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== Theater ==
* In ''[[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)|The Complete Works of William Shakespeare]]'' members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company play with this trope, referring to house technicians and multiple audience volunteers as "Bob" to keep things simple.
* [http://www.davegorman.com/projects_are_you_dave_gorman.html Are you Dave Gorman?]
== Video Games ==
* The Mr. Saturns of ''[[
* The Sega CD game ''[[Popful Mail]]'' has one of the reptillian Gaw creatures explains that Gaw have no personal names. True to [[Working Designs]]' [[Woolseyism|style]], he follows it up by saying "It's hell when you're being paged..."
* ''[[
* [[Super Mario|Bros. Mario, meet Yoshi, Yoshi, Yoshi, Yoshi, and, of course, Yoshi.]] Subverted because the ''species'' is "Yoshi" with only the green Yoshi of [[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]] fame having that as his name, though it's more likely a title. [[Super Mario RPG]] featured a purple Yoshi with studs named Boshi.
* The Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders that appear in the ''[[Exile]]''/''[[Avernum]]'' series (and in ''[[Nethergate]]'' too, probably) are all named Spider. ''Exile 3''/''Avernum 3'' makes a "riddle" from this—a guard spider won't let you see the chief spider unless you know him already, in which case you should know his name. Of course, you have a pretty good idea already, and even with ''Avernum 3'''s fixed dialogue options you could immediately guess correctly.
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