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  • Ace Attorney
  • Abraham Lincoln
    • Ended slavery / Freed the slaves.
    • Was shot in the back of the head at a theatre.
    • Had a tall black hat and facial hair.
    • Is on the US penny and $5.00 bill
    • "Four score and seven years ago..."
    • Was quite tall (6'4")
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Adventure Time
    • What time is it?
    • There's a boy with a white bear hat named Finn and a yellow shapeshifting dog named Jake.
    • It takes place in a post-apocalyptic world.
    • The Ice King kidnaps princesses.
    • There's a princess for everything.
    • The Lich is not funny.
    • Princess Bubblegum and Marceline were in a relationship before the events of the series.
    • Finn loses his arm.
    • Jake makes bacon pancakes and sings about it.
    • It has an alternate universe where the characters are genderswapped.
  • AKIRA:
  • Albert Einstein
    • Relativity
    • E = mc^2
    • "God does not play dice with the Universe."
    • His hair
    • Was allegedly a slow student, much to the delight of motivational speakers everywhere.
    • Took a picture showing his tongue.
    • Always makes you look smart when you quote him... even when the quote is fake.
    • "Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
    • Nobel Prize. NOT for relativity.
  • Alexander Nevsky
    • Ice breaks, the knights drown.
  • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Made a cameo in each of his own films.
    • Even folks who've never seen Alfred Hitchcock Presents can usually hum the theme song, Funeral March of the Marionettes.
    • His silhouette
    • The Birds
      • A bunch of black birds gather around and then attack someone,
    • Psycho
      • A girl gets stabbed in the shower with freaky music playing.
      • Norman Bates is the killer and his mother
  • Alfred J. Kwak
    • He's a duck whose adoptive father is a mole.
    • There's a crow named Dolf who is basically Crow Hitler.
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
    • Alice eats stuff that changes her size.
    • The White Rabbit, who is late.
    • The Caterpillar, who smokes a hookah.
    • The Cheshire Cat.
    • The Mad Tea Party.
    • The Queen of Hearts, who constantly shouts "Off with His Head!!"
    • The Jabberwocky
      • "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves\\Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;\\All mimsy were the borogoves,\\And the mome raths outgrabe."
      • The creature's actual name is "Jabberwock", but many media call it "The Jabberwocky" because of the title of the poem in which it's described. Triple points if you knew that.
    • The Walrus and the Carpenter
      • "The time has come," the Walrus said,\\"To talk of many things:\\Of shoes— and ships— and sealing-wax—\\And cabbages— and kings—\\And why the sea is boiling hot—\\And whether pigs have wings."
    • We're all mad here.
    • People paint some roses red.
    • It was All Just a Dream.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball
    • It's known for its Medium Blending.
    • Gumball is a blue cat and he has an adoptive brother who is a goldfish.
    • Gumball's mother, Nicole, had an anime style fight scene in one episode.
    • There's lots of Animate Inanimate Objects.
    • Gumball has a girlfriend named Penny who is a peanut with antlers.
      • She's actually a shapeshifter inside a peanut shell.
    • A background character disappearing from the show became a plot point.
    • They made fun of their own Chinese knockoff.
    • The show ended on a really dark cliffhanger.
  • American Pie
    • "This one time, at band camp ..."
    • "MILF!"
    • The kid has sex with a pie.
    • Webcam
  • Among Us
    • X sus
    • X was not an imposter. Y impostors remain
  • Amphibia
    • "I'm just a normal girl living in another world!"
    • Three girls get sucked into a music box and get transported to a dimension of sapient amphibians.
    • The main protagonist is blissfully unaware of the leaves and twig in her hair for an entire season.
    • Had a legendary crossover episode with Gravity Falls.
    • A character gets stabbed onscreen.
  • Andrew Johnson
    • Had an impeachment trial
  • Angry Birds
    • A group of green pigs stole the birds' eggs, planning to eat them.
    • The birds use a slingshot to launch themselves at the pigs.
    • The black bird explodes like a bomb.
    • All of the characters have no limbs (before the release of the movies).
    • The classic games were deleted in 2019, much to the fans' anger.
  • Animal Mechanicals:
    • A group of Mechanical Animals with transformation abilities helps out other Mechanical Animals in need.
      • There are five Animal Mechanicals: Rex, Unicorn, Komodo, Mouse, and Sasquatch.
      • Rex's special power is Mechana-Strong, Unicorn's is Mechana-Fly, Komodo's is Mechana-Gizmo, Mouse's is Mechana-Fast and Sasquatch's is Mechana-Stretchy.
      • Island Owl informs them about the robotic creatures in need.
    • "Mechana-can we do it? We Animal Mechanical can!".
    • Sasquatch is not so bright, and most of the time, yet unintentionally, causes Komodo to get hurt and see tools circling around his head.
      • "It's pounding time!"
    • During his Transformation Sequence, Komodo always gets three wrong gizmos or tools before the correct one appears. The third one is always a silly object, like a sandwich or a pair of underpants.
  • Animaniacs
  • Anything Goes
    • It's all on a boat
  • Anything for Family
    • It's about kidnapping.
    • The villain is the Masked Shadow.
  • Are You Being Served?
    • "Are you free?"
    • Mr Humphries is very sexually ambiguous.
    • Mrs Slocombe has a "pussy" (i.e., cat).
  • Arcane
    • Prequel to League of Legends, with a much larger Periphery Demographic
    • Powder is Jinx, who is very insane and very traumatized
    • Vi and Caitlyn are in love
    • Jinx might be homophobic
  • Arthur
    • He's an aardvark who doesn't look like one
    • Arthur has a sister named D.W.
      • He punches her in one episode.
      • "I told you... not... TO TOUCH IT!"
    • One song on the show was about the benefits of having a library card.
    • Arthur's teacher is gay.
  • Austin Powers
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender
    • There are four nations named after the four elements: Water, earth, fire, and air, and people who can control said elements called Benders.
    • The Avatar can bend all of the elements.
    • But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
    • Aang is the Avatar and the last airbender, and has blue arrows tattooed on his head and limbs.
    • The Fire Nation killed all the airbenders, except for Aang, who sealed himself in an iceberg for a hundred years.
    • Zuko wants to regain his honor.
    • One episode has a dedication to a character's late voice actor.
    • In one episode, the main characters watch a play about themselves.
    • "That's rough, buddy."
    • "MY CABBAGES!"
    • There's no war in Ba Sing Se.
    • It has a bad movie adaptation.
    • It has a sequel series whose main character is bisexual.
  • Azumanga Daioh
    • Was responsible for bringing the word 'waifu' to the public lexicon.
    • OH MY GAH!
    • Chiyo's dad is a cat.
    • One of the teachers is a pedo.

    B 
  • The Backyardigans
    • There are five Backyardigans; Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua, Tasha, and Austin.
    • Tasha and Austin have limited appearances.
    • "Castaways, we are castaways..."
  • Barack Obama
    • First African-American President.
    • "Yes, we can!"
    • Osama bin Laden went down on his watch.
