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Parent Never Came Back from the Store
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A form of Parental Abandonment that is often Played for Laughs but can also be Played for Drama. When a parent decides to leave their family or breaks up with their partner, they'll make the excuse of Going to the Store to buy cigarettes/milk/whatever, but they never actually come back. Other times it's an excuse made by the child's family in order to soften the trauma or shield the kid from the issue. If the child is young or naive enough, they will believe that their parent really did go to the store and are just taking a really, really long time coming back. If the parent in question really did go to the store and never came back because they died, it's often much more Played for Drama. A Played for Laughs variation of this is having it be that they really did go to the store, are still alive, and really are taking that long to come back. Compare to Released to Elsewhere and Dog Got Sent to a Farm, as well as to When You Coming Home, Dad? for when a dad is busy but not completely absent. Contrast Family Man, who probably never would do this. |
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Referenced on Adventure Time: In "Escape From the Citadel", while Martin visibly tries to escape into space and leave his son Finn behind, he claims to be going to the store. Nobody is fooled. | |
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Played very seriously once on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where a father really didn't come home from the store because he got killed in a holdup. This does not do good things for the mother's sanity, and it really doesn't turn out well for the children. | |
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Twelve Days: When the Dorseys still lived in Miami, Raoul left the house, saying he was getting pizza and would be back in twenty minutes. Instead of coming home, he emailed Olympia to say he needed to work things out. The next she heard was from his lawyer. | |
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Gilmore Girls: When Jess was a baby, his biological father Jimmy went to the store for diapers and never came back. He shows up again when Jess is eighteen, wanting to build a relationship with him. | |
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The Cosby Show. A janitor at Cliff's hospital mentions that after a year of marriage, her husband went out for cigarettes and never returned. | |
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Bones has Brennan's parents. One episode has her say they went Christmas shopping and never returned due to going on the run. However, another version is told in another episode as well. | |
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The Simpsons: Nelson's dad went to the store a few years ago and never came back. It is later revealed that he actually did to go to the store, at which point he suffered a peanut allergy and got abducted into a circus sideshow; later episodes ignore this, however, and portray him as if he still abandoned the family.note Also note that even the first abandonment was a retcon—in early episodes, Nelson lived with his father and it was his MOTHER who was absent. In the episode "Future Drama", Future Nelson pulls the same trick on Sherri and Terri, both of whom he got pregnant. When they explicitly point out that Nelson's father did the same thing, he replies "I never understood that... until now. I'M COMING, PAPA!" before running away. |
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Parodied in Cyanide and Happiness: The father just needed to get enough cigarettes for everyone. | |
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Near the end of RWBY's second volume, after Yang's Missing Mom Raven made some very brief appearances, fan-made character status charts listed Raven's status as "Went out to buy Powerball tickets" or "Still out buying those cigarettes" throughout Volume 3. When Volume 4 rolled around and Raven finally stuck around for most of an episode before splitting again, her status was updated to "After finding her cigarettes, Raven left once again after realizing she doesn't own a lighter." | |
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In the season two finale of Rick and Morty, Rick tells Morty he's going to go get ice cream. Morty begins to worry that Rick is invoking this trope, despite Rick's assurances. | |
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In Off To The Races, Masami simply went off for a walk one day and never came back, leaving her children in the hands of their abusive father. | |
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Married... with Children: Seven's parents went to "get cigarettes". Al notices they used the excuse to leave town and leave Seven with them. | |
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Iron Man 3: When Tony meets Harley, a kid in Tennessee, he says his dad went to a 7-Eleven to get lottery scratch-offs, six years ago. He's bitterly aware his dad left him and his mother, regardless of whether the lottery was actually involved. Tony, being Tony, responds with his usual tact: | |
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Case File nº221: Kabukicho has Mary and Lucy Morstan abandoned by their father after he told them (and their mom) that he needs to get a pack of cigarettes. | |
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Pink Diamond pulled a variant of this on Spinel in Steven Universe: The Movie. She told her they were going to play a game in which Spinel must stand still in one spot and wait for her to come back. She then proceeded to leave and never returned. Poor Spinel was left standing there for literally thousands of years waiting for her master to come back, until she eventually saw a broadcast revealing the truth, causing her to snap and become evil. Heaven knows how long she would have waited had it not been for that convenient broadcast... | |
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American Dad!: Double Subverted in "Holy S***, Jeff's Back!". A dad is shown leaving his son, telling him that he's just going to the store for a pack of cigarettes, but it's clear he's walking out on his family. At a crossroads, he decides to break the cycle and go to the store after all...only to be killed when a meteor hits his car. | |
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In the Slayers OVA "Jeffrey's Knighthood", Jeffrey's father left to get milk and disappeared for ten years. Presumably he was trying to get away from his crazy wife Josephine. | |
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Parodied in Ultra Fast Pony: Every episode opens with a different character saying the name of the show. When someone points out to Rarity that she's the only one who hasn't gotten to do one of those intros, she retorts, "My episode intro just went to the store! You'll see!" | |
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Blue Reflection Ray the Hirahara sisters' mother, who had been raising them alone, said she was going out to buy light bulbs and never returned. In the followup game, Blue Reflection: Second Light Hiori further confides in Ao about this. | |
