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{{trope}}
[[File:uy fieldtrips 9263.jpg|link=Urusei Yatsura|frame|[[Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?|shh...]]]]
{{quote|'''Kevin''': All riiight, field trip!... Where we goin'?
'''Daria''': The field.
'''Kevin''': Cool!
|''[[Daria]]''}}
Any series that takes place in a school, be it elementary, middle, high, or even kindergarten, will have at least one episode that takes place during a class trip. The destination can vary, but for day trips, it's usually educational and [[Museum of Boredom|painfully boring (like a museum, a local historical landmark, or a cardboard box factory).]]
A whole episode '''Class Trip''' is a great change of scenery, and gives both an interesting place to cook up wacky hijinks and a watershed moment in romantic relationships between students. It's technically [[Not a Date]], but it gives couples a chance to sneak off and go sightseeing by themselves. The travel itself can be a bit of an adventure, and once the class gets there, there are endless opportunities for [[Zany Scheme]]s, illicit romance or [[
Anime really likes this one: Japanese schools generally send students on at least one '''Class Trip''' per school year. [[Tokyo Tower]] is a frequent destination for day outings, but many
Synonymous with [[Field Trip]].
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': The [[Cherry Blossoms]] watching episode is of the day-trip version.▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': The [[Cherry Blossoms]] watching episode
* ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'': The one to Hokkaido, where Ginta and Arimi start their [[Operation: Jealousy]] plan.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Class trips organized by Principal Kunō tends to be ''a lot nuttier'' than any other examples. The "Little Hawaii" fiasco comes to mind....
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* ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' starts on a day when three different schools have class trips to Tokyo Tower.
* ''Lovely Complex'' actually uses this quite effectively, as the school trip to Hokkaido {{spoiler|is when Otani rejects Risa}}.
* In one episode of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Asuka is upset that she can't go on the school trip because she
* In an episode of ''[[Lucky Star]]'', the girls take a class trip to Kyoto and included a stop ''at [[Kyoto Animation|the show's own animation studio]]''. The trip as a whole does not go well for Kagami.
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]''{{context}}
* ''[[Uta Kata]]''{{context}}
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* In ''[[School Rumble]]'', during an unspecified field trip, Harima attempts to sit next to Tenma on the class bus but accidentally gets on the wrong bus during a bathroom break.
* ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' has a point in the series where Daisuke's class goes on a school trip to the beach and all sorts of zany things happen. Daisuke manages to steal another art piece (and gain a new ally, Towa), Satoshi attempts to capture Dark, both Risa and Riku get lost... it spans at least a volume in the manga and several episodes of the anime. Most notably, this arc in the manga is the first time that Dark's rival, Krad, appears. (The anime had him appear in an earlier episode first.)
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]!'' did this. Unsurprisingly, {{spoiler|the plane
** The school tried to make it up to the students by having a second class trip for them on a cruise ship at Christmas. {{spoiler|The cruise ship was hijacked by Mithril}}.
* In the ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' manga, after the anime ends, the class goes to Kyoto (during which Tohru, Hanajima, and Arisa's teacher worries about their ''not'' trying to sneak into the boys' dorm room).
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* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Haruka [[Lampshade Hanging|notes]] that the hotel they are staying in the [[Beach Episode]] has this feel.
* ''[[Smile Pretty Cure]]'' has one to Kyoto and Osaka in Episode 13 and 14 respectively.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' features one to Kyoto. Naturally, it is packed with [[Harem Genre|the usual stuff]]...[[Genre Shift|right?]]▼
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* Made up out of whole cloth in ''[[Isekai by Moonlight]]'', since the middle-school's senior-year trip was never shown in the canon ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime. The protagonist wonders why school trips are always to Kyoto.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Battle Royale]]'' takes place during an extended class trip on an island... where the students literally have to kill each other.
* ''Learning Curve'' likewise has a group of incredibly badly-behaved kids duped into thinking they're going on special dream internships for the summer... {{spoiler|actually they're drugged, kidnapped, and imprisoned by a fed-up substitute teacher who tortures them into model students}}.
* ''Picnic at Hanging Rock''.{{context}}
== Literature ==▼
* Every book in ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' series (as well as every episode of the animated series) revolves around a class trip. And with Miss Frizzle and the titular school bus, these trips are educational, but far from boring, taking the kids to prehistoric times, to the depths of space or [[Fantastic Voyage|into a classmate's body]].▼
* [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|The Percy Jackson series]] starts off with one of these. The trip is somewhat cut short when Percy's math teacher turns into a horrible monster, tries to kill him, is vaporised, and seems to [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|disappear from everyone's memories]].▼
* [[Time Scout]] takes these up to eleven, where a field trip involves going to [[Victorian London]] or [[Ancient Rome]]. When something goes wrong on those field trips, it's ''very'' wrong.▼
▲== [[Literature]] ==
▲* Every book in ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' series (as well as every episode of the animated series) revolves around a class trip. And with Miss Frizzle and the titular school bus, these trips are educational, but far from boring, taking the kids to prehistoric times, to the depths of space or [[Fantastic Voyage Plot|into a classmate's body]].
▲* [[Percy Jackson
▲* ''[[Time Scout]]'' takes these up to eleven, where a field trip involves going to [[Victorian London]] or [[Ancient Rome]]. When something goes wrong on those field trips, it's ''very'' wrong.
== [[Live
* The [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]''.
