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** In the ''Years of Yarncraft'' game, Torg was once [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080811 handed his ass by the Forest Yetis of Black Rook Caverns]. First literally, and then figuratively too in all likehood.
** Torg negotiates with Eugene with the help of Mr. Franklin in his wallet. [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/050429]
** [https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=74#2024-03-19 Sam and Bun-Bun]:
{{quote|'''Sam''': Dude! It's like three in the afternoon! Can't a vamp get some sleep?
'''Bun-Bun''': You can sleep when you're dead!
'''Sam''': That's what I'm trying to do!}}
* A page of the webcomic ''Real Life Fiction'', aptly titled "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110801005744/http://rlf.smackjeeves.com/comics/772566/too-literal/ Too Literal]", has a cold medecine that "may cause drow-siness". {{spoiler|For the non-''D&D'' gamers, [[Don't Explain the Joke|"drow" being another name for the dark elves]].}}
* Done occasionally in ''[[Sinfest]]'' by playing off sexual euphemisms, such as [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209190205/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3247 "wax my missile"] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209174234/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3646 "sowing wild oats."]
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'''Archer''': He literally might be, yes. }}
* [[Looney Tunes]]:
** Marvin the Martian's
** In one cartoon, Yosemite Sam builds his house on top of Bugs' burrow, and then kicks Bugs out; furiously, Bugs says he'll take Sam to "the highest court in the country" to get his home back. Next scene, he start to regret this, as the highest court is on a mountain and getting there requires a long trek uphill.
** In another "Knighty Knight Bugs", the Black Knight (ie, Yosemite Sam) has a dragon with a bad cold (it caught cold for letting its fire get low) and constantly sneezes; near the end, Bugs traps them inside a tower full of explosives. As it starts to sneeze again, Sam panics and yells, "No, no! Don't sneeze, ya stupid dragon! You'll blow us to the moon!" But the dragon sneezes anyway, the last scene showing the tower flying to the moon like a rocket.
* In ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', Mr. Waterman is trying to find the rest of his Santa costume:
{{quote|'''Mr. Waterman:''' Where's my [[The Beard|beard]]?
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