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* Jim Taggart of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' would like you to know that he is not a dog catcher. He's a Biological Containment Specialist.

** The Doctor's moniker is "The Doctor", not "Doc", and ''definitely'' not "Doctor Who" (despite one on-air mention in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]").

*** That being said, both in and out of universe, the character's name ''is'' "The Doctor", or just "Doctor", ''not'' "Doctor Who". That ''is'' the question that is asked in most, if not every, episode at some point in the show and is the biggest mystery of it, however. You'd think that'd be known to the fanbase enough that most would agree. No. Comment on any Facebook fanpage, or any Website/YouTube video where the name's said, or written, otherwise and watch as many people will reply as to how it doesn't matter if you call him, and not the show, "Doctor Who", despite the character ''never'' calling himself that except in a cheeky fourth wall throwaway line every so often, the credits for the classic series being wrong, and every other instance of people involved with the show calling him that being wrong. You'll have a lot of people arguing it doesn't matter when it ''does''. When the character himself has made the correction in-universe, it matters. It's also confusing to outsiders or newbies who don't know the difference.
*** Avidly discussed not only in fandom but behind the scenes as well. Creator/AndrewCartmel's memoir of his time as ''Doctor Who'' script editor describes the auditions for the Seventh Doctor, including a moment in which Janet Fielding, who was standing in as a companion, was overheard explaining "It's not his name" to one of the candidates. Later, Russell T. Davies's insistence that the Ninth Doctor be billed in the credits as "Doctor Who" out of nostalgia (since the first four Doctors had been billed that way), caught a lot of flack from terminology-insistent fans; this was permanently reversed when Ten came on board in the second series.

*** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime When]] Missy is pretending to be the Doctor, she refers to herself as "Doctor Who". Bill corrects her, but Missy says that when the Doctor first left Gallifrey he called himself "Doctor Who", only to change it when he decided that just "the Doctor" was better. Knowing Missy, she could have been trolling, but the Doctor doesn't deny it.

** [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]]: Aaron repeatedly clarifies that the fancy microwave he's trying to sell is, in fact, a microwave ''oven''.

** Confusingly defied when Amy, at one point, calls [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] "Doctor Who" and Sheldon didn't correct her which, given his obsessive, compulsive, tendencies in every other scene in the show, is a bit out of character for him. The writers had an easy out to have the uninitiated in the audience know the difference for future episodes, yet they didn't take it.

** Though, funnily enough, near the end of the series the shadowy pimp Michael is talking to reveals himself to be GOB when he talks about his girls "turning illusions", hinting that there's really no reason besides forced eccentricity.

** Enoch insists that he is a Chronicom, not a robot or android.

** In Season 3, [[spoiler:Skye has started going by her real name: Daisy. Coulson is the only one who is having trouble remembering to call her that, and is corrected by other characters often.]]

*** Avidly discussed not only in fandom but behind the scenes as well. Andrew Cartmel's biography of his time as ''Doctor Who'' script editor describes the auditions for the Seventh Doctor, including a moment in which Janet Fielding, who was standing in as a companion, was overheard explaining "It's not his name" to one of the candidates. Later, Russell T. Davies's insistence that the Ninth Doctor be billed in the credits as "Doctor Who" out of nostalgia (since the first four Doctors had been billed that way), caught a lot of flack from terminology-insistent fans; this was permanently reversed when Ten came on board in the second series.

* + Gordon Gordon Wyatt was a chef and definitely not a “fry cook??!!”

** Also in the sister show ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'', where an episode has a scientist (by coincidence, played by the same actor as Don Ramón) who studies space stones, but insists they're "aerolites" instead of "stones".

** Also in the sister show ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'', where an episode has a scientist who studies space stones, but insists they're "aerolites" instead of "stones".

** Sheldon is not a rocket scientist. He's a theoretical physicist! Also, Sheldon takes great pains to point out that his team t-shirt spells "The Wesley Crushers" (Those Who Crush Wesley) and not "The Wesley Crushers" (Multiple People Named Wesley Crusher). Dr. Sheldon Cooper would also have you know that he's not crazy; his mother had him tested. She later confirms this (...though she should have followed-up with that specialist in Houston). Sheldon also does not play "pranks"; he subjects people to his ''classic'' pranks.
*** He also prefers it when accurate terms are used. One of the more notable things he prefers is to refer to sexual intercourse as 'coitus', probably to separate it from sex as in 'male or female'. (Note: Coitus actually strictly refers to heterosexual intercourse in which a vagina is penetrated by a penis and nothing else so calling any other type of sex this is inaccurate).

** KingArthur (son of Pendragon and Ygerne) and Anna of Tintagel (daughter of Gorlay and Ygerne) always correct anybody calling them either brother/sister with "half-brother/half-sister". They once said it simultaneously. As her husband Loth can attest, Anna can get violent if you forget the "half-" part.

* In ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'', Hyacinth insists on her last name, Bucket, being pronounced Bu-Kay.

* On ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', when Sam finally reveals to Carla the deep, dark secret that he's losing his hair, he quickly corrects her; he's not wearing a wig, he's using a "hair replacement system."

* On ''Series/FindingCarter'', the titular character is insistent on being referred to as "Carter" (as opposed to her birth name of "Lyndon") and others referring to her biological mother as "Elizabeth" (even Elizabeth's two other children). This is to show her affiliation to the woman she regards as her actual mother, who kidnapped her when she was three.

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* Gordon Gordon Wyatt was a chef and definitely not a [[SlightInducingRant fry cook]].

* ''{{Series/Bones}}'': Booth is quick to point out, he's not Agent Seely Booth, but ''Special Agent-In-Charge'' Seely Booth. Justified in that [[TheyCallMeMrTibbs that's his actual rank in the organization]].

-->'''Cordelia:''' What's a rogue demon?

** ''S.'' Frog, sir.[[note]]SHUT UP![[\note]]

** ''S.'' Frog, sir.