What to name this podcast?
May 23, 2013 8:48 PM Subscribe
My friend and I are recording the first episode of our podcast tomorrow. What we need now is a name.
My friend is a genderqueer history major/gender studies minor who once reenacted the first episode of Gilmore Girls for me while drunk. I am a cisgender female English major bookish-type who is becoming progressively more radical in my feminism as I age. We are both voracious and eclectic TV watchers and want to use our brains/liberal arts degrees on a project that discusses gender and sexuality in television. Each episode we plan to focus on a show, writer, actor, trope, theme, etc. Our first episode will be on Lady Friendships, primarily in the show Community.
We find ourselves entirely stymied by the issue of a name. We're looking for something pithy and meaningful that signals what our show is about. It can be funny or silly or a reference but I'm really not a fan of puns. So, Metafilter - what should we call ourselves?
My friend is a genderqueer history major/gender studies minor who once reenacted the first episode of Gilmore Girls for me while drunk. I am a cisgender female English major bookish-type who is becoming progressively more radical in my feminism as I age. We are both voracious and eclectic TV watchers and want to use our brains/liberal arts degrees on a project that discusses gender and sexuality in television. Each episode we plan to focus on a show, writer, actor, trope, theme, etc. Our first episode will be on Lady Friendships, primarily in the show Community.
We find ourselves entirely stymied by the issue of a name. We're looking for something pithy and meaningful that signals what our show is about. It can be funny or silly or a reference but I'm really not a fan of puns. So, Metafilter - what should we call ourselves?
First Name Basis
True Companions
Double Standard(s)
posted by carmicha at 9:16 PM on May 23, 2013 [1 favorite]
True Companions
Double Standard(s)
posted by carmicha at 9:16 PM on May 23, 2013 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Broadcast Spectra--'cause sexuality isn't on one spectrum but many
What St. Clare Saw--patron saint of television, St. Clare was the first woman to write the Rules of Order for a Catholic monastic order
F-Type--common connector for antenna and cable signals in North America
Sex Megahertz--the bandwidth of an NTSC standard-def channel was 6 MHz
Blanking Interval--the part of the video signal that isn't displayed on-screen but instead starts the next line in the sequence
Residual Carrier--the noise floor of a video signal includes a bit of the carrier wave, which reduces the contrast and fidelity of the output image to the input image, and that's kind of a microcosm of how societal institutions deform individual interactions
posted by infinitewindow at 9:20 PM on May 23, 2013 [1 favorite]
What St. Clare Saw--patron saint of television, St. Clare was the first woman to write the Rules of Order for a Catholic monastic order
F-Type--common connector for antenna and cable signals in North America
Sex Megahertz--the bandwidth of an NTSC standard-def channel was 6 MHz
Blanking Interval--the part of the video signal that isn't displayed on-screen but instead starts the next line in the sequence
Residual Carrier--the noise floor of a video signal includes a bit of the carrier wave, which reduces the contrast and fidelity of the output image to the input image, and that's kind of a microcosm of how societal institutions deform individual interactions
posted by infinitewindow at 9:20 PM on May 23, 2013 [1 favorite]
The TV Show Show
The Televisual Mystique
Gender PerformaTVty
posted by Monsieur Caution at 9:34 PM on May 23, 2013
The Televisual Mystique
Gender PerformaTVty
posted by Monsieur Caution at 9:34 PM on May 23, 2013
Mentalvision
posted by El Sabor Asiatico at 9:53 PM on May 23, 2013
posted by El Sabor Asiatico at 9:53 PM on May 23, 2013
Scratch that. Been done. Lots of google results.
posted by trip and a half at 10:37 PM on May 23, 2013
How about:
Why XX
Down Under with Rabbitbookworm & Friend
Hades' Ladies
Tube Tops
posted by enzymatic at 10:42 PM on May 23, 2013
Why XX
Down Under with Rabbitbookworm & Friend
Hades' Ladies
Tube Tops
posted by enzymatic at 10:42 PM on May 23, 2013
Response by poster: Just a note: we'd like to avoid names that imply that we are both female, as my friend does not identify as such.
posted by rabbitbookworm at 10:53 PM on May 23, 2013
posted by rabbitbookworm at 10:53 PM on May 23, 2013
show, writer, actor, trope, theme, etc.
The acronym of that is SWATT etc.
I like it .
posted by MT at 11:06 PM on May 23, 2013
The acronym of that is SWATT etc.
I like it .
posted by MT at 11:06 PM on May 23, 2013
Our Eyes Are Up Here
posted by BitterOldPunk at 3:47 AM on May 24, 2013
posted by BitterOldPunk at 3:47 AM on May 24, 2013
Standards and Practices (perhaps preceded by "Television" or "Broadcast")
Satellite Dish
Antenna
Screen Door
posted by carmicha at 4:57 AM on May 24, 2013
Satellite Dish
Antenna
Screen Door
posted by carmicha at 4:57 AM on May 24, 2013
Genderally Speaking
posted by MexicanYenta at 6:16 AM on May 24, 2013
posted by MexicanYenta at 6:16 AM on May 24, 2013
Which name did you go with? Can we listen?
posted by infinitewindow at 10:28 PM on November 29, 2013
posted by infinitewindow at 10:28 PM on November 29, 2013
Mod note: Final update from the OP:
Sorry for the extremely delayed update, but my friend and I landed on "Screen Burn" for our podcast name. You can listen to all our episodes here.posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:24 PM on February 8, 2015
Thanks for your help! We live across the country from each other now but we try to update when we're reunited.
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A Podcast Called Barney.
posted by Jimbob at 8:59 PM on May 23, 2013