'': In an interesting twist on the trope, the job of the regular cast was to facilitate type 2 trips for the guest stars.
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* In one episode of WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}, a simple delivery turned into one of these, much to Chowder's joy. Unfortunately, they were delivering explosive fruit.
* The third ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' MadeForTvMovie doubled as this when the titular hero and his friends had to travel cross-country to obtain three magic gems.
* The third ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' MadeForTvMovie doubled as this when the titular hero and his friends had to travel cross-country to obtain three magic gems.
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* ''ILoveLucy'' had a several-episode arc where Ricky got cast in a Hollywood movie, so Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred drive a Type 1a cross-country to get there, stopping in (in subsequent episodes) Ohio, Tennessee, Albuquerque (Ethel's hometown), before finally getting to Hollywood, where they meet (through several more episodes) tons of {{Celebrity Cameo}}s.
* ''{{JAG}}'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] this one. Because Harmon Rabb is a trained fighter pilot, he flies to ''Cuba'' in one episode. [[spoiler: He almost blows the actual mission.]]
* ''{{JAG}}'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] this one. Because Harmon Rabb is a trained fighter pilot, he flies to ''Cuba'' in one episode. [[spoiler: He almost blows the actual mission.]]
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* ''ILoveLucy'' had a several-episode arc where Ricky got cast in a Hollywood movie, so Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred drive a Type 1a cross-country to get there, stopping in (in subsequent episodes) Ohio, Tennessee, Albuquerque (Ethel's hometown), before finally getting to Hollywood, where they meet (through several more episodes) tons of {{Celebrity Cameo}}s.[[TheCameo Celebrity Cameos]].
*''{{JAG}}'' ''Series/{{JAG}}'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] this one. Because Harmon Rabb is a trained fighter pilot, he flies to ''Cuba'' in one episode. [[spoiler: He almost blows the actual mission.]]
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** There's an episode when Homer takes Bart on a road trip to a motivational camp across the country due to incident in school and was on a "no fly list" in the airlines.
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* LittleHouseOnThePrairie: The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went multiple trips.
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* LittleHouseOnThePrairie: ''LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went multiple trips.
