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* The ending for the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie. "That looks like Uranus!"
* In ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', Elliot tells his friends about E.T., prompting the question,
{{quote| '''Tyler:''' Where is he from, Uranus? [[Don't Explain the Joke|Get it? Your anus?]]}}
** Which also goes with the [[Epileptic Trees|theory]] that ET is a movie about overcoming one's [[Sigmund Freud|anal phase]].
* ''Just My Luck'':
{{quote| '''Ashley Albright:''' Dana, how's my 'scope?<br />
'''Dana:''' Your moon is in Uranus.<br />
'''Ashley Albright:''' Doesn't sound pretty. }}
* ''[[Lethal Weapon 3]]'':
{{quote| '''Leo Getz:''' I mean, where does it say that a gunshot wound requires a rectal exam? Yeah. With a telescope big enough to see Venus!<br />
'''Martin Riggs:''' I guess all they saw was Uranus, huh?<br />
'''Leo Getz:''' Oh, that's great, Riggs. Ha ha. That's great. }}
* ''[[Religulous]]'' does this in a deleted scene available on the DVD:
{{quote| '''[[Real Time with Bill Maher|Bill Maher]]:''' How spiritually advanced is Uranus?}}
* ''Take'':
{{quote| '''Jeff:''' ''[on horoscopes]'' Relationships do not rise and fall because your heart is linked to Venus and your head is up Uranus!<br />
'''Jim:''' Oh, ha ha. [[Never Heard That One Before|Who didn't see that one coming a kilometer away?]] }}
* In ''[[Spaceballs]]'', a bumper sticker on the side of Lone Starr's Winnebago reads: "I ♥ Uranus".
* When the oil drillers from ''[[Armageddon]]'' are brought to NASA:
{{quote| '''Bear''': What's up, Harry? Did NASA find oil on Uranus, man? }}
* Invoked in ''[[Bill and Ted|Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey]]'' while {{spoiler|complimenting GOD.}}
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'' episode "Blue Moon":
{{quote| '''Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh:''' The moon's in Uranus.<br />
'''Detective Woody Hoyt:''' Excuse me? }}
* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' episode "There's Something About Allison":
{{quote| '''Burt.Brandi:''' You're the assface astronaut who rode a turd rocket to the third ring of Uranus.}}
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' episode "Welcome Wagon":
{{quote| '''Piz''': [''referring to Veronica's new car''] A Saturn for a Mars.<br />
'''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."
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* 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 70s Show]]'' episode "Who Wants It More", Kelso has his UFO pictures developed, only for his friends to find out later that there were naked pictures of him on the same roll. Fez's response:
{{quote| '''Fez''': I don't see a UFO, but I can definitely see Uranus. [[Don't Explain the Joke|It's a planet, but it's also your butt.]]}}
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' episode "The Pants Alternative", Sheldon has to give a speech, and he gets drunk to gather courage. He ends up mooning the audience, while saying: "Get ready to see the dark side of the Moon... and here's Uranus!"
** As a side note, this was the episode that earned [[Jim Parsons]] his Emmy.
* From ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'':
{{quote| '''David Tennant''': McFly's song contained the lyrics "There's nothing on Earth that could save us since I fell in love with Uranus." Which as it happens was a line removed from the pilot episode of ''[[Torchwood]]''... [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|BARROWMAN]]! *shakes fist*}}
* In ''[[Jackass]]'', they once went to a city called Mianus. Of course they made lots of my anus jokes such as "Can you see Uranus from Mianus?"
* ''[[Space Cases]]'':
{{quote| '''Bova''': I hate being from Uranus! I'm the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|butt]] of every joke!}}
* Done on ''[[The Late Late Show]] with [[Craig Ferguson]]'':
{{quote| '''[[Craig Ferguson]]:''' Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.}}
* 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.
{{quote| '''Jimmy O'Toole:''' In science news, astronomers have discovered two new moons around Uranus. ...*puts the news sheet down* Not touchin' that one."<br />
'''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 a Millionaire?]]''.
* ''[[iCarly]]'':
{{quote| '''Sam:''' Cool, why don't you use it to beam yourself to Jupiter?"<br />
'''Carly:''' Is that really necessary?"<br />
'''Sam:''' I could've said Uranus... }}
* The subject of a recent ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' prize winner. Parent is doing planet names with kid. Gets to Uranus. Kid keeps replying "my anus".
