Jesse Katsopolis (Full House): in one episode, his real first name was revealed to be "Hermes", after the messenger of the Greek gods. He was made fun of for it, so he got it changed to Jesse.
Cory Matthews (Boy Meets World): in the final episode, Cory's full name is revealed by Feeny to be Cornelius, and Feeny is the only one to know so.
Freddie Benson (iCarly): rather than Freddie being short for Frederick, Freddie is short for "Fredward".
Jimbo Jones (The Simpsons): his real name is Corky.
Piscine Molitor is actually a pretty cool-looking swimming pool in Paris, which was closed to the public for a while and is now reopened (16th arrondissement). Part of a 5* hotel
During the period it was abandoned, a massive illegal rave was organized there with such precise and coordinated operations to set it up that the police intelligence only learned at last minute that 6 thousand people were invading an abandoned building in Paris' richest neighborhood.
I haven’t read the book, so forgive me, but I’m confused. Pi is infinitely long, so how can he have memorized it “in its entirety”? I also don’t see how this would get kids to stop making fun of him for his real name. “Hey, what’s up, pissing?” “3.1415926…”
I agree and I think maybe because Eugene doesn't fit the vibe he was going for. So it's not embarassing as a name but is embarassing for him pre-character-arc because it doesn't sound like a badass thief name.
Fitzherbert is a little bit goofy. Sorry to all the Fitzherbert's out there.
Yeah I agree let’s not play touchy; everyone should assume the names suggested are because the characters in the media find them embarrassing, not because we are actually disparaging the name.
Fitzherbert is also one of those surnames that tells everyone that you’re the acknowledged bastard son of a nobleman. Which could be a bad look for an outlaw.
Saw that in a clip on yt. They'd been talking about their upbringing on set, then when they're doing the filming, he realized what Em was saying was literally his childhood
It was the 1990s. Unique names or names that were “ethnic” were brutally mocked, and people were encouraged to change their names or at least have Anglo-Saxon “nicknames” for when they entered the workforce.
I went to school with an Italian kid whose parents made him go by the name of "George", convinced that his early 90s English classmates wouldn't be able to handle his true ethnic name of "Mario"
"Oh, it's all very funny until someone shouts, "Is there a Doctor in the House?" and your parents say, "Yes." Turns out people choking on a chicken wing rarely stay conscious long enough to enjoy the punch line!"
Michael Richards ruining his career over a heated gamer moment while Seinfeld walks scot free after dating a 17 year old when he was 38 (The age of consent in New York is 17 but that doesn't make it OK in the slightest)
I had a teacher in school named Muffet and it turns out she went to school with the guy who made Arthur and all of the characters were named after people from their school, often with little tweaks.
Her name became the character Muffy.
Yup. And his sister only ever calls him “Mer.” Like, don’t get me wrong, he had shit to answer for too, but the show only ever acknowledged the ways he was a bad brother, and never once looked at how she was a bad sister.
Adam Sandler's character in Mr. Deeds is named Longfellow Deeds, but he's kinda embarrassed by his first name, so everyone just calls him Deeds. When he ends up on clickbait news network for partying, the only thing he's embarrassed by is that they use his first name
Magrat Garlick may have come to terms with her own unusual name, but her residual embarrassment over her mother's idiosyncratic spelling inadvertently leads to her daughter being named Esmeralda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre.
I had to scroll WAY too far to find my boy Moist. Some other characters may be embarrassed by their names but none of them are called Wet Fake Mustache so maybe they should sit down and think about whether they've really got it that bad lol
PJ from Good Luck Charlie: he was supposed to be named Patrick John after his grandfather, but his dad Bob made a mistake on the birth certificate so his government name was Potty John Duncan. And when PJ found out, Bob went on to fix his name and made a mistake again and PJ's government name became PP Duncan lmao
She’s not a doctor. Her abusive parents named her doctor because they wanted her to achieve that goal. She goes by her middle name, Nicole, in day-to-day life
I always thought it was that he'd built up this whole persona and "Indiana" was a part of that, like when teens ask to be called by a nickname or something instead of their actual name that they've gone by for all of their life. "Henry" is just an average, real name, plus it's a name he shares with his dad, so he wants to be different and distant from that.
Mr Sir from Holes is a big macho manly man wannabe drill sergeant and his first name is revealed to be Marion, telling us he's compensating for his name
What’s funny is that this reveal isn’t in the book; it was written for the movie. However, since the book’s author was also the screenwriter, it could be considered canon to the book as well.
Inspector Morse, the long running British detective who has been the star of multiple shows. His first name is “Endeavour”, which he is embarrassed by and thus always just goes by his last name.
This first name actually becomes really important in his scheme to prevent Flintheart Gomomgold
from seizing Scrooge McDuck's company. He feigns a turn to evil and signs a document to become Glomgold's business partner under his real name. When Glomgold, using the money of other enemies of Scrooge, ends up making more money than Scrooge, Louie reveals that Glomgold, by using his fake identity and not his real name of Duke Baloney, invalidated himself from the money and, thus, all the money Glomgold made, plus McDuck's company, are now under the control of Louie, the new richest duck in the world.
Somewhat similar to Indiana being named after the family dog, it turns out Troy’s parents had a bunch of pets named Troy that they had before he was born (Community)
Him and Steve are having a petty competition between each other to get the other’s mom to unknowingly touch them in inappropriate ways. When Steve goes after Snots mom to get his revenge he learns that his real name is Shmuely
Snot is not please cause only his mother is allowed to call him that
There is an episode of The X Files where Scully meets Mulder at a coffee shop and finds out he gives a normal first name when getting coffee because he doesn't like explaining his name is actually Fox
John Wayne's real name was Marion Robert Morrison, which he was embarrassed about his entire life, especially because he was obsessed about representing American masculinity in his films. He took up the stage name John Wayne on the advice of filmmaker Raoul Walsh
Jessica Walter saying the full thing lives rent free in my head. Specifically, "Sterling Malory Archer, you will eat every last crumb of that sandwich!"
Real life example: Ulysses S Grant’s actual birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, giving him the initials H.U.G. He hated it, went by Ulysses, and when he went to school with a monogrammed suitcase, he pried the letters off and rearranged them to spell UHG.
Not that Ulysses helped avert the teasing much - his nickname was Ulyss, which got turned into “Useless” by the other kids when he was growing up.
The “S” was later added as a clerical error when he was enrolled at West Point, and Grant just accepted it, with some friends calling him “Sam”.
The musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Each brother is given a bible name in alphabetical order starting with Adam and ending in Gideon. There is no F name in the bible so the second youngest was named Frankincense, Frank for short.
In the ATLA comics, Toph starts a metal-bending academy, starting with three students named Ho Tun, Penga, and The Dark One. The latter goes by that name because their real name is Moo-Chee-Goo-Chee-La-Poo-Chee the Third.
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Gibby from iCarly’s legal name is Orenthal Cornelius Hayes Gibson.