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Going to See the Elephant
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Somewhere, not too far from the hero's hometown, there is something new and exotic to go see or do. The hero is fascinated with the idea of checking out this new thing, and he and his friends set out on a journey to do just that. Their journey drives the rest of the plot. This differs from characters on a quest, because there's no overarching need for them to take the trip, other than "let's go take the trip". They're tourists, not heroes out to destroy The One Ring. In addition, the actual object at the end of the journey is utterly unimportant, other than as a prod for the character to take the journey in the first place. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The name of the trope is from a 19th-century expression that meant "to take a trip to see or do something exotic." In The American Civil War era, it was sometimes used to refer to going to war. Sometimes used as a MacGuffin, making the character go in order to drive the plot, but not always, as it lacks the interchangeability of a true MacGuffin. Often, It's the Journey That Counts. Other times, this will be how the main characters get roped into a larger, more high-stakes quest. Compare with The Homeward Journey and Humble Goal. Also see Road Trip Plot, where the story is about the journey itself. No relation at all to the Elephant in the Living Room, which everybody is pointedly trying to ignore. Also has nothing to do with going to see a man about a horse... |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is initially about going to see a motorcycle show, but the main characters quickly lose interest and instead get into a much more nebulous search for "the American Dream" somewhere in Vegas. | |
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Lost in America is about a couple who quit their jobs in order to "discover America". They do so by traveling around in a Winnebago on the back roads, looking for new things to see and do. | |
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Charlie the Unicorn: Candy Mountain, Charlie, Candy Mountain! Of course, unlike most depictions, Charlie doesn't want to go to Candy Mountain; his friends (?) just annoy him into going. | |
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It becomes almost literal in The Colour of Magic.Rincewind and Twoflower (the Disc's "First Tourist") are in a 'spaceship that falls off the edge of the Disc... which is supported by four elephants on the back of a giant turtle. The next books explains how they get back, but not what they saw. | |
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Losin' It: Each of the boys has a different "elephant" he wants to see during their trip to Tijuana, Mexico. One character wants to see a donkey shownote a show that involves a woman and a donkey, another wants his car seats re-upholstered and the third just wants to get some cool fireworks. | |
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The Honor Harrington short story "Let's go to Prague" starts out as being about a vacation. Of course it gets complicated from there, given the travelers are Manticoran intelligence agents and the destination of a planet controlled by Haven's primary enemy at the time, the People's Republic of Haven. | |
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: Harold and Kumar go on an epic, all-night quest to get White Castle burgers, and have many adventures on the way. | |
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Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran: This particular trope is taken literally in one episode. | |
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A Penny Arcade strip shows Gabe and Tycho seeing the "World's Largest Grape" and "World's Oldest Cat" on a road trip. They decided to skip the museum of sodomy. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Road Rash", Heffer and Rocko go on a road trip to see Phlegm Rock (a rock formation shaped like a runny nose, where the "mucus" is algae-ridden water spewing from a spring) before it closes and gets paved over. | |
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Discworld: Mentioned by name in Witches Abroad. It's even the last line, as the witches talk about how they're eager to get back home to Lancre: "But they took the long way round, and saw the elephant." As indeed did Sam, Sybil and young Sam in Snuff. And after the harrowing events of The Fifth Elephant, Sam and Sybil decide to take it easy on the way home. It becomes almost literal in The Colour of Magic.Rincewind and Twoflower (the Disc's "First Tourist") are in a 'spaceship that falls off the edge of the Disc... which is supported by four elephants on the back of a giant turtle. The next books explains how they get back, but not what they saw. |
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The Canterbury Tales: The storytellers are on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Becket, but that is essentially Chaucer's excuse to get people from all walks of life to exchange their tales. | |
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The Matchmaker, the clerks Cornelius and Barnaby take advantage of their overbearing boss going on an overnight trip to give themselves the day off and go to New York City to see what wonders it has. | |
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In Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, Plucky and the Pig family visit a theme park called Happy World Land, and Plucky is clearly excited for the attractions. To Plucky's disappointment, however, after a long and harrowing (well, harrowing for Plucky, at least) journey to get there, Hampton and his family just wanted to ride the monorail around the park (because Mr. Pig doesn't want to overdo it on their first visit), after which they promptly leave (and Plucky goes into a stupor). | |
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Samurai Champloo has the girl Fuu hire two Samurai, Mugen and Jin, to help her find the Sun Flower samurai. This Samurai in question does not show up until the last episode and the show regularly admits that he is nothing more than MacGuffin, with both Mugen and Jin regularly pestering Fuu about knowing nothing about the Sun Flower Samurai (except that he smells like sunflowers, but she doesn't even know what those smell like). She has a good reason for keeping quiet about what she knows - the samurai is her father. | |
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As indeed did Sam, Sybil and young Sam in Snuff. And after the harrowing events of The Fifth Elephant, Sam and Sybil decide to take it easy on the way home. | |
