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Episode Title Puns
EDIT: The awesome bloonuggets wrote a better list here. :D
(I THINK this is in the right forum... move it if it isn't, please. >> Eheh.) I dunno about you folks, but I LOVE puns. %B Not groan-inducing ones, of course--I hate those as much as the next person. Puns are common jokes that are rarely ever laugh-out-loud funny, but I find them highly amusing anyway. I love the puns in the Foster's episode titles, even though, I know, every other cartoon does the same thing. Still, I'm trying to compile a list of the puns (and other literary devices) in the ep titles, and need a bit of help completing the list. Some ep titles I have no idea about, some I have a vague idea about but am not sure. Episodes Store Wars - Star Wars The Trouble with Scribbles - The Trouble with Tribbles Busted - generic pun ("busted" as in "broken" and "in trouble," as well as "bust," the type of statue that was broken in the episode) Dinner Is Swerved - Dinner Is Served World Wide Wabbit - World Wide Web Berry Scary - Very Scary Seeing Red - Seeing Red (same phrase, different meaning: "seeing red" as in being very angry, and "seeing Red" as in seeing the imaginary friend, Red ;D) Phone Home - exact phrase Who Let the Dogs In? - Who Let the Dogs Out Adoptcalypse Now - Apocalypse Now Bloooo - Boooo (the sound a ghost supposedly makes) Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree - Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow The Big Lablooski - The Big Lebowski Where There's a Wilt There's a Way - Where There's a Will There's a Way Everyone Knows It's Bendy - Everyone Knows It's Windy Sight for Sore Eyes - exact phrase Bloo's Brothers - The Blues Brothers Cookie Dough - generic pun ("dough" as in "flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread" and "money") Frankie My Dear - Frankly My Dear Mac Daddy - Mac Daddy (same phrase, different meaning: "mac daddy" as in "pimp" and "Mac daddy" as in Mac apparently being Cheese's father/creator) Squeakerboxxx - Speakerboxxx Beat with a Shtick - Beat with a Stick (?) The Sweet Stench of Success - The Sweet Smell of Success Bye Bye Nerdy - Bye Bye Birdy Bloo Done It - Who Done It (?) My So Called Wife - My So Called Life Eddie Monster - Eddie Munster (?) Hiccy Burp - Hikky Burr Camp Keep a Good Mac Down - (You) Can't Keep a Good Man Down Imposter's Home for um... Make 'Em Up Pals - no pun; parody (the show's title :P) Duchess of Wails - Duchess of Wales Foster's Goes to Europe - no pun (?) Go Goo Go - no pun; alliteration (Go, Goo, Go; plus the fact that the name "Goo" looks similar to the word "Go") Crime after Crime - Time after Time (?) Land of the Flea - Land of the Free One False Movie - One False Move Setting a President - Setting a Precedent (?) Room with a Feud - Room with a View Cuckoo for Coco Cards - Cuckoo for Coco Puffs Challenge of the Super Friends - SuperFriends The Big Picture - The Big Picture (same phrase, different meaning: "the big picture" as in "the whole idea" and basically a giant picture, like the one being taken in the episode) Squeeze the Day - Seize the Day Neighbor Pains - Labor Pains (?) Infernal Slumber - Eternal Slumber/Infernal Summer I Only Have Surprise for You - I Only Have Eyes for You Bus the Two of Us - Just the Two of Us The Big Cheese - exact phrase Bloo's the Boss - Who's the Boss (?) Emancipation Complication - Emancipation Proclamation Make Believe It or Not - Believe It or Not Cheese A Go-Go - Monsters a Go-Go The Buck Swaps Here - The Buck Stops Here Say It Isn't Sew - Say It Isn't So Something Old, Something Bloo - Something Old, Something Blue The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power - parody of cheesy movie titles (?) Shlock Star - Rock Star The Bride to Beat - The Bride to Be (?) Affair Weather Friends - Fair Weather Friends Ticket to Rod - Ticket to Ride Better Off Ed - Better Off Dead Specials House of Bloo's - House of Blues A Lost Clause - A Lost Cause Good Wilt Hunting - Good Will Hunting Nightmare on Wilson Way - Nightmare on Elm Street Shorts Driving Miss Crazy - Driving Miss Daisy Neighborhood Wash - Neighborhood Watch All Zapped Up - All Hyped Up Bad to the Phone - Bad to the Bone Truth or Stare - Truth or Dare Cranks a Lot - Thanks a Lot A Chore Thing - A Sure Thing Hide and Bloo Seek - Hide and Go Seek Badvertisement - Advertisement Give Pizza a Chance - Give Peace a Chance Drawing Bored - Drawing Board A Fistful of Cereal - A Fistful of Dollars Petrified Pet - no pun; alliteration and assonance (petrified, pet) Coconuts - exact phrase Penpal - exact phrase Here Kitty Kitty - exact phrase Birthday Cake Bloos - Birthday Cake Blues (?) Backpack Attack - no pun; rhyme (backpack, attack) Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow *THUD* What can I say? I'm too sick to go to class and don't have anything better to do. (...Well I do, but I don't feel like doing it at the moment. :-[) Anyway, inform me if I missed any titles. (I got the list from Wiki.) As well, if anyone can confirm or correct the phrases I have followed by a question mark in parenthesis and figure out what the pun is (if there's one at all) in the titles followed by a question mark, that would be awesomegreat! |
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Thanks! I updated the list.
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Mac Daddy comes from the rap group Kris Kross who had a song called "Jump Jump" that contained the lyric "The Mac Daddy'll make ya..."
And you're correct, TB. The Association had a song called "(Everyone Knows It's) Windy." As for the other episodes, "Chesse A Go-Go" puns that old Mystery Science Theatre 3000 classic of bad cinema "Monsters A Go-Go", "Challenge of the Super Friends" was indeed the 1972 season of the SuperFriends cartoon series on ABC, while "Schlock Star" puns off the phrase "Rock Star." As for the shorts, "Neighborhood Wash" puns local crime volunteer organizations called "Neighborhood Watch", "A Chore Thing" puns the phrase "A Sure Thing", "Give Pizza Chance" is a pun of the John Lennon 1970 song "(All We Are Saying Is) Give Peace A Chance", while "A Fistful of Cereal" puns the spaghetti western "A Fistful of Dollars" starring Clint Eastwood. Hope that helps you out there. Oh, almost forgot. The exact title of one episode is "I Only Have Surprise For You." The title you listed was misprinted (and recorded) on TVGuide.com. |
Some of those titles are references to famous movie lines. "Phone Home" has proven to be one of the most memorable utterences of the titular character from ET: the Extra Terrestrial (Steven Speilberg, 1982), while "Frankie My Dear" owes to the first clause of Rhett Buttler's notorious departing statement "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939). "Parting is such a sweet sorrow", of course, is a Shakespearian phrase (Romeo and Juliet, FYI).
I always assumed that "Schlock Star" was a simple play on "Rock Star" myself, but I could be wrong. |
Thanks again, guys! :D
Remember, I'd also like either a confirmation or a correction on the phrases followed by a question mark in parenthesis, as I'm not entirely sure I got them right. Edit: Oh, BTW, do you guys think I should be more specific with the list, like stating what some of the phrases are from and what the titles are of (movie, show, song, etc.)? |
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Edit: Oh and Something Old, Something Bloo could be Something Old, Something Blue. As in you should also have something blue for your wedding. |
Ah, okay. The list has been updated. (There's still a question mark after "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" since it looks as though we're not entirely sure on that one yet. XD)
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Linkage! |
"The Trouble With Scribbles" is actually a fairly clever pun on the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles". "Hiccy Burp" is a pun on "Hikky Burr", the Bill Cosby Show theme. And the movie pilot, "House Of Bloo's", is a reference to the House Of Blues.
So, guess we're only missing Foster's Goes To Europe. If it is a pun, that is. |
Thanks! Didn't know about the Star Trek one. List has been updated. :3
We're missing All Zapped Up, too, though I dunno if that one's a pun on anything, either... |
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I completely forgot about that Star Trek one. :blooxd: |
"Bloo Superdude and the..." sounds like a parody of the "Harry Potter and the..." naming convention.
