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|'''Colin Mochrie''', ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]''}}
This refers to the tendency for characters to crack
▲This refers to the tendency for characters to crack[[hottip:*:[[Heh Heh You Said X|huh huh, you said "crack"]] jokes about the planet Uranus and its unfortunate name. Attempts to rectify[[hottip:*:[[Heh Heh You Said X|huh huh, you said "rectify"]] 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[[hottip:*:[[Heh Heh You Said X|huh huh, in-YOUR-endos]]. Although there might be a case for OUR-ran-os, which may be closer to the original Greek.[[hottip:*:[[Ancient Grome|Uranus is the Romanization, as are all of the planets.]] And also [[Heh Heh You Said X|huh huh, you said "Greek".]]
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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."
* In one ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' article, no longer finding Uranus jokes funny is listed as a mark of maturity.
== Fan Fiction ==▼
* The [[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]/SailorMoon crossover [[Fuku Fic|fic]] ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/273677/1/bSailor_b_bHellblazer_b Sailor Hellblazer]'' has a 'deleted scene' where John Constantine calls Sailor Uranus 'Sailor Arsehole' in an argument that might have started over [[Serious Business|football]].▼
▲* The ''[[
== Film ==
* The ending for the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie. "That looks like Uranus!"
* In ''[[
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** Which also goes with the [[Epileptic Trees|theory]] that ''ET'' is a movie about overcoming one's [[Sigmund Freud|anal phase]].
* ''[[Just My Luck]]'':
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'''Dana:''' Your moon is in Uranus.
'''Ashley Albright:''' Doesn't sound pretty. }}
* ''[[Lethal Weapon 3]]'':
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'''Martin Riggs:''' I guess all they saw was Uranus, huh?
'''Leo Getz:''' Oh, that's great, Riggs. Ha ha. That's great. }}
* ''[[Religulous]]'' does this in a deleted scene available on the DVD:
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* ''Take'':
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'''Jim:''' Oh, ha ha. [[Never Heard That One Before|Who didn't see that one coming a kilometer away?]] }}
* In ''[[
* When the oil drillers from ''[[
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* Invoked in ''[[Bill and Ted|Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey]]'' while {{spoiler|complimenting GOD.}}
== Literature ==
* 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.
* Ron Weasley of ''[[Harry Potter (
* 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."
* ''[[Captain Underpants|The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby]]'' ended with the [[Big Bad]], Deputy Doo-Doo, deposited on Uranus. It even lampshaded the trope with a sign reading "Welcome to Uranus (Please don't make fun of our name)"
* ''[[
* In ''[[Larklight]]'', the narrator's sister Myrtle tells him that "Polite people refer to that planet by its original name, Georgium Sidus. It provides less opportunity for cheap jokes."
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'' episode "Blue Moon":
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'''Detective Woody Hoyt:''' Excuse me? }}
* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' episode "There's Something About Allison":
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* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' episode "Welcome Wagon":
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'''Veronica:''' In Neptune! Yeah, the planets really aligned for this one. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Now move Uranus, the Mercury's rising.]] }}
* The old joke about how toilet paper is just like the [[Star Trek|Starship Enterprise]]: "They circle Uranus and wipe out Klingons."
* The episode of ''[[
** ''Hercules and the Captive Women'' gives them even more opportunity, with Hercules fighting a cult worshipping the god Uranus. With lines like "This day is dedicated to Uranus" and references to "the blood of Uranus," though, they were really asking for it.
* Tony Kornheiser loves making this joke on ''[[
* Also, briefly used in ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUnD8HoZHPA one episode Randy was amused when he found out of this planet's existence.]
* In the ''[[That
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* In ''[[
** As a side note, this was the episode that earned [[Jim Parsons]] his Emmy.
* From ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'':
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* In ''[[
* ''[[Space Cases]]'':
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* Done on ''[[The Late Late Show]] with [[Craig Ferguson]]'':
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* In ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', young Emerson Cod is sent to the principal's office "for the crime of inappropriate intentional [[Double Entendre]] during the science fair" when he makes a poster reading "Rings Discovered Around Uranus: Scientists Send Probes".
