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* In ''[[Westworld]]'', the name ''Dolores'' refers to her status as a 'doll' or plaything for her human creators. Her partner, ''Teddy'', is likely a reference to 'teddy bears', the soft and cuddly toys for kids. (Maeve's daughter is seen playing with dolls).
** The name of the company behind Westworld, ''Delos'', is taken from the Greek for 'visible, manifest',<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%E1%BF%86%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek δῆλος in Ancient Greek] ''wiktionary.org''</ref> which is where the word 'psychedelic'<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psychedelic psychedelic] ''wiktionary.org''</ref> (mind-manifesting) comes from. A slightly more obscure reference would be to the Greek island of Delos<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Delos Delos in Greece] ''wikipedia.org''</ref> which alludes to the fact that Westworld is an isolated location, cut off from the world. Combine these two concepts together and you get ''an isolated location where artificially intelligent minds are made manifest''.
* When asked by the producers of ''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]'' to name his heretofore-unnamed cartoon characters, [[Charles Addams]] included several meaningful names, such as Fester and Morticia. But the most prominent such name (and ironically the least noticeable as such) was that of daughter Wednesday -- one of Addams' friends suggested her name, inspired by the third line of the nursery rhyme [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Monday%27s_Child "Monday's Child"]: "Wednesday's child is full of woe"; that does indeed seem to describe Wednesday Addams. In the pilot of the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Wednesday]]'', Morticia claims that is why she named her, citing the rhyme as her favorite, making it a [[Prophetic Name]] as well.
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