Indiana Jones and the Running Joke

[athelind]

Steven Marsh's Random Thought Table column in Pyramid really lived up to its name on June 22, 2001*, when he related One Of Those Conversations that spawned the following:

With the most recent release of the Indiana Jones Trilogy on VHS (where the heck are those DVDs?!?), they changed the name of Raiders of the Lost Ark to Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Sure, it has the grace and style of a wounded possum trying to crawl its way across the remainder of the street, but at least it's got that intellectual property name in there, right?

Anyway, try plugging Indiana Jones and the onto other movie titles; see what results!

Ideally, in my mind, it should be something that evokes a sense of adventure and wonder, and hopefully sounds suitably pulp-y (even if the movie "IJat..." is appended to doesn't have anything to do with pulp).

Mr. Marsh then provided a list of titles that got me snickering.

Of course, this kind of meme will eventually reassert itself in one's mind, so, lacking sufficient sleep and under the influence of antihistimenes, I prowled over to my DVD rack in search of appropriate titles... and now I must share, that the meme may propagate and infect my Loyal Readers. All five of you.

• Indiana Jones and the Time Machine


• Indiana Jones and the Mission to Mars


• Indiana Jones and the Dunwich Horror


• Indiana Jones and the Fistful of Dollars


• Indiana Jones and the Thirteenth Floor


• Indiana Jones and the Sixth Sense


• Indiana Jones and the Lathe of Heaven


• Indiana Jones and the Forbidden Planet


• Indiana Jones and the Princess Bride


• Indiana Jones and the Sixth Sense


• Indiana Jones and the Nightmare before Christmas


• Indiana Jones and the Bicentennial Man


• Indiana Jones and the 39 Steps


• Indiana Jones and the Maltese Falcon


• Indiana Jones and the Man Who Knew Too Much


• Indiana Jones and the Grave of the Fireflies


• Indiana Jones and the Dark City

And my personal favorite...

• Indiana Jones and the Emperor's New Groove

Come on, play along. I await your comments. And no, you don't have to comment about how terminally geeky I am -- that remains evident.

*Yes, I know you can't get to the column link if you don't subscribe to Pyramid. Wah.

Comments

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[drakegrey.livejournal.com]

Actually, some of those sound really good. I *swear* that Indy Jones and the Lathe of Heaven was printed in 'Thrilling Archeologist Adventures' in 1936, er... wasn't it?

My suggestions:

Indiana Jones and the Scorpion King
Indiana Jones and the Stallion of the Cimmeron (Spirit sucked rocks but the title was good)
Indiana Jones and the Great Race
Indiana Jones and the Monsters, Inc. (I figure they're some sort of mobster hoodlums or something)
Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The ultimate in Lucas-ian avarice synergy would be:

Indiana Jones and the Phantom Menace

Last, need I suggest any more than this:

Indiana Jones and the Big Fat Greek Wedding

Erf. I think I broke my brain on that last one.

--Drake

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

You asked for it:

Indiana Jones and the Mystic Pizza
Indiana Jones and the Two Days in the Valley
Indiana Jones and the Phantom Tollbooth
Indiana Jones and Doctor T. and the Women
Indiana Jones and the Sorceror's Stone
Indiana Jones and the Last Remake of Bo Jest
Indiana Jones and the Phantom Menace
Indiana Jones and the War Against the Machines
Indiana Jones and the Ten Things I Hate About You
Indiana Jones and the Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Indiana Jones and the Project Bluebook
Indiana Jones and the Matrix Reloaded
Indiana Jones and the Two Towers
Indiana Jones and the 5000 Fingers of Doctor T.
Indiana Jones and the Pretty Woman
Indiana Jones and the Killing Fields
Indiana Jones and the Tomb Raider
Indiana Jones and the Jaws The Revenge
Indiana Jones and the English Patient
Indiana Jones and the Four Feathers
Indiana Jones and the Abominable Doctor Phibes
Indiana Jones and the Dangerous Liaisons
Indiana Jones and the Island of Lost Dreams
Indiana Jones and the Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Indiana Jones and the Sex in the City (new series on HBO!)

Just to trump myself...

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Glancing at my bookshelf, I noticed just how perfectly most of Stephen Jay Gould's titles worked with this...

Indiana Jones and the Flamingo's Smile

Indiana Jones and the Panda's Thumb

Indiana Jones and the Mismeasure of Man

Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur in a Haystack

Help me, somebody!

From my Pathetic DVD Collection...

[foofers.livejournal.com]

The few that work...

