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{{quote|''We consider every day a plus<br />
To spend it with a platypus<br />
We're always so ecstatic<br />
'Cause he's semi aquatic.''|'''[[One of Us|Everything's Better With Perry]]''', ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension]]''}}
 
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* According to the [[Star Trek]] [[Expanded Universe]], [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Q]] created platypi as a sort of joke while rebuilding the Earth's ecosystem (which the other Qs forced him to fix after he [[Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs|wiped out the dinosaurs]].)
* Ogden Nash wrote a short poem called "The Platypus":
{{quote| I like the duck-billed platypus<br />
Because it is anomalous.<br />
I like the way it raises its family,<br />
Partly birdly, partly mammally.<br />
I like its independent attitude.<br />
Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude. }}
 
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* [[Green Day]] doesn't seem to share this opinion, judging by the band's song "Platypus (I Hate You)".
* Rolf Harris's dying stockman in "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" sings:
{{quote| Mind me platypus duck, Bill<br />
Mind me platypus duck<br />
Don't let it go running amuck, Bill<br />
Just mind me platypus duck. }}
* Commonly used theme by the band Flobots, in such songs as ''Handlebars'', ''The Moon'', ''No W''... Hell, one of their albums is even called ''Flobots Present: Platypus.''
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* [[Infocom]]'s ''Wishbringer'' had platypus royalty (they're also given a cameo in ''[[Zork|Beyond Zork]]'').
* Poyu-Poyu, Nana's pet in [[Vanguard Bandits]], is a small, pink platypus.
{{quote| '''Andrews:''' Ummm... Bastion? One question. What the hell is that thing on the table?}}
* Debate is up whether the [[Pokémon]] Psyduck is one.
* The [[Brain In a Jar]] in ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max: The Penal Zone]]'' claims to have looked a lot like a platypus when he had a body.