There's No Place Like Home: Difference between revisions

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* The [[Trope Namer]] is, of course, the film version of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. Surprisingly, the phrase never actually shows up in the book.

* ''[[Back to The Future]]''

* ''[[ET the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]''

* ''[[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]''

* The ultimate goal of Maximus in ''Gladiator''.

* In ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'', it's rescue Toby, THEN get home.

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* ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''

* In ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The Odyssey]]'', the protagonist has been unable to return home to Ithaca for 20 years of warfare and increasingly lonely wandering. Even when the goddess Calypso wants to make him her immortal sex buddy, all he wants is to see his mortal family again.

** [[Shout Out|Referenced]] in a well-known sonnet from the collection ''Les Regrets'' by Joachim du Bellay (1525-1560), who felt homesick for France while serving as a cardinal's secretary in Rome: "The seat my fathers built pleases me more than the Roman palaces with their bold front, more than hard marble I like the fine shale, more the Gallic Loire than the Latin Tiber, more my little Liré than the Palatine Mount, more than the sea breeze I like the Angevin sweetness." The opening words, ''Heureux, qui comme Ulysse'' ("Happy (is he), who like Ulysses") have also been used as as the title of a film starring Fernandel, who takes an old horse to the Camargue to set it free.

** [[Shout-Out|Referenced]] in a well-known sonnet from the collection ''Les Regrets'' by Joachim du Bellay (1525-1560), who felt homesick for France while serving as a cardinal's secretary in Rome: "The seat my fathers built pleases me more than the Roman palaces with their bold front, more than hard marble I like the fine shale, more the Gallic Loire than the Latin Tiber, more my little Liré than the Palatine Mount, more than the sea breeze I like the Angevin sweetness." The opening words, ''Heureux, qui comme Ulysse'' ("Happy (is he), who like Ulysses") have also been used as as the title of a film starring Fernandel, who takes an old horse to the Camargue to set it free.

* ''[[Stardust (Literature)|Stardust]]''

* Another [[Neil Gaiman]] novel, ''[[Neverwhere]]'', also uses this.

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** Aside from the obvious "plane crash survivors wanting to go home" plot (which is {{spoiler|resolved halfway through the series}}), a much more specific form of this trope comes in season 6:

{{quote| {{spoiler|The Smoke Monster}}: "I want the one thing that John Locke didn't. ''I want to go home.''"}}

* Ian and Barbara in the first season of ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]''.

* Ian and Barbara in the first season of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

** Also Jo in ''[[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/Recap/S10 E4 Planet of the Daleks|Planet of the Daleks]]''. She even turns down a chance to stay with a man in love with her because she wanted Earth.

** Also Jo in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E4 Planet of the Daleks|Planet of the Daleks]]''. She even turns down a chance to stay with a man in love with her because she wanted Earth.

* ''[[Gilligans Island]]''

* ''[[Quantum Leap]]''

* ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]''

* ''[~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Journey~~ The Fantastic Journey]'' (1977)

* ''[[wikipedia:The Fantastic Journey|The Fantastic Journey]]'' (1977)

* ''[[Otherworld]]'' (1985), which had a very similar plot to ''The Fantastic Journey''.

* ''[[Sliders]]''. Ironically, the group made it back to their own world at the start of Season Two... but they mistakenly thought that they ''hadn't'' {{spoiler|because the gate was oiled since becoming lost}}, so they left again.

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