What are some examples of field trips in movie/TV plots?

December 1, 2013 4:54 PM

I'm trying to think of some examples of field trips to art museums in movies or sitcom plots. Any come to mind (art museums specifically, not science-related field trips, etc)? I'm not having much luck with Google...
posted by three_red_balloons to Grab Bag (12 answers total)

Best answer: Ferris Bueller's Day Off at the Art Institute of Chicago.
posted by hooray at 4:56 PM on December 1, 2013 [2 favorites]

Sesame Street's Don't Eat the Pictures takes place in the Met.
posted by bcwinters at 4:59 PM on December 1, 2013

In Buffy, there's a field trip to the zoo.
posted by Ideefixe at 5:02 PM on December 1, 2013

"The Dream Team" w/Michael Keaton.
posted by headnsouth at 5:07 PM on December 1, 2013

Perhaps From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - I know there is a scene of the field trip that inspires the rest of the plot in the book, but I don't remember for sure about the movie.
posted by Neely O'Hara at 5:21 PM on December 1, 2013

Best answer: TV Tropes has an entry on this.
posted by bdk3clash at 5:37 PM on December 1, 2013

Best answer: TVTropes has a few entries for this including MuseumofBoredom (a few great Simpson's examples) and ClassTrip (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Buffy example)
posted by jessamyn at 5:39 PM on December 1, 2013 [1 favorite]

I think this is central to the storyline of The Pickup Artist...
posted by keep it tight at 5:53 PM on December 1, 2013

Since nobody has mentioned it, "The Magic Schoolbus" is a show based entirely on a teacher who takes the class on field trips in their magic schoolbus.
posted by blnkfrnk at 6:20 PM on December 1, 2013 [2 favorites]

There are a couple of field trips in A Little Romance.
posted by mefireader at 8:56 PM on December 1, 2013

Man, this is a lot harder than I thought it would be. It seems like almost every time someone on TV is going on a museum field trip, it's to a natural history museum. I did manage to find one episode of the short-lived Disney cartoon, Fillmore! ("During a field trip to a local art gallery, a priceless painting is vandalized. Fillmore and Third have a limited window to find the culprit - and the pen responsible - before the damage becomes irreversible.") and an episode of Beavis and Butthead ("The boys' class takes a field trip to an art museum.").
posted by mhum at 10:39 PM on December 2, 2013

In episode 7 of My So-Called Life ("Why Jordan Can't Read") they go on a class field trip to an art museum.
posted by twoporedomain at 5:12 AM on December 5, 2013