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Incan Mummy Girl" opens with a class trip to a museum.
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* An early episode of ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]'' subverts this somewhat as Steve's class is at the airport waiting to board a plane to Cleveland to visit The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The flight is delayed because of snow. [[Hilarity Ensues]] with Bullethead making prank announcements on the courtesy phone among other things. They even meet Jerry Springer.
* Season 2 of ''[[The Inbetweeners]]'' opens with one to Swanage. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Episodes 33-34 of ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]''.{{context}}
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* Sadly Averted in ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]''. That mission would've been sick.
* The ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' series:
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** Continued in ''[[Persona 4]]''. With a trip to [[Continuity Nod|Port Island.]] Which, like the trip above, is also used as a [[Breather Episode]] with no fights or conflict, just fun. Notably, KING'S GAAAAAAAME! *hic*
* ''[[Little Busters!]]'' has one as a very prominent plot point. {{spoiler|To elaborate, the ''whole'' game is set in a virtual world created when the said trip [[Gone Horribly Wrong]].}}
▲* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' features one to Kyoto. Naturally, it is packed with [[Harem Genre|the usual stuff]]...[[Genre Shift|right?]]
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', like ''[[Battle Royale]]'', has the classes chosen for the [[Deadly Game|latest SOTF season]] abducted from their school trips, almost always on June 19 . The exception to this is Bathurst in v2, where the two classes were taken from a sexual education seminar due to {{spoiler|the terrorists' [[The Mole|mole]], Steven Wilson, having spent the year masquerading as the new principal, and then choosing that moment to pump the auditorium full of sleeping gas}}.
* Even [[lolcat]]s like to go on [http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/09/28/funny-pictures-kitteh-committeh-field-trip/ field trips.]
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* As mentioned in the literature section, the entire premise of ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' is going on some sort of field trip. The trips usually start out mundane, but [[Cool Teacher|Ms. Frizzle]] and [[Cool Car|the Bus]] end up making them pretty [[Fantastic Voyage|crazy]].▼
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* As mentioned in the literature section, the entire premise of ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' is going on some sort of field trip. The trips usually start out mundane, but [[Cool Teacher|Ms Frizzle]] and [[Cool Car|the Bus]] end up making them pretty [[Fantastic Voyage|crazy]].
* ''[[Fillmore!]]!'' has an episode where Fillmore, Ingrid and O'Farrell go on a class trip with an assortment of other one-episode characters. They go to a museum and when a picture is defaced, Fillmore and Ingrid must find out who the perpetrator is before the ink dries.
* ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' had at least two field trip episodes during its run, both of which resulted in ''near-complete chaos''.
* ''[[Daria]]'' goes on field trips thrice, first to the Mall of the Millennium for economics, though it's implied the teacher only wants to go because of the opportunity to find her Beanie Baby-esque collectibles, and in a later season, the students go to play paintball with Mr. DeMartino in order to "learn the effects of '''''warfare''''' on all aspects of society." Following that, the students went mountain climbing with disastrous results.
* In the ''[[Invader Zim]]'' episode "A Room with a Moose", Zim uses a fake class trip to send his classmates to their doom.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' had one episode in which Bart's class went on a trip to a box factory. On the way they pass these other school busses outside of better places (if I remember right, one was even outside a toy factory). There was another episode where the class went to the Post Office, which was less mundane for the characters.
** They also had an episode where the school went to a chocolate factory, a trip Bart missed because he forgot his permission slip.
** In another, Bart's class visits the Springfield Police station and creates a sonic boom by linking up loads of megaphones.
** ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has had numerous class-trip episodes. "Homer's Odyssey" has one of the funniest moments of the entire series, on a trip to the nuclear power plant, where Sherri and Terri simultaneously kiss Bart. Then there's "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" where Bart and Lisa are made "buddies" on a trip to Capital City, resulting in their missing the bus home because there's nobody to report either of them absent. And of course there's "Das Bus", where the kids get stranded on a remote island... I'm sure there are '''many''' more.{{verify}}
* ''[[Lloyd in Space]]'' featured one episode where Lloyd's class goes to "Wormhole National Park", the main attraction being a wormhole (duh!). Lloyd ends up sucked into it at one point and teleported into a garbage bin, but the others don't know that
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': The class went on a field trip to Mexico or something.{{verify}} It got cancelled and ended up in Pirate Haven Mystery Cove Bay. Or something.{{verify}} And they fought pirates.
** It was a Senior Trip, with the original destination supposed to be the beach for a weekend of fun in the sun. Instead, they wound up in a Colonial Reenactment town, and were forced to take part. And then they fought pirates. So much for that vacation.{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
* ''[[Recess]]'' did this a few times. One instance that sticks
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has one class trip to the Axiom Lab at the beginning where we're treated to chaos from the [[Monster of the Week]] and a super computer that is relevant to the overall plot.
* In an episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', Harold and Helga get left behind after a trip to a chocolate factory. They then spent the entire afternoon trying to get home.
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' episode "The Lake". XANA choosing this time to attack is sure to make a class trip less boring and a lot more dangerous.
** Also, in the episode "Lyoko Minus One", Yumi's science class went on a class trip. Of course, XANA attacked, and Yumi ended up fighting off her entire class, but in the end, the class still got a chance to study plants.
* In a ''[[Home Movies]]'' episodes called
* During the ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'' episode "Field Trip to Folsom Prison", Chicken exchanges identity with an inmate. You can guess the rest.
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