This thread will cover three tropes, East Indies, Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!, and Hula and Luaus, i.e. the three "subtropes" of Tropical Island Adventure, as they all have similar issues.

I started this with just checking East Indies because of its low wick count (29) despite being around since at least 2007 and poor on page examples. The issue was that Tropical Island Adventure is a trope for when islands are used for the background of an adventure because of their exotic environments, "remoteness and disconnection from the rest of the world, allowing for more fantastic elements than would be seen in a more civilized setting." However many on page examples were merely stating that a work just took place in a country from the region and didn't give any details as to the portrayal of that region. So I wanted to know how the trope was being used across the site.

The wick check (which also includes on page examples for a total of 43 wicks) confirmed my suspicions:

• Only 4 (9%) were clear Tropical Island Adventure but in SE Asia examples.
• 2 (4%) were actually much more similar to Holiday in Cambodia
• Another 4 (9%) were more like Mystical India, SE Asia edition, focusing much more on the mystical and magical aspects rather than the remote, jungle adventure or crime-ridden mud village stereotype of Tropical Island Adventure and Holiday in Cambodia respectively
• The majority (22 examples or 51%) were simply noting that a story or plot took place in SE Asia without much else.

But given how few examples actually were of Tropical Island Adventure, I wondered how the other 2 subtropes fared and decided to wick check them as well (they are included on the same page as the East Indies Wick Check, just scroll down). The results weren't good.

For Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon! and Hula and Luaus, not a single wick fit the Tropical Island Adventure definition. For Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!, usage was all over the place and mostly not tropeworthy:

Wicks Checked: 50

• Carribbean as Tropical Paradise back drop for an adventure - 0
• Stereotyical depictions of the Caribbean - 6 (12%)
• Character/Person is from the region - 9 (18%)
• character/person speaks in a Jamaican accent - 8 (16%)
• something about the story references or is set in the Caribbean - 12 (24%)
• Random bg info related to the Caribbean - 4 (8%)
• ZCE and listings on Indices - 11 (22%)

Things were better for Hula and Luaus in terms of tropeworthy examples (the stereotypical depictions), but still a lot of different interpretations:

Wicks Checked: 50

• Hawaii as Tropical Paradise back drop for an adventure - 0
• Stereotyical depictions of Hawaii - 13 (26%)
• Character/Person is from Hawaii - 1 (2%)
• Refers to performing a hula specifically - 7 (14%)
• something about the story references or is set in Hawaii - 12 (24%)
• Other - 5 (10%)
• ZCE and listings on Indices - 12 (24%)

• East Indies: Given the few wicks and the few correct wicks (not all of these are mutually exclusive):
  • Cut the trope
  • Merge into Tropical Island Adventure
  • Disambig between Tropical Island Adventure and Holiday in Cambodia, maybe also Mystical India
  • yard the National/Regional stereotype idea described in the actual trope description: a tropical/jungle village civilization, where cannibals, pirates, magic and magical sea creatures, run rampant and are out to kill you.

• Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!: This has a better written description than East Indies so I'm not quite sure where the disconnect is coming from, but similar to East Indies, possible actions I see:
  • Cut the trope (has 178 wicks and 1,770 inbounds so not too bad)
  • Merge into Tropical Island Adventure
  • yard the National/Regional stereotype idea described in the actual trope description: a region filled with laidback people who all want to either have a good time in the sun/water, smoke some weed, and maybe do voodoo.

• Hula and Luaus: Since this trope has more than 10 examples that can fit under a stereotype trope, I think this one is salvagable with wick cleaning. Though it might be good to make it even clearer in the description that this trope is for stereotypical depictions of Hawai'i (and the Pacific Islands more broadly). Might also need a rename, given the number of examples that seemed to just latch on hula and nothing else, but I'm not too sure on that one.

