And two George Oscars (one called Gob), an Oscar George, a Michael and a George Michael.
The Larry Sander Show had Sid the cue card guy and Hank’s agent Sid.
The Vancouver Canucks currently have two Elias Pettersson’s, although they haven’t played together (the younger one is with the farm team).
The giant number on the back of their jersey helps to distinguish them, but the younger also has a E. on his nameplate.
Teams with brothers have happened often enough too (the Canucks famously had the Sedin twins) but they had different first names of course.
There was Tony Soprano, the main character and his cousin Tony Blundetto, introduced in season 5 or thereabouts. In their childhood they were called “Tony Uncle Johnny” (Soprano) and “Tony Uncle Al” (Blundetto).
I loved G.I.Joe as a kid and when I was 11, one of my favorite figures came out.
Airborne was a “Helicopter assault trooper,” and Airborne Infantryman. He hailed from the Navaho reservation in Arizona. He had some good moments in the Marvel Comics series and was seen in the Sunbow cartoon series though he was not really a featured character there.
I grew older and aged out of the toys, then joined the Army myself (And graduated Airborne school). Meanwhile, Hasbro released another toy with the codename Airborne. Not an update or a new figure of the original character, but an all new character.
Airborne (v2) was the Sky Patrol Parachute Assembler and battlefield medic from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. As far as I know, he was not in the comics but he was in several episodes of the DiC cartoon along with his Sky Patrol teammates.
It seems a bit odd to me that they would release two different figures sharing the same name. I am sure Hasbro had a reason for it and Airborne is a cool name but it also seems like the second toy could have just been an update of the first.
An early Simpsons episode gave Homer an assistant named Karl, not to be confused with his coworker Carl.
It’s also hard to tell Carl and Lenny apart, that’s why Homer has a cheat sheet with “Lenny-white, Carl-black”.
“Ow! My eye! I’m not supposed to get pudding in it!”
“Original Patty” joined with Violet and became one of the “mean girls” who palled around with Lucy and picked on Charlie Brown.
Peppermint Patty doesn’t have red hair.
I had an entire corner of my classroom populated by Ashleys.
Ashley B., Ashley D., Ashlie G. and Ashley P.
AND, they were of the precise age that had watched the animated show RECESS every Saturday morning, where “The Ashleys” (Ashley A., Ashley B., Ashley Q. and Ashley T.) were the Mean Girls of the school.
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Oh, in reading up on this, I learned that The Ashleys were inspired by Heathers (So, another set of identically-named characters).
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And that they harassed Spinelli (my favorite) because she wouldn’t join them, even though her first name was secretly Ashley.
I don’t think they appeared in the original comic series, but the live-action TV adaptation of The Boys has two Ashleys: Ashley Barrett, an evil corporate executive, and her personal assistant or subordinate, called “Also Ashley.” Confusion between the two becomes a plot point in the last episode of Season 4.
The tales of Sinbad the sailor.
A poor porter (one who carries goods for others in the market and throughout the city) pauses to rest on a bench outside the gate of a rich merchant’s house, where he complains to God about the injustice of a world which allows the rich to live in ease while he must toil and yet remain poor. The owner of the house hears and sends for the porter, finding that they are both named Sinbad. The rich Sinbad tells the poor Sinbad that he became wealthy “by Fortune and Fate” in the course of seven wondrous voyages, which he then proceeds to relate.