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== Web Comics ==
* The ''[[Family Guy]]'' example above is parodied (and explicitly referred to) in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/06/27/episode-713-give-me-a-sign this] ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Similarly, ''[[San: Three Kingdoms Comic]]'' uses this gag for [http://san.pengguo.com/index.php?mode=view=8 Guan Yu]
* ''[[Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth]]'', set in the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' universe, features a Horde guild called "Desk Chair Lamp", which is said by the orcs to "sound very intimidating when spoken in Common".
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* In ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', when the Flying Dutchman comes for Mr. Krabs' soul in the hospital, Mr. Krabs insists that he is "Harold Flower", after the flower on the end table.
* When Jane becomes angry, and threatens to run away to spite her friends in ''[[Jane and the Dragon]]'', she claims that she has been recruited by one King Barrowclaw. Naturally, she was inspired when, under pressure to give the supposed king's name, she looked around and spotted first a wheelbarrow, and then Dragon's foot.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' in which he suddenly needed to make up an assumed name when checking into a hotel. In desperation, he picks "Nick Soapdish" as his alias when he sees a soap dish.
* In one episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' Plucky Duck is about to get thrown out of a fancy Hollywood party, and when he is accused of being a duck by the guards, he says "I'm not a duck, I'm a...bush quail!", [[Don't Explain the Joke|looking at a nearby newspaper from the early 90s.]]
* On ''[[Ugly Americans]]'' a demon who is posing as a demon baby's father is asked the name of the baby and he responds, "Choking Victim?" This is revealed to be a title on a poster directly in his line-of-sight. {{spoiler|It turns out he actually is the baby's father.}}
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