Line #45 Creator/RoyRogers


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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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