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** In 1993 after the third time Roy Hattersley MP cancelled his appearance as a guest on on short notice, his place on Paul Merton's team was filled by a tub of lard, "imbued with much the same qualities and liable to give a similar performance," which Merton would confer with during the show. They won, in spite of the Tub being unable to confer with Merton at all, and all of their team's questions in the final "missing words" round being in foreign languages, and, in the last case, with the entire headline blanked out.
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** In 1993 after the third time Roy Hattersley MP cancelled his appearance as a guest on on short notice, his place on Paul Merton's team was filled by a tub of lard, "imbued with much the same qualities and liable to give a similar performance," which Merton would confer with during the show. They won, in spite of the Tub being unable to confer with Merton at all, and all of their team's questions in the final "missing words" round being in foreign languages, and, in the last case, with the entire headline blanked out.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Negan always carries a [[BatterUp baseball bat]] covered in barbed wire that he calls Lucille. He constantly refers to the bat as a person and never goes anywhere without her. He eventually reveals that his [[TheLostLenore late wife]] was also called Lucille, and the bat has become a surrogate for her.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': Negan always carries a [[BatterUp baseball bat]] covered in barbed wire that he calls Lucille. He constantly refers to the bat as a person and never goes anywhere without her. He eventually reveals that his [[TheLostLenore late wife]] was also called Lucille, and the bat has become a surrogate for her.her.
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* ''Series/ClassOf07'': Saskia, who'd been in therapy, dresses up a mop as her therapist to vent about her issues.
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* ''Series/LazyTown'': Stingy frequently converses with his piggy bank named "Piggy".
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* On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', James Franco enters into a fake relationship with Jenna to cover up his actual relationship with a body pillow.
* In ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'', Dom Santini treats the titular helicopter this way, referring to it as "Lady" and actually having conversations with it from time to time. Although Airwolf ''does'' have a rudimentary A.I., it is not (as far as we know) actually intelligent.
* ''Series/AllThat'': Lori Beth Denberg's lifelong companion "The Big Ear of Corn".
* An unsettling number of grieving pet-lovers on ''American Stuffers'' commence petting and fussing over their preserved pets when they collect them from the taxidermists'. Granted, this trope is the whole point of that side of the business.
%%* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' has Gene's Audi Quattro. It even gets its own HesBack moment in the Season 3 opening and the scene when it's [[spoiler:destroyed in the last episode in a hail of gunfire arguably has more emotional depth than Viv's death in a previous episode]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; do any characters ''in universe'' treat it like it's actually alive?)
* ''Series/TheATeam'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheATeams2E9TheresAlwaysACatch There's Always a Catch]]", Murdock carries around a mounted (and possibly fake) lobster, to which he talks. He calls it "[[PunnyName Thermadore]]", and when Therm is broken by one of Garber's men during a fight, Murdock punches out the man who did it.
%%* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the items like they're really alive?)
%%** Baby Bop is never seen without her yellow blankie. Her theme song "My Yellow Blankie" is even about the blankie.
%%** Kathy has her teddy bear and like the above example, the song "Me and my Teddy" is sung about it numerous times.
%%** Tina at one point has a Barney doll, and can't sleep without him.
%%* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the items like they're really alive?)
%%** Leonard's "hugging machine".
%%** To a lesser extent, Howard's robotic hand.
%%* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the items like they're really alive?)
%%** Cindy has Kitty Carry-All in Season 1.
%%** In "[[Recap/TheBradyBunchS4E3TheTikiCaves The Tiki Caves]]", Professor Whitehead's tiki statue, Oliver.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Kendra has her favorite stake, Mr. Pointy.
-->'''Kendra:''' Here... In case the curse does not succeed, this is my lucky stake. I have killed many vampires with it. I call it Mr. Pointy.\\
'''Buffy:''' You named your stake?\\
'''Kendra:''' Yes.\\
'''Buffy:''' Remind me to get you a stuffed animal.
::: Buffy apparently holds onto Mr. Pointy for some time, name-dropping "him" occasionally over the next couple of seasons.
%%** Drusilla's dolls, including Miss Edith. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the items like they're really alive?)
%%** Spike's Buffy dummy, shortly replaced by the Buffybot.
* On ''Series/CardSharks'', host Jim Perry refers to the prop that holds the question cards as "[=G2-T2=]", both in reference to Creator/MarkGoodson-Bill Todman productions and [=R2-D2=]. The prop is often treated as if it's a living thing.
* The series finale of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', "[[Recap/CheersS11E25OneForTheRoad One for the Road]]", appears to suggest that the reason Sam Malone will never be happy with any woman is because his OneTrueLove is ''the Cheers bar itself''.
* ''Series/TheColbertReport'': As befitting his crazed, right-wing persona, Colbert has a snub-nosed revolver he calls "Sweetness" that he talks to and seems to be in love with.
* The trope is discussed in ''Series/{{Community}}'', where Jeff gives a pencil a name before breaking it in two and shocking the study group as a result to show that people make bonds with inanimate objects too easily.
* In ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', Al Swearengen receives an Indian man's head in a box, which he doesn't want. He first makes use of the box as a prop in a ploy, describing his plan to the head beforehand. Subsequently, he takes to delivering {{Surrogate Soliloquy}}s to the head, addressing it as "Chief". As time goes on, he treats it more and more like a friend and confidant, and at one point brings it out onto the balcony and opens the box so it can "watch" the events on the street. Eventually Al's [[TheDragon dragon]] Dan Dority confronts him about the issue, and Al has to assure him that he's not going crazy.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]", companion Steven Taylor goes back into a burning city/building to rescue Hifi, the stuffed panda ("my mascot"), which has been his only company for two years of captivity.
** The Doctor himself is very closely attached to his sonic screwdriver. When it's destroyed in a 1982 episode, he remarks, "I feel as if I've lost an old friend." The [[TheNthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] reacts similarly when his sonic screwdriver gets destroyed in the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]". Martha is trying to tell him the identity of the [[BewareTheNiceOnes evil old alien woman]] they are looking for, and the Doctor totally ignores her, aghast at the death of his sonic screwdriver. Immediately subverted when [[spoiler:she gets his attention and he tosses the "dead" -- and therefore useless -- screwdriver carelessly over his shoulder]].
