Realization of the day

[gilana]

The best way I can come up with to pronounce YCTIWY (You Can't Take It With You) is "Yuck ptooey". (The P is silent).

Comments

[foldedfish.livejournal.com]

There's also "yoo kant tayke it with yoo".

[gilana]

Darn, now why didn't I think of that!

[lordfeepness.livejournal.com]

We on the production team have been referring to it as "CTI" for that exact reason. Plus it sounds like a Jerry Bruckheimer TV show!

[spatch]

"There's candy residue on this subversive literature."
"Lab says it's Love Dreams."
"Let's go."

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

YWITCY, pronounced Yuh-wit-see. But then you have to do the show backwards.

[quilla.livejournal.com]

You Can't Take It? Can't Take It? ooh, i like CTI. maybe the title of the show is trying to tell you something: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU AND MAKE IT SHORT.

oh but yuck ptooey is rather clever.

were we in Meet-Kuh together then? i liked "Murder" though. it was so deliciously vaguely grim.

[gilana]

I know, I love the fact that we did Murder together!

The problem with You Can't Take it With You is that no subset of the words seems to make sense. You Can't? Take It? Can't Take? I dunno, none of them feel right. But CTI works for me. Although there may be some days when it's just got to be yuck ptooey...

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

We were having trouble in class today with shortening the title "The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things" (quite a decent book, actually).

[bex77]

We did have a fun discussion about what to call it and how to abbreviate it...had to get the important decisions made early!

Looking at other shows' examples didn't help.

First word - Murder - You? Nope.
First two words - Merry Wives - You Can't? Sorry...no.
Last word - Splash - still You. Still nope.
Last two words - Charlie Brown - With you...not so great.

The anagrams are worse.

YCTIWY. You've discovered the lack of poetry on that one. It looks like a carton swear word to me, and let's face it, it is just too long and complicated for me to type!

Our esteemed producer suggested TIWY, pronounced tee-wee...from Take It With You, but we already know you can't take it with you...and it sounded like a Southern lady's euphemism for what happens in the ladies' room. Just too twee for me!

The delightful director said he'd worked on the show before, so I asked him what they called it.
He said "Can't Take It" which I don't especially care for...but that produced CTI! Which does have a trendy TV show sound and is short to type...so there we are!

Only time will tell if this will actually catch on.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

When I worked on this show, we just referred to "Can't Take It," which came, over the course of the production, to have somewhat of a double meaning.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

I pronounce it:

yick tea wuh

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I just want to pronounce it at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just glad the p is silent and not the T... ;)

Cdk

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

Howabout "The Kaufman & Hart Play"?

[gilana]

But that's still six syllables and/or a lot to type. The whole point is how increcibly lazy I am.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

It also occurred to me that you could just call it "Leave It." I mean, if you can't take it with you, what other options do you have?

[gilana]

Ship it ahead?

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

What are you, the Mafia? What's it going to do with a head?

[gilana]

See, that's the sort of comment I expect from you!

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

So much for surprises, eh?

(Hope the read through went well...)

[gilana]

It was a lot of fun. It's goingto be a really funny show.