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Real Joke Name
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Two characters are being introduced to each other for the first time. However the first introductee has a really wacky name; for example, he is a businessman called "Mr. Moneygrabs". The other character feels compelled to laugh, thinking that it is a joke. However, it is not. It is, as it is pointed out, a long running and respectable family name. (This often happens in Real Life to people who happen to share a name with a famous person. Or whose name is quite apropos to their profession.) May overlap with Pretentious Pronunciation. Might have an Embarrassing First Name as well. Frequently leads into Never Heard That One Before. See also Who's on First?. Compare Mistaken for an Imposter and Namesake Gag. Compare Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?, where the name isn't mistaken for fake, but is considered weird. Often overlaps with Punny Name and/or Euphemistic Names. See Accidentally Real Fake Address for when a character makes up fake-sounding information, such as a name or address, that they don't know is actually real. |
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Hark! A Vagrant has a comic where a teacher assumes the name "Tits Palmer" is a joke, only for poor Tits to break down crying and need comfort from the other kids. | |
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Writer and producer of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Speed Weed. According to Speed, his first name is a nickname of sorts given by his parents at his birth and used primarily through his whole life. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: An annoyed Noogy calls a colleague she doesn't get on with "Ranger Jerkwad". He protests that his name is pronounced "Gerquaid". | |
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A version in Zack and Miri Make a Porno, where Zack holds auditions for the titular porno: | |
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In an episode of Becker, Margaret finds out that Linda has been writing insulting but accurate descriptions in the patients' files to help her remember who is who, and naturally reads her the riot act. Later on, a man with a big nose named Bignozi comes in looking for an appointment... | |
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Joe Ledger series features Sergeant Harvey Rabbit, a.k.a. Bunny Rabbit. (Also probably a reference to Harvey, a film and play about a possibly imaginary rabbit.) | |
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Achewood had the "Nigerian Spam" with Dr. Leon Adoso Sumbitches. | |
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There have been several people named Homer Simpson who haven't been able to order pizza because they're assumed to be pranksters. There's a water skier named Freddy Krueger who claims to have the same problem. |
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And in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter, MJ and Ned laugh at Otto Octavius's name after he introduces himself. | |
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A sketch in Horrible Histories shows a Victorian teacher thinking her students' names are fake only to find out they're all real (this includes names like "Scary Looker" and "Princess Cheese" so it's completely understandable). Her own name turns out to be Miss Farting-Clack. | |
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An episode of Beavis and Butt-Head had Buzzcut trying to make the titular morons laugh. He starts calling attendance, with names like Butkus and Gaylord. Naturally, they're all actual students. | |
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon featured a couple originally named Les Moore and Merry Glueham (pronounced "gloom"). When they got married, they swapped last names. | |
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Played with in Community, when Jeff makes up a class and teacher that he names "Professor Professorson," insisting, "It's Dutch! I think it means Professor!" And later on, when we actually meet this supposed professor: Ultimately subverted in that "Professor Professorson" is actually a guy running a whole racket of fake classes who went along with Jeff's lie in order to help him out. But he's really actually Greendale's theatre professor Sean Garrity, and the whole thing was set up by the Dean to teach Jeff a lesson about lying. |
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In Episode 1 of Weird school rules in Hong Kong, one of the rules deemed "weird" is that students of a school must bring their wallets to class or they'll have their names recorded down (most likely for further punishment down the line). Cue this skit satirizing the rule, which is funnier and makes much more sense in Cantonese (but is translated into English for ease of reading): | |
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People named Harry Potter, among others. One potter in Houston named Harry Potter actually had to change the name of his store to "Harry the Potter" due to the people looking for magic tricks. Also affects anyone named Hermione (albeit it was an Outdated Name before the books brought back into the forefront). | |
