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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "It's No Picnic" sees Isabella trying to invoke this. The other members of the FiveManBand, Ferb included, all have other plans, giving her the chance for time alone with Phineas, and she's eager to make her move by setting up a picnic for the two of them. Naturally, things don't quite go according to plan. [[spoiler:Thanks to Doofenshmirtz's latest 'inator going off amidst his face-off with Perry the Platypus, things eventually start to go Isabella's way once more.]]

If the picnic is on the beach, may overlap with BeachEpisode. See also PicnicEpisode.

If the picnic is on the beach, may overlap with BeachEpisode.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kipper}}'': "The Picnic" has Kipper and Tiger trying to enjoy a picnic, but it gets ruined due to multiple factors on trying to get a good spot. First it was Pig bumping into the picnic as the as kite flying. Then it was because of ants biting Kipper and Tiger and then ducks were eating the food. Later bees were swarming around them at a bench and then Pig ate the rest of the picnic. Despite that, the gang were able to get apples from a tree after getting Arnold's kite down.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kipper}}: "The Picnic" has Kipper and Tiger trying to enjoy a picnic, but it gets ruined due to multiple factors on trying to get a good spot. First it was Pig bumping into the picnic as the as kite flying. Then it was because of ants biting Kipper and Tiger and then ducks were eating the food. Later bees were swarming around them at a bench and then Pig ate the rest of the picnic. Despite that, the gang were able to get apples from a tree after getting Arnold's kite down.

* The ''WesternAnimation/PinkPanther'' episode "Sprinkle Me Pink". The panther goes on a picnic, but a cloud pours rain on him every time he opens his picnic basket.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim and some of his friends bring a couple of blankets and make a picnic of it when they go to see some Shakespeare in the park for extra credit. Tim ends up not enjoying much of the picnic since he's trying to deal with the gun wielding gangsters he happened across in a wooded area of the park.

* Throughout the entire Endless Eight in ''The Melancholy of LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', the five get together at the pool and eat Mikuru's picnic lunch in the middle of each episode.

* The ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' {{OVA}} "The True Meaning of Bento" ends with the main characters and their classmates eating a picnic outside (and Taiga pushed into RomanticSpoonfeeding with Ryuji).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "S20E17: The Good, The Sad and the Drugly" has Bart taking a Retirement Castle volunteer out on a picnic, where they eat Bart's [[SatiatingSandwich PB&J sandwiches]] (his secret recipe: "No PB, Double J"). During said picnic, they attempt to ignore [[BumblingDad Homer]] being "mugged" by his own reflection in the pond water.

When they get their picnic all set up, most of the time, you can expect them to face setbacks such as [[AntAssault ants]] that want to steal the food or bad weather (typically a thunderstorm or wind, but glaring hot sun is also used) in the midst of it. In the case of the latter, they might have to plan their picnic indoors, to which one of the characters will complain that they can't do anything fun indoors, and the other characters will have to show them the fun things that can be done indoors. If the picnic is on the beach, may overlap with BeachEpisode.

It is a nice summer day, a group of friends decide to go on a picnic, where they pack up a basket full of food consisting of [[SatiatingSandwich sandwiches]], cookies, lemonade, potato chips, pies, cakes, etc. and head out, usually to the outdoors, whether a garden, a park, countryside, or even into the wild.

When they get their picnic all set up, most of the time, you can expect them to face setbacks such as [[AntAssault ants]] that want to steal the food or bad weather in the midst of it. In the case of the latter, they might have to plan their picnic indoors, to which one of the characters will complain that they can't do anything fun indoors, and the other characters will have to show them the fun things that can be done indoors.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS1E7GrandpasTeethMommaTrauma Grandpa's Teeth]]", a veteran's picnic is held. When Grandpa Lou's [[FalseTeethTomfoolery false teeth]] go missing after he takes them out to eat some potato salad, Tommy and Chuckie go on an adventure to find them in time for the brass band Lou is participating in, as he can't play his trumpet without his false teeth.

** The episode "Crime And Nourishment" involved Garfield trying to take back the picnic basket full of lasagna from a group of green Smurf-like creatures.
** "The Multiple Choice Cartoon" had Garfield, Jon, and Odie on a picnic all the while that Garfield gives out a multiple choice test throughout the episode.
** The episode "The Picnic Panic" combined this with MusicalEpisode. Jon and Garfield sang about the misfortune that befell them during the picnic, due to a colony of ants that kept stealing their food. The ants even got their own chorus during the song.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS1E7GrandpasTeethMommaTrauma Grandpa's Teeth]]", a veteran's picnic is held. When Grandpa Lou's [[FalseTeethTomfoolery false teeth]] go missing after he takes them out to eat some potato salad, Tommy and Chuckie go on an adventure to find them in time for the brass band Lou is participating in, as he can't play his trumpet without his false teeth.

%%* A few WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts involved Mickey and friends having a picnic.

* A major plot point in ''Theatre/Oklahoma!'' involves an auction where men bid on picnic baskets packed by young women, with the implication that the winner of each basket will sit and eat with the girl who packed it.

* ''Theatre/Carousel'' has a "A Real Nice Clambake", a scene and a song set at a picnic on the beach.