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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Ah, airplanes. What could be better than flying through turbulent winds, with a Screaming Plane Baby down the aisle, a kid who won't stop kicking your seat, and getting stuck sitting with annoying strangers? Not to mention the food sucks, and the flight itself could take several hours- worse if there's a delay. Any of these factors can make a ride horrible, and it's even worse if there's a combination. Worse still if someone has a flight phobia. So it's no wonder that airplane rides in fiction have a tendency to be portrayed as uncomfortable at best and absolutely miserable at worst. Whilst this can be Truth in Television, the problems with flight travel tend to be comically exaggerated for the sake of making the protagonist suffer. First time fliers will never want to go back, those with a phobia will be given confirmation that airplanes are awful, and everyone will just be happy when the plane finally lands. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Common problems include being stuck with annoying passengers, a lack of space, bad food, and flight sickness. In the worst case scenario, the plane may crash, in addition to all else, just to undermine how bad the flight is. Examples: |
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The Jetsons has an episode with Mr. Spacely on one of these, stuck between two fat guys, because he tried to save money by flying a cheap air/space-line. | |
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On an episode of Cheers, Fraiser learns that Carla is afraid of flying. He offers to take Carla on a flight to help her overcome this fear. Realizing this would be a good opportunity to flex his psychology skills, Frasier gets a plane full of people who are afraid of flying. Pretty much every single thing that can go wrong on the flight does. In the end, Fraiser cures all of the previously phobic people, but gains a fear of flying himself. | |
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Destination Wedding: After bitter, judgemental Lindsay and Frank snipe at each other while boarding, they find out that they're next to each other in the back of the extremely tiny airplane which ricochets with every turbulence. Naturally, this doesn't help their dislike of each other. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Days of Future Past", teleportation has reduced the airline industry to a last resort in the episode's futuristic setting. Unable to teleport due to her pregnancy, an adult Maggie has to board a ramshackle plane manned by a crew straight out of a Mad Max movie. | |
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In Goosebumps, "More Monster Blood" an original TV only sequel to "Monster Blood", takes place entirely on a plane. In this case though, it's not so much from the passengers and service than the Monster Blood sneaking into the protagonist luggage and setting about swallowing the passengers. Ironically they defeat it by pushing airline food into it. | |
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In the Animaniacs short "Plane Pals", an obnoxious executive has the bad luck of sitting next to the Warners, who decide to make him their "special friend" for the flight. | |
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The Rocko's Modern Life episode "Jet Scream" has Rocko endure every bad plane flight cliché known to man, from losing his luggage (it ended up on another planet) to dealing with a bratty kid (the passengers cheer when an exasperated Rocko stuffs him in an overhead bin) to the plane going into a dive. | |
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Whateley Universe contains an exaggerated example, that takes up several paragraphs, in Alya and the Late Trevor James Goodkind. It's Ayla's first time riding coach when she's used to first class, and has nothing less than a miserable time. The cabin is crowded and stuffy, there's no space in the seats, Ayla is stuck sitting next to an overweight woman who won't stop talking to her, there's a strong, horrible smell of perfume, a Screaming Plane Baby, and of course, the food sucks. It doesn't get any better upon leaving the plane: | |
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In Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, the main cast board Gremlin Air, where the crew is made up of gremlins that are dismantling the very plane they are supposed to fly. | |
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The Garfield Specials episode Garfield in Paradise opens with Jon, Garfield (and Odie stashed in a suitcase) taking a plane to a tropical island. It's not a pleasant flight, with everything from rude stewardesses (upon finding out Jon is flying third class: "your seat is in the rear with the rest of the slime!") to broken down seats, non functioning safety belts, and turbulence that sends them bouncing into the ceiling. Garfield's thoughts on the matter: | |
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Victorious: "WiFi In The Sky" has Tori and Trina on a plane the entire episode. While Tori is attempting to videochat her friends to get a project done, Trina is having a bad time with the kid behind her kicking and mocking her while his mother doesn't care. Tori gets in on some of the "fun" as well, as every time Trina has to leave, she has to squeeze past Tori and her laptop. | |
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In Seinfeld episode, "The Airport", Jerry and Elaine are taking a plane back home after doing a show and visiting their sister respectively. However their intended flight gets cancelled and the only one they can take has two seats: One in First Class and another in Coach. Jerry quickly takes the First Class while poor Elaine gets the worst of it, losing her luggage in Honululu (due to being rude to the skycap), the seats are cramped and she has to deal with some obnoxious people. She does try to sneak into First Class, but they quickly drag her back to her original seat. | |
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Drake & Josh: In "Drake And Josh Go To Hollywood", the boys have to take a plane and end up sitting with strangers. Drake gets to sit with two hot girls... while Josh, ever unlucky, sits with a fat, obnoxious, and disgusting married couple that spend their time bickering and making him look at their moles. | |
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The 1957 drama Zero Hour! — and its better known parody remake Airplane! — has half the passengers on a plane flight succumb to food poisoning, including the flight crew, forcing a former fighter pilot to take the controls and land the plane. | |
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Robot Chicken depicts B.A. Baracus' dislike of flying through a flashback. He was all happy and eager to take his first flight. The pilot commended him for going all alone, moments before mentioning to the passengers that they discovered that all the in-flight meals had gone bad, and all the bathrooms were occupied. Cue all the passengers trying and failing to hold in their bowel movements, and one severely traumatized B.A. | |
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The music video for Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly" features a crowded flight where the coffee is accidentally tainted with World Domination Erotic Sleeping Powder. Everyone who drinks said coffee freaks out and starts hallucinating, up to and including the pilots. Luckily, the band, who opted for cocktails over the coffee and are therefore unaffected, figures out how to safely land the plane. | |
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In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian", Buster reads over the titular script written by three then-eighth-grade girls and is horrified when he finds out there is a scene where he has to ride aboard an airplane to Hawaii. When he tries to talk the girls about a rewrite, they decide the plane scene will stay. Buster's fears are proven true when Montana Max, his worst enemy, is the pilot, and decides not to wait to take off despite being 87th in line for it. Plucky is also the steward, and serves him food that hasn't been classified by science yet. When Buster asks him if he could have a carrot, Plucky serves him a freeze-dried reconstituted carrot chip. Buster eats it, and is so queasy, he rushes to the restroom, which is crowded with many other queasy passengers who also ate the carrot chips. When the plane ride is over, Buster is so relieved to be off the plane, he kisses the ground. | |
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In season 3 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca's flight back to West Covina after her stay with her mother in New York is absolutely miserable, culminating in a suicide attempt. Admittedly that mostly stems from her rock bottom mood even before she steps on the plane, but Word of God is that they set the scene there because being on a plane is already depressing and uncomfortable enough under normal circumstances, let alone these extreme ones. | |
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