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Things I Am Not Allowed to Do at the PPC: Rule 476 is an order to quit making fun of Stiffener Medick's name while at the Official Fanfiction University of Redwall, mainly for personal safety reasons. | |
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Scrubs has recurring characters Dr. Beardface ("It's Beard-Fa-SAY, DAMNIT!") and Dr. Mickhead. And then there's Rotinaj. Elliot's boyfriend Keith, whom Dr Cox dubbed 'the Dude Meister' actually turned out to be called Dudemeister. |
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An episode of Rick and Morty featured alien parasites that planted Fake Memories in everyone's heads and took on the personas of strange characters the Smiths thought they knew. One of the strange characters is someone named Mr. Poopybutthole who turns out to be real. | |
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Scott Adams wrote a Dilbert comic in which he describes an impractical way of transporting clothes as "Dorkage". He got complaints from people whose last name is actually "Dork", and wrote a follow up strip to "apologize". | |
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In a case of "Real Joke Middle Name", at one point in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin drops the stereotypical "'Danger' is my middle name" Badass Boast, which he then follows up by making clear (even showing Vanessa his driver's license) that his middle given name really is "Danger". | |
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The New Adventures of Old Christine: A case of Stripper/Cop Confusion happens when a handsome buff young police officer shows at Christine's place on her birthday to warn her about a prowler in the area. When he introduces himself as Officer Johnson, Christine assumes this is his stripper name. | |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian has a side-splittingly hilarious scene (particularly due to everyone valiantly failing to contain their laughter) where the Roman guards, thinking that Brian's given name for his father, Naughtius Maximus, is a joke name, try to explain the concept to Pontius Pilate by giving examples of other joke names like 'Sillius Soddus' and 'Biggus Dickus', only for Pilate to say that he knows someone by the name of Biggus Dickus. He's not kidding. Dickus is his friend and he comes to visit later. Biggus Dickus also has a wife, you know. Her name is Incontinentia... Incontinentia Buttox. | |
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Sesame Street: A late-1970s sketch had Kermit the Frog going to a t-shirt store to pick up a custom-made t-shirt with his name on it. When he sees the printed name "Kermit the Gorf", he believes it to be a mistake, only for a monster with that name to come in and claim the shirt. The same thing happens with monsters called "Kermit the Forg" and "Kermit the Grof". The one for him? Not ready yet. | |
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MADtv (1995) did a skit where a bunch of men want to be porn stars so they go to an office and get new porn names. Bobby Lee's character then enters and says that his name is already "Hung Lo". It turns out he is looking for the DMV. | |
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Hot Fuzz: Sergeant Nicholas Angel receives a rather odd call: Another scene features the name "Aaron A. Aaronson" being made up when talking about going through every name in the phone book. Turns out such a person exists. |
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The Daily Show: A 2002 episode had a field day out of the fact that the head of security for the FIFA World Cup (held in South Korea) was called "Han Dong-Suk" The episode right after Osama bin Laden was killed said that Abbottabad, where he was living, sounds like a name some New Yorker might make up as a fictional place where they want to kill Bin Laden: In the November 8, 2013 episode, he jokes about NFL player Richie Incognito (real name). |
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There's a water skier named Freddy Krueger who claims to have the same problem. | |
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Not Always Friendly: This Voldemort cosplayer has trouble convincing the bouncer that his name really is Thomas Riddle. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has a Glowing One named Jason Bright. The Courier can point this out, and he'll admit that it is in fact his real name, and that he believes the fact that he now very much lives up to that name is a sign that he was chosen by a higher power to achieve great things. | |
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At a party in the early Sixties, Marianne Faithfull was introduced to a gentleman in the music business who laughed at someone having such a silly stage name. It's her real name. | |
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In the Scott The Woz episode "Borderline Forever", the host of the talk show that Scott and Rex attempt to hijack is named Hector Andfriends. He opens his show with, "That's not the name of the show, this is my name, dammit!" | |
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For an example involving the other Dr. Strange from comics, we have The Joker Blogs. | |
