Companion Cube / Western Animation

• 50/50 Heroes: Mr. Brick calls his wig "Jacqueline" and talks to it.
• Adventure Time:
  • Almost all of the residents of Ooo are composed of sentient candy, mountains, teddy bears, etc. However, in the beginning of "The Jiggler", Finn and Jake are rescuing a "family" consisting of seemingly random food, although one, a watermelon, is named Stanley. None of them are sentient, and yet they have a house and apparently they get into danger constantly.
  • Marceline and her stuffed toy monkey Hambo. It was given to her by Simon Petrikov who became Ice King as a child. In the episode "Memory of a Memory" she is seen fixing Hambo and talking to him, calling him her only friend. She loves it so much she broke up with her Jerkass boyfriend because he sold it. Later, in the episode "Sky Witch", she travels with Princess Bubblegum to retrieve it from Maja the witch and when they encounter a talking Hambo in the woods, she actually believes it could be the real Hambo talking to her, until it is revealed as a trap by PB.
• All Hail King Julien: Julien tends to talk out his own problems with Amelia, the skeletal remains of the airplane pilot, holding entire conversations although we never get to hear her responses. Even some of the other characters like Maurice have been known to do this.
• American Dad!
  • Stan seems to have a rather intimate relationship with his gun. It "laughs" by shooting.
  • An episode featured Steve dating a girl who had a doll as a companion whom she believed was alive and could talk to her, and which she sets up on a date with Steve's friend Snot, who is not amused. When the girl thinks that Snot raped her doll, she goes as far as taking the doll to a hospital because she believes that it's pregnant. Eventually Steve and Snot write a suicide note and hang the doll from the ceiling fan, but she thinks the doll was murdered because it wasn't "her handwriting".
• Stump from The Angry Beavers. Stump is clearly a sentient being. He just never shows any signs of life onscreen. And he even manages to communicate occasionally by Talking with Signs.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Meatwad's best friend is a Blaxploitation hero named Boxy Brown. You figure it out.
  • Meatwad has other "friends", including Dewey (a paper towel tube), Vanessa (an apple) and Jeffy (a garden hose). However, Boxy is the only one that the audience can hear speak, even though he's just a box.
    Boxy Brown: I'm just a what, bitch?
  • Boxy even helps Shake learn what it means to be black when Shake temporarily turns black after being bitten by a radioactive black man.
• Sokka's boomerang in Avatar: The Last Airbender. But he really does always come back! Except the last time.
• A variant in the crime "duo" of Scarface (a ventriloquist's dummy) and Arnold "The Ventriloquist" Wesker in Batman: The Animated Series. Wesker suffers from multiple-personality disorder, but Scarface comes up with all the evil schemes, and ruthlessly bullies his alter ego (whom he calls "Dummy", just to hammer home the point of who is really in charge). Even the other members of the gang fear and respect Scarface. In Justice League, there's a quick, creepy visual gag that implies giving the puppet a lobotomy with heat vision is all it takes to cure Wesker.
• Megatron's rubber duck in Beast Wars. It has its own wiki page.
• In a parody of Cast Away, an episode of Being Ian has Ian trapped on a sandbar and talking to polystyrene coffee cup.
• Big City Greens: Tilly Green has Saxon, a burlap sack with a face sewn onto it that she talks to (complete with some Holding Both Sides of the Conversation) and generally treats as if it were alive.
• Bob in Bob's Burgers does this on a fairly regular basis, ranging from a cutout of Keanu Reeves to a night light to the Thanksgiving turkey. It's later explained that this stems from Bob having no friends as a child, and his only toys were a bar of soap and a scrubbing pad.
• In one episode of The Brak Show, Zorak finds Brak talking to a lobster doll named Hippo ("He's a hell of a guy!") and throws it away because he's just mean. Brak gets a replacement, Dr. Grumbles, who actually can talk, but in something of a subversion, only Zorak and Thundercleese can hear him.
• Although he's capable of creating other sentient robot minions, Grizzle from Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot prefers the company of Mr. Beaks, a completely inanimate bird made from scrap metal that he treats as a living being.