• Tropical Island Adventure: Compare Beach Episode, Holiday in Cambodia, Jungle Japes, Jungle Warfare, Ocean of Adventure, Palmtree Panic and Vacation Episode. Hula and Luaus, Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon! and East Indies are Hawaiian, Caribbean and Southeast Asian-specific subtropes respectively.
• East Indies: A short arc at the beginning of S3 of Archer has Archer get kidnapped by Ruthless Modern Pirates speaking an Indonesian-sounding language (and their bearded, nerdy white interpreter), and taking him back to their fort, where he then becomes pirate king, while his coworkers try to extract him.
• The Sultan of Sulu: Although soon to be merged with the Catholic-majority Philippines, Sulu resembles this trope more upon American arrival, with its proximity to the Islamic-majority regions of the later Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Sulu itself used to govern Sabah, a part of North Borneo, and still contests it with the Malaysian government today. That said, Ade's play does not attempt to "Orientalise" Sulu unduly for the sake of projecting exoticism, as its main intention is to satirise American turn-of-the-century prudishness and all the modern "conveniences" Americans thought Sulu badly needed. —this is more of a deconstruction than an aversion
• Tintin: Flight 714: Where the action takes place, complete with volcanoes, a jungle island, and a Komodo dragon.

• East Indies: Generally averted in the many Indonesian martial arts/action movies that came out in the wake of The Raid - including The Raid 2: Berandal, The Night Comes for Us, and Headshot - where Indonesia, and especially its capital of Jakarta, are depicted as modern nations with modern cities and modern problems, including crime, poverty, and corruption. Aside from the fact that they showcase the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat, these movies could have been set in any country and they'd work just as well. The Raid is also notable for showing its hero to be a Muslim, as most Indonesians are.
  • The Raid's predecessor, Merantau, has a little bit more of this trope, however, as the hero is an outsider to Jakarta, being from a more rural area of western Sumatra, brought to the big city by the traditional Minangkabau practice of merantau (when a young man leaves his home town to gain experience of the outside world as a rite of passage). The villains of the movie run a human trafficking ring - a common trope in Holiday in Cambodia-type stories - although in a twist on western fears of the east, the human traffickers are Americans, and the only white characters in an otherwise all-Indonesian cast. The director, Gareth Huw Evans, is a Welshman who had recently moved to Indonesia when he made the movie, and was fascinated with its culture.

• The Mythology Class: The ancient, precolonial and mythical lands from which the Mythology Class' mentors and guardians—Datimbang, Kubin, Tala, Aili, and Sulayman (and Nuno)—come from. The Philippines' ancestral cultures resemble much of their surviving counterparts in maritime South and Southeast Asia, and it's cultures like that which form the focus of Nicole's thesis (and of course, the Mythology Class' course content).
• Indonesia: The final third of Eat, Pray, Love is set in Bali. It manages to avoid most of the East Indies tropes, but does feature a wise Balinese medicine man and a mild dose of White Man's Burden when Liz (a white American woman) befriends Wayan, a healer and single mother that she decides to help out by supporting her business and raising funds for her to buy land to build a house on.
• Mystical India: See Stereotypical South Asian English, Countrystan, which is Fictional Country north and west of India, with a similar Muslim influence with a touch of Ruritania, and Holiday in Cambodia and the East Indies, which is Southeast Asia whose region was heavily influenced by pre-Islamic India.
• Manga/CMB: Like his cousin, Shinra and Nanase went to Bali. And it's presented as a kind of traditional place with witch doctors. Which is not really far from Truth in Television, if you know where to go. Of course, the case have something to do with Leyak, the local demon.

