History SignificantAnagram / WesternAnimation

** In "[[TheSimpsonsS6E2LisasRival Lisa's Rival]]", Allison Taylor and her father play a game of this trope with real people's names and contexts. Allison manages to turn Creator/AlecGuinness into "Genuine Class". Lisa doesn't do so well, turning Creator/JeremyIrons into "Jeremy's Iron".

** In "Homer's Night Out", at the Rusty Barnacle seafood restaurant, a bored Bart rearranges the sign advertising "Cod Platter" to "Cold Pet Rat".
** In "Lisa's Rival", Allison Taylor and her father play a game of this trope with real people's names and contexts. Allison manages to turn Creator/AlecGuinness into "Genuine Class". Lisa doesn't do so well, turning Creator/JeremyIrons into "Jeremy's Iron".
** In "Don't Fear the Roofer", Homer befriends a man named '''Ray Magini''' (played by [[TheDanza Ray Romano]]); the other Simpsons become convinced [[NotSoImaginaryFriend that he's an]] '''[[NotSoImaginaryFriend imaginary]]''' [[NotSoImaginaryFriend friend]] created by a lonely Homer, with Lisa even pointing out the anagram, causing Homer to remark "Wow, my subconscious is a genius." Subverted when it turns out that Ray ''is'' real, but was never seen thanks to a "[[ContrivedCoincidence series of unlikely events]]".
** Bart (Brat) Simpson.
** Parodied in the episode "Jaws Wired Shut" where Lisa was at the movies and had to solve an anagram before the film. The letters were [[Creator/TomHanks MOT HANKS]] and Lisa said it was insulting to the audience's intelligence... until Apu pointed out that the answer was the (fictional) Indian actor Otm Shank, "India's answer to Brian Dennehy".
** In "Funeral for a Fiend", the Simpsons go to a restaurant called "Wes Doobner's World Famous Family Style Rib Huts", only to find out it's actually a trap by Sideshow Bob. Lisa points out that the phrase is an anagram, and Bob shuffles the letters to spell "Sideshow Bob's World Famous Family Style Return".

** In “Don’t Fear the Roofer”, Homer befriends a roofer by the name of Ray Magini, but after going through an accident, Homer wakes up in the hospital, where his family and friends explain that Ray Magini was never real. As they all give their pieces of evidence, Lisa tops it off, by pointing out that his name is an anagram for “IMAGINARY”, until it was later revealed that Ray Magini actually was real, and all the evidence could be explained through minor inconveniences.

* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse is stumped doing a crossword puzzle, so Penfold (actually a robot duplicate planted by Dr. Crumhorn) helps.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', an [[CloningBlues evil clone]] named Thailog was made of the hero Goliath. Thailog is also a [[SdrawkcabName phonetic reversal]] of Goliath.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', the celebrity chef is Auguste Gusteau; his two names are anagrams of each other.
* Hawkgirl's Thangarian fiance in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' turns out to be a villain, so he couldn't be Katar "Comicbook/{{Hawkman}}" Hol. Instead, he's Hro Talak. And then the real Katar Hol showed up a couple seasons later in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' anyway. Or did he? [[{{ContinuitySnarl/Hawkman}} It was kind of unclear.]]

'''DM''': Overgrown, confused, having lost his way initially but ends up taking charge.\\

'''Penfold''': "Governor." An anagram of "overgrown" without the W which ''lost his way initially.'' First letter in "way." You see?

'''DM''': What?

** In "Lisa's Rival", Alison Taylor and her father play a game of this trope with real people's names and contexts. Alison manages to turn Creator/AlecGuinness into "Genuine Class". Lisa doesn't do so well, turning Creator/JeremyIrons into "Jeremy's Iron".

* Hawkgirl's Thangarian fiance in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' turns out to be a villain, so he couldn't be Katar "Comicbook/{{Hawkman}}" Hol. Instead, he's Hro Talak. And then the real Katar Hol showed up a couple seasons later in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' anyway. [[OrIsIt Or did he?]] [[{{ContinuitySnarl/Hawkman}} It was kind of unclear.]]

* Hawkgirl's Thangarian fiance in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' turns out to be a villain, so he couldn't be Katar "Comicbook/{{Hawkman}}" Hol. Instead, he's Hro Talak.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', the family's obnoxious neighbor Kahn's name is an anagram of Hank, which he lampshaded in the last (produced) episode "Just Another Manic Kahn-Day".

* The titular Sorcerer from the classic Disney short ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' in ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' was designed after Walt Disney's likeness as a joke by the animators. The Sorcerer's canon name is "Yen Sid," and in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' video game series he plays the role of an ancient, all-knowing sage, making him somewhat of an in-universe avatar of Walt Disney.

** Parodied in the episode "Jaws Wired Shut" where Lisa was at the movies and had to solve an anagram before the film. The letters were MOT HANKS and Lisa said it was insulting to the audience's intelligence... until Apu pointed out that the answer was the (fictional) Indian actor Otm Shank, "India's answer to Brian Dennehy".

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', the family's obnoxious neighbor Kahn's name is an anagram of Hank.