• Code Lyoko:
  • Aelita's doll Mister Pück, first introduced as a living elf in her dreams. It is also the basis for her Lyoko Avatar.
  • The teddy bear from the first episode, "TeddyGozilla", might also count... until it is possessed by XANA.
• Code Monkeys has this with Todd's on again, off again girlfriend, a doll named Tiffany, who in recent episodes comes off as rather abusive.
• Danny Phantom:
  • There are times when Tucker shares special bonding moments with his PDA, sometimes with the former treating the latter like a lover.
    Tucker: If I don't make it, tell my PDA I love her. The cell phone meant nothing to me.
  • Other technology, too.
    Tucker (Talking to a security camera in a loving voice): Hello special new friend.
• Darkwing Duck:
  • A member of the Rogues Gallery, Quackerjack, has Mr. Banana Brain, a doll which he treats as completely real, despite speaking the doll's side of the conversation also.
    • This reached a particularly strange point in the episode "The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain", in which Mr. BB becomes possessed by a demonic spirit. Even though the doll was actually moving and talking on its own for once, Quackerjack never seemed to notice much difference besides commenting on how Banana Brain's voice was deeper than usual.
    • In the revival comic, after Negaduck destroys Mr. Banana Brain, Quackerjack goes completely Ax-Crazy in response and suddenly becomes incredibly dangerous.
  • Another villain, Megavolt, is either insane or an electrical empath (both have been implied). He considers all electrical devices to be sentient beings, and many of his crimes revolve around "rescuing" or "freeing" his electrical brethren. He also gets rather upset when he goes through all the effort of setting them free and they just sit there doing nothing.
    Megavolt: (to light bulbs) Run away! Runawayrunaway! Oh no, they can't move! They've been weakened by the long servitude!
• Dexter's Laboratory has a Suck E. Cheese's episode featuring a stuffed Monkey doll that DeeDee believes she could talk to her. Their conversations are surprisingly dark, almost veering into The Shining territory. Naturally, this is all completely accurate.
  DeeDee: What was that, Monkey? (listens intently) Yes, Monkey! I too can see into the future!
  Mom: DeeDee! Time to go! Have you seen your brother?
  DeeDee: What was that Monkey? (listens intently) Monkey says that Chubby Cheeses took him into the deepest, darkest shadows!
• Glen's Planet-Man action figure in Dogstar.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • In "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", Scrooge had a clump of hair named "Whiskers" as a pet when he was a little boy, because his parents were too poor at the time to afford a dog. Scrooge finds it an embarrassing memory now, but he clearly cared deeply for Whiskers as a child.
    Downy: Oh, how Scroogey loved his Whiskers!
    Fergus: Ay, but who ended up having to walk him and feed him?
    Scrooge: It was a ball of hair!
    Fergus: How dare you talk about Whiskers like that! He was family!
  • In "Moonvasion!", Donald is revealed to have been stranded on an island for approximately a month, and at some point during that time, he made a friend out of watermelons which resembles Mickey Mouse. He even does a voice for it.
    Della: Has the melon been a thing the whole time I've been gone, or...?
    Huey: No, that's new.
  • In "How Santa Stole Christmas!", Scrooge assists Santa Claus on his rounds and, disapproving of him giving away toys for nothing, secretly replaces them with "practical" lumps of coal, (unaware of its modern-day status as a prank gift for naughty children). One pivotal scene has him giving a lump to a poor little girl named Jennifer, but to his chagrin, she treats the coal like a doll and names it "Coalette".
    Scrooge: You can use that to stoke the fire and heat things up. Here... (reaches for it)
    Jennifer: No, don't hurt Coalette! I love her so much already!
    Scrooge: You'd love her more when she warms up this place. If I could just—
    Jennifer: But if you burn her, she'll be gone forever!
    Scrooge: What is with everyone?! When I was a poor lad, I would have killed for a lump of coal on Christmas! It may not be the frivolous thing you want, but it's the practical thing you need! To give you warmth for even just one night! And what could do that better?