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xkcd has a practical joke name, in this case used as an SQL injection. See also Alt Text. | |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, Peter Parker tells Stephen Strange his name, but upon hearing the other man say, "I'm Dr. Strange," Parker says, "Oh, we're using our made-up names? Um, I'm Spider-Man, then." | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Avengers: Infinity War, Peter Parker tells Stephen Strange his name, but upon hearing the other man say, "I'm Dr. Strange," Parker says, "Oh, we're using our made-up names? Um, I'm Spider-Man, then." And in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter, MJ and Ned laugh at Otto Octavius's name after he introduces himself. |
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A production designer on The Walking Dead was named Grace Walker. Considering "Walker" is the series' distinctive term for the Z-word, that had to have raised a few eyebrows. | |
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In the episode "Good Old What's His Name", Mr. Krabs offers SpongeBob and Squidward a Caribbean vacation as a prize to whoever can be the friendliest employee. SpongeBob, already friendly with all the regular customers, seems to be winning. But Squidward spots a new customer, and asks him his name. The customer rudely replies "What's it to ya?!" and angrily storms out. Squidward chases him all over Bikini Bottom, causing a fair amount of damage along the way, but finally catches up to him. Squidward yanks the wallet from the customer's pants, looks at his driver's license, and the customer's name is...Whatzit Tooya. Squidward is then imprisoned for the aforementioned city damage, but it's all right with him, because once he's out, he's got a Caribbean vacation to look forward to! That is, until Mr. Krabs visits him in jail and says the contest was for the brochure describing the vacation, not the vacation itself. | |
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At one point, What If? takes the time to assure the reader that Zzyzx, California is a real place. | |
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In the Steven Universe episode "Marble Madness", Connie's mom says that she doesn't believe that Steven's name is real, while we all know it is. To her credit, "Universe" was his father's Stage Name made legal name, but it really has been Steven's name since birth. | |
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Played with in The Colbert Report. The crawl on the bottom of the screen showing donors to Colbert's Super PAC apparently included a "Suq Madiq", who apparently has a father named Liqa Madiq and a mother named Munchma Quchi (she kept her maiden name). Colbert proceeded to break character and laugh uncontrollably. (It's even the page image in Corpsing.) Colbert referred to Suq Madiq and Munchma Quchi again in the April 4, 2012 episode along with other donors Harry Balsac and Apoop Mapanz. Munchma Quchi was mentioned yet again in the July 15, 2013 episode, where she apparently works for KTVU as the one who penned the script for the news regarding the (fake) pilots in the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster (Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow). |
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After the release of the movie Amélie, it turns out there was a girl in France named Amélie Poulain. The producer was surprised because he had his people do research to make sure there wasn't anyone sharing her name. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Beak", there was a villain named Khaka Peu Peu (pronounced kaka poo poo) whose name apparently means "the strong fist" or "that strong fist". | |
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After The Lord of the Rings was published, J. R. R. Tolkien received a letter from a real person named Sam Gamgee, who hadn't read the book but heard that there was a character who shared his name. Tolkien was delighted and sent Mr. Gamgee a signed copy of the novel. However, he later remarked in a letter, "For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with." note It made more sense after Tolkien realized what had happened: he gave Sam the surname "Gamgee" based on his childhood memories about "Gamgee brand cotton bandages", and Sam is someone who helps other people when they're hurt. "Gamgee" was in fact the family name of the company's owner — it was sort of like if he named him "Sam Johnson" after "Johnson & Johnson" bandages. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie: In one sketch, they were reading letters they had been sent from people responding to their asking viewers who had met someone with an odd-sounding name to write in. The people who had written the letters were oblivious to their own bizarre names: Another sketch has Fry interviewing Laurie, who claims to have been an old friend of Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and, in fact, "absolutely everyone." Fry starts asking Laurie about people with obviously made-up names such as "Maureen Limpwhippypippydodo"; Laurie claims to have known all of them. In the end, Fry asks about: And finally, one scene revolves around a man whose name isn't a word so much as it is a mime. Specifically, he is called Derek [drops lighter onto table]. He says it's spelt "as it sounds", but when pressed spells it out: Nippl-E. His address is 22, [does a tap dance, slaps the interrogator on the cheek], King's Lynn. |
