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9->''"Well, that's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"''
10-->-- '''[[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel]]'''
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12Two funny guys who travel around the world (often in the HollywoodAtlas version), and though often at odds with each other are [[HeterosexualLifePartners ultimately inseparable]]. They take on various odd jobs, [[TheCon cons]] and capers, often to pay off their debts. They can go flat broke even quicker.
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14They often will have to compete for the affections of one local girl who assists them in their escapades.
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19* [[{{Ronin}} Ran]] and [[ForGreatJustice Meow]] from ''Anime/CarriedByTheWindTsukikageRan'' are constantly traveling, and sometimes together. Money is a frequent problem because [[LadyDrunk Ran keeps drinking all of it.]]
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22* The ''Film/RoadTo'' movies with Creator/BobHope and Music/BingCrosby (and Dorothy Lamour as the love interest) are the TropeCodifier.
23* In many of the Creator/LaurelAndHardy films, they are impoverished and looking for work. Occasionally they are even homeless. It varies from short to short though, with no established continuity.
24* ''Film/SecondHandLions'': Though they were actually brothers, Garth and Hub were this in their younger days, roaming about Europe and Africa in search of adventure.
25* Many ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' shorts follow this formula, with the stooges working odd jobs to get by or even begging on the street. Helps that it was the Great Depression. They often lose jobs due to their bungling.
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28* George and Lenny from ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' are the TropeCodifier examples, being two hobos that follow the train tracks looking for work. Many works after that employed this trope were either inspired by or parodying them.
29%%%* Creator/GustaveFlaubert gave us ''Bouvard et Pécuchet''
30* Ostap Bender and whoever he is travelling with (Ippolit Matveevich in ''Literature/TheTwelveChairs'' and the duo Balaganov & Panikovsky in ''Literature/TheLittleGoldenCalf''). Subverted in that his buddyships ultimately go sour: Ippolit betrays him out of greed, Panikovsky dies and Balaganov gets arrested.
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33%%%* Troy and Abed from ''Series/{{Community}}''
34* Sam and Dean from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' do a lot of traveling. As Dean puts it "Dad wants us to pick up where he left off. Saving people. Hunting things. The family business."
35%%%* Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott from ''Series/{{I Spy}}''
36* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
37** The First Doctor and Vicki would have this kind of dynamic, especially in their historicals - usually, Ian and Barbara would get into trouble, and the Doctor and Vicki would attempt to resolve that trouble through the Doctor excessively meddling in some bizarre way, with Vicki helping him out with StereoFibbing and the occasional spot of theft. This dynamic proved so popular that later Doctor/companion duos became more common (as opposed to the rotating [[CastCalculus quartet]] of Hartnell) and tended to be of the "Doctor and cheery supporter" mold rather than "Doctor and {{Foil}}" - notably the Second Doctor and Jamie, the Third Doctor and Jo, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane, the Eighth Doctor and Grace, the Ninth/Tenth Doctor and Rose, and so on.
38%%%** Vorg and Shirna in "Carnival of Monsters".
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41%%* "Con" Kidder and "Kid" Conner in ''The Red Mill''.
42* Vladimir and Estragon in ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'', a pair of aging HeterosexualLifePartners in reduced circumstances. They're implied to be wanderers, though we only see them in [[BottleEpisode the one location]].
43%%%* Wilson and Addison Mizner in ''Road Show'' have elements of this mixed with {{Bromance}}.
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47%%%* Griffen and Molly from the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Dicebox}}''.
48%%%* The Webcomic/LaughOutLoudCats
49* ''Webcomic/VapnthjofrSaga'': Unni and Vide have spent years traveling around, playing music and doing odd jobs.
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52* Naturally, given that it's styled after the ''Film/RoadTo'' movies listed above, ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' had Miguel and Tulio. They have ''lots'' of comedic shenanigans traveling to El Dorado and [[AndTheAdventureContinues and more places]], including competing over Chel.
53* George and Junior from [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery's MGM shorts]] are this, though with a lot more animosity, chiefly from George to Junior. They start most of their shorts as hobos following the railroad tracks looking for work or a bite to eat.
54* Creator/HannaBarbera had ''WesternAnimation/LippyTheLionAndHardyHarHar'' (the latter being a lugubrious hyena) in 1962, with each episode depicting the duo roaming about the world as Lippy hatches his latest GetRichQuickScheme. Thirteen years later, they would create Lippy and Hardy expies WesternAnimation/TheGreatGrapeApe and Beegle Beagle.
55%%* Creator/{{Terrytoons}} would use WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle as this frequently. In the mid-'60s they had Duckwood (a one-shot character from ''Deputy Dawg'') and his pal Donkey Otie as this.
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57%%%* WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy
58* Brian and Stewie on the various "The Road to..." episodes of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. They're specifically homages of the Crosby/Hope films, played surprisingly straight for ''Family Guy''. They travel the globe to their destination, sticking together through thick and thin (and usually conning their way through various situations).
59%%%* Baloo and Louie on some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', again homages to the ''Road To...'' pictures.
60%%%* WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', especially on their SpinOff series.

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