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* In ''Literature/TheMurderOfBindyMackenzie'', Bindy actually suggests this as a study tip.
-->'''BINDY MACKENZIE'S STUDY TIPS #6'''
-->Rename your pets.
-->Say you have a dog and a goldfish?
-->Rename your dog Nicholas II.
-->Every time you see him, say, "Hello there, Tsar Nicholas! [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Thinking about the 1825 Decembrists' Revolt and the 1861 Emancipation of the Serfs and how they affected your reign]]? How about Alexander II, eh? Swimming around in the aquarium there? What do you think of ''him''?
-->'''BINDY MACKENZIE'S STUDY TIPS #6'''
-->Rename your pets.
-->Say you have a dog and a goldfish?
-->Rename your dog Nicholas II.
-->Every time you see him, say, "Hello there, Tsar Nicholas! [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Thinking about the 1825 Decembrists' Revolt and the 1861 Emancipation of the Serfs and how they affected your reign]]? How about Alexander II, eh? Swimming around in the aquarium there? What do you think of ''him''?
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* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': All three dogs--Pharaoh, Isis & Tiaa--belonging to the Crawley family have names that are references to AncientEgypt, and were likely chosen in tribute to the Earl of Carnarvon (real life owner of Highclere Castle AKA the Abbey) who financed Howard Carter's expedition.
* In ''Series/MyPlace'', Mohammed is into cricket and describes himself as 'a mad keen bowler'; he named his goldfish after Shane Warne and talks to it as if it were the actual cricket player.
* In ''Series/MyPlace'', Mohammed is into cricket and describes himself as 'a mad keen bowler'; he named his goldfish after Shane Warne and talks to it as if it were the actual cricket player.
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* Toys/MapleleaGirls: The Maplelea Girls are series of 18" dolls meant to teach about [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Canadian geography, history, and culture]]; the story goes that a group of seven girls who met on holidays now share their everyday experiences and the differences between their provinces and their lives. In a suitably patriotic fashion, some of the pets available have names like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier Laurier]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Diefenbaker Diefenbaker]], named for important Canadian prime ministers.
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* Toys/MapleleaGirls: The Maplelea Girls are series of 18" dolls meant to teach about [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Canadian geography, history, and culture]]; the story goes that a group of seven girls who met on holidays now share their everyday experiences and the differences between their provinces and their lives. In a suitably patriotic fashion, some of the pets available have names like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier Laurier]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Diefenbaker Diefenbaker]], named for important Canadian prime ministers.
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* Sam, a time traveler in ''Podcast/TheBrightSessions'', has a cat named Darwin which she obtained after a trip to the Galapagos where she saw the real deal.
* Sam, a time traveler in ''Podcast/TheBrightSessions'', has a cat named Darwin which she obtained after a trip to the Galapagos where she saw the real deal.
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* On ''Series/{{Blackish}}'', Dre's sister Rhonda and her... [[{{TransparentCloset}} roommate]] Sharon have a cat called 'Kitty Lang'.
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* On ''TotalDrama,'' [[StalkerWithACrush Sierra]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe Topher]] are both huge fans of [[BigBad Chris McLean]]. Even before they met him, Sierra has multiple fish [[OneSteveLimit all named "Chris"]] while Topher's cat, Chef, is named after [[ScaryBlackMan Chris' sidekick]].
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* On ''TotalDrama,'' ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama,'' [[StalkerWithACrush Sierra]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe Topher]] are both huge fans of [[BigBad Chris McLean]]. Even before they met him, Sierra has multiple fish [[OneSteveLimit all named "Chris"]] while Topher's cat, Chef, is named after [[ScaryBlackMan Chris' sidekick]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKids'' are a pop band. Their TeamPet is a dog named Elvis.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'': Fillmore has a goldfish named Thelonius (after jazz musician Thelonius Monk). After Thelonious dies, he is replaced by a goldfish named Miles (after Miles Davis).
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* ''Series/{{Community}}'': One of Britta's cats is named Chomsky.
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* On ''TotalDrama,'' [[StalkerWithACrush Sierra]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe Topher]] are both huge fans of [[BigBad Chris McLean]]. Even before they met him, Sierra has multiple fish [[OneSteveLimit all named "Chris"]] while Topher's cat, Chef, is named after [[ScaryBlackMan Chris' sidekick]].
