his surplus produce. In The Deadly Assassin, a serial from the 14th season of the classic series of Doctor Who (1976), the reporter Runcible is one of the Doctor's old classmates from the Prydonian Academy, and the Doctor refers to him as "Runcible the Fatuous." Arthur C. Clarke's short story Playback makes the reference as the degrading psychic recording of a dead space pilot struggles to remember how to describe a human body with the line "The head, now. It is perfectly spherical, and weareth a runcible cap..." In Bloomington, Indiana, there is a restaurant called the Runcible Spoon, a local Bloomington staple and cultural landmark (1976). In Neal Stephenson's 1995 novel The Diamond Age, Runcible is a code name for the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, an educational computer. In the 1996 board game Kill Doctor Lucky, a runcible spoon is one of the weapons players can use to kill Doctor Lucky. In Neal Asher's Polity series of novels, including Gridlinked (2001), runcible is the name given to an interstellar wormhole generator/teleporter, as an homage to the ansible. The central field for these devices is also known as the runcible's spoon. Paul McCartney's 2001 album Driving Rain includes the track "Heather" which features the lyrics: "And I will dance to a runcible tune / With the queen of my heart". McCartney has explained the connection to "The Owl and the Pussycat" in various interviews since its release. In Lemony Snicket's 2006 The End, an island cult eats using only runcible spoons. In the webcomic Questionable Content, J. Edward Runcible (an amalgamation of "Edward Lear" and "Runcible") is the name of a 19th-century conspiracy theorist (2007). In the webcomic Girl Genius, Gilgamesh Wulfenbach uses a "hand-cranked runcible gun" that shoots sporks during a staged fight (2008). The Runcible Spoon is a food magazine published in the District of Columbia. It was founded in 2010. Runcible was a smartphone pocket watch under development in 2016 by Monohm Inc. In the webcomic Dominic Deegan, Runcible Spoon is a professor and staff member at the School of Arcane Arts, in particular, the Arcane Elemental Research Department. He loves hearing "CURSE YOU RUNCIBLE SPOON!!!" from an elemental that he launches fireballs at. The first "higgledy hero" companion that players can acquire in the 2018 PlayStation 4 videogame Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is named "Runcible the Righteous". Runcible is the name of a stuffed