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BabyCharmander 11-12-2007 06:06 AM

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!

TB 11-12-2007 06:34 AM

Quote:

Episodes
The Big Lablooski - The Big Lebowski(movie)
Everyone Knows It's Bendy - Everyone Knows It's Windy(or is it wendy? Google you're no help! I just know it's an oldies song)
Bloo's Brothers - The Blues Brothers, famous movie
Mac Daddy - Possibly a play on the term used for a Pimp.
Bye Bye Nerdy - Bye Bye Birdie, a musical
My So Called Wife - My So Called Life
Eddie Monster - I can only imagine it's referring to the show the Munster's. Eddie Munster being the werewolf boy on the show.
Room with a Feud - Room with a View
I Only Have a Surprise for You - I only have eyes for you
Bus the Two of Us - Just the Two of Us, it's a song.
Ticket to Rod - Ticket to Ride, song

Specials
Nightmare on Wilson Way - Nightmare on Elm Street, horror movie

Fixed a few of those. :3

BabyCharmander 11-12-2007 06:44 AM

Thanks! I updated the list.

TB 11-12-2007 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by BabyCharmander (Post 63560)
Thanks! I updated the list.

I forgot to look through the shorties list. I'll go through it in a bit if nobody else gets to it. For now though I have to head off to my next class.

bloonuggets 11-12-2007 06:55 AM

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.

jekylljuice 11-12-2007 07:12 AM

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.

BabyCharmander 11-12-2007 07:19 AM

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.)?

RocketBabyDoll 11-12-2007 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by BabyCharmander (Post 63556)
Adoptcalypse Now - Apocalypse Now (?)
Squeakerboxxx - ?
Camp Keep a Good Mac Down - Can't Keep a Good (?) Down (I don't know the actual phrase. I've heard "Can't Keep a Good Dog Down," but that was from All Dogs Go to Heaven, and I'm not sure if that's parodying the real phrase or if that IS the real phrase...)

Good Wilt Hunting - Good Will Hunting (?)

Pretty sure Apocalypse Now and Good Will Hunting are right and referring to the movies. Squeakerboxxx could be referring to Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (an album by Outkast). I'm only guessing for the last one, but could it be Can't Keep A Good Man Down? Isn't that a song?

Edit: Oh and Something Old, Something Bloo could be Something Old, Something Blue. As in you should also have something blue for your wedding.

BabyCharmander 11-12-2007 09:06 AM

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)

TB 11-12-2007 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by RocketBabyDoll (Post 63572)
I'm only guessing for the last one, but could it be Can't Keep A Good Man Down? Isn't that a song?

Yeah I just googled it. It's from Alabama apparently. I think it's a musical.

Linkage!

Starsky 11-12-2007 10:21 AM

"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.

BabyCharmander 11-12-2007 10:43 AM

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...

TB 11-12-2007 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starsky (Post 63578)
"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.

I had no idea about the Cosby show one. Interesting. :wiltshock:

I completely forgot about that Star Trek one. :blooxd:

cartman414 11-12-2007 12:58 PM

"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.

Ccook50 11-12-2007 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bloonuggets (Post 63563)
"Challenge of the Super Friends" was indeed the 1972 season of the SuperFriends cartoon series on ABC

Actually, Challenge Of The Superfriends, the cartoon show, is from 1977. Super Friends (original title syntax) first came about in 1973, although Batman and Robin did appear in two 1972 episodes of The New Scooby Doo Movies.

Lynnie 11-12-2007 07:08 PM

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

bloonuggets 11-12-2007 07:40 PM

As far as "Camp Keep A Good Mac Down" it derives from the phrase "(You) Can't Keep A Good Man Down".

BabyCharmander 11-13-2007 03:26 AM

Thanks muchly, guys. :D I updated the list again.

EDIT: Oh, cool! I'm Settling In! %B

bloonuggets 11-18-2007 02:49 AM

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.

BabyCharmander 11-18-2007 03:45 AM

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. >>)

jekylljuice 11-18-2007 05:49 AM

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. :)

Ccook50 11-18-2007 08:54 AM

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.

frankie_fan 11-18-2007 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bloonuggets (Post 64113)
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.

I actually thought that the 'seize the day' term was from the famous line in the Robin Williams movie Dead Poets Society: 'Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.'

Sparky 11-18-2007 06:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankie_fan (Post 64168)
I actually thought that the 'seize the day' term was from the famous line in the Robin Williams movie Dead Poets Society: 'Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.'

Lol, it wasn't invented for that movie, it's a famous Latin phrase.

bloonuggets 02-27-2008 09:40 PM

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.

jekylljuice 02-27-2008 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bloonuggets (Post 72534)
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.

In that case, is there any chance of you correcting the entry for "Affair Weather Friends"? Don't mean to nitpick, but Fair Weather Friends aren't the sort who stick together through thick and thin, quite the opposite in fact.

bloonuggets 02-28-2008 02:08 PM

Fixed it for you.

jekylljuice 02-28-2008 02:16 PM

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. :)

bloonuggets 03-09-2008 06:03 AM

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.

cartman414 03-10-2008 09:15 PM

"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".

bloonuggets 03-11-2008 04:22 AM

I remember that, too.

Mr_Bloo_Veins 03-13-2008 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cartman414 (Post 73356)
"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".

For the longest time I thought that episode was called "My Friend Goo" and not "Go Goo Go".

A reference to Sonic Youth makes a lot of sense considering the shows' style.

bloonuggets 03-28-2008 06:03 PM

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".

cartman414 03-29-2008 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bloonuggets (Post 74709)
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".

I see. As I said in the other thread, if it were me, I might have named it "Cococo-co Co-coco" in homage to Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, because she can be just as loopy.

bloonuggets 04-11-2008 05:51 AM

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."

bloonuggets 04-23-2009 03:29 AM

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.

Ccook50 04-23-2009 09:58 AM

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.

jekylljuice 04-23-2009 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Ccook50 (Post 109317)
If I may interject, before Cyndi Lauper did her take on Time After Time, Sammy Cahn wrote a 1944 standard under that name.

Well, to be totally fair, there have been quite a number of completely different songs all sharing that mutual title. Really, it's hard to say whether it refers to Sammy Cahn's, Cyndi Lauper's, Ozzy Osbourne's or anybody else's, or even necessarily to one particular song at all ("time after time" is a standard figure of speech in itself, after all). In the end I guess it's not so important as far as the episode itself goes.

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:

KazooBloo 12-04-2016 02:15 PM

So every episode is basically a pun? Wow!


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