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Pet's Homage Name
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It's a simple way to provide characterization: if you're highly educated and/or sophisticated you give a similar name to your pet. A popular scientist to name cats after is Erwin Schrödinger, best known for his Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment. Popular enough to be a Stock Animal Name. It doesn't have to be a scientist naming the cat for another scientist. If you're an expert in a given field, you give an appropriate name to the pet. A musician may name the dog after a famous composer, a literature professor name the cat for an ancient king, a physicist name the ferret "Proton", etc. You're just too damn intelligent to own a dog named Rover or a parrot named Polly. Often a Sub-Trope of Named After Somebody Famous, when using famous, historic names. Could also overlap with Formally-Named Pet, should some egghead name the dog Professor Einstein. See also We Named the Monkey "Jack", when the homage is to a personal friend/relative/acquaintance. Not to be confused with Tribute to Fido, which is when a name is a homage to a pet. |
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Tales from the Crypt: In "Dead Right", Madame Vorna's dog is named 'Trotsky'. | |
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Zoey 101: In "Defending Dustin", Chase and Michael adopt a dog that they name "Elvis". | |
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Crazy Rich Asians: The Nouveau Riche Gohs named their dogs Astor, Vanderbilt and Trump, after rich Americans. | |
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Fillmore!: Fillmore has a goldfish named Thelonius (after jazz musician Thelonius Monk). After Thelonious dies, he is replaced by a goldfish named Miles (after Miles Davis). | |
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In Get Backers, Madoka Otowa is a Blind Musician that gets guided around by a seeing eye corgi that she named Mozart. | |
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In Heart In Hand, Alex names a stray cat "Gary" after the unpopular NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, because he has "dark hair, a funny face, and a really really tiny..." | |
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The Once and Future King is the novel that The Sword in the Stone was adapted from. Like the Disney film, Merlin's Familiar is an owl named Archimedes. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: Capt. Jonathan Archer's pet beagle is named Porthos as he was from a litter of four puppies all named after the heroes from The Three Musketeers (Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan). | |
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Likewise, Clarissa herself has a pet alligator named "Elvis". | |
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Clarissa Explains It All has an episode where Ferguson, her Insufferable Genius brother, finds a lost cat that he names William F. Buckley. Likewise, Clarissa herself has a pet alligator named "Elvis". |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), the Rat King is a Mad Scientist with the power over rats, and names all of his rats after famous Greeks and Romans; such as Caligula for his giant rat steed and Aristotle for his seeing eye rat. | |
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In The InBESTigators, science geek Ezra has a pet goldfish named Neil Armstrong. | |
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In Half-Life 2, Dr. Kleiner has a "de-beaked" headcrab named after Hedy Lamarr. It's both a bad Stealth Pun and a Shout-Out to a classic actress- one who helped pioneer early wi-fi and cordless technologies. | |
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Harry Potter: Harry names his owl Hedwig, "a name he had found in A History of Magic." The author took the name from Saint Hedwig, patron saint of orphans. As per the movie props, Hermione might have named her cat Crookshanks after the in-universe figure from the 16th century, Poderick Crookshank. |
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In Hardball, tween-Alpha Bitch Tiffany owns a pair of cavoodles named Ricky and Martin. | |
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Moriarty the Patriot: Mycroft has a pet bird named "Mr. Charles Dickens" which he calls Charlie. | |
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On Total Drama, Sierra and Topher are both huge fans of Chris McLean. Even before they met him, Sierra has multiple fish all named "Chris" while Topher's cat, Chef, is named after Chris' sidekick. | |
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On The Muppets (2015), Miss Piggy brings back a baby penguin from her vacation to Argentina. She names it Gloria Estefan because it was the only Spanish name she could think of at the time. | |
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In the Repairman Jack series, Abe is a gun-dealer and technical expert on firearms; gun design, mechanical specifications, upkeep, customization, and repair. He'd probably have found a great job in the industry if he wasn't so determined to remain independent. He calls his pet parakeet Parabellum, the name of a specific type of cartridge. | |
