More from Li’l Abner:
Moonbeam McSwine
Joe Btfsplk
Earthquake McGoon
Evil Eye Fleagle
Jubilation T. Cornpone
Fearless Fosdick
More from Li’l Abner:
Moonbeam McSwine
Joe Btfsplk
Earthquake McGoon
Evil Eye Fleagle
Jubilation T. Cornpone
Fearless Fosdick
And his girlfriend Prudence Pimpleton
Tom Bombadil
Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock, Friends
Dr. Spaceman (pronounced Spa-CHE-min) on 30 Rock
Syzygy Darklock
Caractacus Potts, or Pott in the original book.
Truly Scrumptious
Burgermeister Meisterburger
Buz Murdock from “Route 66.”
Howard Handupme, the newscaster puppet on the 1990s TV show Dinosaurs.
Weirdly enough, the other day while I was trying to get to sleep my brain suddenly popped up with this name. I couldn’t get to sleep until I figured out where the name came from.
Mister Mxyzptlk
T. S. Eliot had all the cat names…
Good one. I was too busy checking to see if anyone mentioned “Regina Phelange”.
Lucille MacGillicuddy
Ricardo Shillyshally
Victorine LaFourcade
Camille L’Espanay
Absolutely true, I swear.
“Mxyzptlk” is a typo. It was originally “Mxyzpltk”, but they messed up the spelling in an early issue, and decided to keep the altered version.
It’s (the current spelling) supposedly pronounced “Mix-yes-pittle-ick”
I’m reminded of Joe Btfsplk from Al Capp’s comic strip Li’l Abner (who must be some Earthside cousin, or something). When someone asked Capp how it was pronounced, he immediately blew a raspberry, then said “How else would you pronounce it?”
Anyone guess where they’re from?
Meatwad
MC Pee Pants
Rabbot
Inflatable Hitler
Dusty Gazongas
'ol Drippy
Randy the Astonishing
Walter Melon
Dr. Podbillion - pretentious boob of a psychiatrist in an old(er) Bob Newhart Show episode.
Mrs. Brainsample.
Gritty (in a
sorta way)
Francine Fishpaw (Polyester)
Aaron Sorkin had a weakness for odd character names, and not just one-shot characters, either. From the West Wing:
Annabeth Schott (34 episodes)
Percy Fitzwallace (22 episodes)
Ainsely Hayes (12 episodes)
Elsie Snuffin (8 episodes)
Glenallen Walken (4 epsiodes)
Sports Night only lasted two seasons, but Sorkin managed to work in Sally Sasser and Pixley Robinson.
By the time he got to The Newsroom Sorkin had most given up on “distinctive” names but continued full on with alliteration, leading to MacKenzie McHale, Sloan Sabbith, Jenna Johnson, Leona Lansing, Lisa Lambert and probably a few I missed.
Capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g.
It’s (the current spelling) supposedly pronounced “Mix-yes-pittle-ick”
I always pronounced it “mixes pittle-ick.”
I remember a long-ago episode of Jeopardy when Alex Trebek pronounced it “Mux-eez-put-luk” emphasis on “put.”
Checked in search for Snidely Whiplash because I thought I’d seen it here, but evidently not.
Carl Brutanandileswki
the Pidgeon sisters Gwendolyn and Cicely
Floyd Thursby, the character, never seen, whose murder gets everything started in The Maltese Falcon.
characters from “Bored of the Rings”.
Tom Bombadil
Tim Benzedrino