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** In one episode, Bart applies for a credit card under the false name "Santa's Little Helper" (the family dog). He has horrible handwriting, though, and the card comes back issued to Santos L. Halper.
* Also parodied on ''[[Family Guy]]'', when Peter Griffin sees a pea, a tear, [[Rule of Funny|and a gryphon]], and gives the name "Peter Griffin" as an "alias".
** Played with in ''Brian Does Hollywood"'' when Brian tries to impress the family by saying he was invited to a movie premiere. After seeing a magazine cover with Val Kilmer, he decides to keep looking, [[Take That|making his opinion of Val Kilmer clear]]. The next cover has Kevin Costner. [[On Second Thought|He settles for the Val Kilmer lie]].
* Variation in ''[[Gargoyles]]'': Aside from Goliath, most of the titular gargoyles did not use names before their move to New York. On learning that humans insist on them, the others pick names from their surroundings, becoming Hudson, Brooklyn, Broadway, Lexington and Bronx.
{{quote|'''Hudson''': You humans have to have a name for everything. Does the sky need a name? The river?
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* Spot Helperman from ''[[Teacher's Pet (TV series)|Teachers Pet]]'' actually got his alias, "Scott Leadready II" while posing as a human student from looking at a #2 pencil manufactured by the Leadready writing supplies company.
* An episode of ''[[Regular Show]]'' has Rigby use this method to come up with his new name;<ref>Having been convinced to change it to two random words after seeing a documentary about a rock band</ref> the first things he sees are a trash can and a painting of a boat, so he goes with Trash Boat.
 
 
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