• Crappy Trope Definitions: Tropes: Indonesia exists.
• Kontrabando: Much of the second half of the film takes place in Jolo, Sulu, one of the southernmost Philippine islands, where much of the country's indigenous-Muslim population is based, and which shares much in cultural and religious makeup with neighbouring Indonesia. (Sulu used to be a sovereign Islamic sultanate until American colonialists appropriated control—and turned it over to the Catholic-lowlander Philippine government in Manila after 1946.)
• King Kong: Skull Island is located here.
• Laguna Copperplate Inscription: The pre-Philippine cultures suggested and mentioned in the plate paint a picture similar to the rest of the precolonial kingdoms across maritime Southeast Asia.
• The First Voyage Around The World: The expedition makes its way through maritime Southeast Asia, including its transit through what later Spanish conquistadores would name the Philippines and claim for the Spanish crown. As yet uncolonised by Spain, the Philippine cultures featured here exist on a cultural continuum with the rest of maritime Southeast Asia, which boasts a mixture of indigenous-Austronesian, Indian and (most recently) Islamic influences.
• The Phantom Ship (1837): A significant portion of the story takes place in Asia because that's where all the ships Philip sails with go. Because Philip is Dutch, Indonesia is visited too. It's where he survives a pirate attack, where Amine is lost (she reaches shore in New Guinea), where philip and Krantz get in trouble in Ternate and Tidore, where the Accursed Isle is located, and where Krantz gets killed by a tiger.
• Amaya: The setting is before any recorded Spanish (or other European) arrival in the islands, so in consequence the local cultures shown here have much in common with cultures and societies to their south and west, in would-be Indonesia. The series is set around the end of the Majapahit Empire as well, shortly before the Portuguese and Dutch began to colonise Indonesia itself.
• East Indies: Indio is set slightly later than Amaya, involving the same native Philippine societies now adjusting to early Spanish colonial rule, but a bit before their wholesale cultural and religious transformation into an Asian Latin Land.
• Video Game/DEFCON - "Risk"-Style Map: The world is divided into North America, South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, and Asia...
• Moshi Monsters - Tropical Island Adventure: Anything regarding Music Island, more specifically the Gombala Gombala Jungle. Furbert Snufflepeeps, Snuffy Hookums, Buster Bumblechops and Elder Furi got lost there and all ended up having something to do with the Hoodoos who are either joked or played straight to form a threat. The elements held by Gombala are a melting pot of cultures and places with the volcano KrakkaBlowa, the Green Hoodoos, the limbo, the "voodoo" practicing witch doctors and the Pirates.
• Player Unknowns Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds currently has five maps in regular rotation: a massive 8x8 km Russian island called Erangel; a sprawling 8x8 km Mexican desert region known as Miramar; a small 4x4 km southeastern Asian island named Sanhok; a medium-sized 6x6 km European winter-themed map named Vikendi, a tiny 2x2 North African island named Karakin and an 8x8 grand South Korean rural peninsula called Taego. An additional training map called Camp Jackal was added in 2018.
• Pet Gets the Keys: * Before its destruction in a fire in 2018, Europa-Park's "Piraten in Batavia" had the same scene as below, only it was in the Dutch East Indies and the pet was a monkey.
• Tropical Epilogue: Neither of which is to say this is actually supposed to be Hawaii (which would be a really stupid place for an American to flee to...) — it's more likely to be somewhere in Latin Land, the Caribbean or Oceania in general. British media has its own variation, usually involving the Costa del Sol, a famed retreat of British gangsters, or even Blackpool, where many Scottish gangsters avoided heat. More modern works will substitute Southeast Asia.
• East Indies: In the Discworld, the islands of Sumtri^note Sumatra are the canonical equivalent of Indonesia. A.A. Pessimal speculated that these were colonised by people from Sto Kerrig during their period of colonial expansion.
• East Indies: The Panau archipelago in Just Cause 2 is generally an amalgamation of the East Indies and other Southeast Asian countries, deserts and snow-capped mountains notwithstanding.
• East Indies: The Rook Islands in Far Cry 3. Although technically located in the South Pacific, the islands draws elements of mysticism, natural beauty and history from various East Indies locations.
• East Indies: Many of Mirasol's flashbacks/visions in The Crocodile God feature her earlier incarnations as the daughter of a Tagalog datu (chieftain) in the pre-Philippine islands before Spanish colonialism, and her later lives take on different backgrounds. True to form, there's a lot of Malay and Austronesian culture evident in the setting and characterizations, such as the close relationship with the seas (and Mirasol's particular relationship with Haik the sea-god). Unfortunately, their lives inevitably get more and more traumatized after Spain's arrival.
• East Indies: The third episode overall of Carmen Sandiego takes Carmen and her two thief friends to Java in Indonesia, where they foil a VILE plot to contaminate local rice supplies and corner local markets with their own rice exports. Naturally, being a franchise founded on geographical education, it's more accurate than other examples on this list, and features the local tradition of Wayang shadow puppetry.
• East Indies: Max Havelaar by Multatuli (ps. of Eduard Douwes Dekker) and De Stille Kracht (The Silent Force) by Louis Couperus are two of the better-known Dutch literary works set in what was then called Dutch East India. Max Havelaar has been made into a film; De Stille Kracht into a TV-series.
• East Indies: The Year of Living Dangerously is about Western reporters covering the 1965 civil war in Indonesia (also: Film).
• East Indies: A Dangerous Life, its Spiritual Successor, set in the Philippines at the end of the Marcos dictatorship in The '80s.
• East Indies: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is set in Borneo, but apparently missed the fact that anacondas live in South America. Borneo has its own big constrictor snakes, but they're pythons, not anacondas.

