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'''Darth Vader:''' How else can so many worlds be totally covered with only one terrain type without regard to latitudinal variations?|''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/87.html #87]}}

* Parodied in [[Ray Bradbury]]'s short story "The Earth Men" (incorporated into ''[[The Martian Chronicles]]''). Some Earth-astronauts go to Mars, and the local Martians think they're nutters just claiming to be aliens, so the astronauts find themselves locked up in the loony bin. While there, several other loonies claim to be from Earth, and each say that Earth is a "massive jungle planet," a world covered with just oceans, or just desert, etc.

* Referenced in ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|A Civil Campaign]]'' :

"Economically unlikely for an entire planetary surface. Though uniforms, we do have." }}

* In C.S. Friedman's ''[[Madness Season]]'', the protagonist at one point looks up archive footage of the Tyr's home planet. He's somewhat unnerved to find endless unbroken kilometers of lush blue plant growth from pole to pole, broken only by oceans teeming with life. {{spoiler|It turns out he's only viewing it during a very narrow portion of its solar orbit; nine years out of ten, the planet is either a frozen wasteland as its orbit carries it out to the far reaches of the solar system, or a boiling hellhole as it comes too near the sun. It looks as nice as it does during spring because all the planet's life has to put out as much growth as it can during the brief live periods.}}

* In [[Red vs. Blue]] the Halo-map Sidewinder is "a planet made entirely out of ice. It was really fucking cold."

* Satirized in College Humor's ''Troopers'': "[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6464165/troopers-swamp-planet The Swamp Planet]".

* Part of #3 of ''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_17392_6-sci-fi-movie-conventions-that-need-to-die_p2.html 6 Sci-Fi Movie Conventions (That Need to Die)].