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'' had Scully, whose background is in hard science like medicine and physics, owning a dog named Queequeg, a reference to one of the Characters in ''Literature/MobyDick''.
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* The titular dog in ''Film/{{Beethoven}}''. His family decided on the name when he seemed to react positively as the youngest girl, Emily, began playing Beethoven's 5th Symphony on the piano. In the sequel, one of his puppies is named Tchaikovsky.
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Doc Brown names his dogs after famous scientists. In 1985, his dog is called Einstein, and in 1955, his dog is called Copernicus. In 1885, his horse is called Copernicus.
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** Likewise, Clarissa herself has a pet alligator named [[ElvisPresley "Elvis"]].
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* When Liz Lemon of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' is threatening to [[OldMaid give up looking for love]] and succumb to being a CrazyCatLady:
-->'''Liz:''' I have adopted this cat, named her EmilyDickinson-- \\
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'''Liz:''' --NAMED HER [[ReclusiveArtist EMILY]] [[{{Anvilicious}} DICKINSON!]]
-->'''Liz:''' I have adopted this cat, named her EmilyDickinson-- \\
'''Writers:''' ''[CollectiveGroan]'' \\
'''Liz:''' --NAMED HER [[ReclusiveArtist EMILY]] [[{{Anvilicious}} DICKINSON!]]
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* In ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced'', Rev. Julian Harmon, an [[{{Oxbridge}} Oxford alumnus]], named his dog after an Assyrian king.
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': MadScientist Doc Brown's dog in 1985 is Einstein, his dog in 1955 is Copernicus.
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* In ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced'', Rev. Julian Harmon, an [[{{Oxbridge}} Oxford alumni]], named his dog after an Assyrian king.
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* ''{{VideoGame/Skullgirls}}''' Peacock [[PopCulturedBadass is a huge fan of cartoons]], so it's natural that her little bird sidekick, Avery, takes his name from [[Creator/TexAvery one of the most famous animators of the medium]].
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Not to be confused with TributeToFido, which is when a name is an homage to a pet.
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* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', Dr. Kleiner has a "de-beaked" headcrab named after HedyLamarr. It's both a bad StealthPun and a ShoutOut to a classic actress- one who helped pioneer early wi-fi and cordless technologies.
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* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', Dr. Kleiner has a "de-beaked" headcrab named after HedyLamarr.Creator/HedyLamarr. It's both a bad StealthPun and a ShoutOut to a classic actress- one who helped pioneer early wi-fi and cordless technologies.
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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', after a breakup with not-his-girlfriend Amy Farrah Fowler, theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper gets a cat that he names Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and takes him everywhere. Soon Sheldon becomes a [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Cat Gentleman]] and gets an entire Manhattan Project of cats -- Fermi, Feynman, Teller, Frisch, and OddNameOut Zazzles, because that cat is so zazzy
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* Dora in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has a cat named [[Creator/ChinaMieville Miéville]].
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* Dora in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has a cat named [[Creator/ChinaMieville Miéville]].
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See also WeNamedTheMonkeyJack, when the homage is to a personal friend/relative/acquaintance.
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What Could Have Been is trivia, and should not be linked to from trope pages. There are plenty of examples that actually were, anyway.
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It's a simple way to provide characterization: if you're highly educated and/or sophisticated you give a likewise name to your pet. A popular scientist to name cats after is Erwin Schrödinger, best known for his SchrodingersCat thought experiment. Popular enough to be a StockAnimalName.
It doesn't have to be a scientist naming the cat for another scientist. If you're an expert in a given field, you give an appropriate name to the pet. A musician may name the dog after a famous composer, a literature professor named the cat for an ancient king, a physicist who named the ferret "Proton", etc. You're just too damn intelligent to own a dog named Rover or a parrot named Polly.
Often a SubTrope of NamedAfterSomebodyFamous, when using famous, historic names. Could also overlap with FormallyNamedPet, should some egghead name the dog ''Professor'' Einstein.
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* In ''Manga/GetBackers'', Madoka Otowa is a BlindMusician that gets guided around by a seeing eye corgi that she named Mozart.