McCracken and crew have always been great with episode titling, by the way. My favorite would still have to be "Cat Man Do" from the Powerpuff Girls. |
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Wow, that took a lot of time and effort to record all these BabyCharm, good job. :bloosmirk:
Personally, the first term I thought of when hearing the title "Infernal Slumber" was "infernal summer", meaning a hot "hellish" summer. I've both heard and said it a number of times throughout my life. So the pun for that title might be interchangeable. Although the term "eternal slumber" does make more sense when compared to the actual episode. And as for "All Zapped Up", I quickly think of the term "all hyped up", meaning extremely hyper and excited. And that would make sense for the short since that's exactly what Bloo is in it- all excited about all his new found "power" of static electricity. 8D |
As far as "Camp Keep A Good Mac Down" it derives from the phrase "(You) Can't Keep A Good Man Down".
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Thanks muchly, guys. :D I updated the list again.
EDIT: Oh, cool! I'm Settling In! %B |
Adding explaination for "RFYLMB"
So, let's run through the list with a few additions, shall we?
Episodes Season One Store Wars - Taken from the Star Wars series of movies. The Trouble with Scribbles - Star Trek episode titled "The Trouble with Tribbles." Busted - A generic pun (as in "broken" and "in trouble," as well as "bust," the type of statue that was broken in the episode.) Dinner Is Swerved - The phrase "Dinner Is Served." World Wide Wabbit - World Wide Web, plus the way Elmer Fudd in the Looney Tunes series of cartoons with Bugs Bunny pronounces "rabbit". Berry Scary - Very Scary, if it were pronounced by Strawberry Shortcake. Seeing Red - Seeing Red (same phrase, different meaning: "Seeing red" as in being very angry, and "seeing Red" as in seeing the imaginary friend of the same name.) Phone Home - The signature line of the titular character of 1982's Speilberg film E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Who Let the Dogs In? - The Baha Men's one-hit wonder "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Adoptcalypse Now - Francis Ford Copolla's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now. Bloooo - Boooo (the sound a ghost supposedly makes.) Season Two Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree - The line from Shakespere's Romeo and Juliet "Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow." The Big Lablooski - The Coen Brother's bowling epic The Big Lebowski. Where There's a Wilt There's a Way - Where There's a Will There's a Way Everyone Knows It's Bendy - A line from the 1969 song by The Association "Windy." Sight for Sore Eyes - Exact phrase. Bloo's Brothers - Dan Akroyd and John Belushi's characters known as "The Blues Brothers", and the self-titled 1980 movie. Cookie Dough - Generic pun ("Dough" as in "flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread" and "money".) Frankie My Dear - Part of Clark Gable's line in Gone With The Wind "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Mac Daddy - Besides a term for pimping and Mac supposedly Cheese's creator, it comes from the 1990 Kris Kross song "Jump" with the line "Mac Daddy'll make ya jump, jump..." Squeakerboxxx - Speakerboxxx (The 2003 Outkast album paired with "The Love Below.") Beat with a Schtick - Beat with a Stick. The Sweet Stench of Success - Movie and failed Broadway musical The Sweet Smell of Success. Bye Bye Nerdy - Broadway and movie musical Bye Bye Birdie. Bloo Done It - Mystery phrase "Whodunit?" My So Called Wife - Short-lived TV series My So Called Life. Season Three Eddie Monster - Eddie Munster of The Munsters. Hiccy Burp - Hikky Burr, the theme from the 1969-70 TV series The Bill Cosby Show. Camp Keep a Good Mac Down - The phrase "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down." Imposter's Home for um... Make 'Em Up Pals - A parody of the show's title. Duchess of Wails - Duchess of Wales. Foster's Goes to Europe - No pun. Go Goo Go - An alliteration (Go, Goo, Go; plus the fact that the name "Goo" looks similar to the word "Go".) Crime after Crime - Cyndi Laupner's 1985 hit song Time After Time. Land of the