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Wrong Turn at Albuquerque
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Ah, I see you've come here to learn more about Self-Demonstrating Article and- hang on? It's seems we've taken a wrong turn at- nevermind that, why don't you indulge yourself with the fun facts below. Named for a frequent setup gag in Bugs Bunny cartoons, Wrong Turn at Albuquerque describes a single wrong or missed turn in a journey that will inevitably land the traveler in a place far divorced from their original goal. The plot then unfolds in one of three ways: Comedy: The traveler encounters many wacky mishaps and quaint natives during their efforts to get back on track. Drama: The traveler encounters survival situations like finding food and shelter, or else dealing with increasingly limited resources while trying to avoid being eaten by predators or angering local peoples. See Deadly Road Trip. Horror: The traveler finds themself being actively hunted down by some menace (natural or supernatural), not necessarily because of anything the traveler themself has done, but just because It's What I Do. Or alternatively, the traveler ends up in the Dark World. The gag originates from the fact that Route 66 (opened in 1926) actually intersects itself in the middle of downtown Albuquerque, meaning you could stand on the corner of Route 66 and Route 66note Specifically, the route was changed in 1937, with the old alignment intersecting the new alignment. resulting in a lot of people getting turned around and taking the wrong turn. Can be caused by Road-Sign Reversal, Your Other Left, Short Cuts Make Long Delays, No Sense of Direction, or trying to follow overly complicated directions. When done in a science-fiction setting, it's Teleportation Misfire. Frequently the way to enter a Dark World or Down the Rabbit Hole. Once the traveler gets in, they may not be able to get back out, thanks to it being a Closed Circle. In a case of Technology Marches On, things like GPS navigation and smartphones tend to make this trope less common in modern times, since now its fairly easy to have a digital map that can tell you exactly where you are, and prevent you from making any wrong turns that can send you dozens if not hundreds of miles off course until you realize your error. |
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"Hare-abian Nights": a sort of Clip Show short directed by Ken Harris, has Bugs declaring that he should have taken "dat left toin at Dess Moins." | |
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Multiple instances of this trope are said to be the cause of Nagi's ending up in Pensee, in Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale. | |
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In A Hard Day's Night, a reporter interviews John Lennon about the Beatles' U.S. tour: | |
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The Mr. Men Show — When Mr. Lazy and Mr. Scatterbrain end up at the South Pole in the episode "Boats", Mr. Scatterbrain says he must have taken a wrong turn at Tahiti. | |
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It's not uncommon in Ranma ½ fanfics for Ryōga to end up pretty much everywhere when he's trying to find his way to the Tendō Dojo to see Akane. Sometimes even across dimensions. | |
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In The Phantom Tollbooth, Milo takes a wrong turn at a fork in the road while driving to Dictionopolis, and he ends up (quite literally) stuck in the Doldrums, where the Lethargians dwell. | |
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In Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan, when Guybrush and Morgan are asked, "What say you, digested SCUMM™?" while in the belly of the manatee, Guybrush can choose one of the topics that says, "I'm sorry, we must have taken a wrong turn at Alcatraz." | |
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The Whiteboard: This strip is a Shout-Out to the trope namer, when Swampy steps out onto a rather tall snowdrift and falls through it completely. | |
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In Ace of Aces, a Bavarian celebrational cart pulled by oxen inadvertently causes a Road-Sign Reversal just as Jo Cavalier (the main protagonist) is driving a Jewish family down South, directly leading them to Adolf Hitler's house in Berchtesgaden instead of the Austrian border. | |