    (he sees Jennifer sweetly hugging the coal, giving her a different kind of warmth)
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • Plank, a literal plank of wood with a face drawn on that Johnny carries around everywhere, is the show's main example. A very creepy one at that, as he could appear in places that Johnny 2x4 would not have had time or ability to access, including one notable occasion when it set off a Rube Goldberg Device set up by the Eds causing them to be affected rather than their intended target.
  • Kevin's treatment of his bike is sometimes shown as this. The Movie takes it to the point of being a Cargo Ship, with him repeatedly showing more concern for it than his sort-of-girlfriend Nazz.
  • Also, Sheldon, Ed's stinky hunk of cheese.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • Phillip, Cosmo's (female) nickel.
  • Trixie is paired with a rock for a class project when she and Timmy are the only living beings in the room without partners.
  • Recurring villain Dark Laser has Flipsie, the flipping toy dog. Every single episode he's in, he spends at least one scene talking to Flipsie, and actually seems to take advice from him. In one episode, Foop told him to seek help - and since Foop himself isn't exactly the poster boy for sanity...
  • Catman by Season 9 was shown to have a ball of yarn named Don as his only friend besides Timmy Turner.
• Rupert, Stewie's teddy bear, from Family Guy. Stewie evidently views him as... a big, muscular thong-clad man with a teddy bear head.
  • Although only shown for a few seconds in a flashback vignette, Chris's Christmas present from Brian, namely a long-dead cat, buzzing insects and all. "I'm gonna call you Sticky Head. I love you Sticky Head."
  • "More tea, Mr. Bike?"
  • Chris's zit. A little different from others in that it turns out to be sentient...and evil.
  • Peter's pet rock that urinates on the carpet.
  • Peter took a woman to prom when he was a teenager. She was apparently so obsessed with him that she never flushed the turd he left in her toilet. She is last seen sprinkling fish food into a toilet bowl asking "You hungry?"
• Fanboy and Chum Chum has a lot of these:
  • Fanboy went to the school dance with a sentient mop, Moppy.
  • Boog treats the Chimp Chomp arcade game as if it's his girlfriend. He does the same thing with his car, Sandy.
  • Lenny acts similarly, though to a much lesser extent, with his bike, Bikey.
  • Janitor Poopatine appears to have a personal relationship with his mechanized chair, Brenda.
  • Yo's best friend is a pine cone named Ingrid. She also has a digital cat named Scampers.
• Freakazoid!: Freakazoid once had his own sidekick named Handman in "The Sidekick Chronicles", which happened to be his own hand with eyes drawn on it, and a voice provided by his ventriloquism. What's more, Handman then had an affair with Freakazoid's other hand, who both shared a long, kissing sequence (which was graphic even for a kids show) and married among a wedding made up of the cheering, dressed hands of the guests. Despite losing his sidekick, Freakazoid hopes to gain a daughter... or an upper hand. Unlike his hand couple, however, his feet are in a very rocky relationship.
• One episode of Gargoyles features an Unknown Rival of Goliath's who wanted revenge. He was a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of John Travolta, and talked to his bazooka, naming it "Mr. Kotter". He spends the entire episode talking about how Goliath is going to "get creamed". The bazooka? Shot pies.
  • Actually it was scripted as "Mr. Carter," but because of the character's accent, it sounded identical to "Kotter."
  • Over the course of the episode, the character flashes back to other episodes when Goliath inadvertently cost him a string of jobs, and he appears at least once more as a Quarryman (his work with Mr. Carter evidently made him feel better at the time but in the long run didn't help his grudge), but he doesn't seem to have bonded with his hammer the way he did Mr. Carter, and he does a Heel–Face Turn after Goliath saves his life. He eventually decides to go to Japan, where he thinks he can get away from Gargoyles.
• In Gasp!, Gasp spends a lot of time talking to Diver; the diver statue at the bottom of his tank.
• In Get Ed, Loogie has a sock puppet named Dr. Pinch who is a good deal saner than the hand that he sits on. The other characters treat him as if he's perfectly normal (Dr. Pinch, not Loogie - they know Loogie's insane). He's also capable of carrying on a full conversation while Loogie is soundly asleep, and will even maintain his voice and personality if one of the other characters picks him up... In fact he was once able to enter a computer simulation when the mind scanner was on his head.
