Can Spike Lee's huge head fit through the courtroom door?

The BBQ Pit
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Hey, Mr. Lee. You don’t own the word ‘Spike’. Let’s set aside the fact that your name isn’t even ‘Spike’, it’s Shelton for God’s sake!

Not one person I have asked thought for even a split second that ‘Spike TV’ was somehow related to you. Oh, you have signed affidavits from 2 of your friends that thought it was? Oh, well, your friends are MORONS!

I saw your cute quote today: “I don’t want to be associated with that Stripperella crap”. Uh huh…you left your name on ‘Jungle Fever’ though didn’t ya?

What’s next, Shelton? You gonna go after Spike Magazine? Spike Nashbar ?

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I hate these idiots who think they suddenly own a word or name that existed long before they were famous, or even born. Donald Trump also tried to sue a game manufacturer IIRC who made a product called “Trump Card” or something like that.

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And WTF with this “A Spike Lee Joint”? Why can’t he just say, “Directed by Spike Lee”?

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The fact that Johnnie Cockr…Cochran is defending him speaks volumes.

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Shelton, hehe.

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I’m just surprised Mr. Lee didn’t go after Mutant Enemy, Fox Television and the WB the week “School Hard” aired. Guess Shelton hasn’t been watching Buffy:the Vampire Slayer.

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Yeah Thea, not to mention that cartoon dog (On Rugrats, I think).

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Didn’t Spike Lee become irrelevant about seven years ago?

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Thankfully, Spike Lee’s only relevant when the Knicks are having a good season, since that’s when he gets the most face time on TV sitting right there up front. Since the Knicks have been irrelevant (and utterly abysmal) since 1999, so has Spike Lee.

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A more appropriate target for Shelton would be the makers of Jackass or Midgets Gone Wild.

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I think Lee’s just looking for some easy cash via an out of court settlement.

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What kind of show is “Spike TV”?

If it were somehow related to civil rights I could see people associating Mr. Lee with it.

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“Spike TV” is the new name of TNN. The channel chiefly shows professional wrestling, Star Trek - The Next Generation reruns, and b-movies.

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It also shows (on weekends) a lot of outdoor- and motor-sports programming. The renaming to “Spike TV” was in tune to a strategy to market themselves as “The Network for Men”. This used to be The Nashville Network way back, then it got changed into The National Network then into The New TNN.

It was a sort of lame marketing strategy if you ask me. But Mr. Lee’s suit is unbelievably asinine. One can only hope that any court that receives it throws it back on Lee’s and Cochran’s faces with a hearty laugh, and any higher court to which they dare appeal the dismissal slaps them a fine for wasting the court’s time.

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So, the fact that a NY State Supreme Court Judge thinks it merits going to trial means bubkes?

Go for it, Spike!

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Gotta admit, he makes pretty good commercials.

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“Cher, Madonna, Sting and Liza”

Pretty disingenious throwing in Liza in that list. Did the judge ever consider the fact that the previous three never marketed themselves with their last names (except, perhaps, for Cher early in her career)?

The next obvious thing to do is sue Warner Brothers for their use of the name “Spike” for the bulldog in the old Bugs Bunny (or was it Tom and Jerry?) cartoons.

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If I’m not mistaken, that would not fly. The fact that “Spike” was a bulldog in a cartoon predating Spike Lee’s fame would tend to make such a claim irrevelent.

Next?

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By-the-way, it was M-G-M.

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How about the fact that the New York State Supreme Court judge is a fucking idiot? Does that mean bubkes?

It’s a Spike Lee joint. A Spike Lee film.

If TNN had called itself “Spike Lee” the fucker would have a point. But it didn’t. And he doesn’t. And the judge is a lameass moron for not seeing that.