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* The Dydo company brings you [http://www.examiner.com/caffeine-in-national/how-japan-sees-american-coffee American Coffee].

* This [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/04/independence-day-2011-google-logo-4th-of-july_n_889636.html Google.com logo] for the 4th of July, 2011 is filled with all sorts of American patriotic marks, including a bald eagle and a surburban house and, accentuated by a rainbow.

 

* Donald Curtis from ''[[Porco Rosso]]'' is an exceptional #2 example. "Make way for the American!" He plans to be a Hollywood actor and later president. [[Ronald Reagan|Sound familiar?]]

* ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' has a brief sequence at the White House, where it shows the President as some gullible idiot willing to dump 60 billion dollars into a satellite surveillance system created by a 12 year old [[Genki Girl]] [[Mad Scientist]] for "military purposes". It then suggests that the security there isn't just incompetent, but also unobservant as said scientist also converted the White House into a rocket launch pad while they were "out on their nightly business".

* Principal Kuno from ''[[Ranma ½]]'', a truly bizarre character with a penchant for loud shirts and whose catch phrase is "Oh my God!" Not actually American, but a Japanese citizen who spent a few years in the States (specifically Hawaii) and "went native"--though he was already insane before then, he just picked up "Ugly American Tourist" traits by doing so.

* The American team in the baseball episode of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' is a definite type 2. They are portrayed as blatantly cheating, violent, murderous thugs who consider the Japanese team to be ignorant savages. They also keep going on and on about American superiority. When the game dissolves into a beaning match which ends with Mugen as the last man standing, he then yells "Go back to your own damn country!" The narrator then helpfully adds that the Americans went home in shame, with a profound fear of the Japanese people.

* In [[Spooks]] the ''Special Relationship'' between the UK and US leads to facepalm inducing situations that at the very least would be cause for armed conflict if it were occurring in a country which doesn't rollover like a dog on command. The behaviour of almost every American character, barring one, makes it seem that the US has continued the American Revolution into a Cold War.

** This dialog sums up many seasons of Spooks:

US Government: Oh and you owe us half your annual budget for that coin. }}

* The "Waldorf Salad" episode of ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' had an American guest staying at the hotel who wound up bullying Basil into submission. The portrayal isn't ridiculous, but you can get a kick out of hearing the expression "Hot dog!" used in total seriousness (oh, and [[Fake American|the actor was Canadian]]).

* Freddie Trumper, the [[Jerkass]] American chess champion in ''[[Chess (theatre)|Chess]]''.

* When discussing the topic of English, Professor Henry Higgins had this to say.

** Granted, Higgins is also of the opinion that the English language is utterly butchered by most of the folks who speak it, including actual Englishmen.

* In ''Madama Butterfly'', the American sailor Pinkerton, before his wedding to Butterfly, drinks to the day he'll marry a real American wife. Ironically, the opera was based on an American play.

** Which was allegedly based on a true story.

* [[Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson]]: A tongue-in-cheek emo rock take on the life of [[Andrew Jackson]]. Everyone is obnoxious and jingoistic, and the events of the show are fairly accurate.

 

 

* A distillation of how the British think Americans view the world can be found in the Jigsaw Lounge's "[http://web.archive.org/web/20071009214038/http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/kungfu/world/legend.html The World According to Americans]" map; a badly-drawn atlas full of [[Global Ignorance]] and [[Theme Park Version|Theme Park]] descriptions of what few countries or regions are named--with one or two [[Demonization|Demonizing]] jabs added for good measure.

* In ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', Linkara makes a parody in the review of ''[[Captain America]]'' #1

* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] has made a [[Running Gag]] out of being hypocritical about this, yelling at directors like [[Michael Bay]] for glorification of the US army, but then being relieved that France was to blame for the destruction in ''[[Godzilla]]''.

 

=== Western Animation ===

* The German-language version of ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]'' subtly shifts a single line of evil child star Darla Dimple's dialogue to suggest a more cutthroat and purely-for-the-money version of Hollywood:

(German) '''Darla''': Let me tell you my philosophy: you don't have to be good, just better than them! }}

* The Americans in the original series of Captain Scarlet have a tendency to be of the former variety- strapping men, near-glowing skin etc. They're also more likely to get the cliche lines (something that also held true in the newer series).

=== Western Animation ===

* Both flavors of this get parodied in the Finnish satirical animation'' [[Pasila]]''. The conversation paraphrased:

'''Pöysti:''' Now, don't generalise, there are lots of smart people there too. (gets a flat stare from everybody) What?! }}