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->''"Calvin, tell your dad that any judge would take this trip as grounds for divorce."''
-->-- '''Mom''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

Simply put, several members of the cast go on a camping trip, and disaster ensues.

This plot is sometimes used even in situations where the characters do not live anywhere near the wilderness, nor seem the type who would even go on camping trips or have any experience doing so. In fact, you can guarantee that, out of a whole group, only one person will even think the trip is a good idea: usually Dad (if it's a family SitCom) or the guy who remembers doing it as a kid, and will always view the experience through a NostalgiaFilter. (The BrattyTeenageDaughter, on the other hand, will ''not'' be shy about acting like a CityMouse.) Another variant is the father (and it's nearly always the father) coming up with the whole thing as a way to have a ''cheap'' vacation, either because [[BrokeEpisode they can't afford better]] or because he can't be persuaded to unchain his wallet.[[note]]As anyone who's ever done this can tell you, a motel room and a pitch at a campsite are actually quite similar in price, and exceedingly cheap examples of either should be regarded with some caution.[[/note]] A father (especially a [[JockDadNerdSon macho one to a nerdy son]]) might also take his son on one of these out of [[AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity a desire for bonding]].

Typical disasters include being SnowedIn, dealing with [[RainRainGoAway never-ending rain]], struggling with a HardToLightFire, running out of food, suffering from CabinFever, [[KnowYourVines poison ivy]], or getting attacked by an [[SpecialEffectFailure incredibly fake-looking]] [[BearsAreBadNews bear]]. (Or Bigfoot. Or [[EverythingTryingToKillYou every animal]].) It would seem much safer to go to a resort lodge to avoid such things, but that will usually be shot down due to budget or because it's not "traditional" enough. It's much cheaper to use an old wood cabin set, or dark set obscured by bushes where the camera never moves away from a campfire. An even cheaper device is characters going ''ice fishing'', sometimes ''in'' said cabin.

Occasionally the excuse given is the trip is part of a "company retreat", in which case it's the PointyHairedBoss who's the only one who thinks it's a good idea.

A subtrope of CampingEpisode. See also MachoDisasterExpedition and SummerCampy. DontGoInTheWoods is the darker and deadlier {{horror}} equivalent of this. Compare DeadlyRoadTrip, where any trip to a foreign land ends badly. Sometimes, though, one person enjoys it (usually a NatureLover and/or someone with very good luck), in which case it overlaps with OnlyOneFindsItFun.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Chapters 40 and 41 of ''Manga/HighSchoolNinjaGirlOtonashiSan'' features the main characters promptly getting lost in the woods on a camping trip. One of them beings a ''corded'' rice cooker, and they get harassed by a bear that can out-ninja Otonashi (actually her brother, upset at not being invited).
* Chapter 59 of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' has Elma chaperoning a picnic involving Kanna, Saikawa, and Shouta (although the tent does suggest that they were spending the night there). The typical problems of camping trips affect Elma (getting lost in the woods looking for the kids after they accompany Shouta with his mana research without informing her; [[BearsAreBadNews having a run-in with a bear]]), only with her [[spoiler: eventually [[RageBreakingPoint going into full Dragon mode out of frustration]], with Kanna and Shouta having to prevent [[MuggleBestFriend Saikawa]] from seeing this side of Elma]].
* The Forest Trip arc of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' starts out like this for the class members of 1-A who failed their exams and have to take gruelling remedial classes for it, but it progressively gets much worse for everyone involved when [[spoiler:The League of Villains unleash a massive attack on the camp grounds which leave practically every student injured, a forest fire, [[TheBadGuyWins and the League succeed in their plans to kidnap Bakugo and one of the Pro Heroes]] so they can try to recruit the former and the BigBad can take the latter's Quirk.]]
* In ''{{Manga/Nichijou}}'', the three main protagonists go to camping in order to relax and have some fun. But the trip goes increasingly worse because of the nature of the girls. It all culminates in Yui's soup falling to the ground sort of like ''The Office'''s chili.
* Episode 8 of ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' takes the game's school camping trip and turns it into this. [[BrokenBase And it breaks the fanbase over whether]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice it's funny]] [[DudeNotFunny or not.]] (Though there's no doubt about how much [[ButtMonkey it sucks to be Kanji]].)
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Bill Watterson did this a few times in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', when Calvin's dad drags the family along on a camping trip.
** On one trip, it rained nonstop and didn't stop until Dad, having decided to pack it in and go home, [[GaveUpTooSoon had finished loading the car]]. Cue FacePalm (and then [[NarrativeProfanityFilter shouting words that Calvin didn't understand]]).
** On the next trip, Calvin dropped a bag of supplies (including the camera) in the lake; when Calvin's dad dove down to retrieve them, he accidentally put them on his glasses, shattering them. Calvin and Hobbes decide to wait until he is in a better mood to tell him he left the car's headlights on before launching their canoe.
** It's mentioned Dad takes them on these trips every summer, in spite of Mom and Calvin openly hating them. Dad on the other hand, seems to enjoy the great outdoors no matter how many bad things happen on every trip. One comic however had him explain he takes them on those trips every summer instead of a cruise or more enjoyable vacation so the rest of their year will feel better by comparison, but given his habit of sarcasm it's hard to say if he's being serious about that. Then again, since he ''is'' the TropeNamer for MiseryBuildsCharacter...
* Any of [[BumblingDad Roger's]] family camping trips in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot''. In one instance, the kids (and mother) notably cheered louder for the news that they wouldn't be able to go on that year's trip due to some circumstances of Roger getting his job back, than for the news of his re-hiring itself. Usually they attempt to find some sort of excuse to get out of it, such as trying to cram the car with luggage (with some of them being filled with nothing but packaging peanuts) just so there wouldn't be enough room in the car to accommodate them, and taking Roger's attempts at encouraging via exact words and exploit them to delay the camping trip.