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* [[KMFDM]] have a song called 'Up Uranus'. To make the joke less obvious, on the CD sleeve the song's title appears as a symbol that is [[Visual Pun|a combination of the astrological sign for Uranus and an upward-pointing arrow]].
* From the [[Eric Bogle]] song "Eric and the Informers":
{{quote| She had deadpan eyes in a dead white face<br />
I think she was vaguely famous<br />
Though she looked like she came from outer space;<br />
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)."
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== Video Games ==
* The PS 1 game ''Blasto'' is set on Uranus for the express purpose of making these jokes.
{{quote| '''Da Chief''': Captain Blasto! Uranus is in big trouble!<br />
'''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?"
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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...
{{quote| '''Cookie Masterson:''' You could fit a little over sixty three Earths into the mass volume of Uranus... Sixty four if you're really relaxed.}}
* ''[[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|Chef's Luv Shack]]'' is a [[Party Game]] with parodies of many famous games. The [[Asteroids]] spoof "Asses in Space" has Terrence and Philip firing at the titular objects with only one planet in the background.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Bug (webcomic)|Bug]]'', the bug reacts to an alien invasion this way.
{{quote| [http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/aliens/ "I claim this planet for Uranus."]<br />
[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?
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* [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:
{{quote| "I also [[Anal Probing|probed Uranus]], which is big and swampy and full of craters, but is otherwise uninteresting. Actually, there's only one town there, called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|New Jester]], but for [[Sarcasm Mode|the life of me I couldn't figure out why]]. But if I were to guess, I'd say it's where all the jesters of the world were exiled for making endless Uranus jokes."}}
* "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" />
 
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* Fry of ''[[Futurama]]'' told the Professor that he didn't want to smell Uranus using the Smelloscope. The Professor replied the planet had been renamed to stop those childish jokes. In this more civilized age, it's known as "Urectum". The new name appears again on a chart of the Solar System, [[Continuity Nod|seven real-world years later.]]
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'':
{{quote| '''Yakko Warner:''' There you go, that's our solar system.<br />
'''Wakko Warner:''' You forgot Uranus.<br />
'''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:
{{quote| '''Dot:''' I thought we cut that joke out.<br />
'''Yakko:''' We ''did''.<br />
'''Wakko:''' My fault!<br />
'''Yakko:''' Try showing up for rehearsal. }}
* Mentioned once on ''[[Freakazoid]]''.
{{quote| '''Freakazoid:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}kMOeV5MLOvc That's Uranus!]}}
* ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'':
{{quote| '''Jay:''' We need an ambulance at 1611 Uranus Avenue. I said Uranus.<br />
'''911 Operator:''' Sir, what's your name?<br />
'''Jay:''' Uranus. I said it again, Randal. }}
* Kang and Kodos of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' once stated that they came from a certain ringed planet they preferred not to name. In the episode where Homer thinks he has seen an alien, Bart makes fun of him by dressing up as an alien and shouting: "I am the thing from Uranus!"
* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'':
{{quote| '''Butt-Head:''' Uranus is pretty cool.<br />
'''Beavis:''' Thanks, Butt-Head. [[Ho Yay|Your anus is pretty cool]], too! }}
* ''[[Schoolhouse Rock]]'' averts it by using "Ooo-rah-nuhs." Thus neither rude interpretation is possible. It's also closer to the original pronunciation in ancient Greek.
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* In an episode of ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', [[Aquaman]] and [[Blue Beetle]] battle a supervillain named the Planetmaster, who has a superpower based on all eight planets [[Pluto Is Expendable|(and Pluto)]]. Blue Beetle wisecracks that he doesn't want to see the power of Uranus.
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', Grim discovers that Morg, the Reaper of Mars, had something to do with the disappearances of the rest of the solar system's reapers. He doesn't get very far in his questioning, though...
{{quote| '''Grim''': I want to know what happened to all these other reapers! Venus, Mercury, Uranus...<br />
'''Morg''' (snickering uncontrollably): He said Uranus! }}
 
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* 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:
{{quote| '''Scientists Plan Mission To Probe Uranus.''' Proposed by British scientists as a joint effort of NASA and the European Space Agency, the mission would offer the first close-up view of Uranus in 25 years. This infrared image of Uranus taken by the Hubble telescope in 1997 shows three layers of the icy planet's atmosphere, which consists mostly of hydrogen with traces of methane. British scientists have proposed a mission investigating why Uranus gives off so little heat.}}
* 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′&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 [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."}}
* An unintentionally hilarious example occurred in a newspaper horoscope, as pointed out on [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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