Line #85 Main/FauxtivationalPoster


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5	[[caption-width-right:300:'''PICTURE CAPTIONS'''[softreturn][-Why we don't need demotivators here.[[note]][softreturn]Seriously, don't put them here. They contribute nothing, and it's a tired joke.[[/note]]-] ]]
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7	->''"I think that communication skills have really improved around here since we all went on that course, and put up that blue poster that says 'Communicate!'"''\
8	''"I totally agree; and I think that what that course showed me is that sometimes it does help to pay someone really quite a lot of money to state the obvious."''
9	-->-- ''[[Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook That Mitchell And Webb Sound]]''
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11	If you've ever been in an American school or office environment, you've seen them: Posters encouraging the viewers to [[GraspTheSun Reach For The Stars]] and to [[TheDeterminator Never Give Up]]. Invariably, these lessons are accompanied by a cute picture or a vaguely inspirational stock photo. Are you feeling motivated yet?
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13	One would have to be [[NietzscheWannabe the most cynical misanthrope in the world]] to disagree with concepts like "[[UsefulNotes/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]].
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15	Thus, the Fauxtivational Poster was born in response. It takes diverse forms, all united in their use of the poster medium to [[PlayingWithATrope play with]] the Motivational Poster. Some posters present a [[AnAesop straightforward lesson]], but exaggerate the {{Glurge}} to [[IceCreamKoan nonsensical levels]]. Others preach a [[SpoofAesop patently ridiculous]] (or just [[HardTruthAesop particularly cynical]]) lesson. Still others use the Motivational Poster format to make a humorous statement about a completely different subject.
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17	[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successories Successories]] is probably the most popular brand of Motivational Posters (inspiring many imitators); consequently most parodies follow the same layout that Successories popularized: A stock photo on a black background, with a one-word title in large text below, with a pithy saying or quote beneath that.
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19	An UndeadHorseTrope: Straight motivational posters are still in use in schools, offices, and some gyms (and prisons), but the parodies and subversions far outweigh straight uses everywhere else. Therefore, it's a classic example of ParodyDisplacement. Even when media does use straight Motivational Posters, it's almost always as an ironic counterpoint to some soul-crushing environment where the poster is hanging.
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21	Parodies are often called "Demotivators" or "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_poster#Parodies_and_demotivational_posters Demotivational Posters]]", regardless of their content; the name is taken from a series of posters by [[http://despair.com/ Despair Inc]] with genuinely demotivational themes. You have been warned.
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23	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 [[SatireParodyPastiche 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.
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25	Compare FauxToGuide. A specific type of {{Detournement}}.
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27	'''Note: Adding fauxtivational posters as page images is frowned upon because the border rarely adds anything, but the wiki system imposes size limits, thus reducing the resolution. And we can do captions already.'''[[note]]The only exception allowed is ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful, if only for [[SelfDemonstratingArticle self-demonstration reasons]].[[/note]]
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29	Now you can use the content of the posters here, just not the format. If an image is good (either from the poster itself or from another source), it can be a page image, just not with the black border. And the text on the black border just needs to be used on the caption instead of the picture. Some of our page pictures have come from posters this way.
30	* LaserBlade (caption)
31	* MyGreatestFailure
32	* ThatCloudLooksLike
33	* TotalPartyKill
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35	!!Examples:
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37	[[foldercontrol]]
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39	[[folder:Comic Books]]
40	* In ''ComicBook/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."
41	* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye:'' The hideously evil Functionist Council of pre-war Cybertron loved to have giant billboards proclaiming things like "SMILE! Tomorrow will be a better day!" Taken even further in one issue [[spoiler:showing an alternate universe where they've taken over Cybertron, and routinely commit mass-murder for incredibly petty reasons. It's impossible to go a page without seeing a billboard with their hand-holding slogans somewhere.]]
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44	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
45	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{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).
46	* On ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', the "Hang in there" poster is hung on Susan's cell in a pathetic attempt to make her imprisonment more tolerable. It doesn't work. "I want a ''real'' kitten, hanging from a ''real'' tree!"