    • "Hope and Change" (paraphrased, mostly used sarcastically by detractors)
    • Quit smoking before presidency.
  • Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale
    • Takes place in Paris.
  • Barbie & The Diamond Castle:
  • Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
    • Barbie stars as Annika.
    • There is indeed a pegasus.
  • Barbie and the Three Musketeers
    • Barbie's a musketeer.
    • There's a cat in a pink hat.
  • Barbie as the Island Princess
    • Barbie stars as Ro.
    • There's a baby elephant with way too much mascara.
  • Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
    • Barbie stars as both Princess Anneliese and pauper Erika.
    • "I am a girl like you!"
  • Barbie as Rapunzel
    • Barbie stars as Rapunzel.
    • Rapunzel likes to paint.
  • Barbie in A Christmas Carol
  • Barbie in a Mermaid Tale
    • Barbie stars as Merliah.
    • There's surfing.
    • There's also a dolphin.
  • Barbie in the Nutcracker
    • It's the first CGI Barbie movie.
    • Barbie stars as Clara.
  • Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses:
    • Barbie stars as Genevieve.
    • The twelve princesses are named in alphabetical order: Ashlyn, Blair, Courtney, Delia, Edeline, Fallon, Genevieve, Hadley, Isla, Janessa, Kathleen, and Lacey.
    • Genevieve and Derek are crushing on each other.
  • Barbie of Swan Lake
    • Barbie stars as Odette.
  • Barbie Presents Thumbelina
    • Does not actually star Barbie.
  • Barbie: Princess Charm School
    • Barbie stars as Blair Willows.
    • Takes place at a princess boarding school.
  • Batman
    • Batman's parents were killed in front of him in an alley when he was young.
    • He doesn't have super powers, but is very wealthy.
    • His costumes across most incarnations are predominately black or very very dark gray.
    • His sidekick is Robin.
    • One of his greatest rivals is The Joker.
    • Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.
  • Batman & Robin
    • A Batsuit with rubber nipples.
    • Mr. Freeze makes a LOT of ice puns.
    • A Batbomb?
      • Bat Credit Card?!?
  • The Beatles
  • Bee Movie
    • "According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly."
    • "Ya like jazz?"
    • A bee sues the human race for selling honey.
    • Man loses his girlfriend to a bee.
  • Benjamin Franklin
    • The electric kite experiment.
    • On the $100.00 bill
    • Poor Richard's Almanack
    • "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
    • Bifocals
    • Was a manwhore.
  • Better Call Saul:
    • A spinoff of Breaking Bad, about Walter White's lawyer.
      • It's a prequel.
    • Saul Goodman used to be called Jimmy McGill.
    • The Chicago Sunroof.
    • Chuck is trying to ruin Jimmy.
    • Mike, Gus, Tuco, and Hector are all in it.
    • Lalo Salamanca has become an incredibly popular character.
    • Chuck has a breakdown in open court where he uses the word "chicanery."
    • After the events of Breaking Bad, Jimmy is living under the alias "Gene" and working at a Cinnabon in Nebraska.
  • The Bible - The Old Testament
    • Adam and Eve eat the Fruit of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
    • Cain kills Abel.
    • Noah builds the Ark to survive the Flood.
      • The Ark carried Noah's family and two of each animal on Earth.
    • Moses leads the slaves out of Egypt, parting the Red Sea on the way.
    • Moses brings down the Ten Commandments.
    • David kills Goliath with a sling.
    • Job has a pretty rotten time.
  • The Bible - The New Testament
    • Mary gives birth to Jesus in a Bethlehem manger.
    • Jesus walks on water, amongst other miracles.
    • Jesus has a Last Supper.
    • Judas betrays Jesus to the Romans.
    • Jesus dies on the cross, wearing a crown of thorns.
    • Jesus is resurrected three days later.
    • The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
  • A Big Blue House in Tall Pine Grove
    • Takes place in Tall Pine Grove.
    • Adds a cat, a human, and a cow to the cast.
  • Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
    • "YOU'RE WINNER!"
    • You can accelerate in reverse infinitely.
    • You can drive through everything and your opponent never finishes the race.
  • Bill Clinton
    • ...did not inhale.
    • He did not have sexual relations with that woman.
    • It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
    • He feels your pain.
    • Was impeached but not convicted. Remained President.
  • BioShock
    • A man chooses, a slave obeys.
    • Would you Kindly?
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Blue's Clues:
    • There's a blue dog.
    • There's a family of spice containers.
    • There was a guy named Steve, who went to college, so a guy named Joe took over.
  • Bluey:
    • It's about a family of heeler dogs.
    • Very Australian.
    • There's a lot of emotional episodes.
    • "This episode of Bluey is called...."
    • Can we get the bill?
    • Bandit puts most cartoon fathers to shame.
  • Braveheart
    • "...but they'll never take our FREEDOM!"
    • Blue facepaint.
  • Breaking Bad:
    • A middle-aged high school chemistry teacher gets lung cancer and starts cooking meth with a former student.
    • The meth is blue.
    • Walt's doing all of it strictly for his family's sake.
      • "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really ... I was alive."
    • "Now, Say My Name."
      • "Heisenberg."
      • "You're goddamn right!"
    • Gus Fring slits a guy's throat with a box cutter.
    • Walt throws a pizza on the roof of his house.
    • Walt allows a girl to choke to death on her own vomit, which later leads to a massive plane crash over his house.
    • There's a disabled old cartel guy in a wheelchair who rings a bell to communicate.
    • "I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger! A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!"
    • There's a set of Ax-Crazy twins running around with a hand-drawn picture of Heisenberg.
    • "No half measures."
    • Jesse says "Bitch!" a lot.
    • There's a drug kingpin who runs a chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants as a cover.
    • "Stay out of my territory."
    • Skyler is a widely disliked character.
    • "Yeah, science!!"
    • Los Pollos Hermanos.
    • Kid Named Finger.
    • Walt has a corrupt attorney named Saul, who you'd better call.
    • Jesse, we need to cook.

    C 
  • Caddyshack:
  • Caillou:
    • The protagonist is infamous for being whiny.
    • He's bald.
    • He's "just a kid who's four and each day he grows some more."
    • He has a sister named Rosie who's even whinier, but she has fewer haters because she's only two.
  • Calvin Coolidge
    • ”You lose.”
  • Cardcaptor Sakura
    • It's about a girl who has to collect magical cards to prevent disasters.
    • She has a friend named Tomoyo who always films her.
    • She has a rival-turned-love interest named Syaoran Li.
    • They made it into a boy show called Cardcaptors for the North American market.
    • Really cute and sugary sweet.
    • Everyone Is Bi!
    • At this rate, everything will burn!
  • Casablanca
    • "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
    • "Play it again, Sam." (Which was never spoken in the movie)
    • "Here's looking at you, kid"
    • "I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here!"
    • "You'll regret it... maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."
    • "Round up the usual suspects."
  • Castlevania
  • Chainsaw Man
    • Ridiculously fast pacing.
    • Denji's goal in life is to touch a boob.
    • The villains all have objects for heads.
    • There's a girl with devil horns named Power.
