History Main / FauxtivationalPoster

* ''FamilyGuy''. When Peter took over his father-in-law's company, Brian had a poster of a ball in his office that said "Go Get It. Go Get It, Boy".

* From the [[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R]]. factory level: "Remember it's Quantity, Quality, Safety, ''in that order.''"

* ''{{Futurama}}''--

* In ''PS238'', the walls of the titular school are adorned with such posters as "Super Strength: If you don't have the power to move mountains, make friends with someone who can."

* A painful example of wildly inappropriate (and probably sadistically ironic) Straight Lesson in the wrong environment would be the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes [you] free) at the entrance of Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps. The earlier camp at Buchenwald had "Jedem das Seine" ("To Each His Own") which is a little bit more complicated but the point is the same (i.e., sadistically ironic).

* A painful example of wildly inappropriate (and probably sadistically ironic) Straight Lesson in the wrong environment would be the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes [you] free) at the entrance of Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps.

** Buffy screws Spike during her break next to a poster headed TEAMWORK, and finds a severed foot in the kitchen next to a poster encouraging employees to [[MysteryMeat BE PART OF THE DOUBLEMEAT EXPERIENCE]].

One would have to be [[NietzscheWannabe the most cynical misanthrope in the world]] to disagree with concepts like "[[AdolfHitler Leadership]]" or "[[TorchesAndPitchforks Teamwork]]", but one would also have to be the most optimistic [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] in the world to deny that the presentation varies between [[{{Glurge}} painfully corny]] and [[{{Narm}} unintentionally hilarious]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', we're told that Ridcully has been picking up a lot of "dynamic management" stuff from books Hex has found in L-Space, and now has a poster in his office that says "When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators, Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life." The other wizards aren't sure what this means, or even if it's supposed to mean anything at all.

** It also had, in "And Maggie Makes Three", Homer's ''de''motivational plaque: "Don't forget, you're here forever." Homer used pictures of Maggie to turn it into "Do it for her," in a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

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* Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday once commissioned [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/motivational-posters.php a number of these]].
* ''ForumWarz'' has a whole minigame dedicated to creating these.

Not surprisingly, there are various websites that let you make these poster patterns very easily. Which is why there are a ton of them floating around the internet. For the most part, they have migrated [[ParodyPasticheSatire from satire to mere pastiche]], aping the "SUBJECT MATTER: Some pithy comment on it" caption format simply because it's handy for mocking things plainly and succinctly.

Not surprisingly, there are various websites that let you make these poster patterns very easily. Which is why there are a ton of them floating around the internet.

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* {{Wikipedia}} has one accompanying the "SomebodyElsesProblem" [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Somebody_Else%27s_Problem essay]].

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* [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/377/121shrugofgodcz7.jpg/ ImageShack user jillrg]] has a series of such posters used to showcase various tropes, mostly with images coming from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' [[TropeOverdosed alone.]] Kind of [[{{Irony}} ironic]] considering how TvTropes, as stated above, does not want Demotivators as images.

* In office level of {{Bloodrayne}} 2 there are several posters including

* In ''{{Megamind}}'', upon taking over the city the titular supervillain has posters made of him in the style of the famous "Hope" poster of Barack Obama, except with the caption changed to read "No, You Can't" instead (referring to Obama's famous "Yes, We Can" message).
* On ''MonstersVsAliens'', the "Hang in there" poster is hung on Susan's cell in a pathethic attempt to make her imprisonment more tolerable. It doesn't work. "I want a ''real'' kitten, hanging from a ''real'' tree!"