** Perhaps the crowning example is the Skeeter Falls trip. As the name implies, the campsite is near a waterfall which acts as a breeding ground for mosquitoes, and the ever ignorant Roger books the vacation when the mosquito population is at its peak. They have their own personal ranger only because they are the only campers there, and are surrounded by swarms of mosquitoes all day and night (having forgotten to pack insect repellent). The only natural attraction in the area is a geyser which goes off at 3:38 am and is two hours' walk from the campsite. To make matters worse, a bear gets into their campsite, and Roger is too busy marvelling at it to notice that it has eaten all of their food except for half a bag of gummi-worms and three mini pretzels. Instead of taking the logical choice of leaving camp early, Roger decides they'll simply catch and eat fish for every meal, which very quickly wears on Andy and the kids. Roger remains so oblivious to the rest of his family's misery that when he shows Andy a bumper sticker (given by their ranger as a parting gift) reading "I left my [blood] at Skeeter Falls", which he alone finds hilarious, Andy wonders if they have one saying "I left my husband at Skeeter Falls".
** Roger also took the family to a desert campsite called Cactus Flats. In the middle of August. For two weeks. Even worse, a news report featuring said desert mentions that it's the hottest it's ever been -- it's so bad that Peter Arnett (a RealLife reporter famous for his coverage of both Gulf Wars) was sent to the scene and he ''quit his job'' just so he could leave the desert as soon as possible. When the family finally gets to the desert, the only source of entertainment they can find is watching Jason play ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' on his Gameboy. When the family gets ready to leave, Andy nearly ''strangles'' Roger after he offhandedly says "see you soon" to Cactus Flats, livid that he might take them there again.
** Yet ''another'' one combined with MachoDisasterExpedition: Roger goes on a boys-only trip, and tries to wake his sons up at two in the morning to go fishing. When they refuse, he goes alone, saying ''some'' of them will be eating fish tonight. Cut to...
--->'''Peter''': Are you sure you don't want any canned tuna, Dad?\\
'''Jason''': It's pretty good if you spread it on a cracker.\\
'''Roger''': [[BlatantLies I'm not hungry.]]
* ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' did this ''twice'' - once in the 70s, and modified and rerun again in 2009.
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} has been forced to go an a few of these.
* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} has also gone on one - to Clyde Canyon, which turned out to be a three foot hole in the ground. After spending the weekend sitting in the hole, Dilbert and Dogbert learn that the ''real'' Clyde Canyon was just over the next ridge. They decide it probably isn't worth developing their photographs of the trip.
* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'': John and Phil went on a canoeing trip that becomes this after being stranded for several days on an island during a storm. Elly and Georgia also struggled to conduct the rescue mission and comfort a scared Michael and Elizabeth.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* [[http://www.tbillingsemergencyfanfic.com/closerthanabrother.htm This]] ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' fic. John Gage is clawed by a mama bear while protecting Roy's son. Roy must handle treating him without the usual equipment until they can get help.
* One challenge in ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'' is a camping challenge, and it ends up being this for the Modern Mandrills.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13905146/7/The-House-of-Potter-Greengrass The House of Potter-Greengrass]]'' Susan mentions a camping trip when she was eight where her aunt tried summoning the portable icebox from the faeries who were raiding it and ended up wearing the food inside when one faerie wouldn't let go. Then Susan swatted at the faeries with a branch and hit her aunt instead.
* In ''Fanfic/InTentsLySick'', while on a camping trip, the characters burn their food, get lost, suffer food poisoning, among other mishaps.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'', like the James Dickey novel on which it's based, plays this trope completely straight and to its logical, tragic extreme.
* The premise of ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen2'' has the Patriarch of the Baker family taking his family to a camping lodge. Of course, things do go awry but what really dampens the trip is the father competing with his arch-rival and his family.
* ''Film/TheGreatOutdoors''. Possibly a Defining Moment.
* ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' portrays this in the most scary, bloody, gory and violent way imaginable.
* Pretty much becomes this in ''Film/YetiALoveStory''.
* Sixties comedy of {{Double Entendre}}s, ''Film/CarryOnCamping'', is fueled by this trope. [[IronicName Paradise Camp Site]] is in a muddy field, much to the annoyance of Sid Boggle and Bernie Lugg (who were hoping that it was a nudist camp full of attractive women); Peter Potter, who is bossed around by his wife Harriet and forced to share his tent with [[CloudCuckooLander Charlie Muggins]]; and all the other campers, who have to deal with a hippie-filled concert being held by The Flowerbuds in the next field over.
* ''Film/AlienAbduction2014'' looks like it will start as a more mundane example of this, with a malfunctioning tent and a glitching GPS getting them horribly lost, but then the aliens show up and start hunting the family down.
* ''Film/WelcomeToTheJungle'' (not to be confused with other films having this title, like ''Film/TheRundown''): What is originally a corporate retreat to a tropical island to build teamwork ends with the pilot having a heart attack (which stranded everybody), the guide (apparently) eaten by a jaguar, and the whole situation becoming a copy-cat of ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'', of all things (which even gets some InUniverse LampshadeHanging at one point).
* One of the ''{{Film/Beethoven}}'' sequels has the titular dog accompanying a family on a road trip in an RV, the father being determined to relive his happy memories from his childhood, and naturally gets proven wrong at every opportunity: the campsite he remembered has been taken over by a Japanese business, the RV loses a windshield, and they're being followed by two StupidCrooks. At the end he has a breakdown when he remembers the original trip wasn't even that great to begin with (their dog got carsick).
* In ''Film/Utoya22Juli'', a reenactment of the Breivik Massacre (which happened [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the island Utøya on 22. July 2011]]) from the perspective of the victims, a weekly summer camp trip turns into nightmare due to a shooter appearing on the island and starting to shoot people dead.
* In ''Film/LongWeekend'', a couple undertake a camping trip in an attempt to patch up their failing marriage. Things go wrong right from the kick off, with the husband getting lost and GoingInCircles for hours as he tries to find the campsite. But things really go haywire when their callous indifference towards nature, culminating in the shooting of a dugong, unleashes GaiasVengeance upon them. [[spoiler:Neither survives the weekend]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Twice, ''Literature/AdrianMole'' goes on a disastrous camping trip.
