Titles that are a spoof of other things

[Brandon Pierce]

How many tiles have you guys noticed that are a spoof of other spectacular things? Here's some I've found.

Prince Violant- spoof of the comic strip Prince Valiant
Carrotblanca- Casablanca
People are Bunny- People are Funny
This is a Life?- This is Your Life

Any others?
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[Sogturtle]

Ummmm, Brandon...

Almost ALL of the WB cartoons are puns on titles or sayings... Clear from "Sinking In the Bath Tub" ("Singing in the...") till just about the very end of the studio. Even some of the MGMs were puns and gags. (example "Kitty Foiled" is a pun on the feature film "Kitty Foyle"). Oft-times they are quite ingenious.

[Jack]

He's right, the most every title (especially bugs Bunny and roadrunner flicks) are puns and plays on words...

Person To Bunny-Person To Person
Soup or Sonic- Soup or Salad
Duck Dodgers- Buck Rogers
The Lone Stranger and Porky-"lone Ranger"
Gold Rush Daze- Gold Rush Days
Bars and Stripes Forever-Stars and stripes forever
Naughty But Mice-Naughty but nice
Believe it, or Else-Believe it or not
Snow Man's Land-No man's land
Sioux Me-Sue me
Land of the Midnight Fun-land of the midnight sun
Porky's Last Stand-Custer's last stand
Africa Squeaks-Africa speaks
A Wild Hare-a wild hair
Shop, Look, and Listen-stop, look, and listen
Hold the Lion, Please-hold the line, please
The Ducktators-the discators
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs-Snow White
To Duck or Not to Duck-to be, or not to be
Hop and Go-stop and go
Greetings Bait-"greetings gate"
Yankee Doodle Daffy-"Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Meatless Flyday-meatless friday/tuesday
Stage Door Cartoon-"Stage Door Canteen"
Life With Feathers-"Life With Father"
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery-"The Great Train Robbery"
A Hare Grows in Manhattan-"A Tree Grows In Brookyln"
Birth of a Notion-"Birth of a Nation"
Gorilla My Dreams- girl of my greams
Two Gophers From Texas-"Two Guys From Texas"
Hop, Look, and Listen-stop, look, and listen
Odor of the Day-order of the day
Each Dawn I Crow-"Each Dawn i Die"
The Lion's Busy-The line's busy
The Scarlet Pumpernickel-"The Scarlet Pumpernel"
Strife With Father-"Like With Father"


just to name a few...

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack
Soup or Sonic- Soup or Salad
Life With Feathers-"Life With Father"
Each Dawn I Crow-"Each Dawn i Die"
Strife With Father-"Like With Father"


just to name a few...
'Soup or Sonic' - supersonic (new and exciting word at the time)
Each Dawn I Crow-"Each Dawn i Die" s/b 'Each Dawn I Cry'
Strife With Father-"Life With Father"
also

'Hold Anything' - 'Hold Everything'
'Clean Pastures' - 'Green Pastures'
'Dumb Patrol' - 'Dawn Patrol' (WWI fighter aircraft)
'What Price Porky' - 'What Price Glory'
'Ceiling Hero' - 'Ceiling Zero'
'Notes to You' - News to you (common expression)
'The Cagey Canary' - 'The Caged Canary'
'Confusions of a Nutsy Spy' - Confessions of a Nazi Spy'
'Greetings Bait' - a term used for one likely to be drafted into the armed services (the form letter you got began with:

"Greetings:

You friends and neighbors have selected you to serve..."

thus the term 'Greetings' came to be used as shorthand for 'you're drafted').

there are dozens more - between varients on movie/radio show names and simple puns, about 50% of all titles would need to be listed (10 of the 25 produced in 1946, for example, fit one category or the other).

lets try a question that limits the number of 'toons to less than 500, OK?

[Jack]

Thanks, I knew that had to either be "....Die," or "....Cry," so I just chose one, and the "like" in "Like With Father" was a typo, I've seen "Life With Father" before.

They did a lot with "Stop, Look, and Listen," many titles mimic that. It's a fun phrase. ("Hop, Look, and Listen," "Stop, Look, and Hasten")




Jack:D

[Bum]

One correction, Dave: I'd have to say that "Notes to You" is actually a parody of the expression "nuts to you", which I've heard or seen in various forms from movies of that era [anyone familiar with the Three Stooges will remember their automated dog-wash film as being titled "Mutts to You"].

By the way, a big THANK YOU to you! I'll e-mail you soon....

[The Dork Knight]

All This and Rabbit Stew "All This and Heaven Too"
The Fright Before Christmas - "The Night Before Christmas"
Uncle Tom's Bungalow - "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Bushy Hare - "Bushy Hair"
Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid "Bosko the Talking Kid"

[happyheathen]

I'll ask:


Originally posted by Jack
Snow Man's Land-No man's land


How many can correctly identify exactly WHAT 'No-man's land' is/was.

Hey, the 'Tuco' Q got 400+ hits - this should be good for at least 200...

[Jack]

How many can correctly identify exactly WHAT 'No-man's land' is/was.


Does it have anything at all to do with war? (let's play "50 Questions!")



Jack:D

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by happyheathen
'Greetings Bait' - a term used for one likely to be drafted into the armed services (the form letter you got began with:

This was also a pun on Jerry Colonna's catch phrase: "Greetings, Gate!". Also fitting because the worm in that cartoon was a caricature of Colonna.


-Jon

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack



Does it have anything at all to do with war? (let's play "50 Questions!")



Jack:D

How about:

'Used to'

?

[Jack]

I don't know, is it the space between two opposing sides in trench warfare, like during WWI?


Jack:D

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack
I don't know, is it the space between two opposing sides in trench warfare, like during WWI?


Jack:D

Yes, it was the area between the forward lines of opposing armies (modern ordance has rendered the concept pretty much obsolete).

now for the term 'decent interval', as in 'Jack SHOULD have given this question a decent interval before answering it'

party pooper ;) !

[Jack]

sorry:(

[DR. BELCH]

--the innumerable puns on the words "rabbit" and "hare" in Bugs Bunny shorts...from "Rabbit Fire" (rapid fire) to "Hare Splitter" (a ref to splitting hairs, or niggling over details).

I tried this with dogs...but once you get past puns on "dog", "hound", or "mutt" and use specific breeds, what is there?
BEAGLES. "Lox and Beagles"? Sounds like an item on Hebrew Chinese restaurant....
CHIHUAHUA: "Ay, Chihuahua!" Or maybe a pun on their high annoying bark, like, "Yip-Yip Yahoo".
DASCHUNDT. "Dashhundt Throught the Snow"? They're also called "weiner dogs", but I'm not going to go there....
DOBERMAN PINSCHERS. Innumerable puns on pinching...that movie about the bank-robbing Dobermans, which was referenced on The Powerpuff Girls...or maybe that fat private on The Phil Silvers Show....
GERMAN SHEPHERDS. Jokes about both sheep and Nazis abound....
LABRADORS. I had an idea for a story about babysitting identical twin baby Labradors and was going to call it "The Lab Brats"...but I changed it to the more Shakespearean-sounding "A Comedy of Terriers". See also Charlie Dog saying to Porky, "Just t'row me a Labrador, and I'll retrieve it!"
POODLES. "Chicken Poodle Soup"? "Don't Step in the Poodles"? "Kitten Ka-Poodle"?
ROTTWEILERS. Nothing but fat, squat Dobermans. Puns on the word "rotten" come to mind....
SHEEPDOGS. Nah...Chuck Jones did it to death in the late fifties.
TERRIERS. See LABRADORS. Could be divided further into the Scottish and wire breeds....