Rename: Biggus Dickus

For those who have seen Monty Python's Life of Brian (the trope namer), this is a misleading trope name. In the movie, it's not about anyone with an overly large... anatomical feature... it's just about a guy with a funny name. (Er, I mean, there's nothing funny at all about the name Biggus Dickus)

I don't know what to change it to, but I think it should certainly be changed to something else.

While I disagree that the title should be about people with silly names, it could probably stand a rename to something like Third Leg Syndrome

Why? It's entirely obvious it's about people with massive cocks. A joke name index (don't ask me why) I'd expect to have a name like Ramsbottom in it's title. I don't think joke names when I think of it, I think of big cocks.

edited 19th Mar '10 3:36:57 PM by TheOneWhoTropes

I have seen Life of Brian, and I still thought it was about big dicks. I think you might be overstating the problem.

I do like Third Leg Syndrome, though. Mainly because I am secretly a 12-year-old boy, and jokes about tripods amuse me.

Third Leg Syndrome is closer to funny than the current title.

Third Leg Syndrome.

The name here actually working better for those who don't understand the trope namer is a bizarre but not unwelcome turn of events. However I do like Third Leg Syndrome a lot!

I realize I'm probably an extreme minority, but Third Leg Syndrome makes me think of something completely unrelated. Biggus Dickus, however, is completely straight forward.

Another vote for the current name. Normally I go for Rule of Funny, but Third Leg Syndrome isn't doing it for me. Ahem.

I'd probably have voted for Third Leg Syndrome over Biggus Dickus in a YKKTW, but there's no problem with the current name that requires a change.

It's at least good for a redirect. I'll do that.

Third Leg Syndrome is a bit too "phantom limb" for me. I'd try for some sort of play on words stemming from Hung Low.

"Happy to see me"?

edited 19th Mar '10 7:01:38 AM by IdiomSavant

That's a bit too obscure, considering that that joke is about erections, not necessarily about big penises.

Better put in a word here as I was the troper who proposed the trope and decided to launch with this title.

I support a rename. This trope is "big dicks equal better sex" and the title only gets the first half of that across. The only reason I went with it was because it had wide support, no other suggestions, and this was a trope stuck in purgatory. As in, it had been proposed before and not launched in spite of over a hundred replies and if I didn't launch it then there's a good chance we still wouldn't have it.

So, take that for what you will. I don't feel especially strongly that this needs a rename, but I would support one to a title that clearly implies the "better sex" part of this trope.

Size Matters?

Size Does Matter?

That dredges up unpleasant memories of the 1998 Godzilla remake.

I think Size Does Matter would pretty much cover it.

Size Does Matter. Clear and concise.

Not for me. Why?

It was the tagline.

I'm fairly sure that more people have heard the "size doesn't matter" saying than have seen the Godzilla remake.

^ Yeah. Or than remember that it was used as the tagline.