    • There's a Butt-Monkey girl named Kobeni.
      • Her car is more popular than her.
    • There's a dog named Pochita.
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas:
    • Special about overcommercialization.
    • Everyone dancing in the auditorium
    • Linus quoting the Bible
    • The small tree Charlie Brown gets
    • "I've been kissed by dog lips!"
    • "Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-oooooh" *BREATH*
  • Charlemagne
    • Was the King of the Franks during the 8th and 9th centuries.
    • Was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day 800 by The Pope.
  • Charles Dickens
    • A Christmas Carol
      • Ebenezer Scrooge
      • "BAH HUMBUG!"
      • Three spirits: Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Future (Yet to Come)
      • There's a disabled boy named Tiny Tim (although not everyone knows his surname).
    • A Tale of Two Cities
      • "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
  • Charlotte's Web:
    • The spider dies.
    • There are a lot of big words.
  • Checkers \ Draughts:
    • Played on a board with squares of alternating colours, same as Chess.
    • Relatively simple rule set, compared to, e.g., Chess.
    • A piece is promoted if it gets to the other end of the board. ("King me").
  • Chess:
    • Played on a board with squares of alternating colours, same as Checkers.
    • "Checkmate", which happens when a king cannot escape capture.
    • Pawns are weak, and are often sacrificed.
    • Pawns promote if they reach the other end of the board.
    • Queen is the most powerful piece.
    • Knight has a more complicated movement than the other pieces.
  • The Chica Show:
    • The live-action segments take place in the Costume Coop.
    • Mario Lopez voices the character Stitches
  • Chick-fil-A Cows
    • Can't spell.
    • EAT MOR CHIKIN
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022):
  • A Christmas Story
    • Ralphie wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.
      • You'll shoot your eye out, kid!
    • Ralphie had to wear pink bunny pajamas.
    • Ralphie's dad won a leg lamp in the sweepstakes.
    • TBS airs 24-hour marathons of it.
    • The Narrative Profanity Filter renders the "F-dash-dash-dash word" as "fudge".
  • Christopher Columbus
    • Was Italian (specifically, from Genoa)
    • Despite this, he convinced the King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile to finance his voyage to Asia
    • "Sailed the ocean blue" in 1492 with three ships: the Niña, Santa María and the Pinta.
    • Never got to Asia, but instead landed in the Caribbean, thereby beginning the Age of Colonization of the Americas by Europeans
  • Chuggaaconroy
  • Citizen Kane
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Club Penguin
    • You played as a penguin that could wave, throw a snowball or do a dance.
    • You got banned for swearing.
    • There were minigames, including a fishing game, a pizza-making game and an Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors game.
    • Disney bought it.
    • There were lots of parties.
    • Everyone wanted to tip the iceberg.
    • It closed down in 2017.
  • Columbo:
    • A detective hounds and manipulates murder suspects as he unravels their always elaborate schemes to get away with it.
    • Columbo dresses dumpily, drives an ancient car, and projects an air of absentmindedness and stupidity.
    • The audience knows who the murderer is from the start; the plot is more about how Columbo's going to go about catching them.
    • LIQUID FILTH!!
    • "Just one more thing ..."
    • Columbo owns a basset hound.
  • Criminal Minds
    • It's a show about serial killers.
    • Inigo Montoya and Greg were main characters
    • One of its main characters is a Child Prodigy who is an Adorkable Badass Bookworm that is a frequent target of the villains
    • Popularized- but did not invent- the term "Un-Sub", or "Unknown Subject", used to describe the criminal that is being sought
    • "We need to deliver the profile"/"It's time to deliver the profile"
    • The main characters are FBI agents who are known as criminal profilers (or simply "profilers") a job classification that does not actually exist within the real FBI
    • The profilers catch their criminals by creating a criminal profile (or simply a "profile") of the Un-Sub, done by examining the crime scene and understanding the Un-Sub's methods, tendencies and behaviours
  • The Crying Game
    • Dil is a pre-op transsexual woman.

    D 
  • Danganronpa
    • It's about hope and despair.
    • The franchise mascot is a sadist, black and white bear animatronic.
    • Talented teenagers must kill each other to get out wherever they're locked in.
      • If they get caught, they are executed in an over-the-top way related to their talent.
  • The Dark Knight
  • Dead Rising
    • "I've covered wars, y'know."
  • Death Note
    • There's a notebook that kills someone if you write their name in it.
    • Light Yagami thinks he's the God of the new world.
    • Light is 'Kira.'
    • There's a guy named L who everyone likes.
      • He dies.
    • I'll take a potato chip...AND EAT IT!
    • Just as planned.
  • Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure:
    • It's about food.
    • Stars Yui, Rosemary, Kokone, Ran, and Takumi.
  • Deltarune
    • It's related to Undertale somehow.
    • "CHAOS, CHAOS! I CAN DO ANYTHING!"
    • "NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A [[BIG SHOT]]!"
    • Sans befriended your mother last night.
    • Kris Get The Banana
      • Potassium
    • There's an annoying gamer bird who dies in one ending.
  • Despicable Me
    • There's the Minions, who are yellow creatures with goggles and overalls who speak gibberish and like bananas.
    • I fly to the moon! I shrink the moon! I grab the moon! I sit on the toilet!
    • Gru is 14 feet tall.
  • Dingo Pictures
    • They made several very low-quality mockbuster films.
    • They made one about dinosaurs, where one dinosaur says "Yee".
      • He actually says "Peek" who is another dinosaur.
    • Their mascot is a raccoon called Wabuu who looks like Meeko.
      • "Shoop-de-doop-de-doo, I am the Wabuu!"
    • They made one where animals play soccer.
      • The Ambulance Goose.
      • "He's gonna shit now!"
    • They made a The Lion King (1994) knockoff.
      • "The diamonds, my God!"
      • "Your father, the Black Panther, is your father?"
      • "Hmm, I don't know. I think we should be enemies."
  • Dinosaurs
    • I'm the baby, gotta love me!
    • Not the mama!
    • In the final episode, everyone dies.
  • Dinosaur Train
    • There are dinosaurs.
    • There's a time-traveling train.
    • Buddy, a T-rex, was adopted by pteranodons after his egg somehow ended up in their nest.
  • Disgaea
  • Disney Animated Canon:
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
      • The first Disney movie.
      • The dwarfs' names are Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey.
      • The evil queen asks "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is fairest of them all?"
      • She actually says "Magic mirror on the wall" in the movie.
      • The evil queen transforms into a hag and gives Snow White a poisoned apple.
    • Pinocchio:
      • The title character is a puppet who wants to be a real boy.
      • His nose grows when he lies.
      • "When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true."
    • Fantasia
      • Mickey Mouse uses a magic hat to bring a broom to life.
      • There's a segment of dinosaurs killing each other.
      • There's some dancing ostriches and hippos.
      • It's the longest film in the Disney Animated Canon.
      • It has a sequel with celebrities and CGI whales.
    • Dumbo
      • Dumbo is an elephant who can fly with his big ears.
