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** REGULAR Cucumbers aren't technically vegetables, even.
* Combine that with [[Artistic License History]]: In [[Rankin/Bass Productions]]' ''The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town'', one music segment has the [[Everything's Better with Chickens|chickens]] tell a story [[Non Sequitur Scene|in a song]] that makes fun of the riddle of "chicken or the egg": They explain that "the chicken came first" by retelling [[The Bible]] story of [[The Great Flood|Noah's Ark]], and comparing the riddle to who came first: "[[Mother Goose|the pussycat or the fiddle]]", "the [[wikipedia:Fountain of Youth|Fountain]] or [[wikipedia:Juan Ponce de León|Ponce de León]]", and "[[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|the cow or]] [[wikipedia:Catherine O'Leary|Mrs. O'Leary]]".
* 1973/74 ''[[Superfriends]]'' episode "The Watermen''". When the title aliens extract silicon from sea water, it causes the sea water to immediately turn into [[wikipedia:Red tide|red tide]]. Just one problem: red tide is caused by microorganisms, not a lack of silicon. This is Lampshaded when Professor Matey notes that it should be impossible.
* Among the many errors regarding animal physiology and behavior, one the more minor in ''[[Hero: 108]]'' is the Deer King and his men, who neigh, grunt, and whinny like horses even though deer in real life make noises more like they have kazoos stuck in their throats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[Xa Ph Vc Ldz 4 M]]&feature=fvwrel or barking [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EWzg4eiJnM&feature=related barking].
* The ''[[Teen Titans]]'' episode "Crash" there are three:
** Logically speaking, a being with the ability to change into animals should not be able to assume the form of an amoeba, which is not a member of the Animal Kingdom, and is actually an even less complex organism than plants are. Beast Boy cannot change into plants, so how can he change into something with even ''simpler'' biological structure?