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A subtrope of [[Non-Human Sidekick]], normally a [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]], that has become very popular in [[Web Comics]], the
Probably codified for its many imitators by ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' and their walking, talking DIVX platter, but the trope could well be [[Older Than They Think]] for examples that don't fit into the "Surrey Woman's Institute Knitting Circle" mold. For instance, KITT from ''[[Knight Rider]]'' was a talking car who was a very deadpan [[Non-Human Sidekick]] who inspired a number of other talking cars.
Unlike a lot of other [[Animate Inanimate Object
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Satou hallucinates that he has these in ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]''.
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* By Season 3 of [[Script Fic]] ''[[Calvin and Hobbes:
== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series has Spot, Dairine's combination [[Great Big Book of Everything]] and [[Spell Book]], in the form of a Mac laptop; he can sprout mechanical spider-like legs to walk around and mechanical eye-stalks for sight. Spot barely qualifies as he's very shy around everyone but Dairine, and communicates with Dairine via a telepathic link.
== [[Live
* As mentioned in the description, KITT from ''[[Knight Rider]]'' is an automotive version of this trope.
* It wasn't exactly a regular character, but the Talkie Toaster from ''[[Red Dwarf]]''
* ''[[The Late Late Show
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* The ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]: Old World Blues'' expansion has ten appliances in the player's apartment with simulated personalities [[For Science!|as part of a scientific experiment]]. The cast includes [[Terrified of Germs|a germophobic sink]], [[Casanova Wannabe|a smooth-talking]] agricultural research station obsessed with "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|seeding]]" everything it can, a [[Red Scare|virulently anti-Communist]] book processor that turns [[Orwellian Editor|potential seditious documents into blank sheets of paper]], and a [[Robotic Psychopath|psychopathic toaster]] that would [[Kill It with Fire|burn the world]], if only its heating coils were more powerful.
== [[Web
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has both Sheila, the artificially intelligent M808V Main Battle Tank, and Andy the talking bomb, a possible homage to ''[[Dark Star]]''.▼
== [[Web Comic|Webcomics]] ==▼
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', as mentioned above, turned the relatively obscure and short-lived DIVX media platform into an abusive, foul-mouthed sleazebag. To say nothing of the infamous [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|FruitFucker 2000]] juicing machine...
* Zeke the anthromorphised Xbox from ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]''.
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*** When Momo goes shopping for a chassis, one of the other [[A Is]] in the shop is installed in a ''toaster''. [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1999 He seems pretty happy about it.] The AI shop assistant also says that her first job was as a sentient forklift.
* David the sentient, surly and snobbish DVD player from ''[[Theater Hopper]]'' was, on observation of this trope, introduced just to lead up to [http://www.theaterhopper.com/2006/01/25/dvd-commentary/ one panel] so that he could act "as a mouthpiece to deconstruct some of the cliches inherent in comics" as the creator puts it before being summarily [[Look Both Ways|run over by a truck]] four comics after being introduced. The creator also phrased his take on the issue in a more self-deprecating manner:
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* A talking car, like KITT as mentioned above, but much more snarky and meanspirited Ultra Car from ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky]]''.
* Tor the Calculate from ''Funny Farm'' is a... [[Stealth Pun|I think you can guess]]. Interestingly he is the sidekick of the main villain, who is a talking computer (although [[Computer Equals Monitor|you see only a monitor]]) called PC who, in his first appearances, was a bit more like the other examples before gaining freedom and becoming a [[James Bond|Bond]] villain in a [[Doctor Doom]] green cloak.
▲* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has both Sheila, the artificially intelligent M808V Main Battle Tank, and Andy the talking bomb, a possible homage to ''[[Dark Star]]''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* A ''[[Schoolhouse Rock]]'' series from the early 1980s, now largely forgotten, was titled ''Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips''. [[Non-Indicative Name|Scooter was a human; Mr. Chips was his computer sidekick.]]
* Subverted in ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' where all of the talking furniture characters are actually humans under a magic spell.
* C.A.R.R. from ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]''.
* BMO from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' - an animate game console.
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