History Main / BusmansHoliday

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels The Time of Angels]]": Eleven and Amy's trip to a museum is cut short by a discovering a homing black box with temporal co-ordinates sent 12,000 years earlier by an old friend. The same friend [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens later]] (earlier from her point of view) also defaces one of the first cliffs in existence to call the Doctor.

* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': In "The Psychiatrist", Basil is terrified that the psychiatrist Dr Abbott who is a hotel guest is analysing everything he does, even though Sybil tries to reassure him that Dr Abbott is there on holiday. At the very end of the episode, when Basil is hopping about in agony with his jacket pulled over his head, Mrs Abbott looks to her husband for professional advice, who replies "I'm on holiday".

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48r4IQTB3NE this]] Creator/TheWeatherChannel commercial, when Jim Cantore, notable for showing up where big storms are going to happen, goes to the beach for a vacation, ''everyone'' starts running for the hills, with one shopper filling his cart with bread and making a run for it and a dog barking at him as if saying "please, go away".

* ComicBook/BlackCanary goes on a vacation in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' #50 and is promptly abducted into her next case. The name of the issue? "Busman's Holiday", of course.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* The ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' got sucked into the middle of the ComicBook/SecretInvasion while trying to take a day off to let their newest member Klara get acclimated to the 21st century.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''

--->'''Cowley:''' Your weekend turned into a bit of a [[LampShading busman's holiday.]]

* It is absolutely not uncommon for tradesmen to work in their free time, either doing off-the-books work for someone or working on their own homes and projects.

* One version of the first meeting between Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}} had them taking the same cruise as Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne and encountering a crime requiring their heroic alter egos.

* There is a ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' cartoon in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' with this very name. He keeps getting in Latin Darkwing's way. At the end, the Latin {{Expy}} takes a Busman's Holiday in Darkwing's city.

** Lampshaded in episode 9 of by Itsuki. The episode deals with [[TenLittleMurderVictims a murder mystery on an island]], and he comments at the beginning of the episode how mysteries seem to follow detectives everywhere. [[spoiler:Then, it turns out that it was all fake, set up by Itsuki's Organization to keep Haruhi entertained. There was also the TwistEnding where we are reminded that Haruhi is not as much a MysteryMagnet as the cause of them thanks to her RealityWarper powers: because of the fact that she had been expecting one, there might now be an actual mystery criminal on the island.]]

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* In ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', Diana wonders why she always ends up finding a disaster on holidays when a trip to Disneyland with Natalia in 1992 reveals that the park’s current Santa is part of a terrorist group attempting to provoke a new war.

-->'''Fluttershy:''' Oh, why do these kinds of things always happen to us?

* An eminent medic was talking to an eminent lawyer at a social gathering when they were interrupted by someone who wanted to describe his symptoms to the medic, and essentially get some free medical advice. The medic dealt with him, and then turned back to the lawyer and said, "This happens to doctors like me all the time, being pestered at social functions for free diagnoses. I don’t know what to do to stop it.” The lawyer smiled, and said, “It’s not difficult. Just send them a bill.” A couple of days later, the medic received a bill from the lawyer.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': “Appendicitement” has lab tech Henry get ambushed by Nick, Greg, and Hodges on his birthday/day off, as the three insist on taking him to the best barbecue joint in Nevada. When they get there, it’s closed down due to a hep B outbreak ([[spoiler: thanks to the former owner being served up on the grill]]), and there’s a dead man with a raccoon welded to his face.

* ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'' takes place during the Phantom Thieves’ summer vacation, with the first event in the story being Joker returning to Tokyo to see his friends again. Shortly after his arrival, it turns out the Metaverse is manifesting itself again, with a local celebrity taking advantage of it, leading to the Phantom Thieves coming out of retirement to put an end to stop her. After returning the stolen Desires, it’s revealed that such incidents are cropping up around Japan, leading to the group [[RoadTripPlot hitting the road to investigate them]], taking in as much of the cities as they can along the way.

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[-[[caption-width-right:271:''A Little Summer Dream'' by Gert Haderer.]]-]

* In ''Radio/TheShadow'' novel "The Golden Vulture," Detective Joe Cardona has one of these inflicted upon him as he's offered the opportunity to take a vacation to Miami on Commissioner Weston's dime... all for the low, low price of acting as a security guard for Weston's friend, who's being menaced by the titular villain.

** In ''Literature/RaisingSteam'' Vimes has become savvy enough to this trope that the next time Sybil suggests a vacation he says he might as well stay at work because of it. She just thinks it'll keep him entertained.

* In the ''Series/CharliesAngels'' episode "Angels on a String," the Angels go to a resort, planning to play tennis, but instead get caught up in a plot to kidnap an anti-communist writer and replace him with a lookalike.

* This turns out to have been invoked in ''Hush Now, Don't You Cry'', the 11th Molly Murphy book. Molly and her police captain husband are invited to an important man's summer house for their honeymoon and their host is murdered. [[spoiler: They eventually find out that he had discovered his brother's criminal past and wanted a police officer there when he told everybody.]]
* In the Loveday Brooke story ''[[http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/pirkis/brooke/brooke.html#VI The Ghost of Fountain Lane]]'', Loveday tries to take a holiday in Brighton. When a local police inspector calls to ask for her help with a difficult case, he finds she's already invoked this trope by investigating, purely for her own satisfaction, a ghost story that appeared in the local newspaper.

* Nina Persson, lead singer of ''Music/TheCardigans', frequents karaoke bars in her free time.

* Creator/JamesHerriot spent his real-life honeymoon tuberculin-testing cattle. The incident made it into both the book and TV series ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.

* Franchise/TheFlash, Franchise/GreenLantern, and ComicBook/GreenArrow once attempted to [[HoYay take a relaxing cruise together]]. The cruise ship just ''happens'' to be secretly transporting [[spoiler: a comatose supervillain]] and a gang of ''other'' supervillains on a recovery mission. HilarityEnsues.
* Characters/{{Black Canary|TheBlackCanary}} goes on a vacation in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' #50 and is promptly abducted into her next case. The name of the issue? "Busman's Holiday", of course.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' has the cast take a trip to Dinosaur Island, only for Bowser to kidnap Peach again.