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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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