** In ''The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole'', he goes on a survival weekend with the youth club. Unfortunately, [[HippieTeacher Hippie Youth Leader]] Rick thinks things like maps or the slightest semblance of planning are for squares...
** In ''The Wilderness Years'', Adrian books a cheap holiday in Russia, which is sold to him as "a week on the Russian lakes and rivers". He believes it will be on a cruise ship, but it turns out to be paddling his own canoe, complete with sleeping in a tent, and drinking water from the river.
* In one of the ''Literature/BrunoAndBoots'' books, the students go on the annual "wilderness survival" camping trip, which is nicknamed "Die in the Woods". (The canoe they bring along is christened the SS Drown In The Woods.) [[spoiler: It really does become a matter of wilderness survival when all their supplies end up in the lake.]]
* One of the ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' books details a horrible camping trip that's tainted not only with everything imaginable from floods to swarms of insects, but disappointment. (Papa Bear spends the first third of the book hyping the trip up to be the experience of a lifetime). It wasn’t a total bust. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny They all had a good laugh when the looked at the photos afterwards.]]
* Outdoor humorist Creator/PatrickMcManus, who wrote for such magazines as ''Field & Stream'' and ''Outdoor Life'' and whose articles were collected in numerous books, more or less specialized in chronicling bad camping/fishing/hunting trips.
* ''Literature/ThreeMenInABoat'' has elements of this.
* Charlie Decker goes on one with his dad and friends in Creator/StephenKing's (writing as Richard Bachman) ''Literature/Rage1977'' in one of his father's many attempts to "make a man out of him". He overhears his father discussing the Cherokee Nose Job with his friends (slitting the nose of an adulterous wife) and how he would do it to his own wife if she cheated on him, one of the factors that ultimately leads to Charlie losing his mind and his decision to "get it on" by [[AxesAtSchool bringing a gun to school]].
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'':
** In ''The Last Straw'', Greg joins the boy scouts (so he could change his father's mind on shipping him off to military academy), and a father-son camping trip soon takes place. Unfortunately, Greg is unable to go because he is sick on the day of the trip, but Frank (Greg's father) was forced to go because he signed up to be a driver, so he has to go by himself. He ended up getting put in a tent with two boys, and one of them bit the other because the one who got bit laughed at the biter for wetting his pants. And the biter wouldn't let go, so Frank had to pry them apart. And it ended up with the bitten one in the emergency room. Frank was not pleased with this.
** The trip to Hardscrabble Farms in ''Old School''. Nothing remotely modern is allowed, the cabin bedding is nonexistent and campers are expected to bring their own with seemingly no warning, Greg's bedmate is Rowley's father, the foods served include a stew made from leftovers which was a thing when Greg's father was Greg's age, and the attendees try to get sick to go home early. After this works the first time from a cabinmate eating a stick of deodorant, the teachers confiscate all the boy's deodorant so the others can't escape. This, of course, makes all the cabins smell horrible.
** The perils encountered in ''The Deep End'' include a curious bear, roving skunks, flaming marshmallows and a flash flood.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': by page count, the camping trip from Hell is 1/4 of the book. It ''feels'' much longer.
* Literature/HorridHenry and his family plan a camping holiday in France that ends up like this, much to Henry's disgust (he was hoping for a similar vacation that his arch enemy Margaret had; she claimed to have proper bedding and television sets), complete with one porta-potty in the middle of the woods and rainfall almost every day. His parents try their best to keep a StiffUpperLip about their situation, even though it's clear to the reader that they're hating their time in the place as much as their horrid son.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AllAboutMe'': The plot of Episode 5 focuses on a dreadful caravan trip - with the exception of Colin, no one can stand the cold, the hand dryer breaks and Kavita finds a (presumably dead) rat in the toilet. The only person seemingly enjoying it is Colin, and everyone else considers it a FateWorseThanDeath, not helped by the presence of a bicycle-wielding underpants thief (at least until it turns out that he was only taking them away to iron them). Colin eventually admits that he would prefer something better, but this was all he could afford, and Rupinder is convinced to enjoy the holiday a bit more.
* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': "A Camping We Will Go," a Season 1 episode. It's anything but (of course), but the trope is imagined by the boys pre-trip, who are sure it will end up this way since they believe the girls will ruin everything.
* ''Series/StepByStep'': Much like their ancestors from 22 years earlier, the Fosters and Lamberts go on a camping trip shortly after Frank and Carol are married. The Lambert kids have been camping before, which naturally clashes with the city-like Fosters ... but a good time ensues in the end. Never mind that Frank's Chevrolet Suburban gets knocked into gear and plunges into the lake.
* ''Series/SanfordAndSon'': Fred and Lamont go camping together, and naturally they get into an argument. Lamont wants to leave and cool off ... that is, until the truck won't start. A girl scout troop, which had been camping nearby, arrives later and they figure out that Lamont had flooded the engine. Fred then pretends that he knew the engine was flooded and it was his way of getting his son to stay for some much needed father-son time.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "Strange New World." The world in question has flowers with a hallucinogenic toxin that make Trip, Travis, and the two crewmen with them extremely paranoid.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' has one of these in a flashback, though the trip became horrible due to an argument between Jeff and Britta about how to pronounce s'mores, among other almost indecipherable dialogue from the rest of the group.
* ''Series/HappyDays'', "Ugh, Wilderness"
* ''Series/MrBelvedere'': Wesley's trip to a summer camp takes a frightening turn when a camp counselor "rubs his shoulders" in an attempt to molest him. Fortunately, Wesley speaks up, and the counselor (who resigns) is forced to admit he has a problem and needs help.
* The trope image comes from ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', "[Bottom]'s Out", where Eddie remembers to bring the can opener but Richie forgets the canned ''food''; they attempt to go blowpipe hunting with a tentpole and darts, and Richie is repeatedly injured; Eddie almost burns his own face off while trying to light the gas stove (he forgot to put the valve in); and since Wimbledon Common is technically just a giant public park, they're harassed in the middle of the night by a flasher. Also, they appear to have set up camp in an area labelled 'dog toilet', meaning there's dogshit all over the place.
