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** ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/187.htm Prunella]]''.

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** ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/187.htm Prunella]]''.''Literature/{{Prunella}}''
** ''[[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t7rn35h4z&seq=89 Fragolette]]'' (by Édouard Laboulaye) - Fragolette is ordered to visit the witch's sister, Viperine, and get a casket. Belèbon, the witch's son, gives advice and objects to Fragolette to help her: compliment a river, oil door hinges, and give bread to a dog. When Fragolette escapes with the casket, Viperine orders her servants to kill the girl, but they stay their proverbial hand.
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* ''Film/IF2024'': Quite a few of the [=IFs=] ({{Imaginary Friend}}s) are these; there's Ice the glass of ice water, Viola (a stringed instrument), and a nameless marshmallow, just for starters.
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* ''VideoGame/NobodySavesTheWorld'': One of the game's [=NPCs=], Marty Joe, is a (person-sized) sentient hammer. Protagonist Nobody can also [[{{Objectshifting}} become a living object themself]], when they take on the Egg Form.
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Compare CompanionCube, which isn't animate at all but which is treated as if it was, and AnimateInanimateMatter and its subtropes, when instead of a discrete object it's a mass of normally inert matter. When they have a voice and fulfill a sidekick role to a bunch of humans, they're a TalkingApplianceSidekick.

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Compare CompanionCube, which isn't animate at all but which is treated as if it was, and AnimateInanimateMatter and its subtropes, when instead of a discrete object it's a mass of normally inert matter. When they have a voice and fulfill a sidekick role to a bunch of humans, they're a TalkingApplianceSidekick.
TalkingApplianceSidekick. See AmbiguouslySentientObject for when a work is deliberately ambiguous about an otherwise inanimate object by hinting that it may in fact be sentient.
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* ''Series/MorkAndMindy'': In "Twelve Angry Appliances", Mork (disguised as "Tommy Kilowatt, The Ghost Of Appliances Past") brings a bunch of electrical devices to life and has them put a skeezy repairman on trial in [[{{Pun}} "Circuit Court"]].

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* In ''Radio/LandOfTheLost1943'', the lost objects that collect in the titular Land all come to life, with some also increasing in size to be more comparable to humans- in the broadcast's surviving episodes, everything from clocks ("The Dock Of Lost Clocks") to playing cards ("The Big Game Preserve") to fans ("The Fan-Tom Of Fan-Tasy Hall"), to hats ("Ten-Gallon Pete") to bottles ("The Bottle Brigade") has been seen walking around down in the Land. few [[MissingEpisode Missing Episodes]] are also known to include such things as pens (broadcast lost, but seen in an issue of the comics), weapons and armor (ditto), gloves (a radio episode of name unknown) and cooking implements ("Stovepipe Square").

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* In ''Radio/LandOfTheLost1943'', the lost objects that collect in the titular Land all come to life, with some also increasing in size to be more comparable to humans- in the broadcast's surviving episodes, everything from clocks ("The Dock Of Lost Clocks") to playing cards ("The Big Game Preserve") to fans ("The Fan-Tom Of Fan-Tasy Hall"), to hats ("Ten-Gallon Pete") to bottles ("The Bottle Brigade") has been seen walking around down in the Land. A few [[MissingEpisode Missing Episodes]] are also known to include such things as pens (broadcast lost, but seen in an issue of the comics), weapons and armor (ditto), gloves (a radio episode of name unknown) and cooking implements ("Stovepipe Square").Square").
* The Quebec radio show ''Radio/LesDeuxMinutesDuPeuple'' has a few:
** In one sketch a vacationing couple is worried they left a burner on the stove on as one of them checks their phone messages. The stove left them a message letting them know they left two burners on.
** The "Apicerie" [[labelnote:Explanation]] A corruption of the French word "épicerie", a grocery store[[/labelnote]] is a show about grocery shopping and frequently [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext interviews food]] like asparagi, [[LetsMeetTheMeat hot-dog sausages]] and a palm tree (for its "heart of palm").
** "Rénovons avec Gaetan", a renovation show, often showcase talking tools as a RunningGag, like a beam detector or a talking saw (which screams "yumyumyum cherry wood that's so good yumyum" when they make it cut cherry wood and also warns "careful about your [[{{Fingore}} fingers]]!" whenever your fingers get too close for safety).
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* ''WesternAnimation/LittleBigAwesome'': It seems like just about any object in Townopolis can turn out to have a mind of its own- the show's very first episode (well, [[TwoShorts first two episodes]]) feature sentient satellites, bottle rockets, books, eggs, pudding, and a hammer; and the amount of living objects only grows from there.

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