Arnold Spielberg Puns

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I’ve always been fascinated by the names of the missions in Destroy All Humans!, (which in itself is likely a reference to the film Destroy All Monsters by Ishirō Honda) and while there are reference pages available online, they’re not as fulll as they probably should be, so I’ve tried to trace the source of the names of various missions. Some of these are guesswork, others are pretty obvious what they’re a reference to.

Kind of fascinating to see just how tenuous and obscure some of these references are.

#Turnipseed Farm

• Destination Earth: Reference to the film Destination Moon (1950) by Irving Pichel

#Rockwell

• Earth Women are Delicious: Reference to the film Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) by Julien Temple

• Citizen Crypto: Reference to the film Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles

• Teenage Zombies from Outer Space: Reference to the film Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) by Tom Graeff

#Santa Modesta

• Alien Pool Party: No reference.

• Televisions of Doom: Reference to the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) by Steven Spielberg

• Aliens Stole My Brain Stem: Reference to the record Aliens Ate My Buick (1998) by Thomas Dolby

• This Island Suburbia: Reference to the film This Island Earth (1955) by Joseph M. Newman & Jack Arnold

• South By Southwest: Reference to the film North By Northwest (1959) by Alfred Hitchcock

• Foreign Correspondent: Reference to the film Foreign Correspondent (1940) by Alfred Hitchcock

• Suburb of the Damned: Reference to the film Village of the Damned (1960) by Wolf Rilla

• It’s A Wonderful Armageddon: Reference to the film It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) by Frank Capra

#Area 42

• Whatever Happened to Crypto 136?: Reference to the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) by Robert Aldrich

• The Mutant Menace: Reference to the film Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) by George Lucas

• The Wrong Stuff: Reference to the film The Right Stuff (1983) by Philip Kaufman

• Duck and Cover: Reference to the civil defence information film Duck and Cover (1952) by Anthony Rizzo

#Union Town

• Furon Down!: Reference to the film Blackhawk Down (2001) by Ridley Scott.

• Armquist vs. The Furons: Reference to the film Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956) by Fred F. Sears

#Capitol City

• Mr. Crypto Goes to Capitol City: Reference to the film *Mr. Smith Goes t

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.