My father-in-law calls The Daily Show The Jon Daily Show. He doesn’t follow golf at all, which makes it IMHO, even more humorous.
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I may be mistaken, but I think that “Football Night in America” is the name of the pre-game show (which features highlights from the Sunday afternoon games), and that the game itself is, indeed, “Sunday Night Football.”
My grandmother always would refer to “All in the Family” as “Archie Bunker.”
My ex was a fan of a show called “Junkyard Wars,” I think, in which people built remote-controlled robots out of all kinds of junk and made them fight in an arena. We never could remember what it was called, so I called it “Robot Wars” while he called it “Robotty,” because it sounded like the arena announcer said “Robotty” right before the robots were released into the arena.
My parents watch “Sabado Gigante,” a Spanish-language variety show, every Saturday. My grandmother calls it “Don Francisco,” after the host.
Looks like you are right. Maybe I can backpedal into claiming the reverse, that some people call “Sunday Night Football” “Football Night In America” by mistake!
I think you might be combining two shows here: “Robot Wars”, which featured Robots fighting in an arena and Junkyard Wars, which featured people building things out of junk, but not robots.
My family (and many others I’d bet) called “Home Improvement” “Tool Time”.
I do remember as a kid I used to watch a furniture restoration show called “Furniture To Go” with my dad, except I always called it “The Funny Furniture Guys.”
I never have either. But for some reason, every pop culture history site like this one from Wikipedia feels compelled to note that the original title of the series was You’ll Never Get Rich. Why this should be, I’m not sure. It’s kind of like insisting that Scooby-Doo was originally entitled Scooby-Doo, Where are you? everytime Scooby-Doo is mentioned. Weird.
We’d often refer to whatever incarnation of “Star Trek” was currently in first run as simply “Star Trek”. So we’d say “There’s a new ‘Star Trek’ tonight”, referring to STTNG, for example. Currently, they’re referred to by just the last part - “Next Generation”, “Deep Space Nine”, etc. Same with the “Stargate” shows.
“Count Down With Keith Olberman” is “Keith Olberman” or simply “Olberman” or sometimes just “Keith”. The same for “The Rachel Maddow Show”.
“The Big Bang Theory” is “Big Bang”.
I like watching "Sam Crow"
Wow, I hadn’t thought about that show in years. I had to look it up just to make sure it was what I was thinking of and it is. Here’s the website for those two guys.
I have all 3 series of Clatterford on DVD. It’s original British title is Jam & Jerusalem. Likewase I got once got Are You Being Served Again? instead of Grace & Favour as a birthday present one year.
A Christmas Carol is known as “Scrooge,” in my family.
So I was calling it by the right name all along! Cool!
When my daughter was little she would call the show Cops “Bad Boys”. She even referred to all police officers as Bad Boys. As in when she dialled 911 just to “see the Bad Boys”.
ABSOLUTELY. the other day i was talking with some friends, wondering what happened to JTT. One person piped up and said “I haven’t seen him since Tool Time” and someone else said “Wow, was that like Home Improvement?” much chaos ensued.
The first couple of years that NBC’s Saturday Night was on it used to drive me bonkers that so many people incorrectly referred to it as Saturday Night Live, especially since that was the name of a terrible variety show on ABC hosted by Howard Cosell. It didn’t help that Lorne renamed the show after Howard got cancelled.
The same policy actually improved the title of BW’s contemporary, War Planets, called Shadow Raiders here.
ISTR that Desilu executives, and William Shatner, were somewhat peeved when people began jokingly referring to the original Star Trek as The Mr. Spock Show. There’s long been an urban legend that, in Japan, it’s known as Mr. Sulu, Master of Navigation.
Most people I know use shorthand phrases for the later incarnations of the show: Next Gen, DS9, and Voyager. Enterprise just started out with that one-word title, but the studio added Star Trek to precede it later in its run, IIRC.,