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"My mom already left for the diner and dad went to the 7-Xi to get scratchers. I guess he won, 'cause that was six years agone."

A form of Parental Abandonment that is ofttimes Played for Laughs merely can also be Played for Drama.

When a parent decides to leave their family or breaks upwardly with their partner they'll make the excuse of Going to the Store to buy cigarettes/milk/whatsoever, but they never really come back. Other times it's a excuse made by the kid'southward family unit in order to soften the trauma or shield the kid from the issue. If the child is immature or naive enough they volition believe that their parent actually did go to the store and are just taking a really, really long fourth dimension coming back.

If the parent in question really did go to the shop and never came back considering they died, it'due south often much more Played for Drama. A Played for Laughs variation of this is having information technology exist that they really did go to the shop, are still alive, and really are taking that long to come back.

Compare to Released to Elsewhere and Dog Got Sent to a Farm, besides as to When Y'all Coming Home, Dad? for when a dad is busy but not completely absent. Contrast Family Human, who probably never would do this.

Examples:

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     Anime & Manga

  • Case File nº221: Kabukicho has Mary and Lucy Morstan abandoned by their father after he told them (and their mom) that he needs to become a pack of cigarettes.
  • Non exactly a parent, only one could apply this trope to Damian in Pokémon. He told his Charmander to look for him on top of a large stone with no intention of ever returning for it. Had information technology not been for Ash Ketchum and his friends, the Charmander would've died in the rain. One of the manga versions had him get into an accident that left him hospitalized for quite some time.
  • In the Slayers OVA "Jeffrey'south Knighthood", Jeffrey'due south father left to become milk and disappeared for ten years. Presumably he was trying to get away from his crazy wife Josephine.

     Comic Strips

  • Subverted with Dilbert. Dilbert'south mother'due south explanation for Dilbert'due south Disappeared Dad is that they lost him at an all-yous-can-eat cafe. In a much later strip, though, Dilbert visits his father, who is indeed still at the cafe restaurant because he'south then resolutely Literal-Minded that he refuses to leave until he has actually had "all he can swallow". It should be noted that this took identify in December of 1992, and past all accounts Dildad is still at the buffet today.

     Fan Works

  • Near the terminate of RWBY'southward 2d book, afterwards Yang'south Missing Mom Raven made some very brief appearances, fan-made graphic symbol status charts listed Raven's status as "Went out to buy Powerball tickets" or "Still out buying those cigarettes" throughout Volume 3. When Volume 4 rolled around and Raven finally stuck around for most of an episode before splitting over again, her status was updated to "After finding her cigarettes, Raven left one time over again after realizing she doesn't own a lighter."
  • Parodied in Ultra Fast Pony: Every episode opens with a unlike grapheme proverb the proper noun of the testify. When someone points out to Rarity that she's the but one who hasn't gotten to practise one of those intros, she retorts, "My episode intro just went to the store! You'll run across!"

     Movie — Animation

  • Pinkish Diamond pulled a variant of this on Spinel in Steven Universe: The Flick. She told her they were going to play a game in which Spinel must stand still in ane spot and await for her to come back. She then proceeded to leave and never returned. Poor Spinel was left standing in that location for literally thousands of years waiting for her principal to come back, until she eventually saw a broadcast revealing the truth, causing her to snap and go evil. Heaven knows how long she would have waited had it not been for that convenient broadcast...

     Movie — Live Action

  • In Quartier Lointain, the protagonist'southward male parent says he's going out to buy some bread on the night of his 40th birthday. He doesn't come back.
  • Iron Man 3: When Tony meets Harley, a kid in Tennessee, he says his dad went to a 7-Eleven to get lottery scratch-offs, six years ago. He'due south bitterly aware he'due south dad left him and his female parent, regardless of whether lottery was really involved. Tony, being Tony, responds with his usual tact:
  • Mentioned in 1995'south Man of the House during Ben Archer's Opening Narration that his male parent packed upwardly his things and drove away, saying he needed to "find himself." He took his cute secretary along to aid him await. The abandonment was rather transparent, so Ben and his mother Sandy brainstorm their single-parent life right from go.
  • Duets has a instance of the abandoning person saying so, every bit Todd constantly mentions in that his current status is "out getting a pack of cigarettes." At that place's even the flashback showing how information technology started:

    Todd: Sorry Processed, I'thou going out for a pack of cigarettes.
    Processed: Only Todd, you don't smoke!

