Irving Pichel Puns

I made a post the other day about the mission name references in the first Destroy All Humans! game, so I’ve decided to do the same for Destroy All Humans! 2.

As with the previous post, there are reference pages available not he internet, but they’re fairly incomplete, so I’ve decided to try and expand on them here.

I haven’t included any of the Ruin Lives, Assassination or Cult of Arkvoodle missions here as they don’t really have any references beyond one or two.

#Bay City

• Furon Loathing in Bay City: Is a reference to the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson and the film of the same name (1998) by Terry Gilliam.

• Where Have All The Flower Children Gone?: Is a reference to the song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” by Pete Seeger.

• They Shoot Hippies, Don’t They?: Is a reference to the film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) by Sydney Pollack.

• The Alien Who Probed Me: Is a reference to the film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) by Lewis Gilbert.

• The Guns of Alcatraz: Is a reference to the film The Guns of Navarone (1961) by J. Lee Thompson

#Albion

• No Pox, Please - We’re British!: Is a reference to the play No Sex Please, We’re British (1971) by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott and the film of the same name (1973) by Cliff Owen.

• La Femme Natalya: Is a reference to the film La Femme Nikita (1990) by Luck Besson.

• From Russia with Guns: Is a reference to the film From Russia with Love (1963) by Terence Young.

• The Majestic File: Is a reference to the film The Ipcress File (1965) by Sidney J. Furie.

• On Natalya’s Secret Service: Is a reference to the film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) by Peter R. Hunt.

#Takoshima

• Takoshima Story: Is a reference to the film Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujirō Ozu.

• Revenge of the Ninja: Is a reference to the film Revenge of the Ninja (1983) by Sam Firstenberg.

• Dr. Go!: Is a reference to the film Dr. No (1962) by Terence Young.

• Our Man Crypto: Is a reference to the film Our Man Flint (1966) by Daniel Mann.

• You Only Live 137 Times: Is a reference to the film You Only Live Twice (1967) by Lewis Gilbert.

• Kojira Kaiju Battle: No reference.

#Tunguska

• Back in the USSR: Is a reference to the song “Back in the USSR

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

All airtimes E.S.T.

MON 01

(12:00am) As the Earth Turns (1938/46 m/Director/Richard Lyford)

(1:00am) Metropolis (1926/2h 33m/Silent/Fritz Lang)

(3:45am) Vampyr (1932/1h 23m/Horror/Carl Th. Dreyer)

(5:15am) Häxan (1922/1h 46m/Silent/Benjamin Christensen)

(7:15am) Good News (1947/1h 35m/Musical/Charles Walters)

(9:00am) Over the Goal (1937/1h 3m/Drama/Noel M. Smith)

(10:15am) Hold 'Em Jail (1932/1h 13m/Comedy/Norman Taurog)

(11:30am) College Coach (1933/1h 15m/Comedy/William A. Wellman)

(1:00pm) Trouble Along the Way (1953/1h 50m/Comedy/Michael Curtiz)

(3:00pm) How to Watch Football (1938/9m/Short/Roy Rowland)

(3:15pm) The Iron Major (1943/1h 25m/Drama/Ray Enright)

(4:45pm) Cowboy Quarterback (1939/56m/Comedy/Noel Smith)

(6:00pm Jim Thorpe--All-American (1951/1h 47m/Drama/Michael Curtiza)

(8:00pm) Small Town Girl (1953/1h 33m/Musical/Leslie Kardos)

(10:00pm) Fame (1980/2h 14m/Musical/Alan Parker)

TUE 02

(12:30am) West Side Story (1961/2h 35m/Musical/Robert Wise)

(3:15am) That's Dancing! (1985/1h 45m/Documentary/Jack Haley, Jr.)

(5:15am) MGM Parade Show #21 (1955/25m/Documentary/?)

(6:00am) Reno (1940/1h 12m/Western/John Farrow)

(7:30am) Peach-O-Reno (1932/1h 3m/Comedy/William A. Seiter)

(9:00am) Merry Wives of Reno (1934/1h 4m/Comedy/H. Bruce Humberstone)

(10:15am) Vacation in Reno (1946/1h/Comedy/Leslie Goodwins)

(11:30am) Maisie Goes to Reno (1944/1h 30m/Comedy/Harry Beaumont)

(1:15pm) The Women (1939/2h 12m/Comedy/George Cukor)

(3:45pm) Romantic Nevada (1943/8m/Short/?)

