Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 51: Vacation Episode

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Yesterday's Results
Bedlam House:
Arkham Asylum - 6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 4
Briarcliff Manor - 2
Mount Massive Asylum - 2
Highland Creek - 2
Comstock House - 1
Blackfield Asylum - 1
Shutter Island - 1
Maison des Lunes - 1

Abandoned Hospital:
Brookhaven Hospital - 3
Alchemilla Hospital - 2
Verruckt facility - 1
Sagai hospital - 1
Briarcliff Manor [modern day] - 1
Blackwood Pines - 1
Medical Pavilion - 1
Our Lady of Hope Hospital - 1
The Orphanage - 1
Forget-Me-Not - 1
Danvers State Hospital - 1

Nominations
Ensemble Dark Horse
Iconic Sequel Character
Mix and Match Critters
Broken Ace
The Rival
Intelligible Unintelligible
Relationship Voice Actor
Bedlam House
Adolf Hitlarious
Disposable Intern
Goth Girls Know Magic
Uncanny Valley
The Zeppo
Vacation Episode
Tear Jerker
Good All Along
Tragic Villain
Body Surf

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.
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Full Results
Fat Best Friend - Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
Creepy Child - Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)
Genre Savvy - Abed Nadir (Community)
Wrong Genre Savvy - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
Enemy Outside - Piccolo (Dragonball Z)
Ascended Extra - Harley Quinn (Batman)
Final Girl - Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
The Adjectival Man - The Illusive Man (Mass Effect)
Adaptational Hero - Bigby Wolf (The Wolf Among Us)
Adaptational Villain - The Monster (Frankenstein)
Superpowered Evil Side - Yami Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Mad Bomber - Norman Osbourne/Green Goblin (Spider-Man)
Regretful Traitor - Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) / Boromir (Lord of the Rings)
Bare-Fisted Monk - Captain Falcon (Smash Bros.)
Sexy Priest - Kirei Kotomine (Fate series)
Butt Monkey - Jerry Gergich (Parks & Rec) / Luigi (Mario Bros.) / Toby Flenderson (The Office)
Eldritch Abomination - Cthuhlu (The Call of Cthuhlu) / Giygas (Earthbound)
Scapegoat - Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
The Heavy - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Gentle Giant - Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter) / John Coffey (The Green Mile) / Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
Older Than They Look - Eli (Let the Right One In)
Messianic Archetype - Aslan (Chronicles of Narnia)
Invincible Hero - Saitama (One-Punch Man)
Your Size May Vary - Bowser (Mario Bros.)
Mad Artist - The Phantom (The Phantom of the Opera)
Gentleman Thief - Joker (Persona 5)
Brilliant but Lazy - Sans (Undertale)
Monster Clown - Pennywise the Dancing Clown (IT)
The Fool - Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap - Wesley Wyndham-Price (Buffy/Angel)
Big Bad - Light Yagami (Death Note)
Eyes Always Shut - Brock (Pokemon)
Tomboy & Girly Girl - Chie Satonaka & Yukiko Amagi (Persona 4)
The Dragon - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Nerd - Otacon (Metal Gear)
Innocent Flower Girl - Aeris Gainsborough (Final Fantasy)
Berserker - Guts (Berserk)
Beware the Quiet Ones - Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)
Pint-Sized Powerhouse - Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender) / Kirby (Kirby)
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment - Pink Elephants on Parade (Dumbo)
Evil All Along - Matt Engarde (Ace Attorney)
Narm - All of Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"
You Are Who You Eat - Kirby (Kirby)
Crowd Song - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Unreliable Narrator - Leonard Shelby (Memento) / The Narrator (Fight Club)
Voluntary Shapeshifter - Animorphs (Animorphs)
Unexpected Character - Solid Snake (Smash Bros. Brawl)
Heterosexual Life Partners - Turk & JD (Scrubs)
And I Must Scream - Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)
Bedlam House - Arkham Asylum (Batman)
Abandoned Hospital - Brookhaven Hospital (Silent Hill)

Today's tropes is the Vacation Episode
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VacationEpisode

In an ongoing series that normally takes place in a few fixed locations, the Vacation Episode is a one-off episode where the characters leave their familiar grounds for a well-deserved rest. The vacation will invariably be set in a faraway and exotic location for maximum impact; given the higher costs of shooting on location, the episode will often be longer than usual, to make best use of the budget.
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Burning Man (Malcolm in the Middle)
Rugrats in Paris
The Gang Goes To The Jersey Shore (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

HM:
Hawaii Class Trip (Persona 5)
Tallahassee (The Office)
Reality Trip (Danny Phantom)
The Italian Bob (The Simpsons)
The House Meets The Mouse (Full House)
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The Trip (Seinfeld)
Chinga (The X-Files)
Miami (Louie)
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Nominate megaton punch trope
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Vacation (Rugrats)
Rugrats in Paris
Roads to Vegas (Family Guy) [this more than any of the other "Road to" episodes certainly qualifies as a "vacation"]
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Oops, can I retroactively remove my vote for Brookhaven Hospital, I thought it was in Silent Hill 1 when it wasn't (too many creepy hospital names to keep track of)
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Also I'm struggling to think of examples for this one that I like, even if you include anime Beach Episodes which jacks up the potential pool by a ton. I think the plot is usually better served by staying in the natural locations for it.
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Mr. Greg (Steven Universe)
Traffic Jam (Malcolm in the Middle) (if it counts, kinda borderline)
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Itchy and Scratchy Land

https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E04/_VpPH31B2UGcTC-iG3cKzKz7meE=.gif
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The Simpsons is so good at being self-aware and joking about tropes
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Kyoto Killing Attempt (Assassination Classroom)

First thing I think of.
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Asspen (South Park)

KamikazePotato posted...

Oops, can I retroactively remove my vote for Brookhaven Hospital, I thought it was in Silent Hill 1 when it wasn't (too many creepy hospital names to keep track of)

I mean, I'd prefer not, since it won by only one vote in a low-vote match to begin with

jcgamer107 posted...

Traffic Jam (Malcolm in the Middle) (if it counts, kinda borderline)

yeah I'll accept it
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Itchy and Scratchy Land (The Simpsons)
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Summer Scramble (Fire Emblem Awakening)
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Disney Land (every show ever on TGIF)
River Marked (Mercy Thompson)
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Mr. Greg (Steven Universe)
Chinga (X-Files)
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Pikachu's Vacation (Pokemon)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Rugrats in Paris

current
Rugrats in Paris - 3
Chinga - 2
Mr. Greg - 2
Itchy and Scratchy Land - 2
Burning Man - 1
The Gang Goes To The Jersey Shore - 1
The Trip - 1
Miami - 1
Vacation (Rugrats) - 1
Roads to Vegas - 1
Traffic Jam - 1
Kyoto Killing Attempt - 1
Asspen - 1
Summer Scramble - 1
River Marked - 1
Disney Land - 1
Pikachu's Vacation - 1
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America - 1
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I will also vote for the other great vacation episode of Steven Universe, Keystone Motel
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Saved by the Bell: Malibu Sands Story arc
Married with Children: Route 666 (Part 1 & 2)
Traffic Jam (Malcolm in the Middle)
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Mr. Greg
Keystone Motel
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Itchy and Scratchy Land
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Pilachu's Vacation
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*Pikachu's Vacation, I mean
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Simpsons Tokyo
Friends London
Simpsons Australia
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5tarscream posted...

Simpsons Australia

oh damn, that's a great one
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