خلاصه داستان : برت کارل پیلکینگتن زندگی سرپایی دارد. با وجود اینکه هیچ سفری انجام نداده است، اما از زندگی کردن با چیزهایی که به نظرش مایه آرامش است لذت می‌برد. چیزهایی که اساساً بریتانیایی باشند.

An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1 and Science, as well as spin-off books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel, so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they stay in the United Kingdom and monitor his progress.