History Main / HulaAndLuaus

->''"Hey, what is this place? Palm trees... hula girls... pineapples... hula girls... surfboards... hula girls!... hula girls!... hula girls! Of course, it all adds up! I've somehow landed in Norway!"''

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* In ''FanficRecs/FinalSpace'': Gary and his crew go to a Hawaiian planet for a vacation. They relax and have a good time. Later, Gary, Avocato, Little Cato, Quinn, Ash, Sheryl, and the others wear beach bras, lipsticks, necklaces, and green grass skirts. They hula dance and enter a hula dance contest.

* Surfing and surfers, ''everywhere''. Everyone knows how to surf and is regularly surfing. Some TruthInTelevision given that Hawaii is one of the biggest surfing capitols in the world.

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* Tourists. ''Tons'' of tourists. In every place, shop, and beach. Especially HawaiianShirtedTourists. While true in some places--''especially'' O'ahu the capitol--other parts of the state are relatively tourist-free.

* Tourists. ''Tons'' of tourists. (This is true in some places - ''especially'' O'ahu, home of the capital, but other parts of the state are relatively free of these guys.)

* Tiki Statues, everywhere and frequently used as an everyday form of illumination.

Aloha! If a work features UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} as a setting, it's common for stereotypical aspects like hula shows and a luaus to be shown, among other things stereotypically associated with the state.

[[AC: Other elements of Hollywood Hawaii involve: ]]

* [[BeachEpisode Beaches]].

* Surfing. [[TruthInTelevision True]], especially with O'ahu's famous North Shore, crawling with surfers from all over.

* A pig roasted on the beach. (Kalua pig was done like this. The only time you'll see it now are at commercial luaus.)

* Tiki Statues.

Visiting Hawaii or another tropical island is always a good excuse for a VacationEpisode or BeachEpisode.

Aloha! If the cast goes to UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} for a VacationEpisode, there will inevitably be a hula show and a luau.

* [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Beaches.]]

* [[RuleOfThree More beaches.]]

* [[OverlyLongGag Have we mentioned the beaches?]]

Visiting Hawaii or another tropical island is always a good excuse for a BeachEpisode.

Usually doesn't apply to series set primarily in Hawaii, such as ''Series/MagnumPI'' or ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'', as the location is simply local flavor.

* Played mostly straight in the Disney MadeForTVMovie ''Film/JohnnyTsunami'', which featured native Hawaiians moving to Vermont as the main premise for a FishOutOfWater story.
* In ''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall'', the main character goes to Hawaii on vacation after breaking up with his super hot celebrity girlfriend. The Hawaii pictured features pretty much everything listed above minus the volcanoes, though he ''is'' tourist resort staffed almost entirely by white people.
* ''Film/{{North}}'' had a [[DudeNotFunny highly offensive]] version of this.
* ''Film/TheFifthElement'' [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]] with Fhloston Paradise.
* In ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', the characters plan on stopping in Honolulu in order to refuel on their flight from UsefulNotes/LasVegas to the Arks in China. [[spoiler:The entire city - hell, the entire island it's on - is covered in lava from the crust movement in the Earth making the volcanoes go into overdrive]].
* ''Film/FiftyFirstDates'' takes place on O'ahu, and features Nick, a big Hawaiian with tattoos on his face. Other than Hawaiian shirts and beaches, the setting doesn't factor too much into the story.
* ''Film/KonTiki'' ends with the crew of the raft being taken to Tahiti and being greeted by two Tahitian girls in grass skirts doing the luau.
* ''Film/Seven1979'' hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims for death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some less commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.
* ''Film/DennisTheMenaceDinosaurHunter'': The movie ends with a luau. In fact, the movie's B-plot involves Mrs. Wilson wanting to go back to Hawaii for her fortieth wedding anniversary; the Wilsons announce during the ending luau that they will be going there.

