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Vacation, Dear Boy

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Vacation, Dear Boy	comment	Something's a hit, the production gets either more freedom or more money, and they decide for the next entry to make up an excuse to go to a vacation spot. This is heavily subjective, but if an actor signs onto a production that was already being shot in a vacation spot, that's a different trope (so, Bruce Campbell signing up for Congo doesn't count, even though he admitted he did it just because they needed him for a few days, and the studio would pay for him to tour the rest of the time). More than one director has joked about using location scouting as a justification for taking vacations to exotic places. Also see Sequel Goes Foreign, Vacation Episode, Awesome, Dear Boy. Please note cases where actors have openly stated it, and cases that are based on speculation.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_11a7b7e1	comment	In a case "vacation" means "working near my summer home", A Good Year was born out of Ridley Scott's desire of a movie set near his house in Provence.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_3f20192e	comment	Moonraker: Several of the French models who played Hugo Drax's Master Race girls said they enjoyed being in Brazil in interviews.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_41be7fdc	comment	Many of the guest stars did The Love Boat so they could go on the cruise that was inevitably taken for location shots. Itâ€™s widely suspected that this was the whole point of making the show.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_455e3038	comment	Peggy in King of the Hill repeatedly tries to wrangle free trips out of the town newspaper editor by coming up with human-interest pieces on various vacation hotspots. She finally succeeds at this when she offers to write a story on Cotton agreeing to go to Japan to apologize to a war widow.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_4be3aedd	comment	Inverted by Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, where the Rangers went on vacation in Australia because (in Real Life) the production went there to film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. This is how producers enticed a handful of series alums, including Mighty Morphin's Jason David Frank, to come to New Zealand to film brief cameos in the Power Rangers Super Megaforce finale. The production flew them all first class to Auckland, New Zealand for a few days. While it's not been offered as a reason he picked up the phone, Johnny Yong Bosch spent a month in New Zealand on Disney's dime waiting to do ADR for his two-episode appearance in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_5320ab5e	comment	Episodes of Columbo were filmed on location in London, in Mexico, and on a cruise ship.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_5ada53ed	comment	Some James Bond films, unsurprisingly considering many of them take place in exotic locations. Several cast and crew went on to say they loved filming in such locations with the very caring producer Albert R. Broccoli. Martine Beswick (Paula) said she greatly enjoyed being paid to get a nice suntan on the set of Thunderball, which was filmed in the Bahamas. Moonraker: Several of the French models who played Hugo Drax's Master Race girls said they enjoyed being in Brazil in interviews.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie: Not admitted, but c'mon, they have a bigger budget, and suddenly decide to head on vacation.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_5cad8158	comment	The Lizzie McGuire Movie took off for Rome. (Disney seems to do this a lot.)
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_5dd28b4f	comment	In the commentary track for Deep Blue Sea, both director Renny Harlin and Samuel L. Jackson admit that the only reason Jackson agreed to be in the movie was that he got to golf between his takes.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_6000f5a4	comment	One if the reasons he agreed to do Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was that it was set in the French Riviera, not far from where his friend Roger Moore had a villa at the time.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic has evoked this trope to take a couple of shots at movies for laughs with no actual care for whether or not it's actually true. He claims that the opening of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie was done merely because the stars wanted to go skydiving on the film's dime and it explains why they couldn't afford better special effects, and remarks that the ending of Dunston Checks In only takes place in Bali because "[he thinks] the crew really wanted to vacation in Bali!" He also referenced this for North, wondering if the director was just simply yelling "cut" and "action" while lying down in a hammock during a part in the film that takes place in Hawaii.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_6835c838	comment	The Giant Spider Invasion: A number of the people participating in the film were originally from Wisconsin and used their free time while making the film to visit family still living in the state.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_70c7b114	comment	Natalie Schafer, who played Lovey Howell on Gilligan's Island, didn't think the show would take off, but the pilot was filmed on location in Hawaii, so she considered it a working vacation.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_76908e62	comment	Idol Manager has this happen in-story and gives the player the opportunity to point it out. One of the possible endings is tied to the recurring female journalist. One of the steps of her storyline is wanting to do a story about the Player Character's group going on a World Tour, but only if it "just happens" to stop at three specific locations she dreams of visiting. One of the possible responses is to have the Player Character point out that the journalist sounds like she's trying to get a free vacation, which she will confirm. Actually going on a World Tour with the right route is necessary to continue that storyline.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_8a568555	comment	One could speculate that this was a reason to film Jumper. What makes this even funnier is an interview with the cast and crew talking on and on about flying all over the world to do scenes that might be a minute long.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_8c05f749	comment	The show Death in Paradise is like this due to its setting. Many actors have made appearances merely because it gives them a chance to visit the Caribbean (series 3 guest star Tristan Gemmill described it as "winning the lottery for actors"). Joe Absolom said that he actually ended up going broke while shooting an episode because he brought along his family to enjoy a tropical getaway. He says he doesn't mind because he had a great time. Though averted by Ben Miller who (despite enjoying working on the show) suffered because his character Richard Poole wore wool suits despite the heat and humidity. He departed the show because he wanted to be with his family but his wife couldn't stand the tropical climate.