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Looney Tunes: The Trope Namer: Bugs Bunny frequently missed "da left toin at Alba-coiky" while traveling via wormsign, an event that has landed him in, variously, a Mexican bullfight, the Roman Coliseum, Antarctica, Australia, the American Civil War, the Wild West, medieval Europe, Scotland, the Southern United States in the middle of a clan feud, the Black Forest during WWII (which, interestingly enough, was the first time it was said), Ali Baba's treasure cave, the Himalayas, and even an opera or two. Can be seen on a YouTube video. "Herr Meets Hare": The first cartoon in which he said this, after accidentally digging to the Black Forest in Germany. "Hare-abian Nights": a sort of Clip Show short directed by Ken Harris, has Bugs declaring that he should have taken "dat left toin at Dess Moins." "Napoleon Bunny-Part": Bugs pops up in Napoleon's headquarters, and credits it to a "wrong turn off the Hollywood freeway." "Transylvania 6-5000": Bugs is headed to Pittsburgh, and he ends up in Pittsburghe, Transylvania. "Ali Baba Bunny": Bugs and Daffy Duck are tunneling towards a vacation at Pismo Beach, only to wind up in Ali Baba's treasure cave. In DC's Looney Tunes comic book, one issue's storyline centered on the apparent disappearance of Bugs, with Daffy as the investigating detective. The last page of the book shows Bugs relaxing on a distant beach, surrounded by attractive female rabbits. In the last frame of the story, he informs the reader, "I finally made that left turn at Albuquerque." In the made-for-TV cartoon "Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court", Bugs is en route to the Georgia Peanut Festival, only to find himself in Camelot (which he initially thinks is Pittsburgh). Following the obligatory left-turn-at-Albuquerque line, and a brief encounter with a dragon, Bugs declares, "Never again, never never again do I take travel hints from Ray Bradbury! Him and his shortcuts." In a Cartoon Network short "You have questions, that's... understandable", one of the old headscratchers the short ponders is "what if Bugs Bunny took the RIGHT turn at Albuquerque". It shows an impatient Daffy and Elmer Fudd standing at a rabbit hole, and nothing happens. Since it's canon that Bugs lives in Los Angeles, and in most of these he asks directions to the Co-a-chella Valley, he's really lost anyway to be anywhere near Albuquerque. He's off by a factor of Arizona. (In fact, if he starts in Los Angeles and goes anywhere near Albuquerque, then he's already gone past Coachella Valley.) In the Looney Tunes/DC Comics crossover comic (the one where Elmer Fudd tries to kill Batman... yes, that happened, and it was surprisingly well-regarded at that!), Bugs and Elmer meet up at a bar, and Bugs wonders if he took a wrong turn at Albuquerque again. Elmer notes that this seems to happen a lot, and both admit they've never actually visited Albuquerque. |
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In Stargate Equestria, the SG-1 team winds up on Equestria when Daniel misdials a Stargate trying to get them home. | |
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"Herr Meets Hare": The first cartoon in which he said this, after accidentally digging to the Black Forest in Germany. | |
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Wrong Turn features this trope as the central plot point for the entire film. | |
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Animaniacs: The Warners' attempt to dig their way to Six Flags over Flushing put them in Hades. In "Draculee, Draculaa", a wrong turn at Albuquerque lands the Animaniacs in Transylvania (instead of Pennsylvania, as they intended). When they leave Transylvania and make another attempt to reach Pennsylvania, they instead arrive at Tasmania. |
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Supergirl (2015) has Kara name-drop the trope while pretending to be a Dumb Blonde tourist... on Mars. (It Makes Sense in Context.) For bonus points, she actually did drive a powder-blue convertible into the Martian cave while blasting "...Baby One More Time" on the stereo. | |
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In Doc Hollywood, Michael J. Fox gets lost in the Deep South. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Occurs in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Brad takes a wrong turn at a fork in the road leading him and Janet to a dead end, getting a flat tire, and having to seek shelter in Frank N. Furter's castle. | |
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In Crouch End, another family couple ends up in an unfamiliar district of London populated by Lovecraftian horrors. | |
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In the The Garfield Show episode "Boris the Iceman", Paddy the Leprechaun pops up from behind the fireplace, when Garfield has woken up from a nap while Jon and Odie are out in the snow. Paddy mutters about "must have taken a wrong turn at Alburquerque" on his way to Hawaii. | |
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In Rusty and Co., a Xorn (a burrowing monster from the Elemental Plane of Earth) made a wrong turn at Abeir-Toril. | |
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Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.: Trying to get rid of the team's pet dinosaur, Red Hulk tries to take it to some forest but a wrong turn (and yes, Red Hulk mentions Albuquerque) leads them to Latveria. | |
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At the end of the Scott The Woz episode "Let's Make a Game Console!", Scott tried to go to the Microsoft offices to pitch his idea for a new Xbox console, but thanks to Google Maps and a few wrong turns he ended up in the W. K. Kellogg Institute for Food and Nutrition Research. | |
