History Main / TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot

* ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'': Past films showed hyperspace travel ranges from hours to days if not longer. Here, most of the film takes place over sixteen hours with ships having to cross the galaxy in moments.

* ''Film/SuperTroopers'' has Farva running to join the local cops before the climax of the movie. It takes him forever to do this, but it's necessary because he needs to miss the scene where the team figures out what's going on. By the time Farva arrives, he's missed the info that the local cops are the the ones helping smuggle the pot. The amount of screen time totals about 2 and a half minutes with one cut, possibly with a gap of another minute. Farva handwaves this by saying he was securing the perimeter. It's lampshaded in the commentary that the perimeter isn't very big and he was jogging, so it should have taken half the time.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** In ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', the Nexus goes as fast as it needs to to be relevant to the plot. This means travelling at impulse in the opening then jumping to warp so it can move between solar systems almost as fast as the ''Enterprise''.
** In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', the ''Enterprise''-E travels from the Romulan Neutral Zone to Earth to aid in a battle between Starfleet and a Borg Cube. Depending on what part of the Zone they were patrolling, this would require crossing a substantial portion of Federation space in a very short time. Granted, they were late getting there....
** In ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', Shinzon's ship is going to be able to travel from Romulus (presumably deep in the Beta Quadrant) in roughly two days--still an amount of time that is bizarrely short when compared to travel times mentioned in the TNG TV series--which means that either the ''Enterprise''-E travels at the speed of plot or the Romulan Empire is so large that traveling from its capital to its edge requires at least 40 more hours than getting from the Neutral Zone to Earth.
** Used in J.J. Abrams' ''Film/StarTrek2009'', when the U.S.S. Enterprise -- which is over [[BiggerIsBetter three times bigger]] than the original -- seemingly takes only three minutes to go from Earth to Vulcan. However, the sequence actually takes significantly longer than it appears to, since Kirk wakes up from being knocked out by a sedative after mere moments of screen time, in which [=McCoy=] has had time to change his uniform. WordOfGod is that the editing deliberately glossed over the passage of time to create the illusion of a real-time immersive experience.
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** This extends to the sequel; the crew travels to the Klingon homeworld, partway in the ''Enterprise'', and partway in a small ship. The sequence lasts several minutes, despite ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' stating that Qo'nos was four days away at warp 4.5. The real-life equivalent star system, Omega Leonis, is 112 lightyears away.
*** A smaller scale example: Kirk, Spock and Uhura leave the cockpit to take a smaller ship down to the surface of Qo'nos, leaving Sulu as Acting Captain. As soon as Sulu starts speaking to inform the crew of this, just a few seconds after the aforementioned three left the room, the camera cuts back to them to reveal they've already changed clothes and are about to get on the smaller ship.
** J.J. Abrams has handwaves the faster ships by saying that the shuttles that evacuated the Kelvin, scanned Nero's ship from the future. Then Federation scientists studied the scans and made the technology standard.
** Tie-in comics show characters going to the Delta Quadrant and back in a short amount of time. In the [=TV=] shows, this would take over a century.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'':
** The Black Pearl is the fastest ship in the Caribbean, and the ghost pirates are suffering from a horrible curse. So after they abduct Elizabeth Swan, mistaking her for the one they need to break the curse, they would presumably head straight back to Isla de Muerta to do just that. Meanwhile, Will Turner wakes up the next day and, after an unsuccessful conversation with Norrington, breaks Jack Sparrow out of prison. The two steal a ship and sail for Tortuga where they recruit a crew. Then they proceed to Isla de Muerta. Despite what must have been a considerable detour and at least a few days head-start for a ship which is expressly faster than their own, Will and Jack still arrive at Isla de Muerta within hours of the ghost pirates at most. Perhaps the ghost pirates aren't in quite the hurry we would expect. Or perhaps it's a never-referenced-before-or-after ability of Jack's magic compass.
** Happens again after Jack and Elizabeth are marooned. With Will in custody, the pirates now have the real person they need. Yet Jack and Elizabeth spend the night on the island before being rescued by the Royal Navy. With Jack's navigation they reach Isla de Muerta, and again it's before the ceremony has started.
* [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. Luke and the crew of the Millennium Falcon leave Hoth at about the same time. Luke does a hyperspace jump to Dagobah to go meet Yoda. The Falcon, whose hyperdrive malfunctions, tries to evade Imperial forces in a nearby asteroid field. WordOfGod states that the Falcon's trip from Hoth to Bespin took several months because of the aforementioned issues, giving Luke enough time to get a crash course in Jedi training and arrive on Bespin at roughly the same time as them.
* In ''Film/{{Willow}}'', the villain's climactic ritual seems to take weeks. We see her chanting and pouring magical potions, while the heroes gather their forces, march overland to her castle, dig fairly deep trenches... she doesn't seem to sleep, eat, or do anything else for what must be rather a long period of time.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Diana and Trevor leave Themyscira for London, crossing the Mediterranean Sea on a small boat. It's not mentioned how long the trip took place, but it takes the difference of two scenes in the movie. Steve mentions that they got lucky and were able to hitch a ride on a presumably-faster boat. Also they didn't stay awake to keep the boat on-course, suggesting that it's magical, and can move faster than it should be able to.
* ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'': The cargo ship gets from Isle Nublar, somewhere off the coast of Costa Rica, to somewhere in Northern California in a single night. That's a journey of roughly four thousand miles in a vessel that has a maximum speed of about 45 mph (which it can't maintain for long periods of time) in less than 12 hours. Even if they could have sustained that speed, it should have taken roughly four days plus the time it would have taken to actually get the ship unloaded (a lengthy process even if they'd bribed everyone involved to expedite things and not ask questions), plus the time required to get the dinosaurs from whatever dock they used to the remote mansion where the final act was set.