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Dua Lipa was seen as this in 2015 when she was a new artist, due to her surname being similar to the initials for Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. But her surname means "linden tree" in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian, so it's equivalent to English Lind or Linden surnames, like American actress Christina Bennett Lind. | |
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30 Rock: Liz assumes Tracy has finally cracked when he starts going on about seeing "Doctor Spaceman", but he was just mispronouncing the name of Dr. Spa-CHEE-min, who became one of the most hilarious recurring characters on the show. 30 Rock is fond of this sort of name, from Jeffrey Weinerslav to Colin O. Scopy, to NBC Broadcast Standards Chief Gaylord Felcher. |
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The assassin Jonathan Teatime from Hogfather will firmly, even ominously, advise you his name is pronounced "Tay-a-TEE-may". | |
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In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, everyone mocks the poor souls whose names look silly transliterated into English. He Man is well-known, but there are also He He, Lady Wang, and Dong Tuna. No-one believes Quin Quington's name is even real. | |
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In Dinosaurs Earl and Fran take their baby to the Great Elder for his traditional naming ceremony. While the elder is thinking he suddenly suffers a heart attack and dies, but not before the literal-minded clerk takes down every word the elder says as baby's new name resulting in "Augh Augh I'm Dying You Idiot Sinclair". The episode ends with the baby getting his official name of "Baby" by the new Great Elder, much to Earl's chagrin. | |
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Hubertus Bigend plays it straight in the Bigend Books in that his family name is pronounced "Bayh-jhan", but he pronounces it "big-end" because he likes to annoy people. In Zero History, Gareth pronounces it as two separate words — "Big End". | |
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Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong: The player character can assume that "Gobbet" is your team shaman's street name. It isn't, her mother knew just enough English to think it was pretty, without thinking about the meaning. As the "Real Life" section will also tell you, this practice isn't uncommon in Hong Kong. | |
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In LEGO City Undercover, Chase tracks down a group of robbers, one of whom gives his boss' name as "George Fartarbensonbury" (he quickly admits he's actually working for Rex Fury, protagonist Chase McCain's Arch-Enemy). Chase notes how fake the name sounds, but a man by the name of George Fartarbensonbury can be seen in the background after the robber is arrested. | |
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In Meet the Parents, Greg's full name is revealed to be Gaylord Focker. Pam's parents realize that once the two are married, her name will be Pamela Martha Focker. | |
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The plot of the movie An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn is that a director is utterly disgusted at the awfulness of the film he is directing and wishes to remove his name from the credits, but he can't use the Alan Smithee pseudonym because his name is Alan Smithee. | |
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Futurama combined this with Actor Allusion when the crew encounter a robot named Billy West who they believe is Bender in disguise. | |
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The Man Show had men with actual names like "Dick Hertz" and "Mike Hunt." | |
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In Hannah Montana: | |
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon: When Ichiban ("Number one" in Japanese) and Nanba (homophone with "number") meet, they both assume that the other is using a pseudonym, something Nanba states isn't that uncommon in homeless communities. When they realize that both men are using real name, things get a little awkward. | |
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Monsieur L. Lamperouge is a CBC producer and advocate for Quebec separation. His name is Luc for those who are wondering, but he did watch Code Geass and can consider a change. | |
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Orphan Black: In the episode featuring Alison's unpleasant mother, she constantly refers to Alison's husband Donny as "Mr. Chubbs", which initially seems like a mean joke about his weight. It's finally revealed that Chubbs was his maiden name, and he took Alison's surname when they were married because it was so embarassing. | |
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In an episode of Father Ted, a visitor challenges Mrs. Doyle to guess his name. She spends several minutes rattling off increasingly ridiculous names such as Chewy Louie, Pee Wee Stairmaster, and Jemima Racktooie, before correctly guessing "Todd Unctious". Turns out that wasn't his name either. | |