* Played straight in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch,'' in which Sabrina and her evil twin are competing against each other to see who gets sacrificed to a volcano. Later, Sabrina learns she has a relative who is a Hawaiian volcano goddess.
* The opening of ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' had shots of these, as well as advertising.
* While ''Series/DogTheBountyHunter'' doesn't fall under this trope, being actually based in Hawai'i, it does subvert the image of Honolulu as a glamorous resort town for viewers too young to remember ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' or ''Series/MagnumPI'', showing that it, too, has its slums and the problems typically found there.
* The Pritchett-Delgado-Dunphy clan go to Hawaii during Jay's birthday in ''Series/ModernFamily''.
* Mama and her family visited Hawaii on a two-part episode of ''Series/MamasFamily''. The episode fits the trope well, as did the "aloha hula lamp" that Mama got there.
* ''Series/SavedByTheBell: Hawaiian Style''
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' did not have one in the actual series run, given it was set in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, but the TieInNovel ''Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii'' has Monk and Natalie travel to Kauai. They go to a luau - where the main course is supposed to be a pig buried in a pit covered with banana leaves to trap in heat, but the workers instead dig up [[MysteryMagnet a murder victim's body]].
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': In Season 1, Roland and Jocelyn throw a kitschy Hawaiian bash at their house, which includes Hawaiian shirts, leis, a pig roast, and weed.
* When hockey legend Wayne Gretsky hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' he appeared in a sketch, inspired by Elvis movies, called "Waikiki Hockey" where he played a Honolulu based hockey champion who also sang rock-and-roll.
* Deconstructed in the first season of ''Series/TheWhiteLotus'', which is set at an exclusive Hawaiian resort. While the tourists get all the "stereotypes" -- the beaches, the boating, the hulas, and fire dancing -- but it's all a show put on for them at the expense of the Native Hawaiian population.

* High Chief Peter Maivia was from Samoa but spent a good deal of his career wrestling in Hawaii, so he became known as "The Flying Hawaiian".
* Wrestling/LeilaniKai was from Florida but Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah thought she could "pass" for Hawaiian and so that became central to her [[TheGimmick gimmick]]. She even got an apartment in Hawaii to try and seem authentic.
* Royal Hawaiian from Wrestling/{{GLOW}}, who would munch on [[BigEater two pineapples at a time]] on her way to the ring.
* [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Flex Kavana]] in Wrestling/JerryLawler's USWA, who was another Samoan, although he did grow up in Hawaii.
* Micah Taylor, known for such gimmicks as "SANDY BEACH" as well as [[TagTeam teaming]] as LOCO with MOCO in The Hawaiian Express and Rob Begley as The Island Boys.
* Tracy Taylor's [[TheGimmick gimmick]] in a nutshell. Ring gear in loud bright patterns, skirts, surfing? Like most pro wrestlers, she's [[AmazonianBeauty not exactly skinny]] though.
* The normally [[WrestlingMonster monstrous]] Wrestling/AjaKong decided to run with this trope when Hawai'i Championship Wrestling came to Japan and ran join shows with Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1, becoming "Hula Kong".[[/folder]]

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* Parodied with the Brown Islands setting in ''[[TabletopGame/DiscworldRoleplayingGame GURPS Discworld Also]]'', where the natives think of surfing as a religion, and have a habit of reassuring visitors they stopped sacrificing people to the volcano ''ages'' ago, in a vague manner that suggests they can't quite remember if they'd any reason to.

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* Ride/DisneyThemeParks has the attraction ''Ride/TheEnchantedTikiRoom'', built around tikis and other elements of South Pacific culture.
** Disney's Polynesian Village Resort at WDW is this trope rendered in Florida. It has a regularly-scheduled luau dinner show, called "Spirit of Aloha", which features performances from not just Hawaii, but many other Polynesian islands.
** They've recently opened a hotel/vacation club for members on O'ahu, called Aulani. Though it really [[ShownTheirWork shows its work]] and pays a greater respect to the culture of the islands.

* The Kai Tek Resort in ''VideoGame/{{Jazzpunk}}'' is patterned after this, with a spit you can eventually put a pig on and employees in grass skirts and what can only be described as [[GodivaHair Godiva]] [[HandOrObjectUnderwear Leis]] (one of whom claims to be the manager).
* ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'' had Club Caldera, home of the game's MagmaMan, which clearly had this trope in mind. A small city, beaches, a lot of hula-wearing advertisements, and a volcano.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' had an episode, "Legend of the Volcano Sisters", set in Hawaii, but with very few of the characteristics mentioned above. "Surf's Up!" can also count as it's mainly involved with surfing.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" fulfills this trope almost perfectly. There's a luau complete with hula, there's surfing, there's even an artificial volcano. Little more is missing than the roasted pig and the coconut shell bras. It even features ''Gidget Goes Hawaiian'' (which ''itself'' makes use of this) actress Deborah Walley as the voice of the episode's villain (while the title itself is a spoof of and ShoutOut to the film).
* As the page quote shows, ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' used this trope as part of a pseudo-MisterSandmanSequence when Freakazoid was thrown back in time to Pearl Harbor.
%%* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} [[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials in Paradise]]''.
* The WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} cartoon "Hello Aloha".
* {{Justified|Trope}} in the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise, in that there's always a hula going on because the main characters and their family work in the tourist industry. In one episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries The Series]]'', they go to Honolulu and it's just a regular city. Most of the characters, notably, are also ethnically realistic looking. Nani does fit the "sexy skinny girl" part, but she only dresses in coconut bras and grass skirts as part of her work uniform. She normally wears jeans and a T-shirt.
* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' played everything but the skinny women part straight, as most of them were as fat as visiting relative Tito. Hawai'i ''is'' known for its overweight populace, a result of Hawai'ians not being used to meat that wasn't fish.
* The season 3 finale of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' takes place in Hawaii and uses all the cliches.
** Idem the episode "Hawaiian Honeyruin" of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace''.