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited The Girl Who Waited]]", Amy, who has been alone for 36 years, disarms (literally) one of the hand robots, painting a smiley face on it and calling it [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Rory]]. While it's initially taken as a sign of how distant she has become to Rory, a younger version of herself is able to remind her that it's actually because Rory is the love of her life.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" introduces Mr. Huffle, a squeeze toy that "feels pain", or so Lucy Fletcher claims, when she uses it to interrogate the Doctor. Later, she gifts Mr. Huffle to the Doctor.
* A sixth season episode of ''Series/DropDeadDiva'' has Kim representing a ventriloquist whose puppet is banned from flying.
* Mrs. Beasley, Buffy's doll in ''Series/FamilyAffair'', which she still treats like a living person [[NotAllowedToGrowUp even as a preteen in the later seasons]].
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': John Crichton's favourite weapon is a Peacekeeper standard issue pulse pistol he calls Winona. He will risk his life to retrieve the weapon.
-->'''Crichton:''' Winona would never have let me down.
%%** When D'Argo gets a ship, he names her ''Lo'la'' in memory of his wife and becomes quite fond of her. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does he actually treat it like it's alive?)
%%* In ''Series/FatherTed'', Father Jack and his [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZySS8vJsyRE brick]]. (Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples)
%%* Another panel show example: Billy the Answer Head of ''Series/FigureItOut''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
** Jayne Cobb treats his very favorite gun, [[ICallItVera Vera]], as if it's a real person -- so much so that he's willing to ''trade'' it for Mal's [[AccidentalMarriage Accidental Wife]]. Jayne even talks to Vera, telling her that getting dressed up means she gets taken out somewhere special -- in this case, she's put in a spacesuit to fire at a target through space.
** The ship's mechanic, Kaylee, often talks about the ship ''Serenity'' as if it's a real person. In the pilot movie, she strokes the inside wall of the engine room and coos, "That's my good girl" after a jury-rig allows ''Serenity'' to pull off a difficult maneuver. Mal treats her like a person occasionally, as well. In the commentary to the [[TheMovie Big Damn Movie]], Creator/JossWhedon claims that ''Serenity'' is the tenth character. And [[AuthorAppeal River's feet]] are collectively the eleventh.
* On ''Series/FistOfFun'', "[[LonersAreFreaks Lifestyle Expert]]" Peter's only friend was a small green toy called Donny Oddlegs. Unfortunately, after Peter accidentally ate the remains of Rich's father, Donny ended up in a bin and on fire.
* In ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', Spike is known to treat the team's bomb robot more like a pet than a piece of equipment, frequently talking to and about it as though it were a sentient creature. He even named it Babycakes.
%%* Tina's old, wooden judge-selection wheel in ''Series/ForThePeople''. She and her family ended up using it for their smaller decisions, and she used it up until [[spoiler:the day her husband passed away]]. When it breaks she goes out of her way to get it repaired by the original creator instead of throwing it away and using a digital system. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does she actually treat it like it's sentient?)
%%* Martin's chair on ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* On ''{{Series/Friends}}'', Joey and Chandler have named all the foosball players on their foosball table. Joey also personally named his television and chair "Stevie" and "Rosita", and Chandler even personally asks the former not to tell Joey when he mistakenly believes that he's broken the latter. Phoebe has created 3D paintings which terrify everyone else and named them as well. Rachel convinces Joey that the paintings are haunted.
%%* Mr. Bear to Stephanie in ''Series/FullHouse''. In "Goodbye Mr. Bear" (where it appears to have been lost), we learn that her affection for it stems from it being the gift her mom gave her when Michelle was born. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does she treat it like it's sentient?)
* ''Series/GhostsUK'': When she was alive, Kitty's best friend was a statue in the garden.
* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Kurt has a "boyfriend pillow" named Bruce. When Rachel and Santana find out, he gets one for each of them ([[LipstickLesbian giving Santana's a sex change]]).
* ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'':
** In 1993 after the third time Roy Hattersley MP cancelled his appearance as a guest on on short notice, his place on Paul Merton's team was filled by a tub of lard, "imbued with much the same qualities and liable to give a similar performance," which Merton would confer with during the show. They won, in spite of the Tub being unable to confer with Merton at all, and all of their team's questions in the final "missing words" round being in foreign languages, and, in the last case, with the entire headline blanked out.
--->'''Ian Hislop:''' It is getting rather sad that I can't win against Paul when he's accompanied by a tub of lard and his questions are in a foreign language.
** Over two decades later in 2016 there would be a similar incident, with the (former) Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. She had criticized then-Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TheresaMay's choice of £1000 brown trousers, only to come under heavy criticism herself for being photographed with a £1000 brown handbag. Seeking to keep a low profile, she dropped out of the show on short notice, leading to her place being taken by (what else) a brown handbag. The handbag was wired for mic, but refused to answer any questions put to it.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** When Marshall stays in Minnesota to take care of his mother [[spoiler:after his father dies]], Lily dresses up a pillow to look like Marshall and named it "Marshpillow".
** When Ted was 7 years old, his best friend was a balloon. This would also be his FreudianExcuse of why he is so attached to Robin or any other girlfriend he has had.
%%** Marshall's car. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': Bertram gives names to all of his kitchen appliances and treats them as his "friends".
* ''Series/TheLastManOnEarth'':
** After mocking this trope while watching ''Film/CastAway'', Phil winds up with a whole crew of Companion Cube balls with drawn-on faces, keeping him company. He always goes to them for advice whenever something doesn't go his way, which is to say, at least OncePerEpisode. [[spoiler:In "30 Years of Science Down the Tubes", he bequeaths the balls to Mike so that, if Mike dies of the virus, he won't die alone. Then, in "The Open-Ended Nature of Unwitnessed Deaths", when Phil almost checks to see if Mike is alive, he chooses not to enter Mike's childhood bedroom and takes his volleyball friend "Gary" with him back to California.]]