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Maggie Antrobus wants to see a whale before she dies in his The Skin of Our Teeth. The Barnum Museum really was a tremendously popular place in the mid- to late-1800s, and the whale was a notable exhibit. | |
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The Straight Story is about a man who takes a cross-country trip on his riding mower, so he can reconcile with his dying brother. | |
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In Anyone Can Whistle, a large number of pilgrims appear once the mayoress and her cronies have their alleged Rock of Limitless Water in operation, and then at the end, they all (and a number of people from the town) leave when they hear that there's another miracle in the next town over. | |
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Mentioned by name in Witches Abroad. It's even the last line, as the witches talk about how they're eager to get back home to Lancre: "But they took the long way round, and saw the elephant." | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Sam initially joins Frodo because he simply wants to see Elves, who are almost mythical for Hobbits. Along the way, Sam gets to literally see an oliphaunt, confirming the Hobbit rhyme is an appallingly realistic depiction of one. | |
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The story of Ecco Jr. is "going to see the Big Blue". The amount of its relation to the actual gameplay also makes it an Excuse Plot. | |
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Doraemon: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi: Nobita finds a bracelet in the middle of Antartica, which Doraemon's gadgets identifies as an artifact from 100,000 years ago. On a whim, he managed to convince his friends to travel to the past and seek it's owner, which somehow leads to the gang fighting an ancient Eldritch Abomination elemental monster in order to save the earth. | |
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In The Drew Carey Show episode "New York and Queens", the gang travel to New York City to see the Yankees play the Indians. While driving cross country, they decide to take a side-trip into Hershey, Pennsylvania, just because they can smell the chocolate from the highway. | |
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Bob's Burgers: "Stand By Gene" has Gene taking his sisters and their friends from school on a hike into the country to a farm where a goat with two butts supposedly lives. | |
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One Piece: The Grand Line is presented as a sort of elephant in early arcs. Also, the island containing the titular "One Piece", the treasure of Gold Roger. This is basically Luffy's reason for becoming a pirate. It's not so much as finding a great treasure or beating up the local dictators, wannabe or official, it's having the best, most awesome adventure ever. When discussing how to enter the Grand Line, Luffy insists on entering through Reverse Mountain instead of going in from the sides as "It wouldn't feel right." He also refuses a chance to learn more about Gold Roger's One Piece, as he doesn't want to be spoiled on whether or not that there's a treasure. |
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A series of Big City Greens shorts revolve around the family going on a road trip to Breakfast Land after Tilly wins free passes. After the expected road Trip shenanigans, the final short ends with the family realizing they accidentally went to Breakfast World. | |
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From Roomies!, Danny and Billie see Mount Rushmore. Because. | |
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Gerry: It is never revealed exactly what Gerry and Gerry went to see, as they decide before getting there that "it's just a thing, at the end of a trail" and they don't need to see it. | |
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UQ Holder!: Touta's stated goal is to climb the Space Elevator at the capital. It's quickly revealed that he cares less about the elevator itself and more about what he could accomplish once he gets there. | |
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Terminal Lance: The White Donkey: Many observe that Abe seems to have joined the Marines and deployed to Iraq because he was looking for something in his life. An Iraqi policeman tells him off for this, pointing out that while the policemen returned from America to Iraq to fight for his home, Abe seems to have made the same trip just to go on an adventure. | |
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The same happens in Hello, Dolly!, the musical adaptation of The Matchmaker, with Barnaby specifically having the fixed desire of seeing the stuffed whale in Barnum's museum. | |
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Tangled: The entire reason Rapunzel leaves her tower is to go see the lights that appear on her birthday every year. They're more important than most examples though, as they are sent by her parents, the King and Queen of Corona, who want her to return more than anything. | |
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Starlight and Shadows trilogy. A young, talented and fun-loving drow wizard chanced upon a book about some forgotten surface people that mentioned an obscure tradition — rune magic. She thought it may be interesting to investigate the matter. Not that she expected to find a great power in it, just because it's unusual enough. The rest of three books cover some consequences of her curiosity. | |
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On How I Met Your Mother, when Ted and Marshall were in college they used to make 21 hour road trips to visit a Chicago restaurant that served delicious but incredibly disgusting pizza. They do it again in their thirties when they find out the restaurant's about to close. | |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: One of the literally oldest quests in the book is this trope — Gilgamesh decides to celebrate his new friendship with Enkidu by going to the Forest of Cedars and killing the guardian Humbaba for absolutely no logical reason, even in context. note Gilgamesh later goes on a more goal-oriented heroic quest to find the secret of eternal life. | |
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Literally inverted in Around the World in 80 Days. During one leg of his journey, Phileas Fogg literally goes to see an elephant, but he's shown zero interest in sightseeing; he just wants to hurry up and get past a gap in the train routes. The broader quest itself also qualifies; Fogg is making the journey around the world simply to prove that modern technology and globalization have advanced to a point where it can be done within a mere eighty days. | |
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