      • At one point Dumbo gets drunk and has a Disney Acid Sequence.
      • There's crows, most of which were voiced by black people, who sing about how elephants can't fly.
    • Bambi
    • The Three Caballeros
      • Donald Duck, Jose Carioca and Panchito Pistoles are the three gay caballeros.
    • Fun and Fancy Free
    • Cinderella
      • "A dream is a wish your heart makes..."
      • Cinderella has mice friends who make a dress for her.
      • The scene where the Fairy Godmother makes a ball gown for Cinderella.
    • Lady and the Tramp
    • Sleeping Beauty
      • The villain is an evil fairy named Maleficent.
      • There's three good fairies, named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather.
      • Princess Aurora touches a needle, causing her to fall asleep.
      • Maleficent turns into a dragon.
      • Prince Philip wakes up Aurora by kissing her.
      • Aurora only has 18 minutes of screentime.
    • 101 Dalmatians:
      • The bad guy is a lady in a fur coat who wants to kill puppies.
    • The Black Cauldron
      • The villain is a horned skeleton guy.
      • It was a box office bomb.
    • The Great Mouse Detective
      • There's a G-rated stripper mouse.
      • It's Sherlock Holmes, but with rodents.
    • The Little Mermaid (1989)
      • Ariel is a mermaid who wants to become a human.
      • A crab sings a song about why it's great under the sea.
      • Ariel trades her voice for legs to the sea witch Ursula, who is the villain.
      • Launched the Disney Renaissance.
      • It has a happy ending, unlike the original story, where the mermaid dies.
    • Beauty and the Beast
      • A prince was cursed into a beast and the castle staff into living objects.
      • Belle is a French woman who loves reading.
      • Belle gets forced to stay in the castle with the Beast, and falls in love with him.
      • "Be our guest"
      • "No one (does thing) like Gaston!"
      • Belle and the Beast dancing together.
    • Aladdin
    • The Lion King (1994)
    • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
      • The bad guy tries to burn down Paris because he's horny for a Romani woman.
      • "Hellfire"
    • Hercules
      • Hades is the bad guy, even though he's one of the nicer gods in Greek mythology.
    • Mulan
      • A Chinese woman disguises herself as a man so she can fight in a war.
      • There's also a dragon.
      • "I'll Make a Man Out Of You"
    • Tarzan
      • A man is raised by apes.
      • The villain accidentally hangs himself.
    • The Emperor's New Groove
      • "When the sun hits that ridge just right..."
      • "Pull the lever, Kronk!"
      • "Wrong lever!"
      • "Oh yeah, it's all coming together."
    • Chicken Little
      • There's a guy named Buck Cluck and he's a terrible father.
    • Meet the Robinsons
      • Lewis is actually Wilbur's dad in the future.
      • Bowler Hat Guy is Goob from the future.
      • Bowler Hat Guy's bowler hat is actually evil.
    • The Princess and the Frog
      • The bad guy is a witch doctor with friends on the other side.
    • Frozen (2013)
      • "Let it go"
      • Elsa has ice powers and a sister named Anna.
      • There's a snowman named Olaf.
      • Hans turns out to be evil.
      • "If only there was someone out there who loved you."
    • Big Hero 6:
    • Zootopia
      • It's about animals and racism.
      • There's a rabbit cop and a fox.
      • The sheep is the villain.
      • There's a scene with sloths doing everything slowly.
    • Moana
      • The evil lava monster is actually the island lady corrupted without her heart.
      • There's a giant shiny crab named Tamatoa.
      • What can I say except, you're welcome?
    • Encanto
      • Every Madrigal family member has a gift except for Mirabel.
      • We don't talk about Bruno.
      • Bruno's rat telenovelas.
    • Strange World
      • The main character is gay.
  • Disney Ducks Comic Universe
    • Most of the stories are about Donald Duck.
    • Donald's three nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, live with him.
      • Said nephews are Junior Woodchucks, who have a handbook that has information about pretty much everything.
    • Donald has a girlfriend named Daisy, an incredibly lucky cousin named Gladstone, a Cloudcuckoolander cousin named Fethry, and a grandma who is usually just called Grandma Duck.
    • Donald's uncle Scrooge McDuck is the richest duck in the world.
      • Scrooge has a huge bin full of money that he swims in.
      • Scrooge is very stingy and greedy, and barely pays anything to Donald when he works for him.
      • Scrooge mined gold in Klondike.
      • Scrooge loves his #1 Dime which he earned by shining shoes in Scotland.
      • Magica De Spell is a witch who lives on Mount Vesuvius who tries to steal Scrooge's #1 Dime.
      • The Beagle Boys, who wear Domino Masks and are referred to by the numbers on their shirts, try to steal Scrooge's money.
      • Scrooge's business rivals include Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck.
    • Gyro Gearloose invents things.
    • Carl Barks wrote a lot of stories.
    • In the Italian comics, Donald is a superhero and a secret agent.
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Doctor Who
    • The Doctor is a Time Lord.
    • The Doctor regenerates.
    • His time machine/spaceship is a phone box that's bigger on the inside. Except it's actually a police box.
      • And it's called the TARDIS.
    • The original series had hilariously low production values.
    • EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!!
      • Daleks have plungers for hands, egg whisks for guns and pepper pots for bodies.
      • Evil rubbish bins.
    • The theme song.
    • It makes you hide behind the sofa.
    • The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver.
    • There's some angel statues which move when you aren't looking at them.
  • Doki Doki Literature Club!:
  • Doki Doki! PreCure:
    • The 2013 season of PreCure.
    • Known as Glitter Force Doki Doki in English.
    • Stars Mana/Cure Heart, Rikka/Cure Diamond, and Alice/Cure Rosetta, and Makoto/Cure Sword.
  • Donald Trump
    • Real estate businessman with a bad combover.
    • Megalomanic who literally put his name on numerous business ventures
    • Owned the Miss Universe pageant- and bragged about it
    • "You're fired!"
    • "Make America Great Again!"
    • Has been divorced three times.
    • Defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
    • "Grab 'em by the pussy."
    • Accused of collusion with Russia.
    • Signature promise to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.
    • Tweeted a nonsense word "covfefe".
    • Has small hands.
    • Claims to be a "stable genius".
    • Said, "Person, woman, man, camera, TV."
    • Was impeached twice during his presidency.
  • Donkey Hodie:
    • She lives in a windmill.
    • She has several catchphrases: "Hee-hawsome!", "Think, Donkey Hodie, think!" and "I, Donkey Hodie..."
    • Her best friend is a panda who comes from outer space.
    • Her grandfather is the original Donkey Hodie from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
    • In one episode, Purple Panda wore a beard and sang Jingle Bells.
    • Another episode involves a penguin that won't stop saying the word "Squibbit".
    • One episode contained a scene in which Donkey and Panda perform a musical number about a golden rainbow.
  • Don Quixote
    • A madman tries to fight a windmill.
    • Sancho Panza
    • "En un lugar de La Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme..." is the Spanish cultural equivalent to "To be or not to be, that is the question."
    • Was writen by Miguel de Cervantes as a parody of chivalry novels.
