Unfortunate Names / Western Animation

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• Danny Phantom features the Nasty Burger. It was originally just going to be a local nickname for restaurant after vandals altered the sign from "Tasty Burger", but serves as the place's official name in the final show. The burgers however have a sordid history of exploding in very hot climates.
• In The Simpsons:
  • All of the fake names Bart uses for prank-calling Moe's (such as "Al Caholic", "Jacques Strappe", "I.P. Freely", "Seymour Butz", "Homer Sexual", "Mike Rotch", "Bea O'Problem", "Amanda Hugginkiss", "Ivana Tinkle", and "Ollie Tabooger") qualify. Especially "Hugh Jass" in the episode "Flaming Moe's", who's actually a real person who actually happens to be there when Bart calls. He's a pretty decent guy considering how he takes it:
  Bart: Listen... this is a prank call that backfired and I'd like to bail out right now.
  Hugh: Alright. Better luck next time. (hangs up) Hmm, what a nice young man.
  • Something very similar happened in the episode Donnie Fatso, where Moe Szyslak got a call requesting for a "Yuri Nater", and called out to the patrons asking for him, with predictable results. However, it wasn't a prank call, as the caller did actually intend to speak with a person by that name (the man in question was the caller's Russian business associate), and the person Moe was implied to have chewed out on for it was actually Fat Tony, the mafia underboss.
  • "Don't worry, there will be no-one to make fun of your name anymore, Mr Glasscock."
  • In another episode, Cletus reveals that he names his kids after what they think will happen to them when they grow up. "Ain't that right, Stabbedinjail?"
  • Joey Joe-Joe Jr. Shabadoo, which at first appears to be a name Homer makes up on the spot for his hypothetical "friend". However, Moe's derisive reaction to the name leads a man to run sobbing out of the bar and Barney to call "Hey, Joey Joe-Joe!" after him.
  • "I will not mock Mrs. Dumbface."
  • Another teacher was named "Dick Testiclees".
  • In one episode in which Homer is banned from Moe's, a man who looks just like him enters the bar and is pretty confused by the reception:
    "Homer? Who is this 'Homer'? My name is Guy Incognito."
  • In a flashback to when Marge is pregnant with Bart, Homer wants to call the child Bartholemew, and takes care to check if the name could be mis-used to joke effect by other kids in the playground;
    Aart, Bart, Cart, Dart, Eart...no, don't see any problem there.
  • "Little Orphan Millie" had a man named Gaylord Q. Tinkledink, who was looking for his nephew, Nerdletob Z. Pantybottom.
  • Bart's best friend is Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten. Matt Groening even said he purposely picked the most unfortunate name for a child.
  • Part of the joke with Edna Krabappel is that, in spite of the very unfortunate similarity to "crab apple" and all the jokes the students could make about that, nobody ever picks up on it. It's not until mid Season 15 when Milhouse, who's moving and doesn't care about the consequences of his actions anymore, calls her Crab-Apple and makes the entire class roar with laughter.
  • In "Lisa on Ice", Skinner tells the students there is an assembly in the Butthead Memorial Auditorium. He then says he regrets letting the students name that one.
  • In "Mypods and Boomsticks" Bart befriends a Muslim boy who's last name is "bin Laden". The disfortune comes from Real Life events involving the world nations having to deal with prolific terrorist Osama bin Laden
• Beavis and Butt-Head:
  • The episode "Prank Call" has Harry Sachz, whom the duo incessantly harass with prank phone calls for a month before he goes ballistic.
  • And that's hardly the only example. They've also run in a health inspector named Harry Buttisker (which they mispronounce as "Butt whisker"), a reporter named Betsy Weiner, and a recruiting sergeant named Dick Leakey (whose army nickname is "The Rooster," another innuendo). And then, of course, Butt-Head.
  • There's also Daniel Buttkiss, which has made the duo laugh their asses off every single day of school during roll call. They get chastised for this, but really, are we blaming them?
    Teacher: Dammit, what's wrong with you two?! We've been in school for seven months now and every single day when I call Daniel Buttkiss's name—
    (Beavis and Butthead crack up)
    —you guys have to laugh! Is it really that funny?! Doesn't it ever get old? Are you going to laugh for the rest of your lives every time someone says the name "Buttkiss?!"
    (Beavis and Butthead crack up again)
    Teacher: Principal's office NOW!!!
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • In an episode where SpongeBob and Squidward were trying to name all the customers that come to the Krusty Krab, they come across a guy that they don't know, so they ask his name. He keeps saying "What Zit Tooya". Turns out it was his real name.
  • Smitty Werbenjagermanjenson, whose name doesn't even fit on his headstone.
• Family Guy:
  • Peter tries to drum up support for a new pro-smoking bill. He then encounters (real-life) House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) and laughs hysterically at his name, refuses to believe it is his real name and then mocks him asking if his wife is called "Vagina Coastguard". The other senators start to get it after this.
  • In a cutaway about the signing of the Declaration of Independence:
    Speaker: John Footpenis?
    John Hancock: It's Hancock now!
    Speaker: Why?
    Hancock: Mind your business, that's why!
  • This rather unexpected exchange from when Meg and Peter get a job at a Walmart-like superstore.
    Meg: Sorry, Mr. Penisburg, I quit.
    Peter: (Naturally ecstatic at this new development) Penisburg?!
    Penisburg: Yeah, yeah. Get it out of your system.
  • While watching an episode of Good Times, Florida Evans has a hysterical breakdown asking why someone named her "Florida" of all things.
