History Main / BindleStick

* In ''Film/SongoftheSouth'', the character Br'er Rabbit is frequently shown carrying a bindle stick.

* In ''Film/Song of the South'', the character Br'er Rabbit is frequently shown carrying a bindle stick.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', most of the hobo enemies in the Hobopolis zone will drop bindle sticks, which can be used as weapons. You can also get a miniature bindle stick for the [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys hobo monkey]] familiar you can get in the zone.

* ComicBook/DouweDabbert has a magical one, which provides him with [[AssPull everything he needs in case of emergency]].
* A comic by [[DadaComics Michael Kupperman]] shows a woman who has a [[LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces tendency to date hobos]] getting romantic help from a small robot. In one panel, the robot advises her, "Ask him, if he is not a hobo, why does he have a bindle?"

* ComicBook/TheSmurfs in the comic book stories "Traveling Smurf" (with its AnimatedAdaptation) and "The Finance Smurf" carried these.

[[folder:Film]]
* Creator/BusterKeaton does this in ''Film/GoWest'' when he hops on board a freight train and goes west after failing to find a job in the big city.
* In ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'', when Pee-wee starts hitchhiking to Texas he is carrying one.
* Parodied in the film ''Film/MysteryTeam''. Jason, the "Master of Disguise", dresses up as an old-fashioned hobo in order to talk to a ''real'' homeless person. The bindle stick is part of the outfit.
* In ''Film/PassTheGravy'', dimwitted teenager Ignatz uses one of these while skipping town, after realizing that he has just cooked his neighbor's chicken.

* In ''Film/SullivansTravels'', Sullivan uses one of these when dressing up as a hobo.

* In ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt'', Lurkalot carries a bindle stick when he sets off to walk (and swim) from England to the Holy Land.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'' is depicted carrying one on the cover of ''The Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill'' by Dorothy Wall. He also carries one in the [[Creator/TheABC ABC]] animated adaptation.
* Almost any illustrated version of "Literature/DickWhittington" has a bindle stick.

* There was a literary character ''called'' Bindle, but he doesn't carry one. He's a cockney LovableRogue with a wife and home, but he still subsists on odd jobs and tweaking the nose of authority like any self-respecting hobo would.
* Lazarus Long has one packed for him in the 1910s by a kindly doctor's wife in ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, though he re-packs it soon afterward, as it's actually a liability on the road to look like a "bindle stiff."
** Averted in ''Literature/SixthColumn'', where a protagonist heading out to do recon among the hobo population refuses one, so he won't look disreputable.

* In the sketch titled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEfZG9OSytA Laron Can't Laugh]]" on ''Series/KeyAndPeele'', [[spoiler:after literally blowing his friends' eardrums with his horrifying shriek of a laugh]], Laron decides to leave with his bindle that he apparently brought to the hangout.
* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': When Vince Noir tried to run away from home as a child, he didn't get very far, as he was using a bindle stick to carry stuff several times his own body weight.
* On ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', when Charlie and Mac decide to fake their own deaths and wander the streets, one of the first things we see Charlie do is attempt to assemble a bindle stick and lament its limited carrying capacity.

[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* In "What If (There Was No Big Blue House)" from ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'', Tutter the mouse imagines being homeless and carrying his possessions in one of these.
* ''Series/TheBookOfPooh'':
** In "Scaredy Cat", when Tigger is asked by Owl to housesit, he brings his possessions to Owl's place using one of these.
** In "Over the Hill", when Pooh prepares to go on an adventure, he carries things like [[TrademarkFavoriteFood a jar of Hunny]] in one of these.
* In ''The Magic House'' episode "The Wishing Tree", PC Pot carries one of these when he leaves the Magic House. It has disappeared the next time he appears, however.
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* VideoGame/TheSims in the original game, if they lost a fight, would occasionally [[LoserLeavesTown leave the lot permanently]], carrying a runaway stick.
* In the {{Updated Rerelease}}s of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', you can "Say Goodbye" to a Chao with the "Chao Machine", whereupon it leaves with a bindle stick to a faraway forest where it will never see you again.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', Razputin carries one of these when he leaves home(as shown in one of his Memory Vaults), despite wearing a backpack. How else would we know he's a gypsy?

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', Steiner's plan to smuggle Princess Garnet through the South Gate border crossing involves carrying a bag of stinky gysahl pickles... and her using one of these. It works. (A concept art can be seen [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:SteinersSackOfPickles.png here]].)
* ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'' (and its [=GBA=] remake, ''Nightmare in Dream Land'') has an illustration in the intro of Kirby carrying one as he sets off on his quest.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' virtual pets, Nazotchi always carries a bindle stick with him.

* When [[Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate Charby]] escaped from Captain Blackheart's ship he packed his belongings in a knapsack tied to a stick.