    • Happens in La Mancha.
    • Has 2 volumes.
  • Dracula
    • A Transylvanian aristocrat is actually a vampire and can turn into a bat.
    • In the end, he dies.
  • Dracula (1931)
  • Dr. Strangelove
    • You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!
    • MEIN FUHRER! I CAN WALK!
    • Guy in a cowboy hatnote  riding an a-bomb.
  • Dragon Ball Z
    • It features muscular men fighting each other by shooting energy beams out of their hands.
    • IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND!!!!!
      • What?! Nine thousand?! There's no way that can be right, CAN IIIT?!
    • KaaaaaameeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaameeeeeeeeHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
    • Spiky hair.
  • Dragon Tales:
    • While holding a dragon scale and saying a phrase, two kids named Max and Emmy are sent to a fantasy world with friendly dragons.
    • "I wish, I wish, with all my heart..."
    • "Dragon Tales, Dragon Tales, it's almost time for Dragon Tales!"
    • "There's Ord he's the biggest, not so brave of heart! There's Cassie, so shy and very smart! There's Zak and Wheezie and their tails of fun, cause you know two heads are better than one!"
  • DuckTales (1987):
    • It stars a rich old duck named Scrooge McDuck.
    • Scrooge swims in his money.
    • Scrooge has three great-nephews who he takes on adventures.
    • "Ducktales, woo-oo!"
    • "A sea monster ate my ice cream!"
    • Has a NES game with a catchy song on the Moon level.
  • DuckTales (2017)
    • David Tennant voiced Scrooge.
    • Darkwing Duck is in it.
    • Lena is Magica De Spell's shadow.
    • Huey, Dewey, and Louie's mother Della Duck disappeared into space when the triplets were eggs.
  • Duke Nukem
  • Dumb Ways to Die:
    • It's a PSA about trains, but most of the song doesn't mention trains.
    • The train-related lyrics don't rhyme.
  • Duolingo:
    • It's a website and mobile app that teaches foreign languages for free.
    • At times, it has the user translate nonsensical phrases such as "I am an apple".
    • Its mascot is Duo, a green owl.
      • The site's users like to post memes about how Duo is a Memetic Psychopath who threatens the users' loved ones if they don't finish their lessons.

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    F 

    G 
  • Game of Thrones:
    • A lot of people die, not that living there is very pleasant.
    • It's based on a series of Doorstopper novels, and the author takes so long to write them.
    • One of the characters is Daenerys Targaryen, who is known as Khaleesi and the Mother of Dragons.
      • Also, there are dragons in it!
    • "Brace yourselves, Winter is Coming."
    • LOADS of Fanservice.
    • There's incest.
    • Everybody is fighting over the Iron Throne, which is made of swords.
    • The ending was very dissatisfying to a lot of people.
  • Garfield
    • He's a cat...
      • That hates Mondays...
      • loves lasagna...
      • makes snarky comments...
      • and is orange.
    • Garfield's owner is Jon Arbuckle, who talks to his cat a lot and has a crush on the vet.
    • Jon also has a dumb dog named Odie, who Garfield likes kicking off the table and otherwise tormenting.
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel
    • Gargantua is a giant who eats a lot.
    • "Panurge's flock".
  • Gargoyles:
  • George Washington
    • He cut down a cherry tree
      • And couldn't tell a lie about it
      • Both of these originated in a poem well after his death.
    • He was the first president of the U.S.
    • He crossed the Delaware River
    • He's pictured on the US $1.00 bill and quarters
    • Wore false teeth that actually were not wooden (they were ivory).
  • George H. W. Bush
  • George W. Bush
    • Strategery.
    • Misunderestimate.
    • Nucular
    • "Heckuva job, Brownie"
    • Led the U.S. into the Iraq War and a recession.
    • Googler.
    • Dodged a shoe thrown by an irate Iraqi.
    • "You're with us, or you're with the terrorists."
  • Ghostbusters
    • "Who ya gonna call?"
    • "He slimed me!"
    • "Don't cross the streams!"
    • Giant marshmallow man.
    • The sequel has a baby and a lot of goo.
    • There was a remake where the main characters were women.
  • Gilligan's Island
    • The seven of them were aboard the S.S. Minnow.
    • "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale..."
  • The Godfather series:
    • "Make him an offer he can't refuse."
    • "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."
    • Man wakes up, finds a decapitated head of a horse in his bed. Based on this, some writers have come up with the idea that putting a horse head into someone's bed is a common way for the Mafia to scare people, even though in The Godfather the horse head is there only because that particular horse was important to that particular man.
    • "Nothing personal, it's just business."
    • "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
    • "I know it was you. You broke my heart."
    • Sonny gets utterly riddled with machine gun bullets, prompting Vito to say "Look how they massacred my boy."
  • Godzilla
    • He fought King Kong in two movies and won… the second time.
    • Destroys Tokyo on a daily basis.
    • He's a giant dinosaur-thing.
  • Gone with the Wind
    • "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
    • "After all, tomorrow is another day."
    • "As God as my witness..."
  • The Good Night Show:
    • There were three Goodnight Guides over the years.
    • There is a talking Star puppet who probably gave preschoolers nightmares.
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Go! Princess Pretty Cure:
    • It's about a Princess Phase.
    • Stars Haruka/Cure Flora, Minami/Cure Mermaid, and Kirara/Cure Twinkle.
  • Gorillaz:
    • British virtual band consisting of cartoon characters.
    • Members include a green-skinned Satanist named Murdoc and a guy with blue hair and black eyes named 2D who Murdoc likes beating up.
    • Feel Good Inc.
    • "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad, I got sunshine in a bag."
    • The Demon Days album cover.
    • In one video, Murdoc gets very excited about taking a bath.
    • Ace from The Powerpuff Girls joined them for a while.
  • Grand Theft Auto:
    • You always play as a criminal.
    • The series never fails to get the Moral Guardians riled up.
    • You can pick up prostitutes.
      • And then kill them after the deed is done to get your money back.
    • Any random citizen on the street can be killed in a number of ways.
    • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas:
      • There's a gang war between a gang who wears green (the Grove Street Families) and a gang who wears purple (Ballas).
      • "Oh shit, here we go again."
      • "You picked the wrong house, fool!"
      • Big Smoke's drive through order: "I'll have two Number 9s, a Number 9 large, a Number 6 with extra dip, a Number 7, two Number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda."
      • Big Smoke is a traitor.
      • The Hot Coffee sex scandal.
    • Grand Theft Auto IV:
      • The protagonist is a Serb named Niko Bellic.
      • Niko has a cousin, Roman, who always wants to go bowling at inopportune times.
      • The game is darker and grittier than its predecessors.
      • YELLOW CAR!!
    • Grand Theft Auto V:
      • There are three protagonists, Michael, Trevor, and Franklin.
      • Trevor is an insane, psychopathic drug addict.
      • Trevor unceremoniously murders Johnny Klebitz in his opening scene.
      • There's a rottweiler named Chop in it.
  • Gravity Falls:
    • There's an evil one-eyed triangle-shaped demon called Bill Cipher.
