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Much like [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Monkeys]], [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Penguins]] and [[Pandaing to the Audience|Pandas]], the duck-billed platypus has achieved a certain level of popularity.
The platypus is probably the [[Overly Narrow Superlative|most iconic aquatic Australian mammal]]; many advertisements for pools, swimming lessons and fishing gear will use one. It is also used on the Australian 20-cent piece.
Some believe that the platypus proves [[Dogma|God has a sense of humor]], or He's a total psycho, or He's [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|rockin' the ganj]], or that evolution is 100% real, because [[Blasphemous Boast|not even God]] could make that nonsense up. The reasons are myriad. This is an animal that, upon being sent to a British natural history museum to catalog, was believed to be a taxidermist's prank until a live specimen was sent to them. It looks like [[Mix-and-Match Critters|a beaver crossed with a mole with a duck's bill added for laughs]]. They belong to a group of mammals known as Monotremes, a group consisting of it and the echidna, which means they lay eggs. Additionally, they're an offshoot of mammals that evolved before teats/nipples evolved, so while they produce milk, they simply... [[Squick|sweat it out]] for their young to lap up. They also have ten sex chromosomes, where in most mammals there're simply two (X and Y). And their duck-bill? It's actually quite soft, and it acts as an electrical receptor. See, platypus eyes aren't too useful, especially underwater, so they use an electrolocation system in their bills to hunt shrimp and other aquatic invertebrates. Sharks have a similar sense, [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks|in case they weren't scary enough]]. Of course, a real platypus tail looks nothing like a beaver's tail, but that doesn't stop the majority of cartoon depictions from showing one anyway, often complete with thumping behavior.
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* 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.''
* [[Tom Lehrer]] would prefer to "marry a duck-billed platypus, then end up like old [[Oedipus Rex]]".
== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Dungeons
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* Patti the Platypus was one of the first nine [[Beanie Babies]].
** Oddly enough, it doesn't have a tail- one of the platypus' defining features.
* The Webkinz stuffed animal line has an animal known as a "Googles" which is basically a platypus with no tail and only two flippers. It has yet to retire, can easily be considered one of the cutest in their line, and comes in three different colors.
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**** Or [[Precision F-Strike|fucked]].
* Kato Platypus, a [[Mix-and-Match Critters|half-cat, half-platypus]] superhero from Wharf City's past on ''[[Sushi Pack]]''.
* In the episode of the animated ''[[Hercules (
** Well, this ''is'' [[Cloudcuckoolander|Icarus]]...
* A platypus briefly appeared among McLeach's captured animals in ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'', but never speaks.
* Patricia from ''[[Spliced]]''. No reason not to believe that she's actually a beaver/otter/duck/whatever, though.
* [[Secret Squirrel]]
* ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby
* An episode of [[Super Secret Secret Squirrel]], had the Platypus, an anti villain who illegally leaks the city's power plant to power his invention that would turn him into a normal animal. The heroes and the chief chase him down after accidentally getting their body parts mixed up by the device. Platypus eventually redeems himself after the heroes introduce him to a platypus girl, and he discovers that he was [[Beautiful All Along]].
* An episode of [[South Park]] featured Damien, the spawn of Satan, turning Kenny into a platypus. Stan's Uncle Jimbo shot Kenny after shouting that Kenny was going right to him.
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* An interesting fact: During [[World War II]], [[Winston Churchill]] decided he'd like some brought to the United Kingdom. this required special facilities being fitted out on a ship, and navigation halfway round the world in a war. nevertheless, this was attempted, and the ship made it all the way to the mid Atlantic, when it was discovered that the measures taken to protect the animals didn't completely mitigate the effect of anti-submarine depth charges, and they died a few days before arriving.
* Kinda sums it up with this [[Fun T-Shirt]] [http://www.snorgtees.com/ourpowerscombined-p-512.html?osCsid=dba357e2b2c9780a1938f72282f0657a\]
* Sanrio has tried at least three times to launch a platypus character for the [[Hello Kitty]] universe, but it's never taken off.
* [[Robin Williams]] was also no fan of them. In ''Live At The Met'', he speculated that the platypus came about when God got stoned.
* The trophy for the Oregon-Oregon State football rivalry game is the Platypus Trophy, because the platypus has characteristics of both schools' mascots, Oregon's duck and Oregon State's beaver.
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