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* 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, [=McMahon=], and the wild and crazy adventures they have along the way.
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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. 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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* Series/GoldRush: Each season opens with a type 1a trip that delivers the miners to their gold mine in the slowly thawing far north.
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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)
** 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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* Due to a blockade, Marcus and Dr. Franklin leave ''{{Series/Babylon 5}}'' and embark on a Type 2 on board a slow freighter to Mars in order to meet with LaResistance.
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* Due to a blockade, Marcus and Dr. Franklin leave ''{{Series/Babylon 5}}'' ''Series/BabylonFive'' and embark on a Type 2 on board a slow freighter to Mars in order to meet with LaResistance.
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* [[http://obstinatemelon.deviantart.com/gallery/25038206?offset=48#/d4iv06o page 271]] of FinalFantasyVIITheSevening has everyone pile into [[TheAllegedCar The Buggy]] and do stereotypical road trip things like suggest travel games, ask "are we there yet?" inscessantly, sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", and [[spoiler: get carsick]].
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* [[http://obstinatemelon.deviantart.com/gallery/25038206?offset=48#/d4iv06o page 271]] of FinalFantasyVIITheSevening ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'' has everyone pile into [[TheAllegedCar The Buggy]] and do stereotypical road trip things like suggest travel games, ask "are we there yet?" inscessantly, incessantly, sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", and [[spoiler: get carsick]].
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* ''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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* ''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.home.
* ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' had the three-part series finale "Dalmatian Vacation".
* ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' had the three-part series finale "Dalmatian Vacation".
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* 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.
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* One ''{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a. * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
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* One ''{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a. * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
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* [[http://obstinatemelon.deviantart.com/gallery/25038206?offset=48#/d4iv06o page 271]] of FinalFantasyVIITheSevening has everyone pile into [[TheAllegedCar The Buggy]] and do stereotypical road trip things like suggest travel games, ask "are we there yet?" inscessantly, sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", and [[spoiler: get carsick]].
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* The original ''[[BattlestarGalacticaClassic Battlestar Galactica]]'' sent crew members on Type 3 trips in a great many episodes. The [[BattlestarGalacticaReimagined reimagined]] series was a little more restrained about it.
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* The original ''[[BattlestarGalacticaClassic Battlestar Galactica]]'' ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}'' sent crew members on Type 3 trips in a great many episodes. The [[BattlestarGalacticaReimagined [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined reimagined]] series was a little more restrained about it.
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* ''{{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, but this troper can't remember where they went.
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* ''{{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, but this troper can't remember where they went.
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* ''{{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, but this troper can't remember where they went.
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** 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.]]
** 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.]]
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* Due to a blockade, Marcus and Dr. Franklin leave ''{{Series/Babylon5}}'' and embark on a Type 2 on board a slow freighter to Mars in order to meet with LaResistance.
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* ''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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* ''HomestarRunner'': ''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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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 and is the only one that features a Road Trip.
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* An early ''{{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.
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* An early ''{{Freefall}}'' ''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.
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The regular group is ''Always'' depicted as traveling. (Think Franchise/''StarTrek''.''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.
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* ''{{NCIS}}'': Members of the [=NCIS=] crew are on a Type 2 international flight when a body is discovered.
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* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Several different crew members took shuttles to get someplace the Enterprise wasn't going.
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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 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. 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 starship.[[CasualInterstellarTravel starship]]. Nobody in the regular group is depicted as being in control of the trip.
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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."
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* One ''{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a.
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* ''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. * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
* One ''{{Futurama}}'' episode, ''Bendin in the Wind'' where they follow Beck in a VW bus is a Type 1a. * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
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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." A series of ''[[SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episodes have this trope.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
* A series of ''[[SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episodes have this trope.
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* A series of ''[[SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episodes have this trope.
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* ''ChakonaSpace'': Plenty of [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar]] type 2 and 3 trips.
* ''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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* ''ElGoonishShive''s "Hammerchlorians" arc dedicates several pages to a Type 1a road trip.
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* ''ElGoonishShive''s ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''s "Hammerchlorians" arc dedicates several pages to a Type 1a road trip.
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* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has a Type 1a in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Insane Road Trip".]]
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* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has a Type 1a in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Insane Road Trip".]]
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** They've also gone on Type 2 ones.
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* ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Tyep 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
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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. 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.
Can and often does overlap with the VacationEpisode. Sometimes overlaps with BottleEpisode.
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 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 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 ''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.
Not to be confused with the ''RoadMovie''.
!!Episodic works featuring Road Trip Episodes:
[[AC: Anime And Manga]]
[[AC: Newspaper Comics]]
* {{Garfield}} and Jon (and sometimes Odie) go on Type 1a road trips occasionally.
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* Due to a blockade, Marcus and Dr. Franklin leave ''{{Series/Babylon5}}'' and embark on a Type 2 on board a slow freighter to Mars in order to meet with LaResistance.
* The original ''[[BattlestarGalacticaClassic Battlestar Galactica]]'' sent crew members on Type 3 trips in a great many episodes. The [[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.
* ''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.]]
* LittleHouseOnThePrairie: The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went multiple trips.
* ''{{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.
* ''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.
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* ''FamilyGuy'' seems to have gone on more than one with their "Road To..." episodes.
* 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.
* ''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]].
* ''{{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."
* ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Tyep 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
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* ''ElGoonishShive''s "Hammerchlorians" arc dedicates several pages to a Type 1a road trip.
* An early ''{{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.
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* ''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.
Can and often does overlap with the VacationEpisode. Sometimes overlaps with BottleEpisode.
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 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 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 ''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.
Not to be confused with the ''RoadMovie''.
!!Episodic works featuring Road Trip Episodes:
[[AC: Anime And Manga]]
[[AC: Newspaper Comics]]
* {{Garfield}} and Jon (and sometimes Odie) go on Type 1a road trips occasionally.
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* Due to a blockade, Marcus and Dr. Franklin leave ''{{Series/Babylon5}}'' and embark on a Type 2 on board a slow freighter to Mars in order to meet with LaResistance.
* The original ''[[BattlestarGalacticaClassic Battlestar Galactica]]'' sent crew members on Type 3 trips in a great many episodes. The [[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.
* ''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.]]
* LittleHouseOnThePrairie: The Ingalls family went on at least one Type 1a road trip, while the dad (Charles) went multiple trips.
* ''{{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.
* ''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.
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* ''FamilyGuy'' seems to have gone on more than one with their "Road To..." episodes.
* 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.
* ''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]].
* ''{{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."
* ''TinyToonAdventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' has Hamton's family take a Tyep 1a to [[SouvenirLand Happy World Land]], with Plucky tagging along. They take the monorail around one time, then go home.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]] may count as a Type 1a.
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* ''ElGoonishShive''s "Hammerchlorians" arc dedicates several pages to a Type 1a road trip.
* An early ''{{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.
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* ''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.
