Word play and puns are a great joy in life, or at least they are in mine. I’m sure my long suffering family would disagree – they think that being with me is like living with a walking Christmas cracker joke.
The reason I mention this is because of some fun on the Saturday Breakfast Show after the annoncement that the seventh in the Star Wars franchise is to be filmed in the UK next year.
Listeners came up with their alternative titles with a UK place motif like the one above and Star Wars: the Phantom Mendips and The Empire Strikes Bacup.
But they ran out of Star Wars options fairly quickly and broadened it to alternative titles for other films if they had been made in the UK – here are a few of my offerings:
Haverfordwest Was Won
A Man Called Horsham
Last Tango in Powys
Chitty Chitty Bangor
Bridge Over the River Wye
Our Man in Havant
I Was Monty’s Dublin
Liverpool and Let Die
She Wore a Yellow Ribble
The Third Manchester
Diamond are for Everton
The Bridges of Stockport County
King Congleton
Look Back in Onger
Das Bootle
It’s a Wonderful Fife
A Stalybridge Too Far
Harry Potteries and the Philosopher’s Stoke
Now you understand what my family has to put up with!
hmm, we have a Bangor in Maine, so that works here too.
In addition, have you encountered these blockbusterS?
Whatever Happened to Ashton-under-Lyne?
The Unbearable Lightness of Cleckheaton
The Tin Drumnadrochit
The Taking of Penrith One Two Three
The Postman Always Rings Tring
A Passage to Withernsea
My Own Private Rutland
Long Day’s Journey into Knightsbridge
The Good, The Bad and The Wirral
Butch Castleford and The Sunderland Kid
Ribble Without a Cause
This is a hard one for me as I rarely go to the pictures to watch a film (I think The Young Victoria was the last title I saw “live”) and am happy to let the bulk of what’s on TV pass me by, so here goes. How about
Ice Cold in (Crewe) Alex…won’t mean anything to our colonial cousins
Alice in Sunderland
King Creoldham
My excuse is that I’ve just been asleep for about two hours and my brain is still quite numb, so I think it’s time for a cuppa.
That’s pretty good Trevor. I was trying to think of one for Ice Cold in Alex but couldn’t come up with anything and Alice in Sunderland is inspired!
…and here’s another one
The Mancunian Candidate (the 1962 original, I hasten to add, and not the 2004 re-make)