The Ludlum Challenge

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2012/08/robert_ludlum_tit...
 
The Challenge: To rename movies, plays, books or tv shows in the style of Robert Ludlum novels. For example: Take the definite pronoun + proper name + abstract noun. The Bourne Legacy, for example, or The Holcroft Covenant.
 
1. I Love Lucy: The Babaloo Obfuscation
2. Leave it to Beaver: The Cleaver Chronicles
3. M.A.S.H.: The Korean Operation
4. Citizen Kane: The Rosebud Imperative
5. The French Connection:  The Popeye Catharsis
6. Psycho: The Bates Hostility

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Comment by Michelle on August 23, 2012 at 2:37am

Made me smile.

Comment by Gita on August 22, 2012 at 6:35pm

True Grit: The Cogburn Intimation

Comment by Mike Handley on August 22, 2012 at 6:30pm

JAWS: The Teeth Redundant

Comment by Dude A Bydes on August 22, 2012 at 11:12am

The Big Lebowski: The Dude Abidance

Comment by Gita on August 22, 2012 at 9:58am

I just thought of two more:

All in the Family: The Bunker Pronouncement
The Tonight Show: The Carson Soporific
Comment by Teresa on August 22, 2012 at 7:14am

@Gita ~ Are you making fun of my hair?  Cough.

Comment by Robert Crisman on August 22, 2012 at 1:22am

The Cleaver Chronicles. I think Ludlum actually wrote that, didn't he? 

Comment by Jared Handley on August 21, 2012 at 11:42pm

I'm not going to be able to take part in this one for a lack of smartitude, but these are killer. Nice work.

Comment by Gita on August 21, 2012 at 11:18pm

@Teresa: see the link at the very top of this post for the original contest on Slate.

Comment by Teresa on August 21, 2012 at 10:16pm

What gave you this idea?  Cool.

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