** Gail has taken to talking to a CPR dummy that she dresses up in Gordon's old clothes.
** In Season 4, Tandy sticks a toy dog head onto a remote control robot, and finds joy in treating it like it was real. When its batteries die, he even starts to dig a proper grave. However, he does know that it's just a toy.
* In ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', the only friends Pauline has are pens. She is quite proud of this, because she is a saddo.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': John Locke, in no uncertain terms, talks with the island and believes that it has a will. Though, depending on further reveals, there may be a significant element [[GeniusLoci of truth to this]].
%%** Claire's Squirrel Baby was outright conceived as a TakeThat to Wilson from ''Film/CastAway''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; examples need to stand on their own, not direct the reader to a different example)
* One of ''Series/MadTV'''s sketches includes a fake commercial about a woman in an abusive relationship with a bottle of shampoo.
* There is an episode in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' when Lois has a mental breakdown and starts crafting little pigs out of bleach bottles. Dozens of them. And she gives each and every one a name and background.
%%* ''Series/{{Mash}}'': Radar's teddy bear, which he sometimes has with him in his office and not just his bedroom. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does he treat it like it's sentient?)
%%-->'''Radar:''' My bear went off!
* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' has the boys stranded on an island, and they start to make crude companions out of coconuts. As the boys devolve into madness, the coconut people start to take increasingly human and terrifying characteristics.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
** "And, on my right, putting the case against the government, is a small patch of brown liquid."
** Another (not completely different) sketch has a round-table discussion on customs enforcement with a duck, a cat, and a lizard. The duck, cat, and lizard are obviously played by wooden models, so their inability to respond to questions is unsurprising.
* ''Series/MrBean'''s Teddy, and to some extent his car. Much of the humour comes from the inconsistent way in how he treats them -- one minute gently lowering Teddy into his own miniature bed, the next absent-mindedly ripping his head off so he'll fit in the drawer. Then when his car gets run over by a tank, he kneels down in front of the wreckage as sad music plays -- only to retrieve the lock and seem perfectly happy with this.
* One of the links between two sketches in ''Series/MrShow'' is the "Red Balloon" sketch which follows the Adopted Son (from the previous sketch) to the Porno Shop (the next show). Although a {{Jerkass}}, the guy seems quite cheerful to meet the Red Balloon, set to an [[SoundtrackDissonance equally cheerful song about Red Balloon being here for you and "following your balloon"... where they gamble and go to strip clubs]].
* ''Series/MrYoung'' has Mrs. Strawperson, a scarecrow, to the point where she has a family (who are also inanimate) and a job as a teacher. In "Mr. Elf", she claims not to have been able to walk or talk until Slabb gave her a brain as a Christmas present, but that was just Derby's dream and so it doesn't really prove anything.
%%* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' has a ''human ear'' fill this role for a soldier in Korea. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Series/MythBusters'':
** Buster, an [[ChewToy oft-destroyed]] and rebuilt crash test dummy that the crew uses in most of their experiments. Most of the cast (and quite a few of the show's fans) jokingly treat him like a real person. They devote entire montages to lovingly dressing the busts up in a wig, glasses, bandanna, whatever's in-character for the myth's scenario. In "Escape Slide Parachute", Buster is reduced to little more than scrap metal and flesh-colored chunks when a quick release fails and he falls the full distance without his safety equipment. The reaction of the crew (especially Adam and Grant) is one of abject horror, as if a flesh-and-blood crew member had been severely injured. During the "Supersized Myths" Jet Taxi segment, to make him even more animate than usual, they added a voiceover of Buster's thoughts just before they pull his taxi behind the jumbo jet's engine exhaust:
--->'''Buster:''' I wonder if [[Series/DirtyJobs Mike Rowe]] is hiring.
** Kari's ballistics gel "Zombie Dogs", which she baby-talks to.
--->'''Kari:''' Aw, whosa sweet widdle doggy? Mwa! ''[kisses nose]''
%%** Earl, the car they drop from a crane to test "Buster 2.0". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; do they treat the objects like real people beyond naming them?)
%%** Several one-time ballistics gel dummies they name.
%%** In the "Dynamite Surfing" episode, Kari wonders if anyone else has noticed the disturbing amount of Grant robots that have been built over the course of the series.
%%** Lucy the Moose, a 600lb rubber moose that they crashed cars into (to test the myth that speeding up before hitting a large animal will reduce the damage done to the car and driver. [[spoiler:Busted]]).
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Ducky tends to talk to the corpses he is autopsying as a mechanism for trying to get into the heads of the people when they were alive. The only time one "talks back" is when it's a deceased member of the team, as he knows what she would've said.
%%** Abby has her mass spectrometry machine ("Major Mass-Spec") and Burt the Farting Stuffed Hippo. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does she treat the objects like real people beyond naming them?)
* Captain Oats and Princess Sparkles of ''Series/TheOC'' fame. When you start warning your plastic horse of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEWLPVjk9PQ possible overtures to rape]], you know you've got yourself a Companion Cube.
* In the first HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', Michael jokingly pretends to start taking advice from his fake second head on who should be fired. Dwight starts arguing with the fake head because it is suggesting that maybe Dwight should be let go.
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': DJ Roomba, Tom's combination of an [=MP3=] player and a Roomba. At one point it's destroyed when Jerry steps on it, causing Tom to expel grief, stating that DJ Roomba was like a son to him.
* ''Series/{{Pixelface}}'': In "Out of Sight", a glitch in the system renders Claireparker unable to be detected by the rest of the occupants of the console. Starting to crack up, she begins talking to the rubber duck she picked up in the last session of her game.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': A running joke through the series is Rimmer's "relationship" with Rachel, an inflatable doll. It's been strained not only by Rimmer's inability to touch things, but also because Rachel's got a puncture. When Rimmer supposedly dies, Rachel actually "appears" at the funeral, since Lister figures that she's the closest thing he has to a widow. A much earlier episode says that Rimmer had previously been seeing "Inflatable Ingrid", until Lister reveals that he's been "seeing" her as well.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
** Rowdy, a stuffed dog JD and Turk treat as a real one. Note that "stuffed" does not mean "toy". It is an actual dead dog that has been stuffed. When a series of incidents see Rowdy temporarily go missing, Carla tries to replace him with yet another stuffed dead dog. Turk and JD find out but adopt the second dog and call him Steven. Turk ends up with Rowdy and JD keeps Steven.
