Good Job, Brain! - 276: Title This

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

Dear Trivia Listeners of the Realm, Protectors of Pause and Playback, Champions of Cheek, the Keen-Eared Keepers of Weird Foods, the Ever-Enlightened Gatherers of Eggcorns... let us welcome you all to the first episode of our fall 2024 season, and it's all about titles and titling! Daenerys' got nothin' on Colin's forgotten long title quiz. With his fresh BAFTA member acceptance letter in hand, Chris schools us about the weird cases where films had to change their titles in the UK. Hi Hungry, what about titling yourself after your dad? Dive into the world of (surprising) patronyms and take Karen's "Son of a Gun!" challenge. Also: Pixar titles around the world, Eggcorn Watch, the dog named Trivia For advertising inquiries, please contact [e-mail]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Well, well, welcome well-wishers and well-doers in wellies eating beef Wellington. This is good job, bringing your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 276. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your pack of pub trivia problem punchers. Pleased as Punch to podcast pleasurably. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris.

It is the start of our fall season 2024. Chris and Colin, how have you guys been? Good. I've had a nice summer. I've been to a lot of places, and now I'm back. Then I actually was just in Germany. Oh, the guy in the seat in front of me with four. So we're in this flight from SFO to Germany.

It's like 12 hours long, right? It's not bad. It's not bad. And the guy in front of me with four hours left to go, the guy in front of me throws up all over himself. Oh, no. I haven't seen that in a really long time. I know.

They always have the barfags in the airplanes, but nobody ever grows up. Finally somebody threw up. And I'm like, did that guy just throw up all of himself? Oh, yeah. That kind of trouble all over himself. Not the smell. Oh, yeah.

The airline, it was Condor Airline. What's Condor Airlines? It's this airline that flies to Germany. They've got one flight from SFO to Frankfurt and, you know, and then the plane comes back. So coming back, coming back, I get on the one airplane and I sit down in my seat, it glons on me that I was in 14K. when I flew out, and I am now sitting in 13K, which I figure it has got to actually be the cleanest seat on the airplane because they would have had to hose the whole thing down.

Just recently, just about five days prior. I would love if you got on and it was a totally different color chair from the others as if they had had to replace a whole new chair and just pull the wrap off. Yeah, that's all. That's all. Yeah, this is a total loss. Yeah, Code Paisley. Code Paisley.

Code B. If you're a new listener, welcome. A Good Job Brain is a trivia podcast. Weird facts. Quizzes, basically trying to deliver the pub trivia vibe. Chris and Colin and I at one point for a very long time played pub trivia in person every week, we thought, hey, this is such a fun experience. Let's put it in podcast form. So before, so before we really get rolling here, I already know I've told the best story of

the show already. Some of the things we like to do here on Good Job Brain is keep a watch for egg corn. It's a little egg corn watch. What is an egg corn? Well, it's when somebody uses the wrong word for something. But generally, that's like a malapropism. Egg corn specifically when the wrong word that they're using makes a weird kind of sense. And it's from a lady who called acorns, egg corns. It's like, oh, sure, because sort of half of it looks like a corn and the other half looks like an egg. Like I kind of, I see where she's coming from.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we always like to look after, I mean, you see all the time people using the wrong words, but when they use the wrong word, but it feels really good, you know? Sometimes even better. That's our egg corn. Sometimes even better. Sometimes it's inappropriate.

tell me about this one, but I saw this one. And often I try to do a little research to see if other people are using it in the same way. Like just one, if it's just one person, that's fine. The egg corn was just one lady, but it's like, you know, is it, are other people doing this? And I did find multiple examples of people non-ironically doing this. And it's very funny to me. So here we go. The egg corn that I saw is, I'll give you a little bit of set up for it. This egg corn is, um, oh, you do so many interesting things. but I don't do anything. I'm just sitting around,

but I love listening to your stories. I get to live bi-curiously through you. That's great. Again, you kind of squint and it makes sense. Yeah, I live by curious through you. There's two of us, and I'm kind of curious about what you're saying. Like half your story and half my story. I'm living.

I curiously. who you So go out and tell that one to all your friends That's fantastic That's really great Vicariously Vicariously Vicariously

Vicariously Vicariously It's messing you up Yeah Vicariously Chris I have a couple of really good ones From our community That I want to share

If you don't have time to read a book or you need some help with a summary or a study guide. Maybe you want to instead read the clip notes. Oh. Clip notes. Yep, yep. Versus' notes. But there are clip notes.

Give me the clip, the highlight clips. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's almost one where you can see that taking over. And it's like, I'm just reading the clip notes. It's like, it's actually Cliffs notes, based on the guy Cliff. Cliff.

It's his notes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's Cliff? And then, you know, for people who are applying to jobs, they might put in their resume, describe themselves as a Jack of All Traits. Oh, wow. I haven't heard that one. Okay, I can see that, yeah.