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In one of Heinz Doofenshmirtz's flashbacks from Phineas and Ferb, an Inversion happens. He was assigned by his parents to go to the store, only to discover too late that they were plotting to disown him by sending him on a ship to United States. Its anyone's wonder as to why did Doof held no animosity for his parents despite their obvious signs of treating him as The Unfavorite. | |
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30 Rock: Parodied in the final episode when Tracy Jordan's father returns from the store with cigarettes.... about thirty-five years after he went out. Played straight when Tracy associates the scent of Liz's hair product with his absent father: Subverted when Jack is talking about his father: |
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NCIS: When Nick Torres was five years old and living in Panama, his father left in the middle of the night, claiming that he wanted to be first in line to pick up something from a bakery in a nearby town. The truth was that he was helping the CIA overthrow Manuel Noriega, and leaving his family was his way of protecting them. | |
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In Monk, Adrian Monk's father ran away from his own family after he was supposed to get Chinese food. | |
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Shtisel: In the first episode, Lippe is going to Argentina for a year to work for a kosher meat processor. He uses the opportunity to cut ties and abandon his family. He eventually comes back, but they take a long time to forgive him. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In Cry Wilderness, they reference this in one of the riffs: | |
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Dilbert has a variant in which young Dilbert's father abandoned him by going to an All-You-Can-Eat restaurant, refusing to leave until he's really had all he can eat. It's Played for Laughs, but Dilbert seems to have been truly traumatized by the abandonment. | |
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Selkie: Discussed trope. Dr. Pohl is the kind of responsible family man who would never even consider abandoning his children, but, before leaving on a day trip to visit a hidden refugee village, he promises his infant daughter, "I'll always come back from the corner store." His wife calls him a drama queen for it. | |
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In Quartier Lointain, the protagonist's father says he's going out to buy some bread on the night of his 40th birthday. He doesn't come back. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Richard's father Frankie said he was going to get milk when he left. Richard, being the Manchild that he is, is in heavy denial about this even into his 40s. | |
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SuperMarioLogan: In "Jeffy's Parents!", this is Nancy's excuse for leaving Jeffy. | |
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Played for laughs in hololive with Calliope Mori, who everyone calls Dad ever since she did a readalong of My Dad's the Queen of All VTubers?!. During one of the times she came back after a break, she does it.... by presenting a carton of milk. | |
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Duets has a case of the abandoning person saying so, as Todd constantly mentions in that his current status is "out getting a pack of cigarettes." There's even the flashback showing how it started: | |
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In Parenthood, Larry Buchman tells his father that he's going off to South America on yet another of his "get rich quick" schemes, assuring that he'll return if it doesn't pan out and asking him to look after his son in the meantime. His son, at all of four years old, is savvy enough to bluntly ask his grandfather, "Is he ever coming back?" To which his grandfather just as bluntly answers, "No". | |
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El Goonish Shive: Apparently, Tedd's Missing Mom moved to Europe and then never came back to visit even for Christmas because it would be "too expensive". It's later implied It's Not You, It's My Enemies is (at least partially) behind it. | |
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Mentioned in 1995's Man of the House (1995) during Ben Archer's Opening Narration that his father packed up his things and drove away, saying he needed to "find himself." He took his cute secretary along to help him look. The abandonment was rather transparent, so Ben and his mother Sandy begin their single-parent life right from go. | |
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The George Lopez Show: George's father, Manny, also went off to get some cigarettes, though Benny already knew he wouldn't be returning because they already had cigarettes. | |
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Klonoa: Lunatales: In The Feather, Popka notices the High Priestess holding an infant. Unaware that said infant is the deaged King of Sorrow, he sarcastically asks her if the baby's dad left to get milk. | |
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In Punky Brewster, this was how the title character wound up living alone before being found at the beginning of the series. Her mom had gone to the store and never came back. In a slight twist, Punky and her dog were waiting outside the store instead of at home. The mystery of her mom's fate served as an occasional plot point for the rest of the series. | |
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Marcus Didius Falco: The main character's father went out one evening for a game of draughts; as far as Falco knows, he's still playing it. | |
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Drawn Together: Foxxy's father left to get cigarettes and never came back. | |
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In the second season of Friends, Phoebe finds the address of the father who abandoned her as a baby and finally works up the courage to meet him. However, her father's second wife informs her that he left to get groceries four years ago and should be back "any minute now." Phoebe's disappointment is somewhat alleviated when she meets her teenaged half-brother who she never knew existed. | |
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Not exactly a parent, but one could apply this trope to Damian in Pokémon: The Original Series. He told his Charmander to wait for him on top of a large rock with no intention of ever returning for it. Had it not been for Ash Ketchum and his friends, the Charmander would've died in the rain. One of the manga versions had him get into an accident that left him hospitalized for quite some time. | |
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Midnight Caller: Jack's father went to buy a pack of cigarettes and never returned, leaving the family $486 and an overdue rent bill. | |
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Rod Allbright Alien Adventures: In book 3 (The Search for Snout), while in suspended animation, Rod dreams about the windy October night when his father said he was going out for a walk and never came back. Justified in this case — Mr. Allbright had gotten wind that his enemy BKR was on his way to Earth and was trying to draw BKR away from the planet in order to protect his family. | |
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