• In Gravity Falls episode "Headhunters", Mabel sculpts a wax statue of Grunkle Stan that Stan quickly develops a liking to. When Wax Stan is beheaded, Stan acts like he's been murdered and even goes as far as to hold a funeral for his wax effigy. After "Not What He Seems", it's implied, and confirmed by Word of God, that Stan was using Wax Stan as a replacement for his own long-lost twin brother.
• A Jimmy Two-Shoes short had Beezy making friends with a perfectly crafted sandwich he made. Naturally, it doesn't last long.
• While martial arts training, Johnny Bravo befriended a pebble. It was surprisingly touching.
• Kaeloo: Olaf is "married" to an ice cube named Olga and treats it like a person.
• Hank Hill from King of the Hill seems to be very attached to propane to the point of him affectionately nicknaming it "Lady Propane" in a few episodes. The episode "Sug Night" almost implies that he has a fetish for it.
  • In "Chasing Bobby", Hank gets very emotional about his aging pickup truck "dying" and even starts crying when he finds he's having trouble starting up the engine (what makes it even funnier is how Hank isn't very emotional when it comes to people but is consistently very much so with inanimate objects that mean a lot to him).
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Wolf has a strong connection to her staff and hates being away from it, also calling it "Stalky" when she is alone with it.
• Slightly weird preschool TV example: Little Bear has a human friend named Emily, who in turn has a doll named Lucy, which she treats as sentient. Her intelligent talking bear friend and his likewise chatty forest buddies think talking to a doll is hilarious.
• The Magic Key: Kipper has a teddy bear (which he named Teddy) which he carries around almost everywhere and talks to as if it can hear him.
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: Lolly Poopdeck is a recurring minor character on the show who is always seen carrying two buckets. Originally being his ongoing job on the harbor, each new episode has him acting as if his buckets are his best pals. Ironically, he is one of the residents who appears to regard Peppermint Larry's candy wife as an inanimate object when hanging with Knuckles in the episode, "Candy Cassinova": "Hanging out with inanimate objects is ridiculous and embarrasing. Right bucket?"
• Middlemost Post: In the DIY short, the gang makes a new 'friend' named Burt, who's made of boxes and bubble wrap.
• Milo Murphy's Law:
  • Milo's science teacher Mrs. Murawski is oddly fixated on her hand-made desk. Occasionally, suggestive saxophone music will play as she admires it.
  • Mildred, a milk carton with a face drawn on one side, is outright treated as a person by Scott the Undergrounder, who is apparently in a relationship with her.
• Molly of Denali: In "Happy Trails," Travis loves his drone, which is shaped like a parakeet and named Patty.
• Ivan Dobsky from Monkey Dust has his space hopper which he calls Mr. Hoppy. It was implied that Mr, Hoppy was the force behind some of Ivan's crimes; having said that, the results when the prison staff took Mr. Hoppy from Ivan definitely count as Squick and probably count as pure terror: Ivan fashioned a new space hopper out of some dead guards. Needless to say, people weren't laughing at him then
• In Moral Orel, Nurse Bendy has a teddy bear family at home she treats as actual family figures, up to making meals and talking broken child-talk with them. This is due to her loneliness and her feeling that men only want her for sex. Which is why she doesn't take it well when the Hubby teddy accidentally falls on her behind. Later on she is reunited with her real son and chooses to abandon the fake teddy-son for the real thing.
• In Muppet Babies (1984), Camilla is a stuffed chick owned by Gonzo, who dotes on her almost as much as in regular continuity.
• Muppet Babies (2018):
  • Gonzo's friend Potato, who is a potato.
  • In "My Buddy", Animal has a stuffed rabbit named Buddy, whom Fozzie becomes attached to when bad things happen to him.
  • Kermit has his Mega Super Ultra Robo Dinosaur action figure.
  • Fozzie has his rubber chicken, Sir Featherbrain. In "Wock-a-Bye Fozzie", he accidentally leaves it at his house during the sleepover at Miss Nanny's house, which is one of the reasons why he doesn't have a good time at the sleepover.
  • Fozzie's little sister, Rozzie has a dump truck that she calls "Gunkie".
