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[[File:746px-Phineas_and_his_Aglet_Awareness_Ribbon_2_3585.jpg|link=Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|frame|''Oh, so'' that's ''what that's called!'']]
 
{{quote|''"The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called 'aglets'. Their true purpose is ''sinister''."''|'''[[The Question]]''', ''[[Justice League Unlimited]] -- "Question Authority"''}}
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* One [[Archie Comics|Archie Comic]] had Jughead carry a bag of aglets and telling Archie about them. Veronica overhears and thinks he said 'eaglet' i.e. baby eagles. Cue her stealing the bag in the name of animal rights, only to discover what they really contain.
* Another Archie comic contained a scene where a former prison inmate revealed he had to spend his imprisonment making "those plastic brittle things on the ends of shoelaces" instead of license plates. His sentence was actually extended because he "couldn't come up with a name for them."
* In one issue of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', Toad dreams that he dreams that Mario dreams that he dreams that he dreams (and that's revealed after four more [[Dream Within a Dream|layers]], folks!) that the Princess was being forced to listen to two Fryguys debate about the name for these things. (He tries a few guesses himself, none correct.)
 
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* The subject of one episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]''. Of course, since the titular boys do everything [[Up to Eleven]], they even went so far as to hold an awareness concert (with an [[Ear Worm]] song) just for people to remember its real name.
** And in true ironic [[Contrived Coincidence]] form that the show loves so much, the entire world gets hit by a [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|erase-what-is-on-my-mind-inator]] which makes them all forget what it is.
* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'': During a [[Electric Torture]] sequence, The Question resisted interrogation by only revealing random useless facts, such as the name for those little plastic caps at the end of a shoelace. He then added on [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Their true purpose is sinister."]]
** This being [[The Question]], [[Conspiracy Theorist|he might have been serious]].
*** And, as proven on the show, [[Properly Paranoid|he might be right]].
* On an episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain (Animation)|Pinky and The Brain]]'', The Brain attempts to use a television broadcast as a means of mass [[Mind Control]]; he chooses a particularly slow television night on which to enact this scheme, secure in the knowledge that people will watch his program (since the only other things on TV are a ''[[Homeboys in Outer Space]]'' rerun, an arena football game, and a boring documentary about shoelaces). After much suffering, he manages in the nick of time to broadcast his mind-control signal... only to have Pinky remark that he just learned what "aglets" are, meaning that Pinky (and by implication, the rest of the viewing public) was watching the documentary about shoelaces.
* In ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]'', the eponymous character and his friends and family are being held against the wall by magic. "Dave, do something!" "I am... I'm trying to remember what the thing on the end of a shoelace is called, an argle?" When they are let go, but still against the wall, he suddenly remembers something. "That the the on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet?" "No, that [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress|gravity makes things fall]]."
* Shows up as a question in a quiz show that ''[[Maya and Miguel (Animation)|Maya and Miguel]]'' are watching.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy (Animation)Genius|Jimmy Neutron]]'', Beautiful Gorgeous' life long dream is to make these.
 
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