# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/21 "2007-05-06T01:53:56Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] Psycho Dad [/QUOTE] Married… With Children Wicked easy new one: _The Corny Collins Show_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/22 "2007-05-06T01:54:07Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] Animals Close-up With a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats - southpark jaws 19 - back to the future part 2 My adition: Psycho Dad [/QUOTE] Al Bundy’s favorite show on _Married With Children_. What about\*\* The Gus Baker Show?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/23 "2007-05-06T01:55:16Z")
You win this round,\*\* Otto\*\*. _mutter_ ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/24 "2007-05-06T01:59:42Z")
Supreme Folk: from _A Mighty Wind_ ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/25 "2007-05-06T02:16:30Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] Siskel and Ebert: The Movie - Might be the Animaniacs. [/QUOTE] Nope, it’s _The Simpsons_. Siskel and Ebert gave it two thumbs up! _Box of Puppies_ is from _Dinosaurs_- although I believe it actually was _Box Full of Puppies_. _The Nightmare Before Hanukkah_ is from _The Critic_. Here are my contributions: Hit the Buzzer, Win A Cookie Three Funny and Wacky Spies and Their Horse, Who Will Also Be A Spy Ethnic Mismatch Sitcom #644 ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/26 "2007-05-06T06:27:55Z")
[QUOTE=ryobserver] “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. [/QUOTE] Come on, if Yamato counts as a “fictional ship” in the other thread, this one counts here. 😉 If anybody failed to get the trick question, then I agree it was unfair, but it didn’t fool a damn one of youse. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/27 "2007-05-06T06:35:00Z")
Here is what’s left from the ones I posted: Leave it to Bigfoot The Merchant of Venus The Mutants of 2051 AD Habeus Corpus La Cocina Oh, Crikey! Dental School Fast Animals, Slow Children Your Money or Your Life The Six Million Peso Man The Making of the Making of Titanic Venusian Vampire Vixens Beat the Sundial In the Future, There Will Be Robots Die, Scum-Sucking Pig, Die Meet Pamela Tied To A Bear Attack of the Killer Fish (in 3-D) And I was **sure** nobody would get “Mohawk Over the Moon.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/28 "2007-05-06T06:45:13Z")
The Six Million Peso Man is from Robot Chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/29 "2007-05-06T07:10:46Z")
**Fast Animals, Slow Children** was a TV show from Family Guy. These are fun ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/30 "2007-05-06T12:29:47Z")
I’m reasonably sure that Animaniacs did a Siskel and Ebert: The Movie as well. Although they may, now that I think about it, have done slightly altered versions of the names. [QUOTE=Fish] Oh, Crikey! [/QUOTE] This is from “The Young Ones.” My unanswered ones: Church Windows and The Corny Collins Show. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/31 "2007-05-06T13:12:39Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Three Funny and Wacky Spies and Their Horse, Who Will Also Be A Spy [/QUOTE] The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/32 "2007-05-06T20:38:54Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] In the Future, There Will Be Robots [/QUOTE] An EXTREMELY BAD play from the Grand Theft Auto games. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/33 "2007-05-06T21:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’m reasonably sure that Animaniacs did a Siskel and Ebert: The Movie as well. [/QUOTE] I don’t think so- although there was one memorable episode in which Slappy Squirrel harangued and stalked two critics obviously meant to be Gene and Rog after they gave a bad review of a LaserDisc featuring her cartoons- including a disturbing-yet-funny scene in which Slappy offers Ebert popcorn smothered in his own stomach fat. Some more ones: What The Hell Is That? A Pig in a Poke Ass ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/34 "2007-05-06T21:40:35Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’m reasonably sure that Animaniacs did a Siskel and Ebert: The Movie as well. Although they may, now that I think about it, have done slightly altered versions of the names. This is from “The Young Ones.” My unanswered ones: Church Windows and **The Corny Collins Show**. [/QUOTE] well, its not fiction, it’s a dance party show! Of course, that still counts, and it’s from Hairspray. New one: O, Brother, Where Art Thou? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/35 "2007-05-06T21:46:33Z")
_Venusian Vampire Vixens_ is from _Calvin and Hobbes_. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/36 "2007-05-06T22:17:25Z")
[QUOTE=The Lovely Margo Lane] well, its not fiction, it’s a dance party show! Of course, that still counts, and it’s from Hairspray. [/quote] It’s a fictional show (the real show on which it was based was “The Buddy Dean Show”). > [@](#): > > New one: O, Brother, Where Art Thou? "Sullivan’s Travels, although it has of course been made into an actual film. “Church Windows” is still hanging out there from me. I’ll add “Spectacular, Spectacular” and “Viking Quest.” ---
**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, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/37 "2007-05-06T23:53:04Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] “Spectacular, Spectacular” [/QUOTE] Moulin Rouge. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/38 "2007-05-09T21:52:59Z")
Not really adding anything yet, just mentioning that a lot of Japanese manga set in or around modern times will reference other titles (or a parody thereof) that appear in the same magazine that theirs is published in (the main character of _Hikaru no Go_ is even a stauch fan of _Shonen Jump_) or put in little shoutouts to artists who they know personally or professionally. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/39 "2007-05-09T22:05:59Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] 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.) [/QUOTE] Yep, [here’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_You_Next_Wednesday) a full list. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-fiction/402933/40 "2007-05-09T22:44:35Z")
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