* Taken to the most extreme levels of parody in ''Series/{{Stella}}'', as Michael, Michael and David descend into desperate savagery within minutes of entering the woods.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "The Jem'Hadar" where Sisko, his son Jake, Jake's best friend Nog and Nog's uncle Quark go on a trip to a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, only to wind up encountering the Jem'Hadar forces of the Dominion (for the first time). Even before they run into the SuperSoldier {{mooks}} of TheEmpire, [[CityMouse Quark]] is having a rough old time of it, up to and including [[ButtMonkey accidentally setting himself ablaze with the campfire]].
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfLanoAndWoodley'' subverts the trope- the camping trip in question is horrible, yes, but it takes place ''in the main characters' apartment''.
* Most of the ''Series/TopGear'' presenters' long-distance overseas trips invariably feature something along this line, but the most famous example is when the three go on a caravan holiday to see what the fuss is about and if they'd enjoy it. They do not, most likely since it ends with the caravan burning down into a charred shell, with the only salvagable things being a few inflatables.
* The ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' episode "The Call of the Mild" combines this with SnowedIn, as the cabbies attend a wilderness retreat only to get trapped in their cabin without food or provisions during a blizzard.
* ''Series/{{Skins}}'' did this a couple of times.
** "Michelle" from Series 2: Chris loses all the tents and most of the gear because he didn't tie it to the roof of the car; the only remaining tent then gets soaked when the tide comes in; and the car they came in also gets flooded by the tide. Oh, and [[RuleOfDrama drama ensues]].
** "Effy" from Series 3 is a rather JustForFun/{{egregious}} example: there's a large amount of awkward tension between several of the characters ''before'' the poachers, [[MushroomSamba and the shrooms]], and the uninvited guest shows up. Oh, and the ManipulativeBitch gets [[BreakTheHaughty hit over the head with a rock]] by the main character, who [[SanitySlippage finally loses it]].
* In ''Series/{{Hyperdrive}}'' Vines is tricked into purchasing a barren planet that is almost, but not quite, completely inhospitable to human life. He kidnaps Jeffers and drags them down onto the surface of the planet, it wasn't a pleasant time.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'', Randy Disher and Adrian Monk go camping with a group of kids. They have to deal with a bear and two criminals.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' has this trope in spades, starting with the tent acting up, and ending with an angry TINY trying to attack them all.
* In the ''Series/GeneSimmonsFamilyJewels'' episode "Alpha Male", Gene's family went off camping in an RV for Sophie's birthday. They dealt with a snake, a bear, and a park ranger with a fire extinguisher.
* ''Series/TheInbetweeners'' did this for their Season 3 finale. It involved sinking a car in a lake, eating raw sausages and then throwing them back up in the tent.
* In the ''Series/FatherTed'' episode "Hell", Ted is granted the use of a caravan for the weekend which turns out to be barely large enough to accommodate Ted, Dougal, and Jack. It begins pouring with rain almost as soon as they get settled in (and Dougal has forgotten to pack any board games, reducing them to [[CurtainCamouflage hide-and-seek]] and the famous "[[DepthDeception Small... far away]]" explanation of perspective), the only nearby attractions are St Kevin's Stump (an ordinary tree stump) and the Magic Road (on which objects roll uphill in defiance of gravity), the caravan turns out to have been double-booked to the flamboyant Father Noel Furlong and his youth group (who cause the caravan to fall on its side with a re-enactment of ''Riverdance''), and Ted and Dougal repeatedly anger a fellow camper who ultimately leaves them stranded on a country road with four slashed tyres.
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': "Camping". Leslie sends the parks department on a camping retreat to come up with new projects. Ironically, everyone in the parks department save for Ron and Leslie hate camping. Tom brings so many electronic gadgets he drains the van's battery, stranding everyone, while Andy goes to the wrong camping site and has to trek through rough terrain to get there. In the end they all go to a nearby bed and breakfast run by a CrazyCatLady [[spoiler: (who dies in TheTag of the episode)]].
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'':
** The Bundys/Rhodes spend a week in a cabin. No food (until the women find a trap door filled with it near the end of the episode), all the women come on their periods after the first day (at first, it was just Kelly who was on her period, much to the surprise of Bud, who constantly makes fun of her for being sexually promiscuous and not using protection), and said cycling attracts animals who surround the house.
** Bud rents Al to some neighborhood kids for an overnight campout so he can pay for concert tickets. Al falls asleep at the wheel and crashes the van in a ditch, the supplies are lost, Al and Bud resort to using a flashlight as a campfire, Steve gets incapacitated by poison oak and bee stings, and Buck the dog runs back home and doesn't bother to let Peg and Kelly know that Al, Bud, and Steve are missing.
* In one episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Alan feels bad about not doing enough father-son activities with his son Jake, so he drags him out into the middle of the woods for a camping trip. Cue Alan desperately trying to entertain the bored Jake in a tiny tent, including making an attempt at a truly horrible GhostStory and getting him to sing songs. Did we mention the torrential rainstorm?
* In ''Series/TheMiddle'', the Hecks go on a camping trip during summer vacation, since Frankie wants them to have a family bonding experience and they can't afford anything else. Axl gets fed up with Sue constantly pestering him about what high school will be like, Brick spends as much time as he can reading instead of actually experiencing the great outdoors, and Mike and Frankie reflect on how their honeymoon was ''also'' a Horrible Camping Trip. To top it off, Sue gets [[NoPeriodsPeriod her first period]] during the night, which attracts a [[BearsAreBadNews nearby bear]] and forces everyone to seek shelter in the car. [[MyCarHatesMe They can't even escape from the bear by driving away]], since Brick had inadvertently drained the car's battery by keeping the dome light on for hours so he could read by it.
* The "Canteen Boy Goes Camping" sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. The good news is that no supplies or food were lost. The bad news is that it was still bad because Canteen Boy was mocked by his fellow Boy Scout members and spent the rest of the night getting molested by his pedophilic scoutmaster Mr. Armstrong (played by one of ''SNL'''s most frequent hosts, Alec Baldwin). Unlike the ''Mr. Belvedere'' example above, there was no special, dramatic moment in which Mr. Armstrong realizes what he did was wrong (though when Baldwin came back to host in season 20, he and Creator/AdamSandler had to perform the sketch again in a more politically correct way, as the sketch caught a lot of heat for implying that all Boy Scout masters were pedophiles), but he did get what he deserved when Canteen Boy summoned all of the snakes in the woods to attack him.
