History Main / TakeMeToYourLeader

* In one ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'' comic, Woody dresses up as an alien to play a prank on Splinter and Knothead. However, they find out and decide to prank him back... and then a ''real'' alien appears ([[ContrivedCoincidence who happens to look just like Woody's costume)]]. His main line is "TakeMeToYourLeader", repeated in vain as the woodpecker kids expose him to a HumiliationConga. Finally he gets fed up and escapes, but runs into Woody who is exhilarated that he gets to meet a real alien with the fame and fortune to follow, and offer to take him to his leader. However, the alien has had enough.

* Played straight in ''ComicBook/{{Oink}}'' when an alien met an American. The subsequent encounter with Ronald Regan led the alien to give up: a planet with a leader like that isn't worth conquering.

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* In ''Film/GoodBoy'', Hubble the dog says this to Owen, his owner, after Owen gains the ability to understand dogs. Hubble is from the dog star Sirius 7.
* In ''Dentist on the Job'' two men infiltrating a military lab pretend to have a conversation to act casually, one of them says this. An odd example in that neither of them is an extraterrestrial, just tresspassers.
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* In a ''GreenLantern'' comic from the [=1970s=] or [=80s=], the alien Katma Tui lands on Earth, says the phrase in all seriousness, and gets taken to the United Nations. However, the comic said something to the effect of "[[LampshadeHanging though the phrase is clichéd, the alien says it with no humor in mind]]" or something like that.
* ''WorldWarHulk'': When Korg confronts a police officer and makes demands that he can't realistically meet (and is informed as much), bystanders are all barely containing their laughter or rolling their eyes as he insists that they "Take me to your leader."
* A ''Franchise/StarTrek''[=/=]''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' crossover inverts the usual human/alien roles when Logan asks Commander Spock to take him to his leader.
* In one ''WoodyWoodpecker'' comic, Woody dresses up as an alien to play a prank on Splinter and Knothead. However, they find out and decide to prank him back... and then a ''real'' alien appears ([[ContrivedCoincidence who happens to look just like Woody's costume)]]. His main line is "TakeMeToYourLeader", repeated in vain as the woodpecker kids expose him to a HumiliationConga. Finally he gets fed up and escapes, but runs into Woody who is exhilarated that he gets to meet a real alien with the fame and fortune to follow, and offer to take him to his leader. However, the alien has had enough.

** ''[[FateOfTheJedi Fate of the Jedi: Conviction]]'', after Han blasts open a door lock, then stuns the guards inside:

* An Al Brodax {{Popeye}} cartoon had Popeye, Olive and Wimpy accidentally sent to the moon on an experimental rocket. They find the moon is made of cheese and are approached by a little cheese sentry:

* One ''BloomCounty'' comic sees an alien step out of a spaceship and demand Opus take him to his leader. It's an election year, however, and as Opus lists off the candidates, the alien eventually gets so exasperated that he climbs back in his ship and leaves.

* Luke [[http://images.plurk.com/87286a795d18e3df063394ab3c9948a0.jpg once]] tells the extremely friendly Zeltrons this in MarvelStarWars.

* Played straight in Oink! when an alien met an American. The subsequent encounter with Ronald Regan led the alien to give up: a planet with a leader like that isn't worth conquering.

* Spoofed in an episode of ''LegendOfTheSeeker''. Kahlan has approached a D'Haran prison disguised as a Mord-Sith who has captured the Seeker:

* Parodied in ''Anime/SuiseiNoGargantia''. When Ledo arrives on Earth, he can't speak the local language and must rely on his ship's AI to act as a translator. The AI informs him that "I have requested an audience with their commander."

* Brother Cavil in ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' does that when he is outed as a Cylon Spy. They take him to the brig instead.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Not directly used, but invoked in ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'', when Lan tells Madoka that she's an alien; Madoka asks if she really means a "TakeMeToYourLeader" type alien. The answer is a non-surprised (she's apparently also familiar with the trope) yes.

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* Made fun of in this joke:
-->Two aliens land in a godforsaken part of Earth, walk around a bit and find a small gas station. It's night, and no human is around. The aliens mistake the gas pump for a kind of robot, and of them commands: "TakeMeToYourLeader!" The pump, of course, says nothing. The alien again threatens: "I said, take me to your leader!" The pump still isn't impressed. Now the alien gets angry: "If you don't take me to your leader right now, I'll shoot you with my laser!" But the other alien is getting nervous: "I wouldn't mess with that guy... better be nice." The first alien isn't impressed and points his laser at the pump: "Now take me to your leader, or I'll shoot you!" The other alien panics and runs away. Since the pump does nothing, the first alien shoots, and the gas station [[StuffBlowingUp goes BOOM]]. By a sheer miracle, the alien survives. He asks his companion "How did you know that would happen?" - "I didn't", the other one replies. "But if I see a guy who can stick his dick in his ear, I surely don't mess with him!"
* And of course the inevitable FunTShirt spoofs. One shows a [[TheGreys Grey alien]] smoking a joint with the words: TAKE ME TO YOUR DEALER.
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* Yes, people have really said it. Any explorer in an area he doesn't know will want to consider making friends of whomever is the local boss. And in time gone by, a visitor from another culture could be so strange that he might as well be from another planet.
* A sort-of example: in general, if you're arrested in a foreign country, you'll want to tell your captors that you demand to speak with the local consul of your home country, so it's more like, "take me to the representative of my leader in your area".
** Although the odds that you will actually be taken to see them are slim-to-none. The consulate might make an appointment for one of their staff to come see ''you'', but consular assistance for an arrest, in most countries, will usually consist of recommending a lawyer who speaks your language.

* Supposedly, John Glenn was given a phonetic rendering of "I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader, and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity." in Australian aboriginal language because of the possibility that his space capsule might land in undeveloped parts of Australia and the only people whom he might encounter after landing would be Australian aborigines who might not speak English.
** Considering that there are more than one hundred mutually intelligible and often unrelated Australian Aboriginal languages the usefulness of this would have been very doubtful. Also his spaceship was designed for a splashdown in the Ocean and not for a ground landing.

* And of course the inevitable T-Shirt spoofs. One shows a [[TheGreys Grey alien]] smoking a joint with the words: TAKE ME TO YOUR DEALER.

* In ''[[Literature/KnownSpace Protector]]'', by LarryNiven, the alien whom Nick Sohl and Luke Garner meet on Mars says this to them. The twist: the alien is [[spoiler: a human asteroid miner, Jack Brennan, who has accidentally been transformed into a human version of a Pak Protector]].

* In ''Protector'', by LarryNiven, the alien whom Nick Sohl and Luke Garner meet on Mars says this to them. The twist: the alien is [[spoiler: a human asteroid miner, Jack Brennan, who has accidentally been transformed into a human version of a Pak Protector]].

* Spoofed in [[http://www.evil-comic.com/archive/20051228.html this]] ''Evil Inc.'' strip.

* In one ''WoodyWoodpecker'' comic, Woody dresses up as an alien to play a prank on Splinter and Topknot. However, they find out and decide to prank him back... and then a ''real'' alien appears ([[ContrivedCoincidence who happens to look just like Woody's costume)]]. His main line is "TakeMeToYourLeader", repeated in vain as the woodpecker kids expose him to a HumiliationConga. Finally he gets fed up and escapes, but runs into Woody who is exhilarated that he gets to meat a real alien with the fame and fortune to follow, and offer to take him to his leader. However, the alien has had enough.