Flea - Line from The Star Spangled Banner "O'er The Land of the Free." One False Movie - Punning the phrase "One False Move" as well as a movie of the same title. Setting a President - The legal term Setting a Precedent. Room with a Feud - Movie title A Room With a View. Cuckoo for Coco Cards - Ad slogan "Cuckoo for Coco Puffs." Season Four Challenge of the Super Friends - SuperFriends 1977-78 season series title. The Big Picture - The same phrase with different meaning: "the big picture" as in "the whole idea" and basically a giant picture, like the one being taken in the episode. Squeeze the Day - The term "Seize the day"; also a title of a song from the Disney musical Newsies. The Latin term is Carpe Diem. Neighbor Pains - The medical term for pregnant women giving berth, "labor pains." Infernal Slumber - The phrase "Eternal Slumber," a term for passing away. I Only Have Surprise for You - The 1930's song standard "I Only Have Eyes for You." Bus the Two of Us - Grover Washington Jr./Bill Withers colaberative song "Just the Two of Us," covered by both Will Smith and Mike Myers (as Dr. Evil.) The Big Cheese - Exact phrase meaning the person in charge. Bloo's the Boss - From the 1980's Tony Danza/Alyssa Milano TV series Who's the Boss? Emancipation Complication - Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Make Believe It or Not - The famous oddity franchise called Ripley's Believe It or Not. Season Five Cheese A Go-Go - 1966 MST3K favorite(?) Monsters a Go-Go. The Buck Swaps Here - Sign for Harry S Truman on his White House Oval Office desk, "The Buck Stops Here." Say It Isn't Sew - The quote from a little boy during the imfamous "Black Sox Scandal" of the Chicago White Sox purposely losing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds to "Shoeless" Joe Jackson when he asked "Say it isn't so, Joe. Say it isn't so." Something Old, Something Bloo - Part of the wedding idiom "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue." The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power - Parody of cheesy movie titles. Schlock Star - Mark Wahlberg's movie Rock Star. Bride to Beat - Term for an engaged woman "Bride to be." Affair Weather Friends - The term "Fair weather friends", who stick together through good times but not bad. Ticket to Rod - Beatles song "Ticket to Ride." Better Off Ed - Phrase (and movie) "Better Off Dead"; in addition, the title serves as an tribute to the now defunct CN series "Ed, Edd 'N Eddy," where many of the titles had been punned with "Ed" in them. The Little Peas - Opposite of "The Big Cheese", of which this story is an alternate perspective. Let Your Hare Down - Comes from the phrase "Let your hair down", a term to relax. Season Six Jackie Khones and The Case of the Overdue Library Books - Parodies the Perry Mason made-for-TV movies from the 1980s. Mondo Coco - From the 1962 Italian "shockumentary" Mondo Cane, which is the literal translation of "A Dog's Life", hence "Coco's Life". Pranks for Nothing - Pun off the sarcastic line "Thanks for nothing". Bloo Tube - Spoof on the popular website YouTube. Race For Your Life, Mac and Bloo! - Peanuts fans will recognize the title as from the movie "Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown!" The Bloo Superdude and The Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To - Self explainatory. Bad Dare Day - A pun off the phrase "Bad Hair Day". Read 'Em and Weep - Phrase to eat crow to. Fools and Regulations - A pun on the phrase "Rules and Regulations". Specials House of Bloo's - Rock and roll restaraunt chain founded by Dan Ackroyd "House of Blues." A Lost Claus - The phrase "A Lost Cause." Good Wilt Hunting - Ben Affleck/Matt Damon/Robin Williams movie Good Will Hunting. Nightmare on Wilson Way - Horror movie franchise Nightmare on Elm Street. Destination Imagination - None. Goodbye To Bloo - Puns the 1982 Scandal song (and to a lesser extent, the 1986 Roxette Swedish song) "Goodbye To You." Shorts Driving Miss Crazy - Oscar winning movie and play Driving Miss Daisy. Neighborhood Wash - From the local crime watch group known as "Neighborhood Watch." All Zapped Up - The phrase "All hyped up." Bad to the Phone - George Thurgood song "Bad to the Bone." Truth or Stare - Imfamous Madonna