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Cast Away. Chuck wound up so far off the beaten path it took him five years to get home, and the search and rescue team was looking for him hundreds of miles away. | |
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Sam in Poker Night 2 says this during a fold. | |
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Grrl Power: Invoked by Sydney the first time she tries flying to the comic store and has trouble orienting herself. | |
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A frequent setup for the survival situations featured in Survivorman and Man vs. Wild. | |
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Repeated almost literally by the shadowy guy from Bob and George here. | |
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Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines: "Ceiling Zero Zero" concludes with a Klunk-created tornado whisking the Vulture Squadron (in Dastardly's report to the General) "about 10,000 miles east of Albuquerque... that is, as the pigeon flies." | |
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Happens in Stargate SG-1 at least once. With the Stargate itself. | |
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Yogi's Ark Lark has "the Pismo Beach turnoff." | |
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In Dumb and Dumber, the two leads are driving across the country. When they swap driving duties, the new driver takes the wrong freeway ramp and ends up going back several states before he wises up. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Two of the several mishaps that befall Miss Brooks and company in "Game at Clay City". Mr. Conklin gives Miss Brooks' the wrong directions to Clay City. Later, a pedestrian (voiced by Frank Nelson) intentionally gives Miss Brooks' wrong directions so he could get a free ride home. | |
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Bloom County, during the 1984 presidential election: | |
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At the end of the Kamen Rider movie, Movie War CORE, Eiji Hino returns to the surface from a subterranean battle by crawling out of a manhole in Brazil. | |
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In DC's Looney Tunes comic book, one issue's storyline centered on the apparent disappearance of Bugs, with Daffy as the investigating detective. The last page of the book shows Bugs relaxing on a distant beach, surrounded by attractive female rabbits. In the last frame of the story, he informs the reader, "I finally made that left turn at Albuquerque." | |
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The reason the survivors on Lost were on their own: their plane was 1000 miles off-course when it crashed. | |
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Fraggle Rock: In one episode, Red is taking part in a big race called the All-Day Cross-Cave Beanbarrow Race Finals, with Lanford, Mokey's sentient plant, as her partner. But Clinging Creepers, which wrap around their victims to ensnare them, have been seen by Table Rock Cavern. They can only be repelled by the smell of fresh flowers, so the Bouquet Brigades have made floral headbands for everyone. During the race, Red's failure to listen to Lanford's directions results in her making a wrong turn and ending up at Table Rock Cavern. Too late, she realizes her headband is gone (it had been snagged by a spring vine) and that the Clinging Creepers are slithering toward her. | |
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Ben 10 — In the Omniverse episode "A Fistful of Brains", Ditto uses the same line after getting lost while burrowing underground. Ditto shares the same voice actor as Animaniacs' Yakko Warner. | |
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Cars: Lightning McQueen's excursion at Radiator Springs pretty much entirely results from taking a wrong turn on Route 66. Also applies to Minny and Van, the couple of lost tourists. |
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977) and its remake. | |
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An easy thing to do if you own the New Mexico DLC in American Truck Simulator and don't watch the signs where Interstates 25 and 40 meet. | |
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"Ali Baba Bunny": Bugs and Daffy Duck are tunneling towards a vacation at Pismo Beach, only to wind up in Ali Baba's treasure cave. | |
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Laff-A-Lympics: In the special story "The Man Who Stole Thursday", Tempus tries to leave the Flintstones' time for present time but arrives at the Jetsons' time instead. Tempus believes it happened because he made a wrong turn at the Spanish-American war. | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Bunny's version of it is "the left turn at Kennebunkport." | |
