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* The third episode of RanmaAbridged featured a talking bucket of water. Well, it was the narrator speaking through the bucket of water, but he cried out "my spine!" as Ranma jumped on the bucket anyways.

* In an episode of Charlie Brooker's ''{{Screenwipe}}'', he comments on an ad with a talking toilet, wondering why it wants its owner to shit in its mouth.

* CartoonNetwork is actually very fond of this in general. RegularShow has a talking bluejay, raccoon, Sasquatch, Benson, a talking ''gumball machine'', and episodes with things like a talking computer. AdventureTime! has things like the Candy Kingdom, where everyone is a talking piece of candy or some other sugary treat and the other kingdoms where everyone is a talking hot dog, breakfast food, space cloud, etc.

* WordOfGod is that ''literally everything'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is fully able to talk and think. This doesn't come up every episode, but periodically some random object will still start talking, which has included seemingly non-sentient animals and food, appliances, walls, [[OrganAutonomy body parts]], the internet, and ''[[GeniusLoci celestial bodies]]'' (including the Earth, moon, and sun). And this is entirely separate from the rest of the cast, who all [[UpliftedAnimal started]] [[FunnyAnimal acting like humans.]]

* WordOfGod is that ''literally everything'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is fully able to talk and think. This doesn't come up every episode, but periodically some random object will still start talking, which has included seemingly non-sentient animals and food, appliances, walls, the internet, and ''[[GeniusLoci celestial bodies]]''. And this is entirely separate from the rest of the cast, who all [[UpliftedAnimal became fully humanlike.]]

* WordOfGod is that ''literally everything'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is fully able to talk and think. This doesn't come up every episode, but periodically some random object will still start talking, which has included seemingly non-sentient animals and food, appliances, walls, the internet, and ''[[GeniusLoci celestial bodies]]''.

* WordOfGod is that ''literally everything'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is fully able to talk and think. This doesn't come up every episode, but periodically some random object will still start talking.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' actually lives upon this trope with almost everything regardless of what it is being fully able to talk and think. This isn't a constant thing but at least one thing that has no business talking will talk per episode and they even had one episode which was all about this trope at work just in case you were wondering about their commitment to this trope.

--->'''Jamie''': Hey, everybody! I'm gonna throw the TV out the window!
--->'''TV''': (''grows face and limbs'') Please, allow me! (''jumps out the window'')

** They're singing, actually. In the voice of Flavor Flav.

* AMVHell: The "Because I Got High" clip
* Video game example: In the ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' series, NPC characters are usually a sentient version of an inanimate object, with googly eyes. This includes (but is by no means limited to) musical notes, honeycombs, hives, oranges, jigsaw pieces, Leaky the Bucket, Cheato the Cheatbook, Loggo the Toilet (!) and even the ''Banjo-Kazooie'' cartridge.
** ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', which is essentially a RatedMForMoney version of ''Banjo-Kazooie'' from the same company, continues using this trope, frequently to darkly hilarious effect.
** Really, anything and everything can be a living, breathing character in a Rare game.
* The animated series ''The Twisted Tales Of {{Felix The Cat}}'' was set in a world where pretty much ''every single inanimate object'' was sentient, capable of speech and could spawn eyes, a nose and a mouth whenever necessary.
* WesternAnimation/ZulaPatrol. Like ''The Twisted Tales Of {{Felix The Cat}}'', but in a galaxy (or more) instead. [[FurryConfusion But their homeworld cannot.]]
* Parodied in a Rosanne Bar cartoon special where she went to a land of cartoons where everything talked. She got off on eating food that screamed while she ate it.
* In an episode of Charlie Brooker's ''Screenwipe'', he comments on an ad with a talking toilet, wondering why it wants its owner to shit in its mouth.

* In the beginning of Robert Winchester's "[[WebAnimation/{{Siblings}} Half-Beard]]" flash cartoon, Rob has a conversation with his beard when he faces the necessity of shaving again. When he tells it to stop screaming in pain, it obliges.
* The third episode of RanmaAbridged featured a talking bucket of water. Well, it was the narrator speaking through the bucket of water, but he cried out "my spine!" as Ranma jumped on the bucket anyways.

