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[[File:Fireside_Girls_8254Fireside Girls 8254.jpg|link=Phineas and Ferb|frame|"Turn to the All The Tropes section of your [[Great Big Book of Everything|Fireside Girl Handbooks.]]"]]

Compared to the real life Boy and Girl Scouts, these fictional versions are [[The Theme Park Version]] of the groups. All Girl Scouts will only deal with selling cookies (and often be [[Girl Scouts Are Evil|evil) ]] while the Boy Scouts will only do merit badges, often for [[Merit Badges for Everything|random and absurd reasons]]. Sometimes they'll combine the two, and you'll have male and female scouts ''selling cookies to get merit badges.'' Boy Scouts also occasionally help old ladies across the street. Usually the Girl Scouts are renamed something involving flowers or other girly things, and the Boy Scouts are usually renamed something related to wilderness or camping.

* The Junior Woodchucks, in the ''[[Donald Duck]] / [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]'' of [[Carl Barks]] and his successors, take the "Be Prepared" motto of real-world Scouting into [[Crazy Prepared]] territory. Their [[Great Big Book of Everything]] is so universally comprehensive that they eventually evolve into [[The Illuminati]], charged with protecting secrets forbidden to non-initiates.

* "Wilderness Girls" also sell cookies in ''[[National Lampoon]]'s ''[[Loaded Weapon 1]]''.

** 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 ''[[Film/The Addams Family|The Addams Family]]'' film, trying to sell cookies. Wednesday asks if the [[Made From Real Girl Scouts|cookies contain real Girl Scouts]].

* ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'' features the "Boy Rangers." .

* In ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'', Carrot creates the Wolf Cubs (so called because Angua is involved), a version of the Cub Scouts. Its very reluctant and embarrassed membership actually comprises two of the nastier kid gangs in the city, who go along with it because when Carrot gets enthusiastic about something, it's very hard to say no.

* Averted in several stories by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], including the novel ''[[Farmer Inin Thethe Sky]]'', which feature protagonists actively involved in the Boy Scouts, and not a [[Bland-Name Product|Bland Name]] version. TheyThis was because they were originally published in ''[[BoysBoy's Life]]'', the official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America.

* 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 ==

* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' had Sunshine Cadets.

* The Space Scouts in ''[[Red Dwarf]]''.

* ''[[Corner Gas]]'' [[Averted Trope|has no problem with this trope]], as the Girl Guides are seen selling cookies in at least one episode.

* ''[[T.J. Hooker]]'' had a daughter in the "Girl Rangers."

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mGFjAySTw "The Battle of Kookamonga"] by Homer and Jethro features both but is sung by the Boy Scouts.

* Averted in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', where early strips had Calvin as a member of the Cub Scouts.

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has the [http://www.mantaengie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mannco1.jpg Saxonettes.]{{Dead link}}

* ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'': "Junior Woodchucks", notable because it played a major role in many episodes.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has the "Fireside Girls", who are pictured above. Like the Junior Woodchucks, [[Crazy Prepared|Theythey come prepared for any situation,]] [[Great Big Book of Everything|they have a handbook for various subjects from Car Maintenance to Time Travel Machine Repairing]] and [[Merit Badges for Everything|accomplishment patches for absurd tasks such as Alligator Wrestling and moving mountains with their bare hands.]]<ref> Though there's no Underwater Equestrian patch. [[Hypocritical Humor|That would just be silly]]. There's no PersistancePersistence patch either.</ref> They also subvert a lot of the elements described: they're not named after anything particularly girly, they aren't evil, and they appear frequently in the series.

* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' had the "Person Scouts".

* ''[[The Mighty B!]]'' featured the "Honeybee Scouts".

* ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'' has the "Junior Chipmunks", they taught you how to talk to squirrels.

* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' had the "Campfire Lasses", who all had Scottish accents to go with their name.

* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' had Jade join both the "Buttercup" (girl) and "Dragon" (boy) Scouts.

* ''[[Fillmore!]]'' had the "Red Robins", who happened to be [[Girl Scouts Are Evil|crooked.]]

* ''[[South Park]]'' had the Mountain Scouts.

* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' had the Squirrely Scouts. Timmy's dad was a scoutmaster who had the high rank of "flying squirrel" (Ground squirrel was mentioned as a lower rank).

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