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* You can only find luaus at the hotels or resorts; locals have their own, less-produced versions which are basically Hawaii-style [=BBQs=], a lot more hanging out and a lot less hula and fire-shows. Aloha attire (Hawaiian shirts, etc.) is actually very common for semi-formal wear, pineapples have been made into one of the largest tourist-traps by Dole ([[http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/natural_world/plant_world/largest_permanent_hedge_maze.aspx Come see the pineapple-shaped World's Largest Permanent Hedge-Maze!]] ), and tourists can be avoided if you feel safe with traveling to the North Shore, which you generally shouldn't, because the people who break into cars will spot a tourist in no time (and those who don't have cars get to wait hours to be driven back to Honolulu). O'ahu is known for its huge amount of petty crime, mostly car break-ins and pickpockets.
** Hell, look vaguely Hawaiian (Filipino, any Asian with a tan), wear a Hawaiian shirt, and you will blend in. The residents lampshade it themselves - and even the Dole plantation does some subverting (pointing out that pineapples aren't a native Hawaiian fruit).
* Creator/MarkTwain went to Hawai'i, strangely enough. He writes about his first (and last) attempt at surfing, which ended with him buried in sand.
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Aloha! If the cast goes to Hawaii for a VacationEpisode, there will inevitably be a hula show and a luau.

[[folder: Film ]]

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''

Aloha! If the cast [[AlohaHawaii goes to Hawaii]], there will inevitably be a hula show and a luau.

* ''Film/Seven1979'' hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims for death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.

* Played mostly straight in the Disney MadeForTVMovie ''Johnny Tsunami'', which featured native Hawaiians moving to Vermont as the main premise for a FishOutOfWater story.

* ''Manga/MaicchinguMachikoSensei'' had an episode in Hawaii, which included every stereotype... and topless beaches, for some reason. (There are no topless beaches in Hawai'i.) Also, hula girls apparently wear grass skirts low enough to display part of their buttocks. Considering the nature of this series, it shouldn't be that surprising.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" fulfills this trope almost perfectly. There's a luau complete with hula, there's surfing, there's even an artificial volcano. Little more is missing than the roasted pig and the coconut shell bras.

* Sexy skinny girls in coconut bras and grass skirts, even though ethnic Pacific Islanders run the full gamut of body sizes, grass skirts never being a part of Hawaiian Hula tradition, and those hula girls most likely wear jeans and tank tops in their off-hours.

* ''Film/KonTiki'' ends with the crew of the raft being taken to Tahiti, and being greeted by two Tahitian girls in grass skirts doing the luau.
* ''Film/Seven1979'' hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.

* Mama and her family visited Hawaii on a two-part episode of ''Series/MamasFamily''. The episode fit the trope well, as did the "aloha hula lamp" that Mama got there.

* Royal Hawaiian from Wrestling/{{GLOW}}, who would munch on [[BigEater two pineapples at time]] on her way to the ring.

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* Pineapples. (Also true, since the Dole plantation did most of its growing work here and was partially the reason why Hawai'i has a lot of Asian heritage.)

* Al Lolotai, better known by his nickname Alo Leilani, wrestled with a Hawaiian shirt pattern on his trunks, had waist ring plus a sarong as part of his entrance gear, carried a sling blade and handed out [[CheapHeat leis for the fans to put around their necks]], [[MrFanservice especially the lady fans]].

* Wrestling/LeilaniKai was from Florida but Fabulous Moolah thought she could "pass" for Hawaiian and so that became central to her [[TheGimmick gimmick]].

* Leilani Kai was from Florida but Fabulous Moolah thought she could "pass" for Hawaiian and so that became central to her [[TheGimmick gimmick]].