The Name Game: 150 Barrier BROKEN!

Production has slowed down in The Name Game. That's OK. I had a slow week, too.

Of course, it's hard to compete with a week like last's, and it might well be that the trough is close to empty. Let's take a look.

Janice came up with Jed from the Beverly Hillbillies. I miss the days when TV shows had words to their theme songs. Especially when those songs described the whole situation of the sit-com that followed, unlike the weanie kind of theme songs from shows like Family Ties and Golden Girls. "Thank you for being a friend?" Sure. You're welcome. Now will you please explain to be why these 4 broads are living together in a Florida Dream House?

Amanda hit the cartoon well and gave us:

Tyrone
Austin
Pablo, all from The Backyardigans--a show that even I don't mind watching.

Diego, who needs no explanation. He's like the hotty of the kid cartoon world.

Franklin, who is a nerdy turtle. LOVE that kid!

Tuck
Ollie, from Wonderpets, which I've never seen, but I totally take Amanda's word for it. We do already have Oliver on the list, but I don't think Ollie is always a derivative of Oliver.

Laurie, who gave play by play postings on my surgery, made an oral submission: Cletus. I don't remember which song it's from, but therein lies the danger of oral submissions.

Finally, last week, I did not include "Luka," as submitted by Nick, because I thought it was a girl's name, describing a battered woman. Why did I think this? Because it's sung by Suzanna Vega, and she starts the song, "My name is Luka, I live on the second floor. . ." and that was always enough for me to reach the conclusion I reached.

Turns out I was far too hasty.

Nick writes:

"Considering that Luka is a boys' name (although that is not dispositive -- in "Nikita" by Elton John -- Nikita seems to be girl -- though considering it's Elton, who knows?), I stand by my belief that "Luka" is about a boy that is being abused. I thought the music video was pretty clear on this point. But a quick youtube viewing (admittedly cursory) reveals this to be more ambiguous than I remembered. Is Suzanne singing about herself or the boy in video? Neither one has bruises. But I think it's the boy that lives upstairs -- not the singer. By the way, that boy grew up to be Meadow's boyfriend in the first season of The Sopranos. (Thanks IMDB!)"

Extra points for using the word "dispositive," Nick!

Amanda confirms his point in the comments section, the song is about a boy.

But, honestly, who knew that Luka was a boy's name to begin with?

So Luka is in.

This gives us, for this week:

Jed
Tyrone
Austin
Pablo
Diego
Franklin
Tuck
Ollie
Cletus
Luka

10 Names! That's pretty good. Tough that it falls in the shadow of last week's gargantuan 60+ total, but a solid performance none-the-less.

Our grand total is now:

1. Abie
2. Adam
3. Al (taken as different from Albert, because it might be short for Alan)
4. Albert
5. Alex
6. Amadeus
7. Andy
8. Anthony
9. Austin
10. Ben(nie)
11. Bernie
12. Bill(y)
13. Bob(by)
14. Brady
15. Branigan
16. Brian
17. Buddy
18. Cadigan
19. Cain
20. Casper
21. Charles(Charlie)
22. Chester
23. Chris
24. Cletus
25. Connely
26. Daniel
27. Davy
28. Dean
29. Diego
30. Donnely
31. Dooley
32. Duffy
33. Duke
34. Earl
35. Eddie
36. Eli
37. ElRoy
38. Elvis
39. Ezekiel
40. Felix
41. Fernando
42. Flanahan
43. Flannigan
44. Flynn
45. Fogarty
46. Frank
47. Franklin
48. Fred
49. Gabriel
50. Galileo
51. Gene
52. George
53. Gilligan
54. Gus
55. Hagen
56. Harry
57. Henry
58. Hogarty
59. Jack
60. Jed
61. Jeremiah
62. Jeremy
63. Jerry
64. Jessie
65. Jesus
66. Jim/James
67. Joey
68. John(ny)
69. Jonas
70. Jose
71. Juan
72. Jude
73. Julio
74. Kelly
75. Kenneth
76. Lafferty
77. Lanahan
78. Lawrence
79. Lazarus
80. Lee
81. Lenny
82. Leonard
83. Leonid
84. Leroy
85. Lester
86. Levon
87. Lloyd
88. Louie
89. Luka
90. Luke
91. Madigan
92. MaGinn
93. Mahone
94. Malachy
95. Malcolm
96. Malone
97. Manahan
98. Manny
99. Marciano
100. Marty
101. Marvin
102. Maurice
103. Max
104. McGuffy
105. McGuinness
106. Michael
107. Micky
108. Milligan
109. Monty
110. Moses
111. Muldowney
112. Napoleon
113. O'Fagan
114. O'Hooley
115. O'Houlihan
116. O'Kelly
117. Ollie (perhaps not always a derivative of Oliver)
118. Oliver
119. Pablo
120. Paul
121. Peter
122. Pherb
123. Phinnas
124. Rafferty
125. Rasputin
126. Rene
127. Richard
128. Ricky
129. Rico
130. Robin
131. Roland
132. Romeo
133. Ronnie
134. Roy
135. Sam
136. Shanahan
137. Silas
138. Stan
139. Sue
140. Thomson
141. Tim
142. Tom(my)
143. Tony
144. Tuck
145. Ulysses
146. Victor
147. Vincent
148. Walter
149. Wayne
150. Whelan
151. Willie
152. Wyatt

We've broken the 150 threshold! Can you feel this vehicle starting to shutter from the sheer force of our achievement???

Will we crack 200??