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{{trope}}{{Cleanup|Entirely too many examples on this page are simply "He's named Bob", with nothing else about the trope applying. These need to be removed. If there's no comedy -- contextual, inherent, or other -- in the example, it's not an example.}}
[[File:Bobwastheretoo.png|link=Casey and Andy|frame|Bob was there, too.]]
{{quote|"''You... are my number one... guy!''"
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== Comic Books ==
* Subverted in the [[Chick Tracts]] in that Bob is a preacher who "retells" the [[The Bible|Bible stories]] [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|with a bit of his own embellishment]]<ref>which is more like twisted versions of these stories</ref> and preaches damnation versus salvation '''ONLY''' through Jesus Christ in some tracts.
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] member [[Fun Personified|Bobby Drake]] aka Iceman.{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
== Film ==
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Bob!]]!''
* [[The Bob Newhart Show|"Hi, Bob!"]]<ref>[[Drinking Game|(drinks)]]</ref>
* [[SCTV|Bob and Doug McKenzie]]
* There were not one, but two characters named Bob in ''[[Blackadder]]'' (both of whom were [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Females in disguise]]).
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== Music ==
* [[The Arrogant Worms]]: [http://www.lyricsdownload.com/arrogant-worms-bonus-dog-named-bob-lyrics.html
** Don't forget [[Jesus]]' Brother Bob:
{{quote|''Jesus' brother Bob, Jesus' brother Bob''
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* At one time, ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' befriended three mice who were squatting in his house. Two of them were named after their forebears, [[Odd Name Out|but the third]], Bob, was named for "the sound his head makes when he runs into the wall".
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==▼
▲== Stand Up Comedy ==
* [[Bob Newhart]] - The very embodiment of the everyman trying to deal with all the non-Bobs out there in the world.
* There's an old joke: What do you call a guy with no arms or legs in the water? Bob. It's a bit tasteless but still a valid example.
* In a stand-up routine back in the 60's, [[Bill Cosby]] insisted that all gas station attendants have their name, "Bob", on their uniform name-tag.
* There's a clip from a [[Howie Mandel]] concert in which he's interacting with a man in the audience. Mandel asks the man his name and is told "Bob". Mandel replies, "Bob? But ''you'' spell it backwards!" He then queries Bob about his job and finds out he works for the Federal Aviation Administration; Mandel then asks if it's really safer to sit in the back of the plane. Bob replies clearly, "Yes, because the mountains are in front!" The audience roars, and Mandel, clearly delighted, says "You see, Bob? Everyone loves a good FAA joke!"
* In a game show parody on one of Cheech and Chong's albums, a guy named Bob has to guess his own name.▼
== Theater ==
* The Reduced Shakespeare Company's performance of ''The Complete Works of [[William Shakespeare]] (Abridged)'' involves one of the actors calling the lighting manager 'Bob' because '2/3rds of lighting managers are named Bob' and calling every one of the audience members called up to participate 'Bob'.
== Video Games ==
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* Bob, the [[Stout Strength|fat]] fighter from ''[[Tekken]] 6''. Also BOB, the [[Fan Nickname]] for series mainstay Hwoarang.
* [[The Secret of Monkey Island|Bob the Ghost]].
** But [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"|you can't call me Bob]], I'm ''[[Large Ham|Murray]]''!
** Also, in ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 1'', if the player has Guybrush place a Porcelain Power Pirate Action Figurine on the altar of Flotsam Jungle:
{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' ''[in his pretend voice]'' Foolish Power Pirate! Your porcelain parts will be sacrificed to, um, Bob, the Lord of the Seas! ''[switches to a pretend high voice]'' Arrrr! Me kidneys! ''[takes the action figure back from the altar]''}}
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Bob the Builder]]''
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Sideshow Bob]], despite - or perhaps because of - [[Villain Decay]]:
{{quote|'''Sideshow Bob''': ''Hello, Bart...''
'''Bart''': Oh, it's you, Bob. How' ya doin'?
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* In Austria, you can even get internet and mobile phone from [http://www.bob.at Bob]. Who'd have expected that in Austria.
* If you fancy visiting the top of Mt. Jungfrau in Switzerland, you will need to use the trains of BOB - the Berner Oberland Bahn.
▲* In a game show parody on one of Cheech and Chong's albums, a guy named Bob has to guess his own name.
* The name Bob is also used in the Bob campaign in the Netherlands and Belgium, to raise awareness against drunk driving. (people there would thereafter often call the designated driver The Bob)
* Everything is not better with [[wikipedia:Hurricane Bob|Hurricane Bob]]. The name makes it [[Narm|hard to read the article with a straight face:]]
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