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Dr. Frost: Befitting a psychologist, when Frost adopts a puppy, he ends up naming him Pavlov. | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: One round of "Limerick" unfolded thusly: | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, after a breakup with not-his-girlfriend Amy Farrah Fowler, theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper gets a cat that he names Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and takes him everywhere. Soon Sheldon becomes a Crazy Cat Gentleman and gets an entire Manhattan Project of cats — Fermi, Feynman, Teller, Frisch, and Odd Name Out Zazzles, because that cat is so zazzy. | |
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An episode of Columbo, the victim was a talented musician who had named her bird Chopin. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "I Dream of Genie", George P. Hanley's dog Attila is named after Attila the Hun. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Little Boy Lost", the photojournalist Carol Shelton's cat is named Ansel after Ansel Adams. | |
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In April and the Extraordinary World, April's cat is named Darwin, after Charles Darwin. As a member of a family of renegade scientists who refuse to work for the Empire, it is not surprising that she names her pet after a great scientist. | |
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In Ed Reardon's Week, Reardon is a witty, down on his luck writer, whose Intelligence Equals Isolation. The only friend he has is the cat, named after Edward Elgar. | |
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Duke Balthasar, the Big Bad of Red Leech, is the leader of 'the Government in Exile of the Confederacy'. He has two semi-tamed cougars he calls Grant and Sherman, in what he admits is a kind of sick joke. | |
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In Lori Lovecraft, struggling actress Lori's cat is named Keaton in honour of Buster Keaton. | |
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At the end of The Interview, David Skylark revealed that he named his Cavalier Spaniel puppy after the late Kim Jong-un. | |
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The X-Files had Scully, whose background is in hard science like medicine and physics, owning a dog named Queequeg, a reference to one of the Characters in Moby-Dick. (Her family has Navy connections, and she and her father shared a fondness for that novel.) | |
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Crazy Rich Asians: Peik Lin's Nouveau Riche mother named her Mister Muffykins dogs Astor, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller, after rich American families. | |
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Stargate SG-1 had Samantha Carter, the team The Smart Guy, owning a cat named Schrödinger, which she gave to Narim early on. | |
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In My Place, Mohammed is into cricket and describes himself as 'a mad keen bowler'; he named his goldfish after Shane Warne and talks to it as if it were the actual cricket player. | |
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In The Golden Hamster Saga, Mr. John named his whistling guinea pigs Enrico and Caruso. | |
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Ant-Man: Hank Pym sometimes named ants after musicians he liked, most notably the trio he used to explore inside Vision, who were Crosby, Stills and Nash. Scott Lang has also named ants after celebrities, including musicians, but his first ants were Emma and Steed, and he later followed this up with Purdey and Gambit. | |
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Baron Munchausen's horse is named Bucephalus, thus making this trope Older Than Radio. | |
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The Sword in the Stone: Merlin's Familiar is an owl named Archimedes. | |
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In Call Me Sunflower, the Applebaums' cats are named Aristotle, Copernicus, and Einstein. | |
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, bumbling inventor Wayne Szalinski has a dog named Quark. | |
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When Liz Lemon of 30 Rock is threatening to give up looking for love and succumb to being a Crazy Cat Lady: | |
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In Glee, The Dalton Academy Warblers each receive a canary after making the choir. The one Kurt is given is named Pavarotti, after the famed singer. | |
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Doc Brown in the Back to the Future film trilogy names his dogs after famous scientists. In 1985, his dog is called Einstein, and in 1955, his dog is called Copernicus. In 1885, his horse is called Copernicus. | |
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In The Salmon of Doubt, one of Dirk Gently's current cases is working out the name of a dog. He eventually realises that, since the late owner was writing a biography of Søren Kierkegaard , he would therefore probably have named the dog Kierkegaard, because it's a huge stress reliever to turn to it and say "Oh, shut up, Kierkegaard!" | |
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In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, the titular boy genius designed and built his robot dog and named him Goddard in honor of rocket science physicist and inventor Robert Goddard. Especially apt when, in his first animated feature film, Jimmy is able to ride upon Goddard like a space bike. | |
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Sliders: In the first episode, Quinn- the inventor/discoverer of Sliding- mentions his cat named Schrödinger. | |
