# Name that fictional fiction! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933 "2007-05-05T22:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/1 "2007-05-05T22:55:12Z")
Last one today. Below is a list of fictional fiction — fictional movies, TV shows, and plays — whose names are mentioned in a variety of real movies, real TV shows, real books, etc. Can you identify where they came from? Battle of the Network Space Krakens Leave it to Bigfoot The Howard Beale Show The Merchant of Venus The Mutants of 2051 AD The Salt Flats E. Henry Thripshaw’s Disease The Muddy Mudskipper Show The King of Ankh Habeus Corpus La Cocina You’re in the Matrix, Charlie Brown Blackmail! Oh, Crikey! Maine-ly Murder Burninge Passiones Manger Babies Supreme Folk Dental School Mohawk Over the Moon Reptar the Movie Animals Close-up With a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats Badge of Honor Pyramus and Thisbe Mr. Lovejoy Nothing On Fast Animals, Slow Children Jules and Mimi Friday the Thirteenth, Part One Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty-Nine Return to the Love Canal Your Money or Your Life Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery The Six Million Peso Man Asses of Fire The Making of the Making of Titanic Dangeresque 2: This Time It’s Not Dangeresque 1 Venusian Vampire Vixens Beat the Sundial Speed 3: Glacier of Doom In the Future, There Will Be Robots The Edison Carter Show Siskel and Ebert: The Movie See You Next Wednesday Tool Time Die, Scum-Sucking Pig, Die The Nightmare Before Hanukah Meet Pamela Tied To A Bear As the Stomach Turns Attack of the Killer Fish (in 3-D) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/2 "2007-05-05T22:57:39Z")
Asses of Fire is a Terrence and Phillip show from Southpark. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/3 "2007-05-05T23:05:13Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] …Battle of the Network Space Krakens… [/QUOTE] **Futurama** [QUOTE=Fish] …Reptar the Movie… [/QUOTE] **Rugrats** ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/4 "2007-05-05T23:05:59Z")
Battle of the Network Space Krakens - Futurama The Muddy Mudskipper Show - Ren & Stimpy (Stimpy’s favourite show) You’re in the Matrix, Charlie Brown - Simpsons Blackmail! - Monty Python’s Flying Circus Reptar the Movie - Rugrats Animals Close-up With a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats - South Park Pyramus and Thisbe - Not really fictional. Plays a part in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery - Dib’s favourite show on Invader Zim. Speed 3: Glacier of Doom - Family Guy ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/5 "2007-05-05T23:06:25Z")
Mohawk Over the Moon, Movie starring Ginger Grant of Gillian’s Island. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/6 "2007-05-05T23:10:03Z")
“The Howard Beale” show is from _Network_. “You’re in the Matrix, Charlie Brown” is a movie poster in the Simpsons. There’s also “A Matrix Christmas.” ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/7 "2007-05-05T23:21:42Z")
Pyramus and Thisbe : My life. Which I’m pretty sure is fictional. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/8 "2007-05-05T23:23:34Z")
“Tool Time” is the fictional home improvement show from “Home Improvement.” I’m surprised “Sick, Sad World” isn’t on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/9 "2007-05-05T23:29:41Z")
The Salt Flats - Fictional movie in _V For Vendetta_, the movie version. I don’t know if it was in the graphic novel or not. Nothing On - Fictional play from the play and movie _Noises Off_. Friday the Thirteenth, Part One Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty-Nine - The Simpsons? Siskel and Ebert: The Movie - Might be the Animaniacs. ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/10 "2007-05-05T23:32:57Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] Burninge Passiones [/QUOTE] Terry Pratchett’s _Moving Pictures_ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/11 "2007-05-05T23:39:09Z")
E. Henry Thripshaw’s Disease - _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ Manger Babies - _King of the Hill_ The Edison Carter Show - _Max Headroom_ See You Next Wednesday - The billboard the police car is hiding behind (on the chase from Bob’s Country Bunker) in _The Blues Brothers_. (This phrase shows up in other John Landis movies, too.) And a new one, **Box of Puppies**. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/12 "2007-05-05T23:50:29Z")
The King of Ankh - Obviously Discworld … I think it was one of Hwel’s plays in Wyrd Sisters. Manger Babies - Luanne’s puppet show, King Of The Hill. Nothing On - The play being performed in Noises Off. Return to the Love Canal - play written by Dustin Hoffman’s buddy in Tootsie. The Edison Carter Show = Max Headroom ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/13 "2007-05-05T23:53:17Z")
Blackmail! is from Monty Python’s Flying Circus Jules and Mimi is from Sex in the City As the Stomach Turns is from the Carson-era Tonight SHow New one: _Church Windows_ ---
**Author:** ![silverfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@silverfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silverfish)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/14 "2007-05-06T00:00:03Z")
Badge of Honor - I seem to recall that being the name of a cop show in L.A. Confidential Friday the Thirteenth, Part One Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty-Nine - Red Dwarf I think Dangeresque 2: This Time It’s Not Dangeresque 1 - This one I do know. It’s from Homestar Runner. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/15 "2007-05-06T00:00:31Z")
“Maine-ly Murder” is from “Murder, She Wrote,” I think. > [@](#): > > As the Stomach Turns is from the Carson-era Tonight SHow I don’t think so. “As the Stomach Turns” is from “The Carol Burnett Show.” You may be thinking of Carson’s “The Edge of Wetness.” ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/16 "2007-05-06T00:24:21Z")
**Mr. Lovejoy** is from “Get Shorty.” New one: _Jaws 19_. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/17 "2007-05-06T00:49:47Z")
Animals Close-up With a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats - southpark jaws 19 - back to the future part 2 My adition: Psycho Dad ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/18 "2007-05-06T01:37:08Z")
Another vote for adding “Sick Sad World” (from Daria) to the list. And another from the Carol Burnett Show: “Went With The Wind”. “Pyramus and Thisbe” shouldn’t be on the list. It isn’t “fictional” fiction any more than The Iliad is. It’s a tale from Greek mythology. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/19 "2007-05-06T01:41:03Z")
Tool Time is the name of the show that Tim Allen character hosts on Home Improvement. Pyramus and Thisbe is the play performed by the mechanicals at the end of A Midsummers Night’s Dream. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/20 "2007-05-06T01:44:19Z")
Oh, Crikey! - I think this one was from Sluggy Freelance? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933.md?page=2)