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{{quote|"We've been working so much, I feel like we hardly know our kids. I'm starting to forget what 'DJ' stands for."}}
{{quote|"We've been working so much, I feel like we hardly know our kids. I'm starting to forget what 'DJ' stands for."}}
* Turtle on ''[[Entourage]]''. His first name (Sal) was not revealed until season five.
* Turtle on ''[[Entourage]]''. His first name (Sal) was not revealed until season five.
* Benjamin 'Hawkeye' Pierce, Walter '[[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Radar]]' O'Reilly and 'Trapper' John MacIntyre from ''[[MASH|M* A* S* H]]''. Averted with BJ - everyone assumes it's a nickname at first, but he apparently is really named BJ, after his parents Bea and Jay.
* Benjamin 'Hawkeye' Pierce, Walter '[[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Radar]]' O'Reilly and 'Trapper' John MacIntyre from ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''. Averted with BJ - everyone assumes it's a nickname at first, but he apparently is really named BJ, after his parents Bea and Jay.
** Maybe. Hawkeye refuses to accept that explanation and demands to know what it really stands for. Instead of standing by his answer, BJ enigmatically replies, "Anything you like."
** Maybe. Hawkeye refuses to accept that explanation and demands to know what it really stands for. Instead of standing by his answer, BJ enigmatically replies, "Anything you like."
* In the 1988 TV miniseries version of ''[[The Bourne Series (novel)|The Bourne Identity]]'', the bespectacled leader of the Swiss assassins is simply called "[[Scary Shiny Glasses|Gold Glasses]]."
* In the 1988 TV miniseries version of ''[[The Bourne Series (novel)|The Bourne Identity]]'', the bespectacled leader of the Swiss assassins is simply called "[[Scary Shiny Glasses|Gold Glasses]]."