You know, Jack of All Trades is more of an artisan, like, old-timey, like, hey, that guy is a blacksmith and a dentist and a lawyer. you know, a lot of traits. Yeah. Now you're like, oh, I have a lot of traits. Yes, I have all traits. That's right. I am both trustworthy and untrustworthy.

I have all of the traits. Don't put that in your resume, everybody. Yeah, don't. Yeah. Don't know I'm not getting hired anywhere. Trains. And that is Eggcorn Watch. All right, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot.

All right, so here I have a random trivial pursuit card. Random from the box, you guys have your barnyard buzzers. Let's answer some questions. Listeners, play at home, play in the car, play wherever you are. Blue Wedge for geography. Which single New York City borough is not located on an island? Single is not located. Colin?

The Bronx. Correct. It is the Bronx. Pink Wedge for pop culture, which comedic magician has a daughter named a moxie crime fighter? Chris? Oh, it's pendulette. It's penjellate. A penit teller.

Yellow Wedge, in a U.S. presidential election, if there is a tie in the number of electoral votes won by each candidate, who chooses the president? Chris The vice president Incorrect Colin Is it the speaker of the house It is the House of Representatives As a body

As a body, yes Not a single person Yes The Senate chooses the vice president Okay Purple Wedge Japanese artist Ken Sugimori Illustrated the 151 original

characters of which wildly popular cartoon empire. Chris. This is an interesting card for me. Yeah, Pokemon. All right, Green Wedge. Which artist had a quick method of identifying birds that was so effective that Air Corps adopted it to distinguish planes. Hmm.

Let me say that again. Which artist had a quick method of identifying birds that was so effective that the Air Corp adopted it to distinguish planes. Interesting question. Chris. So isn't Audubon, the guy who did the bird watching guy looked to do all the pictures of the birds?

Very good guess. The name is Roger Tori Peterson. Wow. My mind went to like what otherwise famous artist had a method. Yeah, like Salvador Dali. Right, right. I was, oh, good on here. It makes a lot more sense. That's good.

That's good. All right. Last question on this card. Orange Wedge. What's the name of the water sport that requires a paddle, a board, and an upright position? Colin. Is it paddle board? Has an official three word name.

Oh, it's not just paddle boarding. Oh, it's a three word name. Okay. So again, what's the name of the water sports? Stand up. Stand up. Yes, stand-up paddle boarding. Okay, all right.

Also known as SUP, stand-up paddleboard. All right. A lot of people are doing that now. To be clear, I was not groaning at people who do it or the sport or perform it. Don't send me angry communications. I was groaning at the question. At the hard question. Collins, Collins emails like just finally died down after the onboarding disaster.

all right good job brains finally jumping into today's show chris you have a bit of a backstory for this i know i have i have more ado so we can't really say that there's no ado there's no further ado because this is still the ado uh i'm going to plug a personal project i actually i guess good job brain is the personal project i'm gonna plug work um on good job but as you know i make video games recently we announced latest video game. We're doing it Digital Eclipse. And it is called Tetris Forever. It's an interactive documentary game all about the history of Tetris. So it includes a whole bunch of classic Tetris games. Thank you. Thank you. A whole bunch of classic Tetris games. And then we're saying over 90 minutes of documentary featurette. So I went out to Hawaii in May. We went to the Tetris

Incorporated, spoke with Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, Hank Rogers, who was the founder of Tetris Company. Maya Rogers, who's the CEO of Tetris. Karen, we worked with, you know, your friends in mind at Area 5. Yeah, video crew. Video game documentarians, so we worked together, put these together. So I'm really proud of this. We were, I mean, I remember we were in Hawaii and we had just filmed a whole bunch of the interview segments, you know, very early on. me and, you know, Ryan O'Donnell and Cesar from, from Area 5, were all in the break room at Tetris Incorporated. We just started looking at some of the footage that we had just shot.

Ryan just so happened to sort of land on a part of the video footage of Maya, the CEO. We were asking about, like, the future of Tetris, you know, and she was like, well, you know, I think Tetris will be forever. And at that moment, like, Ryan is just like, is anything ever been called Tetris forever? And I was like, Tetris Forever. What a good title. And at that moment, we're like, oh, my God, that's the title because this is not, it's not

about looking back. It's about this, this one, like, I don't even have to tell anybody who's listening to this what Tetris is, you know? And that is just, that is just not the case for any other video game. Any other video game needs some kind of introduction or some kind of setup. It's like, Tetris, like everybody shows, but Tetris is, it is going to outlive all of us. And it exists that that really will do that because they really captured something beautiful and mathematically perfect lives on forever.