      • REALITY IS AN ILLUSION, THE UNIVERSE IS A HOLOGRAM, BUY GOLD, BYE!
    • There's three books with a six-fingered hand on the covers.
      • They were written by Grunkle Stan's brother.
    • "But her aim is getting better!"
    • There's secret codes in the show.
    • There's some backwards whispering and a circle with symbols on it at the end of the intro.
    • Everyone is voiced by Alex Hirsch.

    H 
  • The Halloween Hack
    • "Megalovania" originated from this game.
    • "Varik. I HAVE FUCKING HAD IT WITH YOUR SHIT. You little fuckers are going to have your bodies ripped in half. I'll shove your asses so far down your throats that when you crap you'll sing fucking Beethoven. tl;dr: eat shit, faggots."
  • Hamlet
    • "To be, or not to be. That is the question."
    • "Alas, Poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio."
      • A brooding young man speaks to a skull in his hand.
    • Everybody dies at the end.
    • "Good night, sweet prince."
    • "Get Thee to a Nunnery!"
    • "The Melancholy Dane"
  • HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!:
    • The 10th anniversary season.
    • Stars Megumi/Cure Lovely, Hime/Cure Princess, Yuko/Cure Honey, and Iona/Cure Fortune.
    • Features cameos from previous Cures.
  • Happy Days:
    • There's a biker named Fonzie who's famous for doing a thumbs up, snapping his fingers, being promiscuous, and saying, "Ey!".
    • Characters dismiss others with "Sit on it!"
    • Fonzie jumped a shark, which is where Jumping the Shark comes from.
  • Happy Tree Friends
    • A bunch of cute colorful animals die in horrible ways.
    • There's a yellow bunny with pink bunny slippers.
    • There's a dumb blue moose who looks different than the other animals.
    • Flippy "flips out" and kills the other animals.
    • Flaky's gender is ambiguous.
      • The creators eventually confirmed she's female.
    • There's an episode where a beaver gets a lollipop stuck in his eyesocket, one where a chipmunk makes "lemonade" out of her friend's eyeball, and an episode where Flippy fights his evil split personality.
  • Harry Potter
    • He wears glasses and has a scar on his forehead.
    • He goes to Hogwarts.
    • He's friends with Ron and Hermione
    • "You're a wizard, Harry."
    • Harry has a pet owl called Hedwig.
    • Lord Voldemort is the bad guy and he doesn't have a nose.
    • Snape kills Dumbledore
  • Hazbin Hotel
    • It's about a bunch of sinner demons in Hell.
    • Velvette is short.
    • Poison is a banger.
    • The main character is effectively a Disney Princess.
    • "You're a loser, baby..."
    • Husk is voiced by Keith David.
    • The main villain of Season one is Adam, The First Man.
    • The majority of the cast is LGBTQ+ in some way.
    • "WHAT ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT?!"
    • There's a tiny and violent one-eyed maid named Niffty.
    • There's a lot of swearing.
    • Most characters have sharp teeth and a red color scheme.
  • Haruhi Suzumiya
    • Haruhi is the god of her own reality.
    • She once sang a song called "God Knows" while wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit.
    • The Hare Hare Yukai dance.
    • It had a "Groundhog Day" Loop arc called the Endless Eight that made a lot of people angry.
  • Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure:
    • Stars Nodoka/Cure Grace, Chiyu/Cure Fontaine, and Hinata/Cure Sparkle.
    • Its 2020 release date is disturbingly fitting.
  • HeartCatch Pretty Cure!:
    • It has a style similar to Ojamajo Doremi.
    • It stars Tsubomi and Erika.
  • Hey Arnold!
    • Arnold is a kid with a football head who's basically Jesus Christ if he was a child.
    • He lives with his grandparents because his parents were under a sleeping spell in San Lorenzo whilst exploring there.
    • You're a bold kid, Arnold.
    • STOOP KID'S AFRAID TO LEAVE HIS STOOP!
    • Helga, who bullies him, secretly has a crush on him.
      • Her parents are abusive and her mom is (implied to be) an alcoholic.
  • Henry VIII
    • Had six wives.
    • Father of Elizabeth I and Bloody Mary.
      • And one of the many Edwards.
    • Was really fat.
    • Liked to have people beheaded, including his wives.
    • Split from the Catholic Church so he could get divorced.
  • Hitman
    • A bald guy with a barcode on the back of his head goes around assassinating people.
    • The purpose of the game is to take out your targets stealthily, using stuff like disguises and poison.
    • A lot of over the top "accidents" can be arranged.
  • Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure:
    • Breaks a lot of Pretty Cure rules.
    • Stars Sora, Elle-chan, Mashiro, Yoyo, Tsubasa, and Ageha.
  • Home Alone:
    • A boy named Kevin sets up booby traps to catch thieves.
  • Home Improvement
    • "I don't think so, Tim."
    • "MORE POWER!"
    • The neighbor's face is always partially covered, usually by the fence.
    • Tim's manly grunts.
  • Homestar Runner
    • Everybody, everybody!
    • Strong Bad checks his email.
    • How do you type with boxing gloves on?
    • Trogdor was a man! Or maybe he was a dragon-man! Or maybe he was just a dragon! But he was still TROGDOOOOOOR!
  • Homestuck
  • The House of the Dead
  • The House of Normandy
    • William the Conqueror
      • Was born out of wedlock in c. 1028 as the son of Rollo, Duke of Normandy and the daughter of a tanner.
      • In spite of this, was made Duke of Normandy.
      • Invaded England in 1066 amidst the Succession Crisis, and won.
      • Was crowned King of England on Christmas Day 1066.
      • Introduced many French loanwords into the English language.
  • How I Met Your Mother:
    • Robin is not the Mother.
    • Barney is a womanizer.
    • Marshall is a Nice Guy.
    • Stella left Ted at the altar.
  • HuGtto! Pretty Cure:
    • Stars Hana/Cure Yell, Saaya/Cure Ange, and Homare/Cure Etoile.
    • Hana's crappy bangs.
  • Hunter × Hunter

    I 
  • I, Claudius
  • Ice Age
  • I Love Lucy
    • The heart logo.
    • Vitametavegemin.
    • "Lucy, I'm home!"
    • Lucy has to "splain" something to Ricky.
    • Lucy was played by Lucille Ball.
    • Lucy is accident-prone and has a friend named Ethel.
    • Lucy once worked at a chocolate factory and goofed up.
  • Inception:
    • It has something to do with dreams...
      • ...within dreams...
      • ...within dreams.
    • Spinning totem.
    • "We need to go deeper."
    • "The dream is collapsing."
    • "Quick, give me a kiss"
    • "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."
  • Invader Zim
    • Zim is an alien disguised as a human kid trying to take over Earth.
    • Zim has a robot assistant named GIR who disguises as a dog.
    • Only Dib realizes that Zim is an alien, but nobody believes him.
    • It has more disturbing content than most Nickelodeon shows.
    • There's an episode where Zim steals people's organs.
    • Has a lot of merch on Hot Topic.