  • Jill has her Lady Sparkle doll.
  • Summer has Nattie, a stuffed narwhal. "My Best Toy's Wedding" involves her being wed to Potato.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • "Over a Barrel": Applejack's apple tree Bloomberg gets this treatment. She buys it a private sleeping car in a train and reads it bedtime stories. Spike gets into the act when he bunks with Bloomberg to get away from the girls' night-time chatter, and apologizes in advance to the tree if he starts snoring. (This may be justified if he snores fire, however.)
  • "Party of One": Pinkie Pie has a nervous breakdown when she thinks her friends don't want to come to her parties anymore. She sets up a pile of rocks ("Rocky"), a sack of flour ("Madame Le Flour"), a bucket of turnips ("Mr. Turnip"), and a piece of lint ("Sir Lintsalot") as her new friends, and tries to throw a party with them. Pinkie Pie does their voices so well that she even gets Rainbow Dash to argue with the rocks. The most noticeable sign of Pinkie's deepening depression and insanity is that at first, she pretends that "Rocky", "Madame Le Flour" and the rest are talking to her by nudging them back and forth to create the illusion of movement. When they give her the Armor-Piercing Question, she loses any sanity she had left and her party guests seem to start moving on their own. And then the camera zooms out to reveal that the "party guests" are still inanimate, as always...
  • In" The Return of Harmony", Rarity is brainwashed by Discord into thinking a boulder is actually a giant diamond. She becomes increasingly obsessed with and protective of it, and starts calling it "Tom".
  • In "Lesson Zero", Twilight Sparkle introduces her cherished childhood toy "Smarty Pants": a raggedy old stuffed pony doll with a notebook and quill. Twilight casts an enchantment spell that makes everypony in town to be attracted to the doll, leading to a large fight between all of them over it. After the spell is lifted, every pony loses interest and leaves the doll behind, except for Big Macintosh who is (for some unexplained reason) still attracted to it and ends up running away with it.
  • In "Pinkie Pride", Pinkie's rival Cheese Sandwich has a rubber chicken he calls "Boneless", which he talks to and carries with him on his travels around Equestria. When he leaves he gives Boneless to Pinkie, only to pull out another one called Boneless Two to replace it. By the time of the Grand Finale, they're up to the sixth Boneless, now in the possession of Pinkie and Cheese's foal Lil' Cheese.
  • In "Maud Pie", the title character has a small pet rock ironically named "Boulder". This is the third rock-based companion cube depicted in this series.
    • How alive Boulder actually is is played with throughout his appearances. He's usually treated as an inanimate rock, but certain incidents throw that into question. For instance, at one point in "Maud Pie", Maud pushes him towards some food; the camera cuts away, and when it cuts back, the food is gone. No-one seems to notice.
    • In the film My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, a humanized Maud produces Boulder, explains he is hungry, and proceeds to pour a box of crackers over the rock.
    • In "The Maud Couple", Maud's new boyfriend Mudbriar has a pet stick called Twiggy. In one scene, the two put the pebble and stick next to each other on the ground and comment on how cute they are playing together.
  • Downplayed Trope in "Inspiration Manifestation". Rarity considers the titular Tome of Eldritch Lore to be an actual person, which Spike admits is pretty creepy. That said, she's never seen to try and interact with it, nor is she all that upset when the book is destroyed. (Though that's mostly because she didn't need the book by that point.)
  • In "The Mane Attraction", Pinkie Pie carries a drinking straw she named "Fernando".
  • The Movie gives us the hippogriff/seapony Princess Skystar who has two oyster shells creatively named "Shelly" and "Sheldon" as best friends.
  • In "Sounds of Silence", we are introduced to a Kirin named Autumn Blaze who has collected several of these during her years of exile including some baskets, her own shadow and one of her hooves which she sometimes draws a face on.
  • In "Frenemies", it's shown Queen Chrysalis has taken to treating a purple log like this, often speaking to it and refusing to let anyone take it from her. A bit more creepy when it's heavily implied said log is all that's left of her Evil Knockoff of Twilight from "The Mean 6".