** The Janitor's squirrel army, a massive collection of stuffed squirrels that he holds meetings with. The Janitor is a skilled taxidermist and has other animals he talks to, including Bingo, a stuffed bunny who doubles as a salt and pepper shaker.
** As a one-off gag, the Janitor calls the floors of Sacred Heart his children, and says that he's given them all names.
** JD has also made a friendship bracelet that he wears for Sasha, his motor scooter.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'''s skull. Case in point:
-->'''John:''' Have you talked to the police?\\
'''Sherlock:''' Four people are dead. There isn't time to talk to the police.\\
'''John:''' So why are you talking to me!?\\
'''Sherlock:''' Mrs. Hudson took my skull.\\
'''John:''' ...So I'm supposed to be filling in for your skull?\\
'''Sherlock:''' Relax, you're doing fine.
* In the short-lived cult TV show ''Series/SledgeHammer'', Sledge has a habit of talking to his HandCannon. In one episode, he hallucinates that his gun is talking back to him.
* An odd variation appears in ''Series/{{Soap}}'' with Bob, Chuck's ventriloquist dummy. Originally Chuck was only supposed to be a temporary character, but he and Bob were so popular that the writers had to keep them. It gets to the point where all but a few of the characters forget that Bob isn't a separate person, and the audience will always refer to Bob as a separate character as well. All of the characters dislike Bob because of his rude behavior but like Chuck because he's very well-mannered (the except being Benson, as he's one of the few sane ones; Mary, while sane, just considers Chuck as troubled). When Danny hides Bob in the fridge in one episode, Chuck quickly converts nearby fruit into ventriloquist dummies. HilarityEnsues.
* In the ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' episode "The Committee", Huggy Bear sells Starsky a ridiculously overpriced pet rock, which he swears is much better than the ones sold in stores. Starsky names the rock Ignatius and carries it around for the rest of the episode. He [[ThrowingTheDistraction throws it away]] during the climax to get one of the villains to fire in the wrong direction, but after everyone has been arrested, he runs back to look for it.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
*** The ''Enterprise'' is like a wife to Kirk and a daughter to Scotty, but everyone on the crew seems to have a certain fondness for the old girl... even Spock. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Kirk in particular is heartbroken]] when he [[spoiler:has her self-destructed to keep Klingons from seizing her in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'']].
*** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E24TheUltimateComputer The Ultimate Computer]]", they try to automate the ''Enterprise'' using AI. The developer who designed the computer treats it like it's his kid. Of course, it goes insane and Kirk has to talk it to death, because AIIsACrapshoot.
** Captain Janeway sometimes talks directly to her ship in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
%%** Dr. Bashir's teddy bear Kukalaka in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. In one episode he trades five liters of anaerobic metabolite to Jake and Nog (as part of a ChainOfDeals the boys started to get a mint condition Willie Mays card from the man who outbid them at an auction) in exchange for them retrieving Kukalaka from his ex's quarters. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does he actually treat it like it's sentient?)
* The Impala (known to fans as Metallicar) in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is considered by some to be the third main character. It features prominently throughout the series, and Dean is occasionally found to be whispering sweet nothings to it. Chuck the prophet, [[spoiler:who is heavily implied to actually be God]], outright calls it the most important object in the universe.
* Oliver, ''Series/TopGearUK'' presenter Creator/RichardHammond's beloved 1963 Opel Kadett. Despite his age and third-hand ownership, Oliver survived a one-thousand mile cross-country trip straight across the spine of Botswana, including the entirety of the Makgadikgadi Pan, the largest salt flat in the world. Hammond loved the car so much that he bought it with his own money and paid to have it shipped to Britain. To prepare to cross the Makgadikgadi Pan, the presenters were advised to remove as much weight as possible from their cars. May and Clarkson undertook the task with relish, but Hammond refused to remove anything from Oliver, outside of a spare wheel. After a while, May and Clarkson joked that it would be like asking him to cut pieces off his wife. Oliver was endangered again in the first episode of Season 12, in which the presenters did challenges in transport trucks (obUK/Commonwealth: "lorries"). One of the last ones was a hill start -- starting the trucks (with their cargo in tow) on a hill without rolling backward. To inspire each other to do well, their most prized items were placed behind them. Richard's was... Oliver (with a smashing new "OLI [=V3R=]" VanityLicensePlate). Hammond forfeited the challenge rather than risk his precious car, especially when his truck had no crawler gear to start on the hill with. Oliver then became a supporting character in the children's science programme ''Richard Hammond's Series/BlastLab'', where "he" has a Herbie-esque personality.
%%* Martha Lou in ''Series/TheTorkelsons''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* Senor Guapo to Gabe in ''Series/TowerPrep'', to the point that Gabe says that the toy monkey actually ''has'' spoken to him before.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Lady Margaret Lanterman]] (aka "The Log Lady") on ''Series/TwinPeaks'' always carries around a small log in her arms. She seems to share a psychic connection with it, sometimes dispensing advice and visions that she claims come from the log itself. At one point she insists that Agent Cooper direct a question to the log instead of her. It's left ambiguous as to whether the log has any intelligence, but the Log Lady seems to have some otherworldly insight, and Hawk states that it "holds many spirits." The log's size and shape subtly evoke a baby, with two small nubs on the upper section where the baby's arms would be.
* ''Series/TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'':
** Jonny has an Franchise/ActionMan that he named Corinthian (and later named his son after it). It is later destroyed in a fire.
** Janet has a mannequin named Jonny 2, which she has dressed exactly like Jonny. It's only featured in one episode, in which she uses it as a source of comfort when she's in labour.
