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[[Discredited Trope|A largely outdated plot]].
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See [[Cosmetic Catastrophe]] for the female version of this trope.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Subverted ''hilariously'' in ''[[School Rumble]]''. The four main girls agree to have a swimming race with a group of boys they met at the local pool, the cost of their losing being having to go out on a date with them, and if the girls win, the boys have to buy them an extremely expensive meal. Tenma can't swim, but figures among her three friends (one of whom is extremely athletic), one of the girls is surely fast enough to beat the boys. {{spoiler|When they jump into the water, all four girls sink straight to the bottom. Turns out none of them could swim and were all thinking the same thing Tenma was.}}
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', a team of guys (a bunch of football players and Tim) think that they can construct a house better and faster than a team of women (plus Wilson and Al). Naturally, they've learned their lesson by the end of the episode.
** There was another episode where Jill and Tim visit an army base and are allowed to have a quick race using a pair of tanks. Naturally, Jill beats the pants off Tim, who can barely get his tank pointed in the right direction, but the difference in skill makes perfect sense when you remember Jill is a [[Military Brat]].
*** Well, Tim did prove that tanks can destroy golf carts without any problems.
* Subverted on an episode of ''[[Friends]]''. The guys play poker. The girls want in. The guys imply they wouldn't be any good at it, and the girls call them sexist and challenge them to a serious poker game. Of course, never having played before tends to be a disadvantage no matter what gender you are, so the guys easily beat them and take all their money.
** {{spoiler|Further subverted later in the episode after the girls get advice from an experienced female poker player. After their one lesson, the girls are still not as good as the more experienced guys.}}
* Happened in one episode of ''[[Dinosaurs]]'': the guys go on a hunting trip and end up hopelessly lost. They are rescued by the females, who had spent the day doing typical male activities (watching sports, drinking beer, etc.), resulting in something of a gender reversal.
* The girls of [[The Partridge Family]] went out camping and the guys followed them. The girls handled themselves pretty well and the guys ended up starving.
* Toyed with in 'Alpha Male' of [[Gene Simmons Family Jewels]]. Sophie got her family to go camping. Gene was convinced that as the alpha male, he can provide the food but he got squeamish when baiting a fishing hook. On the other hand, Shannon could clean fish and had actually explained to a stunned Nick how to decapitate a chicken by swinging it around by the head and then how to get the feathers off.
* Done in [[I Love Lucy]] as well. Ricky wants to go camping by himeslf, but Lucy demands to come with, so he figures he'll go on a really hellish, miserable experience to make her sorry she came. Lucy overhears this and, with help from Ethel, decides to cheat and beat him at every camping activity. Like when they arrive, they decide to race to the campsite, each taking different paths. While Ricky runs and rushes to beat her, Lucy waits 'til he's out of sight and just has Ethel drive her. Naturally, Lucy being Lucy, she gets caught in the end.
* A variation on ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', where the boys' misery was due not to incompetence, but instead to Ron Swanson's [[The Spartan Way|"misery builds character"]] attitude. The resolution sees not one, but two co-ed groups; the have-fun one Leslie Knope started, and a more rough-and-hearty one she founds in Ron's name after his kids all jump ship.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One of the very first episodes of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' sent the family camping. Lisa and Marge successfully build their own campfire, while Homer ends up cold, naked and ultimately mistaken for Bigfoot.
* Female-less version: ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', "Fishing Trip".
* ''[[The Proud Family]]'' did this with a camping trip in the surprisingly named episode "Camping Trip". Not only do the ladies one-up the guys, but the kids do too.
* Inverted in ''[[Peanuts|It's a Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!]]''. The girls have a terrible time of it because of Pepperment Patty's [[
* In an episode of ''Maxi's World'', it's played just about to the t besides that the girls use such things as cosmetics or small electric appliances to help. Then, at the end where an attempt to scare the girls with a fake bear is spoiled when a real bear appears and the boys and girls fend it off and both admit their mistakes.
* An episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' that also featured a ''[[
* Played straight, and then subverted in the [[Fairly Oddparents]] episode "Squirrely Puffs" where Timmys dad leads a camping trip for the Boy Scouts expy The Squirrel Puffs, while Timmys Mom leads the Girl Scout expy the Cream Puffs. The trip goes about how you'd expect, with the boys having a miserable time, and the girls easily thriving in the woods, to the point where they are joined by singing woodland creatures. It is then subverted when the Puffs end up being trapped by a storm, and [[Hell Is That Noise|the animals refuse to stop singing]], not to mention weaving posionous berries into their hair, while the boys trip starts going smoother.
* In the episode "Lewis and Clark and Larry" from [[Time Squad]], this trope comes into play when the famed explorer team split up, [[Ho Yay|in a way that is deliberatly played like a relationship split]]. Larry ends up going with Lewis, and their exploration trip is a breeze, while Tudrussel and Otto, who go with Clark, goes through a nightmarish death march of a trip, including getting lost because none of them know how to read a map, almost starving to death and being chased by a bear.
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