(4:00pm) Born to Kill (1947/1h 32m/Crime/Robert Wise)

(5:45pm) The Misfits (1961/2h 4m/Drama/John Huston)

(8:00pm) Ashes and Diamonds (1958/1h 46m/War/Andrzej Wajda)

(10:00pm) Something Different (1963/1h 25m/Drama/Vera Chytilová(

(11:30pm) Loves of a Blonde (1966/1h 28m/Comedy/Milos Forman)

TUE 03

(1:15am) Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970/1h 13m/Adventure/Jaromil Jireš)

(2:45am) Young Törless (1966/1h 25m/Drama/Volker Schlöndorff)

(4:15am) Love Is Colder Than Death (1969/1h 28m/Comedy/Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

(6:00am) Alice in the Cities

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.

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.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

[Removed]

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

(all times E.S.T.)

(TUE JUN 01)

(12:00am) The Enemy Below (1957/1h 38m/Dick Powell) (drama)

(1:45am) Battle of the Bulge (1965/2h 43m/Ken Annakin) (drama)

(4:45am) War Nurse (1930/1h 20m/Edgar Selwyn) (drama)

(6:15am) Trog (1970/1h 33m/Freddie Francis) (horror)

(8:00am) The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962/1h 21m/Joseph Green) (horror)

(9:30am) Queen Of Outer Space (1958/1h 20m/Edward Bernds) (sci-fi)

(11:00am) Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963/1h 25m/Pietro Francisci) (adventure)

(12:30pm) The Prodigal (1955/1h 54m/Richard Thorpe) (drama)

(2:30pm) Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958/1h 5m/Nathan Hertz) (horror)

(3:45pm) Dead Ringer (1964/1h 55m/Paul Henreid) (drama)

(5:45pm) The Bad Seed (1956/2h 9m/Mervyn Le Roy) (horror)

(8:00pm) The Band Wagon (1953/1h 52m/Vincente Minnelli) (comedy)

(10:15pm) Brigadoon (1954/1h 48m/Vincente Minnelli) (romance)

(WED JUN 02)

(12:30am) Meet Me In Las Vegas (1956/1h 52m/Roy Rowland) (comedy)

(2:45am) Fiesta (1947/1h 44m/Richard Thorpe) (comedy)

(4:45am) The Kissing Bandit (1949/1h 42m/Laslo Benedek) (comedy)

(6:45am) Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966/1h 27m/Jun Fukuda) (horror)

(8:15am) Creature From The Haunted Sea (1961/1h 0m/Roger Corman) (horror)

(9:30am) The Sea Bat (1930/1h 7m/Wesley Ruggles) (horror)

(10:45am) Doctor X (1932/1h 16m/Michael Curtiz) (horror)

(12:15pm) Tormented (1960/1h 15m/Bert. I. Gordon) (horror)

(1:45pm) The Pack (1977/1h 30m/Robert Clouse) (horror)

(3:30pm) Summer Of ‘42 (1971/1h 42m/Robert Mulligan) (romance)

(5:15pm) Death Curse Of Tartu (1966/1h 28m/William Grefé) (horror)

(6:45pm) Bloodlust (1961/1h 8m/Ralph Brooke) (horror)

(8:00pm) The Gold Rush (1925/2h 0m/Charles Chaplin) (comedy)

(9:45pm) The Music Box (1932/0h 29m/James Parrott) (comedy)

(10:30pm) Lassie Come Home (1943/1h 28m/Fred M. Wilcox) (adventure)

(THU JUN 03)

(12:15am) Sounder (1972/1h 45m/Martin Ritt) (drama)

(2:15am) Road To Bali (1953/1h 30m/Hal Walker) (comedy)

(4:00am) The Road To Hong Kong (1962/1h 31m/Norman Panama) (comedy)

(6:00am) Before Dawn (1933/1h 0m/Irving Pichel) (mystery)

(7:15am) While The Patient Slept (1935/1h 5m/Ray Enri

(all times E.S.T.)

