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** Dr. Sweets, the cheery young psychologist is... well, sweet. But his first name, Lance, has less gentle connotations, and may be a reference to the fact that he was [[Dark and Troubled Past|abused and scarred as a young child.]]
* Used and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[Seinfeld]]'':
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** An in-universe example. Remember George's alias, Art Vandelay? Guess who shows up in the finale.
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** Plus, the Mars family lives in Neptune, and Veronica drives a Saturn. A character makes the connection in an early season 3 episode.
* Hilariously subverted in [[The Stinger]] for an episode of [[The Colbert Report]]:
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* ''[[Highlander the Series]]''' Duncan MacLeod, whose first name translates to "dark skinned warrior"
* In ''[[Friends]]'', the [[Running Gag]] of Phoebe using the alias "Regina Phalange" began in "The One in Vegas," when she pretended to be an agent interested in making money off of Joey and his [[It Makes Sense in Context|identical hand twin.]] "Philange" is the technical term for "finger."
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** Vice Principal [[Jerkass|Dickers]] from "The Breakfast Bunch". His [[No Indoor Voice|loud]] talking, aggressive one-liners and some of his actions (including trying to make Tori pop an arm pimple) show that he's certainly worthy of that name.
* [[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman TV Series]]: Invoked by Hippolyte, Queen of the [[Hidden Elf Village]] Paradise Island:
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* The 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series had number of these: Lord Marmaduke F'''fog'''g, Mrs. Max '''Black, widow'''. Pat Pending, the richest inventor on Earth.
* One episode of ''[[Austin and Ally]]'' features the vile, unscrupulous music manager, '''Demonic'''a Dixon.
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