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Old 11-12-2007, 06:06 AM   #1
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Default Episode Title Puns

EDIT: The awesome bloonuggets wrote a better list here.

(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 )
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 )
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!

Last edited by BabyCharmander; 11-18-2007 at 03:47 AM.
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