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* Many episodes from the English dub of the various ''[[Digimon]]'' series.
* The [[FUNimation]] dub of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' does this a lot.
* As does its dub of ''[[Crayon Shin
* ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'' does this kind of rarely: "Violent Night", "The Hat's Meow"...
* ''[[Panty
== Live Action Television ==
* Many episodes of the Syfy series ''[[Eureka]]'', especially in the third season. ("Bad to the Drone," "Show Me the Mummy," "Best in Faux.")
* ''[[
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]''
* Several episodes of ''[[
* The Food Network cooking show ''[[Good Eats]]'' does this for most of its episodes: "Porterhouse Rules," "Citizen Cane," "The Egg Files," "Field of Greens," etc.
* An episode of ''[[Lost]]'' is called "Some Like it Hoth," a reference to both ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' and ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]].''
* Too many [[Psych]] episodes to list. [[wikipedia:List of Psych episodes|Observe...]]
* Similar to the ''[[Simpsons]]'' example, there's the ''[[Angel]]'' episode "To Shanshu In LA", in which it eventually turns out that the Shanshu prophecy refers to a vampire [[To Live and Die In
== Video Games ==
* The tasks and scrolls in ''[[My Sims]] Kingdom'' frequently have this kind of name when they're not being boringly prosaic. For example, when you're told where to find a scroll that helps you make gears, the task is called [[Gears of War|"Gears of Where?"]]; when you get the scroll, it's called [[Metal Gear Solid|"Solid Gears of Metal"]].
* Chapter 4 of ''[[
== Web Comic ==
* ''[[The Non
== Western Animation ==
* A few episodes of ''[[South Park]]''.
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' achieves many of these puns by incorporating Homer's [[Catch Phrase]], "D'oh!" ("D'oh-ing In The Wind," "The Greatest Story Ever D'Ohed.")
** In keeping with the writers having originally called it an "annoyed grunt," it used to be intimated thus - hence "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(annoyed grunt)cious," "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" and "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot."
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