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[[File:test65 9799.jpg|frame|link=http://moonsticks.org/38-a-sailor-soldiers-pride/|[[Sailor Moon|Sailor Uranus]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|is not amused.]]]]<!-- This image is used by explicit permission of the author - see the file page for details. -->

 

This refers to the tendency for characters to crack<ref name="crack">[[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|huh huh, you said "crack"]]</ref> jokes about the planet Uranus and its unfortunate name. Attempts to rectify<ref name="rectify">[[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|huh huh, you said "rectify"]]</ref> this usually try to vary the pronunciation ([[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|It Is Pronounced YOO-rih-nus]]). They do not work: both "your anus" and "urine us" have innuendos.<ref name="innuendos">[[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|huh huh, in-YOUR-endos]]</ref> Although there might be a case for OUR-ran-os, which may be closer to the original Greek.<ref name="greek">[[Ancient Grome|Uranus is the Romanization, as are all of the planets.]] And also [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|huh huh, you said "Greek".]]</ref>

 

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== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Justice League of America|JLA: One Million]]'' features Starman from the 853rd century in the present day, and he proclaims himself as the protector of Uranus. Flash chuckles, while Green Lantern chimes in saying "Uranus" stopped being a funny word after the fourth grade.

* [[Legion of Super-Heroes|Saturn Girl]] [http://comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=289833&GSub=25913 doesn't get it.]

* In an issue of ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', a frustrated Star Boy tells his two fighting companions, "You're both acting like Uranuses."

 

 

== Film ==

* The ending for the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie. "That looks like Uranus!"

{{quote|'''Tyler:''' Where is he from, Uranus? [[Don't Explain the Joke|Get it? Your anus?]]}}

{{quote|'''Ashley Albright:''' Dana, how's my 'scope?

'''Dana:''' Your moon is in Uranus.

* The novel series ''[[The Day My Bum Went Psycho]]'' contains lots of [[Toilet Humour]]. Try and guess which planet is a central focus.

** The second book is called ''Zombie Bums From Uranus'', and a running gag involves the planet's pronounciation.

* In the children's Edutainment book ''The Gobsmacking Galaxy'', a [[Rule of Three]] gag is made of this: after Johann Elert Bode succeeds in naming Uranus, he pops up and attempts to christen Neptune "Mibottom" and Pluto "Hizbum".

* [[Daniel Pinkwater]]'s ''Young Adult Novel'' includes a Dadaist play titled "Chickens from Uranus."

* In ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' episode where they have to go through books to stop Tom Sawyer from changing them all, they didn't want him to get into the book of physics to change the law of physics. Wanda told them to stop him before he changes Uranus. Also a [[Running Gag]] in another episode: "I'm going to Uranus! I just got word that it is, in fact, a planet!"

* A [[Once Per Episode]] [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Stickin' Around]]''.

{{quote|'''Grim''': I want to know what happened to all these other reapers! Venus, Mercury, Uranus...

'''Morg''' (snickering uncontrollably): He said Uranus! }}

 

== Other ==

* In chemistry, any salt of Uranium in which the Uranium has a positive charge of four (for instance, UCl4) is called "Uranous (followed by the anion's name) so the above example would be Uranous chloride.

** And some of the Uranium Oxide anions are known as "uranate." So you can get compounds like Sodium Uranate, Curium Uranate, etc.

** Which is of course [[Bring My Brown Pants|exactly the opposite of what you'd do]] if you came across [[Ruthless Modern Pirates|a Somalian pirate ship]].

* Referenced in [http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/129153441861732270.png this]{{Dead link}} graph from Graph Jam.

* Among the general public in the United States, it was always pronounced "your-anus" until 1986, when NASA's Voyager 2 interplanetary probe encountered Uranus. At that point, with the planet being mentioned so often in the news, the newscasters on TV all began pronouncing it as "ur-in-nes".

** This is also preferred among astronomers, as Dr. Pamela Gay, an astronomer at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, noted on her podcast, to avoid "being made fun of by any small schoolchildren ... when in doubt, don't emphasize anything and just say ūr′&middot;ə&middot;nəs. And then run, quickly."

* [[Lauren Faust]] has a toy-line called ''[[Milky Way and The Galaxy Girls]]'' featuring dolls named after planets and other celestial objects. From Uranus's profile on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011202929/http://milkywayandthegalaxygirls.com/the-girlaxy official website] comes this gem.

{{quote|"Uranus is very particular about the way you pronounce her name. She would like you to know that the proper, scientific pronunciation of her name is: YOOR-en-us. No other pronunciation is acceptable."}}

* A pizza restaurant had the slogan [http://wins.failblog.org/2012/01/05/epic-win-photos-guarantee-win/ "You Bet Uranus. It's good."]