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* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'': The {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} version has stages all over... [[ArtisticLicenseGeography what is probably supposed to be the United States.]]

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* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'': The {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} {{Platform/SNES}} version has stages all over... [[ArtisticLicenseGeography what is probably supposed to be the United States.]]
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* ''Fanfic/LuzAndHuntersRoadtripExtravaganza'' has two teenagers stranded in Texas, and having to go back to Connecticut in spite of having no money, no supplies and cheerfully loathing each other. HilarityEnsues.
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* ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' of course! The two women shoot a rapist and decide to flee the scene of the crime, and travel towards Mexico.

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* ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' of course! ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'': The two women shoot a rapist and decide to flee the scene of the crime, and travel towards Mexico.
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* ''Series/AntiquesRoadTrip'' is a much more subdued version of this trope. The series has two RealLife British antiques experts and {{auction}}eers driving a classic car around the UK over five legs (one per episode, though the CelebrityEdition reduces this to a single leg) to look for items to buy from different antiques stores in order to sell them at various auctions. While the experts do some silly lighthearted antics during their trip, it is a factual RealityTV series where the experts nevertheless maintain their professionalism on camera and the profit they make are always donated to charity at the end. If anything, the mood is more like a nice Sunday drive.

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* ''Series/AntiquesRoadTrip'' is a much more subdued version of this trope. The series has two RealLife British antiques experts and {{auction}}eers driving a classic car around the UK over five legs (one per episode, though the CelebrityEdition reduces this to a single leg) to look for items to buy from different antiques stores in order to sell them at various auctions. While the experts do some silly lighthearted antics during their trip, it is a factual RealityTV series where the experts nevertheless maintain their professionalism on camera camera, and the profit profits they make are always donated to charity at the end. If anything, the mood is more like a nice Sunday drive.
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* ''Series/AntiquesRoadTrip'' is a much more subdued version of this trope. The series has two RealLife British antiques experts and {{auction}}eers driving a classic car around the UK over five legs (one per episode, though the CelebrityEdition reduces this to a single leg) to look for items to buy from different antiques stores in order to sell them at various auctions. While the experts do some silly lighthearted antics during their trip, it is a factual RealityTV series where the experts nevertheless maintain their professionalism on camera and the profit they make are always donated to charity at the end. If anything, the mood is more like a nice Sunday drive.
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* ''Stalin's Nose'' by Rory Maclean has the author and his aunt (and her pet pig) taking a road trip in a [[TheAllegedCar Trabant]] through Eastern Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's also a journey into the past and the moral compromises needed to survive under fascism and communism.
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* The Trope Maker, as far as the "road movie" sub-genre is concerned, is ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight''. Claudette Colbert is a spoiled heiress who wants to escape her father's detectives and make her way from Florida to New York to get married. Clark Gable is the newspaper reporter who aids her in exchange for the scoop on her story. Naturally, romance ensues.

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* The Trope Maker, as far as the "road movie" sub-genre SubGenre is concerned, is ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight''. Claudette Colbert is a spoiled heiress who wants to escape her father's detectives and make her way from Florida to New York to get married. Clark Gable is the newspaper reporter who aids her in exchange for the scoop on her story. Naturally, romance ensues.
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* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': The [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas]] movie, ''Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!'' has this plot for Teddy and Amy, as during a planned flight to Palm Springs to visit Amy's parents for Christmas, the plane turns out to be overbooked, so Teddy volunteers to take a later flight in return for a free ticket, and Amy follows her refusing to let her daughter travel allow. However, when it turns out the next flight won't have them arrive until after Christmas, the two are forced to hitchhike by road to reunite with the rest of the family in time.

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* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': The [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas]] movie, ''Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!'' has this plot for Teddy and Amy, as during a planned flight to Palm Springs to visit Amy's parents for Christmas, the plane turns out to be overbooked, so Teddy volunteers to take a later flight in return for a free ticket, and Amy follows her refusing to let her daughter travel allow.alone. However, when it turns out the next flight won't have them arrive until after Christmas, the two are forced to hitchhike by road to reunite with the rest of the family in time.
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* The comedy ''Leaving Iowa'' contains a road trip within a road trip. As columnist Don Browning drives across the Midwest trying to find a suitable place for his father's ashes, he remembers the summer driving vacations that Dad would take them on with all their stresses, frustrations, and near-death experiences of trying to dodge semis while passing traffic. Dad's long-ago destination (Hannibal, Missouri) is never actually seen in the play; the trip itself and how it changes Don is the point.

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* The comedy ''Leaving Iowa'' ''Theatre/LeavingIowa'' contains a road trip within a road trip. As columnist Don Browning drives across the Midwest trying to find a suitable place for his father's ashes, he remembers the summer driving vacations that Dad would take them on with all their stresses, frustrations, and near-death experiences of trying to dodge semis while passing traffic. Dad's long-ago destination (Hannibal, Missouri) is never actually seen in the play; the trip itself and how it changes Don is the point.
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* In the summer of 2022, good friends and fellow YouTubers Ted Nivison and Eddy Burback set out to visit and eat at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA-bjpKvIw8&t=300s every single Rainforest Cafe]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7InqrH1TCI8 in the United States (and Canada)]]. One year later, in the summer of 2023, they set out on a second excursion, this time to visit every single [[Music/JimmyBuffett Margaritaville]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsb9T1g5nlE&t=1734s in the US]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9Oy2Jx2dM&t=138s&pp=ygUbZWRkeSBidXJiYWNrIG1hcmdhcml0YXZpbGxl and Canada]]. The two end up experiencing many of the classic road trip experiences, visiting bizarre and unique roadside attractions, dealing with car malfunctions, racing against the clock, and, in Eddy's case, [[Main/SanitySlippage slowly going mad]].
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* ''Film/PoeticJustice'': is about a hairdresser and a postal worker going on a trip from Los Angeles to Oakland alongside their two respective acquaintances. The trip ends up both destroying and creating relationships.
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* A portion of the plot in ''Literature/CigaretteGirl'' consists of Soeraja's sons, Tegar, Karim, and Lebas, travelling across Java in search of the whereabouts of the titular "cigarette girl".

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* A portion of the plot in ''Literature/CigaretteGirl'' consists of Soeraja's sons, Tegar, Karim, and Lebas, travelling across Java in search of the whereabouts of the titular "cigarette girl".
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* A portion of the plot in ''Literature/CigaretteGirl'' consists of Soeraja's sons, Tegar, Karim, and Lebas, travelling across Java in search of the whereabouts of the titular "cigarette girl".
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'' features a family going on a cross-country road trip to the main character's college when a robot apocalypse hits. The family spends the remainder of the movie fighting against said apocalypse.

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