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* In ''[[Creator/DetsniyOffSkiword Dahlia Hawthorne Escaps From Pirson]]'', one subplot involves [[InsaneTrollLogic Brexit causing Britain to fly off into space in order to leave Europe]]. After this point, the country is referred to as Space Britain, with a mention of an airport cafe serving toast with [[IncrediblyLamePun Space]] [[Film/SpaceJam Jam]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''' Nimbus the great had it as a CatchPhrase. "It's Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace MAGIC!"

* [=SpaceX=], the world's first private [[SpaceTrucker Space Truckers]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': [=ISpace=] is some kind of extraterrestrial social media interface with an apple product refrencing name, on which Kho Kharhi uses the handle Neko.

** After watching a PSA for SPASAF (The Strong Badian Association of Some Aluminum Foil), Homestar asked the odd question of whether "Spaceman" would explode if he were to urinate in his pants.

* This is a long-running ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in joke. Examples:
--> '''Farnsworth:''' Need I remind you that robosexual marriage is illegal?
--> '''Leela:''' Not in Space Massachusetts.
--> '''Bender:''' You mean Space ''Taxachusetts''? No thanks!

-->'''Wander:''' We live wherever the stars take us!
-->'''Sylvia's Grandmother:''' ...They're ''space hobos.''

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', to coach Hal/Titan into becoming a superhero, Megamind pretends to be his "Space Dad" (a parody of [[Film/{{Superman}} Marlon Brando as Jor-El]]), with Minion as his "Space Step-Mom".

* A very long-running gag in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''; virtually everything that exists on Earth apparently has a Space- equivalent. Mentions exist of Space Ducks, Space Australia, Spacebook[[labelnote:*]]Facebook[[/labelnote]], Old Space Yeller, and Space Triple-A, to name a few.

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' uses this gag in the same way as -- and about as often as -- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' does. All the alien characters in the story attended ''space'' kindergarten, ''space'' elementary school, ''space'' college, or are members of the SpacePolice, practice ''space'' CQC, etc. Eventually Mahiro, the OnlySaneMan male lead, has enough and says "You can't just add 'space' to everything!"

** Other creatures found in Wilspace include asteroid spiders, astrosphinxes, feesu (space-going moths), gossamers (space jellyfish), mortiss ("termites of wildspace"),[[ChestMonster space mimics]], [[TheOwlKnowingOne space owls]], spacesea giants, space swines, [[SelkiesAndWereseals star selkies]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent stellar dragons]], [[TheUndead stellar undead]], zurchins (star urchins)...

* Raditz does this in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''[[note]]"No! My Space Pod! Ow! My Space Armor!"[[/note]]. It [[RunningGag comes back with a vengeance]] during the Namek Saga:
** Krillin enacts a survival strategy of hiding and quacking. Dodoria admires the majestic sound of the "space duck."
** Freeza uses Space Twitter to brag about blowing up planets, contacts the Ginyu Force via Space Skype, and even mentions a "Space '''Mexico'''", going completely beyond all other examples (Space Mexicans also show up in ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'').
** Vegeta compares Gohan's bowlcut to [[Film/TheThreeStooges Moe Howard]]. How does he even know who that is if he's an alien? Space Creator/{{Hulu}}.
** Jeice comes from Space Australia - or, more specifically, Space Brisbane. Go Space Broncos!
*** Although you have to be careful when you visit. Or else Space Dingos might eat your Space Babies.
** The episode following includes advertisements for a Space restaurant chain called "Spacey's" (''"It's good food, in space"'') and a Space Australian lager called "Space XXXX" (''"Space XXXX - because Space VB is piss"'').
** When Freeza learns that Gohan and Krillin are from Earth, he comments on how he'll stop there [[BreadEggsMilkSquick to pick up some space eggs, space milk, and blow it the f*ck up!]]
** Piccolo tells Nail he switched to Spacebook in episode 25 (from... myspace.)
** Freeza: "It's kind of like putting down [[Literature/OldYeller Old Space Yeller]]." Krillin: "How is that a thing?!"
** Salza brings it up again in Revenge of Cooler Abridged: "I'll see you in Space Hell, cousin Jeice." He also mentions that he's a "Space Frenchman".
** Episode 32 mentions several space electronics stores, namely Space Radio Shack, Space Best Buy, and presumably Space Circuit City (Freeza was malfuntioning at the time, and didn't actually include the "Space" prefix before the word).
** From the same episode, Freeza is aghast at how far out in the Space Boonies Earth is. (Even out of context this one at least makes ''some sense,'' though, if Earth is a backwater part of the galaxy.)
** In episode 33, King Cold decides to call 'Space Triple-A' so they can be towed home. (To explain, their minions are dead, and Cold insists that driving is for the help.)
** At one point in Kai Abridged Episode 2, Freeza asks "What the Space Fuck?"
** The Broly movie adds "Space Vegas".
** The gag continues into ''WebAnimation/{{HFIL}}'', when a prankster tips over Guru. Cell--being the only resident of HFIL to have never seen any of the cosmos outside Earth--is incredulous that Raditz does not know what a cow is when he alludes to CowTipping and his only apparent frame of reference is a Space Cow.

