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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A Vonage commercial showed a couple discussing how their current phone company's fees are robbing them blind, while [[Blatant Burglar|black-clad and domino-masked thieves]] steal everything they own, kitchen sink included.
* An old [[McDonald's]] commercial featuring Ronald McDonald and the McDonaldland gang featured them going on vacation (and encountering a [[Hurricane of Puns]]; when they got home, Birdie exclaimed that they had "seen everything but the kitchen sink". Ronald said he'd "fix that", and pulled a lever that caused the kitchen in his house - the room they were in - to "sink" about five feet into the ground. "Now we've seen the kitchen sink," chuckled Grimace.
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* Averted in ''[[Once Upon a Marigold]]''. The cover says "Part comedy, part love story, part everything-but-the-kitchen-sink," and a kitchen sink never does make an appearence.
* In one of the [[Dragaera|Vlad Taltos]] novels, a barricade assembled by Easterners to seal off South Adrilankha incorporates all sorts of furnishings, including a kitchen washbasin. Actual sinks haven't been invented yet.
* One issue of [[Dragon (magazine)|''Dragon'' magazine]] had for its cover a picture of a dragon's hoard, which contained gold, jewels, and many, many less conventional objects. A kitchen sink was among them.▼
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* A rare but beloved [[Running Gag]] in ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'': When weapons are allowed, just once, occasionally... ''someone'' will come up from underneath the ring with a kitchen sink.
* In the ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' episode "Sticky Wicket", Hawkeye is repeatedly disturbed while hiding in a tent. When two orderlies enter carrying something, he loses his temper:
{{quote|'''Hawkeye:''' What's going on here? Just because I want some privacy there's everything in here but the kitchen sink! What's in there?
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* Not necessarily deliberate, but in ''Aftermath: Population Zero'', a stainless-steel kitchen sink is one of the last discernible remnants from a collapsed and vanished house.
== [[Music]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-yHo8ECEPc The Alpha 5 song]
{{quote|''[[Animal Mecha|Triceratops and T-Rex]] are on the brink''
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== Software ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/
* Some versions of [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ emacs] - a text editor at heart, that has gained a bewildering array of non-text-editing functions over the decades - use a ''picture of a kitchen sink'' as the program's icon.
* Some versions of the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] [[Emulation|emulator]] ZSNES include the Kitchen''Sync'', a VSync option specifically calibrated for monitors that refresh at 120 Hz.
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* Used as a sight gag in ''[[Hellzapoppin']]'', an anarchic precursor to Mel Brooks' [[Hurricane of Puns]] and the [[The Muppet Show|Muppets]]' "getting a [[Variety Show]] ready" format: After reciting the prop list, "...we've got everything here but the kitchen sink!". Cue sink
* The ''Eighth Voyage of Sinbad'' show at Universal Islands of Adventure has two characters fighting and pulling out various objects. Eventually, one of them pulls out a kitchen sink, causing them both to get a confused look.
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* The ice cream parlor at Disney World's Yacht and Beach Club resort, Beaches and Cream, serves a "Kitchen Sink" sundae that includes a little bit of everything there and is served in a kitchen sink-shaped dish.
* Speaking of ice cream, the Kitchen Sink Challenge (appearing on ''[[Man Versus Food]]'') is a food challenge offered by [https://www.foodchallenges.com/challenges/san-francisco-creamery-kitchen-sink-sundae-challenge-california/ the San Francisco Creamery]. It consists of 8 giants scoops (as in, almost an entire gallon) of ice cream (your choice of flavors) 3 bananas, almonds, cherries, & whipped cream, which is again served in a kitchen sink instead of a bowl.
* [[Elon Musk]] signified the totality of his Twitter purchase [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056 by bringing a sink into Twitter headquarters].
▲* One issue of Dragon magazine had for its cover a picture of a dragon's hoard, which contained gold, jewels, and many, many less conventional objects. A kitchen sink was among them.
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