    • It was cancelled.
    • "NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!"
  • I Saw Your Willy:
    • The news reports that the world sees Alex's willy.
    • A creepy guy offers to show Alex his own willy.
    • A bully texts, "Ur willy is rubbish."
  • I Wanna Be the Guy
    • It's really, really hard to win.
    • APPLES DON'T FALL UP!
      • They're actually more like giant cherries.
    • You get killed by a fake error message.
      • And a fake save point!
    • YOU JUMPED INTO A SWORD, YOU RETARD.
    • GAME OVER - PRESS 'R' TO TRY AGAIN

    J 
  • James Bond
  • James Cagney
  • Jeopardy!
    • Trivia show in which you have to answer in the form of a question (e.g. "What is X?").
    • It had that one guy who was champion for a really long time (Ken Jennings, who won 74 games).
  • The Jetsons
  • John F. Kennedy
    • "Ask not what your country can do for you..."
    • was Roman Catholic.
    • Shot dead in his car in Dallas, TX.
    • Promised to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
    • "Ich bin ein Berliner."
      • Which IS grammatically correct, despite widespread belief that "Berliner" in the context of his speech would translate to jelly donut.
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
    • The World/Za Warudo stops time.
    • So does Star Platinum.
    • "What a beautiful Duwang!"
    • Kira just wants a quiet life.
    • King Crimson just works.
    • Diavolo's infinite deaths.
    • Pucci resets the universe.
  • Johnny Test
    • One of Canada's most well-known and popular cartoons.
    • It uses a whipcrack sound effect a lot.
  • Junior Officers
    • The four junior officers are Elekai, Kitsune, Deborah, and Lekona.
      • Later, there's a fifth, Sarabi.

    K 
  • Keeping Up Appearances
    • It's "Bouquet", not "Bucket."
    • Violet has a Mercedes, sauna, and room for a pony.
    • Elizabeth always drops coffee cups, especially Hyacinth's Royal Doulton.
    • Sheridan is heavily implied to be gay.
  • Kid Cosmic
    • A kid acquires five stones from outer space with superpowers and forms with friends a superhero team.
    • Kid's parents died in a car crash.
    • There’s a trio of government agents that are Shout Outs to The Powerpuff Girls.
  • Kingdom Hearts
  • King Kong (1933)
    • He climbs a skyscraper.
      • Holding a woman while doing so.
      • Biplanes circle around shooting at him.
      • And he ends up falling to his death.
    • "'Twas beauty killed the beast."
    • He fought Godzilla two times and won… the first time.
  • KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode:
    • It's about desserts.
    • The Cures have dual dessert and animal themes.
  • Kirby
    • Kirby can inhale most enemies to acquire their powers.
    • He can travel using his Warp Star.
    • Meta Knight looks like a blue Kirby without his mask.
    • Marx betrays Kirby at the end of the Milky Way Wishes subgame in Kirby Super Star and becomes the final boss.
    • Magolor betrays Kirby at the end of the main story of Kirby's Return to Dream Land and becomes the final boss.
    • King Dedede is mind controlled at least once in most games he's in.
  • K-On!
    • Cute girls doing cute things.
    • They eat cake and drink tea more often than they play in a band.
    • Mugi once stole Mio's strawberry.

    L 
  • Lalaloopsy:
    • Lalaloopsy dolls are rag dolls that came to life when their last stitches were sewn.
    • The Lalas have buttons for eyes.
    • Their younger siblings are called Littles.
  • Land of Oz
  • Laverne & Shirley:
    • The intro has the title characters singing a rhyme.
    • One of them has a weird drink she drinks.
    • Laverne wears an "L" on her clothes.
    • The producers argued a lot.
  • LazyTown
    • Robbie Rotten is the bad guy.
    • Sportacus is a sporty superhero who has a crystal that blinks whenever someone's in trouble.
      • He was originally an elf.
    • Everybody calls fruit "sportscandy".
    • There's a pink-haired girl named Stephanie who sings the bing bang song.
    • Stingy claims that everything is his.
    • There's a lot of catchy songs.
      • "We are number one"
      • "Cooking by the book"
      • "You are a pirate"
      • The Mine Song.
  • League of Super Evil
    • The title's acronym is extremely accurate.
    • The League consists of Voltar, Doktor Frogg, Red Menace, and Doomageddon.
  • Led Zeppelin
  • The Legend of Zelda
    • The main character is an elf named Link.
      • Even though Link IS NOT an elf.
    • He finds pieces of the Triforce. (In the original game, and a couple others.)
    • He fights a pig named Ganon.
      • As well as monsters called octoroks that... spit rocks!
    • HEY! LISTEN!
    • "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."
    • Spin Attack.
    • Smashing pots to find money.
    • Sheik is Zelda in disguise (thanks Smash Bros).
  • The LEGO Movie
    • "Everything is awesome"
    • Batman is in it.
    • It's all a kid playing with his father's Legos.
  • Les Misérables
    • Someone steals a loaf of bread
    • A police officer relentlessly hunts the protagonist.
    • "I dreamed a dream..."
  • The Little Prince:
    • It's about a pilot who crashed his plane in the desert and encountered a blonde alien child there.
    • It was adapted into a Netflix film.
    • The pilot once drew a picture of a snake that had swallowed an elephant whole, but everyone assumed it was a hat.
    • “One runs the risk of weeping a little if one allows himself to be tamed.”
    • "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    • The ending can easily be interpreted as the titular Little Prince dying from snake venom, despite his insistence that he is simply going home.
  • The Lone Ranger
    • "Hi Ho Silver... AWAY!"
    • "Who was that masked man?"
    • Theme music: The William Tell Overture.
    • Always leaves a silver bullet when he departs at the end of the episode/movie.
  • Looney Tunes
  • The Lorax (2012)
    • The Once-ler's face is shown, unlike in the original book.
    • People liked shipping The Once-ler with himself.
    • "That's a woman?"
    • "How ba-a-a-ad can I be?"
    • "You greedy dirtbag!"
  • The Lord of the Rings
    • "One Ring to rule them all…"
      • The One Ring grants invisibility.
    • Hobbits
    • "My precious!"
    • Elves. Especially Legolas.
    • Orcs take the Hobbits to Isengard.
    • "You Shall Not Pass!."
      • In the book, "You cannot pass."
    • "One does not simply walk into Mordor."
    • No-one tosses a dwarf.
    • The series started with a children’s book.
    • The books are inspired by Beowulf.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power:
    • Halbrand is Sauron.
    • Orodruin becomes Mount Doom.
  • Lost
    • Survivors of a plane crash in a mysterious island.
    • A smoke monster and polar bears.
    • The plot is overly complicated.
  • The Loud House:
    • The protagonist is a white-haired boy named Lincoln with ten sisters.
    • The two most infamous episodes involve Lincoln being mistaken for bad luck and a fight over identical dresses.
    • One episode involved Lincoln dreaming that he has ten brothers.
    • One sister is gothic, but secretly reads a My Little Phony comic and clogged the toilet with it.
    • One character has two dads.