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A.N.T. Farm: Someone with the name Dorian Bannister works at Z-Tech. Chyna made that name up in Season 1 when asked who her first kiss was. | |
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Saturday Night Live A skit from the early 1990s, with Nicolas Cage as guest host, had a bizarre variation on joke names with Cage playing an expecting father not being happy with any of the names his wife comes up with for their child, always finding a nasty, teasing nickname kids can come up with from it. The punchline comes when a man comes to their door with a message for Mr. and Mrs. Asswipe Johnson, to which the father, frustrated, informs him that his name is pronounced ah-ZWEE-pay. A January 1991 "Wayne's World" sketch had Wayne and Garth talking about the Gulf War, specifically mentioning how CNN war correspondent Wolf Blitzer's name seemed made up. |
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The Great Alicorn Hunt: Zonk the zonkey's real name is a Zebrican phrase that translates as "Copyright 988, All Rights Reserved". His mother (who doesn't actually speak Zebrican), picked it out of a book of baby names and wrote it on the birth certificate before his father could stop her. | |
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In a Peanuts strip, Charlie Brown thinks Sally is confused about a Christmas hymn until Harold Angel shows up at his door. | |
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On Game of Thrones, when Jaime and Bronn meet Dickon Tarly (Bronn for the first time), Jaime misnames him "Rickon". When Dickon corrects him (literaly pronouncing it "Dick-on") Bronn doesn't even try to hold back his peals of laughter. | |
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Played with in Juno, where the title character's full name in Juno Macguff. This causes a lot of people to think she's using a fake name, or think she's 'Juneau Macguff,' like the city in Alaska. | |
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Presumably in response to this, a gaffer named John Smith who worked on Babylon 5 is sometimes credited as "The John Smith" in the show's credits. | |
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This incident in the Savage Land saga of X-Men: The Animated Series. | |
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Mitch from Modern Family thought this when his dad and Cameron were talking about football great Dick Butkus. | |
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PvP has Butler the butler and had Sweet-Cannes the French Maid. | |
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Impractical Jokers: In one of the "Cranjis McBasketball" challenges, where the Jokers try to keep a straight face while calling out ridiculous fake names in a waiting room, it turned out that one of the guests actually answered to the name "The One-And-Only Egg Montoya"— well, Eric Montoya, whose friends had nicknamed him "Egg". The guys were flabbergasted, but did not award Sal any extra points. | |
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In David Fincher's Se7en, the detectives think that the name used on the serial killer's library card, "Jon Doe", is an obvious fake. However, they later find out that his legal name actually is "Jonathan Doe" — several unfilmed scenes from the script elaborate that he was an orphan raised in a parochial school, hence the made-up last name. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "One Krabs Trash", when Mr. Krabs tries to steal back a million dollar #1 hat from SpongeBob, he makes up a curse if he doesn't bury the hat in the grave of whom it belongs to. SpongeBob asks his name, but the surprised Krabs can only string together syllables in a name he thinks can't possibly exist: Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen. Turns out there was such a man and he really did own that hat, so SpongeBob buries the hat in his tomb. In the episode "Good Old What's His Name", Mr. Krabs offers SpongeBob and Squidward a Caribbean vacation as a prize to whoever can be the friendliest employee. SpongeBob, already friendly with all the regular customers, seems to be winning. But Squidward spots a new customer, and asks him his name. The customer rudely replies "What's it to ya?!" and angrily storms out. Squidward chases him all over Bikini Bottom, causing a fair amount of damage along the way, but finally catches up to him. Squidward yanks the wallet from the customer's pants, looks at his driver's license, and the customer's name is...Whatzit Tooya. Squidward is then imprisoned for the aforementioned city damage, but it's all right with him, because once he's out, he's got a Caribbean vacation to look forward to! That is, until Mr. Krabs visits him in jail and says the contest was for the brochure describing the vacation, not the vacation itself. |
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Mulligan the Headsman from The Wizard of Id was the original Trope Namer. | |
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| Real Joke Name / int_bfe1e34a | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_bfe1e34a | comment |
Robert S. McNamara in The Fog of War relates a conversation he had with his future wife over telegraph. "My middle name is Strange." "Well, what is it?" | |