• Holiday in Cambodia: If you mix this trope with a strong dose of Latin Land and Tropical Island Adventure, a shot of East Indies, and in the major urban areas a sprinkling of Americasia, you'll get something like the Philippines, though for what it's worth, that country is mixed with so many and so disparate cultural influences—owing to nearly 500 years of Western colonialism more pervasive than almost any other country in the region—that it's a challenge to even represent at all, let alone accurately, in most media.
  • The exact same sentence appears on Latin Land.
• Jungle Opera: The Adventureland sections of Disney Theme Parks are usually themed this way, often with a vaguely Mayincatec, Darkest Africa, and/or East Indies vibe to its architecture. Rides like Jungle Cruise and Indiana Jones Adventure put guests right into this type of story.

• East Indies: The Swiss Family Robinson is the ur-example of this.
• East Indies: The original Dream Park book's role playing game subplot is set in this version of this setting.
• East Indies: Several of Willard Price's Adventure novels are set in this area.
• Useful Notes.Asia
• UsefulNotes.The Far East
• Hollywood Atlas
• National Stereotypes
• Super-Trope

• Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants: Vacation Episode set in Guadelupe, complete with rasta caterpillars. Yup.
• The Caribbean: Expect (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) everyone to have a Jamaican accent, regardless of where they are.
• The Office USS 3 E 11 Back From Vacation: Michael says his trip to Sandals was the first time he'd ever left America, and he comes back absolutely enamored of Jamaica, even having part of his hair in a Jamaican-style braid, and bringing a steel drum with him.
• Space Jews: The Fireys in Labyrinth have (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Caribbean accents and the requisite laid-back attitude, singing a Hakuna Matata-esque number to coax the protagonist away from her quest during a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.
• Hollywood Voodoo: This is a form of magic in either (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Caribbean or Louisianan flavors.
• Eminem - Relapse Slim Shady: Frequently slips into a Jamaican accent, playing off the stereotype of the Jamaican love of getting stoned. A few of the beats on Relapse incorporate Dubstep and dancehall influences, and he uses patois on a handful of songs (particularly "Must Be The Ganja" and "Drop The Bomb On Them").

• The Nation of Domination: The original WWF members were Faarooq, Clarence Mason and PG-13, joined later by Crush, Savio (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Vega and various nameless Mooks, with one devoted disciple standing out by the name of D'Lo Brown.
• Pedro Morales: One of the most iconic Puerto Rican wrestlers, the first to win a world championship in AWA, NWA and WWF, the big three. He also did commentary at the Spanish Announcers' Table.
• Static Shock: The animated show remembers that Virgil is Jamaican, so he has a slight patois to his voice.
• Busta Rhymes: Downplayed. He is of Jamaican descent and sometimes works this in his raps, but not to the degree of others.
• A Tribe Called Quest: Downplayed; Phife and Tip are first-generation Trinidadian and Montserratian, respectively, and occasionally worked it into their songs, but not often.
• Saturday Night Slam Masters: In the localization, King Rasta Mon is seemingly (as the name hints) Jamaican, though his hometown is listed as Venice, CA. And the Dominican Republic is still Caribbean anyway so whatever
• WWE Tag Teams: They were the first tag team to be from Puerto Rico.
• RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 - Vivacious: Is originally from Jamaica.
• Supa Strikas: Dancing Rasta: The Jamaican captain of the team, is prone to giving motivational speeches.

