History Main / UncleSamWantsYou

* A ''Franchise/MetalGear'' promotional poster for recruiting engineers to develop the next game in the franchise has Big Boss in the style of Uncle Sam.

* The WesternAnimation/WeBareBears episode, "Braces" has a dentist office poster that has a tooth with a human body that reads "I want you to brush your teeth"; Panda thought it was kind of clever, but when he looks again the tooth in the picture is angry and it now reads, "Or Else!". Panda rubs his eyes and it turns back to normal.

* The WesternAnimation/WeBareBears episode, "Braces" has a dentist office poster that has a tooth with a human body that reads "I want you to brush your teeth"; Panda thought it was kind of clever, but when he looks again the tooth in the picture is angry and it now reads, "Or Else!". Panda rubs his eys and it turns back to normal.

** Unlike the US Army's version, this image was ''not'' recycled for the ''Second'' World War, for [[HarsherInHindsight obvious reasons]][[note]]For those who didn't bother to look it up, Lord Kitchener was killed in 1916 when the ship he was travelling to Russia on was blown up by a German mine[[/note]]. In fact, anything that could even remotely be construed as a straight use of this image is discouraged rather strongly. For example, when the government floated the idea of putting the picture on the £2 coin to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, even ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Mail]]'' thought it was a terrible idea. It doesn't help that Lord Kitchener's ''other'' claim to fame is inventing the concentration camp and generally conducting the Boer War in a fashion that ThoseWackyNazis imitated with great enthusiasm a couple of decades later.

** Unlike the US Army's version, this image was ''not'' recycled for the ''Second'' World War, for [[HarsherInHindsight obvious reasons]]. In fact, anything that could even remotely be construed as a straight use of this image is discouraged rather strongly. For example, when the government floated the idea of putting the picture on the £2 coin to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, even ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Mail]]'' thought it was a terrible idea. It doesn't help that Lord Kitchener's ''other'' claim to fame is inventing the concentration camp and generally conducting the Boer War in a fashion that ThoseWackyNazis imitated with great enthusiasm a couple of decades later.

* The British equivalent, [[OlderThanTheyThink predating the American version]] by at least three years, is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kitchener_Wants_You Lord Kitchener Wants You]].

* Referenced in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_PVPyn6n8 the video]] for the {{IOSYS}} song ''[[VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey FOE!]]''

* FairlySecretArmy: the main title shows the original Kitchener poster, which morphs into Truscott's face.

* The trope is also referenced in ''GrowingPains'' when Ben Seavor, shortly after Mike Seavor's arrest for a protest to reinstate the coach of the school, tells the family that various relatives are calling him about the event, and believed they had a relative named "Uncle Sam" until his mom set him straight. It gets even more hilarious when one remembers that after his stint in the series, Mike's actor, Kirk Cameron, would later develop films and documentaries with a pro-American light to them.
* In Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch, Uncle Sam makes a quick visit to the Spellman house when The Other Realm has it's election time.

* [[YogiBear Yogi Bear's]] [[ChristmasSpecial All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper]] shows a mall Santa training center which includes a Santa Claus version of Uncle Sam's "I Want You" poster.

* Referenced in ''TheYoungOnes'' episode "Boring", where Kitchener from the poster comes to life, sorta, but sits like a waxwork.

** Unlike the US Army's version, this image was ''not'' recycled for the ''Second'' World War, for [[HarsherInHindsight obvious reasons]]. In fact, anything that could even remotely be construed as a straight use of this image is discouraged rather strongly. For example, when the government floated the idea of putting the picture on the £2 coin to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, even ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Mail]]'' [[EveryoneHasStandards thought it was a terrible idea.]] It doesn't help that Lord Kitchener's ''other'' claim to fame is inventing the concentration camp and generally conducting the Boer War in a fashion that ThoseWackyNazis imitated with great enthusiasm a couple of decades later.

* Learning to draw him convincingly is a prerequisite for drawing editorial cartoons, hands down. He appears in them frequently, for obvious reasons.

* Joe Pillsbury once drove it to the obvious conclusion -- the caricature depicting a poster of GrimReaper in this pose, with a scythe in the other hand. The text below was simple "[[/folder]]

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* Political cartoons. Good ''lawd''.

* The Russian equivalents, meanwhile, are "Motherland Calls!" (WWII) and "Did YOU volunteer?" ([[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Civil war]]) (the latter one is the most reminescent of the Uncle Sam poster).
** There's also one [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Civil war]] poster of the White army, sayng "Why are you not in the army?". It is also of this style.

* From the ''Film/ReeferMadness: The Movie Musical'' song "Tell 'Em the Truth": "Let every sir and ma'am / Obey their Uncle Sam / That famous finger's set to point / I want you to drop that joint!"

* A ''{{Garfield}}'' strip [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1986&addr=860915 featured A sign with Binky saying "I want you. Join the circus"]] and making an UncleSam pose.

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* A ''{{Garfield}}'' strip [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1986&addr=860915 featured A sign with Binky saying "I want you. Join the circus"]] and making an UncleSam pose.
* Learning to draw him convincingly is a prerequisite for drawing editorial cartoons, hands down. He appears in them frequently, for obvious reasons.

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* In a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Pepe [=LePew=] cartoon, an "Uncle François Wants You" poster appears in a Foreign Legion fort.

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* Joe Pillsbury once drove it to the obvious conclusion -- the caricature depicting a poster of GrimReaper in this pose, with a scythe in the other hand. The text below was simple "[[AC:Wants You]]".

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* The British equivalent, [[OlderThanTheyThink predating the American version]] by at least three years, is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kitchener_Wants_You Lord Kitchener Wants You]].

** Unlike the US Army's version, this image was ''not'' recycled for the ''Second'' World War, for [[HarsherInHindsight obvious reasons]]. In fact, anything that could even remotely be construed as a straight use of this image is discouraged rather strongly. For example, when the government floated the idea of putting the picture on the £2 coin to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, even ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Mail]]'' [[EveryoneHasStandards thought it was a terrible idea.]] It doesn't help that Lord Kitchener's ''other'' claim to fame is inventing the concentration camp and generally conducting the Boer War in a fashion that ThoseWackyNazis imitated with great enthusiasm a couple of decades later.

The famous WorldWarI-era poster of the AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[{{Eagleland}} the United States of America]] imploring young men to enlist in the military by GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger. Usually depicted as an [[CoolOldGuy old guy]] with [[BadassBeard a beard]], a [[NiceHat top hat]] and [[BadassInANiceSuit a suit]] decorated with the Stars and Stripes. The famous American poster, created by J.M. Flagg (no kidding) in 1917, is actually based on a British poster from several years earlier, featuring Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener and the famous legend "Your Country Needs YOU".

* DCComics has a superhero named "Uncle Sam", the living spirit of America, who has the exact same appearance as the recruitment poster character.