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* ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'': Merlin's {{Familiar}} is an owl named Archimedes.
* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' has a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen: Linguist Milo Thatch was originally going to have a pet rat named Plato.
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': MadScientist Doc Brown's dog in 1985 is Einstein, his dog in 1955 is Copernicus.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': [[TheMunchausen Baron Munchausen's]] [[CoolHorse horse]] is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus Bucephalus]], thus making this trope OlderThanRadio.
* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', bumbling inventor Wayne Szalinski has a dog named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark Quark]].
* In ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', inventor Caratacus Potts has a dog named Edison.
* In ''Film/ElviraMistressOfTheDark'' this trope is used as one of many small gauges of the lead's average smarts. Elvira has an UnexpectedInheritance of a mansion, "cookbook", and a poodle. Her great aunt, a powerful, savvy witch, named him Algonquin after the American Indian tribe. Elvira is much more Earthy and neither dumb or brainy, so she shortens his name to Gonk.
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* ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer'': Dan, the brilliant engineer on the cutting edge of domestic robotics, named his cat Petronius the Arbiter.
* In the ''Literature/RepairmanJack'' series, Abe is a gun-dealer and technical expert on firearms; gun design, mechanical specifications, upkeep, customization, and repair. He'd probably have found a great job in the industry if he wasn't so determined to remain independent. He calls his pet parakeet Parabellum, the name of a specific type of cartridge.
* ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'' is the novel that ''the Sword and the Stone'' was adapted from. Like the Disney film, Merlin's Familiar is an owl named Archimedes.
* Discouraged in ''Literature/HowNotToWriteANovel'', noting that if your novel's protagonist ''must'' have a cat, do not name it after a composer (such as Bartok), after a writer (Hemingway), after an ancient Greek (Socrates) or after a person that reflects the character's political leanings (Trotsky), among several other examples.
* In ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced'', Rev. Julian Harmon, an [[{{Oxbridge}} Oxford alumni]], named his dog after an Assyrian king.
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* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Mathematics professor Talmidge Cregg has a cat named Nicodemus.
* ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'' has an episode where Ferguson, her InsufferableGenius brother, finds a lost cat that he names William F. Buckley.
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', after a breakup with not-his-girlfriend Amy Farrah Fowler, theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper gets a cat that he names Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and takes him everywhere. Soon Sheldon becomes a [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Cat Gentleman]] and gets an entire Manhattan Project of cats -- Fermi, Feynman, Teller, Frisch, and OddNameOut Zazzles, because that cat is so zazzy
* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'': In the first episode, Quinn- the inventor/discoverer of Sliding- mentions his cat named Schrödinger.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' had Scully, whose background is in hard science like medicine and physics, owning a dog named Queequeg, a reference to one of the Characters in ''Literature/MobyDick''.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'' had Samantha Carter, the team SmartGuy, owning a cat named Schrödinger in some of the later seasons.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', the victim was a talented musician who had named her bird Chopin.
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* In ''Radio/EdReardonsWeek'', Reardon is a witty, down on his luck writer, whose IntelligenceEqualsIsolation. The only friend he has is the cat, named after Music/EdwardElgar.
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* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', TheMedic owns a pet dove named Archimedes, but he runs more in the MadScientist direction, gleefully describing how he once stole a live patient's skeleton.
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', Dr. Kleiner has a "de-beaked" headcrab named after HedyLamarr. It's both a bad StealthPun and a ShoutOut to a classic actress- one who helped pioneer early wi-fi and cordless technologies.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'' the boy genius designed and built his robot dog and named him Goddard in honor of rocket science physicist and inventor Robert Goddard. Especially apt when, in his first animated feature film, Jimmy is able to ride upon Goddard like a space bike.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', the Rat King is a MadScientist with the power over rats, and names all of his rats after famous Greeks and Romans; such as Caligula for his giant rat steed and Aristotle for his seeing eye rat.
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It doesn't have to be a scientist naming the cat for another scientist. If you're an expert in a given field, you give an appropriate name to the pet. A musician may name the dog after a famous composer, a literature professor named the cat for an ancient king, a physicist who named the ferret "Proton", etc. You're just too damn intelligent to own a dog named Rover or a parrot named Polly.