* ''Film/PulpFiction'': "That's thirty minutes away. [[InvokedTrope I'll be there in ten]]." Though Mr. Wolf is noted for driving very fast - the thirty minute estimate probably reflects a normal, law-abiding driver's time.
* Combined with a TravelMontage in ''Film/TheMuppets''' "Travel by Map" sequence.
* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' (1981). While Perseus is returning to Joppa on Pegasus, he's shown passing over mountain ranges a long way from the sea. Even though he's clearly not traveling fast enough to get to the seashore in time, he does so anyway.
* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'': The Autobots go from Giza, Egypt to Petra, Jordan and back in what seems to be a few minutes at most. Even apart from the substantial distances involved, this would involve crossing into and out of Israel four different times, which would probably not be the quickest endeavor for a platoon of unlicensed vehicles.
* In ''[[Film/StargateTheArkOfTruth Stargate: The Ark of Truth]]'', the time on the spaceship fighting the replicators seems to take less than a day, however Teal'c goes on an epic journey through mountains on foot in that same span of time.
* In preparation for the climax of ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', Lawrence, Gwen, and Inspector Aberline all travel from London to the village, leaving at roughly the same time. Lawrence is on foot and seems to be keeping away from the roads. Gwen is on horseback. Aberline is in a horse-drawn carriage with several other policemen. They all arrive on the same day.

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Harry manages to get from his home in England to a church in the United States quickly enough that A. Eggsy is still hanging around and checking Harry's laptop, and B. Harry expects to be back soon to continue a conversation. Apparently the Kingsmen have a ''really'' quick way to get around.
* ''Film/FreddyVsJason'': Canonically, Springwood is a town in Ohio, and Camp Crystal Lake is in New Jersey. The protagonists drive from one to the other in about an hour.
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': When we see the various [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] awaken, their locations are given, with Methuselah in Munich, Scylla in Arizona, Behemoth in Rio de Janeiro, and a new female [=MUTO=], which WordOfGod states was underneath Hoboken. Despite originating thousands of miles apart, [[spoiler:they all make it to Boston at the exact same time.]]