* "Huaka'i Kula", in the third season of ''Series/HawaiiFive0''.
* On the third ''Series/NewGirl'' ThanksgivingEpisode, Nick decides to take the gang camping and hunt for their Thanksgiving dinner like the Pilgrims did. The only thing Nick catches is a fish that was already dead, while Cece, Jess and Winston decide to go "foraging" at a nearby grocery store. In the end, Jess gets sick from eating the fish and falls into a bear trap Nick made.
* The gang on ''Series/ThreesCompany'' go on one that was especially horrible for Jack. All he wants to do is sleep, but he can't get into the hammock without falling out and hitting the ground. Larry then suggests he go for a swim - and steals his clothes. The cabin they had was overbooked, so Janet and Chrissy have to sleep in a tent, while Jack is outside in a sleeping bag. He gets eaten alive by insects AND the zipper on it gets stuck, trapping him in it. All the while, the girl Larry brought along hoping to score with won't stop bothering him, as Larry had told her (the girl was an aspiring actress) that Jack was a director, and she would launch into impromptu auditions anytime she saw him.
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' had an episode devoted to Carl attempting to take Eddie camping. First, Waldo and Steve invite themselves along. Then Carl, Eddie, and Waldo fail to catch any fish in the lake. When they get back to camp, they find that a bear ate all their food (except Steve's, since he'd hung his bag in a tree to keep them from reaching it). Then a geothermal geyser erupted under Carl, Eddie, and Waldo's tent (Steve had recognized it for what it was and camped far enough away to be safe). In all fairness, the trip probably would have gone a little better had Carl heeded [[TheCassandra Steve's warnings.]]
* In the ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' episode, "Schemer Goes Camping", Schemer takes Schemee and Dan camping in the woods while Stacy, Becky, Kara, and Mr. Conductor camp out in the station. Schemer's camping trip turns out disastrous because Schemer isn't as great of an outdoorsman as he claims to be; he can't put up a tent very well, he forgets to pack all of the important equipment, eats all the food, gets left behind during a rainstorm, chased away by a squirrel (having mistaken it for a mountain lion), tumbles down a hill, lands in a creek, and is eventually found by Ginny.
* In the ''Ponysitters Club'' episode "Fire Scare", Billy and Grandpa take Skye and her friends on a camping trip. Skye's hay fever flares up from picking wildflowers, Isabella gets poison ivy because she forgot the "leaves of three" poem, Olivia sprains her ankle while [[BeeAfraid running away from bees]], and Grandpa burns his hand trying to remove a cooking pan from the campfire.
* An episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' concerned Will, Carlton and Uncle Phil going on one of these. Highlights included Will packing their stuff in the wrong car, Carlton pretending he's Captain Kirk with a tape recorder, and ultimately having to stay in a cave overnight, before Phil [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere deciding to hell with it and go find a Denny's]].
** Another episode began with the preparations for such a trip. Will accidentally breaks a lantern when he inadvertently inflates a rubber raft. [[spoiler:While getting money from the ATM to get a new lantern, [[WhamShot a robber holds them at gunpoint and]] ''[[WhamShot shoots Will.]]'']]
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[[folder:Music]]
* "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter From Camp)" by Alan Sherman is the classic example. However, at the end of the song, it stops raining. Gee, dat's bettah!
* The Music/{{Yes}} song "South Side of the Sky" sounds like it's obliquely describing something like this. It actually describes the experience of mountain climbing/traversing a tundra and dying of hypothermia, though the way it's written, it's not so obvious how dark the song is.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXLpzSmrmq0 The Camping Trip]]" by Music/RayStevens on the album ''Surely You Joust'' is about one.
* ''Music/KidsPraise'': From the kids' perspective, this is subverted in the 5th album. They get tired and hot from all the uphill hiking, and two kids get lost at night, but it's really only their attitude that gets in the way of having fun, and Psalty's well aware of this and keeps encouraging the kids so that they will have fun and grow from the experience.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': "Weekend at Crystal Lake" sees Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and eventually Walter Denton join the Conklins at their cabin on Crystal Lake. Features mishaps such as Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton's motorboat motor getting stuck and forcing the Conklins to abandon their rowboat and jump in the water, Miss Brooks burning supper by piling the barbecue charcoal on top of the ribs, and, finally, the Conklins spending their anniversary in separate rooms as Walter Denton's appearance mean the boys and girls each get a room in the the two-bedroom cabin.
* One episode of ''KingStreetJunior'' involved a school camping trip. By the end of it, each of the four teachers present had suffered an accident.
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[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
* Creator/JimGaffigan: You ever notice that whenever someone uses the phrase "happy camper" they're being sarcastic? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qle-vjHoQa4 That's because the only happy camper is the guy who's leaving the campground!]]
* Creator/JohnPinette HATES camping. His first and last camping trip starts with him becoming exhausted to the point of insanity and goes downhill from there.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 2'', Lan decides to go on a camping trip with his friends out of boredom. First, they run into a swarm of bees. After dealing with that, they soon run into a [[EverythingIsOnline malfunctioning electronic bear]] in which Lan sends [=MegaMan=] to go delete the virus that is causing it to malfunction. Finally, they find themselves in the middle of an internet terrorist plot to blow up the nearby Okuden dam.
** Rehashed in [=KnightMan/MagnetMan=]'s chapter in ''Battle Network 5'', with a fishing trip, a cave, and a ''giant'' [[ThisIsADrill mining drill]].
* As mentioned above in the anime section, the school camping trip in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' quickly turns miserable for the main characters; highlights include such moments as the introduction of "[[LethalChef Mystery Food X]]", and a swimming incident that the guys [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain desperately try to forget]].
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* 'The Camping Webisode', the third episode of ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT''.
