Film Rise segment titles...

[ghosthouse]

What are they doing with some of these?

Larry's Last Race
Doggie Bowser MD
Tara! Tara! Tara!
Slain Swain
Donna on Fire
Hoochie Coochie
Hero Molester
She Sold Babies
Orthodox Jew
Platinum Pilfer

I am guessing Tara! Tara! Tara! is a take on Tora! Tora! Tora!....a movie about Pearl Harbor so I not quite connecting those dots? Although, Doggie Bowser MD is kind of funny I'll give them that.

[omegadoom]

I don't care for the stupid nick names they give the segments. The David Davis segment is called "Thumbs", because of his deformed thumbs. That little bit of information was mentioned in the original segment but was removed from the Filmrise release, making the title irrelevant.

It would be a whole lot easier if they would just list them by the persons name.

[Todd Mueller]

Originally Posted by omegadoom

I don't care for the stupid nick names they give the segments. The David Davis segment is called "Thumbs", because of his deformed thumbs. That little bit of information was mentioned in the original segment but was removed from the Filmrise release, making the title irrelevant.

It would be a whole lot easier if they would just list them by the persons name.

I totally agree! It's like they hired a couple of middle school kids to come up with the names. I don't think it's cute, and in some cases it's downright insulting to the victims and their families.

Why not just use the real names or a generic description?

[Jon]

This is a bit on an unsolved mystery. I've noticed these on Amazon as well. My theory: the segment titles were intended for the team who produced the show to reference internally. I say that because I can't remember any segment descriptions in TV Guide, newspapers, etc. (or wherever we got tv listings in the 1980s and 1990s).

When they sold UM streaming rights, they suddenly needed segment names...but where would you get them...Probably from whatever internal materials you still had.

For example: The segment name "Thumbs" sounds like a way of remembering that segment with a reference everyone understands. The UM crew probably liked calling him that when they actually produced the segment. It seems unlikely a marketing team who are actually promoting the show would have come up with that segment name.

[ghosthouse]

Originally Posted by Jon

This is a bit on an unsolved mystery. I've noticed these on Amazon as well. My theory: the segment titles were intended for the team who produced the show to reference internally. I say that because I can't remember any segment descriptions in TV Guide, newspapers, etc. (or wherever we got tv listings in the 1980s and 1990s).

When they sold UM streaming rights, they suddenly needed segment names...but where would you get them...Probably from whatever internal materials you still had.

For example: The segment name "Thumbs" sounds like a way of remembering that segment with a reference everyone understands. The UM crew probably liked calling him that when they actually produced the segment. It seems unlikely a marketing team who are actually promoting the show would have come up with that segment name.

Sounds plausible.

[xxxxmattxxxx69]

Wasn't the Kenneth Engie segment called totally exhausted or something to that effect?

[LooksLikeCRicci]

I'm with you folks. I"d rather they just named the segment after the person instead of being all cutesy with the names....

[Jon]

Now that I think of it, the most likely explanation for this is these are simply the names on the scripts. Each segment would have one for Stack’s narration and the dramatizations.

[drew790]

Originally Posted by Jon

This is a bit on an unsolved mystery. I've noticed these on Amazon as well. My theory: the segment titles were intended for the team who produced the show to reference internally. I say that because I can't remember any segment descriptions in TV Guide, newspapers, etc. (or wherever we got tv listings in the 1980s and 1990s).

When they sold UM streaming rights, they suddenly needed segment names...but where would you get them...Probably from whatever internal materials you still had.

For example: The segment name "Thumbs" sounds like a way of remembering that segment with a reference everyone understands. The UM crew probably liked calling him that when they actually produced the segment. It seems unlikely a marketing team who are actually promoting the show would have come up with that segment name.

The segments that were named on the DVD releases kept their same names in the FilmRise version too (or at least a few of them did, I never went deep to see if all of them did) so that theory would track.

[omegadoom]

Originally Posted by drew790

The segments that were named on the DVD releases kept their same names in the FilmRise version too (or at least a few of them did, I never went deep to see if all of them did) so that theory would track.

I've noticed that some of the labels on the soundtrack DAT tapes also had the same nick name as the Filmrise release.

[KarenFilippelli]

A lot of these titles also appeared in a press kit...

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards...d.php?t=277031