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** In the Season 10 episode "Go God Go XII", it's revealed that the sole reason why the three largest atheist factions in the distant future are warring against each other is due to a widespread disagreement on how to name the unified faction that would bring them together, as each one wants to name it after their own legion: Unified Atheist League (the name of the first faction), United Atheist Alliance (name of the second), or Allied Atheist Alliance (name of the third). Cartman (who is trapped in this future era) tries to settle the conflict by doing a time-travel phone call to Ms. Garrison (who, along with Richard Dawkins, had turned atheism into a global mandate in the first place) and ask for her opinion on the matter, but he's answered by Dawkins instead and inadvertently informs him that Ms. Garrison had transitioned gender, which makes him feel uncomfortable and leave Ms. Garrison. This changes history, [[ForWantOfANail erasing all the events that led to the episode's story]].

* In the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''/''VideoGame/Minecraft'' crossover fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/51679183 The Depressor]], at the beginning of ''Perplexing Passion'', Pizza and Taco can't decide what to name the latter's newborn foal. Averted in ''A Cheat Is Born'', after Strong Sad [[MisterSeahorse gives birth to his baby]], Illusioner wants name ideas. When Strong Bad recognizes the look of the baby, he says: "Hey, is that The Cheat? Awesome!".

* In the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''/''VideoGame/Minecraft crossover fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/51679183 The Depressor]], at the beginning of ''Perplexing Passion'', Pizza and Taco can't decide what to name the latter's newborn foal. Averted in ''A Cheat Is Born'', after Strong Sad [[MisterSeahorse gives birth to his baby]], Illusioner wants name ideas. When Strong Bad recognizes the look of the baby, he says: "Hey, is that The Cheat? Awesome!".

* In the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''/''VideoGame/Minecraft crossover fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/51679183 The Depressor]], at the beginning of ''Perplexing Passion'', Pizza and Taco can't decide what to name the latter's newborn foal. Averted in ''A Cheat Is Born'', after Strong Sad [[ Mister Seahorse gives birth to his baby]], Illusioner wants name ideas. When Strong Bad recognizes the look of the baby, he says: "Hey, is that The Cheat? Awesome!".

* In the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''/''VideoGame/Minecraft crossover fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/51679183 The Depressor]]:
** At the beginning of ''Perplexing Passion'', Pizza and Taco can't decide what to name the latter's newborn foal.

** Averted in ''A Cheat Is Born''. After Strong Sad gives birth to his baby, Illusioner wants name ideas. When Strong Bad recognizes the look of the baby, he says: "Hey, is that The Cheat? Awesome!".

->'''Taco:''' What would you want to name him?\\

* ''Literature/ALightInTheAttic'': In the poem "The Toad and the Kangaroo," a toad and a kangaroo agree to get married and have a child because it will be able to jump very far, but they can't agree on whether it should be called a Toadaroo, a Kangaroad, a Rangatoo, a Kangaree, etc. They get so frustrated with each other that they give up and go their separate ways.

* Chapter 349 of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10264509/349/Tales-of-Fairies Tales of Fairies]]'' has [[Manga/FairyTail Elfman and Evergreen]] arguing on what to name their newborn daughter, with Elfman wanting a "manly" name (which are variants of his sisters' names) while Evergreen wants to give her a fairy-theme name. However, when their daughter gets sick and [[ObstructiveBureaucrat refuses to take the infant in without a given name]], the furious and frantic parents [[OutlivingOnesOffspring in fear of losing their few-days-old child]], end up blurting out Ellie at the same time, which they pick as their daughter's name to get the doctor to start treating her (plus a threat to call Ellie's aunt [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mirajane "She-Demon" Strauss]] if he continues to refuses). [[spoiler:Of course, Elfman and Evergreen [[HereWeGoAgain end up having another argument about what Ellie is even short for]], while Mira and Lisanna sneak off to have their niece registered as Ellie Mirajane Lisanna Strauss[[note]]though it is also mentions the sisters a long argument over which of their names will go first[[/note]]]].

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[[caption-width-right:268:I don't think it's a good idea to call a snowman Oatmeal.]]

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman

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[[caption-width-right:268:I don't think it's a good idea to call a snowman Oatmeal.]]

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman''

** An episode features the rarely seen argument over the baby's last name, which makes sense considering the unusual parenting circumstances. Ross is annoyed when Susan and Carol tell him that his last name won't be involved at all. He responds by proposing "Geller-Bunch," to which Susan responds that no one will say all that and they'll just default to "Geller," and Ross gets his way. Ross rather sarcastically points out that ''none of this'' really represents "his way."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheKingOfTheHill'', when Luanne gives birth to her baby girl, she reveals that she and Lucky decided to name her ''Lasagna'' as her first name just because they like the food (and not because she was given, to quote Peggy, "the good stuff (anesthesia medicine)" that left her loopier than she normally is). Fortunately, Peggy and the others convince them to change her name to Gracie Margaret Kleinschmidt.

* Near the end of the movie ''Film/ShesHavingABaby'', written and directed by Creator/JohnHughes, Kristy has her baby boy, and as she and her husband Jake debate what to call him, a number of celebrities in [[TheCameo cameos]] [[AsHimself as themselves]] (including Creator/KirstieAlley, Music/BelindaCarlisle, Creator/BillMurray, Creator/AnniePotts, and Music/WarrenZevon) weigh in with their choices, along with three characters from other movies written by Hughes - [[Creator/DanAykroyd Roman Craig]] and [[Creator/John Candy Chet Ripley]] from ''Film/TheGreatOutdoors, and [[Creator/MatthewBroderick the title character]] from ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In "The One With The Birth," Ross and Susan get into an extended argument over what to name the baby (but ''really'' about them competing over who's going to be more important in the baby's life) where they go through almost every boy's name in the English language. It gets so bad Carol throws them out of the hospital room and Phoebe herds them into a janitor's closet for a dressing-down, where all three get stuck. After getting free, Ross and Susan finally agree on the name Ben, which was apparently missed before and just happened to be on the overalls Phoebe borrowed.
** An earlier episode features the rarely seen argument over the baby's last name, which makes sense considering the unusual parenting circumstances. Ross is annoyed when Susan and Carol tell him that his last name won't be involved at all. He responds by proposing "Geller-Bunch," to which Susan responds that no one will say all that and they'll just default to "Geller," and Ross gets his way. Ross rather sarcastically points out that ''none of this'' really represents "his way."