47	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'', Dr. Glickenstein's girlfriend gets him an inspirational poster of a kitten hanging from a tree, but since the movie is set in a BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad world, the kitten is hanging from a noose. "To remind you to always take time in your day for a little torture."
48	* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', Mike and Randall's dorm room has a "Winds of Change" poster with the caption [[CallForward "Shhh. Do you hear that?"]]
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51	[[folder:Literature]]
52	* In ''Literature/WhoMovedMyCheese'', Haw has a habit of drawing (straight) motivational graffiti on the walls, both to motivate Hem and to act as a landmark when searching the maze for New Cheese.
53	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', 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.
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56	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
57	* Barney from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has a wall full of actual motivational posters, including a tailor made one for Awesomeness, but one seems decidedly fauxtivational which he showcased for Marshall (who questioned its motivational ability). It was an image of a group of Penguins, with the the text being the uplifting "Conformity: It's the one that's different that gets left out in the cold".
58	* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' has two: In Gnothi Seauton five bad ass resistance fighters have a cute kitten "hang in there baby" in their hideout, which conceals a safe. In Dungeons And Dragons the future resistance have a badass mural of the same theme, except it's a lion jumping out of fire, a Terminator skull in its jaws.
59	* The Doublemeat Palace in season 6 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has these in its employee break room, and manager's office. It is duly lampshaded:
60	--> '''Tara:''' I have this sudden urge to dedicate my productive cooperation...
61	** When Buffy screws Spike next to a poster headed TEAMWORK, she finds a severed foot in the kitchen next to a poster encouraging employees to [[MysteryMeat BE PART OF THE DOUBLEMEAT EXPERIENCE]].
62	* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': "Fun and Failure start the same way".
63	-->'''G.O.B.:''' And I'm not afraid to make mistakes. Or have you forgotten to read this little... Damn it! My legs are so powerful.
64	* ''Series/TheITCrowd'': The basement has several memetastic posters hanging up.
65	* From an ''Series/Exit57'' sketch about a do-gooder lecturing a slacker in the break room at a supermarket:
66	-->'''Troy:''' I know you're pointing at a sign. Why don't you just read it? You're pointing at it.\
67	'''Laughton:''' "There's no I in TEAM."\
68	'''Troy:''' There's no ''U'' in TEAM.
69	* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sometimes had weird signs visible in sketches, like in the one where Michael Palin plays a businessman who [[FelonyMisdemeanor admits to embezzling one penny from the company]]. Graham Chapman declares, "There's no place for sentiment in big business," goes over to a sign on the wall that says the same thing, and flips it over. The other side says, "He's right, you know."
70	* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Hell, being Hell, has such inspiring messages to its infernal workers like "WE HATE YOU" or "CHEER UP! REMEMBER -- The worst IS yet to come." They are compiled [[https://fuckyeahgoodomens.tumblr.com/post/187939833179/list-of-the-hells-motivational-posters-please-do here]].
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73	[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
74	* ''Comicstrip/{{Retail}}'' ran a series of motivational posters from Grumbel's corporate office, with such inspiring captions as "AMBITION - Until you realise what yours is, you might as well work here" and "TEAMWORK - We make the decisions. You take the blame".
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77	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
78	* The tabletop gaming community has a collective fondness for demotivational posters borne out of the BlackHumor often inherent in the genre. Popular subjects to lampoon include common mistakes, player quirks, the dreaded GM, and the odd situations one often finds oneself in over the course of a campaign.
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81	[[folder:Video Games]]
82	* ''VideoGame/CounterStrike Source'' has a level set in an office building, with these posters on the walls. The topics are all related to Counterstrike itself, in-jokes for the established community that had played the previous version obsessively for several years. For instance, a picture of a tent, and the slogan "Camping".
83	* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' features motivational posters in certain areas; it would presumably be played straight, except the bright, happy posters with slogans like "Better Living through Science" etc are often seen next to scenes of BodyHorror.
84	* From the ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' factory level: "Remember it's Quantity, Quality, Safety, ''in that order.''"
