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In the TV show Lie To Me ("Truth or Consequences"), Dr. Lightman questions a teenage girl about a camera he found at a crime scene. She replies, "Whatever, stranger danger. Give me back my camera or I call the cops." This may imply that since she doesn't know him, his questions seem improper.
Season 1 Episode 12 of Criminal Minds. Episode title, "What Fresh Hell" (2006). Gideon and Reid mention the “Stranger Danger” program that was widely shown in public schools. Gideon states that it "did the most harm to this country in terms of crime like this, child abduction". He went on to explain that it "taught a whole generation about a scary man in a trench coat, hiding behind a tree. Now we learn that strangers are only a... fraction of the offenders out there. Most are people you see every day, your... family, your neighbors... school teachers. You know the rest. Prepared our children for one percent of the danger, made 'em more vulnerable to ninety-nine percent."
An episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! looks into Stranger Danger. This episode strongly criticizes the overstressed nature of stranger danger.
In an episode of Adventure Time, Jake the dog drinks from a river which gives him amnesia. Because Jake can't recognize his best friend Finn the human, Finn attempts to drag Jake onward which causes Jake to scream, "Help! Stranger danger!"
The concept of "stranger danger" carried to the extreme was satirized in an episode of South Park. During the episode, the parents of the main characters become increasingly paranoid by the risks posed to their children by strangers due to media sensationalism, to the point where they build a wall to prevent outsiders from entering the town and begin to suspect friends and neighbors of harboring criminal intentions.
In Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Sam and Sally refer to Dickie as "Stranger Danger."
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