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->''"Oh, don't tell me: the TARDIS was attacked by a randy sheep with a clock for a face!"''
-->-- '''Sarah Jane Smith''''s impression of a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster time ram]], ''Radio/TheParadiseOfDeath''












* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[spoiler:''Space Babies" features a bogeyman, that is, a man (of a sort) made of bogeys.[[note]]That's snot to all us non-Brits.[[/note]]]]

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[spoiler:''Space Babies" In ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E1SpaceBabies Space Babies]]" features a [[spoiler:a bogeyman, that is, a man (of a sort) made of bogeys.[[note]]That's snot to all us non-Brits.[[/note]]]]


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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' radio drama ''Radio/TheParadiseOfDeath'', the Third Doctor relates the events of the TV series episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]" to Sarah Jane Smith, and how he almost fell victim to a time ram. He clarifies to her that it was ''not'' a clock-faced ram headbutting the TARDIS, but two [=TARDISes=] materializing in the same time and place, destroying both.
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** The ''Hamlet'' DLC adds spider monkeys, gorilla-like apes with four spider legs growing from their backs and which nest in trees covered in their webbing.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DonaldInMathmagicLand'': A plant-based example. Some of the trees in Mathemagic land have exposed roots that split off from one another at right angles to create nested box-like shapes -- that is, they're square roots.
-->''"Well, what do you know! Square roots!"''



* In ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': The sea god Poseidon is shown creating a Catfish and a Dogfish: fish that literally meow or bark.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': The sea god Poseidon is shown creating a Catfish and a Dogfish: fish that literally meow or bark.



** In "Wizard of Odd", one of Witch Doofenshmirtz's minions is a spider monkey, a MixAndMatchCritter between a spider and a monkey.

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** In "Wizard "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbWizardOfOdd Wizard of Odd", one Odd]]": One of Witch Doofenshmirtz's minions is a spider monkey, a MixAndMatchCritter between a spider and a monkey.



** In "Bunny Hunt", sea bunnies are depicted as looking and behaving like rabbits.

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** In "Bunny Hunt", sea "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E8SanitationInsanityBunnyHunt Bunny Hunt]]": Sea bunnies are depicted as looking and behaving like rabbits.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moondreamers}}'': The animal-like Moondreamers include two, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, that resemble bears [[LivingConstellation and are based on the constellations of the same name]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moondreamers}}'': The animal-like Moondreamers include two, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, that resemble bears and are based on the constellations of the same name.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moondreamers}}'': The animal-like Moondreamers include two, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, that resemble bears [[LivingConstellation and are based on the constellations of the same name.name]].



*** The Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are giant bears literally made out of stars and the night sky and marked with the constellations that they represent.

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*** [[LivingConstellation The Ursa Major and Ursa Minor Minor]] are giant bears literally made out of stars and the night sky and marked with the constellations that they represent.
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See also PunnyName. Subtrope of OurMonstersAreWeird and VisualPun. Supertrope to SeahorseSteed, SwordfishSabre, LiteralBookworm. Can overlap with MixAndMatchCritters if the pun happens to combine names from two or more creatures.

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See also PunnyName. Subtrope of OurMonstersAreWeird and VisualPun. Supertrope to LiteralBookworm, LivingConstellation, SeahorseSteed, SwordfishSabre, LiteralBookworm.and SwordfishSabre. Can overlap with MixAndMatchCritters if the pun happens to combine names from two or more creatures.
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** During a ''Bees Hate You'' challenge path, you may randomly be set upon by a pair bees carrying a rifle (a beebee gun), a bee that mumbles and mutters while buzzing (a mumblebee), or a very aggressive been in a viking helmet (a buzzerker; the battle intro tells you that you can also call it a beeserker if you think that that's funnier).

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** During a ''Bees Hate You'' challenge path, you may randomly be set upon by a pair bees carrying a rifle (a beebee gun), a bee that mumbles and mutters while buzzing (a mumblebee), or a very aggressive been bee in a viking helmet (a buzzerker; the battle intro tells you that you can also call it a beeserker if you think that that's funnier).
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* In the French series ''Literature/LesMessagersDuTemps'', MadScientist monk Mimol has stitched different animals together to create weird hybrid creatures... some that are based on French puns. So, you have a "cerf-veau" (stag-calf, sounds like "cerveau" which means "brain"), a rat-porc (rat-pig, sounds like "rapport" which means "report") and a rat-daim (rat-deer, sounds like "radin" which means "stingy".

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* In the French series ''Literature/LesMessagersDuTemps'', MadScientist monk Mimol has stitched different animals together to create weird hybrid creatures... some that are based on French puns. So, you have a "cerf-veau" (stag-calf, sounds like "cerveau" which means "brain"), a rat-porc (rat-pig, sounds like "rapport" which means "report") and a rat-daim (rat-deer, sounds like "radin" which means "stingy".)
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** Captain Ali Gator's Gorilla Circus consists of ''Catbird and Dogfish'' style MixAndMatchCritters, apparently to save on space when travelling. These include ''two'' Dogfish (one with a fish tale and a dog's head, the other reversed) a Turtle Dove (a dove with a shell), a Sea Lion (a seal with the head of a lion) and a Tiger Moth (a moth with the head and forepaws of a tiger), as well as more esoteric creatures such as a black horse with a stars and moon pattern (a Night Mare) and an empty wooden cabinet with the limbs and head of a bear, described as "a cupboard perpetually Bear".

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** Captain Ali Gator's Gorilla Circus consists of ''Catbird and Dogfish'' style MixAndMatchCritters, apparently to save on space when travelling. These include ''two'' Dogfish (one with a fish tale tail and a dog's head, the other reversed) a Turtle Dove (a dove with a shell), a Sea Lion (a seal with the head of a lion) and a Tiger Moth (a moth with the head and forepaws of a tiger), as well as more esoteric creatures such as a black horse with a stars and moon pattern (a Night Mare) and an empty wooden cabinet with the limbs and head of a bear, described as "a cupboard perpetually Bear".
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* In ''Film/BedknobsandBroomsticks'', [[KingofBeasts King Leonidas']] assistant is a literal secretary bird.

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* In ''Film/BedknobsandBroomsticks'', ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', [[KingofBeasts King Leonidas']] assistant is a literal secretary bird.

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