Exactly, right. So with that in mind, you know, and not with that in mind, you had actually come to us and said, oh, I have a good topic for today's episode. It's titles. And I'm like, oh, well, I just had this experience, you know, with choosing the perfect title for something. That is what we are going to talk about today

is just the wide world of titles. So this week, title this. One of the many things I have learned from the years we've been doing the show, guys, is never, ever, ever throw away any scrap of research, no matter how half-baked or how tiny it is, because you never know when it might become grist for the quiz mill on a future episode. In fact, that is what happened to me for this episode. Do you guys remember, this was from last season?

I had a question for you both about the movie with the longest title of any film ever nominated for any Academy Award. And as you probably remember, Borat. It was the, right, it was the Borat sequel. Subsequent movie film. That's right. So it went by sort of the, the short. short name. Oh, well, I guess most people just called it Borat, too. The full, full name at 127 characters is Borat subsequent movie film, colon, delivery of prodigious bribe to American

regime for make benefit once glorious nation of Kazakhstan. I have assembled for you a quiz called Just Give Me the Long Version, which is about book and movie titles that have a long form that most of us never actually use. Oh, okay, sure. A great many stories, literature, movies, plays have alternate titles. And usually this is part of the official title when the work is first produced. And sometimes over the years, especially for very popular works with longer names, you know, part of the name tends to drop off and we just know it by a shorter name.

So, for example, the book, Uncle, Tom's Cabin, right? We all know it. Maybe you were assigned it in school from 1852, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, of course. The full title of Uncle Tom's Cabin is Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly. And depending on the addition of the book that you might have, sometimes it'll have the full title printed there. Sometimes it won't. Yeah, but yeah, that is, you know, the fullest name of that book. Another beloved American classic from 2004. Anchorman, colon, the legend of Ron Burgundy. Got it.

I've assembled a quiz for you here with long, full titles of books and movies, mostly, a couple plays in here. And I'm going to read for you the full title. I will blank out the popular, well-known short title. Right. So I will say, like, let's pretend this was a question. I said, I'm looking for a 1979 musical blank. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

You would say. Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Of course, the 1979 Stephen Sondheim musical, based on the 1970 play, Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, not to leave anybody out of the credit chain there. All right, so here we go. Okay, why don't we do this as a buzzer quiz?

Get your barnyard buzzers. Do I even know how to press a buzzer? Let's do it. So I would say press the center of the buzzer pretty much right in the dead center good firm press with the thumb try not to cover the speaker with the other fingers oh whoa whoa whoa wow wow wow that was like actual legitimate pro tip there okay all right a staple of american literature from 1851 blank or the whale Chris

that is moby dick or the whale wow wow Yes, by Herman Melville, of course. All right. So, warming up here. Moving right along. This is an iconic Cold War film from 1964, blank, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Both of you, please.

Dr. Strange Love. It is. Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strange Love. This 1877 novel, has the truly delightful full title. Blank, his grooms and companions, the autobiography of a horse. 1877, beloved novel horse-focused.

Karen. Black stallion. Very close. Chris. Black Beauty. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Yes, Black Beauty. His grooms in.

companions, comma, the autobiography of a horse. Horse. I thought the horse might lead you there, yeah. It did. Yeah, it did, eventually, yeah. It led her too far, I think. One of the biggest best-selling books of the early 2000s, blank, one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia.

Karen. Eat, pray, love. Yes, you've got to. That's right She eats in Italy Yeah, yeah Yeah She trades in India

Finds love in Indonesia In Bali Yeah sure right As we all do Right Yes Elizabeth Gilbert's Memoir from 2006

A cornerstone Of modern sci-fi From 1969 Blank Or The Children's Crusade A Duty Dance

With Death Whoa Karen Ender's game? Not a terrible guess, incorrect. This is by extremely well-known, well-taught book. What's the year? It's a sci-five book?

This is an anti-war sci-fi book featuring time-hopping. Oh, oh, oh. That's the full-time. Is it Slaughterhouse Five? It is, indeed. Slaughterhouse Five, the full title. That's right. Slaughterhouse Five, colon.

I knew. Something about it was like. I know that. Why do I know that? Okay. Yep, you got it. That's right. This 2014 movie was an Academy Award favorite, blank, or the unexpected virtue of ignorance. Karen, with not hesitation. Birdman.

That is correct. Birdman. Fantastic Michael Keaton. Truly great performance. Great movie. Yes, directed by Inuriatu. That's right. We have a play slash book here from the.

pantheon of family entertainment, let's say. Blank or the boy who wouldn't grow up. Chris. Peter Pan. You got it. Peter Pan, Tama. Or the boy who wouldn't grow up. Yes, by Jay and Barry. Of course.

Is Orr actually in the title? It is. Yes. Everything I'm reading here is literally a word from the title. Wow. So Moby Dick or the Whale. Yes, correct. What?

There was definitely a period, mid-1800s for sure, where there was a lot of or subtitling, alternate titling. Okay, okay. And, yeah, it's actually, it's fun. You know, you'll go back and see the first edition cover or frontist piece from some of these books and some of the many lines long. And you're like, oh, wow, I see why they shortened that to by the time I got to my English class or whatever. Yeah. Another pillar of high school English class from 1854, blank or life. in the woods.