  • And finally, from "A Horse Shoe-In", there's Phyliss, a potted philodendron that Starlight Glimmer talks to throughout the episode. When "he" ends up being trashed by Trixie, Starlight is visibly distraught.
• Nerds and Monsters: In "Monster and Commander", Stan starts taking orders from a rock. Later, the rock apparently starts demanding a human sacrifice.
  • A more series-wide example that also counts as a Cargo Ship is Zarg's "wife", a sea monster rubber ring named "Maiden Cheena" after the label the monsters found on her when she washed on shore.
• Numb Chucks: In "Huh Brother Where Art Thou?", Dilweed spends a year hiding in a closet to win a game of hide-and-seek. During this time, he draws a face on a bucket and adopts it as his new best friend (and continually loses staring contests to it).
• Oggy and the Cockroaches has an episode called The Cube. Oggy spends his entire day with a cube that just keeps becoming bigger and bigger, until his girlfriend Olivia has to seduce him to snap out of it.
• Rico from The Penguins of Madagascar has an amorous relationship with a doll.
• Pet Alien:
  • Granville DeSpray treats a dog statue (which he dubs Admiral Puff) as his best friend, frequently talking to it and even having tea parties with it. "The Little Monster Ball" reveals he has a whole room full of animal statues that he treats like his friends.
  • "The Thing on the Corner" revolves around Dinko befriending a mailbox when Tommy won't play with him. He eventually steals the mailbox in a misguided attempt to save it from the mailman.
• In Phineas and Ferb Dr. Doofenshmirtz's only childhood friend was a balloon with a face drawn onto it, which he talks to and calls "Balloony." In a later episode, he gets another one he names "Balloony 2."
  • In "Meapless In Seattle", Balloony returns. Apparently, he really is sentient and cares for Doofenshmirtz. Or maybe it's just his super-suit.
  • In "No More Bunny Business", Doofenshmirtz is upset when Perry the Platypus doesn't show up on schedule, and creates a new nemesis by putting a fedora on a potted plant, which he dubs "Planty the Potted Plant". It not only defeats him, but is made an agent of OWCA at the end of the episode.
• The Pink Panther gets tricked into buying a pet rock in the short "Pet Pink Pebbles". The franchise being what it is, the rock is truly alive and grows up into a massive boulder under his care.
• A spool of thread, which was said to be Pinky's sister in Pinky and the Brain.
  • In another episode, Pinky's actor is "married" to a sock puppet. When Brain's actor's wife kicks him out, Pinky said that his "wife" did the same... "or maybe she just fell behind the dryer."
• In Postman Pat, baby Nikhil adores his green rabbit toy (named Green Rabbit); he brings it everywhere with him. The episode "Postman Pat and the Green Rabbit" has Nikhil and Green Rabbit accompany Pat and Jess on the post rounds while Nisha and Ajay are away, and everywhere they go, Green Rabbit seems to disappear, making Nikhil cry.
• Ready Jet Go!: Sean, Sydney, and Mindy all have one. Sean has his Neil Armstrong action figure, Sydney has her Commander Cressida action figure, and Mindy has her teddy bear, Stuffy Bear. Sean sometimes talks to his Neil figure and is very distraught when something happens to it.
• Parodied on The Ren & Stimpy Show with the "Log" commercials.
• Rosie's Rules: Iggy has a stuffed axolotl named Lote, and sometimes blames his actions on the toy.
  Rosie: Iggy! Did you eat one of our ingredients?!
  Iggy: Lote did it.
• Mr. Buns from Ruby Gloom is a weird sort of cross between this and a Living Toy; when he's on-screen, he seems totally inanimate, and just to be treated as though he's a character by the other characters. But the moment he's off-screen, he seems to be genuinely animate, doing things like stealing buns or, in one case, fencing with Poe.
  • This is highlighted in "Missing Buns", when Misery shocks everyone else by claiming that Mr. Buns is just a stuffed sock and therefore irrelevant to their game of hide-and-seek. By the next morning, she concedes defeat to Mr. Buns and goes to bed.
• Rugrats (1991):
  • Angelica's tattered fashion doll, Cynthia, which she treats as her most valued possession. Later on in the Time Skip series, All Grown Up!, it is revealed that she still has the doll and still cares for it like she did as a child.