* "Uranus has never been probed" is one of the facts that pop up on [[Pop Up Video]] during a Freddie Mercury video. People complained because 1) Uranus ''has'' been probed, and 2) [[Anal Probing|the joke]] was in [[Dude, Not Funny|somewhat poor taste]].
** Well, technically, the Voyager 2 space probe only did a high-speed flyby of Uranus on its way to Neptune. There was no hardware actually sent down into the Uranian atmosphere, as there was with Jupiter.
* One "News From Away", the Newfoundland-themed recurring segment on ''[[Royal Canadian Air Farce]]'', had a news story went as follows.
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'''Seamus:''' Me neither. }}
* Came up in [[Accidental Innuendo]] form on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEZ0DttCS9s a recent episode of] ''[[Who Wants to Be
* ''[[
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'''Carly:''' Is that really necessary?"
'''Sam:''' I could've said Uranus... }}
* The subject of a recent ''[[
* Used in a game of "Dating Service Video" on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]''. Greg Proops donned an astronaut's helmet and delivered the line "I want to explore Uranus".
== Music ==
* [[Vengaboys]] and [[Perez Hilton]] have a song called 'Rocket to Uranus', with [[Sarcasm Mode|very subtle lyrics]] like "Let's have a party on Uranus" and "If you haven't got a thing to wear, it doesn't really matter up there". The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWYXIuuI-Rg music video] is... well, very appropriate for the lyrics.
* [[
* From the [[Eric Bogle]] song "Eric and the Informers":
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I think she was vaguely famous
Though she looked like she came from outer space;
From Mars, or maybe Uranus. }}
* Near the end of [[The Seventies|the 1970s]], a British band named either "The Chills" or Newman-Hahn released an album titled "It Only Hurts the First Rime." One of the songs on this album, which ended up getting played several times on the [[Dr. Demento]] show, was "I Can See Uranus( Thru My Window Tonight)."
* Sloppy Seconds' "The Thing From Uranus", which compares flatulence to an alien invasion... or possibly the other way around. Either way, a lot of puerile puns are involved.
* Spaff did a parody of "Tomorrow" from ''[[
== Newspaper Comics ==
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** In one of his wordy-books Scott Adams expressed irritation with all the astronomy jokes about Pluto, and insists that Uranus will forever be the comedy king of the solar system.
* ''[[The Far Side]]'' - an astronomer's assistant, a typical Larson beehive-hairdo, harlequin-glasses gal in a short skirt, is bending over a console and doing a take as the guy looking in his telescope says "I said I can clearly see Uranus tonight!"
== Video Games ==
* The PS 1 game ''Blasto'' is set on Uranus for the express purpose of making these jokes.
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'''Blasto''': What did I do this time? }}
* Used in ''[[Fallout 3]] DLC ''Mothership Zeta'', in one of the alien captive's recordings we hear a man that while being tortured by aliens he tells them "<laughter> Why don't you go back to Uranus? Eh?"
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|GTA San Andreas]]'' you can play a [[Space Invaders]] like [[Shoot
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' you can visit Uranus. If you launch a probe at it, EDI says, "''[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|Really]]''[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|, Commander?]]" If you do it again, she says, resigned, "[[Anal Probing|Probing Uranus]]."
** And from the codex: ''"Today, [[Gasshole|Uranus is the largest producer of He-3]] in Alliance space."''
*** Which could be considered [[Truth in Television]], since Uranus has the lowest surface gravity of any of the gas giants which makes it easy to mine...aw, who am I kidding? [[Toilet Humor|PFFFFFT!]]
** It should be noted that none of your missions in the game take you to the Sol System, and Uranus is very poor in resources. If you probe Uranus, it is thus unlikely to be for practical reasons, and typically requires going out of your way to do so.
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* Used more than once with ''[[Space Quest]]''.
* ''[[You Don't Know Jack]] 2011'' asks this question at the beginning of episode 1: "How many Earths could you stuff into the volume of Uranus before it just couldn't take any more?" Sounds innocent enough? The theme of the question, given before asking it, is ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Asstronomy]]'', one of the comments for a wrong answer is "''Are you kidding? You try that many and Uranus will never be the same again!''" But the worst offender is the punchline...
