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* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, the Pokedex is canonically just a database. However, Dexter (Ash's Pokedex) had shades of this in the first episode of the series, notably calling Ash "stupid."

** JARVIS, the AI that helps run Tony's house and armor, can also count. He definitely has the snark for it.

* While we won't get into a debate over whether Hobbes counts, ''ComicStrip/{{Calvin|AndHobbes}}''''s TV got in a few good ones, always quietly to itself:

* The computer from ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', who speaks with a dry English accent and is always making wisecracks at Courage's expense. [[CatchPhrase "You twit."]]

--->'''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'''

->''"Honey! Come over here, sugarbuns! This machine just called me an asshole!"''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenKing''' in response to a sentient ATM, ''Film/MaximumOverdrive''

* In ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', machines such as [=ATMs=] and ticker displays, unable to actually hurt anybody, simply flash obscenities at everyone in sight.

* On occasion ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' will use a talking scale, which will naturally make a fat joke.

* The computer from ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''. You twit. For extra measure, it speaks with a dry English accent.

** Spongebob's swin trunks in "Ripped Pants"

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic episode "Castle Mane-ia", Rarity voices her displeasure at the Castle of the Two Sisters at not being able to obtain its tapestries. The castle answers by dropping a piece of stone on her head.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In a CutawayGag, Peter [[PersonAsVerb pulls a]] ''{{Castaway}}''.

* In ''FanboyAndChumChum'', Fanboy's gloved hand comes to life in "Fanboy Stinks" due to Fanboy having gone too long without bathing and starts bossing him around.

* In ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', machines such as ATMs and ticker displays, unable to actually hurt anybody, simply flash obscenities at everyone in sight.

* A Finnish TV sketch starring Pertti "Spede" Pasanen revolves around a man having an argument with a talking ATM that's implied to be connected to an OmniscientDatabase of some kind, based on the fact that it's ridiculously aware of his comings and goings, doesn't want to give him large amounts of money because it knows that he'll just waste it on booze and ultimately ends up blackmailing and guilttripping him by letting him know that it's aware of his illegimate son that it's been sending monthly alimony checks to "just out of goodness of my heart". The man finally gets tired of this charade, tells the ATM that it can keep the money, blows raspberries at it and slams its flap closed before leaving and laughing at it.

* Bob in the book of ''TheDresdenFiles'' was never a real person. He's an air spirit of intellect which occupies the skull unless Harry explicitly gives him permission to come out and possess his cat or otherwise travel freely.
* In the {{Xanth}} series, Dor's magical talent is to make inanimate things talk, and sometimes they can be quite snarky.

* In ''ScaryMovie 2'', the protagonist is singing along to the radio when it suddenly speaks to her:

* A wall in PearlsBeforeSwine gets in on the fun.

* Oliver Wendell Jones' Banana 2000 computer from ''BloomCounty''. Not intended to be an animate object, it frequently was sentient.
** Also in ''BloomCounty'' and ''{{Doonesbury}}'', frequent examples of subtrope TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack.

* TheMuppets would often have ordinary-seeming objects such as vegetables suddenly sprout faces and start singing and cracking wise.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In a ManateeGag, Peter [[PersonAsVerb pulls a]] ''{{Castaway}}''.

-->'''Calvin''': O Great Ouija Board, will I ever become president?
-->'''Ouija Board''': G-O-D-F-O-R-B-I-D.

* The computer from ''CourageTheCowardlyDog''. You twit. For extra measure, it speaks with a dry English accent.

* The computer from ''CourageTheCowardlyDog''. You twit.