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== [[Aeni]] ==
== Comic Books ==
* In ''Trinity'' #12, there's a throwaway gag about how on [[Mirror Universe|Anti-Matter Earth]] the "Bonfire Girls" and "Girl Sentries" are in the third year of their Cookie Wars. Fought with automatic weapons and explosives.
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** That probably is because a) he's Superman and b) he's a boy scout, not a Boy Scout (of America).
*** It's entirely possible that Clark joined the Scouts while growing up Smallville.
* The Junior Woodchucks, in the ''[[Donald Duck]]
* [[Bone]]'s "Tall Tales" anthology book featured the "Bone Scouts" in the stories' [[Framing Device]].
== Film ==
* ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'': A movie about the "Wilderness Girls"
* "Wilderness Girls" also sell cookies in
* The "Firefly Scouts" sell cookies in the Vin Diesel movie ''[[The Pacifier]]''.
* In the movie ''[[Wag the Dog]]'', the scandal that prompts the plot to happen involves a "Firefly Girl" that the President is accused of fondling just fourteen days before election time.
* ''[[Up]]'' had Wilderness Explorers. Their uniforms are virtually identical to the Boy Scouts' official uniforms, though the colors are different.
** The Wilderness Explorers apparently weren't satisfied with having just ''one'' [[I Love Nuclear Power|Nuclear Science]] badge - two different ones (adorned with a radiation symbol and mushroom cloud, respectively) appear in the New Adventure Book.<ref>This may or may not be a reference to the real-life BSA, where there ''are'' two different nuclear-power related badges (though in this case, one of them ("Nuclear Science") was created as a replacement for the other ("Atomic Energy"), with Atomic Energy no longer being awarded)</ref>
** The uniforms being "virtually identical" may be due to preliminary plans to actually make him a Boy Scout; according to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120609004754/http://ideas.scouting.org/a/dtd/18434-2119 this] (third message), Disney/Pixar dropped that idea after being reminded about the BSA's [[wikipedia:Boy Scouts of America membership controversies|membership policies]].
* In ''[[Arlington Road]]'' a Scouts-like organization plays an important part in the story.
* A Girl Scout appears in the first ''[[
* ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'' features the "Boy Rangers
▲[[Pucca]] has the ''Dragon Girls'' featured in one episode.
== Literature ==
* In ''[[
** Also Cub Scouts were originally known as Wolf Cubs in the UK.
*** "Wolf" is still one of the ranks in Cub Scouts (the second one, if you don't count the "Tiger Cub" organization for preschool kids).
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' book 10 introduced the Snow Scouts, whose alphabetical parody of the [http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/BoyScouts.aspx Boy Scout Law] holds them to be "accommodating, basic, calm, darling, emblematic, frisky, grinning, human, innocent, jumping, kept, limited, meek, nap-loving, official, pretty, quarantined, recent, scheduled, tidy, understandable, victorious, wholesome, xylophone, young, and zippered."
* Averted in several stories by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], including the novel ''[[Farmer in the Sky]]'', which feature protagonists actively involved in the Boy Scouts, and not a [[Bland-Name Product|Bland Name]] version.
* The Sharing in ''[[Animorphs]]'' models itself as a sort of combination Boy/Girl Scout group, but they are actually a front group of the Yeerks to make people into Controllers.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' had the "Beaver Scouts".
** Interestingly the [[Truth in Television|British Scouting movement includes Beaver Scouts as its most junior unit]]. Don't worry, they usually don't notice the [[Double Entendre]] until they're too old to be a member...
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* Robin on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' once joined the Frog Scouts, whose difference from the Boy Scouts was rather obvious.
** [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Clubs_and_Organizations There are plenty more groups where that came from.]
* ''[[Corner Gas]]'' [[Averted Trope|has no problem with this trope]], as the Girl Guides are seen selling cookies in at least one episode.
* ''[[Full House]]'' had one, either Honey Bees or Bumble Bees. Instead of troops, they had "hives".
** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|There's a cream you can get for that...]]
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* ''[[Spaced]]'' has [[Creepy Twins]] that look suspiciously similar to UK Guides cleaning the cupboards for 'Bob-a-Job' week in Daisy and Tim's flat. (Despite 'Bob-a-Job' week being a Scout, not Guide, activity that had ceased 10 years previously!)
* ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' has the "Pawnee Rangers" for boys and the "Pawnee Goddesses" for girls, the latter founded by Leslie Knope because girls were not allowed in the former.
* ''[[T.J. Hooker]]'' had a daughter in the "Girl Rangers."
* Sabrina on ''[[Raising Hope]]'' is a former member of the "[[Les Yay|Beaver Scouts]]."
== Music ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mGFjAySTw "The Battle of Kookamonga"] by Homer and Jethro features both but is sung by the Boy Scouts.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Snoopy's "Beagle Scout" troop, in ''[[Peanuts]]''.
* Averted in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', where early strips had Calvin as a member of the Cub Scouts.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Psychonauts]]'' has the [[Girl Scouts Are Evil|psychopathic]] "Rainbow Squirts", who try to sell "Rainbow Treats" to everyone.
* Mentioned a few times in ''[[City of Villains]]'', where the evil supervillain dictator sponsors "Spiderling Scouts".
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has the [http://www.mantaengie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mannco1.jpg Saxonettes.]{{Dead link}}
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' after some jokes from Dave about "Snakey Scouts" had [[Snake People|melusine]] Brooke [https://web.archive.org/web/20140820082648/http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/art_scholarship_-_interlude_%28guest_strip%29_3_of_4 return home] with "Snakey Scouts" emblem on the back and a bunch of merit badges, though in "[[Side-Story Bonus Art|Art Scholarship Interlude]]", not main continuity.▼
▲== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' after some jokes from Dave about "Snakey Scouts" had [[Snake People|melusine]] Brooke [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/art_scholarship_-_interlude_%28guest_strip%29_3_of_4 return home] with "Snakey Scouts" emblem on the back and a bunch of merit badges, though in "[[Side-Story Bonus Art|Art Scholarship Interlude]]", not main continuity.
* ''Dangerously Chloe'' once had Chloe [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/mysterious_transfer_student show] a "Scout Sign". Whether she picked this up on a side, [[Eerie Cuties|back in Charybdis Heights]] or in Tartarus Academy, which evidently is as paramilitary as [[Magick Chicks|AA]] and has uniform vaguely similar to Girl Scouts, is not known yet.
== Western Animation ==
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** And their female counterparts the Junior Chickadees.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' has "The Pixie Scouts".
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has the "Fireside Girls", who are pictured above. Like the Junior Woodchucks, [[Crazy Prepared|
* ''[[Doug]]'' had the "Bluff Scouts".
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[The Mighty B!]]'' featured the "Honeybee Scouts".
* Everyone in ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'' is one of these, the boys are the "Bean Scouts" and the girls were the "Squirrel Scouts".
** Averted in the Italian dub, which uses "Boy Scout" and "Girl Scout" without any problem.
* ''[[The Emperor's
* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' had the Cave Scouts, who all decided to go camping at the same site that Fred and Barney decided to camp at.
* Partially averted in ''[[The Jetsons]]'' when Elroy's Space Cub Scout pack went to the Moon.
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* ''[[The Backyardigans]]'' has the episode "Pablor and the Acorns", in which Tyrone, Tasha, and Austin were Acorn Scouts.
* Averted in ''[[The Boondocks]]'', with Cindy being a member of a Girl Scout troop. [[Girl Scouts Are Evil|She also defends her turf drug-runner style....]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
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