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Number Five is in love with "Delores", a mannequin who was his only form of company in the post-apocalyptic wasteland for 40 years. Even after being forced to abandon her following his recruitment, he eventually goes on to reconnect with her in the past... namely by stealing her from her original department store.
* Rex from ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' is Robbie's ventriloquist dummy. Despite Robbie controlling him, he seems to have a mind of his own, and the other characters, while at first humoring Robbie by pretending that he's a real person, eventually start believing it themselves. If Rex says or does something rude, they get mad at him and not Robbie, and the reactions they all give when he is sucked into the Turblow Jet are as if one of their closest friends was being maimed.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Negan always carries a [[BatterUp baseball bat]] covered in barbed wire that he calls Lucille. He constantly refers to the bat as a person and never goes anywhere without her. He eventually reveals that his [[TheLostLenore late wife]] was also called Lucille, and the bat has become a surrogate for her.
* In ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'', Dom Santini treats the titular helicopter this way, referring to it as "Lady" and actually having conversations with it from time to time. Although Airwolf ''does'' have a rudimentary A.I., it is not (as far as we know) actually intelligent.
* ''Series/AllThat'': Lori Beth Denberg's lifelong companion "The Big Ear of Corn".
* An unsettling number of grieving pet-lovers on ''American Stuffers'' commence petting and fussing over their preserved pets when they collect them from the taxidermists'. Granted, this trope is the whole point of that side of the business.
%%* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' has Gene's Audi Quattro. It even gets its own HesBack moment in the Season 3 opening and the scene when it's [[spoiler:destroyed in the last episode in a hail of gunfire arguably has more emotional depth than Viv's death in a previous episode]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; do any characters ''in universe'' treat it like it's actually alive?)
* ''Series/TheATeam'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheATeams2E9TheresAlwaysACatch There's Always a Catch]]", Murdock carries around a mounted (and possibly fake) lobster, to which he talks. He calls it "[[PunnyName Thermadore]]", and when Therm is broken by one of Garber's men during a fight, Murdock punches out the man who did it.
%%* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the items like they're really alive?)
%%** Baby Bop is never seen without her yellow blankie. Her theme song "My Yellow Blankie" is even about the blankie.
%%** Kathy has her teddy bear and like the above example, the song "Me and my Teddy" is sung about it numerous times.
%%** Tina at one point has a Barney doll, and can't sleep without him.
%%* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the items like they're really alive?)
%%** Leonard's "hugging machine".
%%** To a lesser extent, Howard's robotic hand.
%%* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the items like they're really alive?)
%%** Cindy has Kitty Carry-All in Season 1.
%%** In "[[Recap/TheBradyBunchS4E3TheTikiCaves The Tiki Caves]]", Professor Whitehead's tiki statue, Oliver.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Kendra has her favorite stake, Mr. Pointy.
-->'''Kendra:''' Here... In case the curse does not succeed, this is my lucky stake. I have killed many vampires with it. I call it Mr. Pointy.\\
'''Buffy:''' You named your stake?\\
'''Kendra:''' Yes.\\
'''Buffy:''' Remind me to get you a stuffed animal.
::: Buffy apparently holds onto Mr. Pointy for some time, name-dropping "him" occasionally over the next couple of seasons.
%%** Drusilla's dolls, including Miss Edith. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the items like they're really alive?)
%%** Spike's Buffy dummy, shortly replaced by the Buffybot.
* On ''Series/CardSharks'', host Jim Perry refers to the prop that holds the question cards as "[=G2-T2=]", both in reference to Creator/MarkGoodson-Bill Todman productions and [=R2-D2=]. The prop is often treated as if it's a living thing.
* The series finale of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', "[[Recap/CheersS11E25OneForTheRoad One for the Road]]", appears to suggest that the reason Sam Malone will never be happy with any woman is because his OneTrueLove is ''the Cheers bar itself''.
* ''Series/TheColbertReport'': As befitting his crazed, right-wing persona, Colbert has a snub-nosed revolver he calls "Sweetness" that he talks to and seems to be in love with.
* The trope is discussed in ''Series/{{Community}}'', where Jeff gives a pencil a name before breaking it in two and shocking the study group as a result to show that people make bonds with inanimate objects too easily.
* In ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', Al Swearengen receives an Indian man's head in a box, which he doesn't want. He first makes use of the box as a prop in a ploy, describing his plan to the head beforehand. Subsequently, he takes to delivering {{Surrogate Soliloquy}}s to the head, addressing it as "Chief". As time goes on, he treats it more and more like a friend and confidant, and at one point brings it out onto the balcony and opens the box so it can "watch" the events on the street. Eventually Al's [[TheDragon dragon]] Dan Dority confronts him about the issue, and Al has to assure him that he's not going crazy.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]", companion Steven Taylor goes back into a burning city/building to rescue Hifi, the stuffed panda ("my mascot"), which has been his only company for two years of captivity.
** The Doctor himself is very closely attached to his sonic screwdriver. When it's destroyed in a 1982 episode, he remarks, "I feel as if I've lost an old friend." The [[TheNthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] reacts similarly when his sonic screwdriver gets destroyed in the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]". Martha is trying to tell him the identity of the [[BewareTheNiceOnes evil old alien woman]] they are looking for, and the Doctor totally ignores her, aghast at the death of his sonic screwdriver. Immediately subverted when [[spoiler:she gets his attention and he tosses the "dead" -- and therefore useless -- screwdriver carelessly over his shoulder]].
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited The Girl Who Waited]]", Amy, who has been alone for 36 years, disarms (literally) one of the hand robots, painting a smiley face on it and calling it [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Rory]]. While it's initially taken as a sign of how distant she has become to Rory, a younger version of herself is able to remind her that it's actually because Rory is the love of her life.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" introduces Mr. Huffle, a squeeze toy that "feels pain", or so Lucy Fletcher claims, when she uses it to interrogate the Doctor. Later, she gifts Mr. Huffle to the Doctor.
* A sixth season episode of ''Series/DropDeadDiva'' has Kim representing a ventriloquist whose puppet is banned from flying.
