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!'''Examples'''

[[folder: Anime & Manga]]

--> '''Client''': [after hitting his golf ball a distance away] I think that's a family having a picnic over there.
--> '''Hiroshi''': That's funny. What kind of idiot would hold a picnic on a golf course... [suddenly realize that's his ''own'' family]

* Throughout the entire Endless Eight in "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", the five get together at the pool and eat Mikuru's picnic lunch in the middle of each episode.
* In ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', the Earth Sciences Club has annual barbecues to welcome new members. The club also uses the chance to showcase their activities in astronomy, geology, and eventually meteorology. These are animated in the second and tenth episodes.

[[folder:Art]]

[[folder: Comic Books]]
* Once there was a Vietnam War veteran named [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]] who decided to take his family out for a nice picnic at Central Park. [[LeaveNoWitnesses It didn't]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge end well...]]

[[folder: Film - Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', Peppermint Patty mentions to Snoopy that they will have a picnic on the beach. [[spoiler:However, the picnic does not come to fruition the next day, because Snoopy got thrown off the beach, due to a rule about there being no dogs allowed.]]
* During the opening montage of ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', Shrek and Fiona have a picnic on the beach with a basket left behind their gingerbread house by a frightened Little Red Riding Hood. Shrek and Fiona begin making out when the tide takes Fiona in and leaves a mermaid in her place. Fiona reappears and has the mermaid violently tossed back into the ocean.
* Lotso's backstory in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' has him being accidentally left behind at a picnic by his owner, Daisy, with her other toys. [[spoiler: The search concludes with Lotso discovering Daisy had replaced him. He begins his StartOfDarkness almost at the same time that his heart breaks, and selfishly drags his toy companions with him, regardless of the fact that Daisy only replaced him.]]

[[folder: Film - Live Action]]
* ''Film/{{Help}}'' - while "Ticket to Ride" plays, the Beatles are briefly seen having a picnic in the snow.
* ''Film/LookListenLive'', a driver's education film produced by Union Pacific in the mid-1940s with an emphasis on safety around railroads, sets one of the stories to a family picnic outing. It does not end well � all five members of the family, due to the driver foolishly insisting that there are no trains expected at the crossing, are killed when their car is struck by an oncoming train. The narrator grimly reminds the viewers that there was no picnic that day, nor will there ever be for anyone in that family.

[[folder: Newspaper Comics]]
* A weeklong story arc of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strips had Jon and Garfield go on a picnic, that was immediately spoiled by strong winds, ants that ate Jon's cherry pie, and to top it off in the end, a rainstorm.
** Similarly, a 2007 strip had Jon and Liz about to have a picnic, which immediately became non-existent when they realized that Garfield stowed away and ate all of the food in the basket before Jon even left the driveway. Needless to say, both Jon and Liz were not very happy when they were forced to go to a dorky drive-thru restaurant instead.

[[folder: Literature]]
* The classic children's book ''Picnic'' was ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* In Ian Fleming's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang_(novel) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'', the Pott family flies to the Godwin Sands in the English Channel for a picnic. Unfortunately they fall asleep and the tide comes in. It's a good thing the title car can change into a hoverdraft.

* ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'': When Mole first meets Rat, they get acquainted over a picnic on the river bank.

[[folder: Live Action TV]]

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': "Our Miss Brooks" has three picnic episodes, each of them ending with picnic basket mishaps:

* The ''Series/AsTimeGoesBy'' episode "The Picnic".
* ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'': The episode "The Hitchhikers," included a picnic element, with the episode's villain, Bill, trying to get hostage Kimberly to cooperate and go along with him on his picnic at his apartment. He even spreads a picnic blanket and has a basket ready for his vision of an intimate atmosphere.
* In ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'', the characters often enjoyed their meals outdoors, for example after Sunday masses in the meadow near the church.
* ''Series/MrBean'' tried to go on a picnic in the park, only for a fly to take an interest in his cupcake. Not being the one to hurt a fly, he has to come up with a different way to deal with it.

