We Named the Monkey "Jack": Difference between revisions

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'''Barbossa''': ''[[Did You Actually Believe?|Not you.]] [[Trope Namer|We named the monkey Jack]].''|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: The Curse Of The Black Pearl''}}

 

== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==

* The ventriloquist [[Jeff Dunham]]:

 

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== [[Film]] ==

* [[Indiana Jones]] so disliked being named for his father that he used the nickname Indiana for most of his adult life. As revealed in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', this was the name of the family dog.

'''Indy''': I've got some very fond memories of that dog. }}

** The decision to ditch his father's (who that last line implies he ''doesn't'' have many "fond memories" of) name in favour of the name of his beloved childhood pet tells the audience just what kind of childhood he had.

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* In ''[[Frasier]]'', Niles and Frasier discover their late mother's journal with numerous references (apparently) to them and their problems. After spending the episode angsting over the implications, they discover that they've been reading her lab journal from before their birth. "Niles" and "Frasier" were her experimental rats. At first they're relieved, but then it dawns on them;

* ''[[Monk]]'' has Adrian Monk's older brother, Ambrose, whose father named him after a tortoise.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Batman and Sons]]'', Catwoman named her son, Terry, after her first cat.

* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib082.html Mac starts to speculate about this as soon as she learns his real name is Roan, because she knew of a horse that was called a roan.]