• Citizens of Earth - Musician: Speaks with a Jamaican accent.
• Vindictus - Simone: Has a Jamaican accent in the English localization.
• The Journey Down: Interspersed with the rest of the Black African cultural references in this game. Bwana and Kito in particular have outstanding accents.
• Reversal of Fortune (TLH): Zig-zagged with Canada, Eh? for Clyde, who picked up his Patois accent and mannerisms from his Jamaican-Canadian relatives in Toronto.
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3 - Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Gets scared out of doing Miss Cleo for the Snatch Game after Ru clocked her (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Jamaican Accent as sounding more Irish instead (and proceeded to stay Irish even after being pointed out as such).
• Ultra Fast Pony - Spike, Man of a Thousand Voices: Switches to completely different accents on several occasions: a Sean Connery impression in "Hippocratic Oafs", a (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Jamaican accent in "Utter Lunacy", a "Santa Claus" voice in "The Best Episode Ever", the Frat Bro accent in "How Not to Train Your Dragon", an "annoying teenager" voice in "Stranger than Fan Fiction", a hard-boiled detective voice in "Ponyville Noire", and a low, gruff voice in "The Longest Recap". (He likes this one so much he asks Twilight if he can make it his new, permanent accent. She refuses.)
• Skylanders - Trap Team Villains - Bad Juju: Her accent, like Zook's.
• ClayFighter: Nanaman has a Jamaican accent.

• Corrupt Politician: Dr. Kananga, the Big Bad of Live and Let Die, is the prime minister of the fictional Caribbean nation of San Monique. When he's not running his country, he's pushing drugs in Harlem under the name Mr. Big.
• Goof Troop: The setting of the game.
• Creator Provincialism - Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Despite revolving around Greek gods, the first book in the series is set in the modern US. The farthest place away from the US that the series shows is when Percy dreams of seeing Rachel spelling messages in a nondescript (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Caribbean beach (her family is vacationing there). Justified in the first book, where Percy is told that the Greek gods relocate to whoever happens to be the current Western powerhouse at the moment.
• In an episode of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Fat Cat ships in a gang of (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) nutty fruit bats from Jamaica to use as jewel thieves, paying them with fruit. Even he is amazed at how easy it is:
  Fat Cat: Imagine, trading nectarines for necklaces! Bananas for brooches! And tangelos for tiaras!
• Not-So-Safe Harbor: Set either somewhere in the (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Caribbean or in Southeast Asia, though not exclusively, expect it to be set in the 18th or the early 19th century.
• The Goldbergs S 7 E 19 Island Time: The hotel where Barry and the JTP are going is not in Jamaica, but Camaica. "It's 70 miles to the east and it's where Jamaica dumps all its garbage."
• The Andrews Sisters: "Rum and Coca-Cola" is about American tourists in Trinidad.
  Since the Yankee come to Trinidad
  They got the young girls all goin' mad
  Young girls say they treat 'em nice
  Make Trinidad like paradise
  Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
  Go down Point Koomahnah
  Both mother and daughter
  Workin' for the Yankee dollar
• Sangue Serenissima: It's revealed that in the early 1700s, Hardestadt and Eliza met in Nassau when Hardestadt was a pirate captain.
• Remember To Always Be Brave: Most of the book takes place here for the middle part, with Romanized and Native names hand in hand, especially on Puerto Rico, though Trinidad appears for and is fought over in a chapter. Zoticus and Pomona hail from Coco, Salinas, in Puerto Rico, and the military base becomes a center for the military operations for the middle part of the book.
• Marked for Death: The finale takes place in Jamaica.
• Jack Frost (1997): The sequel moves the titular killer snowman to The Bahamas. Must be one hell of a sunscreen.
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: Havana, Kingston, and Nassau are the primary locations, as well as southern Florida, in addition to Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Cuba and Jamaica.