  • In Parenthood, Larry Buchman tells his father that he's going off to South America on yet another of his "get rich quick" schemes, assuring that he'll return if it doesn't pan out and request him to await after his son in the meantime. His son, at all of four years old, is savvy enough to frankly ask his grandfather, "Is he ever coming back?" To which his grandfather merely every bit bluntly answers, "No".

     Literature

  • A fake newspaper advice cavalcade one time had a "tips for breaking up" section, which mentioned:

    Don't use the erstwhile excuse of going to buy cigarettes. Exist a man, send her to buy cigarettes for y'all, and flee through the rooftops before she remembers you never smoked.

  • Marcus Didius Falco: The main character'south father went out i evening for a game of draughts; as far as Falco knows, he's nevertheless playing it.

     Live Action TV

  • The Cosby Testify. A janitor at Cliff's hospital mentions that after a year of marriage, her husband went out for cigarettes and never returned.
  • Will'due south dad in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air disappeared when his son was five and used this alibi.
  • thirty Rock:
    • Parodied in the terminal episode when Tracy Hashemite kingdom of jordan'south father returns from the shop with cigarettes....about thirty-five years after he went out.
    • Played straight when Tracy associates the odour of Liz'due south hair production with his absent father:

    "You're still here! Y'all didn't go to the store for milk and heroin and then never come up back!"

    • Subverted when Jack is talking about his father:

    "Thirty-five years ago my father, Jimmy Donaghy, went out for a pack of cigarettes, came back, smoked i, told my female parent he was leaving forever, and walked out the door."

  • Gilmore Girls: When Jess was a baby, his biological male parent Jimmy went to the store for diapers and never came dorsum. He shows upwards again when Jess is eighteen, wanting to build a human relationship with him.
  • In Monk, Adrian Monk's male parent ran away from his own family afterwards he was supposed to get Chinese nutrient.
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000: In Cry Wilderness, they reference this in one of the riffs:

    Mr. Douglas: What did your father have to say virtually these meetings?

    Paul: I never told him.

    Mr. Douglas: Why non?

    Servo: He hasn't come back from ownership cigarettes still...

  • Friends: Phoebe's dad for his 2nd family. He went to the drugstore iv years ago, and so he should be back any minute now.
  • Married... with Children: 7's parents went to "get cigarettes". Al notices they used the excuse to exit town and go out Seven with them.
  • In Punky Brewster, this was how the title character wound upwards living lonely before beingness found at the beginning of the series. Her mom had gone to the store and never came dorsum. In a slight twist, Punky and her dog were waiting outside the store instead of at domicile. The mystery of her mom's fate served as an occasional plot bespeak for the residuum of the serial.
  • The George Lopez Bear witness: George's father, Manny, likewise went off to go some cigarettes, though Benny already knew he wouldn't be returning because they already had cigarettes.

    Manny: I'one thousand gonna get some smokes!
    Benny: We've got smokes correct hither. Selection some other lie.
    Manny: I'll stick to my offset 1! [leaves].

  • Midnight Caller: Jack'south begetter went to buy a pack of cigarettes and never returned, leaving the family $486 and an overdue hire bill.
  • Played very seriously once on Law & Guild: Special Victims Unit where a male parent really didn't come up home from the store because he got killed in a holdup. This does not exercise skillful things for the mother's sanity, and it really doesn't turn out well for the children.
  • Bones has Brennan's parents. Ane episode has her say they went Christmas shopping and never returned due to going on the run. However, some other version is told in another episode also.
  • Shtisel: In the first episode, Lippe is going to Argentina for a year to work for a kosher meat processor. He uses the opportunity to cutting ties and abandon his family. He eventually comes back, but they have a long time to forgive him.
  • NCIS: When Nick Torres was 5 years quondam and living in Panama, his begetter left in the centre of the night, claiming that he wanted to exist outset in line to choice up something from a baker in a nearby town. The truth was that he was helping the CIA overthrow Manuel Noriega, and leaving his family unit was his manner of protecting them.

     Music

  • Referenced in "Little Things" by Good Charlotte:

    And that aforementioned year, on Christmas Eve, Dad went to the shop.
    We checked his room, his things were gone.
    We didn't meet him no more.