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Real Joke Name / int_bfe1e34a | |
| Real Joke Name / int_c2ef4b61 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_c2ef4b61 | comment |
Similar to the "Guy Incognito" example below, Brawl in the Family has Kingsonnn Dededoo. | |
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Real Joke Name / int_c2ef4b61 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_c47a07c7 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_c47a07c7 | comment |
An episode of Sealab 2021 has one of the children get scolded when she calls her rather overweight classmate "Fatass McBlobicus". Turns out that's actually his name. | |
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Real Joke Name / int_c47a07c7 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_c727c7f9 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_c727c7f9 | comment |
"Randy Rainbow" sounds like the perfect Camp Gay stage name; it is in fact his real name. His website even includes a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer. | |
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Real Joke Name / int_c727c7f9 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_ca5d97f1 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_ca5d97f1 | comment |
Monty Python's Flying Circus had a few: Mr. Smoke-too-much from The Travel Agent Sketch: Inspectors Tiger, Lookout and Theresamanbehindyer from The Agatha Christie Sketch: "John Stokes, this is A Sniveling Little Rat Faced Git." [...] "This is my wife, Dreary Fat Boring Old [Git]". And the kids are no better: only last week Dirty Lying Little Two-Faced came running home from school, sobbing his eyes out, and their youngest, Ghastly Spotty Horrible Vicious Little is just at the age when taunts like 'she's a git' really hurt. |
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Real Joke Name / int_ca5d97f1 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_ce0d262 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_ce0d262 | comment |
Hamster & Gretel: In “U. F. Uh-Oh�, Kevin and Gretel meet a tour guide named “Wacko Wally�, who introduces himself as “not a nut�. Kevin lampshades that maybe he shouldn’t call himself “Wacko�, to which he replies that “Wacko� is actually his first name, and that his brother’s name is even weirder… in fact, it’s “Evan (pronounced “Even�) Weirder Wally�. | |
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| Hamster & Gretel | hasFeature |
Real Joke Name / int_ce0d262 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_cf39ca4f | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_cf39ca4f | comment |
Stephen Pastis of Pearls Before Swine claims that often when he made up a silly name in his comic, he would get letters from people who had that name. He eventually concluded that with the world's high population, there were bound to be some people that had that name. | |
| Real Joke Name / int_cf39ca4f | featureApplicability |
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| Real Joke Name / int_cf39ca4f | featureConfidence |
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| Pearls Before Swine (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Real Joke Name / int_cf39ca4f | |
| Real Joke Name / int_cfa07f59 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_cfa07f59 | comment |
Sonny with a Chance: A huge guy named Ripa Big-One is called for in the cafeteria. | |
| Real Joke Name / int_cfa07f59 | featureApplicability |
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Real Joke Name / int_cfa07f59 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_d11c45fe | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_d11c45fe | comment |
In Jasper in Deadland, a Flashback shows that the first thing Jasper ever said to Agnes was "Agnes? What's your real first name?" | |
| Real Joke Name / int_d11c45fe | featureApplicability |
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| Real Joke Name / int_d11c45fe | featureConfidence |
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Real Joke Name / int_d11c45fe | |
| Real Joke Name / int_d4efb984 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_d4efb984 | comment |
The Golden Girls: An episode had Dorothy teaching an American History course for adults going for their GEDs. On the first night, she reads out a class register that includes the name "Jim Shu" and thinks it's a joke (Gym Shoe). The Japanese-American Jim Shu then stands up and corrects her. In a bit of a variant on this trope, in one episode the group is looking through Blanche Devereaux's old diaries to see if she slept with Rose's traveling salesman husband many years ago. At first they are shocked that Blanche has given them a large list of everyone she's ever slept with, because the journal is titled "BED". Blanche casually explains that her full name is "Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux", and her initials just happen to spell "bed". |
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| Real Joke Name / int_d4efb984 | featureApplicability |
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| Real Joke Name / int_d4efb984 | featureConfidence |
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| The Golden Girls | hasFeature |
