Trapper Keeper

A Trapper Keeper is a brand of loose-leaf binder created by Mead. Popular with students of all grades in the United States and parts of Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s, it featured sliding plastic rings (instead of standard snap-closed metal binder rings), folders and pockets to keep schoolwork and papers, and a Velcro closure. They usually came with a theme, like a cartoon or tv show (e.g. The Sonic Trapper Keeper).Ŗ

Trapper Keeper in popular culture

• In an episode of South Park, the so-called Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000 destroys the town and eventually takes over the world, and a robot by the name of "Bill Cosby" has to destroy it.
• In the film "Wet Hot American Summer" one of the characters taunts another "You just have like a trapper-keeper full of appointments, right?"
• The title character in 2004's Napoleon Dynamite uses a Trapper Keeper, even though the film is set in the early to mid 2000s, many years after the popularity of it waned.
• In an episode of Family Guy, Meg asks Tom Brady if he can sign her Trapper Keeper.
• Five Iron Frenzy sang "Junior High Schooler, with pencils in my pocket and my Trapper Keeper busted" in their song "Suckerpunch."
• A main page on Homestar Runner is titled "Trapper Keeper!!" and is notepad-themed.
• Webcomic Sluggy Freelance Character Torg mentioned his old Trapper Keeper in the comic on September 9th 2006