Parodied Names in the '66 series

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Parodied Names in the '66 series

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One of the things I love about the series is the take-offs on names of notable people from that time period. For example, Dr. Cassandra's Alvino Ray Gun which came from Alvino Ray, and Governor Stonefellow from Rockerfeller.

How many others can you find? Let's compile a list.

Happy New Year to everyone!

One more - Mayor Linseed from Mayor Lindsay of New York.
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J. Pauline Spaghetti: J. Paul Getty in the Sandman eps

Chet Chumley, David Dooley and Walter Klondike: Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite in the Penguin for Mayor second part

Talks show host Allen Stevens was played by Steve Allen in the Chad & Jeremy eps

John E. Carson: Johnny Carson in the King Tut/Lee Meriwether eps

Not contemporary, but Ma Parker: Ma Barker, Okie Annie: Annie Oakley in the first Shame and Dr. Floyd: Sigmund Freud as the shrink in the Joker robots ep
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Githam Cities neighbor state was New Guernsey. Catwoman organized the college protest in Chimes Square. They had Sort Island Sound Phoney Island

There was Londinium that had Gleet Street and Barnaby Street .
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clavierankh wrote:Githam Cities neighbor state was New Guernsey. Catwoman organized the college protest in Chimes Square. They had Sort Island Sound Phoney Island

There was Londinium that had Gleet Street and Barnaby Street .
One of the millionaires kidnapped in the first Egghead episode owned the baseball team, the New York Pets.
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Let's not forget Mayor Linseed for the current mayor at that time of New York City, Mayor Lindsay.
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"Deputy Mayor Zorty", a parody of Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty

Hair stylist Jay Sebring was playing hair stylist "Mr. Oceanbring" (as opposed to Sea-bring)

In the S3 Shame episode, Chief O'Hara recalls the movie "Low Midnight" as opposed to "High Noon"

The military is based in the "Hexagon" instead of the Pentagon (Pengy/Marsha)

And there was one case where we didn't have a parody name but an inside joke. The "Mr. Cramer" who meets Batman in the Gotham State Building in the first S2 Catwoman episode is identified by full name in the credits as "Douglas Cramer" which was the name of a 20th Century Fox executive at the time who later went over to Paramount TV (you can see his name at the end of every S3 Star Trek episode).
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Shame and Ma Parker were parodied names.
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Happy New Year Ivan and to all.

Here's one I think no one has ever caught. In The Joker goes to School episode, Joker calls "Pete the Swede" for odds on the "Disco Tech" game. Well, we all know that Disco Tech was a parody of discotheque. But what of Pete the Swede? Well, that's a parody on Jimmy The Greek, the famous (infamous?) odds maker that fell from fame in the 90's for his racist comments.

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Thanks John. I never thought of that one.
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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem's last name sounds like a New Yorker's pronunciation (think Archie Bunker) of "sternum." Bat-scriptwriter Stanford Sherman used a different human bone as the surname of his woman's-libber villain, Nora Clavicle.

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These are all great! Anyone else have any to add?
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Not a parody, but at the end of "Batman Sets the Pace" (Joker S1), Batman is asked by Gordon if he plans on running for governor of California. That was about a month after Ronald Reagan had announced HE was running for that office.
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Just caught "Hot Off The Griddle." Aunt Harriet does the Catusi to a record by Benedict Arnold and the Traitors, a spoof of (future bat guest-stars) Paul Revere and the Raiders.

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clavierankh wrote:There was Londinium that had Gleet Street and Barnaby Street .
Another from Londinium, the opening crime takes place in "Chuckingham Palace".
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Doesn't the sign read the KO Corral in the Shame episode?
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