85	* In office level of ''VideoGame/{{Bloodrayne}}'' 2 there are several posters including
86	** a sinking boat - caption "this is your life"
87	** a marble with the caption "You are this sharp"
88	** stick men - caption "Just remember you are an individual, just like everybody else"
89	* In ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space]]'', Hell's office is full of motivators of the SevenDeadlySins.
90	* In ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', the control room of the subway station has the classic "Hang In There!" kitten poster; the corresponding location in the DarkWorld has a version of the poster where the kitten has been reduced to a skeleton.
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93	[[folder:Web Animation]]
94	* The WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail86.html no loafing]]". In addition to the eponymous sign, Strong Bad purchases some more traditional posters, featuring windsurfers and {{Space Whale}}s.
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97	[[folder:Webcomics]]
98	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the principal of one of the high schools values motivational ''murals'' more than anything else. Those things range from odd to disturbing to hilarious -- [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-06-24 "READ or the owl]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2004-07-03 will eat you]]", or "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-10-29 Homework rules!]]", or "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-07-23 Thespians are neato]]" (as TheRant points out, a play on [[ChivalrousPervert Tedd's]] motto "[[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbians are neato!]]").
99	* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt:'' [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=73 "READ. It makes you cool. Honest."]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=186 "Knowledge is power."]]
100	** Also, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=121 the First Treatise]] ''could'' be considered a straightforward motivational poster [[BilingualBonus for those who know Latin]]: "Pray, read, read again, work, and you shall find."
101	*** And the page is also a [[GeniusBonus spiffy reference for those who know alchemy]]: it's from the Mutus Liber, a 17th century Huguenot alchemy text, Latin and all.
102	* ''Webcomic/StarslipCrisis'' had a StoryArc (beginning [[http://www.starslip.com/2005/10/31/starslip-598/ here]]) in which curator-snob Vanderbeam sees the "Hang In There" cat poster on Jovia's wall, and becomes obsessed with finding out what a fellow lover of TrueArt could [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic possibly see]] in such a piece of obvious shlock.
103	* [[http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=QOW3001 This]] appears to be a literacy poster showing Kestrel from ''Queen Of Wands'' sitting in a beanbag chair with a book to illustrate the slogan "READ". On closer inspection, the book she's reading turns out to be titled "Porn".
104	* Fauxtivational posters are one of the most popular subjects on the [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49314 twin]] [[RemixComic art-remix]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49479 threads]] on the ''{{Webcomic/Erfworld}}'' forum.
105	* ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'' had Frohman make some of these, with slogans like "Being beaten hard, or hardly being beaten?"
106	* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'':
107	** There's a somewhat sillier take on the "Hang In There Baby" poster in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990425 this]] strip.
108	** Torg's cousin sends him the Christmas present of an "inspirational calendar" with a picture like a motivational poster for each month, illustrating various captions such as "Inspiration" and "Success" with inspirational pictures... all of which are the same picture of an alligator eating a guy.
109	--->'''Riff:''' "Hey, 'Relationships'! That one works!"
110	* An early Bizarre Uprising comic had a poster saying "Reading is KITTY!" in a classroom background.
111	* [[{{Jerkass}} Mike]] of ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/receipts has one in his bedroom]] of a koala hanging from a branch with the caption "You're [[PrecisionFStrike fucked]]."
112	* In the ''Webcomic/{{Zodiac\|2011}}'' spinoff Quetzalcoatlus, a "demotivational poster" can be seen in Leo's office contaning a picture of a nuclear explosion and the caption "'''Patience''': Don't expect any. Ever."
113	** Related to the above is a similar poster depicting a lion. Its caption: "'''Humor''': [[BrickJoke See notes on Patience]]."
114	* ''Webcomic/RomanticallyApocalyptic'': [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/38 This]] rather dark take on the "Hang in there baby" poster.
115	* During the ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' storyline "Mixed-Up Files", when Sweetheart was undercover as a mad scientist captured by the Institute, the Institute gave her a motivational poster saying "Sanity - It's not a journey, its a destination". She spent the entire first night staring at it, obsessing over the missing apostrophe, until they replaced it with one where the ''first'' apostrophe was missing. And then both. It eventually turned out the whole situation was designed to make her snap, and this was just the first step.