* ''Film/MarsNeedsWomen''. One of the women targeted by the Martians for AlienAbduction is HotScientist Dr. Marjorie Bolen, said to be an expert on space medicine and space genetics. The first is an actual field of medicine; the latter is just rubbish they made up.

* The ship in "Film/TheIcePirates" gets space herpes.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'''s setting has giant ''space'' hamsters. At least one miniature breed of the species went on to become [[VideoGame/BaldursGate a famous animal companion]]. Better than that: thanks to the encyclopedic syntax of the early books, it was listed as "Hamster, comma, giant space," as though "giant" and "space" are just traits a hamster can have, and this happens to have both. At least one source said that that was exactly what they were: hamsters modified to be giant and more suited for Spelljammer-voyages. The Tinker Gnomes were to blame, naturally.

See also SpaceJews and SciFiNameBuzzWords. Not to be confused with the material from which brand-name {{Latex Space Suit}}s are made, nor the RealLife rocket company [[UsefulNotes/SpaceExplorationTechnologiesCorporation SpaceX]] (originally put in this name space, but eventually moved to its full official name to avoid confusion).

See also SpaceJews and SciFiNameBuzzWords. Not to be confused with the material from which brand-name {{Latex Space Suit}}s are made, nor the RealLife rocket company [[UsefulNotes/SpaceExplorationTechnologiesCorporation SpaceX]].

* A DeletedScene from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'''s third season has Tex mock O'Malley's use of a weather control machine in space by asking if he'd fight with space hurricanes, space tornadoes, space rain and space hail.

* Space rangers in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' and the ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' spinoff.

Of course, this kind of construction rests on an inherent geocentric bias. [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Contrary to how the word is often used]], "space" does not refer to everything in the universe except for Earth; it refers to ''everything'' in the universe, Earth included. So a creature from another planet is no more [[BuffySpeak "spacey"]] than a creature on Earth is -- unless, of course, the creature can somehow [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace exist in the vacuum of space without breathing gear]]. (Another possible meaning for "space" is everything rather far away from a celestial body, such as outside its atmosphere. This use, however, means that nothing alive can be "spacey" -- except, perhaps, {{Space Whale}}s and such.)

See also SpaceJews and SciFiNameBuzzWords. Not to be confused with the material from which brand-name {{Latex Space Suit}}s are made, nor the RealLife rocket company [[UsefulNotes/SpaceX SpaceX]].

There is, believe it or not, a RealLife precedent for this. Consider all the Sea Lions and Sea Anemones and Sea Horses and Sea Stars and Sea Robins and so on and so forth, not to mention all the Catfish, Dogfish, Parrotfish, Lizardfish, ad infinitum. (The reason for this, if you were wondering, is that in [[ScienceMarchesOn the early days of biology]], it was thought that every land animal had an undersea equivalent. Obviously this theory didn't quite work out, hence a pretty epic level of [[CallASmeerpARabbit Calling Smeerps Rabbits]].)

-->"Well, after all, science fiction is pretty easy to write, isn't it? It's just a matter of using fancy names -- just change the names, apply a thin layer of technologese and jargon, right? Say 'helicar' instead of car, 'helipad' instead of driveway, 'tri-vid' instead of television, 'feelies' (or 'smellies,' or 'grabbies') instead of movies. Better still, use the word 'space' as a prefix for everything: spacesuit, spacegun, spacehelmet, spacehouse, spacedog, spacecow. ... Right? Just change the names and you can write a confession-magazine love story, a cowboy story, a gothic, or a nurse novel, and sell it as science fiction. Right?"

** Amy occasionally throws in "space" on her own. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]], after the Doctor bites her hand ''hard'' to break an illusion: "Blimey, your teeth, have you got space teeth?" By [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]], she uses the term "spacey wacey" for one of the Doctor's technobabble explanations, although it isn't clear whether the phrase was originally hers or the Doctor's.