  • Tommy's stuffed lion, Henry, as seen in the episode, "Rebel Without a Teddy Bear," which focuses on Tommy going through a rebel phase when Didi considers throwing Henry away.
  • Chuckie's teddy bear, Wawa, as of Rugrats in Paris. It was a gift from his deceased biological mother.
  • Kimi's Superthing, a superhero doll made from an oven mitt.
  • Phil and Lil's teddy bear, Bill, as seen in the episode, "Together at Last".
• Scaredy Squirrel has his pet plant Richard.
• The Sheep in the Big City episode "Can't Live Without Ewe" at one point has Sheep attempt to remedy his loneliness by having conversations with a giant dust bunny.
• The Simpsons:
  • Once Mr. Burns give an employee of the month award to... an inanimate carbon rod. Later in the same episode, a second inanimate carbon rod is hailed as the one who saved a space mission from disaster, and it ends up on the cover of Time, with the title "In Rod We Trust!" Homer is not happy. In a Continuity Nod, a much later glimpse at the nuclear plant employee chart gives us just enough time to see that Homer is right at the bottom... and the rod is his immediate superior.
  • Homer, to Bart and Lisa: "Are you kids hugging the TV?". That said, Homer himself seems to be a little too attached to the TV as well, describing it as his "secret lover" in a "Treehouse of Horror" and listing it as a member of the family alongside Maggie and the family pets in another one.
  • When Marge throws Homer out of the house he creates a replacement version out of a plant and a paper plate. He then freaks out when it falls out of the tree house.
• Mr. Hat and Mr. Twig on South Park. At least, Mr. Garrison treats them as real characters. To the point of rushing Mr. Twig to the hospital and accusing Mr. Hat of trying to kill him. Mr. Hat in particular leans into Animate Inanimate Object territory, and despite being an inanimate hand puppet who never moves onscreen at all^note aside from his eyes occasionally moving, manages to drive a truck into the side of the jail to break Mr. Garrison out. Mr. Hat also manages to vanish from Mr. Garrison's hand when Garrison refuses to take him to a Klan meeting, and later appears at said meeting.
  • Mr. Hat also managed to beat up Mr. Mackey whilst removed from Mr. Garrison's hand in "Worldwide Recorder Concert", has shown up in a sauna with John Elway, showing signs of life, and is a boss in the South Park video game, seen piloting a Giant Robot.
  • Cartman's toys in 1% are a much darker example, showing his twisted, schizophrenic mind.
• Spliced has had a few cases, such as the coconut and tire from "Stupid Means Never Having To Say "I'm Sorry", and the eponymous pancake of "Helen".
• Several times in Spongebob Squarepants:
  • Patrick enters a rock in the snail race. Somehow, "Rocky" wins.
  • SpongeBob's "Bubble Buddy" from the episode of the same name, though he turns out to be animate after all.
  • Spat from "All That Glitters", thought it also seems to be sentient.
  • In the episode "I Had an Accident", SpongeBob shuts himself in his house with his three "new friends" Penny (a copper one-cent piece), Chip (a potato chip), and Used Napkin (take a wild guess). He acts as though they can speak, and carries on one-sided conversations ("I could do without your sarcasm, Used Napkin!"). Patrick at least treats them as being real, tearfully commenting on Penny's beautiful singing voice, as well as thanking Chip when he 'showed them the door', an act apparently done by Spongebob tossing it at the door.
  • Mr. Krabs treats his money like they're his friends, but when the Flying Dutchman gave him the ability to talk to money, they didn't like him because he never spends them.
  • Squidward affectionately calls his clarinet "Clarie", he also sleeps with it in his bed and says good night to it.
  • Then there was the episode "To Love a Patty", where SpongeBob creates a Krabby Patty so perfect he ends up falling in love with it and refuses to eat it at all.
• The Tick once created his own Companion Cube sidekick, Little Wooden Boy. And unfortunately was forced to burn him in order to escape the belly of a whale.
  • There was also Arthur's nemesis Handy, a hand puppet belonging to The Human Ton.
  • In the live action adaptation, The Tick converses and attempts to reason with a clogged toilet.