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118	[[folder:Web Original]]
119	* 4chan has a long, ancestral tradition of making sometimes ''very lewd'' Fauxtivational Posters based on their own [[MemeticMutation memes]]. You can see them in [[http://www.macrochan.org/search.php?tags=Motivational+Poster Macrochan]] ('''''OH-SO-GODDAMN-VERY {{NSFW}}!!!''''').
120	** And basically every other -chan (''especially'' those with a more... mature focus than 4chan.).
121	** There used to be an anime motivational poster thread (nicknamed /amp/ or /mot/ as a homage to [[Platform/FourChan something...]]) on Crunchyroll that had about 2000+pages growing at about 8 pages daily. Unfortunately its contents started to live up to its name resulting in its deletion and [[DeaderThanDead a permanent ban against the creation of any other such threads.]] However, in 2010, a [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-647851/anime-motivational-posters-read-first-post?pg=0 new /AMP/]] was started, and as of December 2015 has over 14,000 pages.
122	* Big Huge Labs has a web-based program for making custom posters. [[http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php Go knock yourself out.]]
123	* [[http://llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/index.html An index of RPG and Geek-culture-inspired posters.]]
124	** See also [[http://www.geneticanomaly.com/RPG-Motivational/index.html this collection of RPG Motivational Posters]].
125	* Made ''especially'' famous by Website/TelevisionWithoutPity. [[http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3142036 Here's a link.]]
126	* Website/SomethingAwful's Photoshop Phriday once commissioned [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/motivational-posters.php a number of these]].
127	* ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'' has a whole minigame dedicated to creating these.
128	* ''Worth1000'', a site which organizes daily photoshop, photography and other contests, has also run some contests where people had to [[http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=13238&display=photoshop create posters with photoshopped images]].
129	* [[http://www.encyclopediadramatica.ch/Demotivators Encyclopedia Dramatica]] has a whole bunch, some that are hilarious, but after some you'll probably need to [[BrainBleach scrub your eyes]] (and those two types aren't mutually exclusive). You have been warned.
130	* This is a popular game over at the [[http://boards.9thwonders.com/index.php?showtopic=56084 9th Wonders]] ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' forum.
131	* [[http://www.halolz.com/category/motivational/ Halolz.com]] also has some of these. While not as bad as the 4chan example above, there's still some {{NSFW}} things there.
132	* [[http://www.motifake.com/ Even more of them]].
133	** [[http://www.motivatedphotos.com/ And more]].
134	* Polish site [[http://www.demotywatory.pl Demotywatory.pl]].
135	* Music/DoctorSteel's riffs on the [[http://www.toysoldiersunite.com/propaganda/1077/2/3646 ALA "READ" posters]] and [[http://www.toysoldiersunite.com/propaganda/1077/0/3702 Got Milk? posters]]
136	* Website/{{Wikipedia}} has one accompanying the "[[BystanderSyndrome Somebody Else's Problem]]" [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Somebody_Else%27s_Problem essay]].
137	* RPGNet used to have a monster thread full of specifically RPG-themed instances of this genre, but in the end it was deleted because of its server-crushing posting volume.
138	* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of TheMovie of WesternAnimation/{{the Care Bears\|movie}}, he produces one of these around [[MemeticMolester Mr. Cherrywood creepy smile]]. In his later commentary on the episode, Doug explained that he had seen several of the other visuals he had used in his reviews being made into these, and decided to try and save fans the trouble.
139	* [[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 ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed alone.]] Kind of [[{{Irony}} ironic]] considering how Website/TvTropes, as stated above, does not want Demotivators as images.
140	* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s Photoplasty contest [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_553_28-inspirational-image-memes-revised-honesty/ 28 Inspirational Image Memes (Revised for Honesty)]] parodies Successories and other inspirational glurge posters.
141	* ''WebVideo/StarWarsUncut'': In this FanFilm version of ''Star Wars: A New Hope'' Luke has one from Biggs. "Dear Luke, You're '''never''' gonna get out of here!"