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_9e6d1645	comment	Teletubbies only had one American appear on the show during its original run, a boy named Brennan Pilcher who appeared in the Tummy Tales segment in "Brennan's Moonwalk". He stated in his upload of the segment that he was enrolling at TASIS (The American School in Switzerland—presumably the UK branch) where the crew just so happened to be filming.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_a1bda379	comment	Inverted for Night of the Lepus, where Janet Leigh took the role because it was near her home and meant less time away from her family.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_a32d2166	comment	He agreed to do Jaws: The Revenge because they were shooting it in the Caribbean (that and the money, which paid for his mother's house.note He would later famously say, "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!"). As it turned out, Caine couldn't leave the shoot to attend the Oscars, where he won Best Supporting Actor for Hannah and Her Sisters.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Kinoko Nasu admitted in an interview that he set the Summer 2018 event of Fate/Grand Order in Hawaii because he was hoping that Aniplex would fund his writing team a vacation to Hawaii ostensibly for research purposes. Ironically, after he went to visit Mauna Kea in the middle of a blizzard on the first day, he got a fever and was not allowed to leave the hotel for health reasons for the entire trip.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_c43df4d8	comment	By his own admission, Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner started setting stories in exotic locations purely because they had the budget to go there for location shoots. The first example, dating from his days as main production assistant rather than producer, was when he realized they had the budget to shoot "City of Death" in Paris—and, in fact, it would be cheaper to actually shoot it there rather than do it in a studio—so long as they used a skeleton crew and rejiggered the script for a modern-day setting. Douglas Adams did this in the space of a weekend despite his famous Ridiculous Procrastinator personality, knowing that to do so meant he could go to Paris and get apocalyptically drunk. When he took over as producer, Nathan-Turner tried to include overseas filming in at least one serial per season: "Arc of Infinity" was partially set in Amsterdam, "Planet of Fire" was a crew holiday in Lanzarote (as itself and an alien planet), and "The Two Doctors" had to switch from New Orleans to Seville when funding for the former fell through. Problems with overseas shooting in Sevillenote Nathan-Turner was informed during production of "The Two Doctors" that one of the scenes filmed in Spain had been ruined by a scratch on the negative after the two actors involved in the scene had returned to England, and they had to be flown back out again at significant expense, only for it to later turn out that the reported scratch was virtually invisible and the original footage was perfectly fine. This led to Nathan-Turner either being ordered not to film outside the UK again by BBC executives or deciding not to—reports vary—although it ended up being academic as the budget was cut for later seasons and they could no longer afford overseas shoots. for the last of these meant that overseas filming was subsequently abandoned, and Doctor Who would not shoot outside the UK again for the remainder of the Classic era. Nathan-Turner and his partner did later take a vacation in Singapore on the pretext of reconnoitering for an unmade story for the scrubbed original Season 23 (the one with the working title "Yellow Fever and How to Cure It" by Robert Holmes). Whether any of that story would have actually been taped overseas was never resolved, as the program was put on hiatus and the Season 23 eventually broadcast was restructured around the "Trial of a Time Lord" concept. Another story for the original season 23, "The Nightmare Fair", was to have been set and recorded on location in the seaside resort of Blackpool, with the rides and attractions there worked into the story. (When it became clear that that Season 23 would not be made, the end of the previous story, where the Doctor told Peri he was taking her to Blackpool, was notoriously edited with great clumsiness to have him say "I'll take you to B—".) According to various cast and crew members the only reason Anton Diffring accepted his role in "Silver Nemesis" is so he could watch Wimbledon.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_d2d6de50	comment	Ocean's Twelve: Nearly everyone involved has admitted they just wanted to get paid to party at George Clooney's Italian villa. Brad Pitt said he thought it was funny that Catherine Zeta-Jones thought they were making a movie.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_d68df17d	comment	In one episode of Top Gear, Clarkson is supposed to do a relatively cheap review of the BMW X6. Instead, he ends up flying to the Swiss Alps, Hong Kong, and Australia, ostensibly to test various features. One imagines he did far more than the two minutes of filming that show up in the "review".
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_d7a3975d	comment	Carry On Nurse: Wilfrid Hyde-White, living in America at the time, agreed to play the Colonel without reading the script and getting paid to return to England so allowing him to attend the Grand National Horse race. A picture of a horse is seen on the bedside locker cupboard next to him during scenes.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_d8570146	comment	Kitty in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race signed up for the titular race with her sister because she wanted to travel around the world (and take lots of selfies while doing so).
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_e5c6748d	comment	In the early '70s, The Three Stooges filmed a pilot called Kooks' Tour. It was essentially a Travelogue Show, narrated by Moe, and intercut with skits of the Stooges' antics in that episode's setting. It was shelved prematurely due to Larry's declining health.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_f1da64b5	comment	The Lord of the Rings was actually filmed in New Zealand because it was the location that the producers thought looked most appropriate for Middle-Earth (i.e. not just because people wanted to take a vacation)—and of course, let's not forget that the director was a Kiwi—but many of the cast members have talked about how it was the reason they accepted roles in the trilogy. Despite the difficult conditions of many of the locations (in many cases the crew had to either construct roads or fly in via helicopter) the DVD extras are full of the cast talking about how much fun they had and how much they loved New Zealand.
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Vacation, Dear Boy / int_f7f52529	comment	Martine Beswick (Paula) said she greatly enjoyed being paid to get a nice suntan on the set of Thunderball, which was filmed in the Bahamas.
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