2 LIVE POLLS: Most Exciting Movie or TV Fictional Scout Troop

Craig Charles, Chris Barrie
Red Dwarf, Stasis Leak HM Space Scouts (former)

Patton Oswalt
Nature Calls HM unnamed Scouts (boys)

April Stewart
Evil Con Carne, Gutless/Day of the Dreadbots/League of Destruction
Terror Troopers (girls)

Francesca Marie Smith Helga's Parrot/Chocolate Turtles, Hey Arnold!
Campfire Lasses (girls)

Jennifer Hale, Andrea Baker, Katie Leigh Totally Spies!, Passion Patties
Happy Girls (girls)

Fran Drescher, Madeline Zima Curse of the Grandmas, The Nanny
Red Robins (girls)

Billy West, Fred Newman Doug, Doug Takes a Hike/Doug Rocks
Bluff Scouts

Justin Jon Ross Beyond a Reasonable Scout, Recess
Woodchuck Scouts

The Oblongs, Pickles' Little Amazons
Little Amazons

Mae Whitman Johnny Bravo
Buttercup Scouts

Great suggestion! 

I didn't completely spell out that real-life scouting organizations, such as the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, Brownies, Venturers, Girl Guides, Campfire Kids, Navigators, Air Scouts, Sea Scouts, and others are excluded from consideration. I placed the fictional term to focus on scouts in the title and question. Plus, I listed the fictional organizations each troop is associated with in the answer options. I can see how even real-life scouting organizations, can have fictional troops, but I didn't want to make the poll premise overly complicated.

I haven't seen the movie, but based on reference to "welp scouts" or cub scouts and the Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen, the Flemish Boy Scouts organization's condemnation of the "all ages" rating the horror film received, I think it is their junior scouts that are being depicted in the film.

One of the reasons there seems to be more fictional scouting organizations depicted than real-life scouting organization is the creative license it affords the writer.  Likewise, the producer's neither have to seek permission to use the trademark nor to seek approval for the script nor do they have to deal with any backlash once the film debuts. Some films, like Patton Oswalt's indie film Nature Calls skillfully blur the line between whether they are depicting the real-deal or some fake scouting troop.

EXCLUDED SCOUTING FILMS DEPICTING REAL SCOUTING ORGANIZATIONS

Cub 2014 | Movie

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 | Movie

This Boy's Life 1993 | Movie

Au Revoir les Enfants 1987 | Movie

Room for One More 1952 | Movie

It Happened to Jane 1959 | Movie

Mister Scoutmaster 1953 | Movie

Follow Me, Boys! 1966 | Movie

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! 1966 | Movie 

The Wrong Guys 1988 | Movie

Without a Paddle 2004 | Movie

Scouts to the Rescue 1939 | Movie

Christmas with the Kranks 2004 | Movie

Down and Derby 2005 | Movie

P.S. I shortened the introduction, so the sentence "In celebration of scouting and its impact on shaping global youth, a set of tribute polls featuring fictional scouting organizations in movies, television series and other media." stands out more.

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Which fictional scouting troop from an episodic broadcast, cable or streaming media series do you think it would be most exciting to be a member of? i.e. camping, earning a merit badge, attending jamboree, fundraising, survival experiences, etc.

As suggested earlier, perhaps the intro should say "this poll is one of a set of tribute polls". You could also add a link to the movie poll.

 

And Ruby suggested an option above in case you missed it.

Thanks, I did miss it.

 

 

Worldwide, scouts are the largest youth movement in the world with 40 million current members from 223 countries. In celebration of scouting and its impact on shaping global youth, this poll is one of a set of tribute polls featuring fictional scouting organizations in movies, television series and other media.

Which fictional scouting troop from an episodic broadcast, cable or streaming media series do you think it would be most exciting to be a member of? i.e. camping, earning a merit badge, attending jamboree, fundraising, survival experiences, etc.

Vote in the companion poll: Most Exciting Movie Fictional Scout Troop

 

In 2020, three important scouting anniversaries are celebrated.

@dgranger​ Thanks, I  will add this entry. I just recently saw this movie. I agree I like the uniqueness of this scouting organization. As well as, how they figure into how Fitswilly plan to use them for his endgame and his cover to do good by being bad by putting on front of being good.

@urbanemovies​ I think that is a subtle direct reference to the Girl Scouts which is why the name of the Girl Scout organization wasn’t named in the show. How? The official Girl Scout logo a stylized heraldic “Trefoil”. The Girls Scouts of America openly call it that. A Trefoil, in heraldry,

is a three leaf clover.

@dgranger​ Thanks, the information about the 'trefoil', it was very interesting and something I did not know. 

This is game that movies and TV play. They are very adept at creating either the illusion that it is the girl scouts or boy scouts by not mentioning the name and invoking scouting imagery. The uniforms are so similar that you aren't sure too. Some productions come up with their own scouting organization, but are otherwise are a brazen rip-off.

It so common, I wonder the cause. If the two organizations outright refuse permission or production companies are too lazy to ask permission or don't want to be restricted in what they can do. I'm not sure if either is very litigious or if the production are just lawsuit adverse. There are some examples of the official uniforms and actual scouting organization name being used, so I guess permission can be had.

In this case, the uniform is actually nicer than the official ones. It seems the girl scouts is mostly using sashes and vests nowadays. Thus, making the organization less costly to member of and more accessible to more girls.