* The ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' TV episode "Take a Hike" involves Lumpy leading a camping trip with six other characters as the participants. This being ''[[SadistShow Happy Tree Friends]]'', it ends badly; by the end of the episode, [[EverybodyDiesEnding all of the characters in the trip were brutally killed]].
* In a Season 12 PSA for ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d_hXbBuVAU Sarge and Caboose go on a camping trip]]. In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''. After failing to make or find shelter, Sarge ends up burying himself, while Caboose joins a Boy Scout camp for hot dogs and s'mores.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/EveryoneIsHome'': The Isabelles take a bunch of the fighters on a camping trip to revive Hero, but things end up going wrong for everyone involved except them. Rosalina gets smoke in her face from the campfire started by Incineroar, Ryu's snacks are eaten by ants which then crawl all over Ken, Ganondorf and Steve get a hole in their tent as it starts to rain, Fox and Falco argue over how to pitch a tent, Wario's loud snoring keeps Luigi and Sora up all night, and Banjo, Kazooie, and Olimar try to stop the local wildlife from stealing their food.
* The aftermath of a Horrible Camping Trip interferes with the game in this ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'' [[http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=18 strip]].
* One is ''planned'' in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', when the teachers take the students out into the woods in the rain. Then [[TrainingAccident pretend there's an emergency]] and retreat to their luxurious home while something lurks in the woods. The kids quickly figured out it's "the kind of thing adults would do to make a trip more interesting" and devised a counter plan. At the end of it the adults have been tricked outside and the kids are safely indoors protected by laser cows.
* Ben and his family from ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' once go on such a trip. Maybe not as bad as other examples on this page, although [[BeeAfraid bees]] are still involved.
%%* Lampshaded in [[http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/index.php?aglitecomic=2010-03-29 this]] ''Webcomic/{{Applegeeks}}-Lite'' strip.
* Gets a passing reference in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' from Vaarsuvius, upon visiting a forested area: "My parents took me camping here once. I loathed it."
* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the "Camp Maple" arc of ''Webcomic/TheWorldOfVickiFox''. Vicki takes Meredith camping for the first time; Vicki enjoys it, but since Meredith prefers her creature comforts, she doesn't start having fun until they leave the site and start staying at the lodge.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* An entire episode of the Italian Web Series ''Insopportabilmente Donna'' by Creator/TessMasazza is dedicated to one. At least, it is an horrible trip [[DramaQueen in her view]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', "Hut Sut Raw": Rocko, Heffer, and Filbert go camping, but Rocko quickly gets tired of the tame, dumbed-down camping experience at the local trailer park and convinces his friends to "rough it". It ends with the trio lost, cold, starving, and ultimately [[ItMakesSenseInContext chased back to civilization by angry shrews]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', "[[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS3E3CampKeepAGoodMacDown Camp Keep a Good Mac Down]]", where in the time it takes to walk from the camp to the campsite, Bloo eats all of the food, then finds blueberries. On the way back to the campsite he eats them all to test that they're safe, then drinks all of their water trying to wash the taste out. Herriman's no help either, keeping the others from putting up a tent by repeatedly criticizing every inconsequential detail and then having them tear it down. By the end, Mac swears to never go camping again.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', "Camping Caper"
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', "Camp Wannaweep", after their bus breaks down. Ron saves the Cheersquad from a mutant human/fish-monster... which turns out to be a former camper who fell in the toxic lake. Then again, that camp was [[SummerCampy traumatizing in general]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has had several over the years.
** Season 1's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E7TheCallOfTheSimpsons Call of the Simpsons]]"[[note]] The first ever episode to be screened in the United Kingdom[[/note]] has Homer's new RV fall off a cliff, and after a string of disasters, he eventually ends up covered in mud and mistaken for Bigfoot. [[DoubleStandard On the other]] [[MachoDisasterExpedition hand]], Marge and Lisa (who were asked to just stay put while Bart and Homer searched for help) were able to clean up their camping site and turn it downright paradisiacal (and Maggie, who had been missing and taken by ''bears'', turned out to have been found by "kind" bears).
** The Season 4 opener, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty Kamp Krusty]]", showed Bart and Lisa going to the title summer camp, which turns out to be a badly run-down place guarded by Krusty's heartless accountant Mr. Black and the school bullies Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney. After the campers are forced into working in a sweat shop, enduring natural hazards of all kinds and miserable living conditions, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being subject to Barney Gumble dressed as Krusty]], Bart gets fed up and leads a rebellion against the suit running the camp.
--->'''Lisa:''' ''[writing a letter back to Marge and Homer]'' Dear Mom and Dad, I no longer fear hell because I've been to Kamp Krusty. Our nature hikes have become grim death marches. Our arts-and-crafts center is, in actuality, a Dickensian workhouse. Bart makes it through the days relying on his unwavering belief that Krusty the Clown will come through, but I am far more pessimistic. I am not sure if this letter will reach you, as our lines of communication have been cut. Now, the effort of writing has made me lightheaded so I close by saying, save us, save us now! Bart and Lisa.\\
'''Homer:''' ''[chuckles]'' Ah, kids' letters from camp.\\
'''Marge:''' She complains now, but when we go to pick her up, she won't wanna leave.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E8BoyScoutzNTheHood Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood]]" from Season 5, a river rafting trip results in Bart, Homer, Ned Flanders, and Rodd Flanders stranded at sea after Homer loses the map of the river. Thankfully, their lives are saved when they run into an offshore oil rig that just happens to have a Krusty Burger franchise aboard (which was about to close as the oil rig was unmanned and therefore had no potential customers).
*** The parents and students (and Creator/ErnestBorgnine), who took the ''correct'' turn at the river, didn't had it any easier: [[DwindlingParty they are all slowly killed off]] by a variety of gruesome encounters, from ''Film/{{Deliverance}}''-style [[HillbillyHorrors evil hillbillies]] to [[BearsAreBadNews a bear attack]] to what is implied was an encounter with ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]'' (or a similar SlasherFilm-style villain).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'':
** "The Teachings of Don Jake" -- The family go on a camping trip, get lost, then Jake, Helen and Quinn eat psychotropic berries and go crazy. Daria saves the day when she finds the cell phone hidden in her mother's bag and has the family airlifted to safety.
