History Main / EverythingTalks

* The NAPA auto parts store has a series of commercials where a metal can of "NAPA Know-How" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr9Qw3vm6ZU has a conversation with the customer and sales clerk]].
* Apparently [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSC9911lJ7g the nutritional supplement Ensure]] has the personality of DrillSergeantNasty.

* Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, which has a talking torpedo, a talking piece of jelly, a talking orange rock thing, and a guy with ice cream with his head who talks.

* Most of the furniture and dining objects in Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' talks, because [[WasOnceAMan they used to be human]].

%%* ''[[Disney/TheAdventuresofIchabodandMrToad Mr. Toad's Wild Ride]]''.

* Disney's ''[[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Beauty And The Beast]]''.

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* Since fans of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' "ponify" ''everything'', it was inevitable that this would spread to [[https://derpiboo.ru/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sbq=%28object+pony+OR+food+pony%29 food and inanimate objects]] as well. [[https://derpiboo.ru/887042 Alarm clocks]], [[https://derpiboo.ru/974128 breakfast]], [[https://derpiboo.ru/414094 soap]], ''[[https://derpiboo.ru/971155 toilets]]'', it seems nothing has been spared.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series of books, Magician Dor's talent makes this possible.

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* In a ''ComicStrip/{{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.

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* Most mythologies have an animistic view of things, with everything from the wind and sun to specific mountains having a god or spirit.

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* ''[[Disney/TheAdventuresofIchabodandMrToad Mr. Toad's Wild Ride]]''.

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* 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.
* Following fairytale conventions, the UnreliableNarrator puts words in the mouths of trashcans, scissors, buckets, etc. in ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose''.
* ''VideoGame/PajamaSam''. Especially in ''Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening''. The characters are inanimate objects, and even the things that are treated as objects also display sentience, including trash cans and stone paper weights.
* ''Videogame/FallenLondon'': Polythreme deconstructs this one. Sure, everything is alive and talks, but it doesn't take much pondering to realize why that isn't necessarily a good thing for the things in question, or for ''you''. And if you'd rather have witnesses, the locals, the [[{{Golem}} Clay Men]], can tell you plenty about it:
-->''"IN POLYTHREME THE BED I SLEPT ON WAS A SLAVE. THE ROOM WHERE I SLEPT WAS HACKED FROM SCREAMING STONE. THE WATER I DRANK BEGGED ME TO STOP. THEY PAID ME IN COIN THAT PLOTTED MY DOWNFALL. THE MEMORIES ARE TROUBLING. [[CityOfWeirdos THIS PLACE]] IS BETTER."''

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* 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.

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* WebVideo/AMVHell: The "Because I Got High" clip
* 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.
* ''WebVideo/KOnTheAbridgedSeries'': "Okay, now the gloves are talking? [[ICallItVera Does everything Yui names]] talk?"
* ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}'' draws heavily on mythology and fairy-tale elements. So far animals, a comb, and houses are confirmed to speak.
* The third episode of WebAnimation/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.
* ''WebAnimation/HanazukiFullOfTreasures'' features several structures and landscape objects all over Hanazuki's moon that have faces and a capacity for speech. The Treasure Trees grown by Hanazuki also have faces, but are TheUnintelligible. It takes a dark turn when the moon is slowly engulfed by an [[EldritchAbomination eldritch cloud of inky blackness]], which is bad enough on its own, except we also get to see a pair of adorable talking mountains ''wheezing and on the verge of death as they beg for help''.

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* And old ad for ''Alka-Seltzer'' had a man and his stomach being interviewed about heartburn. At one point, the man says he likes pepperoni pizza, at which the stomach replies, "Do you like heartburn? Well, you're going to get heartburn whenever you eat pepperoni pizza." The moderator informs both about Alka-Seltzer and all is well again.

* ''HandyManny'' with the talking tools.

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* 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 cliché accents. The pipe had a "Russian woman" accent, the branch had a "Brooklyn man " accent, and the pothole had a "redneck girl" accent.

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* In a ''ComicStrip/{{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.

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* 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.

* Following fairytale conventions, the UnreliableNarrator puts words in the mouths of trashcans, scissors, buckets, etc. in ''RuleOfRose''.

* AMVHell: The "Because I Got High" clip

-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' on ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows''

* CartoonNetwork is actually very fond of this in general. ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has a talking bluejay, raccoon, Sasquatch, Benson, a talking ''gumball machine'', and episodes with things like a talking computer. ''WesternAnimation/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. UncleGrandpa is yet another example, with a giant talking reptile, a talking fannypack (or Belly Bag) and a talking slice of pizza.

* 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.]]

* In ''{{Chowder}}'' almost ''everything'' in that show is alive (but Chowder still freaks out when he finds a talking toilet).

* The third episode of WebAnimation/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.

* TheBraveLittleToaster is a good example of this, and is explored enough to go into TearJerker and NightmareFuel territory.

* OlderThanFeudalism: "The Two Pots" in AesopsFables.

* 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. ''WesternAnimation/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. UncleGrandpa is yet another example, with a giant talking reptile, a talking fannypack (or Belly Bag) and a talking slice of pizza.
* ''TheTick'' had a talking sunflower, soldiers that resemble army toys, and Chairface, a guy whose head is a chair.

* During the golden years of BettyBoop's cartoons, everything in the world would come to life at some point and would usually do everything possible to aid [[FriendToAllLivingThings Betty.]]

* 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. UncleGrandpa is yet another example, with a giant talking reptile, a talking fannypack (or Belly Bag) and a talking slice of pizza.

* Apparently [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSC9911lJ7g the nutritional supplement Ensure]] has the personality of DrilSergeantNasty.

* A magazine article on DCNation's animated ''AmethystPrincessOfGemWorld'' shorts describes one of the obstacles Amethyst must overcome as "a forest of super-saccharine, talking everything". The short look in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S260DPYniAs Level 4: Random Encounter]] attests that this is pretty much accurate.

* TheBraveLittleToaster is a good example of this, and is explored enough to go into TearJerker/NightmareFuel territory.