  • Told from the parent's perspective in "Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen:

    Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
    I went out for a ride and I never went back.

  • In "Holes" by Passenger, the second verse is near a family who had this happen. "One day her married man went to get a paper and the motherfucker never came back."

    Web Blitheness

  • Played for laughs in hololive with Calliope Mori, who anybody calls Dad ever since she did a readalong of My Dad's the Queen of All VTubers?!. During one of the times she came dorsum after a break, she does it.... by presenting a carton of milk.

     Webcomics

     Spider web Original

  • Subverted in one of Stuart Ashen'due south videos most inexpensive Fathers Day gifts:

    That's right, information technology's Father'south Day! The day that we gloat all dads that went out to get some cigarettes... and came back shortly afterwards with some cigarettes.

  • An Internet meme is that "My father left to walk the dog/went to the store to go milk [number] years ago."
  • SuperMarioLogan: In "Jeffy'due south Parents!", this is Nancy'southward excuse for leaving Jeffy.
  • Invoked in THE SIMS 4 IN Real LIFE (at two:57) near The Sims iv existence realistic with ane of the Sims upon knocking upward their new female neighbor deciding he needs to go away from her fast.

     Western Blitheness

  • Referenced on Risk Time: In "Escape From the Citadel", while Martin visibly tries to escape into infinite and leave his son Finn behind, he claims to be going to the store. Nobody is fooled.
  • The Amazing Earth of Gumball: Richard's father Frankie said he was going to get milk when he left. Richard, beingness the Manchild that he is, is in heavy denial nigh this fifty-fifty into his 40s.
  • Subverted in Black Dynamite:

    Black Dynamite's Daddy: Now I could lie to yous and say, 'I'm just goin' out for a pack of cigarettes.' But the truth is, I'm leavin' you to raise viii-year-old Black Dynamite by yourself. Now dig it while you tin can, considering the calorie-free just turned muthafuckin' green. Bye, bitch!

  • Dilbert has a variant in which young Dilbert'southward male parent abandoned him by going to an All-You-Tin-Eat eating house, refusing to leave until he's really had all he can swallow. It's Played for Laughs, merely Dilbert seems to have been truly traumatized past the abandonment.
  • Fatigued Together: Foxxy'southward father left to become cigarettes and never came back.
  • Inverted on The Fairly OddParents—since Mama Cosma didn't corroborate of Wanda, Cosmo pulled this flim-flam when the two got married. To exist fair, he did come dorsum... 9,975 years after, when he mistakenly believed that Wanda had forgotten their ceremony.
  • In the season 2 finale of Rick and Morty, Rick tells Morty he's going to get get water ice foam. Morty begins to worry that Rick is invoking this trope, despite Rick'due south assurances.
  • In one of Heinz Doofenshmirtz's flashbacks from Phineas and Ferb, an Inversion happens. He was assigned by his parents to go to the store, only to detect too late that they were plotting to disown him by sending him on a ship to U.s.. Its anyone's wonder equally to why did Doof held no antagonism for his parents despite their obvious signs of treating him as The Unfavorite.
  • The Simpsons:
    • Nelson's dad went to the shop a few years agone and never came back. It is subsequently revealed that he really did to go to the store, at which signal he suffered a peanut allergy and got abducted into a circus sideshow; after episodes ignore this, nevertheless, and portray him as if he still abased the family. note Too annotation that even the offset abandonment was a retcon—in early episodes, Nelson lived with his father and it was his MOTHER who was absent.
    • In the episode "Futurity Drama", Future Nelson pulls the same trick on Sherri and Terri, both of whom he got pregnant. When they explicitly point out that Nelson's begetter did the same thing, he replies "I never understood that... until now. I'M COMING, PAPA!" earlier running away.

     Real Life

  • In some countries like Chile, the phrase "my dad went to buy cigarettes and never came dorsum" is a common joke used even by comedians. In Czech republic, the saying is "Dad went to a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes" and is too commonly used, especially by fans of Simpsons.
  • This happened with Stephen King'southward begetter when Stephen was two years sometime. He didn't come dorsum. Rex subsequently joked he must have been looking for a rare brand.
  • Silent flick stars Norma, Constance, and Natalie Talmadge mentioned that while they were immature and poor, their begetter, who was an alcoholic, went looking for food and never came back.

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