# What Did T. J. Hooker's Initials Stand For?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 10, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128 "2004-08-10T01:25:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/1 "2004-08-10T01:25:51Z")
My dumbest question ever.
On the same SNL show in '86 when Shatner did the famous “Get A Life” Trekkie skit, he also did a T. J. Hooker skit revolving around the fact that Hooker was always jumping onto the hoods of cars and holding on while the villains did u-turns, etc. to throw him off. In the skit, he rode on the hood of the car forever, going through sunny weather, rain, snow, day and night, etc. He even pulled out a notebook and wrote his parents a letter, and Shatner did a (pre-taped) voice-over as he wrote. He “signed” it: “Your loving son, Toby.”
So was his first name on the show “Toby”?
Thanks for not laughing too hard, and for not telling me to get a life. I know that, already.
Sir Rhosis
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/2 "2004-08-10T01:36:48Z")
According to [tvtome.com](http://tvtome.com), T. J. stands for Thomas Jefferson.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/3 "2004-08-10T02:34:40Z")
But it would have been so cool if it had been Tiberius James.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/4 "2004-08-10T12:28:54Z")
**T** omato **J** uice.
They used to call him “The Juice”… 😃
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### Author:  [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/5 "2004-08-10T12:42:20Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#):
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> But it would have been so cool if it had been Tiberius James.
Dang, you beat me to it.
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### Author:  [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/6 "2004-08-10T12:58:29Z")
Slight hijack for a trivia note: the jazz group T.J. Kirk was named as a combination of T.J. Hooker and J.T. Kirk…the band basically played nothing but covers by **T** helonious Monk, **J** ames Brown and Roland **Kirk**.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/7 "2004-08-10T14:00:07Z")
**Truth…Justice…and The American Way!!!** No, wait…
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/8 "2004-08-10T15:20:34Z")
> [@Turek](#):
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> Dang, you beat me to it.
Me also! :smack:
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/9 "2004-08-10T16:23:17Z")
Tragic Joke…
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/10 "2004-08-10T19:45:09Z")
Toupeed Jackass?
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/11 "2004-08-10T22:02:36Z")
In a slight hijack, what do you think of the news that Shatner is [**getting a new series?**](http://yahoo.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13788,00.html?yhnws)
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### Author:  [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/12 "2004-08-11T03:32:44Z")
> [@FriarTed](#):
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> Me also! :smack:
Damn… how many of us were going to say that??
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/13 "2004-08-11T03:53:44Z")
Terribly Sexy. It used to be Terribly Sad.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/14 "2004-08-11T05:10:14Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#):
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> Damn… how many of us were going to say that??
Quite a few. :o
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### Author:  [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/15 "2004-08-11T06:18:08Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#):
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> Damn… how many of us were going to say that??
Tons and hundreds I’d expect. More than twelve. 😃
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### Author:  [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-t-j-hookers-initials-stand-for/259128/16 "2004-08-11T06:32:55Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> Quite a few
indeed.
Terribly Jaded.