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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 ==
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{{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?]]''.
* ''[[I Carly]]'':
{{quote| '''Sam:''' Cool, why don't you use it to beam yourself to Jupiter?"<br />
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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."''
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