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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has this in spades. The main cast is called the ''mane'' Six by fans, there are towns and cities such as Canterlot, Manehattan, Appleloosa ([[DontExplainTheJoke like the breed Appaloosa]]), they say things like "everypony" and "nopony"... Naturally, {{Fan Nickname}}s continue the equine trend (Stalliongrad, Trottingham, San Franciscolt, etc.)
** Trottingham eventually became [[AscendedFanon canon]] as the birthplace of Pipsqeak, one of the series' minor characters.

* In ''Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer'', a story in James Finn Garner's ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories'', some older reindeer scold Rudolph for "rocking the kayak." (Because they're in the Arctic.)

* ''Marvel Apes'' and its simian-themed naming. Same goes for ''[[ComicBook/SpiderHam Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham]]'', which is essentially a Marvel version of ''Captain Carrot''. More like a Marvel version of Just'a Lotta Animals.

** [[FreezeFrameBonus All the artists in Judy's music library]]: Music/{{the Bea|tles}}gles, Music/{{Black Sab|bath}}le, [[Music/KatyPerry Catty Perry]], [[Music/DestinysChild Destiny's Cub]], [[{{Music/U2}} Ewe 2]], [[Music/FleetwoodMac Fleetwood Yak]], [[Music/FooFighters Fur Fighters]], [[Music/{{Adele}} Gazelle]], [[Music/GunsNRoses Guns'N'Rodents]], [[Music/SelenaGomez Hyena Gomez]], [[Music/KanyeWest Kanine West]], and {{Music/Mick Jag|ger}}uar. In addition to movie theme "Try Everything", Gazelle's album includes "[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Part of Your Wool]]", "[[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Ara-bunny Nights]]", "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Let it Goat]]", and "[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Can you Feel the Fluff Tonight]]".

->'''Twilight:''' Pinkie, you are not the internet!\\
'''Pinkie:''' Oh, you mean ponynet!\\
'''Twilight:''' Not everything has to have the word "pony" on it!

* ''[[WesternAnimation/SheZow SheZow]]'' really puts the she either shemazing puns or shewlful puns -- depending on if the viewers like puns or not.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' oscillates randomly between "everything is replaced with its loose underwater equivalent" or completely ignoring its setting, DependingOnTheWriter.

** Duke Weaselton sells bootleg [=DVD=]s like ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Wrangled]]''[[note]]With the principal character looking like a combination of Rapunzel and Maximus[[/note]], ''[[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph Wreck-It Rhino]]'' [[note]]Particularly notable since [[http://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Wreck-It-Ralph_Neff_BS_v4.0_Online2.jpg one of the promotional posters for the movie had Neff, a purple rhino, in place of Ralph]].[[/note]] and ''[[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Pig Hero 6]]'' as well as [[ProductionForeshadowing movies that hadn't yet been released at the time]] like ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} Meowana]]'', ''Giraffic'' (referencing the cancelled film ''Gigantic''), and ''[[WesternAnimation/FrozenII Floatzen 2]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' oscillates randomly between "everything is replaced with its loose underwater equivalent" and completely ignoring its setting, DependingOnTheWriter.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' oscillates randomly between "everything is replaced with its loose underwater equivalent" and completely ignoring its setting, [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on whatever makes the joke at hand work]].

** And, the Pamela Hamster-centered episodes did this with hamsters: Pamela Hamster lives in "Hamsterwood", and she's an actress who has been in shows such as ''[[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Hamsters of Hamsterly Place]]'' and ''[[Film/HighSchoolMusical Hamster School Musical]].''[[note]]Alhought the last one is a movie in real life, not a show[[/note]]

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* All over the place in ''FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'', but perhaps the most notable one is the way that all the pony {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}s are just named "Horse Land" in the appropriate language. So we have Cavallia (pony!Italy, with the capital of Roam), Prance (pony!France, absorbed into Equestria ages ago), Caballeria (pony!Spain), Paardenveld (pony!Holland), and so on.
* Actually justified in the ''FanFic/OversaturatedWorld''. A long time ago, a certain king [[CaligulasHorse declared his favorite horse to be his heir]]. His general agreed that even a horse would be a better ruler than any of the king's sons, and so supported the "king". Through a combination of ridiculous luck and some clever politics, the horse and his offspring came to "rule" much of the world. Under its rule, everything was named with some kind of horse pun, and the names stuck around after the kingdom fell.

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** And, the Pamela Hamster-centered episodes did this with hamsters: Pamela Hamster lives in "Hamsterwood", and she's an actress who has been in shows such as ''[[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Hamsters of Hamsterly Place]]'' and ''[[Film/HighSchoolMusical Hamster School Musical]].''[[note]]Thought the last one is a movie in real life, not a show[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' oscillates randomly between "everything is replaced with its loose underwater equivalent" and completely ignoring its setting, [[RuleOfFunny depending on whatever makes the joke at hand work]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'', in reference to the FusionDance aspect of the show, themes various objects, sports, and ideas around combining two real-world items into one new unique one (such as coconapple trees or ice-half pipes).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' is Disney's first foray into wall-to-wall pop-culture humor -- hell, feature animation's first foray into it, years before ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' established it as the norm for any studio not named Pixar. Athens is a busy city nicknamed "the Big Olive" where vendors assault pedestrians with cloaks full of wearable sundials, a pair of children trapped under a rock plead for someone to "call IX-I-I", and Hercules himself becomes a celebrity who endorses his own brand of beverages and sandals.

