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

[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/)