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2 | [[caption-width-right:310:''"Until we meet again, may the Good Lord take a liking to you."'']] |
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4 | 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. |
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6 | 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. |
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8 | 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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11 | !!Roy Rogers films on TV Tropes: |
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13 | * ''Film/UnderWesternStars'' |
14 | * ''Film/MackintoshAndTJ'' |
15 | * ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'' |
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18 | !!Tropes associated with Roy Rogers include: |
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20 | %%ZCE * BulletproofFashionPlate |
21 | * CanineCompanion: Bullet. |
22 | * CoolHorse: Trigger. |
23 | * {{Cowboy}}: He played a singing cowboy for much of his career. |
24 | * FriendlyRivalry: With fellow singing cowboy star Music/GeneAutry. |
25 | * HappilyMarried: To Dale Evans, who was his wife until his death. |
26 | %%ZCE * ImpracticallyFancyOutfit |
27 | * 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. |
28 | * {{Sidekick}}: Pat Brady [=and/or=] Gabby Hayes. |
29 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Very much on the bright shiny idealistic side. |
30 | * ThemeNaming: His horse Trigger and his dog Bullet. |
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32 | !!References to Roy Rogers in other works: |
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34 | * Probably the most famous, from ''Film/DieHard'': |
35 | -->'''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]]?\ |
36 | '''[=McClane=]:''' I was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.\ |
37 | '''Gruber:''' Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?\ |
38 | '''[=McClane=]:''' Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker. |
39 | * In ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', the protagonist has a horse whose name is "Trigger" in Latin. |
40 | * "Roy Rogers", song by Music/EltonJohn |
41 | * "Front Row Cowboy", song by Music/EricBogle |
42 | * "If I Had a Boat," song by Lyle Lovett |
43 | * 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. |
44 | * ''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. |
45 | * 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''... |
46 | * Trigger from ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' is said to have got his nickname because "he looks like a horse". |
47 | * 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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