Name the new Car Talk TV show!

A perfectly good hour

Car Talk: As Heard on Radio

'Don't Drive Like My Brother'(2)  the 2 does not appear where i would like it, which is in the 

‘squared’, or ‘power’ position above the r in brother. it would be like saying it twice, which you ‘guys’ always do! best of luck with the programme, which i’ll be watching.

“Automotive Adventures with Tom and Ray”

Good luck with the TV show!! Can’t wait to see it! :slight_smile:
-Kelly

Car Tunes

It’s easy guys, the name of the new show is: Dont’ Drive Like My Brother!

“Another Perfectly Fine Hour”

Intake & Exhaust

“Tooling Around”

“Kvetch & Wrench”

“The Non-sequitir Garage”

Keep up the great entertainment,
Peter

The Lugnuts.

Click and Clack
(why reinvent the wheel ? Capitalize on existing
name recognition and good will.)

Click & Clack, The Road Scholars.
Tom & Ray, The Road Scholars.
The Road Scholars.

How about Transmission Impossible?

The Crankshaft Redemption
2 Loose Lugnuts
Don’t Talk like my Brother
2 Bays, no waiting
The warning light is on, but there is nothing under the hood

I’m partial to

“A Perfectly Good Half-Hour”

or


“The Boat Payment’s due!”

Mag’ Wheels [“Mag”: abbreviation for last name and metal. Mag’ Wheels allows the reader to infer both the object and the authors]; 'tho I must admit I get a laugh from “Car Toons” and “Bays of Our Lives”.

How about “The Answer to Life, the Universe and the MG TD”; it sounds pretentious, is largely meaningless, and mostly plagiarized.

I think kids (young and old) might like to watch:
Click and Clack’s Garage,
The Car Talk Show, or simply “Car Talk”

Whatever the title, it’s going to be well-watched, at least by this kid!

Like many people I do my best work first thing in the morning when I’m fresh. Like when I’m sitting on the pot, trying to wake up, and thinking about things. That’s when, for some inexplicable reason, I realized that “Magliozzi” goes well with the letters in the song “Harrigan.”

M-A, G-L-I, O, Z-Z-I spells Click 'n Clack.

I’m not sure where the lyrics would go on from there. But I did a google search on Harrigan, and found a Wikipedia entry which says this:

“Harrigan is a song written by George M. Cohan for the 1907 Broadway musical, ‘Fifty Miles From Boston.’ It celebrates, and to some extent mocks, his own Irish heritage. Contemporary Irish-American singer Billy Murray made a popular recording of the song.”

Boston of all places!

The tune was also used as a theme song in about 1960 for an early sitcom called Harrigan and Son, in which the main characters sang the lyrics.

This prompts an opening which I envision:

My suggestion for a TV show name is “Fifty Smiles From Boston” and the show would open with the Harrigan tune and the lyrics: “M-A, G-L-I, O, Z-Z-I spells Click 'n Clack.” Subsequent lyric lines might have Tom and Ray exchanging appropriately disparaging remarks about/to each other, finishing with how it’s their employees who get them out of a predicament every time. For me, I hear the tune being picked out at a moderate tempo on a banjo while Tom and Ray sing along. In the closing notes of the ditty I see Tom and Ray pointing their thumbs proudly at themselves singing “Click 'n Clack, that’s us!” whereupon they are promptly hit in the head by a flying crescent wrench. Then I hear the the CarTalk bluegrass riff kick in for a few seconds as the camera pans out and we see a busy Boston street and the Garage and the show name (“50 Smiles From Boston”) and then the episode name (e.g. “Much Ado About Lugnuts”).

Personally I like the name “50 Smiles From Boston” but if that’s too sappy for you, you might follow the Harrigan and Son theme and use “Magliozzi and Brother” as the name.

On second thought, maybe just

“Two schmucks from Boston?”

:>)