* Mrs. Beasley, Buffy's doll in ''Series/FamilyAffair'', which she still treats like a living person [[NotAllowedToGrowUp even as a preteen in the later seasons]].
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': John Crichton's favourite weapon is a Peacekeeper standard issue pulse pistol he calls Winona. He will risk his life to retrieve the weapon.
-->'''Crichton:''' Winona would never have let me down.
%%** When D'Argo gets a ship, he names her ''Lo'la'' in memory of his wife and becomes quite fond of her. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does he actually treat it like it's alive?)
%%* In ''Series/FatherTed'', Father Jack and his [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZySS8vJsyRE brick]]. (Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples)
%%* Another panel show example: Billy the Answer Head of ''Series/FigureItOut''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
** Jayne Cobb treats his very favorite gun, [[ICallItVera Vera]], as if it's a real person -- so much so that he's willing to ''trade'' it for Mal's [[AccidentalMarriage Accidental Wife]]. Jayne even talks to Vera, telling her that getting dressed up means she gets taken out somewhere special -- in this case, she's put in a spacesuit to fire at a target through space.
** The ship's mechanic, Kaylee, often talks about the ship ''Serenity'' as if it's a real person. In the pilot movie, she strokes the inside wall of the engine room and coos, "That's my good girl" after a jury-rig allows ''Serenity'' to pull off a difficult maneuver. Mal treats her like a person occasionally, as well. In the commentary to the [[TheMovie Big Damn Movie]], Creator/JossWhedon claims that ''Serenity'' is the tenth character. And [[AuthorAppeal River's feet]] are collectively the eleventh.
* On ''Series/FistOfFun'', "[[LonersAreFreaks Lifestyle Expert]]" Peter's only friend was a small green toy called Donny Oddlegs. Unfortunately, after Peter accidentally ate the remains of Rich's father, Donny ended up in a bin and on fire.
* In ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', Spike is known to treat the team's bomb robot more like a pet than a piece of equipment, frequently talking to and about it as though it were a sentient creature. He even named it Babycakes.
%%* Tina's old, wooden judge-selection wheel in ''Series/ForThePeople''. She and her family ended up using it for their smaller decisions, and she used it up until [[spoiler:the day her husband passed away]]. When it breaks she goes out of her way to get it repaired by the original creator instead of throwing it away and using a digital system. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does she actually treat it like it's sentient?)
%%* Martin's chair on ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* On ''{{Series/Friends}}'', Joey and Chandler have named all the foosball players on their foosball table. Joey also personally named his television and chair "Stevie" and "Rosita", and Chandler even personally asks the former not to tell Joey when he mistakenly believes that he's broken the latter. Phoebe has created 3D paintings which terrify everyone else and named them as well. Rachel convinces Joey that the paintings are haunted.
%%* Mr. Bear to Stephanie in ''Series/FullHouse''. In "Goodbye Mr. Bear" (where it appears to have been lost), we learn that her affection for it stems from it being the gift her mom gave her when Michelle was born. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does she treat it like it's sentient?)
* ''Series/GhostsUK'': When she was alive, Kitty's best friend was a statue in the garden.
* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Kurt has a "boyfriend pillow" named Bruce. When Rachel and Santana find out, he gets one for each of them ([[LipstickLesbian giving Santana's a sex change]]).
* ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'':
** In 1993 after the third time Roy Hattersley MP cancelled his appearance as a guest on on short notice, his place on Paul Merton's team was filled by a tub of lard, "imbued with much the same qualities and liable to give a similar performance," which Merton would confer with during the show. They won, in spite of the Tub being unable to confer with Merton at all, and all of their team's questions in the final "missing words" round being in foreign languages, and, in the last case, with the entire headline blanked out.
--->'''Ian Hislop:''' It is getting rather sad that I can't win against Paul when he's accompanied by a tub of lard and his questions are in a foreign language.
** Over two decades later in 2016 there would be a similar incident, with the (former) Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. She had criticized then-Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TheresaMay's choice of £1000 brown trousers, only to come under heavy criticism herself for being photographed with a £1000 brown handbag. Seeking to keep a low profile, she dropped out of the show on short notice, leading to her place being taken by (what else) a brown handbag. The handbag was wired for mic, but refused to answer any questions put to it.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** When Marshall stays in Minnesota to take care of his mother [[spoiler:after his father dies]], Lily dresses up a pillow to look like Marshall and named it "Marshpillow".
** When Ted was 7 years old, his best friend was a balloon. This would also be his FreudianExcuse of why he is so attached to Robin or any other girlfriend he has had.
%%** Marshall's car. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': Bertram gives names to all of his kitchen appliances and treats them as his "friends".
* ''Series/TheLastManOnEarth'':
** After mocking this trope while watching ''Film/CastAway'', Phil winds up with a whole crew of Companion Cube balls with drawn-on faces, keeping him company. He always goes to them for advice whenever something doesn't go his way, which is to say, at least OncePerEpisode. [[spoiler:In "30 Years of Science Down the Tubes", he bequeaths the balls to Mike so that, if Mike dies of the virus, he won't die alone. Then, in "The Open-Ended Nature of Unwitnessed Deaths", when Phil almost checks to see if Mike is alive, he chooses not to enter Mike's childhood bedroom and takes his volleyball friend "Gary" with him back to California.]]
** Gail has taken to talking to a CPR dummy that she dresses up in Gordon's old clothes.
** In Season 4, Tandy sticks a toy dog head onto a remote control robot, and finds joy in treating it like it was real. When its batteries die, he even starts to dig a proper grave. However, he does know that it's just a toy.
* In ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', the only friends Pauline has are pens. She is quite proud of this, because she is a saddo.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': John Locke, in no uncertain terms, talks with the island and believes that it has a will. Though, depending on further reveals, there may be a significant element [[GeniusLoci of truth to this]].
%%** Claire's Squirrel Baby was outright conceived as a TakeThat to Wilson from ''Film/CastAway''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; examples need to stand on their own, not direct the reader to a different example)
* One of ''Series/MadTV'''s sketches includes a fake commercial about a woman in an abusive relationship with a bottle of shampoo.