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In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, inventor Caratacus Potts has a dog named Edison. | |
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Jonathan Creek: A minor character whose fascination with Classical Greek mythology plays a minor role in solving the mystery of the week owns a goldfish called Tiresias. | |
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The West Wing: Mathematics professor Talmidge Cregg has a cat named Nicodemus. | |
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Due South: Canadian Mountie Benton Fraser named his wolf Deifenbecker, after former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbecker. | |
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Dora in Questionable Content has a cat named Miéville. | |
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Skullgirls' Peacock is a huge fan of cartoons, so it's natural that her little bird sidekick, Avery, takes his name from one of the most famous animators of the medium (and also a pun on Aviary). | |
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Father Ted: Dougal names his rabbit Sampras, after Pete Sampras, owing to "the obvious rabbits-tennis connection." | |
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The Pants Project: Liv's mamma was born in Italy, so the family dog is named Garibaldi. | |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids are a pop band. Their Team Pet is a dog named Elvis. | |
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In Starsky & Hutch, Huggy Bear names one of his racing mice Cheesebiscuit. | |
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In Modern Family, it's mentioned that part of Mitchell's Transparent Closet as a child was naming his pet bird Fly-za Minelli and his pet snake Zsa Zsa Gaboa. | |
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The Door into Summer: Dan, the brilliant engineer on the cutting edge of domestic robotics, named his cat Petronius the Arbiter. | |
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In Zits, Jeremy adopts a cat he names 'Clapton'. | |
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Sam, a time traveler in The Bright Sessions, has a cat named Darwin which she obtained after a trip to the Galapagos where she saw the real deal. | |
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In Team Fortress 2, The Medic owns a pet dove named Archimedes, but he runs more in the Mad Scientist direction, gleefully describing how he once stole a live patient's skeleton. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Image of the Fendahl", archeologist Adam Colby calls his dog Leakey. The intent by writer Chris Boucher was that he was named after archeologist Louis Leakey, but he later realised a dog named Leakey suggested something else entirely. The novelisation by Terrance Dicks claims it's both. | |
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Both Can Be True has a Pomeranian named Chewbarka. | |
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The titular dog in Beethoven. His family decided on the name when he seemed to react positively as the youngest girl, Emily, began playing Beethoven's 5th Symphony on the piano. In the sequel, one of his puppies is named Tchaikovsky. | |
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In Mr. Popper's Penguins the first penguin the Poppers receive ends up being named Captain Cook after British explorer, James Cook. | |
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In A Murder Is Announced, Rev. Julian Harmon, an Oxford alumnus, named his cat after an Assyrian king. | |
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In The Murder Of Bindy Mackenzie, Bindy actually suggests this as a study tip. | |
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In The Great Balloon Race, Professor Aristotle Pilaster's Canine Companion is named Plato. | |
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B.J. and the Bear is about Billie Joe "B.J." McKay, a professional freelance itinerant trucker who travels the country's highways in a red and white Kenworth K-100 Aerodyne with his pet chimpanzee Bear (named after Bear Bryant, the famed football coach for the University of Alabama). | |
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In The Hunt (2020), the pig is named Orwell, because the hunters are drawing symbolism from Animal Farm. | |
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Discouraged in How NOT to Write a Novel, noting that if your novel's protagonist must have a cat, do not name it after a composer (such as Bartok), after a writer (Hemingway), after an ancient Greek (Socrates) or after a person that reflects the character's political leanings (Trotsky), among several other examples. | |
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Charlie from The Wild Way Home has a cat named Howard Carter. He used to have another one named King Tut. | |
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On Blackish, Dre's sister Rhonda and her wife Sharon have a cat called 'Kitty Lang'. | |
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Eleanor from Do Revenge named her emotional support dragon Oscar Winner Olivia Colman. | |
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Downton Abbey: All three dogs—Pharaoh, Isis & Tiaa—belonging to the Crawley family have names that are references to Ancient Egypt, and were likely chosen in tribute to the Earl of Carnarvon (real life owner of Highclere Castle AKA the Abbey) who financed Howard Carter's expedition. | |
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