• The British Empire: The West Indies: Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!. Included Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Cuba (briefly), Guyana (actually on South America's Caribbean coast), Trinidad and Tobago, Windward Islands, Leeward Islands. This era preceded, overlapped with, and succeeded The Golden Age of Piracy and its famous legendary figures.
• Costa Rica: Accordingly with the location and history of the country, its culture is mixed as hell; there is for example, the Province of Limón, which is a Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon! vibe of a place due to the fact the Spaniards brought slaves from Jamaica there, given how few people they could find.
• Nilsson Schmilsson: "Coconut" was performed in a West Indian feel.
• Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts: In (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Jamaica, there are many stories of this nature, in relation to the deadly Kendal Train Crash which happened on September 1, 1957 when the train derailed, claiming 186 lives as a result. According to one such story, a taxi driver picked up two well-dressed women who specified a certain address to him, and on their arrival the two got out of the car and went into the house. The driver assumed they were getting money to pay their fare, but when they did not come back after several minutes, he honked his horn impatiently, grabbing the attention of an old man from inside the house. When the driver explained why he honked his horn and described the two women, the old man exclaimed, "Those were my two sisters; they died in the train crash." The driver immediately fainted.

• Big Finish Doctor Who 088 Memory Lane
• Cool Runnings: At least, for the first act of the movie. Afterwards, we get the occasional shot of friends and family at home cheering their boys on.
• The Peter Serafinowicz Show - The Magazine Rule: Multiple overly specific magazines are advertised, including "Elephants and Trains" (yes, that specific combination), "Gravies of the Ancients" (a magazine about types of gravy from early history), and "Rings, Wings, Bings, Mings, Stings, Kings, and (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Tings".
• Pirates Vikings and Knights: The map bt_island, in particular.
• Monkey Island
• Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island
• WWE - New Generation Era - V
• National Stereotypes
• Twitch Plays Pokémon Red Anniversary - Jammin X
• Sid Meier's Pirates!
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: Secondary Characters - Stranglethorn Arena, Hollywood Voodoo: Given that Rastakhan's Rumble is the (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) troll set, this is inevitable. Some tribes use it more than others while some barely have it at all, but it's still an overarching theme.

• Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!: Hula Girls in Idol Springs whose dances can bring rain.
• Kawaisa: Not to be confused with the 50th and youngest of The United States, Hawaii—a notable Pacific Island archipelago, which is culturally so much more than just Hula and Luaus or the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, and the Kawaiisu indigenous Americans.
• Discworld Roleplaying Game: The Brown Islands, where the natives think of surfing as a religion, and have a habit of reassuring visitors they stopped sacrificing people to the volcano ages ago, in a vague manner that suggests they can't quite remember if they'd any reason to.
• The Brady Bunch: The show's Beach Episode takes the family to Hawaii for a vacation filled with alohas, hulas, leis, Hawaiian shirts and surfing. Greg also obtains a cursed Tiki.
• Carnaval Festival: Hawaii is represented by three stereotypical hula girls and a few musicians wearing Polynesian masks.
• Greener Grass: Nick's birthday party is Hawaiian-themed, which means there's a pig roast (that nobody bothered to turn, meaning one side is completely charred) and everyone wears tacky Hawaiian-patterned clothing.
• Black Widow (1987): The main part of the film is set in Hawaii. At the airport, a girl gives necklaces of flowers to the people coming out of the plane. The volcanoes are shown. Alex and the Black Widow practice scuba diving.
• Spike's Gambit: "A M.I.L.F. and A Luau" comes complete with hula, a roasted pig and Spike doing a torch dance.
• Lalaloopsy Generation 3 - Mango Tiki Wiki: She's basically everything Hawaiian in one character. She plays the ukulele, wears flowers, dances the hula, loves to host luaus, and eats coconuts.
• Ranma ½: The Kunos - Principal Kuno: Just came back from a 3-year vacation to Hawaii, and acts like a flamboyant walking stereotype of Hawaii. The man dresses in a grass skirt, "Hawaiian" shirt and sunglasses as his principal's uniform and wears a bonsai palm tree on his head.
• Survival Of The Fittest TV 3 - Nate: He's from Hawaii. To emphasize this, his fanservice costume consists of a grass skirt and a luau... and that's it.
• The Chief's Daughter: Even in Darkest Africa, Injun Country, or the land of Hula and Luaus, everything's better with princesses.
• Cyclical National Fascination: Returning American servicemen from the Pacific War brought home a fascination with the Polynesian culture that flourished from the late '40s to well into The '60s. "Tiki culture" took off with the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition and the 1948 James Michener short story collection Tales of the South Pacific (loosely adapted the following year into the musical South Pacific), and continued with the pseudo-tropical "exotica" music genre and a slew of "fun in the sun" movies set on Pacific islands. This also gave America a bunch of fruity cocktails garnished with little umbrellas. Hawaii gaining statehood in 1959 and the rise of cheap air travel gave it a second wind, embedding Hawaii in (Hula and Luaus) American pop culture as a pleasure resort (before that, it was a distant colonial outpost known for plantations, Pearl Harbor, and little else), a status that managed to outlast the Polynesian craze. The trope of the former GI running a tiki stand in paradise can still be found in some works.