** There was also the class mountain retreat which included a snowstorm (the season four episode "Anti-Social Climbers").
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' renders a mandatory camping trip for Danny and Maddie when they are stranded in the forest. Maddie does fine, but Danny is a complete dunce at it. This hatred is taken with the ''actual'' camping trip episode where the only one visibly excited is Sam. Unfortunately, the trip is a typical disaster when nearly all the students and faculties are kidnapped by ghosts. By the end though, Danny realizes camping has its merits and enjoys it.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
** "Phish and Wildlife", where Hank takes Bobby with him and the guys on a camping trip. All is well until an army of hippies show up for "The Gathering".
** Also, the "Order of the Straight Arrow" episode. It's one of the more benign examples, but something ''did'' go bad: Bobby allegedly killing the whooping crane he thought was a snipe and everyone trying to ditch the body while escaping the law and a group of nature-loving hippies.
* In at least four episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "The Camping Episode", where Squidward is continually attacked by a sea bear.
** In the survival episode where [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick fall out of the back of Sandy's truck and must fend for themselves.
** In the episode with the conch shell ("Club [=SpongeBob=]") where [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick do fine, but because Squidward doesn't believe in the powers of the conch shell, he's not allowed to eat anything.
** "Nature Pants", where [=SpongeBob=] tries to live in the wild with the jellyfish, with disastrous results.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' episode "The [=KaBlair=]! With Project", Henry, June, Mr. Stockdale, Mr. Foot, Henry's mom and Jimmy [=McGee=] go on a company camping trip, but they hear the loud roar of a {{bear|sAreBadNews}} and Mr. Foot freaks out and escapes in the camper, leaving everyone else stranded.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has two horrible camping trips:
** In "Roughin' It", Arnold and Gerald are taught by Grandpa Phil camping the old-fashioned way, much to their chagrin. Meanwhile at a adjacent camping spot, Helga and Phoebe [[FancyCamping live high on the hog]] as Big Bob Pataki tests out the high-tech (but cheap) camping gear that he plans to sell. When the gear fails the kids and Big Bob during a hike in the woods, Arnold saves the day by applying the survival skills Phil taught him earlier to get back to camp.
** In "Fishing Trip", Gerald, Sid, Harold, and Eugene (and their dads), Arnold and Grandpa Phil head to the woods for a fishing trip. After failing to catch any fish and losing their provisions to a bear (except for [[{{Gasshole}} cans of beans]]), the boys (and their fathers/grandfather) are all miserable, but [[AbileneParadox refuse to tell the others for fear of disappointing them]]. After much suffering, they finally admit this to each other and decide to to to the nearby resort for a not-so-back-to-nature trip (with a performance by [[Music/TheMonkees Davy Jones]].) Ironically, the reverse ending to the first camping trip.
* [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]], his friends, and his dad went camping in the episode "Augh! Wilderness". Unfortunately, his dad won't let Jimmy bring his gadgets and wants to rough it. After an explosion, it gets worse.
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]]''[=/=]''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' crossover this was played straight for Fred and Barney. Not so much for Wilma, Betty and Sam, who got a little help from Sam's magic.
** Another episode had the Flintstones go on a camping trip, and their picnic basket gets stolen by none other than WesternAnimation/YogiBear!
* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' has Orel going on the worst camping trip ever with his father resulting in probably the darkest episode of the show. And then it just got darker... [[spoiler:The culminating moment was when his father, in a drunken rage, ''shoots him in the leg!'' Then drank the rubbing alcohol that could have kept Orel's leg from getting worse. Then passed out for two days while Orel suffered. Then denied shooting Orel, saying that since he didn't remember it, it wasn't his fault. And was only concerned that Orel killed a bear rather than his son's well-being. And, months later, admitting (in front of the town no less) that he was ''glad'' he shot Orel.]] Yeah, it's that kind of show.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The infamous "The Mean 6" has the main characters (minus Spike, for some reason) plus Starlight Glimmer having a camping trip in the Everfree Forest, which nearly gets ruined by their evil clones coming out of nowhere and being led to thinking the ponies are doing mean things out of nowhere which almost ruins their friendship until Twilight resolves it all. Even their campsite is ruined, to which they claim was their worst day ever and laugh it off.
* The WesternAnimation/BarneyBear short "Bah, Wilderness" had Barney suffering such indignities as a malfunctioning phonograph, noisy nighttime animals, and ''a flash flood'' while trying to sleep during a camping trip.
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''
** One episode has them going on a camping trip, against Garfield's wishes. They end up chased by a bear and have to keep dancing and singing to keep the bear entertained. They end up doing this late into the night and into the wee hours of the morning, and Garfield sadly notes that [[NoodleIncident of all the times he's been camping with Jon]], this is the best time he's ever had.
** One of the Garfield specials had a trip which wasn't too terrible at first, but took a sharp detour into nightmare alley when Jon and Garfield almost got eaten by an escaped black panther.
** "Mistakes Will Happen" has the trio going on a trip to the woods and various hijinks including being stalked by an escaped convict and Jon [[EpicFail absolutely failing]] at scaring his pets with a BedsheetGhost when they ignore his warnings to be careful while hiking. Keep in mind though that this was only the ''subplot;'' as the title implies, the main plot was to point out the many, deliberate continuity errors that were displayed throughout the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' gets "Those Who Camp, Do" in which Kick, currently obsessed with a ''Survival''-style TV show, decides to camp on his own out in the forest rather than the family's camping site. Kick, being who he is, takes on every challenge the wilderness has to offer him like a boss... however, his older brother Brad goes through his worst nightmare while tagging along.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'':
** "Camping Can Be Cool". Nobody thought to bring matches, Rigby intentionally forgot the tent and accidentally forgot the tarps, Mordecai locked the keys in the car and the park rangers showed up to yell at them for camping in a restricted area. Then it started to rain. And then [[BeastMan Deer Man]] showed up...