* The flight in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' is supposedly only taking one night, but somehow newspapers and TV newscasters are reporting on it quickly. [[MST3KMantra Given that the film's a parody, it's best not to overthink it]].
* This frequently happens in the ''Film/LordOfTheRings'' films, due to squashing down the events of the books (which followed a fairly realistic schedule for the journeys and distances involved, with events regularly being separated by days or weeks). One of the weirdest is the film addition of the Marchwardens at Helm's Deep, which arrive right before the battle; going by maps of Middle-Earth, that means they had to march around 300 miles on foot in a single day.

*** Usually justified in that the TARDIS is sentient and almost certainly doing this on purpose. This is made explicit in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]'':

** ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]'': The Weeping Angels are said to be ''extremely'' fast, but they sure can take their time sneaking up on people when [[CantMoveWhileBeingWatched no one's watching]]. Some of it can likely be explained by the fact that the Angels are psychopaths who like to mess with their victims. And some of it can be explained by the fact that, in this episode, the Angels can't move when [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the audience is looking at them]], either.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' had the Green Lantern travel at varying speeds. Sometimes he could fly fast enough to approach light speed and other times he flew about as fast as Batman ran. It wouldn't be so bothersome if it weren't for the fact that when he was flying at the slow speeds he would get captured, even though he could've outrun his would be captors.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', as also noted on ItIsAlwaysSpring. The last season was particularly notable for this as in the first half, it took a while for them to travel to the rendezvous point, with Sokka constantly complaining about all the detours cutting into their travel time [[note]]They get there 4 days early anyway[[/note]]. In the last 4 episodes though, they travel from the Fire Nation to the Earth Kingdom and back again in less than 3 days. In the first season it was a bit more justified since they flew everywhere and the timescale was a lot less defined, but that just made the way Zuko easily kept pace in an obsolete steamship which was explicitly slower than them stand out.
** Later in ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' Book 2, Korra and friends manage to travel by ship from Republic City, which is located in the northern regions of the Earth Kingdom Continent, all the way to the South Pole in just under the 3 day time limit.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', the Autobots can travel to anywhere in the world in an hour from their Cascades headquarters. Memorable destinations include the Congo, India, New York, France and ''Antarctica''. How a bunch of cars got to the middle of Africa in an hour is anyone's guess.
** This trop is averted in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' with the use of the Ground Bridge.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The [[CoolShip Planet Express Ship]] can travel to the edge of the universe and back in a week, which should make any trip in the Milky Way trivially short, yet they are shown to take days whenever convenient for the plot.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' and Ron Stoppable travel across the world by calling in favors with people they have helped in the past, while always arriving at the villains' lair in the nick of time and returning home in time to resume their [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld mundane activities]]; they are late only when that episode plot requires it. Used specially in [[TheMovie The (First) Movie]] where Ron Stoppable traveled independently from Norway to America, Australia and Africa; it was a plot point for him to be late to the action until the last location. The plot was kind of on the ball in this case, as Africa is a shorter trip from Norway than from the US, even accounting for the speed difference.

* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' indicates it takes Zim six months to get from the planet Conventia to Earth. All other trips into space, however, seem to go more quickly: for example, Foodcourtia is only ''three days'' away. Either Conventia is ''waaaaay'' out there on the far border of Irken space, or the first episode's time [[RuleOfFunny was just to torture Zim with six months of]] "[[MemeticMutation The Doom Song]]."
** In another episode Zim is shown to be enduring Gir's messing around with base's computer for a ''year'' - it's a RunningGag. Another one: Sizz-Lorr mentions 20 years of being trapped on Foodcourtia after Zim runs away, but Zim's mission lasted no longer than few years. It got [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with time-warp-thing. To sum it up, Sizz-Lorr did 20 years in about 2 or so.
* In the WesternAnimation/{{Leapfrog}} educational release ''Math Adventure to the Moon'', Leap, Lily and Edison board a rocket bound for the moon. The entire point of this DVD is to teach kids about counting and math, so the rocket has a speed gauge with 1 being the slowest speed and 10 being the highest. As the two learn to count by 2s, then 5s, then 10s, the gauge keeps getting replaced with greater numbers, finally going up to a 100. Tad orders it to slow down and the computer says that cruising speed has been achieved. It then says that the moon is [[TheMetricSystemIsHereToStay 93,000 kilometers]]... behind them. They've overshot.
* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''
** Played straight during the "A Family Holiday" episode. There ware two scenes happening simultaneously (we know because there is radio contact between the two). Holiday gets in trouble, so Six orders rex to fly him there. "But that's a hundred miles away!" They make it in about twenty-five seconds. That's four miles a second (or Rex messed up the distance). And that's using a ''jetpack.'' Rex might be made of Iron, but Six...well, he still seems to be, even if he is supposedly a normal human.
** Complicated by the earlier episode Payback, where Rex was using the jetpack to try to catch Van Kliess, who was flying away on his whale-blimp EVO. Rex pushes himself to keep up, while VK is only about a mile head of him at most and not moving much faster than the average car, so we know it's this trope.
* The time it takes to travel between Ponyville and Canterlot in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' seems to vary depending on the plot. It can range from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 a five-minute walk]] to [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress a one-day train ride]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso'', whether Oso is halfway across the country or on the moon, you can be sure that as soon as he's informed of a child in trouble, he will arrive in time to help that child before it's too late, then return in time to finish his training exercise without inconveniencing anyone.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Samurai Jack}}'': In ''[=XCVII=]'', Ashi spends the entire episode wondering around in numerous places searching for Jack and comes across many of the people he helped in previous episode. The setting even changes to night in the climax and Ashi is still nowhere near finding Jack. Yet she still arrives at the cemetery just in time to prevent Jack from committing {{Seppuku}}.
** FridgeBrilliance sets in when you realize that seppuku is meant to be performed in front of spectators. When Ashi finally does show up, the Omen tells her she will be a witness to Jack's suicide, thus it's likely that Jack was waiting for Ashi to find him.

* Distance and even reality are never barriers for the ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'' when it comes to saving an animal in need. In the second story of the first episode, they travel into space to save a chimp in the time it takes to sing a cheery tune and in the first story of the second episode, they zip into a storybook to save a unicorn.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ButtUglyMartians'' can reach other solar systems and back in the space of an episode where as Emperor Bog's fleet spends the entire series journeying from Mars to Earth.
* The premise behind ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Countdown" relies on [[LateForSchool Gumball and Darwin missing the bus to school and having to get there in six minutes or face expulsion]], complete with an on-screen timer (that they're immediately aware of) showing how much time they have left. After Gumball and Darwin agree they should get moving, the episode cuts to them running through Elmore without the timer changing at all, despite Darwin complaining that they've been running for hours (he immediately {{Handwave}}s the disparity by saying it seemed longer when watching the clock). Later, Gumball and Darwin end up in the desert outside of town with three minutes left, and Gumball immediately wonders how they got so far into the desert in four seconds. [[TemptingFate This costs them a minute in the timer.]] Darwin logically deduces it'll only take them a minute to get back to town. Sure enough, the episode cuts to them back in town, and another minute is gone from the timer.
* When Hell's Pass Hospital was first introduced in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', it took a while for Chef to drive the boys there, with scenes showing him having to drive over 35 miles across mountains to get to it. This has seemingly been forgotten in every other episode featuring the hospital, as characters are shown to be sent to it seemingly quickly after needing it.

** The Black Pearl is the fastest ship in the Caribbean, and the ghost pirates are suffering from a horrible curse. So after they abduct Elizabeth Swan, mistaking her for the one they need to break the curse, they would presumably head straight back to Isla de Muerta to do just that. Meanwhile, Will Turner wakes up the next day and, after an unsuccessful conversation with Norrington, breaks Jack Sparrow out of prison. The two steal a ship and sail for Tortuga where they recruit a crew. Then they proceed to Isla de Muerta. Despite what must have been a considerable detour and at least a few days head-start for a ship which is expressly faster than their own, Will and Jack still arrive at Isla de Muerta within hours of the ghost pirates at most. Perhaps the ghost pirates aren't in quite the hurry we would expect.

* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'': The autobots go from Giza, Egypt to Petra, Jordan and back in what seems to be a few minutes at most. Even apart from the substantial distances involved, this would involve crossing into and out of Israel four different times, which would probably not be the quickest endeavor for a platoon of unlicensed vehicles.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' there are two storyline missions that start automatically when you receive them, one where you can dawdle), and the big one, [[spoiler:the suicide mission: you can choose when to do it, but if you do more than '''ONE''' mission, then a member of your abducted crew will die. The death toll gets higher the more missions you do, culminating in Dr Chakwas being the only survivor.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': The only aversion to this is introductory quest to the Thieves' guild has you competing with someone else to steal something - you have to figure the location out, travel there, and steal it faster than they do.
** If you do fail it due to this reason, the guild gives you another way in.

* Several cases in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games have you investigating locations that are stated to be on opposite sides of a large city or even on the countryside, hours away by train (and yes, this distance is often a factor in the cases when it comes to alibis). However, if you miss something in one location (and [[PixelHunt you most probably will]]) nothing stops you from going back and forth several times in a single day, without missing any events that in-universe depend on office hours. Justified, since otherwise the game would be [[AntiFrustrationFeatures near-unplayable]].

* ''Film/SuperTroopers'' has Farva runs to join the local cops before the climax of the movie. It takes him forever to do this, but it necessary because he needs to miss the scene where the team figures out whats going on, by the time Farrva arrives he's missed the info that the local cops are the the ones helping smuggle the pot. The amount of screen time totals about 2 and a half minutes with one cut, possibly with a gap of another minute. Farva handwaves this by saying he was securing the perimeter. It's lampshaded in the commentary by how long Farva takes to secure the perimeter. Its not very big the fact that he's jogging should take him less than half the time.

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': When Tony and his allies intercept Cap's side at the airport, he says, regarding when Ross gave him the deadline to bring in Cap and his allies, "Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago." Which means that all of the events that take place in between took place in 24 hours. Now some of these are reasonable. Steve, Bucky, and Sam were already in Germany, so they had no trouble making it to the airport in that time. But others are not:
*** On Team Iron Man's side, this means that Tony flew back to New York to recruit Peter, travel upstate to pick up Vision from the compound, then flew back to Germany. While Peter (as further established in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'') got his passport, flew separately on a private jet with Happy Hogan, and still somehow had time to check into a hotel, go sightseeing in Berlin, spent the night at the hotel, then travel to Leipzig/Halle, all in under 24 hours.

* Lampshaded in the 18th Century by Creator/LaurenceSterne in ''Literature/TristramShandy'': Uncle Toby sends a servant out on an errand, and then several chapters are dedicated to illuminating Toby's history and character, at the end of which the narrator says, in essence, "that probably took you about an hour and a half to read, so let's say the servant's returned by now."

* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', not only do characters leisurely travel all over UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}} between cities that are hours apart in real life, but most of the [=McKinley=] graduates have gone on to college out of state, yet have no trouble making trips back home when the plot calls for it, regardless of travel time, cost, or school/work schedules. This is lampshaded by Sue, and later possibly explained by Brittany:

* The premise behind ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Countdown" relies on [[LateForSchool Gumball and Darwin missing the bus to school and having to get there in six minutes or face expulsion]], complete with an on-screen timer (that they're immediately aware of) showing how much time they have left. After Gumball and Darwin agree they should get moving, the episode cuts to them running through Elmore without the timer changing at all, despite Darwin complaining that they've been running for hours (he immediately {{Handwave}}s the disparity by saying it seemed longer when watching the clock). Later, Gumball and Darwin end up in the desert outside of town with three minutes left, and Gumball immediately wonders how they got so far into the desert in four seconds. [[TemptingFate This costs them a minute in the timer.]] Darwin logically deduces it'll only take them a minute to get back to town. Sure enough, the episode cuts to them back in town, and another minute is reducted from the timer.

