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We were invited to the island
All our friends were to be there
A party for the ages
Everyone without a care
But storm clouds came from nowhere...
Parry Gripp, "Me and You and Pikachu"

"However, no matter where I go, the show is always the same... Dead body. Stage left."

"According to the writer of the best selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse."
Snuff

"Why does my vacation have to turn into a monster hunt? Can't a girl get some time off?"
Merrill, Rune Soldier Louie

[Excitedly] WE JUST STOLE AN EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR STATUE! On, like, our day off!
Parker, Leverage, "The First David Job"

Unity: How come we never take vacations?
Sweetheart: Because we always end up somewhere worse than work!

"Oh man, I can't fucking believe this. Another basement, another elevator. How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?"
John McClane, Die Hard 2: Die Harder

"How can the same thing happen to the same guy so many times?"
John McClane, Die Hard 12: Die Hungry

"I try to take a day off, try to have a semblance of a normal life... but you had to pick today to rob a bank!"
Wonder Woman, Justice League, "Hawk and Dove"

Natalie Teeger: Everywhere you go, every time you turn around, somebody is killing somebody else!
Captain Stottlemeyer: That's true.
Adrian Monk: What?
Captain Stottlemeyer: There was the time you went on vacation and then on the airplane.
Adrian Monk: These things happen!
Captain Stottlemeyer: And that stage play...
Adrian Monk: It happens!
Natalie Teeger: To you!
Monk

Ghvnn: Hey, boss, we're not going to become that kind of detectives that wherever they go, tragedies occur, right? That'd be kind of cliché... not to mention quite stressful.
Margh: Let's hope not, Ghvnn. But I think this case will be the exception, not the rule.

Who would have guessed that we would get into this much trouble on our vacation? At this rate, maybe it’ll be like those famous detective stories where trouble follows the heroes everywhere they go.
Yomi, Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson

It feels good to be back! For those who don't know, I've been on a little break, and I been mainly just playing Minecraft on my off-time, so it feels really good to be back from playing Minecraft, to - play Minecraft....

Well, you know how in the Poirot books he always goes on vacation to get away from it all, the mysteries and whatever else, only to have a murder committed on the very island he's fled to for peace and quiet and some civilized gastronomy? It was exactly like that, except that we were fleeing magic.

Remember that you are on a holiday, Magistrate! And all the dead bodies that maybe drifting around here are the exclusive property of your colleague Teng!
Chiao Tai to Judge Dee, The Lacquer Screen. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

Oona: It's AWFUL! AWFUL! I'm on a desert island and there's soft music playing and I've got a smoothie and a lawn chair!
Olympia: That...doesn't sound so bad...
Oona: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'M ON A DESERT ISLAND! And I don't have any gadgets to work on and I don't have my badge phone to check and see if there are any gadgets that need worked on and I don't know who's running the lab while I'm away and I can't contact anyone to find out what's going on and I... [panting furiously] THINGS MIGHT BE FALLING APART AND I'M NOT THERE TO SUPERVISE! [takes a deep breath] Things always fall apart a lot better if I'm there in charge.
Oona (talking about her odd dream), My Dream Is Yours

"On a tropical island far from the Mushroom Kingdom, among a people enchanted by sunshine, Mario has taken a break from the hopping, the bopping, and saving the princess to take a well deserved vacation... or so he thinks."


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