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Dimensional Links: Realm often gets lost in the desert and ends up in completely incomprehensible places. Notable feats include getting from a mountain range to a desert with no mountains in sight to an island on the other side of the country, getting lost in a straight hallway, managing to get onto the roof of Hyrule Castle (a feat that requires bending the laws of physics to accomplish normally) and getting from a library to the top of a volcano normally only accessible by an impassable cave. It's actually one of his main gimmicks, and is touched on in his Hyrule's arc in the rework. It turns out that his magic is so uncontrolled it randomly teleports him whenever he tries to get somewhere. | |
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In Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, the titular Mrs. Todd discovers a mysterious road called "Motorway B", which is not on any roadmap, and the forests around it are inhabited by fantastic creatures. | |
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The Doctor Who episode "Turn Left" examines an Alternate Universe where Donna Noble never met the Doctor, because she took a right turn instead of a left. | |
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The Lemon Demon song "Bad Idea" is about a guy taking a wrong turn and running into a Zombie Apocalypse. | |
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In a Cartoon Network short "You have questions, that's... understandable", one of the old headscratchers the short ponders is "what if Bugs Bunny took the RIGHT turn at Albuquerque". It shows an impatient Daffy and Elmer Fudd standing at a rabbit hole, and nothing happens. | |
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Hägar the Horrible once took a wrong turn at Moscow and ended up sailing on top of the Great Wall of China. | |
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Without a Paddle. Having already lost most their gear to an encounter with a grizzly bear, the protagonists take off into the river but are unable to read the map, causing them to go the wrong way. They fall off a waterfall, and while they survive, their canoe is destroyed. | |
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The Plumber from Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time somehow ended up inside Clank's subconscious by taking a wrong turn "somewhere". It's The Plumber, so it's not hard to believe. | |
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In Jurassic Park, Nedry, who is trying to get to the island dock to get on the last ship during a typhoon, crashes into the sign at the fork in the road marking the path. When he picks it up, the arrow is pointing uselessly upward. He takes the fork to the right. (Freeze-Frame Bonus, the correct path was to the left.) | |
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Too Many Ashes: One Ash clone ends up in a location that's strongly implied to be the Distortion World. The only explanation he can muster for how he got there is that somewhere along the line he took a wrong turn. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: When Mittens gets lost trying to find Sainte-Chapelle in "The Paris Trip", she invokes this trope, saying "I think I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque instead of Pont des Artes". | |
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In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, it's mentioned that while doing his Gyarados research, Jared Kowalski was heading for Dandelion Island in Sinnoh, yet somehow his Gyarados made a wrong turn that landed him near Pinkan Island (which is in the Orange Archipelago). | |
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"Transylvania 6-5000": Bugs is headed to Pittsburgh, and he ends up in Pittsburghe, Transylvania. | |
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The missed turn at Albuquerque is once again the cause of all the trouble in Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time. Only this time it was a right turn. | |
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Two Thousand Maniacs! and its remake, 2001 Maniacs!, have the villains invoke this by putting up fake detour signs leading to their town. | |
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Kermit and Fozzie's duet "Movin' Right Along" from The Muppet Movie has Fozzie get lost and drive from Rhode Island to Canada to another planetnote Assuming he hasn't just gotten turned around, that is. in a matter of almost thirty seconds. | |
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. | |
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In one of the deleted scenes in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, it's revealed that Del, while driving from St. Louis to Chicago, overshot his destination by a hundred miles and wound up in Wisconsin. In the finished film, it's still implied by the police officer's uniform, his cruiser's livery, and the fact that Del and Neil ultimately hitchhike to Chicago in a dairy truck (Wisconsin being known for its dairy farms). | |
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