I’ve always been rough-around-the-edges when it comes to naming things. I was the sort of kid who had two cats– one named Cat, and the other named Conglomerate. Both names made sense to me, and the cats rocked their names, but I am often critiqued for naming without reason.
This is why, despite my love for Muppets and Monty Python alike, my favorite running gag is actually one from an American human-featured television show, Psych.
I don’t know if you’ve seen the show, but whenever the main character (Shawn Spencer) introduces himself, he always makes up a name for his partner, Gus. It’s always something random and it always, always makes me laugh.
I also try to introduce my own friends and relatives this way, but no one ever seems to take it as well as Gus.
I don’t know why, sometimes I even give them really cool nicknames like “Raptor Colossus”.
People are strange.
I mean, go ahead, you can give me a fake name–
I’ll rock it like Gus, I promise.
Here’s a sample of Shawn’s madness:
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What about you- are you a good name-r of things? Do you watch Psych and love it, too? Did you catch all the posts from Prompts for the Promptless this week? Check ‘em out!
- Mama Bear Musings – Running Gag Playlist
- Sue’s Trifles – Not Exactly a Running Gag
- Serendipity – Catch that Running Gag
- TheMatticusKingdom – Channel Surfing
- Julie Chicklitasaurus – Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me
- This Typing Makes Me Look Busy … – Bitches Love Ecards
- FishOfGold – FOG Easter Eggs
- Repressed Expressions – Working Gags
- One Starving Activist – The Running Gag
- Breathing Space – Arrested Development Running Gags
- AP Roberts – The Inside Jokes of Literature
