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[[caption-width-right:310:''"Until we meet again, may the Good Lord take a liking to you."'']]

Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was a star of over a hundred "singing cowboy" movies, as well as a long-running series that began on radio and moved to television.

Generally accompanied by his CoolHorse Trigger, CanineCompanion Bullet, gal Dale Evans (whom he married in real life), and one or both of his sidekicks, Pat Brady and Gabby Hayes.

He also has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Rogers_Restaurants fast food chain]] named after him. Make of that what you will.

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!!Roy Rogers films on TV Tropes:

* ''Film/UnderWesternStars''
* ''Film/MackintoshAndTJ''
* ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime''

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!!Tropes associated with Roy Rogers include:

%%ZCE * BulletproofFashionPlate
* CanineCompanion: Bullet.
* CoolHorse: Trigger.
* {{Cowboy}}: He played a singing cowboy for much of his career.
* FriendlyRivalry: With fellow singing cowboy star Music/GeneAutry.
* HappilyMarried: To Dale Evans, who was his wife until his death.
%%ZCE * ImpracticallyFancyOutfit
* NewOldWest: ''The Roy Rogers Show'' is set in the present [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece (the 1950's)]], but it's set far enough out in the country that you could easily forget that fact most of the time, except for the presence of Pat Brady's jeep, Nellybelle.
* {{Sidekick}}: Pat Brady [=and/or=] Gabby Hayes.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Very much on the bright shiny idealistic side.
* ThemeNaming: His horse Trigger and his dog Bullet.
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!!References to Roy Rogers in other works:

* Probably the most famous, from ''Film/DieHard'':
-->'''Gruber:''' Who are you? Just another American who [[ThisIsReality saw too many movies as a child]]? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's Creator/JohnWayne? Franchise/{{Rambo}}? [[Series/{{Gunsmoke}} Marshal Dillon]]?\\
'''[=McClane=]:''' I was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.\\
'''Gruber:''' Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?\\
'''[=McClane=]:''' Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
* In ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', the protagonist has a horse whose name is "Trigger" in Latin.
* "Roy Rogers", song by Music/EltonJohn
* "Front Row Cowboy", song by Music/EricBogle
* "If I Had a Boat," song by Lyle Lovett
* Creator/TheCoenBrothers' film ''Film/HailCaesar'' has Hobie Doyle, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Rogers, as a major character. They would later parody Rogers again with the title character of ''Film/TheBalladOfBusterScruggs'', a similar trick-shooting singing cowboy, put into into an otherwise realistic and violent western setting.
* ''Woody's Round-Up'', the ShowWithinAShow in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' on which [[LivingToys Woody]] [[MerchandiseDriven was based,]] is basically ''The Roy Rogers Show'' with ''Series/HowdyDoody''-style puppets, with Woody and Jessie as [[{{Expy}} expies]] of Roy and Dale.
* In ''The Secret Diary of Literature/AdrianMole Aged 13 and 3/4'', one of Adrian's poems to Pandora concludes "You've got a magic figure/I'm Roy Rogers, you are Trigger". When Pandora has PopCulturalOsmosisFailure, Adrian lends her his dad's old ''Roy Rogers'' [[TheChristmasAnnual annual]]. It's not clear why he thinks comparing her to a horse is a compliment in the first place, but ''making sure she understands that's what he's doing''...
* Trigger from ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' is said to have got his nickname because "he looks like a horse".
* In ''Series/TheSopranos''' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS3E11PineBarrens Pine Barrens]]," Christopher and Paulie pass by a Roy Rogers restaurant without stopping. Later on, when they're both alone and starving, Christopher says they should've stopped there. Paulie quips back "And I shoulda fucked Dale Evans, but I didn't!"
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