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* A chapter of the ''[[Girls und Panzer]]'' spin-off manga ''Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu!'' featured the girls telling various spooky stories at a party. Duck Team, though, described how, on a camping trip in the mountains, they saw what '''they''' considered to be a mundane creepy stranger. Their listeners responded, "No no no! That's totally 'BIGFOOT'!!" (The first image shown of the "stranger" was based on the page image above.)
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* Comedian [[Mitch Hedberg]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] the fact that photographers always seem to end up having blurry photographs of Bigfoot.▼
{{quote|"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is ''blurry''... and that's extra scary to me. Because there's a large, out-of-focus monster... roaming the countryside."}}▼
== [[Comics]] ==▼
* ''[[Tintin/Recap/Tintin in Tibet|Tintin in Tibet]]'' features a Yeti. He [[A Boy and His X|befriends Tintin's friend Chang]] after a tragic airplane accident in the Himalayas prompts Tintin to [[Send in the Search Team]].
* [[Marvel Comics]] ''[[Alpha Flight]]'' features a team member called Sasquatch, who is more-or-less the legendary beast.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff]]'' features a Yeti who is the [[Last of His Kind]].
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In
** Yetis also appear in ''[[
* ''[[The Dresden Files
* A ski-simulation attraction at ''[[Dream Park]]'' included a cute fluffy baby yeti as an obstacle to be avoided.
* One of the engineered future hominid species in Dougal Dixon's ''Man After Man'' resembles a yeti, and some of its descendants evolve into bigfoot-like variations.
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* One of the stories in ''[[Haunted (Palahniuk novel)|Haunted]]'', by [[Chuck Palahniuk]], is titled "Missing Link" and postulates that these creatures are actually humans with an odd genetic quirk causing were-creature-style transformation. The teller of this story belongs to a fictitious Native American tribe in which this trait is allegedly quite common, including a supposed case in the teller's own family.
== [[Live
* Bigfoot "guest starred" in more than one episode of ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]''.
** This Bigfoot was actually a robot built by aliens hiding in the woods to scare people away.
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* [[Tenacious D]]'s "Sasquatch."
* In the (animated) video for [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]]'s 2011 pop-hit medley "Polka Face", the members of his back-up band are all yetis.
== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
* In some North American indigenous cultures including the Anichinabe, the Sabe (or Kitchi-Sabe, "great Sabe")<ref>Not to be confused with [[The Lone Ranger|Kemosabe]].</ref> are believed to have walked among people in the past, setting an example to remain true to one's own nature.
== [[Radio]] ==
* ''[[The Stan Freberg Show]]'''s abominable snowman interviews. His trade is terrorizing the mountain climbers and he wears size 23 sneakers.
== [[
▲* Comedian [[Mitch Hedberg]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] the fact that photographers always seem to end up having blurry photographs of Bigfoot.
* The now-defunct Seattle SuperSonics basketball team had two costumed mascots over the decades; the first was an orange Bigfoot-''like'' creature called [[wikipedia:Wheedle|The Wheedle]]; following a mascot-free hiatus, the team introduced Squatch, an "actual" Sasquatch.▼
▲{{quote|"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is ''blurry''... and that's extra scary to me. Because there's a large, out-of-focus monster... roaming the countryside."}}
* One of the mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was Quatchi, a sasquatch wearing earmuffs.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* On ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer is mistaken for Bigfoot after stumbling around a forest covered in mud and ranting incoherently. To add insult to injury, after he's captured, scientists are unable to determine whether he is "a below-average human or a brilliant beast."
* "Hairy Manilow" from ''[[House of Mouse]]''.
* Although no actual sasquatch is seen on ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* An episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' featured a ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]''-esque sequence (featuring Alan "The Brain" Powers as Dexter and Arthur Read as Dee Dee) involving Arthur tampering with one of Alan's experiments, resulting in him turning into a sasquatch. He is then later seen running away into a nearby forest where he then sees ''the actual'' sasquatch.
* Lila from ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' is a [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Sasquatch Girl]]
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* The ''[[Weekly World News]]'' was a supermarket tabloid which often ran Bigfoot stories.
** However, in their case, it was pretty obviously satire. [[Crazy Awesome|The]] ''[[Crazy Awesome|Weekly World News]]'' [[Crazy Awesome|was like that]].
* Some apes, such as gorillas, were known to Europeans only as legends of "hairy wild men" until "properly" discovered.
** Interestingly, the word "gorilla" first time appears in the writings of Carthaginian explorer Hanno, in an area that doesn't seem to have ever had any great apes. Some historians believe that Hanno and his men mistakenly [[Squick|killed and skinned some pygmies]] they thought to match the description.
* Paleontologists have discovered species of extinct [[Gentle Giant|giant, herbivorous apes]] that bear a striking resemblance to Yeti. This may be the source of the legend.
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* Sometimes people record alleged vocalizations of Bigfoot like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeGPNC6qQCY these].
* I believe hearing that though it has not been proven to exist, Sasquatch is actually a protected species in Washington state. In other words; we don't know if it exists but if you see one don't shoot!
▲* The now-defunct Seattle SuperSonics basketball team had two costumed mascots over the decades; the first was an orange Bigfoot-''like'' creature called [[wikipedia:Wheedle|The Wheedle]]; following a mascot-free hiatus, the team introduced Squatch, an "actual" Sasquatch.
▲* One of the mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was Quatchi, a sasquatch wearing earmuffs.
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