Oh. What year? What year? Let's see. 1854. I would be surprised if you have not read it. It's short. It's readable. It's high school assignable. Maybe closer to Chris's part of the country, maybe. Oh, gosh.

What does that mean? It's not Call of the Wild. No, it is not. I am looking for a transcendentalist classic here. Oh, oh. Oh. Oh. I'll give it to Karen. Take the bite here at the apple. Walden Pond.

It is, it is, I'm going to give it to you because I'm feeling generous. It's just Walden, yes. Walden or Life in the Woods, yes, by Henry David Thoreau, of course. We drive by this like every time. Really? My wife lives right in that area. So we go to her parents' house, we drive by. The Walden.

All the time. Yeah. All right. Shared title here between one of the top selling books of 1976. and top TV series of 1977, Blank the saga of an American family. Oh. Karen.

Roots? It is. Yes. Roots. Yes. Kuntikinti. That's right. The story of Kuntikinti by author Alex Haley.

That's right. Huge, huge, huge, huge hit. 46 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, number one for a couple months. And then ABC, again, like one of the highest performing TV series. Lovar Burton, so good. That's right. Introducing Lovar Burton to the world. It was so young, yeah.

This 18-18 novel, one of the best known of all time, Blank or the Modern Prometheus. Oh. Karen. Frankenstein. Frankenstein. Yes, you've got it. That's right.

This one's fairly well known, I think. This one pops up in trivia. Yeah, yeah. from time to time. Because they make the allegory in the story with the fire. Yeah, yeah. Okay, this one, this is the original issued name of this book. But I think you can get it here.

Just follow on with me. So the answer I'm looking for is the well-known name of this book. This is a book from 1726, travels into several remote nations of the world in four parts by redacted. First, a surgeon, and then a. captain of several ships. Chris, Chris, confident. Gulliver. You got it. That's right. I redacted Lemuel Gulliver,

which was later this book was reissued as simply Gulliver's Travel, which is what people were calling it almost right from the beginning, right? Just like, yeah, no. All right, last one, last one here. We'll close this out. You ready? Here we go. Blank, a savage journey

to the heart of the American dream from 1971. Karen. Is it off fear and loathing in Las Vegas? You got it, exactly. By Hunter S. Thompson. That's right.

You got it. Yeah. Well done. Well done. All right. My turn. I got a quick lightning round here. Hope you guys like Pixar movie titles.

Oh, yeah. In this quiz, when movies are premiered playing in the theaters in other countries, sometimes they don't share the same titles as the English names. And so here I have a quiz about cool titles of Pixar movies in other countries. I'm going to give you the translated back into English title, and you have to guess which Pixar movie it is. All right? All right. Lighting round, let's buzz in.

So the first one is in Korean, and it's called May's Bright Secret. Mays. Like May the month? M-E-I. Mays, possessive. Mays bright secret. Chris Collar. Turning red.

Turning red. All right. This next one is in German. Legend of the Highlands. Colin Is that Brave Brave? This is in

Simplified Chinese Robot Actioner Colin Wally Wally All right This one is a really good one It's in Polish

Brain Elves Chris Inside Out Inside Out That is good All right, this one is in French, 1,001 feet. Feet as in like toes, toes feet, not distance feet. Chris.

A bug's life? Oh, of course. Oh, that's good. A lot of bugs, a lot of feet. I like it. I don't know where that one comes from, but I think that's just like a poetic. Just like, you know, yeah, yeah. All right, okay, this one, Hungarian.

In the wake of senile Oh Oh, Colin Up? Incorrect In the wake of senile And it's not up It's more of

Yeah, I think more about the plot Maybe a character A character Oh, oh, is it Oh, like Finding Dory Finding Dory Finding Dory Okay

This one is from Brazil In Brazilian Portuguese Viva, life is a party Chris Coco Coco Oh duh Okay good

All right This one is in Cantonese Chinese Half of the magic Half Has It has to deal with the plot

of the movie Uh huh Uh huh There's a Kind of a side character Spends most of its time In half Hmm

Like Just running through every move. Every, run through every Pixar movie. I put this at, you know, towards the end too. Sure.

Half of the magic. Maybe there's like a top half and maybe there's like a bottom half. Is it? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, what's the name of it? It is

onward. Oh, yes. Onward. Half of the magic. Whole point in the movie is, you know, the magic, yeah, the magic was cast halfway. Yeah.

I may have forgotten you. I just couldn't. I couldn't pull that name out. I could picture the characters. You know like real ugly cry. Not just like ugly cry. This is like ugly cry that has sounds. Like that was me.

Uncontrollable sounds. And like that kind. Oh my gosh. That was really good. Yeah. I've only seen that one at once. I should watch it again. Oh, man.

