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== Real Life ==
* The John 3:16 guy, aka "Rainbow Man" (owing to his wig).
* ''Monday Night Football'' - Many of the signs have [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]], using the letters MNF to spell something humorous.
* [http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/obama-bring-back-arrested-development.jpg Obama bring back] ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''.
 
== Western Animation ==
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* ''[[Father Ted]]'' and Dougal protesting outside a cinema (see the [[Moral Guardians]] page image). "Down with this sort of thing!" "Careful now!"
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'' - Ted has to wrestle with a crowd of protesters who don't want the Arcadia, a beloved old building, to be torn down.
* In ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]'', Samantha and her Aunt Clara, along with Clara's friends Bertha and Mary, are pissed off at a Halloween candymaker's insistence on a stereotypical ugly old crone for his mascot. They prepare to stage a protest in his home. Their signs read ''Brinkman Unfair to Witches'', ''Witches are People Too'', but absent-minded Clara, reminded she needs a sign, zaps up the first thing she thinks of: ''Vote for Coolidge''.
 
== Newspaper Comics ==
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== Video Games ==
* [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]: The Smissmass update comic has an angry civilian with the sign "[http://www.teamfortress.com/asmissmasstory/?p=3 RED & BLU OUT OF TEUFORT]" as part of a [[Funny Background Event]].
** There is also a melee item called the [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Conscientious_Objector Conscientious Objector] that now allows players to wave signs around...and also kill each other with them.
 
== Webcomics ==
* A demonstration in ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' featured this with, as pictured above, rather polite signs reading "[[Gosh Darn It to Heck|FLIPPING]] KROPOTKIN" and "COME ON NOW".
* In [[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]], an audience member at a politician's speech holds up the sign " {{smallcaps|[[Wikipedia|[citation needed] ]]}}". Another strip talks about showing up with "contented" signs at rallies ("THINGS ARE PRETTY OKAY!")
 
== Western Animation ==
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