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{{quote|''"Calvin, tell your dad that any judge would take this trip as grounds for divorce."''|'''Mom''', ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''}}
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** Bud rents Al to some neighborhood kids for an overnight campout. No food, can't build a real fire, and Steve gets massive poison ivy.
* In one episode of [[Two and A Half Men]], 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 [[Ghost Story]] and getting him to sing songs.
* In ''[[The Middle]]'', 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
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** Just to give you an idea about how bad they usually are, one in particular, Skeeter Falls, had them going to a camping waterfall which, as the name implied, was a breeding ground for Mosquitos, and Roger picked the absolute wrong time to go camping there, as it turned out that they picked it at a time where mosquitos breeding was at its peak. They had their own personal ranger only because they were the only campers there. As a result, they had to contend to swatting mosquitoes while swimming, fishing, and other times. They also would have to wake up around 1:38 AM to take a two hour hike to witness a geyser erupting. Just when things couldn't possibly get worse, it did: A Bear managed to sneak into the camp site while they were swimming, and thanks to Roger's insistance that they simply observe the bear, the bear managed to completely wreck the family's food cooler and presumably eat all of the food except for half a bag of gummi-worms and three mini pretzels, to which Jason, a natural computer game fanatic, even began to miss his computer games specifically because "doom" keeps flashing in his mind. Roger, instead of taking the logical choice of leaving camp early, decided they'd fish with a passion, to which the family members managed to get their hooks and lines tangled up, and having to eat fish essentially 24/7. After the camping trip and while preparing to leave, Andy sorely hints that she plans on leaving Roger at Sketter Falls after he showed her a bumper sticker that said "I left my [blood] at Skeeter Falls."
*** Even worse, it's implied that the Foxes didn't pack any insect repellent.
** Roger also took the family camping in the desert called Cactus Flats. In the middle of August. For two weeks. Even worse, a news report that featured said desert mentions that it's the hottest it's ever
* ''[[The Family Circus]]'' did this ''twice'' - once in the 70s, and modified and rerun again in 2009.
* [[Garfield]] has been forced to go an a few of these.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The aftermath of a
* One is ''planned'' in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', when the teachers take the students out into the woods in the rain. Then [[Training Accident|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... Among them were at least two fledgling [[Mad Scientist|mad scientists]] and three magic users ''known'' to us. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Ben and his family from ''[[Loserz]]'' once go on such a trip. Maybe not as bad as other examples on this page, although [[Everything's Worse with Bees|bees]] are still involved.
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