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* The memorable "Butterball hotline" scene from the episode "The Indians in the Lobby" of ''[[The West Wing]]''. Bartlet stumbles through the myriad demands of hiding that you're the President while on the phone, and gives his name as "Joe... Betherson-ton. That's one T, and... with an H in there." In a variant, he's then gives an incredibly long street name for his fake home address to give Charlie time to look up the correct ZIP code.

** He also makes up the name of a fictional car salesman -- "Phil Baharnd".

* Prince Bappalappashamalamadingdong in ''The Suite of Zack and Cody.'

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Subverted in one of the Volo novels (''[[Forgotten Realms]]''), in which Volo and his companions are passing themselves off as drow. One makes up an [[Unpronounceable Alias]] for himself by stringing a lot of X and Z sounds together, in accordance with cliches about drow names, yet their interrogator isn't fooled for an instant, because the resulting tongue-twister is a ''woman's'' name in drow culture.

* In a somewhat hilarious story with [[Painting the Fourth Wall|absolutely NO fourth wall whatsoever]], the narrator introduces himself to the protagonist (yes, you read that right) as Sir Francis Daxiana Reginald Popniner Killamen Snap the 3rd. Call him Max.

* ''[[South Park]]'': Cartman gives ''two'' of these when trying to get in to the girls' big party in the episode "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset". Both turn out to match real people, and he is rejected twice.

* ''[[The Flintstones]]'': Fred did this in a [[Fable Remake]] of ''Cinderella''.

** ...who just so happens to be buried in the Bikini Bottom Cemetery...[[Brick Joke|with a large stone "#1" as his headstone.]]

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': In the episode "The Last Temptation of Homer", Homer feebly suggests the alias "Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo". Unimpressed, Moe says it's the stupidest name he's ever heard. As a patron gets up and exits the bar, weeping, Barney calls after him "Joey Joe Joe...!"

* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' has done this; in one episode, Pinky messes up Brain's introduction, and for the rest of the episode Brain is referred to as "Lord Narfumwhatbrainlumpfordsomethingshire". Of course, no one has any trouble remembering or pronouncing it.

** In at least two episodes, Pinky is Dr. [[I Love Lucy|Jiggle-it-a-little-it'll-open]].

* In ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' episode "The Dress", Gumball is forced to wear his mom's wedding dress because [[Man Child|his father]] shrunk all his clothes in the wash. When he's inevitably spotted by the other kids, they don't recognize him ([[Attractive Bent Gender|in fact, most are quite smitten with him]]), and he hastily tries to invent an alias [[Line-of-Sight Name|from all the things around him]], coincidentally landing on "Gumball" more than once, but no one seems to notice - and, of course, everyone remembers his ridiculous pseudonym perfectly.

* [[Disney/The Three Cabelleros|Panchito Pistoles]] occasionally introduces himself as either Panchito Romero Miguel Junipero Francisco Quintero Gonzales III or El Gayo Jose Francesco Sandro de Lima y Loma Pancho Allegre.

 

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