Two and a Half Men’s title is probably the cleverest thing about the whole show.
Jake is half a man because he’s just a kid.
Alan is half a man because he’s been thoroughly emasculated by his divorce (and he was a real wiener to begin with).
Charlie is half a man because he’s never really worked for anything for anything in his life, never been in a serious relationship (at least at the outset of the series), etc.
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it yet, but Smallville should be called Metropolis these days.
(it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s super-Woooosh)
Most episodes have the action set in Metropolis, with maybe one token scene in Clark’s barn, Luthor Manor, or Chloie and Lois’s apartment. And why do Chloie and Lois even live in Smallville? Isn’t that a hell of a commute for them? Clark I get, super speed, yadda yadda.
How I Met Your Mother more like How I Slept With A Bunch of Women Before I Met Your Mother, WAIT These Stories Aren’t Really Appropriate For A Father To Tell His Teenagers, Also, Why Do I Sound Like Bob Saget Now?
Too late now, but they should’ve changed Scrubs to Med School like the creator wanted. It really was a totally different show with a few of the same characters.
Or Stuff From Movies that Couldn’t Happen Under Any Realistic Circumstances. It’s not their fault the urban legends thing dried up somewhat; Snopes moved on from those years ago.
I can’t justify NASCAR’s name, but on the baseball side of things, some of the way-down-the-ladder minor leagues are in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Does that help at all?
Eh, they’re still doing some things that answer actual questions. From Wiki, regarding this season:
Could a medieval army have used trees to catapult dead bodies over a castle wall?
Can you escape an explosive shockwave by diving in water?
What’s worse, having an empty beer bottle smashed over your head, or a full one? (Also proving the point that bottles don’t smash nicely on people’s heads like in most movies.)
Are some types of people more tolerant to pain?
Can a BBQ propane tank heat up enough in a fire to launch through a garage roof like a rocket?
They also proved the point that two cars hitting at the same speeds in opposite directions make a wreck like one of the cars hitting a wall. I teach science, but I had that one wrong. They made a good point (after getting it wrong themselves).
Well, only two people before you at any rate! 
Not that I have (or WOULD) ever watch a minute of it, but The Michael Vick Project never got a proper name. Until shows get a proper title, they’re usually called by “lead actor project” while in production.
Was the title Family Guy supposed to be ironic, because except in a couple of early season episodes, Peter hardly gives a rats ass about his family.
This is an old one, but the British TV series The Avengers only actually did any Avenging in the first few episodes. After that the show’s style, focus, and cast changed in wonderfully bizarre ways. Of the people in Avengers episodes it was possible for me to see, only John steed did any actual avenging.
Of course, it’s not really clear to me what else you could’ve called the show. And The Avengers sounds impressive and stylish.
The first few episodes are solely about Peter’s interactions with his family (he really was a Homer Simpson ripoff at first). Right up until “Da Boom”, the Y2K apocalypse episode. After that, anything goes and the Family Guy title more or less doesn’t make any sense.
Heroes
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Whiny Self-Absorbed Idiots Occasionally Do Things Heroic And Villainous, But Mostly Just Keep Unaccountably Bumping Into Each Other And Failing To Do The Obvious Thing When Presented With It, While Continuing To Forget To Use Their Powers When The Situation Screams For It
By contrast, Lost becomes more and more apt with each passing episode, at least for me.
I count the Montreal Expos and the Toronto Blue Jays as two teams. Do the Canadians use different numbers for something to qualify as a plural?
Do you mean the Expos who moved to Washington five or six years ago and became the Nationals? 
On a more serious note, I’ll always wonder how many potential viewers turned away from this stupid name: Happy Town. Really? That’s the best name they could come up with? Maybe with a different name they might have gotten enough people to watch it to keep it from being canceled 3 episodes in.
He couldn’t deicide whether to use the Greek or Roman root.
They did? Dang, I stopped paying attention when the O’Malleys sold the Dodgers to the devil himself, but I could swear I left instructions to be notified when they bought them back, and not to change anything until I returned to the stands.
Oh, well. At least being in the National League, they won’t have to play with that horrible designated batsman thingy.
Oh come on, I even pointed out it was a woosh right after what you quoted! :smack:
Several of the ones you mentioned come from movies and I enjoy the show regardless. A lot of it is movie stuff. I really liked the two cars, though, because they did really get into the physics of it. I’d accepted Jamie’s story about the equivalent forces. Once they revisited the myth and explained the fans’ objection, I thought ‘crap, that sounds right. They screwed it up.’
They should have renamed The Mentalist when they moved it to the UK. That word is used to mean someone who does cold reading and the like, yes, but it’s much better known as meaning someone who is completely, ridiculously, stupidly insane.
It’s still a better title than Painkiller Jane. Seriously, who thought that title was OK for anything but a parody?
Yes. This is the theme tune:
It seems today that all you see
Is violence in movies and sex on TV
But where are those
Good old-fashioned values
On which we used to rely?
Lucky there’s a family guy
Lucky there’s a man who
Positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
He’s … a … family … guy!
This on a show where there’s tons of sex and violence and Peter flips between actually caring about his family and doing things like sending his teenage daughter off to be murdered by burglars because he wants a sandwich.
So Malcolm-Jamal Warner didn’t make a guest appearance?