First appearance of "Pongo 2.0", the nickname
Thomas Sanders assigned to his car, a Nissan Sentra, which would be the location for many of the "Sanders Shorts" until
That Indescribable Moment (2017), in October 2017. As Sanders explained on his Tumblr account, "Pongo" was the nickname Thomas gave to his first car, because it was mostly white but with a replaced front hood in black, something that reminded him to Pongo, from the Disney movie
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). He decided to give to subsequent cars he would own the same name followed by a "version number". When he had to replace his car in 2017, Sanders jokingly compared the replacement to an evolution from the
Pokémon (1997) franchise, and one follower had remarked him in Tumblr that his car then would "basically be the Doctor", from
Doctor Who (2005), and Sanders, who is also a Whovian, promptly agreed with them on that idea.