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* There was a related exchange in an episode of the old animated [[Ghostbusters]] cartoon between [[The Chick]] and the [[Plucky Comic Relief]] on an episode with weird weather. "Besides, we're not meteorologists. We are scientists." "A meteorologist ''is'' a scientist."
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', amazingly Doctor Zoidberg, who has declared people dead when they have been sitting up and talking, and diagnosed robots with fin-rot, DOES have a doctorate. It is a doctorate in Art History. A reversal in that it's only Zoidberg himself who doesn't seem to realize that this ''doesn't'' qualify him to be a medical doctor.
** An episode from the [[Un CancelledUncancelled]] season reveals that Zoidberg '''is''' in fact That Kind Of Doctor... but his field of medical study is ''xeno''biology, meaning that while he's a brilliant surgeon when it comes to all sorts of alien races, he doesn't know squat about human beings. {{spoiler|It also reveals that Professor Farnsworth keeps him around in spite of this because they're [[True Companions]].}}
* Subverted in [[Archer]]:
{{quote|'''Cyril''' "But we'd need a doctor!"
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