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People just ''love'' handing out awards to each other. Whether it's a [[Merit Badges for Everything|merit badge]], an [[Not That Kind of Doctor|honorary degree]], or a [[Knight Fever|knighthood]], giving someone an award simultaneously tells them, and everyone else, that [[So Proud of You|they've done well]]. Many of the most famous and prestigious awards have become bywords for the highest achievement in the relevant field, or even in ''any'' field. If a fictional character gets an Oscar, Pulitzer or Nobel Prize, you know they must have done something [[Moment of Awesome|awesome]].

 

== Nobel Prize ==

* The [[Transformers]]-esque anime series ''Faibird'' has an episode in which the evil [[Mad Scientist]] takes the Nobel Prize committee hostage and attempts to extort them into giving him awards in multiple categories, including Peace ("If you don't, then my evil transforming robot allies will destroy the Earth.") The good mad scientist is slow to order the committee's rescue, because he's suffered [[Award Snub]] from them multiple times.

** There are so many things wrong with this that it's easy to overlook one: there is no "'''the''' Nobel Prize committee". The five Nobel Prizes ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and the Economics prize]]) are awarded by four different bodies. In particular, the Peace Prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee, while all the others are granted by Swedish institutions.

* In [[Real Life]], there's been complaints from, uh, authoritarian governments about the Swedish government awarding Nobel Prizes to people they don't like. While members of the Swedish government are on some of the Nobel committees, they aren't government prizes and the Swedish government can't prevent the committees from giving a Nobel to anyone within their own rules.

* The non-fiction portion of ''The Science of Discworld III'' cites a [[Real Life]] radio evangelist who'd questioned why, if evolution is for real, Charles Darwin never won the Nobel Prize. The fact that Darwin died years before the Nobel Prize (which cannot be granted posthumously) was introduced had somehow escaped his notice.

* On [[The Looney Tunes Show]], Bugs Bunny has a Nobel Prize just for existing.

 

* Any time a Pulitzer Prize is awarded to a non-American, or called simply "the Pulitzer Prize", as if there were only one (and context doesn't make it clear which category is meant).

* When Beth Ditto of [[The Gossip]] topped the NME magazine cool list, she expressed her shock that no other great female artists like Yoko Ono or Patti Smith had ever topped the list. The whole list concept was actually [[Newer Than They Think|younger than]] either Ditto or the interviewer had realised.

 

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