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Somewhat [[Truth in Television]], as the real-world examples show.
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== Advertising ==
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{{quote| '''Weda''': "Ame? That's a strange name. Almost like you took it from this rain!"}}
* Odd variation/subversion: in ''[[Here Is Greenwood]]'', a few of the main characters are wandering around town when a young woman, clearly on the run from someone, knocks into them. When she's asked her name, she notices the giant poster behind them advertising the album of a singer named Mieko Nitta, so she naturally gives the name "Mieko." The guys help her escape the various people chasing her while trying to guess what her story is, only to finally discover the unlikely truth: {{spoiler|she ''is'' Mieko Nitta. She ran away from her manager and handlers to try and have a day to herself for once.}}
* Non-comedic variation in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. The [[Mad Scientist]] [[Artificial Human|that made]] {{spoiler|Fate Testarossa}} gave her the name of the very Project she used to create her. She did this because she [[What Measure Is a Non
** The four Numbers Cyborgs who {{spoiler|joined the Nakajima family}} named [[Sibling Team|their unit]] "[[N 2 R]]" after the part of the rehabilitation center they stayed in (N block, Room 2)
* In ''[[Letter Bee]]'', Lag gives Niche her name because he found her in an alcove of a train station.
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* A non-name example: ''[[Waynes World]] 2'' has Wayne come up with the entire plot of the movie (holding a big festival) looking at posters and other stuff in the record studio where he's at (including a gag with an Indian fashioning a canoe out of a log).
** As well as Rip Taylor inexplicably running around the studio throwing confetti around. Well, the confetti part isn't weird, just the fact that Rip Taylor is even there.
* In ''[[Anchorman:
{{quote| '''Brick Tamland:''' I love carpet. I love desk.<br />
'''Ron Burgundy:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Brick, are you just looking at things in the office and saying that you love them?]]<br />
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** In another ''SNL'' sketch which takes place backstage, Andy Samberg tells a story to guest host Kevin Spacey about why he was late, which turns out is a Line Of Sight Story echoing Spacey's ''The Usual Suspects''.
* The students of ''[[Head of the Class]]'' named their [[Invented Individual|Earnest]] "Randy McNally" after a Rand McNally map in the classroom.
* When Vala from ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' finds herself in a police station after suffering [[Laser
** Lieutenant Tyler, an alien impersonating an SGC member, took his name off a label on the team's gear.
** In [[Stargate Atlantis|Atlantis]], part of the wraith Michael's phony background was taken from a calendar in Dr. Beckett's lab.
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* ''[[X Files]]'' episode "Unsusal Suspects" - Suzanne Modeski, being on the run and desperate for information regarding the frame-job her former bosses put on her, spun a [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] to get Byers involved. He asked her for a name, and she called herself "Holly," after the packet of sugar on the table. [[Word of God]] said Byers later paid tribute to that by creating a new identity for her as "Holly Fitzgerald," a combination of the sugar name and his middle name.
* In the ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' episode "She's a Man, Baby, a Man!", [[Gender Bender|Prue is unexpectedly changed into a man]] as part of a spell to catch a succubus on the loose. She uses the name "Manny Hanks" since she was turned into a man and in order to adequately play a man, should emulate a man that she admires, namely [[Tom Hanks]].
* ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', "The Curse of Clyde Langer": Clyde is under a curse that makes people hate him when they see his name or hear it spoken. When he ends up sleeping on the street and is found by a homeless girl, he sees a box from Enrico's Pizza and tells her his name is "Enrico Box". She knows he's lying, but doesn't press him for a real name. {{spoiler|Later, when trying to find her again, he sees ''her'' name on a poster and realizes that she was also using a [[Line
* In the ''[[Unforgettable (TV)|Unforgettable]]'' episode "Lost Things", a suspect trying to throw the detectives off invents a story about the victim using a dating service. He gets the idea of a dating service from the screen of a nearby computer, the names of guys she met through it from wanted posters, and the name of the service from a different poster.
* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'': Miley is doing a radio interview from her kitchen while eating spaghetti and claims to be speaking from a cafe in Italy. When she is asked where she is, her father passes her the pasta box. She reads the first words she sees and claims to be in the small village of "Sodium Free". She immediately ammends this to "Sodium Freme" (said in an Italian accent).
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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] ''[[
* Similarly, ''[[San Three Kingdoms Comic]]'' uses this gag for [http://san.pengguo.com/index.php?mode=view=8 Guan Yu]
* ''[[Flintlockes 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".
* [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980104 Corey] in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.
* One word: [http://thenoobcomic.com/daily/strip003.html Ohforf'sake]
* The ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' prequel graphic novel ''On the Origin of PCs'' reveals that the titular adventuring party itself has a [[Line
{{quote| '''Roy:''' You might as well call us the Stray Rock Guild, because there's a stray rock over there, or the [[Title Drop|Order Of The Stick]], because there's a stick on the ground!}}
** The other prequel, ''Start of Darkness'' also has one. The main villain, Xykon, can't be bothered to remember his minions' names (and blasts people when they have names too long to remember), so when the [[Anti
*** For further irony, {{spoiler|Redcloak later has his right eye cut out by O-Chul. Fellow minion Tsukiko is instructed to use this by calling him "Wrong-Eye" when he gets ethical on her.}}
* Tried in the ''[[San Three Kingdoms Comic]]'' by Guan Yu in [http://san.pengguo.com/?id=8 this strip], since he is a fugitive and does not want to use his real name, and then subverted in that it ''is'' his real name.
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** Then subverted by Demona, who names the gargoyle clones after Californian surroundings - Hollywood, Malibu, Burbank, and Brentwood - specifically to point out how stupid she thought this method of naming was.
* Subverted in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]''. While trying to think up a nickname for an aloof new kid who never speaks, Billy sees likely names on all number of things around him, but doesn't choose any of them, and instead goes with "Pif".
* Parodied in ''[[The
* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' the Constructicons picked their own names this way. Mixmaster from a decal that was left on him (or just "Mix" for short) and Scrapper from a pile with a sign that said "Scrap".
* Used in an episode of ''[[Rugrats]]''. In order to con Didi into buying her two toys instead of just one, Angelica claims to have a sister. Seeing a boy playing with a ball across the store, she names her invented sibling "Ballina."
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