THU JUL 01

(12:30am) The Ambassador's Daughter (1956/1h 43m/Comedy/Norman Krasna)

(2:30am) In This Our Life (1942/1h 37m/Drama/John Huston)

(4:15am) Dodge City (1939/1h 45m/Western/Michael Curtiz)

(6:00am) Friendly Persuasion (1956/2h 17m/Drama/William Wyler)

(8:30am) Jezebel (1938/1h 44m/Drama/William Wyler)

(10:30am) The Letter (1940/1h 37m/Drama/William Wyler)

(12:15pm) The Little Foxes (1941/1h 56m/Drama/William Wyler)

(2:45pm) Mrs. Miniver (1942/2h 14m/War/ William Wyler)

(5:00pm) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946/2h 52m/Drama/William Wyler)

(8:00pm) Kissin' Cousins (1964/1h 36m/Musical/Gene Nelson)

(10:00pm) Double Trouble (1967/1h 30m/Musical/Norman Taurog)

FRI JUL 02

(12:00am) Clambake (1967/1h 40m/Musical/Arthur H. Nadel)

(2:00am) Live a Little, Love a Little (1968/1h 30m/Musical/Norman Taurog)

(4:00am) Cash McCall (1960/1h 42m/Romance/Joseph Pevney)

(6:00am) The Mayor of 44th Street (1942/1h 26m/Musical/Alfred E. Green)

(7:30am) Youth Runs Wild (1944/1h 7m/Drama/Mark Robson)

(8:45am) Boys Town (1938/1h 36m/Drama/Norman Taurog)

(10:30am) Boys' Ranch (1946/1h 37m/Western/Roy Rowland)

(12:15pm) Boy Slaves (1939/1h 12m/Drama/P. J. Wolfson)

(1:30pm) Crime School (1938/1h 26m/Drama/Lewis Seiler)

(3:15pm) Finishing School (1934/1h 13m/Drama/Wanda Tuchock)

(4:45pm) Delinquent Daughters (1944/1h 12m/Drama/Albert Herman)

(6:00pm) The Trouble With Angels (1966/1h 52m/Comedy/Ida Lupino)

(8:00pm) Harper (1966/2h 1m/Neo-Noir/Jack Smight)

(10:15pm) Point Blank (1967/1h 32m/Neo-Noir/John Boorman)

SAT JUL 03

(12:00am) Warning Shot (1967/1h 40m/Neo-Noir/Buzz Kulik)

(2:00am) What's the Matter with Helen? (1971/1h 41m/Horror/Curtis Harrington)

(3:45am) Fragment of Seeking (1946/0h 14min/Drama Short/Curtis Harrington)

(4:05am) Picnic (1949/0h 22m/Drama Short/Curtis Harrington)

(4:25am) On the Edge (1949/0h 6m/Drama Short/Curtis Harrington)

(4:45am) The Assignation (1953/0h 8m/Drama Short/Curtis Harrington)

(5:05am) The Wormwood Star (1956/0h 10m/Documentary Short/Curtis Harrington)

(5:40am) Usher (2000/0h 40m/Horror Short/Curtis Harrington)

(6:00am) Dream Wife (1953/1h 41m/Comedy/Sidney Sheldon)

(

All Airtimes EST)

(SAT MAY 1)

(12:30am) Vertigo (1958/2h 8m/Alfred Hitchcock) (drama)

(2:45am) Victor/Victoria (1982/2h 14/Blake Edwards) (comedy)

(5:15am) Wait Until Dark (1967/1h 48m/Terence Young) (thriller)

(7:15am) Watch On The Rhine (1943/1h 54m/Herman Shumlin) (drama)

(9:15am) Waterloo Bridge (1940/1h 43m/Mervyn Le Roy) (drama)

(11:15am) Weary River (1929/1h 29m/Frank Lloyd) (musical)

(1:00pm) What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962/2h 12m/Robert Aldrich) (drama)

(3:30pm) The White Cliffs Of Dover (1944/2h 6m/Clarence Brown) (romance)

(6:00pm) White Heat (1949/1h 54m/Raoul Walsh) (drama)

(8:00pm) The Wizard of Oz (1939/1h 41m/Victor Fleming) (fantasy)

(10:00pm) Wuthering Heights (1939/1h 43m/William Wyler) (romance)

(SUN MAY 2)

(12:00am) The Year of Living Dangerously (1982/1h 55m/Peter Weir) (drama)

(2:15am) The Yearling (1946/2h 14m/Clarence Brown) (drama)

(4:30am) Z (1969/2h 5m/Costa-Gavras) (drama)

(6:45am) Mrs. Miniver (1942/2h 14m/William Wyler) (drama)

(9:15am) The Smiling Lieutenant (1931/1h 42m/Ernst Lubitsch) (comedy)

(11:00am) Dear Heart (1964/1h 54m/Delbert Mann) (comedy)

(1:00pm) Oliver! (1968/2h 33m/Carol Reed) (musical)