• Timon & Pumbaa: In one episode, Pumbaa ditches Timon in favor of a meteorite that fell from the sky. It ends up becoming a better friend for Pumbaa (despite being a space rock) and this causes Timon to get jealous and find a new friend. The friendship is only temporary, since Timon and Pumbaa reunite again and the meteor strikes a new relationship with a cheetah.
• In one episode of Total Drama Island, Owen has a very intense emotional bonding experience with a coconut he names "Mr. Coconut" when he believes he is stranded on a desert island and starts going crazy. Later, the other campers vote it off the island for the sake of his mental health. The last scene of the episode shows Mr. Coconut floating out to sea. The entire thing is a Shout-Out to Tom Hanks and Wilson the volleyball in Cast Away.
• The T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Mall Rat" has Snaptrap carve a face into a bar of soap and act as if it is a sentient companion, believing the soap to be a woman named Vivian.
• Sammy, a dead rat, in Wayside. Miss Mush seems to be able to interact with him with no problem, and he routinely beats her at cards. "How you do that? You dead!"
• Lampy (not that one), Awful Alvin's "sidekick" on Larry-boy: The Animated Series.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(1987), Slash is Rocksteady's pet turtle. When Slash is accidentally exposed to mutagen, Bebop and Rocksteady are able to keep Slash in line by holding his "binky" over him, a plastic palm tree from his terrarium. Slash is obsessed with the binky, to the point that he will do anything that anyone who has his binky (or who he believes has the binky) tells him to.
• In the The Venture Bros. episode "The Revenge Society", the villain Revenge AKA Phantom Limb is completely insane, and the rest of his organization consists of various inanimate objects that he believes are people: Lady Nightshade, a woman's shoe, Chuck, a toaster, and a coffee mug named Wisdom, who he believes is a traitor and executes.
• In an incredibly literal case of this trope, the Eliacube in Wakfu is this for Nox, who is heartbroken and obsessive enough to hear it talk back. In the end, this relationship turns ugly.
  • Though at this point its rather ambiguous whether the cube spoke to Nox, or whether he was just that insane. It's possible that Quilby, the entity inside the cube was speaking to Nox.
• Grizzly from the We Bare Bears "Burrito" episode finds that he just can't bring himself to eat a giant burrito, which Panda and Ice Bear end up paying for (along with the other burritos when Grizz failed to complete the challenge). He takes the burrito to the movie theater, and the owners even end up charging the price of another ticket, which Panda and Ice aren't thrilled about either. Grizz gets defensive whenever Panda or Ice talks negatively about the burrito and even says its/"his" name is Burrito, not ''that'' burrito. Panda reads articles about other people obsessed with food items including an Idaho woman obsessed with a bag of potato chips, someone in Japan marrying a bowl of ramen, and someone else adopting a jar of pickles. A flashback reveals that when Grizz was rescued by a fireman as a cub, the burrito resembled the fireman's arm wrapped in a foil-like protective sleeve.
  • Panda has a body pillow of an anime girl called Miki-chan who he treats as if it were an actual person, and he's also very attached to his phone, who he calls "Cellie." In one episode, Grizz also acts as if Miki-chan were real, and another episode shows that before Panda met the other bears, he was raised alone in a sanctuary where the workers gave him a stuffed toy panda when he was lonely, which he spoke to and had conversations with, and it even helped him escape to the outside world.
• Work It Out Wombats!: Zeke has a stuffy named Snout. Zeke takes Snout everywhere with him, has "conversations" with the plush, and will never let go of him, even if he's dirty and in desperate need of a wash. Zeke also uses Snout as a form of projection and self-expression; no, Zeke isn't afraid of zip-lining, it's Snout who's afraid.
• Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: Yadina has a stuffed turtle named Dr. Zoom, who she loves very much and treats as a real person. Berby also plays with Dr. Zoom as if they're buddies, which takes this trope even farther since Berby herself is a floating electronic ball.
• Zeroman: The judge who presides over Mayor Todd McWadd's trial in "Disorder In The Court" has a baby-head squeaky toy he named "Binky", which he is VERY attached to, often talking to it.

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