That was my wife with Coco because she was bawling. She's just like, my two emotional triggers are dumb dogs and the elderly. It's like The movie has both All right Next one In Vietnamese Magical Life

Collin Soul It is soul Hey All right All right Next one This is in French

Four Wheels Chris Cars Cars I'd be mad if it wasn't cars Yeah Last one here This is everybody one

This is in Japanese he's grandpa Carl's flying house. I remember this one. I remember this one. Karoji san no Tobuye is up, as we all know. It's up. You know, it kind of follows more of a studio Ghibli, like, tideling, right, right. Up is just one word.

Yeah. And Pixar's known to kind of have one word titles or very, very short titles. So it's really cool to see how other regions build the universe. And often you see that in, I think, with, like, Japanese retitling of films that they're just, they're a lot more literal, you know? Yeah. Yeah. A lot more like, we're going to, we're going to sort of try to convey the entire plot of this movie to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.

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It's time to own it. Shop now at IKEA.ca. You're listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth puzzles. Mark trivia. Good job brain. Hey everybody. We are back and this week we are talking about titles. So the inspiration actually came from our Good Job Brain, a listener fan group on Facebook called the Good Job Brain Loeb-trotters.

Let me just read this. This is from a listener. Listener Tina, she just got a new Shetland Shepherd puppy. Wow. Boy, that's dangerous to say. Shetland Shepard Puppy. I think the nickname is Shelties. They're kind of like little callies. They're very, very cute. They're really cute. And she said, in AKC, American Kennel Club, when you register your dog, you have to give them what's called a registered name and a called name. If you've watched Westminster Dog Show or any dog shows and the dog comes parading. And on the bottom of the best in show. No, or best in show, yes. You'll see on the ticker when they label the dogs, oh, right, okay, you know, the bulldogs coming out.

And then they'll show the name of the dog and you're like, oh, my God, this is a name. Six words long. It doesn't make any sense. It kind of sounds like a weird sentence. And that is what is a registered name. Tina continues. Often the registered name has special meaning for the owner. It has to be unique with no other AKC registered dog having the same exact name.

And then also part of this name includes breeders. And so breeders usually have a kennel name that you add to your really long dog registered name so that it gives you information on like the breeder, maybe the sire, like their parents, their lineage, their lineage. And then you create this unique registered name. name. She says, my puppy's call name, which is the regular name that you just call your dog, my puppy's call name is trivia in honor of all the joy and pleasure I have had listening to Good Job Brain. His registered name is also a good job brain connection with an extra nod of gratitude to Karen, me, who is heard saying this in every episode. So her puppy trivia, the registered name is, is their kennel name, without further ado.

Oh, that's a great, great registered name. Adorable. That's great that without further ado wasn't taken. That's incredible. That's a really good name. Well, it would be the kennel name and then without further ado. Oh, I see. So if the kennel's name is like, you know, like Beautiful Falls or something, Beautiful Falls

Kennel. So it would be Beautiful Falls without further ado. I saw this, and I saw the picture of the puppy, and I was. like, oh my God, there is a dog registered named after us. I think I commented and I said, this is the greatest moment of my life. Yeah. I mean, it really is, it is humbling and honoring. Absolutely.

I mean, we're joking and laughing, but it truly, truly is incredible. The dog named trivia. That's great. Without further ado. Chris, you're up. Yes, I have a title's quiz that was inspired by a thing. That also happened in my life this week. I had a very eventful week.

Yesterday, Thursday morning, I woke up to an email that I assumed was an email telling me that I was not going to be made a member of BAFTA, but in fact, was an email telling me that I am now a member of BAFTA. Congratulations. Wow, what... Thank you.

That is the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the British equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, sciences here. Wow. Do they know you're American? You know, so BAFTA is, you know, looking to bring in people from outside the UK and is looking to bring in people, uh, in the world of games. I may have, uh, you know, uh, helped, uh, on a couple of video games that may have been long listed for Bethlehem awards. Yeah, you know, you know, you need to be humble. Yeah, I think I can apply for this. Um, and yeah, so I was accepted as a, a member of BAFTA. Now, what that actually means from here on out, I'm only sort of just learning.

I was thinking about that and I was thinking about titles. I'm like, oh, great. Well, you know, if I'm now a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, I should probably do something about British, you know, film titles. And it occurred to me actually kind of, but not quite the same as what you've just done, Garrett. This is a quiz about films, not translated into foreign languages, but had different titles in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Oh, I love this kind of stuff. So they also speak English. So why do they... Thank you for that. Yeah. What? So some of these are going to be pretty simple questions. And then some of them may be a little bit more open-ended where I'm going to tell you that a film changed this title and give you both titles and then say, you have to try to guess why. Oh, okay, okay.

