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== Films -- Live Action ==

* The ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movie, "Chill Out, Scooby-Doo" had the gang trying to avoid mysteries on vacation—but fails because Scooby-Doo and Shaggy ended up on the wrong plane.

* In ''[[What About Bob]]?'' Richard Dreyfuss' psychiatrist character, Dr. Leo Marvin, goes on vacation to get away from his neurotic, clingy patient Bob Wiley. Bob follows him, and his continued antics lead to the following exchange:

* In ''[[What About Bob?]]?'' Richard Dreyfuss' psychiatrist character, Dr. Leo Marvin, goes on vacation to get away from his neurotic, clingy patient Bob Wiley. Bob follows him, and his continued antics lead to the following exchange:

{{quote|'''Dr. Catherine Tomsky:''' Relax, Leo.

'''Dr. Leo Marvin:''' I'M RELAXED!

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* In Peter Tremayne's ''Sister Fidelma'' novels, Fidelma, a Dark Ages defence lawyer, seems to keep finding murders when she's off-duty, whether she's attending the fair at a neighbouring kingdom or on pilgrimage to Rome.

* [[Biggles]] complains of this when his squadron finds itself being shuttled around the world in one of his World War 2 adventures.

* Played with in [[The Dresden Files]], where Billy asks Harry (a real-life professional wizard) to participate in their [[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons|D&D]] session. Harry declines, saying it "sounds too much like work."

* Played with in [[The Dresden Files]], where Billy asks Harry (a real-life professional wizard) to participate in their [[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]] session. Harry declines, saying it "sounds too much like work."

** He eventually accepts, on the condition that he plays a [[Dumb Muscle|barbarian]] with "enormous thews."

** In the short story "Day Off", after securing a rare entire day to himself and planning to spend it with his girlfriend, Harry instead spends most of it dealing with the same kind of havoc he usually has on his plate, although of an unusually trivial variety, such as his werewolf friends getting supernatural fleas (for the record, it's of the "unusually trivial variety" because the story was written for a story anthology called "Blood Lite," in which an author challenged some of her sci-fi/horror writer friends to take a shot at comedy.)

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'''Gunn:''' Now we do that fighting-for-our-lives thing that we do. }}

* This happens to [[House (TV series)|House]] quite a bit. In the Season 2 episode "Deception," House is at an OTB parlor when the woman he's chatting with has a seizure. Without telling anyone he's a physician, he tells bystanders to have her sent to his hospital after noticing an interesting rash on her abdomen. In the Season 3 episode "Airborne," Cuddy and House are flying back from a medical conference (which may therefore not count as a vacation) in Singapore when one of the passengers falls ill. In Season 4's "You Don't Want To Know," Cole and Kutner are at a magic show in Atlantic City when the magician passes out in the middle of the Chinese Water Torture trick. It happens to both House and Thirteen in Season 5: in "Lucky Thirteen," the eponymous character has a one night stand with a woman who starts seizing shortly after they finish; "Locked In" has House injured in a traffic accident out-of-town only to wind up in the hospital next to a man with a rare form of severe paralysis. In the two-part Season 4 finale, it's given a much more [[Amateur Sleuth]] slant, as {{spoiler|Amber's use of a certain flu medication would not have been a medical problem if House's presence hadn't caused her to be in a bus accident that damaged her kidneys.}}

* In the ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'' episode "The Last of the Watermen", Kay decides to call in an impromptu sick leave to escape Baltimore's grisly murders. She returns to her family in Chesapeake Bay, only to end up in the middle of ''another'' homicide investigation.

* In the ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' episode "The Last of the Watermen", Kay decides to call in an impromptu sick leave to escape Baltimore's grisly murders. She returns to her family in Chesapeake Bay, only to end up in the middle of ''another'' homicide investigation.

* In the aptly-named "Captain's Holiday" episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation]]'', Picard accidentally ends up spending his vacation trying to stop the evil aliens' master plan to conquer the universe—which is his day job.

** Make this every "shore leave" episode of Star Trek ever. Bonus points if the crew member in question has been ordered to take time off by the chief medical officer.

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'''Captain Stottlemeyer:''' That's true.

'''Adrian Monk:''' What?

'''Captain Stottlemeyer:''' [[Continuity Nod|There was the time you went on vacation, and then on the airplane...]]

'''Adrian Monk:''' These things happen!

'''Captain Stottlemeyer:''' [[Continuity Nod|And that stage play...]]

'''Adrian Monk:''' It happens!

'''Natalie Teeger:''' To you! }}

** Natalie even concludes at the end of the episode that fate makes Monk go to these places JUST SO he will be there to solve the murders...