* There is an episode in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' when Lois has a mental breakdown and starts crafting little pigs out of bleach bottles. Dozens of them. And she gives each and every one a name and background.
%%* ''Series/{{Mash}}'': Radar's teddy bear, which he sometimes has with him in his office and not just his bedroom. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does he treat it like it's sentient?)
%%-->'''Radar:''' My bear went off!
* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' has the boys stranded on an island, and they start to make crude companions out of coconuts. As the boys devolve into madness, the coconut people start to take increasingly human and terrifying characteristics.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
** "And, on my right, putting the case against the government, is a small patch of brown liquid."
** Another (not completely different) sketch has a round-table discussion on customs enforcement with a duck, a cat, and a lizard. The duck, cat, and lizard are obviously played by wooden models, so their inability to respond to questions is unsurprising.
* ''Series/MrBean'''s Teddy, and to some extent his car. Much of the humour comes from the inconsistent way in how he treats them -- one minute gently lowering Teddy into his own miniature bed, the next absent-mindedly ripping his head off so he'll fit in the drawer. Then when his car gets run over by a tank, he kneels down in front of the wreckage as sad music plays -- only to retrieve the lock and seem perfectly happy with this.
* One of the links between two sketches in ''Series/MrShow'' is the "Red Balloon" sketch which follows the Adopted Son (from the previous sketch) to the Porno Shop (the next show). Although a {{Jerkass}}, the guy seems quite cheerful to meet the Red Balloon, set to an [[SoundtrackDissonance equally cheerful song about Red Balloon being here for you and "following your balloon"... where they gamble and go to strip clubs]].
* ''Series/MrYoung'' has Mrs. Strawperson, a scarecrow, to the point where she has a family (who are also inanimate) and a job as a teacher. In "Mr. Elf", she claims not to have been able to walk or talk until Slabb gave her a brain as a Christmas present, but that was just Derby's dream and so it doesn't really prove anything.
%%* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' has a ''human ear'' fill this role for a soldier in Korea. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Series/MythBusters'':
** Buster, an [[ChewToy oft-destroyed]] and rebuilt crash test dummy that the crew uses in most of their experiments. Most of the cast (and quite a few of the show's fans) jokingly treat him like a real person. They devote entire montages to lovingly dressing the busts up in a wig, glasses, bandanna, whatever's in-character for the myth's scenario. In "Escape Slide Parachute", Buster is reduced to little more than scrap metal and flesh-colored chunks when a quick release fails and he falls the full distance without his safety equipment. The reaction of the crew (especially Adam and Grant) is one of abject horror, as if a flesh-and-blood crew member had been severely injured. During the "Supersized Myths" Jet Taxi segment, to make him even more animate than usual, they added a voiceover of Buster's thoughts just before they pull his taxi behind the jumbo jet's engine exhaust:
--->'''Buster:''' I wonder if [[Series/DirtyJobs Mike Rowe]] is hiring.
** Kari's ballistics gel "Zombie Dogs", which she baby-talks to.
--->'''Kari:''' Aw, whosa sweet widdle doggy? Mwa! ''[kisses nose]''
%%** Earl, the car they drop from a crane to test "Buster 2.0". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; do they treat the objects like real people beyond naming them?)
%%** Several one-time ballistics gel dummies they name.
%%** In the "Dynamite Surfing" episode, Kari wonders if anyone else has noticed the disturbing amount of Grant robots that have been built over the course of the series.
%%** Lucy the Moose, a 600lb rubber moose that they crashed cars into (to test the myth that speeding up before hitting a large animal will reduce the damage done to the car and driver. [[spoiler:Busted]]).
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Ducky tends to talk to the corpses he is autopsying as a mechanism for trying to get into the heads of the people when they were alive. The only time one "talks back" is when it's a deceased member of the team, as he knows what she would've said.
%%** Abby has her mass spectrometry machine ("Major Mass-Spec") and Burt the Farting Stuffed Hippo. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does she treat the objects like real people beyond naming them?)
* Captain Oats and Princess Sparkles of ''Series/TheOC'' fame. When you start warning your plastic horse of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEWLPVjk9PQ possible overtures to rape]], you know you've got yourself a Companion Cube.
* In the first HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', Michael jokingly pretends to start taking advice from his fake second head on who should be fired. Dwight starts arguing with the fake head because it is suggesting that maybe Dwight should be let go.
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': DJ Roomba, Tom's combination of an [=MP3=] player and a Roomba. At one point it's destroyed when Jerry steps on it, causing Tom to expel grief, stating that DJ Roomba was like a son to him.
* ''Series/{{Pixelface}}'': In "Out of Sight", a glitch in the system renders Claireparker unable to be detected by the rest of the occupants of the console. Starting to crack up, she begins talking to the rubber duck she picked up in the last session of her game.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': A running joke through the series is Rimmer's "relationship" with Rachel, an inflatable doll. It's been strained not only by Rimmer's inability to touch things, but also because Rachel's got a puncture. When Rimmer supposedly dies, Rachel actually "appears" at the funeral, since Lister figures that she's the closest thing he has to a widow. A much earlier episode says that Rimmer had previously been seeing "Inflatable Ingrid", until Lister reveals that he's been "seeing" her as well.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
** Rowdy, a stuffed dog JD and Turk treat as a real one. Note that "stuffed" does not mean "toy". It is an actual dead dog that has been stuffed. When a series of incidents see Rowdy temporarily go missing, Carla tries to replace him with yet another stuffed dead dog. Turk and JD find out but adopt the second dog and call him Steven. Turk ends up with Rowdy and JD keeps Steven.
** The Janitor's squirrel army, a massive collection of stuffed squirrels that he holds meetings with. The Janitor is a skilled taxidermist and has other animals he talks to, including Bingo, a stuffed bunny who doubles as a salt and pepper shaker.