(3:45pm) Gigi (1958/1h 56m/Vincente Minnelli) (romance)

(6:00pm) Woman of the Year (1942/1h 52m/George Stevens) (comedy)

(8:00pm) Pather Panchali (1958/1h 55m/Satyajit Ray) (drama)

(10:15pm) Aparajito (1956/1h 53m/Satyajit Ray) (drama)

(Mon MAY 03)

(12:15am) The World Of Apu (1959/1h 46m/Satyajit Ray) (drama)

(2:15am) The Big City (1963/2h 11m/Satyajit Ray) (comedy)

(4:45am) The Lonely Wife (1965/1h 57m/Satyajit Ray) (romance)

(7:00am) The Music Room (1958/1h 40m/Satyajit Ray) (drama)

(8:45am) Devi (1960/1h 33m/Satyajit Ray) (drama)

(10:30am) The Coward (1965/1h 14m/Satyajit Ray) (drama)

(11:45am) Three Daughters: The Postmaster (1961/

(12:30pm) Three Daughters: Monihara (1961/

(1:30pm) Three Daughters: Samapti (1961/this plus the previous two listings = 1h 54m/Satyajit Ray) (drama)

(2:45pm) The Holy Man (1965/1h 5m/Satyajit Ray) (comedy)

(4:00pm) An Enemy of the People (1989/1h 40m/S

One actor. 24 hours of films featuring him/her.

(all times E.S.T.)

SUN AUG 01 (BETTE DAVIS Day as of 6:00am)

(12:30am) Hollow Triumph (1948/1h 23m/Crime/Steve Sekely)

(2:15am) Secrets & Lies (1996/2h 22m/Drama/Mike Leigh)

(4:45am) The Secret Bride (1935/1h 16m/Drama/William Dieterle)

(6:00am) Marked Woman (1937/1h 36m/Drama/Lloyd Bacon)

(8:00am) Winter Meeting (1948/1h 44m/Drama/Bretaigne Windust)

(10:00am) The Corn Is Green (1945/1h 54m/Drama/Irving Rapper)

(12:00pm) The Old Maid (1939/1h 35m/Drama/Edmund Goulding)

(1:45pm) A Stolen Life (1946/1h 47m/Romance/Curtis Bernhardt)

(3:45pm) Pocketful of Miracles (1961/2h 16m/Comedy/Frank Capra)

(6:15pm) The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941/1h 32m/Comedy/William Keighley)

(8:00pm) Jezebel (1938/1h 44m/Drama/William Wyler)

(10:00pm) All This, and Heaven Too (1940/2h 23m/Romance/Anatole Litvak)

MON AUG 02 (RICHARD BURTON Day as of 6:00am)

(12:30am) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962/2h 12m/Horror/Robert Aldrich)

(3:00am) The Star (1953/1h 29m/Drama/Stuart Heisler)

(4:45am) Satan Met a Lady (1936/1h 15m/Suspense/Mystery/William Dieterle)

(6:00am) Villain (1971/1h 40m/Crime/Michael Tuchner)

(7:45am) Look Back in Anger (1959/1h 55m/Drama/Tony Richardson)

(9:45am) Alexander the Great (1956/2h 21m/Epic/Robert Rossen)

(12:30pm) The Comedians (1967/2h 40m/Drama/Peter Glenville)

(3:15pm) The Sandpiper (1965/1h 56m/Romance/Vincente Minnelli)

(5:15pm) Where Eagles Dare (1968/2h 38m/War/Brian G. Hutton)

(8:00pm) Anne of the Thousand Days (1969/2h 26m/Drama/Charles Jarrott)

(10:45pm) The Taming of the Shrew (1967/2h 2m/Comedy/Franco Zeffirelli)

TUE AUG 03 (KIM NOVAK Day as of 6:00am)

(1:00am) The Night of the Iguana (1964/2h 5m/Drama/John Huston)

(3:15am) Equus (1977/2h 17m/Drama/Sidney Lumet)

(6:00am) The Great Bank Robbery (1969/1h 37m/Comedy/Hy Averback)

(7:45am) Of Human Bondage (1964/1h 38m/Drama/Ken Hughes)

(9:30am) Boys' Night Out (1962/1h 55m/Comedy/Michael Gordon)

(11:30am) Kiss Me, Stupid (1964/2h 6m/Comedy/Billy Wilder)

(1:45pm) The Notorious Landlady (1962/2h 3m/Comedy/Richard Quine)

(4:00pm) **The M