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When part of the cast is involved in something like this while everyone else is busy with important stuff, it's [[Trapped By Mountain Lions]]. In [[Anime]] this is often a way to provide [[Padding]] when the plot [[Overtook the Manga]]. If the events are not merely irrelevant but ludicrous, it's a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]. Can be considered a form of [[Plot Detour]] in many circumstances.
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* [[Enid Blyton]] built lots of her fairy stories on this.
* The first few ''[[Spellsinger]]'' novels were episodic, but still possessed a plot. Later ones ... not so much. Most obvious in the sixth, which features so many escapes from cannibal tribes that [[Lampshade Hanging|even one of the characters complains about the monotony.]]
* ''[[Congo]]'' (that is, [[Adaptation Distillation|the original novel]] by [[Michael Crichton]]) has this right in the end. After the main characters have escaped the [[Super Persistent Predator|killer gorillas]]. After the Lost City [[Collapsing Lair|has been destroyed]]. After they've accepted that the [[Non -Human Sidekick|good gorilla]] [[I Choose to Stay|will return to live in the jungle]]. THEN!! this cannibal tribe appears from nowhere after not being a problem through the entire book and attacks them, forcing the good guys to refuge in a crashed airplane and use all the weapons they can find. Not surprising it was left out in [[The Film of the Book]].
* Piers Anthony's ''[[Xanth (Literature)|Xanth]]'' series of books tend to be made up of almost nothing BUT these. It is a common aspect of the books for the main characters, while traveling long distances towards their main goal, to be stopped every couple of pages by some pointless, punnish characters. Sometimes these characters have a small problem, which the main characters tend to solve within one paragraph. Other times, the wayside characters serve no purpose other than introducing themselves and explaining their unique magic ability (many of which are based on readers' mail-in suggestions).
* ''The Plains of Passage'', fourth book in Jean M Auel's [[Earths Children]] series, <s>features a whole lot of this</s> is made entirely of this.
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* The ''[[Land of Oz (Literature)|Oz]]'' stories are pretty much entirely comprised of these sorts of adventures, with most of the stories featuring traveling characters "discovering" new, slightly dangerous parts of Oz and having to navigate around the wild animals / monsters / cannibals / etc.
** This goes back to the first book and the Dainty China Country. A city surrounded by a wall that only exists to lengthen the journey from Point A to Point B. The instant they leave the city it's never spoken of again.
* ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]'': The last chapters of the First Part are dedicated to solving a [[Romantic Plot Tumor]], reading a [[Show Within a Show|Novel Within A Novel named ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] and to [[Forgotten Trope|hearing the tale of the Captive Captain]], leaving Don Quixote as a mere spectator in his own book. In the Second Part Cervantes makes an [[AuthorsAuthor's Saving Throw]] when Don Quixote [[Lampshade Hanging|opines]]:
{{quote| ''"...and I know not what could have led [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|the author to have recourse to]] [[Show Within a Show|novels]] and [[Romantic Plot Tumor|irrelevant stories]], [[ItsIt's All About Me|when he had so much to write about in mine; no doubt he must have gone by]] [[Filler|the proverb 'with straw or with hay, &c.,' for by merely setting forth my thoughts, my sighs, my tears, my lofty purposes, my enterprises]], [[Doorstopper|he might have made a volume as large, or larger than all the works of El Tostado]] <ref>Alfonso de Madrigal, philosopher whose works "have more than twenty volumes.".</ref> would make up"''.}}
* Much of ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|Huckleberry Finn]]''.
* ''[[Count and Countess (Literature)|Count and Countess]]'' is a serious and grim story, but Vlad Tepes' background as a [[Child Soldiers|child soldier]] is occasionally interspersed with anecdotes of two Turkish bandits who initiate a furious rivalry with Vlad and Istvan Bathory. It's played completely for comedic effect and probably to give the reader a breather from all the beatings, torture, and mercy killings Vlad is forced to experience.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|8-Bit Theater]]'' had four of these, most of which had nothing to do with the source material. Doesn't stop them from [[Rule of Funny|being pretty darn funny]], though:
** First there's a journey to the arctic (for a reason revealed ''[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/05/10/episode-551-so-close-and-yet-so-far/ after it happened]'') which only served to introduce a group of doom cultists which returned later. Though this was at least based on the Ice Cave quest for the floater/levistone in the original ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]''.
** Then the Light Warriors take over a nameless town through force after getting stuck on the Air Orb quest.
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