Two’s Company
or
Car Toons
the stumped chumps
car back talk
brothers tuned
stay tuned
My wife and I love “Car Talk.” Best of luck with the TV show! Here’s our 2 cents worth of ideas:
?Just Like My Brother?
?[Not] Like My Brother?
?My Brother, the Mechanic?
?Life in the Slow Lane?
?Wheel or no Wheel?
?What?s that Noise??
?Mechanically Challenged?
?Click, Clack, Doh!!?
Haven’t read all the entries, so sorry if any are repeats.
Hi Tom and Ray,
First, this is the first time the cartoon avatars based on real people look better than the originals. (^_^)
My suggestions are:
“Crank Cases” (or “Crank Case”, but I think given there are two of you, the plural is better.)
“Loose Nuts”
“We’ve Got to Get a Real Job!”
That’s it for now.
Tata!
And even though Moses crushed the tablets and said, “You’re REALLY not ready for THESE!” when he read these words,
this is Dave, signing off.
How about “Car Trouble.”
Car Watch
“Bay” Watch
UBTTP*
The Dope Slap Diaries
*(Unencumbered By The Thought Process)" Tool’n the Talk "
The Brothers Dim!
Don’t Drive Like My Brother
Lug Nuts
The Adventures of
Click and Clack the Cartalk Clucks
“A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing”
Wrecker Service
Anti-Think Tanks
Wait! Wait! Don’t ask us.
Very Dome Companions
Dual Time
Fool Time
Wrecker Service
Anti-Think Tanks
Anti-Talk Takes
Liter Bore
Hair Kilter
two old geezers , geez monkeys , lug nutz , tapping time , garage daze , clicking and clacking our way to fame and fortune , don’t drive like my brother (hmmm I may have plagarized that one !!!) ,
Hey, I’VE got it! Here’s a great gag. A great weekly schtick. (Schtick, in keeping with the CarTalk tradition, yes?)
You’ve got enough great names for the TV show that you could use a different every week. Here’s how.
After each first episode the show gets cancelled. The next week you launch a new series with a different name. But, oh dear, that one gets cancelled too. This could go on for years! You could be in the Guinness book of world records, as having the largest number of cancelled TV shows (in the individual category). If you go for long enough with enough first episodes and cancellations, you might even accumulate more cancellations than NBC, and that’s saying something! You could have more cancelled TV series’s than Ford has cancelled fuel-efficient car projects! You could make the household name “Edsel” completely obsolete as a term for being obsolete. Ooops, I forgot, you’ve already done that, since “Tom 'n Ray” are already in the modern lexicon meaning “obsolete.” But I digress.
Anyway, to give examples…
One week you launch the new TV series “Schtick Shift”. You preceded it with a big build up. Lots of hype in the media. The first episode runs, and…alas at the end of the show the tape stops abruptly and we hear Tommy, say, semi-off-mike, “What is this? You mean we’ve been cancelled?”
The next week you have a big media build up and lots of hype for the coming NEW series “Knucklescrapers” The first episode runs and…and…alas at the end of the show the tape stops abruptly and we hear Tommy, say, semi-off-mike, “What is this? You mean we’ve been cancelled?”
The third first episode might be for the new series “Magliozzi and Brother.”
And the fourth first episode mignt be for the new series “Oh brother!”
In addition to a series title–and to convince everybody that this really IS a series coming up–each first episode also has an episode title. Like “Much Ado About Lugnutz,” or “They shoot lug nuts don’t they?”
Each week any announcers say there is, coming up next week (or whatever day) a new series entitled (whatever it’s going to be) without mentioning that the old one was canceled (the networks and stations never like to mention that a show in that time slot was recently canceled–that’s an undiscussable).
And each week on your radio show Ray can urge listeners to tune in for the new TV series. Tommy can ask what happened to the old one and Ray can say under his breath that it was cancelled.
“That one was cancelled too? What are the chances of that?”
“Pretty good, as it turns out.”
If the folks who print “TV Guide” object to this plan, just tell them they can print “First Episode of Click 'n Clack TV Show” each week.
This could go on forever. Or it could seem like forever.
Kind of like the radio show.
Each week on the radio show you could ask listeners to write in with suggestions for the name of the first episode of your coming new TV show ("______") fill in blank with TV Show name.