*** On Team Cap's side, this means Steve, Sam and Bucky sat around and waited while Clint Barton brought allies over from the United States when they could've just immediately stolen a jet and gotten a full day's head start. Assuming Steve contacted Clint immediately, this would mean Clint went from his farm in Missouri to the Avengers Compound in upstate New York to pick up Wanda, then they went to San Francisco to pick up Scott, then traveled across the Atlantic to Germany...in the span of 24 hours, an incredible feat if we're to assume they took commercial flights (note that before Tony saw them at the airport he expressed awareness that Clint and Wanda were back in the game since Vision would've reported about Clint coming to free Wanda from house arrest), since Clint and Wanda probably didn't steal a supersonic Quinjet from the Avengers compound (given the whole reason they went to the airport in Leipzig was to steal a Quinjet or chopper to take to Russia).

See also {{Overdrive}}, FasterThanLightTravel, ConversationCut, OffscreenTeleportation, and TransformationAtTheSpeedOfPlot. Traveling at the speed of plot may also be why there are NoDelaysForTheWicked.

* In ''[[Film/TheArkOfTruth Stargate: The Ark of Truth]]'', the time on the spaceship fighting the replicators seems to take less than a day, however Teal'c goes on an epic journey through mountains on foot in that same span of time.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': This got more pronounced as the series progressed, especially as it increasingly diverged from its [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire source material]] from Season 5 onward.

* ''Film/IronMan1'':
** It's this trope, or Tony Stark is apparently so good at seducing women that he can infatuate Christine Everhart at the beginning of the movie enough to make her drive four-and-a-half hours from Las Vegas to Malibu just to have sex with him.
** Not a lot of time is spared showing Tony flying halfway across the world to Gulmira after suiting up in the Mark III in Malibu. In a deleted scene this is mitigated by him throwing a party at his home in Dubai first, then using fireworks and an orgy to cover up his tracks and launch from there.
* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': After Wanda brainwashes Banner and he Hulks out, he somehow manages to travel 400 miles from the African coast to Johannesburg in the span of a few minutes.

** Not a lot of time is spared showing Tony flying halfway across the world to Gulmira after suiting up in the mark III in Malibu. In a deleted scene this is mitigated by him throwing a party at his home in Dubai first, then using fireworks and an orgy to cover up his tracks and launch from there.

** During the [[spoiler: Fourth Shinobi World War Arc]], Naruto spends many episodes running towards his friends. Despite being close enough to help some of his friends out along the way, he doesn't reach the main group until the {{Filler}} arc ends. Other characters manage to travel across the [[spoiler: battlefield]] and help out other squads in a single episode.

* Creator/DouglasAdams once described a vehicle moving at a certain function of speed R which is the speed you need to be traveling to get there at the time you need to be there in ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Therefore, the punchline went, R17 is not a fixed velocity but is clearly far too fast.

* In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' Luke and the crew of the Millennium Falcon leave Hoth at about the same time. Luke does a hyperspace jump to Dagobah to go meet Yoda. The Falcon, whose hyperdrive malfunctions, tries to evade Imperial forces in a nearby asteroid field. By the time they leave the field (the hyperdrive's still not working), Luke has crashed on Dagobah, met Yoda, and even ''began training as a Jedi''. The crew of the Falcon then decide to go to Bespin. Bear in mind that they still have ''no'' hyperdrive or FTL and Bespin is in another solar system than Hoth. You'd expect the journey to take at the very least several days, even if SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale, yet they appear to make the trip is at most a few hours (they are wearing the same outfits when they land, no one looks particularly more scruffy or even remarks about the trip's length). Meanwhile, Luke leaves Dagobah, does a hyperspace trip to Bespin and arrives just after the empire's captured everyone. Either the Falcon's trip to Bespin took several weeks during which Luke trained on Dagobah, meaning the Falcon has facilities including a laundrymat, or they did the trip in a few hours and some how becoming a Jedi is something one needs only an afternoon to learn.
** Some ExtendedUniverse sources posit that ships are often built with backup FTL drives that, while not as powerful as the main drive, is enough to get a damaged ship to the nearest planet, which, in deep space, is probably a good idea, as at sublight speeds the Falcon could easily have taken years to get to Bespin. Also, WordOfGod now states that the trip from Hoth to Bespin took several months.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution.'' At the proper start of the game you might think you can explore the Sarif building without problem. Spend fifteen minutes doing that and every hostage will be dead. Fortunately this is the only time this will happen in the game.