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* In ''[[Rocket Girls]]'', Yukari is offered a job that's "so simple even a monkey could do it." Yes, monkeys have gone into space.
* A variation occurs in an episode of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', when Chiyo, overwhelmed at the preparations for the Culture Fest, begs someone to turn back the clock before it's too late. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]] takes this as literal instruction.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', the last half of the episode{{context|reason=which episode?}} is set to a backdrop of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". {{spoiler|When Kaworu enters Heaven's Door to merge with Adam (and destroy humanity)}}, they sing a part with two of these metaphors:
{{quote|''Freude trinken alle Wesen
''An dem Brüsten der Natur
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* [[DeviantArt]] deviant Daniel-Remo-Art creates an odd interpretation of "disco is dead" with [https://www.deviantart.com/daniel-remo-art/art/Disco-Is-Dead-Iray-568673665 this Deviation] of an [[Our Zombies Are Different| undead]] version of [[Dazzler]]. (Warning, slightly NSFW.)
* Another deviant from [[Deviant ART]]; the ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]''-inspired comic [https://www.deviantart.com/serisabibi/art/Scuzzo-the-Clown-and-Lydia-895714707 seen here] shows [[Monster Clown| Scuzzo]] capturing Lydia and subjecting her to [[Tickle Torture]] in order to produce literal canned laughter. Not that this Trope [[Understatement|wasn't unusual]] in the source material, of course.
* Two from ''[[Isekai by Moonlight]]'':
** Throw pillows. Especially after somebody's made a horrible pun.
** At a picnic, Sailor Mercury eats like a bird {{spoiler|after she learns how to fly, swooping down from the sky and grabbing a sandwich}}.
== [[Film]] ==
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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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* From ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]''; Jessica is a [[Badass Pacifist]], but has no problem charging into battle against Poison Ivy's plant monsters, saying, [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner| "I eat plants for breakfast!"]] Which is 100% true, as she is a vegan.
* In ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'', the title character's parents are so dull, their picture is in the Netherworld dictionary, under "Boring". Literally.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hvyI3hwdrQ The "Yakety Yak" video] from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''; [[The Coasters]]' famous song done with backup singers that are actual yaks.
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