movie documentary Truth or Dare. Cranks a Lot - From the phrase "Thanks a lot." A Chore Thing - The phrase "A sure thing." Hide and Bloo Seek - From the classic kids' game "Hide and Go Seek." Badvertisement - Punning the phrase "Advertisement." Give Pizza a Chance - The title of John Lennon's 1970 anti-Vietnam War anthem "Give Peace a Chance." Drawing Bored - A bit of the old phrase to rework an idea "Back to the old drawing board." A Fistful of Cereal - Clint Eastwood "Spaghetti Western" classic A Fistful of Dollars. Petrified Pet - No pun but an alliteration and assonance (petrified, pet.) Coconuts, Penpal and Here Kitty Kitty - All with the exact phrases. Birthday Cake Bloos - From the Fifth Dimension 1969 song "Wedding Bell Blues". Backpack Attack - Not a pun, but a rhyme (backpack, attack.) Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow - From the phrase "Here today, gone tomorrow." And all that from my work as the FHFIF editor on tv.com really does pay off. |
WOW. @_@ That's way better than my list. Thanks a TON. %D
Though I thought "fair weather friends" referred to people who were only friends when one person felt like playing with the other? (Like... Girl 1 only plays with Girl 2 when there's no one else to play with or if Girl 2 invites Girl 1 over to her house because Girl 2 has a lot of fun toys. But if Girl 1's friends are around, she'll ignore Girl 2. If that makes sense. >>) |
The term "fair weather friends" connotes folks who'll be good to you so long as your circumstances are good and (typically) they have something to gain from it. But if things take a turn for the worse, you can bank on it that they'll show their true colours and desert you.
Otherwise, that's a very impressive and extensive list, bloonuggets. :) |
Insofar as Cheese-A-Go-Go is concerned, the suffix "A-Go-Go" was implemented on a number of entities in the mid-to-late 60s as a signature of implied hipness. In cartoons, for example, Batfink had a villain named Hugo A-Go-Go, and Wacky Races had an episode titled "Idaho-A-Go-Go." I digress, Cheese-A-Go-Go does fit the reference of Monsters-A-Go-Go given the source material.
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I just wanted to let you know that Season Six has been started on the episode list and each new episode (and explanation) will be added to said list as the new episodes will be released and aired, sometimes beforehand.
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Fixed it for you.
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Cool, thanks. Once again, I hope you can forgive me for being so nitpicky, but I guess it's all in the interests of creating a thorough and comprehensive list. :)
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Got a quick explaination on the first episode of Season Six, "Jackie Khones and The Case of the Overdue Library Books" for you.
If you remember the 1980's Perry Mason made-for-TV movies starring Raymond Burr, they always used the formal title of "Perry Mason and The Case of the..." in the titles. This has already been mentioned there, so I'd thought I'd share it with you. |
"Go Goo Go" sounds a lot like "Go Go Go".
I just realized another potential title for that episode: "My Friend Goo", the name of a song from the 1990 Sonic Youth album "Goo". |
I remember that, too.
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A reference to Sonic Youth makes a lot of sense considering the shows' style. |
I did mention the Sonic Youth "My Friend Goo" reference in Wikipedia, but that was "baleeted" by some idiot. Anywho, as for the new episode airing April 10th, "Mondo Coco", the title comes from the 1962 Italian made "shockumentary" entitled Mondo Cane, which when translated means "A Dog's Life". Ergo, "Mondo Coco" when translated stands for "Coco's Life".
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And now we can add "Pranks for Nothing" [airing 4/24/2008] which comes from the sarcastic line "Thanks for Nothing." And to avoid the dreaded double post, the May 8th episode, "Bloo Tube" is a pun on the popular web site for homemade videos, "YouTube."
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Here it is, the final, all you can handle episode pun list copied from an earlier post.