• Indiana Jones and the Fifth Element


• Indiana Jones and the God of Cookery


• Indiana Jones and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


• Indiana Jones and the Kentucky Fried Movie

Books, though...I've got tons of good ones, like Indiana Jones and the Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics. Programming is like that sometimes, except for all the running around and the dirt and stuff.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Indiana Jones and the Godfather
Indiana Jones and the Shawshank Redemption
Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail
Indiana Jones and the Life of Brian
Indiana Jones and the Silence of the Lambs
Indiana Jones and the Twelve Angry Men
Indiana Jones and the Bridge on the River Kwai
Indiana Jones and the Beast of Yucca Flats
Indiana Jones and the Usual Suspects
Indiana Jones and the Wizard of Oz
Indiana Jones and the Others
Indiana Jones and the Green Mile
Indiana Jones and the Sound of Music
Indiana Jones and the Beautiful Mind
Indiana Jones and the Hands of Fate
Indiana Jones and the Space Odyssey
Indiana Jones and the Day the Earth Stood Still
Indiana Jones and the Iron Giant
Indiana Jones and the Body Snatchers
Indiana Jones and the Planet of the Apes
Indiana Jones and the Truman Show
Indiana Jones and the Forbidden Planet
Indiana Jones and the Incredible Shrinking Man
Indiana Jones and the Wrath of Khan
Indiana Jones and the Road Warrior
Indiana Jones and the Eye Creatures
Indiana Jones and the Big Sleep
Indiana Jones and the Heat of the Night
Indiana Jones and the Night of the Hunter
Indiana Jones and the Postman Always Rings Twice
Indiana Jones and the Great Dictator
Indiana Jones and the Philadelphia Story
Indiana Jones and the Graduate
Indiana Jones and the Wild World of the Batwoman
Indiana Jones and the Track of the Moon Beast
Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Indiana Jones and the Great Escape
Indiana Jones and the African Queen
Indiana Jones and the Man Who Would Be Queen
Indiana Jones and the Mutiny on the Bounty
Indiana Jones and the Magnificent Seven
Indiana Jones and the Fugitive
Indiana Jones and the Hunt for Red October
Indiana Jones and the Flight of the Phoenix
Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Lost City
Indiana Jones and the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Indiana Jones and the Chocolate Factory
Indiana Jones and the Secret of Roan Irish
Indiana Jones and the Grapes of Wrath
Indiana Jones and the Breakfast at Tiffany's
Indiana Jones and the Miracle on 34th Street
Indiana Jones and the Western Front
Indiana Jones and the Terror of Tiny Town
Indiana Jones and the Streetcar Named Desire
Indiana Jones and the Manchurian Candidate
Indiana Jones and the Sundance Kid
Indiana Jones and the Miracle Worker
Indiana Jones and the Last Picture Show
Indiana Jones and the Day of the Jackal
Indiana Jones and the Full Metal Jacket
Indiana Jones and the Elephant Man
Indiana Jones and the Magnificent Seven
Indiana Jones and the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Indiana Jones and the Wild Bunch
Indiana Jones and the Fistful of Dollars
Indiana Jones and the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Indiana Jones and the Last of the Mohicans
Indiana Jones and the Gunfight at the OK Corral
Indiana Jones and the Seven Dwarfs
Indiana Jones and the Angry Inch
Indiana Jones and the Nightmare Before Christmas
Indiana Jones and the French Connection
Indiana Jones and the Secret of NIMH
Indiana Jones and the Purple Rose of Cairo
Indiana Jones and the Bishop's Wife
Indiana Jones and the Best Years of Our Lives
Indiana Jones and the Dirty Dozen
Indiana Jones and the Man Who Wasn't There
Indiana Jones and the World Is Not Enough
Indiana Jones and the Thin Blue Line
Indiana Jones and the Song of the South
Indiana Jones and the Man with the Golden Gun
Indiana Jones and the View to a Kill

Okay, I'm done.

Movie title source: IMDB (http://us.imdb.com/Charts/Votes/)

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[jdarkwulf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so I'm a few days late on this one, I've been busy. But I found some pretty good ones on my own movie rack:

Indiana Jones and the Hudson Hawk
Indiana Jones and the Ruin Explorers
Indiana Jones and the Slayers
Indiana Jones and the Dragonheart
Indiana Jones and the Record of Lodoss War
Indiana Jones and the Chronicles of the Heroic Knight
Indiana Jones and the Zero Effect
Indiana Jones and the Final Fantasy
Indiana Jones and the Watership Down
Indiana Jones and the Labrynth
Indiana Jones and the Last Unicorn
Indiana Jones and the Flight of Dragons
Indiana Jones and the Lion King
Indiana Jones and the Metal Idol
Indiana Jones and the Adventures of Toad

And one of my newest acquisitions:

Indiana Jones and the Dragon's Lair

[sushimare.livejournal.com]

Oooh ooh ooh! My turn!

Indiana Jones and the Chamber of Secrets
Indiana Jones and the Demon Knight
Indiana Jones and the Unforgiven
Indiana Jones and the Mexican
Indiana Jones and the 13th Warrior
Indiana Jones and the Gladiator
Indiana Jones and the Fellowship of the Ring

My favorite was Indiana Jones and the Princess Bride. :) It totally want to see that movie!

I know I'm late on this post, but I just found your journal through Skorzy. :)