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* ''[[Dead Rising 2]]: Off the Record'' features a new theme park named "Uranus Zone". There's even a carnival game called Molemen from Uranus.
* ''[[South Park
* ''[[Mega Man (
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Bug
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[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/aliens/ "ugh... hehe, anus..."] }}
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' once turned this trope upside-down by having the Uranians call Earth "Booger-Dick" after the humans "couldn't stop giggling at them all through first contact". Who can blame them?
== Web Original ==
* BuyLandOnUranus.com, which sells land on Uranus.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140214141024/http://www.rathergood.com/spacemen Rathergood take it one further].
* Played straight by [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] in his review of ''[[Ultima II]]'', but then immediately lampshaded:
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* "We Needed a Less-Naughty Pronunciation of 'Uranus'" is one of Gladstone's<ref name="stones">[[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|huh huh, you said "stones"]]</ref> "[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-bafflingly-prudish-moments-in-history/ 5 Bafflingly Prudish Moments in History]" on [[Cracked.com]].<ref name="crack" />
== Western Animation ==
* Fry of ''[[
* ''[[
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'''Wakko Warner:''' You forgot Uranus.
'''Yakko Warner:''' [[Double Entendre|Good NIGHT, everybody.]] }}
** That's not the only time Wakko makes this particular joke, but Yakko seems to consider it beneath even them:
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'''Yakko:''' We ''did''.
'''Wakko:''' My fault!
'''Yakko:''' Try showing up for rehearsal. }}
* Mentioned once on ''[[Freakazoid
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* ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'':
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'''911 Operator:''' Sir, what's your name?
'''Jay:''' Uranus. I said it again, Randal. }}
* Kang and Kodos of ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'':
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'''Beavis:''' Thanks, Butt-Head. [[Ho Yay|Your anus is pretty cool]], too! }}
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Fairly
* A [[Once Per Episode]] [[Running Gag]] in ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Batman
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
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'''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.
* A ''Live Science'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20081112224225/http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/070824_llm_hemorrhoid.html article] about hemorrhoids says that "they sometimes stick out of that place with the same name as the 7th planet of the solar system."
* ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' once featured a picture of a Somalian pirate ship named... ''Titan Uranus''.
** 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.
* Any orchestral rehearsal for Gustav Holst's ''The Planets''. People start sniggering as soon as they get to the sixth movement.
* [http://mightyredpen.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/i-can-see-uranus-from-here/ This blog for copyeditors] offered the following ''real'' news story from the [http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Cool-Astronomy/2011/0107/Scientists-plan-mission-to-probe-Uranus Christian Science Monitor] as a cautionary example that readers have a juvenile sense of humor:
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* On ''[[Rush Limbaugh|The Rush Limbaugh Show]]'', in response to a sound-bite that had [[American Political System|United States Representative]] Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) angrily asking a vocal detractor with whom he was arguing what planet she was from, Limbaugh commented that the openly homosexual Frank was from "Uranus".
* 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′·ə·nəs. And then run, quickly."
* When GateHouse Media shut down Pulaski County’s "Daily Guide", the operator of US Route 66 roadside attraction "Uranus, Missouri" launched a rival publication... the [https://apnews.com/f4eacfa27faa4b5ea7847da513166c7f Uranus Examiner]. [[Sarcasm Mode|No idea why]] weekly publication soon folded with no one in local municipal government taking the paper, or its journalists, [[Running Gag|seriously]].
* [[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.
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* An unintentionally hilarious example occurred in a newspaper horoscope, as pointed out on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130604064007/http://www.criggo.com/2011/10/its-asking/ Criggo]: "Uranus is asking you to be more adventurous, and consider someone who is not your usual type." [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|Heh, heh...]]
* A pizza restaurant had the slogan [http://wins.failblog.org/2012/01/05/epic-win-photos-guarantee-win/ "You Bet Uranus. It's good."]
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