Often a SubTrope of NamedAfterSomebodyFamous, when using famous, historic names. Could also overlap with FormallyNamedPet, should some egghead name the dog ''Professor'' Einstein.
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* In ''Manga/GetBackers'', Madoka Otowa is a BlindMusician that gets guided around by a seeing eye corgi that she named Mozart.
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* ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'': Merlin's {{Familiar}} is an owl named Archimedes.
* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' has a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen: Linguist Milo Thatch was originally going to have a pet rat named Plato.
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': MadScientist Doc Brown's dog in 1985 is Einstein, his dog in 1955 is Copernicus.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': [[TheMunchausen Baron Munchausen's]] [[CoolHorse horse]] is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus Bucephalus]], thus making this trope OlderThanRadio.
* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', bumbling inventor Wayne Szalinski has a dog named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark Quark]].
* In ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', inventor Caratacus Potts has a dog named Edison.
* In ''Film/ElviraMistressOfTheDark'' this trope is used as one of many small gauges of the lead's average smarts. Elvira has an UnexpectedInheritance of a mansion, "cookbook", and a poodle. Her great aunt, a powerful, savvy witch, named him Algonquin after the American Indian tribe. Elvira is much more Earthy and neither dumb or brainy, so she shortens his name to Gonk.
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* ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer'': Dan, the brilliant engineer on the cutting edge of domestic robotics, named his cat Petronius the Arbiter.
* In the ''Literature/RepairmanJack'' series, Abe is a gun-dealer and technical expert on firearms; gun design, mechanical specifications, upkeep, customization, and repair. He'd probably have found a great job in the industry if he wasn't so determined to remain independent. He calls his pet parakeet Parabellum, the name of a specific type of cartridge.
* ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'' is the novel that ''the Sword and the Stone'' was adapted from. Like the Disney film, Merlin's Familiar is an owl named Archimedes.
* Discouraged in ''Literature/HowNotToWriteANovel'', noting that if your novel's protagonist ''must'' have a cat, do not name it after a composer (such as Bartok), after a writer (Hemingway), after an ancient Greek (Socrates) or after a person that reflects the character's political leanings (Trotsky), among several other examples.
* In ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced'', Rev. Julian Harmon, an [[{{Oxbridge}} Oxford alumni]], named his dog after an Assyrian king.
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* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Mathematics professor Talmidge Cregg has a cat named Nicodemus.
* ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'' has an episode where Ferguson, her InsufferableGenius brother, finds a lost cat that he names William F. Buckley.
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', after a breakup with not-his-girlfriend Amy Farrah Fowler, theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper gets a cat that he names Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and takes him everywhere. Soon Sheldon becomes a [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Cat Gentleman]] and gets an entire Manhattan Project of cats -- Fermi, Feynman, Teller, Frisch, and OddNameOut Zazzles, because that cat is so zazzy
* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'': In the first episode, Quinn- the inventor/discoverer of Sliding- mentions his cat named Schrödinger.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' had Scully, whose background is in hard science like medicine and physics, owning a dog named Queequeg, a reference to one of the Characters in ''Literature/MobyDick''.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'' had Samantha Carter, the team SmartGuy, owning a cat named Schrödinger in some of the later seasons.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', the victim was a talented musician who had named her bird Chopin.
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* In ''Radio/EdReardonsWeek'', Reardon is a witty, down on his luck writer, whose IntelligenceEqualsIsolation. The only friend he has is the cat, named after Music/EdwardElgar.
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* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', TheMedic owns a pet dove named Archimedes, but he runs more in the MadScientist direction, gleefully describing how he once stole a live patient's skeleton.
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', Dr. Kleiner has a "de-beaked" headcrab named after HedyLamarr. It's both a bad StealthPun and a ShoutOut to a classic actress- one who helped pioneer early wi-fi and cordless technologies.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'' the boy genius designed and built his robot dog and named him Goddard in honor of rocket science physicist and inventor Robert Goddard. Especially apt when, in his first animated feature film, Jimmy is able to ride upon Goddard like a space bike.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', the Rat King is a MadScientist with the power over rats, and names all of his rats after famous Greeks and Romans; such as Caligula for his giant rat steed and Aristotle for his seeing eye rat.
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