March 18: 3rd Rock from the Sun

My husband recently brought to my attention that almost every episode from all 6 seasons of 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996-2001) is named after popular works of media or well known idioms with one word replaced with "Dick", the name of the main character played by John Lithgow. Apparently, of 139 episodes of the series, 108 contain "Dick" in the title  This is a hilarious and amazing little factoid that made a wonderful Jeo-Party category that I used last night, and will use again and again in the future (which I named "Insert a Dick"). Some examples I've already used:

"Jailhouse Dick" (December 17, 1997 episode was named after "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley)

"A Nightmare on Dick Street" (May 18, 1997 episode named after "A Nightmare on Elm Street)

"Dick Soup for the Soul" (May 1, 2001 episode named after "Chicken Soup for the Soup")

"You Don't Know Dick" (February 13, 2001 episode named after "You Don't Know Jack")

"Much Ado About Dick" (October 13, 1996 episode named after "Much Ado About Nothing"... which I learned is a play on words with a near-homophone of the word "noting", something the characters do a lot of (checking each other out, falling in love/lust, infidelity, etc) and also a reference to the Elizabethan slang for "vagina", an "O-thing"!!!)

"What's Love Got to Do With Dick?" (October 28, 1998 episode named after "What's Love Got to Do With It?" by Tina Turner)

Here is a direct quote from the Wikipedia article: "While some of the episode titles with "Dick" in them are innocent (i.e., "Tom, Dick and Mary", "Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus"), others are more risque and often are double entendres (i.e., "Sensitive Dick", "A Dick Replacement", "Frozen Dick", "Shall We Dick"), because the word "Dick" is both a short form of Richard and a slang term for penis. One episode from season six used an abbreviation for a title, "B.D.O.C.", since the full title ("Big Dick on Campus") was deemed too risque."

Personally, I've haven't seen many episodes of the show, and the ones I've seen I didn't really like. But I delight in their clever episode titles that give me so much fodder for Jeo-Party.

With delight,

♥Jamie