All right, all right. So anyway, it's a pretty simple 10 question quiz. So we'll just, we'll start it off. The U.K. U.S. title discrepancy quiz by BAFTA member, Chris Cole. Go ahead and buzz in with your Bar-Yard Busters is the answers to these questions. So question number one, this 1991 documentary had the UK title, In Bed with Madonna. 1991.

Karen. Truth or Dare? Yes. Technically, it was called Madonna, colon, truth, or dare. Okay. Yeah. Yes. In the UK, it's called In Bed.

Dead with Madonna. I'm guessing, well, I'm not sure. I would have to guess that perhaps... Too explicit. No, maybe the title did not convey enough explicitly for the UK. You know what I mean? Right. Okay, another similar question in the United Kingdom.

This film was titled Die Hard 4.0. God, okay, Die Hard 3 with a vengeance. Right. We can do this together. There's die harder. There's not die, die forever? Is it live free or die hard? Live free or die hard, right?

Correct. This live free or die hard. Right, right. Right. It's very American. Exactly. A take off of the state motto of New Hampshire, right? So not really something that UK audiences were going to resonate.

But it's funny how they call it 4.0. It's unpatched. Yeah. It's release day, die hard. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Baby testing, die hard. Question number three, the fifth installment, talking about other, you know,

installment of a franchise, the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Oh, Lord. It was released in the UK as Pirates of the Caribbean, Salazar's Revenge. By what name was it known in the U.S.? We can do this. Karen, you got to save me on this one, Karen.

This is the fifth installment. Dead man's guest. Asher, you stopped watching them. Okay, this is with their kids. Oh, are you serious? Oh, my gosh. Dead Man Tells No Tales. Yes, Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Amazing. Great job, Karen. Incredible. Yeah, mic drop. I think that was, unscrew the Getty Mickey. I think, I think that Dead Man Tell No Tales may have been used for the title of some other, you know, UK thing, or been trademarked in some way.

Got it, got it. Next question. The 2003 animated hit The Triplets of Belleville was titled in the UK after its Academy Award nominated theme song. Song! Whoa! What was it? Oh, God. Shared the title in the UK with its theme song.

It's Academy Award nominated theme song. It's cute. It is adorable. It was a big year for songs. I can't recall. Wow. You're our stalwart with the Academy Award song. This was big.

That song was, I don't want to say that song was everywhere, but like. To the point that they performed at the Oscars. It's a French animated movie. Yeah, and the French title was, I believe, Le Triplex de Berlin, you know, and in the U.S. it was just a straight translation of that. But in the UK, it was different. It was named after the song. Anybody?

Arthur's theme. Arthur's theme, parentheses, the best that you can do. Stay Elmo's Fire. The song was Belleville Rendezvous. Oh, cute. Maybe you remember the song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was good song.

All right. This was, this was weird to me. This I was kind of shocked about. But, okay, next question. The Disney animated film Zootopia had a different name in the UK. Huh. It started with Zoo, and it referred to a type of city. The type of big city.

Zootropolis. It's Zootropolis. Very good, Karen. Interesting. I guess a European zoo had a trademark already on Zoothoot. Oh, okay, all right. So it was more just they couldn't use it as supposed to, they didn't want to or something. I believe so, yeah.

So what? What's the name of the city in the film? Oh, yeah, good question, Karen. Good question. They had to redove it. It's called Zootropolis. Oh, wow. They had to redo the signs.

They localized the signs. Wow. Okay. Yep, exactly, yeah. Okay, next question. The 2012 film The Avengers was titled Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom. Why? Colin.

I would assume because of the very well-known classic British spy Avengers franchise property TV show. Correct. 1960s television show in Britain called The Avengers. Right, with like Diana Rig, right? Diana Rigg, yeah, that's right. Olena Martel? Yes. Exactly.

Yeah, exactly. Yes. Well, they remade it with Ray Fines and Uma Thurman? That sounds right. I think that's right. Okay, similarly, the 1993 film, Dennis the Menace, was retitled in the UK to simply Dennis. Why? Colin.

I might be going on a limb here, but wasn't it because, like, uh, There was either a politician or the spouse of a politician called, like, like, derogatorially, Dennis the Menace or something like that. No. Well, maybe there was. Maybe there was. It's a very, it's a very easy name to come to, you know what I mean? It's like rhymes, the rhymes, exactly.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe the menace was already taken. I'll tell you, because in the United Kingdom, there is a, completely separate and unrelated comic character called Dennis. Oh, really? No way. In like UK comic anthologies.

Completely unrelated. Again, it's very easy to sort of get to that name. Yeah, yeah. The two creators came by it separately. Independent creation, right. Yep, yep, yep. Next question. Harold and Kumar go-to White Castle was retitled in the UK.

because they don't have white castle. Yeah, yeah. Which is funny. It was ironic. Yeah, it is. The question is, the film was retitled in the United Kingdom. The White Castle was removed and it was replaced with this generic term for a particular funny affliction that happens when you smoke too much. Blackie, Colin.