142	* [[http://inspirobot.me/ InspiroBot]] is a website that generates often-nonsensical inspirational posters by combining random images with randomly-generated phrase combinations. This often produces {{Ice Cream Koan}}s like "The sun is better than it sounds", "Death ends when freedom begins", and "Never let nobody tell you that you are not in Hell". There are some legitimately deep/inspirational ones that have come out of it though.
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145	[[folder:Western Animation]]
146	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
147	** One episode featured the "Hang in there!" cat poster. Marge notices that, since the copyright on the poster dates back to 1968, the cat must be long dead, which she thinks makes the poster actually "kind of a downer".
148	** "And Maggie Makes Three" had Homer's ''de''motivational plaque after he was forced to go back to his job at the power plant: "Don't forget, you're here forever." Homer used pictures of Maggie to turn it into "Do it for her".
149	* The "Hang in there!" poster also appears in ''Dr. Katz''.
150	* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'':
151	** In the episode "Cryonic Woman", Leela reapplies for her old job at the cryonics center:
152	--->"Oh, I was hoping you would come back. I even saved your poster of a chimp expressing your distaste for Mondays!"\
153	"Monday monkey lives for the weekend, sir!"
154	** There was another one from the first episode which refers to the policy of people being assigned careers instead of choosing their own, which features a man in a hard-hat with a rather dubious look on his face giving a thumbs-up, with the caption "You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do".
155	** Paying attention to the background nets a few more of these as well. In one episode, a poster outside an army recruitment office reads:
156	--->"Join The Army Today!!\
157	What are you, Chicken?\
158	Bwak Buk Buk Bawk!"
159	*** A FreezeFrameBonus inside the recruitment office features an "Employee of the Month" poster with a picture of a casket.
160	* Peter Potamus has several posters involving a hippopotamus and "''that thing''" in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
161	* Played straight but subtle in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. When we see Prowl's room as he meditates, there's a poster of a cute little puppy on a branch reading "Chin up!" Made hilarious as one wonders where Prowl found the poster (that size) in the first place, and what prompted the DeadpanSnarker to hang it in his zen spot.
162	** This is made interesting by the fact that it appears ''every'' time that room is shown. Possibly one of the writers has it in their office.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/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".
164	-->''"I will. I '''will''' go get it."''
165	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''
166	** In "Dipper vs. Manliness", part of Dipper's half of the TrainingMontage involves the manotaurs making him stare at inspirational posters for "GLORY" (featuring a bald eagle) and "HONOR" (featuring a lion).
167	** During the montage in "Boss Mabel", Mabel puts up a motivational poster for "LEADERSHIP", which features a bald eagle (with Mabel's face slapped on the eagle's head).
168	** In the credits scene of "The Stanchurian Candidate", we see Gideon in jail with a parody of the "Hang in there!" poster, which has the writing "Hold on to that branch or die, cat!" [[spoiler:It hides the Bill Cipher chalk drawing he used to summon the demon.]]
169	* In the ''WesternAnimation/YogisTreasureHunt'' episode "Yogi's Heroes," the Trio of Triumph (Huckle Hero, El Kabong and Ram-Boo Boo) have a poster in their headquarters of the ubiquitous drawing of three guys laughing hysterical with the caption "You want your planet saved ''when??''"
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172	[[folder:Real Life]]
173	* [[http://www.successories.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/dir_product.group_brand/product_group_id/e429709c-250d-488d-a7bb-90f537107324/Motivational-Framed-Prints.cfm Successories]]
174	* [[http://www.allposters.com/-st/Motivational-Posters_c12920_.htm AllPosters.com's top-selling motivators.]] - One of the few places where real motivational posters are located.
175	* [[http://despair.com/viewall.html Despair, Inc.]]
176	* The famous British "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster from [=WW2=], which either thanks to irony or nostalgia has [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7869458.stm experienced a revival.]]
177	** And the inevitable [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollym/3427210378/ parody]].
178	** And a [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3365682994/ response]].
179	* The American Library Association (ALA)'s famous [[http://www.alastore.ala.org/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=160 "READ" posters]].
180	** ...and the inevitable parody (see ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' above).
181	* 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 older 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).
182	* Another painful example is the use of so-called inspirational posters in a classroom whose teacher is so utterly repressive as to recite the occasional DystopianEdict to the students.
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