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* ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' showed that Howard's homeworld was like this with a duck theme.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' seem to have their own language with the prefix "smurf" for everything. This was spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' a lot.

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WorldBuilding is sometimes hard. Coming up with an [[HurricaneOfPuns endless string of bad puns]] based on the concept of your show, on the other hand, is usually pretty easy. At least at first. It gets progressively harder to come up with decent, original puns the longer and longer your show is on the air and the more puns you’ve already used up. The fact that WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones managed to come up with charming puns continually (getting by on charm when originality was not enough) is a major reason why it has had staying power when most other series like this have not.

Compare HoldYourHippogriffs, SpaceX, EdibleThemeNaming. See also MisterSandmanSequence, which is similar - only abusing PopularHistory instead of the English language.

Compare HoldYourHippogriffs, SpaceX. See also MisterSandmanSequence, which is similar - only abusing PopularHistory instead of the English language.

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': The names of the inhabitants of ''Sugar Rush'' all are based on candy and candy flavors. Vanellope Von Schweetz, Taffyta Muttonfudge, Sour Bill... pretty much the only two things in ''Sugar Rush'' that aren't named for a candy pun are King Candy ([[spoiler:who wasn't originally in the game]]) and Candlehead (who still has connotations of sweets and dessert through birthday cake).

* Despite cultivating an image as the {{Ojou}}, Azuki Azusa in ''LightNovel/HentaiOujiToWarawanaiNeko'' often uses animal metaphors—frequently bizarre ones—because she's secretly an animal-obsessed middle-class girl whose apartment doesn't allow pets.

* As noted above under Hiveswap, {{Webcomic/Homestuck}} leans into this with Alternia where everything either references violence/murder, references the BizarreAlienBiology of Trolls and their Lusii, or is referred to by a stilted and technical description. When Eridan makes his debut, it turns out the latter is a class thing and highbloods do call a fridge a "fridge" rather than a "thermal hull". But special mention goes out to the Troll version of Will Smith...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Troll Will Smith.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': The names of the inhabitants of ''Sugar Rush'' all are based on candy and candy flavors. Vanellope Von Schweetz, Taffyta Muttonfudge, Sour Bill... pretty much the only two things in ''Sugar Rush'' that aren't named for a candy pun are King Candy ([[spoiler:who wasn't originally in the game]]) and Candlehead.

* As noted above under Hiveswap, {{Webcomic/Homestuck}} leans into this with Alternia where everything either references violence/murder, references the trolls' BizarreAlienBiology, or is referred to by a stilted description. When Eridan makes his debut, it turns out the latter is a class thing and highbloods do call a fridge a "fridge" rather than a "thermal hull". But special mention goes out to the Troll version of Will Smith...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Troll Will Smith.]]

* As noted above under Hiveswap, {{Homestuck}} leans into this with Alternia where everything either references violence/murder, references the trolls' BizzareAlienBiology, or is referred to by a stilted description. When Eridan makes his debut, it turns out the latter is a class thing and highbloods do call a fridge a "fridge" rather than a "thermal hull". But special mention goes out to the Troll version of Will Smith...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Troll Will Smith.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' and ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' take place in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals populated by evolved marine life, and they have a truly epic quantity of fish and seafood puns to go along with it. For example, the names of the Squid Sisters, Callie and Marie, form a pun on "calamari", Spyke and Murch are both {{Street Urchin}}s and [[StealthPun literal sea urchins]], the games' selection of weapons includes the [[LoudOfWar Killer Wail]] and [[WaveMotionGun Sting Ray]], and bits of fish-based HoldYourHippogriffs can be found sprinkled throughout the world (For eel?). Extra points go to naming the strip mall in Inkopolis Plaza "Booyah Base", which manages to not only tie in with the game's overall [[TheNineties '90s]]-inspired aesthetic, but also to keep with the seafood theme -- Booyah Base is pronounced roughly the same as bouillabaisse, a French seafood stew.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' has a truly epic quantity of fish and seafood puns, especially considering they all had to be conceived by the English localization team (a team which, mind you, couldn't even come up with a proper US equivalent for the "To me!" voice command) and shoehorned into an already-completed game. Extra points go to naming the strip mall "Booyah Base", which manages to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouillabaisse tie in with both the fish theme]] ''and'' the '[[TheNineties 90s-as-hell]] aesthetic. Not to mention being a reference to something obscure enough that we had to link to Wikipedia or you'd probably be punching it into your search bar yourself right about now.