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* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when Brian briefly works for Stewie, he has a cup saying "Life's a beach". Stewie takes issue with it for some reason, and cites HR complaints (to which Brian responds that he's the only employee).

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' has a RunningGag that Sam Riegel will have a new cup each season. In campaign 1, he has a giant tankard. In campaign 2, he drinks from a small metal flask similar to the one his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] character Nott drinks from. Then a giant version of the same flask. In campaign 3, he drinks from a gasoline jug. His character for that campaign is a robot.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': In the "Chintzy" Merrie Melodies music video (part of "[[Recap/TheLooneyTunesShowS1E24TheShelf The Shelf]]"), when Daffy is unimpressed with the childhood photo of him and Porky together the latter got him for his birthday, he explains to him in song why expensive gifts are better than chintzy ones. One of the lyrics in the song is "A coffee mug that says MY BEST FRIEND will find a new home in my trash bin."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E21MontyCantBuyMeLove Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]", when Mr. Burns appears on a radio show called "Jerry Rude and the Bathroom Bunch", Jerry himself is revealed to have a coffee mug in the shape of a toilet. The bowl is where the coffee goes.

* In ''Webcomic/LitterboxComics'', Fran is frequently shown with a coffee mug that says "#10 Mom".

* In a ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'' sketch, a kid asks the teacher who was filming Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. The teacher doesn't know, so he asks the principal. The principal doesn't know either, so he calls the mayor, who calls and asks the army general. The general calls up President Obama and tells him that kid is asking question about who shot the moon landing, so Obama bombs the kid's entire district. Seems like a RevealingCoverUp, but he plainly tells his secretary that there was a camera on the moon lander when his secretary asked.

''[camera cuts to Obama holding a coffee cup that says "That's why the call me O-BOMB-A!", accompanied by a laugh track]''\\

** ''Literature/SmallGods'' uses this to highlight the PunchClockVillain nature of the Exquisitors (members of the Inquisition with desk jobs). Like a normal office, they have mugs labelled "World's Best Dad" and "You Don't Have to Be Pitilessly Sadistic to Work Here but It Helps!!"

** Dr. Phage, the head of the Hospital, has a [[https://bogleech.com/awfulhospital/306.html "#? Doctor"]] mug, matching both his opinion of himself and his general state of delusion.

* ''Webcomic/AMiracleOfScience'': Towards the end of the comic, two technicians running a space telescope that monitors [[CasualInterplanetaryTravel routine space traffic]] have a conversation about a strange navigation warning message they got. [[spoilers: Turns out that the Martians are doing a bit of LoopholeAbuse, because they signed a treaty forbidding them to deploy military vessels beyond the orbit of Phobos without mentioning that they're perfectly capable of putting Phobos in orbit of another planet entirely.]] One of them is holding a mug that says, "[[TropersDoItWithoutNotability Astronomers do it in the dark]]".

* In an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' cartoon, Professor Monkey-For-A-Head sips from a mug that has Jim's face crossed out.

* In the ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', when the good doctor's mother gets cursed by a mummy, she ends up slowly decomposing into dust with Dan and Sean trying their best to put any and all dust into containers with one of them being [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p94/ a coffee mug]] that says: "YES I need this much Coffee", the fact that's comically large enough to carry almost all of Mitzi's ashes is impressive.

-->'''John:''' [[BadassBoast You know what I'm drinking? The blood of smaller mugs. Cheers!]]

* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': When Peter approaches Doctor Strange for help after the fallout of having his identity outed by Mysterio in [[Film/SpiderManFarFromHome the previous film]], Strange is drinking from a mug with the words "oh for", then a drawing of a fox, then the word "sake" ("Oh for [[IncrediblyLamePun fox]] sake"). Fitting, considering the massive multiversal headache he's about to have to deal with...

** ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' has Dr. Hix' mug that says "[[TropersDoItWithoutNotability Necromancers Do It All Night]]" (despite his normal [[InsistentTerminology insistence that he's a Post-Mortem Communicator]].) In the same book, Glenda is shocked to see a "To the World's Greatest Boss" mug on Vetinari's desk; in this case while the slogan is generic, the idea of Drumknott giving it to Vetinari and ''Vetinari using it'' is both comical and [[PetTheDog oddly heartwarming]].