Harold and Kumar get the munchies. Man, you nailed it. Wow. They still go to white cats. It's not like Sutroffe. They didn't need to redub it. Yeah, right. With like Nando's or whatever.

Um, last question. This 1986 superhero film based on a Marvel comics character was subtitled a new breed of hero in the United Kingdom, probably because, again, they were unfamiliar with the source material. 1986 Marvel People might argue whether or not It's technically a superhero film

People may argue whether or not this character counts as a superhero But that's technically what it's supposed to be Okay, you say character Based on a Marvel Comics character Was subtitled a new breed of hero In the UK A new breed

Cat Okay, all right They're circling around it, something Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh. Is it Howard the Duck? It sure is, Colin. Okay.

It sure is. It was titled Howard, colon, a new breed of hero. Yeah. I paid good money to see that movie in the theater, and I apparently buried it in the back of my head there. So I want to close. This is not a question. I just want to close with an observation. The 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde, right, Faye Dunaway, or,

and Bainty, based on real-life American bank robbers, murderers. They changed the title in the UK because, again, they didn't know who Bonnie and Clyde were. They'd entered into sort of American folktales, heroism, anti-heroism, whatever it is. And they changed the title to

Bonnie and Clyde dot, dot, dot, were killers. I wonder what it's about their... Oh, I should just finish reading on the Marche there. Thanks for being clear about that. Yeah, I'll see this movie. Is it a way, exclamation point? No, there was.

Oh, yes. Oh, there was. You have to box office, get in the ticket, and you look at the guy, you're like, they kill people in this movie, right? Yeah, right. Before I hand over my hound sterling. I'm crying.

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some of a gun Okay, so before jumping in to this quiz We're all Game of Thrones fans Oh yeah Yeah, yeah So, DeNaris Throughout the course

Of the story of the books You see Deeris get more powerful And thus accumulating More and more titles Oh yeah So her title Started out as Deeris of House Targaryen

And then the first of her name Then as she catches more Pokemon, she achieves more milestones, her title gets longer and longer. As just a bonus, can you list out the other parts of her full title by the end? I mean, parts of them. I got a checklist here. All right. Are we just trying to cover all of them? Okay.

It doesn't have to be in order. We got Mother of Dragons. Other of dragons. Right. Breaker of chains. Correct. The unburnt. The unburnt, yes.

Break your chair, the unburn, queen of the first men and the Andles, is that in there? Queen of the Andles, yes. Yeah, yeah, good, good, good. Technically is Queen of the Andles, comma, the Roynar, comma. Oh, that's right, yes. And the first man, right. Can't short change the Roynar, yeah. No, I was proud about that.

Okay, all right. So we got the, we got the chains, the dragon, the unburnt, the queen. Maybe another title for queen. in a different language, maybe. Oh, Calisi of the Great Grass Sea. Yes. And then we also have here, Queen of Marine. Uh, protector of the realm.

Protector of the realm. That's, okay. Resuming out. Yeah. Uh, lady regnant of the seven kingdoms. Oh, fantastic. So, so my quiz, son of a gun. I here have a quiz about famous people and characters who all have patronym

surname surnames. Okay. Hatronym. Patronym. Patronym. I'm sorry if I'm a patronym, because it's Patra's side. I mean, not to get dark, but yeah, patron. Yeah.

What's a patronym? Long ago, before most of the world settled into the Western first name, last name format. Right? So similar to DeNaris, a lot of the Western last names used to be descriptive titles. They're meant to tell people apart in small communities, towns, tribes. So some describe what job. They had, Colin, a very classic good job rating segment a very long time ago was about occupational last names, right? Where a lot of people's last names were used to describe their occupation generations ago.

So, for example, Will Smith. Smith used to describe blacksmithing or Baker or, or let's say Bradley Cooper. Cooper was Middle English for like a person who fixed barrels, right? And relatedly, the person who fixed barrels in Germany was fashion. Fassbender, like Michael Fassbender. And even our own Chris, you have an occupational last name of color. Good one. It means sinks.

No, it's coal. Charcoal, yeah. So aside from occupations, people use titles after their first names to denote who they're related to. Like, whose son are they? And so this is what a patronym is, which is a name derived from the father's name. basically son of so a lot of names throughout culture throughout different languages is a son of modifier so for example oh well that's andy you know he's john's son right then becomes the last name johnson so here in my quiz the answer to every question is a famous person or a character

who has a patronym all right you might be surprised is there in also different languages here we go son of a gun question number one what actress appeared in animal titled films like the horse whisperer my brother the pig jojo rabbit

eight-legged freaks an aisle of dogs she's she got one big movie that's an animal title that I'm not saying oh gotcha okay well I was going to answer anyway Is it Scarlett Johansson? Scarlett Johanson, Johan's son, Johansson, yes.