** In "Survival Skills," Benson tries to teach the gang about surviving in the wilderness. Benson asks Mordecai and Rigby to buy tortillas for their barbeque, but when the two become lost, they embark on a crazy woodland adventure to get back to the campsite. After what seems like days lost in the wilderness, they finally make it back, only to find out that it's only been a few hours, and they were just hallucinating out in the woods just beyond the campsite. Whenever one of the other park employees tried to go get them, they'd freak out and run off.
* Spoofed on the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "I Should Not Have Gone Ziplining", which is presented as a ''I Shouldn't Be Alive''-type show with shots of the boys screaming in horror. The horrible part of the trip, however, [[FauxHorrific is how horribly BORING the boys found it.]] [[spoiler:So much that Kenny [[NotHyperbole dies of boredom]].]]
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]]'' episode "The Sucky Outdoors" features an overnight camping trip as the challenge. One team spends the night treed by a bear and in a driving rain; the other team must also spend the night in the rain after their tent is burned down; and Katie and Sadie, who get separated from their team, must spend the night in a cave. (But ''they'', at least, don't get rained on.)
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has two examples so far.
** In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E1ARiverRunsThroughBob A River Runs Through Bob]]" the Belcher family goes with Tina for a make-up camping trip because she was sick when her [[ScoutOut Thunder Girls]] troop went. An ill-considered late-night skinny dip leads to Bob and Linda getting washed downstream and separated from the kids, and their problems are compounded by the fact that [[KnowNothingKnowItAll Bob insists he's a master outdoorsman when he very much isn't]].
** In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS13E2TheReekyLakeShow The Reeky Lake Show]]" the Belchers rent a cabin for Labor Day weekend. It has no power or water, the lake is contaminated with giardia, and worse of all, they are trapped inside by a huge swarm of biting insects.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' episode "Camping Trip" the Prouds, the Boulevardezes and friends go on a camping trip which quickly spirals into calamity when their [=RVs=] are swept away in a flood. For Oscar and Felix it gets worse from there, as they're forced to climb up a mountain, end up getting attacked by a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]], a {{bear|sAreBadNews}}, and a [[ScrewballSquirrel squirrel]], and [[RuleOfFunny somehow]] end up in a LostWorld untouched by time and captured by a mother pterodactyl.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' episode "Primal", Grizz is inspired by a video ad for ''Badger in the Wild'' (an obvious parody of Bear Gryllis's ''Series/ManVsWild'') to "rough it" with his brothers Panda and Ice Bear. Apparently, this means dragging his brothers into the woods unannounced and unprepared, with no food or supplies to speak of (even ''throwing away'' a candy bar Ice Bear had smuggled along) and trying to live off the land [[TooDumbToLive with no training or even the vaguest idea of what he's doing]]. Grizz ends up stealing food from some human campers but gets caught and chased off, while Panda and Ice [[SanitySlippage literally go mad with hunger]]. In the end, Grizz has to drag his maddened brothers to a [[ContrivedCoincidence conveniently-located fast food joint]] and buy them combo meals.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': The episode "Let's Play Treasure Hunt" had the main four go on a camping trip. First, upon reaching the campsite, they find out that [[TheDitz Stumpy]] [[SkewedPriorities unpacked their sleeping bags, flashlights and other necessary items so he would have room for his comic books.]] Then, they play treasure hunt in the forest to make the trip fun. [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] changes all the clues so the others wind up doing stupid things and getting hurt.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' the kids go on a mandatory camping trip supervised by [[{{Jerkass}} Coach [=McGuirk=]]], who expected the kids to bring the food and only brought raw turkey and makes the kids give him $20. [=McGuirk=] cuts the trip short when Eugene pees in his canteen and tries to leave the kids in the woods as punishment, but stops when Brendon points out he’d get fired if he did.
* The ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' short "Surviving Sid" features a troop of young animals going on a camping trip with the titular sloth as their scoutmaster. Being [[IdiotHero Sid]], he causes several messes from getting lost in the woods to causing a chain reaction [[ItMakesSenseInContext which creates the Grand Canyon]], and this ends with the kids tying him up in annoyance.
* ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily'': The Murphy's rent a lakeside cabin for summer vacation in season 3, only to discover when they arrive that the cabin is run-down and left open (a pair of geese have gotten in and are mating on the dinner table), the lake outside is badly contaminated, and naturally, it starts raining the second they get out of the car and doesn't let up for the entire time they stay there.
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!!Ice fishing (the car keys ''will'' be dropped in the hole)

[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/PatrickMcManus again. He wrote more than once about engaging in this pastime with his childhood mentor [[MountainMan Rancid Crabtree]]; on one memorable occasion they build a fishing shack with a sail, to steer it around the lake. Rancid tries to steer the shack from inside, which of course [[TemptingFate triggers]] a sudden blizzard with hurricane-strength winds.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': They manage not to catch any fish despite it being one of the most successful trips ever for their neighbors; it turns out Tim's cologne is getting on the bait and repulsing them. Then Tim burns the shack down after falling through the ice and being forced to borrow Al's clothes. And he lost the car keys.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and Niles agree to go ice fishing with Martin after Duke has to back out of the trip. Sure enough the keys go into the water stranding them in the cabin...until the Sheriff arrives to tell them they aren't allowed to spend the night on the ice and escorts them to a nearby motel.
%%* ''Series/FamilyMatters''
* ''Series/That70sShow'', but they one-up it and drop the car in the lake.
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' has an example where they're trapped in the shed by a bear.
* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' features the fishing pole being dropped in the water. They get it back when Teddy falls in the hole.
* Mishaps and accidents came with the territory on ''Series/FishingWithJohn'', but the episode guest-starring Creator/WillemDafoe stands out as a special example. Willem and John go ice-fishing in Maine in the middle of January, despite having no idea how to do it, bringing only a few cheese crackers to eat if they can't catch a fish. Their tent isn't warm enough and they didn't bring enough blankets. Finally...
-->'''Narrator''': On January 19th, John Lurie and Willem Dafoe died of starvation.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Fry falls into the ice, catches a cold, and this results in New New York almost getting thrown into a sun because the people of the future have cured the common cold and thus have no immunity against it, resulting in a city-wide pandemic.
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