Real Joke Name / int_d4efb984 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_da861da1 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_da861da1 | comment |
Veronica Mars: Mr. Happy Fists is actually named . . . Mr. Happy Fists. Word of God: one of the writer's favorite jokes. | |
| Real Joke Name / int_da861da1 | featureApplicability |
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| Real Joke Name / int_da861da1 | featureConfidence |
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| Veronica Mars | hasFeature |
Real Joke Name / int_da861da1 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_dbbf2001 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_dbbf2001 | comment |
An unfortunate Marine in the Prince Roger series is named Ima Hooker. No innocent misunderstandings there, though, it's REALLY a Real Joke Name — her abusive father thought he was hilarious. | |
| Real Joke Name / int_dbbf2001 | featureApplicability |
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| Real Joke Name / int_dbbf2001 | featureConfidence |
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| Prince Roger | hasFeature |
Real Joke Name / int_dbbf2001 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_dd1997cc | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_dd1997cc | comment |
Dani's House: Ben is studied by a secret agent named "Fleur Blair". Dani and Max both have fun with it. | |
| Real Joke Name / int_dd1997cc | featureApplicability |
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Real Joke Name / int_dd1997cc | |
| Real Joke Name / int_e293455a | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_e293455a | comment |
Thomas Wanker, a German film music composer whose name appeared in the credits of every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Given Joss Whedon's well known Anglophilia and predilection for putting British swear words into his American scripts, it could have been a joke. It wasn't. (Perhaps to diminish this, he at times is credited as Wander) | |
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| Real Joke Name / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
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| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
Real Joke Name / int_e293455a | |
| Real Joke Name / int_ea4f62db | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_ea4f62db | comment |
Family Guy In "Hell Comes to Quahog", Peter is greatly amused when he learns one of the managers at a super-store is named "Mr. Penisberg". Penisberg wearily tells Peter "Yeah, yeah, get it out of your system." When Peter goes to talk to a group of politicians, he cracks up when he learns one is named Dick Armey. |
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Real Joke Name / int_ea4f62db | |
| Real Joke Name / int_ec25a849 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_ec25a849 | comment |
The principal's last name on Doug is named Buttsavitch, which doubles as a reference to creator Jim Jinkins' elementary school principal. | |
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Real Joke Name / int_ec25a849 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f0a86c12 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
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How I Met Your Mother has new professor Ted tell his students that "Cook Poo" is a terrible, unbelievably fake name, until an Asian student runs crying from his class. | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f0a86c12 | featureApplicability |
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Real Joke Name / int_f0a86c12 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f5799bd9 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f5799bd9 | comment |
Jay of The Critic comes upon a squeaky-voiced teen managing a fast-food joint whose nametag reads "Pizzaface". The kid indignantly corrects him that it's pronounced "Pizza-fah-chay". | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f5799bd9 | featureApplicability |
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| The Critic | hasFeature |
Real Joke Name / int_f5799bd9 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f655ed11 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f655ed11 | comment |
In the Frasier episode "Fathers and Sons", Niles and Daphne attempt to preemptively enroll their yet-to-be-born son in the prestigious kindergarten St. Osric's Academy, only to be stuck on what name to put down on the form. At Roz's suggestion, they ultimately go with Ichabod — which leads to his application being immediately turned down when the staff mistake it for a prank (he would end up being named David once he was actually born in the series finale). | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f655ed11 | featureApplicability |
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Real Joke Name / int_f655ed11 | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f67aead0 | type |
Real Joke Name | |
| Real Joke Name / int_f67aead0 | comment |
Jay Leno used to do a segment from The Tonight Show on these showing up in newspaper ads. | |
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| Real Joke Name / int_f67aead0 | featureConfidence |
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Real Joke Name / int_f67aead0 |
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