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* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': When the Minister of Magic suddenly turns up at The Burrow over Christmas, along with the estranged Percy, Molly is overcome with emotion, and offers the Minister a little purkey, or some tooding.
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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Lampshaded when [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-11-25 Kevyn]] is getting drunk with a clone of the author of ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}''.

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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Lampshaded Kevyn sometimes spoonerizes when drunk, as [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-11-25 Kevyn]] is getting drunk with lampshaded by]] a clone of the author of ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}''.
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* "Betty Swollocks" "Mary Hinge" and "Joe Blob" have long been favourite topics of jokes, etc.
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* ''VideoGame/NordAndBertCouldntMakeHeadOrTailOfIt'': One chapter, titled "Shake a Tower", is based around spoonerisms. The player has to change a shoving leopard into a loving shepherd, a well-boiled icicle into a well-oiled bicycle, a gritty pearl into a pretty girl, etc. It climaxes with a [[BeanstalkParody Jack and the Beanstalk]]-style battle against a "clean giant" (jean client).
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* Dean Grey was a pseudonym for a collaboration between mashup producers Party Ben and [=Team9=] - their only work together was ''American Edit'', a mashup album themed around Music/GreenDay's ''Music/AmericanIdiot''.
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* Creator/AndrewSchultz's ''I Heart High Art'' series of InteractiveFiction games revolves around solving puzzles by visiting spoonerism-themed places and using items you find. For instance, the first game has "All Smiles" vs. "Small Isles" and "Pick Quest" vs. "Quick Pest".
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* Firesign Theater's "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger" presents Nick's encounter with Rocky Rococco who tries to sell a ring to him that once belonged to an acquaintence. Nick called it "a two-bit ring from a Cracker Back jox."
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* In ''Film/WatchYourStern'', when Captain Foster tries to stop Admiral Pettigrew from thinking Potter is an imposter:
-->'''Captain Foster''': Well, but... that's impotterable, sir.
-->'''Admiral Pettigrew''': What's "impotterable", Foster?
-->'''Captain Foster''': Well, sir, imposterable that, er, Potter should be an infoster, er, "poster", sir.
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* In ''Film/DoctorAtLarge'', Joy calls a circus asking to send all they've got on elephants to St. Swithin's but gets sent all the elephants they've got (although it's implied that Joy had the mistake made intentionally to undermine Dr. Bingham):
-->'''Dr. Bingham''': Oh, no! I told them to send all they'd got on elephants, not all the elephants they'd got!
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** Also "Take me drunk, I'm home!"

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