* Bug in ''[[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/bindle-of-joy/ Bindle of Joy]]''

* In ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit: The Wrong Trousers'', Gromit carries one of these out to the dog house and then leaves.
* Apparently there's a writer on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' who loves the word "bindle".
** When Homer joined hobo boxing, one of the hobos he fought kept stopping to "check on his bindle". (It's John Swartzwelder, according to DVD commentary).
** Again when Bart befriends a hobo-- Chester J. Lampwick, the real creator of Itchy.
** When Homer became "Mr. X", upon going public, Nelson brought him a rumor about the school's cafeteria cooking {{hobos}} - he had the bindle sticks to prove it.
** In "Lisa's First Word", Bart has one during the time he intends to run away from home.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Home Insecurity", Dr. Venture creates a new guard robot, so the old robot H.E.L.P.eR packs a Bindle Stick and runs away.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** In one episode, [=SpongeBob=] prepared one of these when he ran away in "Life of Crime". Patrick was unable to carry his, as it had his ''entire house'' inside.
** Later, in "Have You Seen This Snail?", Gary packs one when he leaves [=SpongeBob=] due to his negligence.
* WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}} carries one in the opening sequence as he walks along the Antarctic land, stops in the middle and winks at us. He carries the same one in the episode, "Pingu Goes Away".

* Chuckie in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', in the ''[[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life]]'' episode, packs his toys in a bindle when he attempts to run away after his dad's favorite music CD was stolen.

* The cover artwork of the DVD release Kaboom! ''Back to School'' (which features installments of ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeShrinks'', ''WesternAnimation/ElliotMoose'', ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'' and ''Literature/PippiLongstocking'') has an image of Franklin holding one of these in one hand and a book in the other.
* Two instances in Hanna-Barbera's animated series of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'':
** In "Beauty Queen for a Day", Darla carries a bindle stick, intending to leave home with Pete when she feels that most of the boys have abandoned her, but reconsiders after hearing about the upcoming beauty pageant.
** In "King of the Hobos", Porky does this after being exiled from the treehouse.

* Chuck Wagon arrived at the Seville residence with one in ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow''.

* On ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'', Jay ties up one of these and takes off with his stuff in it when he runs away in "Get Back."
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'':
** In the "[[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Sonic Says]]" segment from "[[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E016TailsNewHome Tails' New Home]]", Coconuts carries one when he considers running away from Robotnik. When Sonic tells Coconuts one of the disadvantages of running away, one of the robots Coconuts encounters takes the bindle stick from him.
** In "[[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E58TheRobotsRobot The Robots' Robot]]", the titular Robot runs away from Robotnik's fortress carrying one. One of the things inside it is the Butual Lepton Atomic Material Moficiation Oscillator device, [[FunWithAcronyms or BLAMMO for short]], that can easily implode the entire planet if it gets set off.
* In the Claymation special ''Follow That Bunny'', Clarice packs her things inside one of these when she runs away.

* In the Claymation special 'Follow That Bunny'', Clarice packs her things inside one of these when she runs away.

* In the Claymation special 'Follow That Bunny'', Clarice packs her things inside o0ne of these when she runs away.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

* ''Anime/JewelpetMagicalChange'': The Kiraras' seal stamper carries one around in episode 18b, since he's run away after a magic spell from Ruby backfires and makes all seal stampers useless.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': When Littlefingers left his home to seek his fortunes, he carried all his worldly possessions with him. It helped to fuel his lifelong obsession with power.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' an elderly lady in the foreground of a scene in the Paris black market is wearing a OneWayVisor and carrying a bindle stick with [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151007 some kind of steam powered device being used as the stick.]]

* Chuck Wagon arrived to the Seville residence with one in ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow''.

* In Germany there is a tradition still practiced today called "auf die Walz gehen" originating to medieval times. After completing apprenticeship as a craftsman people wander the country for a certain time in a special outfit, carrying all their possessions in a kerchief called "Charlottenburger" attached to a walking stick.
* In Japan the equivalent is called a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furoshiki Furoshiki.]] Largely forgotten after WWII due to the ease of the plastic bag, although there are folks trying popularize them again as a more ecologically sound method of carrying things.
* This was exactly how Roman legions on the march carried miscellaneous items, often using a purpose-designed bindle. The ubiquity of the method and its [[UrExample frequent representation in Roman art and sculpture depicting marching legions]] could probably explain why the image has persisted down over the centuries, and is still with us now. See '''[[http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=2177 here]]'' for a visual example.

* WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill often carries one around, using it in place of a backpack.

* ''Webcomic/GronkAMonstersStory'': Gronk packs one with her belongings when she decides to leave the monster world.

** Hence the kid at the end of ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'', whom Maurice [[HereWeGoAgain latches onto]] with the words "Hey, stupid-looking kid! Wanna be Lord Mayor?"