# Using the put-down "firstname-y Mc-lastname" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522 "2005-06-16T11:52:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/1 "2005-06-16T11:52:09Z")
When did this start? I notice it a lot on the Daily Show - there was a bit where Jon Stewart was discussing a Bush repeal of environmental laws and how a northwest governor thought it would be a good idea - and that governor’s name was something like Drilly McLoggerGuy. I knew it must be a trend when I found MYSELF using it - I was bantering with someone at work and found myself referring to them as “Waspy McNoButt” So - you know of this trend? Any good ones? Where did it start? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/2 "2005-06-16T12:27:52Z")
I’m pretty sure it came from The Simpsons. But I hear it a lot too, and I’ve been known to use it myself on occasion. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/3 "2005-06-16T12:40:59Z")
I would have thought that Daily Show did it before The Simpsons, but I have no real evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/4 "2005-06-16T12:48:52Z")
I’m almost positive it came from the Simpsons. Jon Stewart is a huge Simpsons fan. (Anyone see when he had Hank Azaria on? He was as giddy as I’ve ever seen him.) ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/5 "2005-06-16T13:10:39Z")
The first time I heard it was from a waiter I worked with. And that might have been up to 12 years ago, but definitely more than 10. I know I was still drinking at the time, and it was before I moved to British Columbia, so I have a good frame of time reference. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/6 "2005-06-16T13:21:16Z")
I find that the humor is greatly enhanced by making it \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_y Mc\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_enstein. Hence, our cat is known as Stinky McButtenstein. If the hubby turns his nose up to some delicious concoction over which I have slaved on a hot stove, he’s Picky McPickenstein for the rest of the night. Pure comedy gold. I heard it first on TDS, too: Jon referring to himself as Jewey McJewenstein, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/7 "2005-06-16T13:24:37Z")
I recall hearing the name Fisty McLovearm about 5 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/8 "2005-06-16T13:32:03Z")
The oldest example I know of is from a 1997 SNL episode. Nathan Lane hosted, and in a sketch featuring Lane called “History of Vaudeville,” which mocks a bunch of old-timey Vaudeville stereotypes, somebody says hello to an Irishman named Boozy McLiverDamage. I remember my friends really picking up on this. In a 1995 Simpsons episode there’s reference to a place called Tipsy McStagger’s Good Time Drinking and Eating Emporium. Not sure if that counts or played into this craze, but I’m pretty confident it pre-dates the Jon Stewart Daily Show era, which started in 1999. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/9 "2005-06-16T14:56:54Z")
On _Friends,_ Rachel once referred to a co-worker as “Smokey Smokerson.” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/10 "2005-06-16T15:01:13Z")
I got pwned in 2-on-2 Halo on Gamespy Dot Com by two guys named “Smokey McPot” and my own personal favorite, “Loiny McCloth.” ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/11 "2005-06-16T15:13:39Z")
We also a locale for this, so we will call our cat Poopy McPoopybutt, the stinkiest cat in all of Stinkyville. For that extra comedy flair, we’ll keep going on the location name, such as Stinkyvilleborohaventownshire. That bit reminds me of _Fletch_, where he keeps adding suffixes to his fake names. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/12 "2005-06-16T15:25:05Z")
I have always credited it to the Simpsons as well. There is also the Simpsons episode in Feb. of 1999 where Homer changes his name to Max Power. At the end of the episode he suggests names that Marge could switch to, and one of them is ‘Hooty McBoob.’ The Tipsy McStaggers reference predates that one, but it seems to have been a running gag on the Simpsons for quite a while. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/13 "2005-06-16T15:29:30Z")
I just found a “Tipsy McStagger” reference in the Flaming Moe episode of The Simpsons, that episode aired in November of 1991. Anyone got one earlier than that? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/14 "2005-06-16T15:40:30Z")
Why does “Phoney McRingRing” sound familiar as well, from a Simpsons context? ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/15 "2005-06-16T19:39:43Z")
Fatty McButterpants makes me giggle–it is from King Of Queens ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/16 "2005-06-16T19:44:42Z")
I’ll call friends **Slutty McNastypants** in jest. I made it up one day. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/17 "2005-06-16T20:03:17Z")
On the SDMB, there was a thread about a waitress who always went commando with a short skirt at the restaurant. SOmeone referred to her as “Flashy McCooter.” ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/18 "2005-06-16T20:07:38Z")
They did this a lot on the short-lived animated series Mission Hill. The only one I can remember is “Raunchy McScumbag,” though. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/19 "2005-06-16T20:10:34Z")
Lushy McDrunk. Drunkie McDrunk. Drunkie McLush. All names my SO has for me when I get a whee bit tipsy, especially on those unexpected weeknights. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522/20 "2005-06-16T20:17:59Z")
I’d swear that I used to see this one in Mad Magazine all the time, but I got no cite better than my half-recollections. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-the-put-down-firstname-y-mc-lastname/308522.md?page=2)