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* Whenever [[Inspector Lynley]] takes a holiday, it's a fair bet that it won't be much of a holiday. He even manages to nose his way in on an investigation when he's ''suspended!'' This man takes [[Married to the Job]] to a whole new level...

* In the [[Covert Affairs]] episode ''Half a World Away'', Auggie goes on vacation to Istanbul, having volunteered to help with the sound setup for a major jazz festival. His setup picks up a voice he recognizes as the terrorist who blinded him, and his vacation turns into an unofficial op.

* In the ''[[Mission Impossible]]'' episode ''Kidnap'', Jim and Barney are on vacation, and Jim is planning a tennis game like it's a mission, talking about the opponent's weaknesses and how to go after him.

* In the ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' episode ''Kidnap'', Jim and Barney are on vacation, and Jim is planning a tennis game like it's a mission, talking about the opponent's weaknesses and how to go after him.

* Happens unintentionally to JD in the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode ''My Way Home''. On his day off, he's paged by an intern to answer a (rather easy and pointless) question. He spends the rest of the episode trying to leave the hospital and get home, but keeps getting caught and interrupted.

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*** And pretty much the exact same festival in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', which Bowser also attacks.

** If you consider it to be canon, ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' [[All There in the Manual|starts off with the heroes falling asleep while on a nice outing]]...

** And ''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii]]'' starts with the heroes at Princess Peach's birthday party. Cue attack by the Koopalings and Bowser Jr.

** And ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' starts with the heroes at Princess Peach's birthday party. Cue attack by the Koopalings and Bowser Jr.

** For that matter, ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' starts with Mario simply heading to Rogueport to join Peach in searching for treasure. He runs into [[The Dragon]] the second his ship arrives, and it just gets worse from there.

* Whenever the protagonist in the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series takes an interest in anything, someone will die in connection to it. Many members of the [[Economy Cast]] [[Lampshade Hanging|pick up on this]], but think it's ''them'' with the bad luck.

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== Western Animation ==

* Many ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' episodes. Very noticeable on ''[[What's New Scooby Doo]]'', because most episodes are about them going on vacation and encountering a monster.

* Many ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' episodes. Very noticeable on ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?]]'', because most episodes are about them going on vacation and encountering a monster.

** There was also an episode of ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo]]'' where the crew goes on a cruise to help a clearly unhinged Scooby to relax. The cruise ship turns out to be a [[Ghost Ship]] heading straight for [[The Bermuda Triangle]]. And not only do they have to deal with the ghost crew and passengers, but the [[Bermuda Triangle]]'s power causes all the ghosts they had captured to ''be released'' (though luckily a [[Deus Ex Machina]] sorted everything out).

** There was also an episode of ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo]]'' where the crew goes on a cruise to help a clearly unhinged Scooby to relax. The cruise ship turns out to be a [[Ghost Ship]] heading straight for [[The Bermuda Triangle]]. And not only do they have to deal with the ghost crew and passengers, but the [[Bermuda Triangle]]'s power causes all the ghosts they had captured to ''be released'' (though luckily a [[Deus Ex Machina]] sorted everything out).

** [[Lampshade Hanging]] in one episode of ''What's New'': Fred announces that they're going to visit his uncle's museum, in an abandoned castle next to a graveyard. Shaggy laments "Aw, man, we're not even ''waiting'' for the monsters to find us any more!" So instead they do what Scooby wants and go to a dog show. There's a monster.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' does a lot of traveling as part of her "charity work"; but, on top of that, any family vacation, cheerleading away game, or visit to her Nana's house inevitably runs headlong into something evil.

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* In an episode of ''[[American Dad]]'', Roger goes on a date with a bartender... at the same bar she works at... and he has her serve the drinks. She is visibly annoyed by it.

* ''[[Martin Mystery]]'': No matter what they do, Martin, Diana and Java always have to deal with something supernatural. They visit an aunt in the countryside? They're attacked by a [[Scary Scarecrows|possessed scarecrow]]. They buy a guitar, or a typewriter, or some random stuff on the Internet? It's magic and evil. They go on a corporate retreat? Time for an ''[[Evil Dead]]'' [[Whole-Plot Reference|episode]].

* Anytime the girls of ''[[Totally Spies]]'' try to relax, a mission is not too far away.

* Anytime the girls of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' try to relax, a mission is not too far away.

* [[Played With]] on ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''--[[Aquaman]] is sight-seeing on the surface with his family, but is bored stiff and wants to go fight crime. He keeps slipping away whenever he sees news of another superhero in need of aid.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who Expanded Universe|Doctor Who]]'' adventure game ''TARDIS'', Amy [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] that a lot of the Doctor's holidays always go wrong. The Doctor is upset by this, trying to prove Amy wrong by heading to 23rd century London, only to lead into the cliffhanger for the next game, involving alien sharks and flesh-eating shadows.

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