* In ''{{Chowder}}'' almost ''everything'' in that show is alive (but Chowder still freaks out when he finds a talking toilet).
* Taken to its logical, ''terrifying'' conclusion with [[http://www.cracked.com/video_17551_stuff-talks-most-terrifying-comedy-premise-ever.html this vid]]. "Stuff Talks When You're Not There 2: This Time, Everything Talks". Rated G.
* In the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series of books, Magician Dor's talent makes this possible.
* In some car insurance commercials, things which cause damage, like a pipe which broke a tail light, a branch which broke a windshield, and a pot hole causing a flat tire, the things doing damage to talk with cliche accents. The pipe had a "Russian woman" accent, the branch had a "Brooklyn man " accent, and the pothole had a "redneck girl" accent.
* In a ''{{Garfield}}'' strip, Jon said it would nice if everything could talk, and the toaster would say "Good morning!". Garfield thought that every time a light bulb blew, it would be like a death in the family.
* ''HandyManny'' with the talking tools.

* ''WebVideo/KOnTheAbridgedSeries'': "Okay, now the gloves are talking? [[ICallItVera Does everything Yui names]] talk?"
* Disney's ''[[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Beauty And The Beast]]''.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Just don't trust anything if you can't see where it keeps its brain!

* ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', in which pretty much every single object in the house could talk, including a chair, a window, a globe, a clock, a kite, food, flowers, all animals, and even the floor. His name was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Floory]].

* Following fairytale conventions, the UnreliableNarrator puts words in the mouths of trashcans, scissors, buckets, etc. in ''RuleOfRose''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' actually lives upon this trope with almost everything regardless of what it is being fully able to talk and think. This isn't a constant thing but at least one thing that has no business talking will talk per episode and they even had one episode which was all about this trope at work just in case you were wondering about their commitment to this trope.
** An example:
--->'''Jamie''': Hey, everybody! I'm gonna throw the TV out the window!
--->'''TV''': (''grows face and limbs'') Please, allow me! (''jumps out the window'')
** The entirety of the episode "The World" is a salute to the trope, since the focus is on several inanimate objects in Elmore. It even takes the trope into mild BodyHorror when Gumball's ''[[OrganAutonomy eyes]]'' turn into mouths, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Corinthian]]-style, and briefly sing in the ending jingle.
* ''[[Disney/TheAdventuresofIchabodandMrToad Mr. Toad's Wild Ride]]''.

** The entirety of the episode "The World" is a salute to the trope, since the focus is on several inanimate objects in Elmore. It even takes the trope into mild BodyHorror when Gumball's ''eyes'' turn into mouths, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Corinthian]]-style, and briefly sing in the ending jingle.

* Video game example: In the ''BanjoKazooie'' series, NPC characters are usually a sentient version of an inanimate object, with googly eyes. This includes (but is by no means limited to) musical notes, honeycombs, hives, oranges, jigsaw pieces, Leaky the Bucket, Cheato the Cheatbook, Loggo the Toilet (!) and even the Banjo-Kazooie cartridge.
** VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay, which is essentially a RatedMForMoney version of Banjo-Kazooie from the same company, continues using this trope, frequently to darkly hilarious effect.

* [[{{K-OnTheAbridgedSeries}} "Okay, now the gloves are talking?]] [[ICallItVera Does everything Yui names]] [[{{K-OnTheAbridgedSeries}} talk?"]]

** The entirety of the episode "The World" is a salute to the trope, since the focus is on several inanimate objects in Elmore. It even takes the trope into BodyHorror when Gumball's ''eyes'' turn into mouths, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Corinthian]]-style, and briefly sing in the ending jingle.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' actually lives upon this trope with almost everything regardless of what it is being fully able to talk and think. This isn't a constant thing but at least one thing that has no business talking will talk and they even had an episode which was all about this trope at work.

-->'''Jamie''': Hey, everybody! I'm gonna throw the TV out the window!
-->'''TV''': (''grows face and limbs'') Please, allow me! (''jumps out the window'')

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''; lampshaded once when Gumball tells a regular looking wall to get out of his way only for it to grow a face and respond to him, albeit saying he couldn't move because he was a wall.

* ''TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''; lampshaded once when Gumball tells a regular looking wall to get out of his way only for it to grow a face and respond to him, albeit saying he couldn't move because he was a wall.

One might think that consumers would want their foodstuffs and household products ''not'' to be possessed by demons (in fact, a recent Sprite commercial featured a family running in terror from the smiling anthropomorphic sun that burst forth from a bottle of a Sunny Delight counterpart), but apparently advertisers don't see it that way. At its worst, can [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope become]] [[NightmareFuel quite disturbing.]] Often combined with AnimateInanimateObject.