History Main / ShipOutOfWater

[[caption-width-right:350:It's not just planes that need [[JustForPun landing gear]] anymore.]]

* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} is known to do this on occasion, thanks to his RealityWarping powers. "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" is one example, where he sails a ship straight onto Olive Oyl's front lawn.

* PlayedForDrama in ''VideoGame/Portal2.'' An EasterEgg allows Chell to travel through a seemingly-unremarkable door and discover an enormous dry dock, where a ship was once stationed. That ordinarily wouldn't be unusual...but this dry dock is ''miles underground'', with no possible way of connecting to water. A life preserver left on the dock reveals that the ship was the ''Borealis''--creating a bit of ArcWelding with ''VideoGame/HalfLife2.'' It seems that Aperture Science, desperate to finally beat their [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter longtime rival]] Black Mesa in a race for government funding, began their experiments with teleportation technology without properly testing it first--making the entire ship, along with every single person on it, disappear to parts unknown. Now the ''Borealis'' is somewhere in the world, packed to the brim with high-powered, unstable technology...[[spoiler: and there's an alien invasion on. If the Combine finds the ship before the heroes do, things will get much, ''much'' worse.]]

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW DUKW]], an amphibious personnel carrier used by the US during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to transport troops from a ship to shore. Now used by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Ducks Dells Ducks]] Tour (and other regional tours) to ply the waterways and roads of the Wisconsin Dells.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' has a plethora of amphibious units, though not all of them can be created at both the War Factory and Naval Yard. The ones that can only be produced through the Naval Yard are the more obvious examples of this trope, such as the Soviet Stingray (a SpiderTank on land) and the Allied Assault Destroyer (which is a battleship on treads).

* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': "The Saga of Windwagon Smith" is about a sea captain that builds a sailing ship on top of a wagon so he can sail the American prairie like an ocean.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' has a number of amphibious units, not all of them can be created at both the War Factory and Naval Yard. The ones that can only be produced through the Naval Yard are the more obvious examples of this trope, such as the Soviet Stingray (a SpiderTank on land) and the Allied Destroyer (which is a battleship on treads).

* Of course, ThoseWackyNazis had their own example in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeteufel Seeteufel]] ("Sea Devil" in German), a two-person ''submarine'' that could drive out of the water on crawler treads.

* When they are late for a wedding, the protagonists of ''Film/TheHangoverPartII'' save time by skipping the mooring and driving the boat straight onto land.
* ''Film/{{Fitzcarraldo}}'' revolves around a huge undertaking of dragging a boat over a mountain situated between two rivers to circumvent some rapids. Made more notable that the film was made by ''actually dragging the boat over a mountain.''

* In ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'', before the Panama Canal was built, the usual way to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific "was for a ship to start picking up a head of steam as it went past Cuba, so it would be going full speed when it rammed into the Isthmus of Panama, sometimes getting eight or even ten feet into the jungle before shuddering to a halt."

* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 2'' has Big Shie, a big battleship with treads.
** The fifth game has a land submarine ([[SandIsWater on the desert, even]]) as its fourth stage boss.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' has a number of amphibious units, not all of them can be created at both the War Factory and Naval Yard. The ones that can only be produced through the Naval Yard are the more obvious examples of this trope, such as the Soviet Stingray (a SpiderTank on land) and the Allied Destroyer (which is a battleship on treads).

* At the end of the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "14 Carrot Rabbit", Bugs inexplicably boards an ocean liner on land in front of Fort Knox.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has a pirate ship that got wished into this, complete with features straight from an off-road vehicle.
* Stickybeard's ship in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', an absolutely massive vessel that crushes whole neighborhoods as it travels on land.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldofGumballS1E35TheHelmet The Helmet]]", Richard wins a boat, which Nicole says he'll never use. In the end, Richard is seen driving the boat on the street, loudly tearing up the pavement, and explains to Gumball that the ocean is about a hundred miles away.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' plays this straight in the episode "The Sand Whale Strikes", in which a sand whale mistakes Eustace for his father, who cheated him in a card game years earlier. After the whale makes off with Eustace, Courage goes to Ma Bagge for help, and they go after the whale via rowboat... on land. In fact, at one point, Courage nudges Ma out of the boat, and she starts panicking that she's drowning, only to realize she's on land.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the episode "Rabbit Marks the Spot", Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Gopher sail through the hundred-acre wood in a sailboat fitted with wheels.