    Florida: My name is Florida. Florida! That's the name of a state! WHY is my name Florida?! Oh Lord!
  • "PTV" had Peter watching The D**k van D**e Show after an overzealous FCC censors almost everything in television.
  • "Model Misbehavior" has a cutaway where a coin is flipped to determine Rhode Island's name. The other option? Cacapoopoopeepeeshire.
• South Park:
  • Parodied with teacher Ms. Choksondik ("chokes-on-dick"). While the kids insult her endlessly, they never notice her name, though they do sometimes modify it insultingly (calling her "Ms. Chokes-on-rocks" or "Ms. Makes-me-sick"). Coincidentally, that's exactly how she dies.
  • The Super Best Friends member Semen.
    Seaman: "It's Seaman!"
    Buddha: "But that's what I said. Semen."
    Seaman: "Stop it!"
  • In "Something You Can Do With Your Finger", Cartman forms a boy band called "Fingerbang", on the assumption that "fingerbanging" is another name for making Finger Guns.
  • In one episode, the field reporter for a news story was "A normal-looking guy with a funny name," that name being "Creamy Goodness".
• Metalocalypse: Dethklok's therapist is named Dr. Twinkletits. In a case of pronunciation fun, his name is pronounced "Twink-eh-let-tis".
• In Dexter's Laboratory, Mandark's real name is Susan. And it wasn't to make him tough, either. His Flower Child parents purposefully chose a Gender-Blender Name for him, and it drove him to go criminally insane.
• In an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, Muriel is kidnapped and forced to make kilts for a gnome-like man. Eventually, Courage discovers that the guy hates his name: Rumpled Kiltskin. When Muriel finds out about this, she suggests he legally change his name, suggesting "Rumplestiltskin". The guy actually thinks that's a good idea, and suggests the two become business partners.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
  • In one episode Bloo offers a man a chance to adopt Cheese, and when the man seems to have doubts about it, Bloo offers to include another imaginary friend named Crackers. In the next scene, Bloo is trying to console Crackers, who is crying:
    Bloo: I'm sorry, Crackers, I guess he was hungry... He must have thought I meant real crackers...
    Crackers: That's what they all say! (runs away crying)
  • Another example of this Trope in the same episode is that if Mac had imagined him, as he first believed, then they would have been, together, "Mac and Cheese". Fortunately, as it turns out, Mac did not; Cheese was actually his neighbor's friend. (He had just gotten lost.)
    • Likewise, Bloo and Cheese together would've been "Bloo Cheese".
    • Taking it once further, the name of the kid who did imagine Cheese (who appears right after Bloo makes a dialogue that's a Hurricane of Puns about cheese) is Louise.
      Bloo: I mean, jeeze Louise!
      Cheese and Louise: Yes?
• G-rated lampshading in Young Justice (2010), when Impulse blurts out Nightwing's and Robin's real names in front of Beast Boy. Nightwing just looks annoyed.
  BB: "Your name's Tim?! And yours is... [uncertain cringe] Dick?"
• In the Sealab 2021 episode "Chalkboard Jungle", Quinn thinks the other students are making fun of the fat kid before he looks at the roster and learns the kid's name really is Fatass McBlobbicus.
• The cartoon spinoff of the Killer Tomatoes had Putrid T. Gangreene, who wears his name proud (since ANY trope in this series will be parodied to hell and back).
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero:
  • Lampshaded in "Defending the Earth", Rippen is known as "Ugthar the Ugly".
    Rippen: No, that can't be my name.
  • Double subverted in "The Old, Old West". Penn and Boone can't help but mock at the town named "Butte". Sashi frequently corrects them that it's pronounced "byoot", until the town's sheriff finally confirms that it really is pronounced "butt".
• Rick and Morty.
  • Principal Vagina, who can't introduce himself without adding some sort of explanation.
  • The one-shot character Dr. Glip-Glop, which is an alien racial slur in-universe.
• Teen Titans (2003): When the group learns that Beast Boy's real name is Garfield:
  Cyborg: Garfield?!
  Raven (Grinning evilly): Ooh, I'm gonna get a lot of mileage out of this one!
• An early episode of Pasila had a kid named Homo-Petteri. She's a girl.
• One member of the League of Freedom in SuperMansion is an evolved cat named Cooch. Her first meeting with Titanium Rex shown in "My Cousin Kitty" has Rex object to her name being slang for the female genitalia, which he learns was given to her by her owner because she thought it was funny. Rex makes the offer to change Cooch's name, but Cooch instead chooses to stick with the name she's got.
• In the Regular Show episode "Trash Boat", Rigby legally changes his name to Trash Boat, which turns him into the town's laughingstock. This also leads a rockstar named The Urge to try to murder him for usurping his popularity (which is ironic, considering the fact that The Urge was the entire reason Rigby changed his name in the first place).
• In the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Beak", a villain rises to challenge the titular superhero, and his name is... Khaka Peü Peü. Cue laughter from the citizens nearby when he announces his name. Khaka himself insists that his name, despite what it sounds like, actually means "the strong fist" or "that strong fist".
• Kaeloo: Stumpy and his seven younger sisters each have ridiculous-sounding names that are repeatedly mocked by other characters. Season 5 turned this into a Running Gag where someone sarcastically says that their parents "have talent".
• Hazbin Hotel: Vagatha (and her nickname "Vaggie") both bring to mind the word "vagina", which is briefly mocked by another character in the pilot episode. This turns out to have been intentional. She used to be one of Adam's top enforcers, so he named her after "the greatest thing ever".

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