• Wrestle Angels Survivor - Rosanne, Eagleland: Specifically, she's from (Hula and Luaus) Hawaii.

• Popeye the Sailor: Betty Boop's only role in there is performing a hula dance wearing the appropriate garments. Popeye joins her and even uses a bearded woman's beard as hula skirt.
• Magical Maestro: The singer is forced to perform a hula and luau dance at one point.
• The R.M.: The singles dance is a Johnny Lingo (Hula and Luaus) luau.
• Empath: The Luckiest Smurf: Despite being set in medieval Europe, "Virtual Smurfality" has the initial beach setting in the Imaginarium full of virtual Smurfettes wearing floral wreaths and doing dances similar to the hula.
• Disney Magical World - Rhythm Game: A minigame in the form of the balls held at Cinderella's palace. You dance by tapping the stars on the lower screen in time with the music. In the sequel, (Hula and Luaus) hula dancing and mining minigames are added to the mix, and the gameplay for all rhythm games is changed up a bit. Instead of tapping stars on the screen, you must press the buttons in the order which they appear on the screen.
• Chuck: Buy More - Anna, Ms. Fanservice: In "Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer", she wears a (Hula and Luaus) hula girl outfit.
• Tropical Epilogue: The final shot of a story is a character relaxing on a sun lounger with a fruity umbrella drink, looking pleased with themself on a sun lounger. Most likely wearing a colorful Hawaiian shirt amid a sea of Hula and Luaus.