Episodes Season One Store Wars - Taken from the Star Wars series of movies. The Trouble with Scribbles - Star Trek episode titled "The Trouble with Tribbles." Busted - A generic pun (as in "broken" and "in trouble," as well as "bust," the type of statue that was broken in the episode.) Dinner Is Swerved - The phrase "Dinner Is Served." World Wide Wabbit - World Wide Web, plus the way Elmer Fudd in the Looney Tunes series of cartoons with Bugs Bunny pronounces "rabbit". Berry Scary - Very Scary, if it were pronounced by Strawberry Shortcake. Seeing Red - Seeing Red (same phrase, different meaning: "Seeing red" as in being very angry, and "seeing Red" as in seeing the imaginary friend of the same name.) Phone Home - The signature line of the titular character of 1982's Speilberg film E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Who Let the Dogs In? - The Baha Men's one-hit wonder "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Adoptcalypse Now - Francis Ford Copolla's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now. Bloooo - Boooo (the sound a ghost supposedly makes.) Season Two Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree - The line from Shakespere's Romeo and Juliet "Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow." The Big Lablooski - The Coen Brother's bowling epic The Big Lebowski. Where There's a Wilt There's a Way - Where There's a Will There's a Way Everyone Knows It's Bendy - A line from the 1969 song by The Association "Windy." Sight for Sore Eyes - Exact phrase. Bloo's Brothers - Dan Akroyd and John Belushi's characters known as "The Blues Brothers", and the self-titled 1980 movie. Cookie Dough - Generic pun ("Dough" as in "flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread" and "money".) Frankie My Dear - Part of Clark Gable's line in Gone With The Wind "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Mac Daddy - Besides a term for pimping and Mac supposedly Cheese's creator, it comes from the 1990 Kris Kross song "Jump" with the line "Mac Daddy'll make ya jump, jump..." Squeakerboxxx - Speakerboxxx (The 2003 Outkast album paired with "The Love Below.") Beat with a Schtick - Beat with a Stick. The Sweet Stench of Success - Movie and failed Broadway musical The Sweet Smell of Success. Bye Bye Nerdy - Broadway and movie musical Bye Bye Birdie. Bloo Done It - Mystery phrase "Whodunit?" My So Called Wife - Short-lived TV series My So Called Life. Season Three Eddie Monster - Eddie Munster of The Munsters. Hiccy Burp - Hikky Burr, the theme from the 1969-70 TV series The Bill Cosby Show. Camp Keep a Good Mac Down - The phrase "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down." Imposter's Home for um... Make 'Em Up Pals - A parody of the show's title. Duchess of Wails - Duchess of Wales. Foster's Goes to Europe - No pun. Go Goo Go - An alliteration (Go, Goo, Go; plus the fact that the name "Goo" looks similar to the word "Go".) Crime after Crime - Cyndi Laupner's 1985 hit song Time After Time. Land of the Flea - Line from The Star Spangled Banner "O'er The Land of the Free." One False Movie - Punning the phrase "One False Move" as well as a movie of the same title. Setting a President - The legal term Setting a Precedent. Room with a Feud - Movie title A Room With a View. Cuckoo for Coco Cards - Ad slogan "Cuckoo for Coco Puffs." Season Four Challenge of the Super Friends - SuperFriends 1977-78 season series title. The Big Picture - The same phrase with different meaning: "the big picture" as in "the whole idea" and basically a giant picture, like the one being taken in the episode. Squeeze the Day - The term "Seize the day"; also a title of a song from the Disney musical Newsies. The Latin term is Carpe Diem. Neighbor Pains - The medical term for pregnant women giving berth, "labor pains." Infernal Slumber - The phrase "Eternal Slumber," a term for passing away. I Only Have Surprise for You - The 1930's song standard "I Only Have Eyes for You." Bus the Two of Us - Grover Washington Jr./Bill Withers colaberative song "Just the Two of Us," covered by both Will Smith and Mike Myers (as Dr. Evil.) The Big Cheese - Exact phrase meaning the person in charge. Bloo's the Boss - From the 1980's Tony Danza/Alyssa Milano TV series Who's the Boss? Emancipation Complication - Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Make Believe It or Not - The famous oddity franchise called Ripley's Believe It or Not. Season Five Cheese A