It was funny, I turned on the TV last night and thought I was seeing Heroes, but turns out it was Prison Break. Just like you said, where’s the prison?
Does that really contradict the premise? The show is, ostensibly, about a guy named House. How is that a contradiction? I mean I can see your point if they named the show “LA Law” or something. Do you feel the title “Seinfeld” contradicts the premise of that show as well?
Exactly. I reject the show based on the title alone! Don’t tell me who I love. 
The entire Friday the 13th franchise. Has the date ever even been mentioned in any of those movies? Or the TV series?
Life on Mars.
The guy shouting “The PTA has disbanded” and throwing himself through the window is my all-time favorite Simpsons moment. Our family often shrieks the phrase to communicate any sort of panic.
But they tried! There was a crappy sequel, an even crappier sequel, and then an even more crappier TV series.
Except that *Everybody Loves Raymond *is Robert’s bitter, ironic commentary on the situation.
Mission: Impossible. Hey! If it’s imposssible, how come you are doing it anyway? Liars!
How I met your mother: More like “(Everything but) How I met your mother”. Am I right? Am I right? Internet five! Yeah.
Knight Rider: No knighthood ever given to the main chatracter, and he’s a “driver”.
**Reaper: **No. Demon Hunter? Sure. Satan’s minion? Okay. But if you don’t have a scythe and go around finishing the elder and the infirm, you are not a damn Reaper.
The title is probably the cleverest thing about the whole show. At first glance, Jake is the half-man because he’s still a boy. Then it becomes apparent that Alan is the half-man because of just how thoroughly his ex-wife emasculated him. Then we see how Charlie is the half-man because he’s incapable of an adult level of emotion or responsibility. Mind you, a less contradictory title would be Three Half-Men.
The second spinoff, Criminal Intent, doesn’t even seem inclined to pay lip service to the “law” part. The original assistant district attorney left after the fifth season, his replacement barely made a peep during the subsequent season, and then the people in charge seemingly decided that it was just a cop show.
“Snakes on a Plane” should be “Snakes and People on a Plane”–if it was just snakes, they’d never get it off the ground because they have no hands to move all the levers and stuff.
If only that movie had featured some Duck Soup:smack:
Also, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Lion in Winter all lacked titular critters.
Shouldn’t Nova be renamed Redux when it’s a re-run?
And they should have mentioned it was an airplane. I was expecting euclidian.
I know I’m going to get flamed for this but: Star Trek. Only 50% accurate at best.
From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trek
trek (trk)
intr.v. trekked, trek·king, treks
- To make a slow or arduous journey.
- To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
- South African To travel by ox wagon.
n. - A journey or leg of a journey, especially when slow or difficult.
- South African A journey by ox wagon, especially a migration such as that of the Boers from 1835 to 1837.
With the exception of Voyager, nothing in the Trek Universe is “slow and arduous” they seem to cross entire sections of the galaxy in very short stretches of time.
Even if it were somehow possible to trek in space, the episodes would be amazingly dull.
“Captain, we’re needed on Alpha Centuri”, “Better set off now then Mr Spock, it’ll take 50,000 years to get there”. Cue tumbleweed.
I’d have to say there’s a pretty damn loose interpretation of the word “celebrity” in “Celebrity Rehab”.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s song “I Believe in Father Christmas” has a rather misleading title. It’s NOT a cheery holiday song, but a very cynical, bitter song that makes it very clear that the singer does NOT believe in Santa Claus, or God, or anything else.
Ugly Betty.
Someone once claimed that Dancing with the Stars should really be “Dancing”
“with” “the” “Stars”, given the quality of the dancing done by the stars and the low levels of stardom many of the stars have (and the tendency of some of the pro dancers to dance around or near their stars, and the fact that if these were big stars, it’s certainly not all the stars . . . )