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[[folder: Video Games]]

* ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'' has a mission where you must help a newscaster blow away storm clouds with a fan to the song "September", so that she and her son can go on a picnic that weekend, in which reports read to be storming all over the country, eventually getting help from her fellow news team, the Air Force, and even exotic wildlife. Upon completing the goal, she and her son embark on the picnic, having the double cheeseburgers she made that her son absolutely loves.
* [[VideoGame/HotelMario “Nice of the princess to invite us over for a picnic, ‘eh, Luigi?”]]

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[[folder: Webcomics ]]
* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0200.html a celestial family finds theirs interrupted by a planeshift spell]]. [[spoiler: Confirming DiedHappilyEverAfter.]]
* In ''Webcomic/CestlaVie'', Mona Montrois, an expatriot Frenchwoman in Los Angeles runs into a different hazard. She is affronted to the depths of her French soul to be very nearly arrested on her picnic in a park in LA (possibly the most atmospherically polluted city in the USA, as she points out) by park wardens who caution her that Californian law permits neither drinking wine nor smoking in public outdoor areas. As she is French, this, in her opinion, takes 90% of the pelasure out of the experience. With a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other, she is a swig and a smoke away from arrest for misdemeanour.

[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebAnimation/AstroLOLogy'': "Taurus Makes a Yummy Treat" is about Taurus having a picnic, but having to defend his food from some animals that want to eat it as much as he does.
* There was a game on {{Creator/CartoonNetwork}}.com that had a bunch of the characters at a picnic, and the player, as an ant, had to collect as many crumbs as possible while avoiding obstacles.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBrosSuperShow'': The episode "Flatbush Koopa" has Princess Toadstool and Toad out on a picnic, embracing the peace of the Mushroom Kingdom now that King Koopa had been defeated and driven out for good, but Toad is the first to mention how much they miss Mario and Luigi, now that they've gone back to Brooklyn, and how [[VictoryIsBoring boring it is without anymore world traveling or Koopa Troopas to fight]].
* ''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.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' episode "All You Can Eat" has Caillou and his mommy having a picnic lunch with Clementime and her mommy at the park.

* WesternAnimation/YogiBear: Virtually every one of the classic Hanna-Barbera shorts involving Yogi and his pal, Boo Boo, has the buddy bears stealing pic-a-nic baskets and disrupting pic-a-nics at Jellystone Park.
* A few WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts involved Mickey and friends having a picnic.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' episode "It's No Picnic" has Taz and his family go on a picnic, unaware that Bull Gator and Axl are trying to capture them.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, ''Porky's Picnic''. WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, his girlfriend Petunia and baby nephew Pinky go on a picnic. They don't actually get to eat anything because Pinky wanders off to the zoo and gets in trouble.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' episode "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pup_on_a_Picnic Pup on a Picnic]]". Spike and Tyke go on a picnic with Tom and Jerry as uninvited guests.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryKids'', Spike and Tyke try to have a picnic but get attacked by army ants that are trying to steal their food.
* One ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' episode has Oggy, Olivia and Jack go on a picnic, and when the cockroaches become aware of it, HilarityEnsues.
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark''. In the first episode, Charlie Ant tries to get food from the Aardvark's picnic.
** The Aardvark sets a picnic up as bait for the Ant in "Fumbo Jumbo":
-->'''Aardvark:''' If I say so myself, I do set out a very appetizing picnic. Now all I gotta do is wait for the food to arrive!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PacMan'' episode "Picnic in Pacland", the Ghost Monsters try to disrupt the Pac-Family's picnic.
* ''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.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Lesson Zero", Twilight and company go out for a picnic halfway through the episode. Twilight ends up panicking and being more unhinged about not sending a letter to Princess Celestia, albeit every one else has a fine time.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has "The Picnic".
* The first act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E7BogusInWilderland Bogus In Wilderland]]" had the Anybody family and Bogus and Brattus on a picnic, only for their picnic to come to a halt due to trouble involving ants, birds, bees, and a bear.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' episode "Lazy Daze", the Rockhopper crew, save for Fidgel and Michelle, goes on a picnic on Rigel 13. And then giant ants come and ruin it.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has the episode "Company Picnic" where Mr. Krabs takes his employees on a nice--if not [[CuttingCorners very cheap]]--picnic. But things get chaotic when Plankton hosts his own picnic on the same day.
* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheThing'': "Picnic Panic" had Benjy and friends on a picnic that the Yancy Street Gang tried to ruin.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'': The original series featured an episode "Picnic" where Mr. Rusty, Florence, and Zebedee all prepare for a picnic in the Magic Garden. They meet up with Dougal, Brian, Ermintrude, Dylan, and Mr. [=McHenry=]. All throughout the episode, the characters remind each other to make sure they haven't forgot anything. Mr. Rusty brings a corkscrew, Brian brings salt-and-pepper shakers, Ermintrude brings glasses, Dylan brings cushions, and Mr. [=McHenry=] brings the eating utensils. However, at the end, they all realize that they have forgotten to bring any food.
** The CGI episode "A Nice Day Out" also has Ermintrude inviting Dylan, Brian, Florence and a grumpy Dougal for a day out in the countryside to try and satisfy Dougal who was bored in the beginning of the episode. When they are having their picnic, the ants steal all their food. While waiting for Train to bring more food, everyone plays a game of cricket. The ball hits Dougal, prompting a switch over to hide-and-seek, where Dougal decides to run off. He does come back to the picnic when he returns the cricket ball to everyone after they hit it in the bushes. After that, Dougal is genuinely satisfied with the day out.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In Episode 3084, Bob plans a picnic for the kids, as well as Alice, Telly, and Herry in the park. However, when rain spoils plans for an outdoor picnic, Herry is upset, so Bob decides to host the picnic in his apartment. While Bob, the kids, Alice, and Telly have a lot of fun at their indoor picnic, Herry complains that an indoor picnic isn't the same as an outdoor one, and doesn't want to partake in the games his friends play, eventually leaving and going home. He comes back at the end to color with his friends, having nothing to do at home.

* ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'' has a few of these. One notable episode has Shin-Chan's dad, Hiroshi, needing to call off a family picnic due to going out with a client for a game of golf (being a HenpeckedHusband as usual, Hiroshi ends up having the snot beaten out of him by a furious Misae who reprimands him for being MarriedToTheJob) before Misae decide to bring Shin-Chan and Himawari to by herself. But hijinks ensues along the way when they inevitably ends up getting lost.... before finally arriving to have their picnic ''[[ContrivedCoincidence on the same golf course]]'' Hiroshi and his client are having a swing.

--> '''Hiroshi''': That's funny. What kind of idiot would hold a picnic on a golf course.. [suddenly realize that's his ''own'' family]

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* ''Look, Listen, Live'', a driver's education film produced by Union Pacific in the mid-1940s with an emphasis on safety around railroads, sets one of the stories to a family picnic outing. It does not end well � all five members of the family, due to the driver foolishly insisting that there are no trains expected at the crossing, are killed when their car is struck by an oncoming train. The narrator grimly reminds the viewers that there was no picnic that day, nor will there ever be for anyone in that family.

When they get their picnic all set up, most of the time, you can expect them to face setbacks such as [[StrongAnts 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.

When they get their picnic all set up, most of the time, you can expect them to face setbacks such as [[StrongAnts ants]] that want to steal the food or bad weather in the midst of it.

* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Several episodes had picnic stories in them. The most famous one was Season 6's "May We Make Them Proud," which is how that episode began; it peaks with a massive house fire and the deaths of Alice Garvey and baby Adam Kendall Jr.

** "Little Bear's SweetTooth" has Little Bear, his family, and friends throwing a Harvest Day picnic party in the forest where he finds out that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin he has a sweet tooth.]] As everyone else plays some picnic games, Little Bear can't help but try some tasty desserts on the table. [[spoiler:But as the pie eating contest is about to begin, he ends up getting a tummy ache and has to go rest in bed at home, thus missing the rest of the Harvest Day picnic.]]

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'' episode "Ants Revolution", the titular character, Hal, and Daisy throw a surprise picnic for Squeeks when a colony of [[StrongAnts ants]] spoil it by stealing Squeeks' cheesecake and dragging it down the anthill.