Go-Go - 1966 MST3K favorite(?) Monsters a Go-Go. The Buck Swaps Here - Sign for Harry S Truman on his White House Oval Office desk, "The Buck Stops Here." Say It Isn't Sew - The quote from a little boy during the imfamous "Black Sox Scandal" of the Chicago White Sox purposely losing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds to "Shoeless" Joe Jackson when he asked "Say it isn't so, Joe. Say it isn't so." Something Old, Something Bloo - Part of the wedding idiom "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue." The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power - Parody of cheesy movie titles. Schlock Star - Mark Wahlberg's movie Rock Star. Bride to Beat - Term for an engaged woman "Bride to be." Affair Weather Friends - The term "Fair weather friends", who stick together through good times but not bad. Ticket to Rod - Beatles song "Ticket to Ride." Better Off Ed - Phrase (and movie) "Better Off Dead"; in addition, the title serves as an tribute to the now defunct CN series "Ed, Edd 'N Eddy," where many of the titles had been punned with "Ed" in them. The Little Peas - Opposite of "The Big Cheese", of which this story is an alternate perspective. Let Your Hare Down - Comes from the phrase "Let your hair down", a term to relax. Season Six Jackie Khones and The Case of the Overdue Library Books - Parodies the Perry Mason made-for-TV movies from the 1980s. Mondo Coco - From the 1962 Italian "shockumentary" Mondo Cane, which is the literal translation of "A Dog's Life", hence "Coco's Life". Pranks for Nothing - Pun off the sarcastic line "Thanks for nothing". Bloo Tube - Spoof on the popular website YouTube. Race For Your Life, Mac and Bloo! - Peanuts fans will recognize the title as from the movie "Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown!" The Bloo Superdude and The Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To - Self explainatory. Bad Dare Day - A pun off the phrase "Bad Hair Day". Read 'Em and Weep - Phrase to eat crow to. Fools and Regulations - A pun on the phrase "Rules and Regulations". Specials House of Bloo's - Rock and roll restaraunt chain founded by Dan Ackroyd "House of Blues." A Lost Claus - The phrase "A Lost Cause." Good Wilt Hunting - Ben Affleck/Matt Damon/Robin Williams movie Good Will Hunting. Nightmare on Wilson Way - Horror movie franchise Nightmare on Elm Street. Destination Imagination - None. Goodbye To Bloo - Puns the 1982 Scandal song (and to a lesser extent, the 1986 Roxette Swedish song) "Goodbye To You." Shorts Driving Miss Crazy - Oscar winning movie and play Driving Miss Daisy. Neighborhood Wash - From the local crime watch group known as "Neighborhood Watch." All Zapped Up - The phrase "All hyped up." Bad to the Phone - George Thurgood song "Bad to the Bone." Truth or Stare - Imfamous Madonna movie documentary Truth or Dare. Cranks a Lot - From the phrase "Thanks a lot." A Chore Thing - The phrase "A sure thing." Hide and Bloo Seek - From the classic kids' game "Hide and Go Seek." Badvertisement - Punning the phrase "Advertisement." Give Pizza a Chance - The title of John Lennon's 1970 anti-Vietnam War anthem "Give Peace a Chance." Drawing Bored - A bit of the old phrase to rework an idea "Back to the old drawing board." A Fistful of Cereal - Clint Eastwood "Spaghetti Western" classic A Fistful of Dollars. Petrified Pet - No pun but an alliteration and assonance (petrified, pet.) Coconuts, Penpal and Here Kitty Kitty - All with the exact phrases. Birthday Cake Bloos - From the Fifth Dimension 1969 song "Wedding Bell Blues". Backpack Attack - Not a pun, but a rhyme (backpack, attack.) Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow - From the phrase "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow." That's all there is, there is no more after May 3rd, 2009. |
If I may interject, before Cyndi Lauper did her take on Time After Time, Sammy Cahn wrote a 1944 standard under that name. It was recently covered by Rod Stewart. Also Truth Or Dare is a game usually played by young girls.
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Oh, and just to be totally and unreasonably nit-picky here, bloonuggets, Cyndi's song was released in 1984 (in single format, anyhow), not 1985. Sorry, but I'm a Cyndi fan (even have the t-shirt to prove it) and I just couldn't keep myself from pointing that out. :oops: |
So every episode is basically a pun? Wow!
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