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** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by a joke in ''[[Airplane!|Airplane II]]'', where William Shatner's character is annoyed by a big fancy machine looking like something out of ''Star Trek'' that doesn't actually ''do'' anything.

*** It didn't just ''look'' like something out of ''Star Trek'', it ''was'' something out of it - it's the same blinking tube device from ''Star Trek II''.

* Subverted with the Shelves of Honor on ''[[The Colbert Report]]''. The shelves full of apparently random junk that line one wall of the set might be expected to be Cow Tools, but just about everything on there has some significance. See [http://www.wikiality.com/Shelves_of_Honor Wikiality's detailed analysis.]

* Subverted with the Shelves of Honor on ''[[The Colbert Report]]''. The shelves full of apparently random junk that line one wall of the set might be expected to be Cow Tools, but just about everything on there has some significance. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20090723000255/http://www.wikiality.com/Shelves_of_Honor Wikiality's detailed analysis.]

* Sam's lab in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' includes some things that are supposedly alien technology she's analyzing. Some of it has an obvious purpose, some of it is from previous episodes, but most of it is completely random.

** Turned around in one episode where an alien, who's lost his memory, is working on a TV show and one of his ''actual'' alien devices is being used as a Cow Tools prop in the show.

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** Which would have come in handy in a previous storyline.

** Not [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbXpQmEtiio exclusively] Cow Tools, mind.

* In the webcomic [[Oglaf]], the Mistress' torture implements [http://www.oglaf.com/capital1.html here] and [http://www.oglaf.com/capital2.html here.] (Warning: NSFW)

* In the webcomic [[Oglaf]], the Mistress' torture implements [https://web.archive.org/web/20130216082556/http://www.oglaf.com/capital1.html here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130216082849/http://www.oglaf.com/capital2.html here.] (Warning: NSFW)

* ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'''s strip [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/01/08/0023-coon-tools/ Coon Tools] is a raccoon-related variant of the original cartoon.

* Lord only knows what half the stuff in [http://commedia2x00.wordpress.com Dottore's lab] do; he's got a jukebox that plays Wagner to help him think, but that's about it. The storage-boxes in the background when Columbina goes to the storage basement are full out shout-outs to famous technobabble, including turbo-encabulators, blinkenlights, and vgrep scanners.