All right, next question. Charlton Heston played what character in a 1959 religious epic film that was based on a Leo Wallace novel? Oh. Wait, is the answer going to be a patronymic name? Yes. Oh, and you might be surprised. Okay, he would guess at it.

Chris. Moses. Oh, there's another religious epic film starring Charlton Heston. Call it? That is Ben Her. Ben Her. Son of her. So in Hebrew, Ben denotes son of.

David Ben-Gurian. Yep, yep, yep. The B-E-N is a modifier saying son of. That is cool. All right. Next question. What baseball superstar holds the record for most career grand slams? Okay. Baseball is going to start our most career grants.

Played for the New York Yankees. Also, the name that Chris and I put down when we don't know the answer to any sport questions. Chris. Alexander Rodriguez. It is Alex Rodriguez. 25 career grand slams. Lou Gehrig 23, number two there. But yes, Alex Rodriguez.

Son of Rodrigo. Listen, man, that's cool. That's interesting. I like that. I didn't know that. Any of the as, the E, Z, or E.S ending stems from Son of. So, Martinez, son of Martin. Enrique's, son of Eric.

That's really cool. Or son of Enrique. Here we go. Next question. What author originally wanted to title his landmark novel, Tramaltio in West Egg? What author originally wanted to title his landmark novel, Tremalcio and West Egg? Do you guys remember maybe West Egg is a place somewhere? Yeah, sounds like it.

Maybe in a great state of New York. Wow, I don't know. The novel in question is called the Great Gatsby. Oh, I was going to get it just under the wire there, maybe. Is it F. Scott Fitzgerald? F. Scott Fitzgerald did not know that was a patroness. Son of Gerald. And this is like the Anglo-Norman French influence.

Right, right. You know, Fitzpatrick. Right. Fitzpatrick. All right. In the 2000s, who became the first black secretary of state? We had two. In the 2000s.

Right. Right, right. Who was first? Chris? Colin Powell was first. Colin Powell, yes. Indeed. Powell is a patronym.

This is really interesting. That is interesting. It stems from Welsh. So the prefix AP app means son of. And a common Welsh name would be Highwell or Englishized Howell. So app Howell. Wow. And when you say Apple, son of Howell, it just started blending.

in at power, palo, pal, pal, pal, like is fast. Another example, Bowen, App Owen, son of Owen. A Bowen, Bowen, Bon, Bon, it becomes Bowen. Yeah. Wow. Here we go. Last question on this quiz. What corporate mascot character made his U.S. nationwide debut in a TV commercial

back in 1965 during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade? And he has a pet dog named Sunday. Chris. Oh, I was going to say Ronald McDonald. Yes. The Mac Mac is son of. Son of Donald. MacDonald.

Yes, he has a pet dog named Sunday. This canon comes from in the late 1900s. In the late 1990s, there was like a Rugrats cartoon called Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. And it looks kind of like the Thornberries or like Rugrats. Parts of the cartoon in the beginning is. is introed by a real life like a Peewee Herman style Ronald McDonald and his pet dog Sunday. Sunday as an ice cream Sunday.

Right, I figured. I figured. And it was Vern Troyer in a dog suit. What? You're making this all up. I didn't believe it. And I googled and I was like, is this a real show? It's like a Peewee Herman Rugrats Ronald McDonald vehicle.

Oh my gosh. Some executive is like, all right, we need, we need our own Pee We Herman hit here. Yes, exactly. I'm going to end this episode with this remarkable sports moment that just occurred. Uh-huh. Baseball player Danny Jansen, Jansen, son of Jan, a patrick. Yes, yes. Became the first player in Major League Baseball history to play for two competing teams in the same game.

Yes, yes. On June 26 of this year, there was a game between Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox. I also love that it's like Blue Jays Red Sox, very cute to me. So Danny Jansen was playing for the Blue Jays and he was at bat when the game was suspended due to rain. When there's like bad weather, they would pause it and pick it up where they left off the next time the two teams meet to play again. Baseball teams have really exhaustively planned travel schedule. They can't be like, oh, we'll just do it tomorrow. Yeah.

Like, no, no, no. They're on a very planned coordinated schedule. So they could only resume the game the next time they meet again. So this was June 26. The next time they play against each other again would be August 26. So two months in between. And during this time, in fact, actually the day after the rainy game, it just so happens that Danny Jansen got treated to the Red Sox.

Fast forward two months later, August 26th, they had to resume the game that was paused. Jansen came back into the game on the opposing team as a catcher and then had a pinch hitter batting in place of him where he left off. A very weird moment in sports history, one player to play for two teams in the same game. Leading up to it, like all the nerds were getting very excited about it. Like, oh, this is it going to happen? They're like, yeah, it can happen. It can happen.

They're like, yeah, the only question was, would it happen? Yeah. Very, very cool. And that's our show, everybody. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in. Welcome to another season. I hope you learned stuff today about UK versus U.S. movie titles, Donaris's full titles, patronagems, and Pixar Films.

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