    • Luan goes next-level on April Fool's.
    • There's a punk girl named Luna who has a girlfriend named Sam.
  • Lucky Star
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • He was deaf (and composed music despite losing his hearing)
    • Ode to Joy (AKA the final movement of his 9th symphony)
    • Da Da Da DANNN! (AKA the first movement of his 5th symphony)
    • Für Elise
    • Moonlight Sonata
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    M 
  • Machiavelli's The Prince
    • It is better to be feared than loved.
  • Ma Fille
  • Maho Girls Pretty Cure!:
    • It's about witches.
    • Stars Mirai/Cure Miracle and Riko/Cure Magical.
    • Also features a teddy bear name Mofurun.
  • The Maltese Falcon
    • "The stuff that dreams are made of."
  • María la del barrio
    • The main villain, Soraya, has one of the most over-the-top meltdowns ever seen in a telenovela, wherein she assaults numerous people and knocks her stepdaughter's wheelchair over.
    • "MALDITA LISIADA!!"
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • The Avengers are Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and the Hulk.
    • Also, there's Black Panther, who lives in Wakanda in Africa.
    • Spider-Man's also in there, too.
    • There are also the Guardians of the Galaxy, which comprises of a talking alien racoon (Rocket) and a talking tree named Groot who only says "I am Groot!"
    • The Avengers theme song.
    • Almost every movie has a post-credits scene that hints at future movies.
      • “I’m here to talk to you about the Avengers Initiative”
    • Avengers: Infinity War
      • Thanos snaps his fingers and half of all life turns into dust.
      • "Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good..."
      • "Perfectly balanced, as all things should be."
    • Avengers: Endgame
      • All the heroes come out of portals at the end.
      • Iron Man dies.
  • The Matrix
  • The Maze Runner
    • Pg. 250
    • "Please Tommy, please."
    • Cyborg slugs.
  • Mega Man
  • Megas XLR
    • I! LIKE! GIANT! ROBOTS!
    • They live in Jersey.
    • It was cancelled.
  • Mel Brooks
    • Blazing Saddles
      • "The sheriff is a ni-" *BONG*
      • "Mongo only pawn in game of life."
  • Men in Black
    • A duo of secret government agents portrayed by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones protect the planet from aliens.
    • They have a device called the Neuralyzer which they use to wipe people’s memories of aliens.
    • "Just because you see a black man driving in a nice car does not mean it’s stolen… I stole that one… but not cuz I’m black!".
  • Metroid
  • Michael Jackson
    • "Heee hee!"
    • "Chamone!"
    • Was black, then was white.
    • Did the moonwalk.
    • Was accused of pedophilia.
  • Milo Murphy's Law
    • Milo Murphy is very unlucky.
      • It runs in his family.
    • "Weird Al" Yankovic voices Milo.
    • It takes place in the same universe as Phineas and Ferb.
      • Doofenshmirtz invented time travel.
    • There's a pair of time travellers.
    • "Chop, chop, chop, chop away at my heart!"
  • Minecraft
    • You mine.
    • You craft.
    • The entire world is made of cubes.
    • Diamonds can be used to make the strongest tools and armor.
    • There's zombies, skeletons, giant spiders, and green creatures called Creepers that explode after making a "sssh" sound.
    • You can make portals to Nether, which looks like a Fire and Brimstone Hell, and The End, where there's Endermen and the Ender Dragon.
    • Never dig straight down.
    • Herobrine removed.
  • Miraculous Ladybug
    • Marinette is a French-Chinese teenager who's into fashion and has a crush on a popular guy named Adrien.
    • Marinette is Ladybug and Adrien is Cat Noir.
    • The love square.
    • Marinette's rival is an Alpha Bitch named Chloe.
    • There's a guy named Hawk Moth who uses Akumas to turn upset people evil.
      • He's Adrien's dad.
    • Went downhill after season 2.
  • Moby-Dick
    • "Call me Ishmael."
    • Some pirate with one leg is hunting a white whale.
    • Contains reams of seemingly-pointless information about whales.
    • "From Hell's heart I stab at thee!"
    • "Thar she blows!"
  • Monty Python
    • Monty Python's Flying Circus
      • It's...
      • And now for something completely different!
      • NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!
      • The Lumberjack Song: "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay."
      • This is an EX-PARROT!
      • The Ministry of Silly Walks
      • Does Not Like Spam
    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
      • "It's just a flesh wound."
      • "I can still bite your kneecaps!"
      • The Knights who say "Ni."
      • The Killer Rabbit.
      • The Holy Hand Grenade
      • "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
      • "What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"
      • "Run away! Run away!"
      • "One, two, five! (Three sir!) THREE!"
      • "What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color?"
      • The rude Frenchman (who waves his naughty bits at your aunties and farts in your general direction).
    • Monty Python's Life of Brian
      • "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
      • "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy."
      • "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"
  • The Moomins
    • It's about a bunch of white hippo-looking creatures who live in a tall round blue house.
    • There's also a bratty little girl named Little My, a greedy cowardly kangaroo-looking creature named Sniff, a guy who sleeps in a tent and plays harmonica named Snufkin, and a girl who looks like the Moomins but with yellow hair named Snorkmaiden.
    • Every winter, the Moomins hibernate and Snufkin leaves.
    • Snufkin electrocuted a park keeper and ruined his park once because it was filled with regulation signs.
    • There's a scary creature called The Groke.
    • Moominpappa ran away from orphanage and had adventures with an inventor and Sniff and Snufkin's fathers.
    • Moomintroll is gay for Snufkin.
    • The 90s anime adaptation.
      • Little My asks Snufkin to date her.
      • Snufkin wants to fill Moominvalley with crime. (Fun fact: Both this and the above come from the same episode.)
  • The Most Interesting Man in the World
    • "Stay thirsty, my friends."
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
    • The narrator did it.
  • Murder on the Orient Express
    • Everybody did it.
  • My Immortal:
    • Considered an extremely So Bad, It's Good story.
    • It's unknown as to whether the author was trolling or not.
    • The author was an Emo Teen named Tara.
    • Everybody Is Bi.
    • There are lots of vampires.
    • Dumbledore shouts, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS?!"
    • The main character is a wangsty, lewd, teenage vampire with an Overly Long Name.
    • "Masturbate" is misspelled as "masticate", and Lupin does it.
    • "He put his thingie into my you-know-what and we did it for the first time."
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
    • Adult fans are called bronies.
    • The main characters are multicoloured, talking ponies with pictures on their thighs.
    • There's a wacky, pink one called Pinkie Pie and a rainbow-maned one called Rainbow Dash.
    • It's Sweet Dreams Fuel.
    • One princess sent the other to the moon for turning evil.
    • The main character grows wings and becomes a princess at some point.
    • One of the villains is a Mix-and-Match Critter called Discord.
    • There's a cross-eyed background character named Derpy who got censored in one episode.
  • The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
    • The shows stars a trio consisting of Alfred Hedgehog, Camille Wallaby, and Milo Skunk.
    • Camille has beef with a bird girl named Cynthia.
    • "This is serious mysterious!"

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