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* In ''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Secrets of the Furious Five]]'', Crane gives a variation on this when the instructor at the kung fu academy makes fun of his "skinny legs": "Yeah... my skinny legs. First time that's ever been mentioned..."

* There's a whole episode of ''Zoku Anime/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' about this trope, as well as a chapter in the manga starting with the main Character who is always pointed out his name is [[RunningGag spelled exactly like the word for "Despair"]]. The episode then focuses on many people all hearing the same joke or comment time and time again, and they responding the same:

* ''Literature/XWingSeries'': Wraith Squadron pilot Falynn Sandskimmer's career has been held back mainly by her trouble with authority, which isn't helped by her attitude towards a certain hero of the Rebellion: "Can you imagine being compared to him all your adult life just because you're another pilot from Tatooine? No, I've never met Luke Skywalker. In fact, I wish I'd never ''heard'' of him."

-->'''Gus''': Phil? Like the groundhog Phil?
-->'''Phil''': Yeah. Like the groundhog Phil.
-->'''Gus''': Look out for your shadow there, buddy!
-->'''Phil''': [[BusesAreForFreaks Morons, your bus is leaving!]]

-->'''Phil''': Morons, your bus is leaving!

* When it became known that the captain of the American destroyer U.S.S. Zumwalt was named [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesJamesTiberiusKirk James Kirk]] (albeit with the middle initial "A" instead of "T"), the jokes were inevitable. Fortunately, the real-life Captain Kirk has said that he's cool with it.

* The elderly gentleman in Thomas Dolby's ''She Blinded Me with Science'' video complained of random strangers coming up to him and shouting "SCIENCE!" at him.

* The ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "Target" features a character named "Creator/BramStoker". Many people have mentioned the author to him.

** In the first episode of the three-parter "The Siege" in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Radek Zelenka explains to Elizabeth Weir that the Ancient computer system is incredibly redundant. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Incredibly redundant?]] "That one never gets old."
* In the episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Dax takes a shot at it when two members of Temporal Investigations come to question Captain Sisko. "I guess you boys from Temporal Investigations are always on time..." The annoyed look the two investigators share makes it pretty clear that wasn't a new one. They have a similar reaction to Sisko's statement of "believe me if we'd changed the timeline somehow we'd be the first to know."
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', the Majordomo is a male Twi'lek who's an unabashed ProfessionalButtKisser, so he does this trope with a certain flair when he's called a "tail-head" by the Pyke lieutenant.
-->'''Majordomo:''' ''[laughing, points to his lekku]'' Oh because of these... haha! An enchanting sobriquet [[BlatantLies of which I never tire!]]

-->'''Mayuri:''' Does it have to do with the Quincy pride garbage you people always go on about? [...] It's true. You people always go on about that garbage until you die. [...] I already told you. "I'm done studying the Quincies." I'm done! I've observed the results of all kinds of mental and physical stimuli! Drilling holes in their skulls while they were still alive, forcing a mother to burn her child alive, chopping up bodies, grinding bodies, studying them until they were reduced to lifeless piles of limbs! And while they were being studied, they would always say "I swear on the pride of the Quincies, I will never do it!" or "I swear on the pride of the Quincies, I will never let you do it!"!

* ''Film/GrounhogDay'': Phil Connors shares his name with Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog.

* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Target" features a character named "Creator/BramStoker". Many people have mentioned the author to him.

* In "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11951614/1/Not-Those-Gates Not Those Gates]]", a ''Series/{{Castle}}'' fic set after the series finale, Captain Victoria Gates assures Kate Beckett that she knows everyone calls her "Iron Gates", and that [[InsultBackfire she's actually rather proud of the name]]; "It pays tribute to my tenacity."

* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. The title character has faced HalfBreedDiscrimination her entire life due to what's regarded as CreepyBlueEyes to the rest of the Japanese population. Akemi poses as a high-class courtesan so she can get close enough to kill Mizu, and anticipating the response to her eyes Mizu tells her, "Anything you have to say is not as clever as you think." Mizu goes on to say WhatBeautifulEyes which Mizu ''hasn't'' heard before, but she dismisses it as the trained flattery expected of a courtesan.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. The title character has faced HalfBreedDiscrimination her entire life due to what's regarded as CreepyBlueEyes to the rest of the Japanese population. Akemi poses as a high-class courtesan so she can get close enough to kill Mizu, and anticipating her response to her eyes Mizu says, "Anything you have to say is not as clever as you think." Mizu goes on to say WhatBeautifulEyes which Mizu ''hasn't'' heard before, but she dismisses it as the trained flattery expected of a courtesan.

'''Bounty hunter:''' They all say that, too.

--->'''Prism:''' Did you not sleep well last night?\\
'''Orym:''' Seemed to sleep like a rock to me.\\

* Early on in ''WebVideo/CriticalRole Season 2'', the party discover that Fjord used to be a sailor, and start making "Seaman" puns at his expense. Fjord responds to this with an incredibly deadpan "Gets funnier every time".

** In the Season 2 episode "[[Recap/NCISS02E23 SWAK]]", after Tony contracts ''[[TheBlackDeath Y. pestis]]'', he is sent to Bethesda hospital and treated by Dr. Brad Pitt ([[Creator/BradPitt no relation]]). Most of the characters comment on the name in some fashion, with Pitt even referencing the trope.

** In the Season 2 episode "SWAK", after Tony contracts ''[[TheBlackDeath Y. pestis]]'', he is sent to Bethesda hospital and treated by Dr. Brad Pitt ([[Creator/BradPitt no relation]]). Most of the characters comment on the name in some fashion, with Pitt even referencing the trope.

** Season Seven's "The Inside Man" features an SEC investigator named Benjamin Franklin. His admonishment below doesn't stop Tony from trying.

** In Season Eight's "Baltimore", [=McGee=] and Ziva interview Dao Huang, the owner of a fortune cookie company, who is Caucasian and speaks with a pronounced Russian accent. When [=McGee=] expresses surprise, Dao Huang explains, in the exasperated tone of having done so ''many'' times before, that he was adopted in Ukraine by Chinese immigrants, before the family moved to the United States.

** In season 12's episode "Grounded", shortly after meeting Ellie's husband Jake, they encounter a rude airline passenger:

* Kathryn Flinders, in [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-02-13 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', replies sarcastically that "that joke never gets old" when Schlock references an old joke about "military intelligence" being an oxymoron after she's hired by the Toughs in the "Haven Hive" storyline. (The joke is worn out enough that Nick, [[HiddenDepths when trying to come up with the word "oxymoronic"]], uses it.)

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': It's a downplayed moment, but when the Wolf that's been hunting Puss [[spoiler:declares that he's [[TheGrimReaper Death]]]], he visibly rolls his eyes before telling him that it's not supposed to be a metaphor or allegory. It's implied he's had to deal with others assuming himself as such.

-->'''Man'': That's ''Os-wee-pay''.

--'''Delivery man''': I have something here for an Asswipe Johnson?

** Another had a man vetoing literally every single name his pregnant wife suggested for their soon to be born son, insisting that the kid would be subjected to these kinds of jokes -- "Hey Harry, where are the Henderson's?"