• In the Navy: The Arizona stops over in Hawaii near the end, where Dorothy can make an escape.
• Skate Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Hawaii in Tony Hawk's Underground demonstrates something similar to this effect with its use of Hula and Luaus, even though Hawaii is a U.S. state and not a sovereign country.
• Mr Monk Goes To Hawaii: Monk and Natalie travel to Kauai. They go to a luau where the main course is supposed to be a pig cooked in a banana-leaf-covered pit, but the workers instead dig up a murder victim's body.
• Tony Hawk's Underground: The Hawaii level in the original Underground. Overlaps with Palmtree Panic.
• Collegiate American Football: Unless the team lucks out and gets invited to a bowl in a nice vacation spot, such as the (Hula and Luaus) Hawaii Bowl or (Welcome to the Caribbean, Mon!) Bahamas Bowl, of course.
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Played straight in the finale of season three, which takes place at a Spellman family reunion in Hawaii; Sabrina can't participate in the fun until she cracks the family secret, which reveals her twin Katrina and begins a contest to see which of them is evil. In the same episode, Sabrina learns that Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire, is her cousin.
• Deadliest Catch:
  • The 2011 series is in Hawaii. Additionally, the closing music of the preceding episode sounded like a Hawaiian-language choir — perfect background music for attacking a "cathedral of ice".
  • The 2020 spinoff Deadliest Catch: Bloodline is set in the waters off Hawaii. During a refitting of Cornelia Marie, Josh Harris and Casey McManus investigated Hawaiian fishing charts left behind by Josh's late father Phil, and went to Hawaii and teamed with veteran local fisherman Jeff Silva to focus on yellowfin tuna.
  • The Wild West(ish): 2012's edition takes place in Colorado, where the captains went horseback riding, river rafting, and a bit of bull riding (John Hillstrand broke five ribs).
• The Enchanted Tiki Room: The show draws a lot from American tiki culture. This trope is less prominent in the more showbiz-styled Under New Management and Get the Fever! versions, but it's definitely more fitting with the Stitch version.
• Gabriel Iglesias:
  • He recounts being mistaken for Hawaiian constantly (due to his Hawaiian shirt and size). He was perplexed and annoyed by people asking this... until he actually went to Hawaii and found out why (they all, quote, "look like swollen Mexicans" and are fluffy like him!)
  • He later did a special in Honolulu that poked fun at Hawaii life.
• Space☆Dandy: Dandy seems to be a big fan of this, from the name of his ship, the Aloha Oe, to the decorations inside. Even the mecha that his escape pod transforms into wears a Hawaiian shirt.
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 7 - Jaida, Textile Work Is Feminine: Jaida's designated location of inspiration for the self-sewn "Eleganza" segment of the Realness of Fortune Ball is Black Sand Beach, (Hula and Luaus) Hawai'i, and being a master-seamstress who creates ALL of her looks from scratch, she expertly crafts a stunning, corvid-themed, asymmetric dress and thigh-high boots from multiple different textures of black fabric to stunning effect. She deservedly places in the top 2, and wins her first Legendary Legends star after an exemplary lip-sync against Trinity to Beyoncé's "Greenlight".
• Umbrella Drink: A bright pink (or blue, or orange...) cocktail, garnished with big pieces of fruit (or lots of small ones on a skewer) and decorated with the all-important paper cocktail umbrella, possibly served in a coconut shell, a hollowed-out pineapple, a fancy curved glass or a tiki glass. This cocktail is associated with beaches and Pacific islands, especially Hula and Luaus vacations.

• Crash Canyon - Russel: Russel wears a grass skirt now that he's living on the lam with no clothes.
• Pokémon: Generation I - Bulbasaur to Parasect - Bellossom: Bellossom looks like a hula dancer with its grass skirt and flowers on its head. Strangely enough, the Oddish family, including Bellossom, are apparently not native to Alola, a region that is directly based on Hawaii.
• Beautiful All Along - Franchise/Pokemon: There's also The Oddish line in regards to Gloom, which is pretty much the least aesthetically pleasing. Evolving it into (Hula and Luaus) Bellossom is nothing short of an ugly duckling story. Even Vileplume seems like more of a reversion to Oddish's cuteness.
• Yokai Watch Heartful Tribe To Slippery Tribe - Grubsnitch: The grass skirt he wears gives him the resemblance of a native Hawaiian.
• Divided States of America: Hawaii going back to native rule.

• National Stereotypes
• Hollywood Atlas
• Pro Wrestling ZERO1: Inverted when Hawai'i Championship Wrestling came to Japan and Zero 1 instead put on this front for the occasion.
• Aja Kong - Lovely Angels: Despite not being around her as long as other partners, Hula Kong and Tracy Taylor probably played the trope the straightest in Hawai'i Championship Wrestling and Pro Wrestling ZERO1, as far as contrasting personalities go (KongZero1 (Hula and Luaus) were trying to be good hosts) For more regular partners, the bubbly, annoyingly optimistic near Perpetual Smiler Hiroyo Matsumoto is probably the best candidate.
• Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race: "Hawaiian Honeyruin".
• Giga Bash: Luana Island.
• Theatre/Florodora: Also has prototypical trappings of Hula and Luaus.
• Summer in Paradise: "Lahaina Aloha".
• Bob Marley: In the video for "Three Little Birds," for no clear reason, probably because he had nothing to do with the song's release as a single.
• Muriel's Wedding: Hibiscus Island
• Mad Men: The beginning of "The Doorway."
• Archipelago Exodus Misc Good - Albatross