History Main / BonesDoNotBelongThere

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[WebVideo/{{Unraveled}} Why do piranha plant have bone in it?]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The stem bone's connected to the leaf bone.]]

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Subverted in [[ScrubsS8E6MyABCs "My ABCs"]], a crossover with ''Series/SesameStreet''. J.D. has a fantasy about treating a patient. When he brings out the x-ray, it only shows the hand bones of the puppeteer within a muppet's body.

* In the AnimatedOpening of ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'', Santa is given XRaySparks by a broken Christmas bulb, showing bones inside his ''hat''.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Bill Cipher has a top hat that he can take off like an actual hat, [[spoiler:but when Fiddleford shoots him through the hat, we see that it's organic and has bone in there.]]

* Conversed in the ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'' video on [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser's military hierarchy.]] Brian is confused about the skeletal nature of the Bone Pirahna Plant, remarking, "Why do Pirahna Plant have bone in it?"

* Around Halloween, a common sight in some stores is [[https://animalarchaeology.com/2017/10/31/spooky-scary-inaccurate-skeletons/ animal skeletons with visible bone ears, or in the case of birds, wings with bones in place of feathers]]. Even more JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly, there are ''bone spiders'', an animal that doesn't even have bones as we would consider them, bone ''octopuses'' (which have no hard parts at all except the beak), and a bone '''pumpkin'''.

* ''{{Videogame/Cuphead}}'': midway through her BossFight, Cala Maria is bitten on the hips by two [[PsychoElectricEel electric eels]]. The following XRaySparks show her whole skeleton, which also includes [[StockFemurBone double-bulbed bones]] inside the tentacles of the octopus she wears as a hat. This is actually a [[spoiler: foreshadowing of her transformation into a Gorgon and the tentacles into snakes]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Bill Cipher has a top hat that he can take off like an actual hat, [[spoiler: but when Fiddleford shoots him through the hat, we see that it's organic and has bone in there.]]

* ''{{Videogame/Cuphead}}'': midway through her BossFight, Cala Maria is bitten on the hips by two [[PsychoElectricEel electric eels]]. The following XRaySparks show her whole skeleton, which also includes [[StockFemurBone double-bulbed bones]] inside the tentacles of the octopus she wears as a hat. This is actually a [[spoiler: foreshadowing of her transformation into a Gorgon]].

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* Conversed in the ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'' video on [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser's military hierarchy.]] Brian is confused about the skeletal nature of the Bone Pirahna Plant, remarking, "Why do Pirahna Plant have bone in it?"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Several instances of XRaySparks shows Wanda having a bone in her hair swirl.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic:'' Pegasus ponies have finger-like bones inside their wing feathers, as seen in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep "Read It and Weep"]] (via a medical X-ray) and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E7NewbieDash "Newbie Dash"]] (via an XRaySparks gag). This might explain why pegasi are [[FeatherFingers so good at grasping and manipulating objects with their wings]] in the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Despite being a sponge, [=SpongeBob=] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_splinter_056.png has a full internal structure]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nickmaghalloween2008jacobchabot.jpg including a spine, skeleton, and organs]], all of which a real sea sponge doesn't have. Other invertebrate characters like Plankton and Squidward are also shown with bones, which their species don't have. This is {{Lampshaded}} by a fish in one episode.
-->'''[[BadLiar SpongeBob]]:''' [telling a [[BlatantLies story]]] I emerged from my fruit-shaped bungalow fresh as a bee when a wanted cry of distress pounded against my eardrum!
-->'''Fish:''' Hold it. Sponges don't have eardrums.
-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' He's right.
** Mostly it's DependingOnTheWriter as Spongebob outright says and shows that he doesn't have any bones or organs but will be shown with some for the sake of a gag.

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* Around Halloween, a common sight in some stores is [[https://animalarchaeology.com/2017/10/31/spooky-scary-inaccurate-skeletons/ animal skeletons with visible bone ears, or in the case of birds, wings with bones in place of feathers]]. Even more JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly, there are ''bone spiders'', an animal that doesn't even have bones as we would consider them, bone ''octopuses'' (which have no hard parts at all except the beak), and a bone '''pumpkin'''.
* One [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bone-tiddies particularly infamous image]] features two skeletons, one with bone breasts, presumably to make it clear that that skeleton is female.
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Some artists don't let that stop them, and add "ear bones" or "nose bones" (or "penis bone(r)s"[[note]]Despite common slang for a RagingStiffie being a "boner", the (human) penis does not have a bone in it (many mammals, including some other primates, have a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum baculum]]).[[/note]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Despite being a sponge, [=SpongeBob=] has a full internal structure, including a spine, skeleton, and organs, all of which a real sea sponge doesn't have. Other invertebrate characters like Plankton and Squidward are also shown with bones, which their species don't have. This is {{Lampshaded}} by a fish in one episode.

** When Bart and Lisa are shown as skeletons in some episodes, their hair will be included in the skeleton.

If you've ever looked at a human or animal skeleton, you've probably noticed they don't have much in the way of ears or noses. Likewise, you may see skeletal or undead invertebrates with "bones", despite the only structures that come close being the exoskeletons in arthropods. Cartilaginous fish like sharks and rays do have skeletons, but they're made of cartilage rather than bone (they still look pretty much the same under an x-ray though, so only examples in which it's clearly bone and not cartilage should be included). Some artists don't let that stop them, and add "ear bones" or "nose bones" (or "penis bone(r)s"[[note]]Despite common slang for a RagingStiffie being a "boner", the (human) penis does not have a bone in it (many mammals, including some other primates, have a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum baculum]]).[[/note]]).

If you've ever looked at a human or animal skeleton, you've probably noticed they don't have much in the way of ears or noses. Some artists don't let that stop them, and add "ear bones" or "nose bones" (or "penis bone(r)s"[[note]]Despite common slang for a RagingStiffie being a "boner", the (human) penis does not have a bone in it (many mammals, including some other primates, have a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum baculum]]).[[/note]]). Likewise, you may see skeletal or undead invertebrates with "bones", despite the only structures that come close being the exoskeletons in arthropods. Cartilaginous fish like sharks and rays do have skeletons, but they're made of cartilage rather than bone (they still look pretty much the same under an x-ray though, so only examples in which it's clearly bone and not cartilage should be included).

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' uses XRaySparks for zombies killed by electrical attacks. ''PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'' has Bug Zombies which are AirborneMooks carried by giant insects. If you kill one with an electrical attack, the XRaySparks effect will show a skeleton within the insect as well as the zombie.

* In the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' 2009 HalloweenSpecial "Doomy Tales of the Macabre", Homsar's hat is part of his skull, and in the [[{{Retraux}} old-timey universe]]'s Halloween Special "That A Ghost", Old-Timey Marzipan has bones in her dress instead of legs.

* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': In the end of the seventh book and the beginning of the eighth, George and Harold are [[FunnyXRay shown as skeletons]] due to the X-rays produced by them using the Purple Porta-Potty time machine without letting it cool down. Their skulls have each boy's characteristic hairstyle, but as bone: Harold's unruly poof and George's super-straight flat-top. Strangely enough, they also both have shirts, but no pants.

* ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' has an Illustrated History of Sex, with drawings by Ronald Searle. During the Renaissance, alchemists were fervently trying to turn something-or-other into gold. A {{Background Gag|s}} has a standing skeleton in an alchemist's lab, with three or four vertebrae-like bones extending from the pubis. This means the man would have had a permanent erection, making urination challenging.[[note]]Incidentally, phosphorus was discovered by trying to turn urine into gold.[[/note]]

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