** As a one-off gag, the Janitor calls the floors of Sacred Heart his children, and says that he's given them all names.
** JD has also made a friendship bracelet that he wears for Sasha, his motor scooter.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'''s skull. Case in point:
-->'''John:''' Have you talked to the police?\\
'''Sherlock:''' Four people are dead. There isn't time to talk to the police.\\
'''John:''' So why are you talking to me!?\\
'''Sherlock:''' Mrs. Hudson took my skull.\\
'''John:''' ...So I'm supposed to be filling in for your skull?\\
'''Sherlock:''' Relax, you're doing fine.
* In the short-lived cult TV show ''Series/SledgeHammer'', Sledge has a habit of talking to his HandCannon. In one episode, he hallucinates that his gun is talking back to him.
* An odd variation appears in ''Series/{{Soap}}'' with Bob, Chuck's ventriloquist dummy. Originally Chuck was only supposed to be a temporary character, but he and Bob were so popular that the writers had to keep them. It gets to the point where all but a few of the characters forget that Bob isn't a separate person, and the audience will always refer to Bob as a separate character as well. All of the characters dislike Bob because of his rude behavior but like Chuck because he's very well-mannered (the except being Benson, as he's one of the few sane ones; Mary, while sane, just considers Chuck as troubled). When Danny hides Bob in the fridge in one episode, Chuck quickly converts nearby fruit into ventriloquist dummies. HilarityEnsues.
* In the ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' episode "The Committee", Huggy Bear sells Starsky a ridiculously overpriced pet rock, which he swears is much better than the ones sold in stores. Starsky names the rock Ignatius and carries it around for the rest of the episode. He [[ThrowingTheDistraction throws it away]] during the climax to get one of the villains to fire in the wrong direction, but after everyone has been arrested, he runs back to look for it.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
*** The ''Enterprise'' is like a wife to Kirk and a daughter to Scotty, but everyone on the crew seems to have a certain fondness for the old girl... even Spock. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Kirk in particular is heartbroken]] when he [[spoiler:has her self-destructed to keep Klingons from seizing her in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'']].
*** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E24TheUltimateComputer The Ultimate Computer]]", they try to automate the ''Enterprise'' using AI. The developer who designed the computer treats it like it's his kid. Of course, it goes insane and Kirk has to talk it to death, because AIIsACrapshoot.
** Captain Janeway sometimes talks directly to her ship in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
%%** Dr. Bashir's teddy bear Kukalaka in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. In one episode he trades five liters of anaerobic metabolite to Jake and Nog (as part of a ChainOfDeals the boys started to get a mint condition Willie Mays card from the man who outbid them at an auction) in exchange for them retrieving Kukalaka from his ex's quarters. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does he actually treat it like it's sentient?)
* The Impala (known to fans as Metallicar) in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is considered by some to be the third main character. It features prominently throughout the series, and Dean is occasionally found to be whispering sweet nothings to it. Chuck the prophet, [[spoiler:who is heavily implied to actually be God]], outright calls it the most important object in the universe.
* Oliver, ''Series/TopGearUK'' presenter Creator/RichardHammond's beloved 1963 Opel Kadett. Despite his age and third-hand ownership, Oliver survived a one-thousand mile cross-country trip straight across the spine of Botswana, including the entirety of the Makgadikgadi Pan, the largest salt flat in the world. Hammond loved the car so much that he bought it with his own money and paid to have it shipped to Britain. To prepare to cross the Makgadikgadi Pan, the presenters were advised to remove as much weight as possible from their cars. May and Clarkson undertook the task with relish, but Hammond refused to remove anything from Oliver, outside of a spare wheel. After a while, May and Clarkson joked that it would be like asking him to cut pieces off his wife. Oliver was endangered again in the first episode of Season 12, in which the presenters did challenges in transport trucks (obUK/Commonwealth: "lorries"). One of the last ones was a hill start -- starting the trucks (with their cargo in tow) on a hill without rolling backward. To inspire each other to do well, their most prized items were placed behind them. Richard's was... Oliver (with a smashing new "OLI [=V3R=]" VanityLicensePlate). Hammond forfeited the challenge rather than risk his precious car, especially when his truck had no crawler gear to start on the hill with. Oliver then became a supporting character in the children's science programme ''Richard Hammond's Series/BlastLab'', where "he" has a Herbie-esque personality.
%%* Martha Lou in ''Series/TheTorkelsons''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* Senor Guapo to Gabe in ''Series/TowerPrep'', to the point that Gabe says that the toy monkey actually ''has'' spoken to him before.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Lady Margaret Lanterman]] (aka "The Log Lady") on ''Series/TwinPeaks'' always carries around a small log in her arms. She seems to share a psychic connection with it, sometimes dispensing advice and visions that she claims come from the log itself. At one point she insists that Agent Cooper direct a question to the log instead of her. It's left ambiguous as to whether the log has any intelligence, but the Log Lady seems to have some otherworldly insight, and Hawk states that it "holds many spirits." The log's size and shape subtly evoke a baby, with two small nubs on the upper section where the baby's arms would be.
* ''Series/TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'':
** Jonny has an Franchise/ActionMan that he named Corinthian (and later named his son after it). It is later destroyed in a fire.
** Janet has a mannequin named Jonny 2, which she has dressed exactly like Jonny. It's only featured in one episode, in which she uses it as a source of comfort when she's in labour.
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Number Five is in love with "Delores", a mannequin who was his only form of company in the post-apocalyptic wasteland for 40 years. Even after being forced to abandon her following his recruitment, he eventually goes on to reconnect with her in the past... namely by stealing her from her original department store.
* Rex from ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' is Robbie's ventriloquist dummy. Despite Robbie controlling him, he seems to have a mind of his own, and the other characters, while at first humoring Robbie by pretending that he's a real person, eventually start believing it themselves. If Rex says or does something rude, they get mad at him and not Robbie, and the reactions they all give when he is sucked into the Turblow Jet are as if one of their closest friends was being maimed.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Negan always carries a [[BatterUp baseball bat]] covered in barbed wire that he calls Lucille. He constantly refers to the bat as a person and never goes anywhere without her. He eventually reveals that his [[TheLostLenore late wife]] was also called Lucille, and the bat has become a surrogate for her.
