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Rowan Atkinson the genius behind the iconic. Mr Bean character
actually came up with his persona when he was studying for his master's degree of
Electrical Engineering at the University of Oxford.
The name mr. Bean came up
only after the first program was released back in 1990.
While pitching different names one of the suggestions was mr. Cauliflower. It sounds fun,
but nothing would change the one and only mr. Bean.
The original name for snapchat was actually Pictaboo
until the creators decided to rebrand it because it sounded too similar to
Picaboo a web-based image publishing company
But the name is not the only thing that the company changed.
To make the app more popular one of the original creators of the app suggested
It was best to advertise it as a sexting app. n the drafts from the press release
Oh man, the things we would do to have the famous trio called not the Powerpuff Girls,
but the whoop-ass girls. It just sounds so badass
Well, according to the book America Tunes In, the history of television animation,
that's exactly how the girls were supposed to be named.
Unfortunately, the name was changed in order to avoid offending the intended audience witch is - kids and their parents
The head of Universal Pictures, Sid Sheinberg,
wanted to name this movie Spaceman From Pluto because according to him no successful movie ever had the word "future" in it.
According to writer and producer Bob Gale every single person at Universal loved the title Back To The Future
Except for Sid so they wrote a memo back to Sheinberg saying: "Dear Sid,
Thanks so much for your most humorous memo. We all got a really big laugh out of it."
Steven knew that Sid was too proud to admit he'd meant it seriously, and that was the end of Spaceman From Pluto.
Who knows maybe someone really traveled back in time to stop his disastrous name from being accepted?
Imagine having a blue-ribbon logo instead of a swoosh on your gym shorts
Well, this could have been the icon that Nike is known for if it wasn't for a change back in 1971
The very well-known name Nike was based on the Greek goddess of victory and the famous logo
Also known as the swoosh
symbolizes the wing of the goddess
Well, this one is particularly odd
Hannah Montana
The protagonist of one of the most famous kids TV shows of all time was supposed to be Alexis Texas
Which not only sounds weird, but is also the name of an adult film star
So without anything else left to do the creators had to change the name to Hannah Montana
According to sources, if it wasn't for Walt Disney's wife Lillian today Mickey Mouse would be known as Mortimer.
It is believed that his wife hated the name Mortimer so much that Walt Disney had to change it to Mickey Mouse
Yet Mortimer has not completely vanished from existence,
But became the longtime obnoxious rival of Mickey Mouse
who, while rocking these bed sheet pants, fights for Minnie's attention?
Back in 2012 Vanity Fair released an issue presenting all the things that could have been completely different in the show Friends.
For example, Courtney Cox initially read for the role of Rachel Green, but she chose to play Monica.
And Monica's character was supposed to be way darker edgier and snarkier,
but the most important part is the name. And if it wasn't for the show's creators Kaufman and Crain
We would be stuck with Six Of One, which was the original name of the show.
Even though today Yahoo is not as big as it used to be, it certainly had its days of glory
But we're almost certain that Yahoo! Wouldn't have been so successful if they had kept their original name
It just seems a bit too long. Of course, you could call it
JDGWW
But we think they did the right thing here by changing their name to Yahoo, which stands for
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
First of all, the band was made up of singer Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland
and they were called Pectorals. Later on, bass player Guy Berryman joined them and they later changed their name to
Starfish. Later after the drummer Will Champion joined their group. They renamed themselves to Coldplay and released their debut EP
Safety, back in 1998 which started the band's path to fame
"Screaming abdabs" is an old english saying that means to induce an attack of extreme anxiety or
irritation in someone. So back in the 60s for young students decided that
Screaming Abdabs would fit perfectly as the name for their band who knew that many years later
We would know this band as Pink Floyd one of the most legendary music bands of all time
Before the band settled on the name
they also considered such variation as The Pink Floyd Blues Sound, The Pink Floyd Sound and
The Tea Set
There is no cheesier name than Smile.
Imagine a legendary incredible one-of-a-kind band and then call them Smile.
Just terrible
So, it's hard to believe that an outstanding band like Queen would call themselves such a boring and cliched name
well as it turns out the name Queen was given after the band invited Freddie Mercury to join and
He was the one who suggested this name, of course he was.
In an interview with circus mercury said that the concept behind the band name was to be regal and
majestic just like the Queen and they've really succeeded at being majestic heaven--the a
Who would have thought that until 1898
you couldn't enjoy a cold Pepsi,
but only a Brad's drink? And who was Brad? When creator Caleb Bradham
invented Pepsi back in 1893
He named it after his surname, but six years later he changed it and thus the Pepsi Cola Company was born
SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBoy
If it wasn't for a quick name change, you would be yelling Spongeboy Squarepants
at the beginning of every episode but
According to the creator of this famous cartoon Stephen Hillenburg, it was not meant to be due to copyright infringement
The original name was SpongeBoy, but I couldn't use that because it was copyrighted by a mop company
I eventually thought of SpongeBob but he needed a last name
SquarePants came to mind and thus the happiest sponge in the world was created
Probably way fewer people would know the word bazinga today
if not for this right on time name change even sheldon was not the original name of his character as he
was initially called kenny in the famous TV series was called not the Big Bang Theory, but
Lenny penny and Kenny, which is the cheesiest name in the entire universe
One of the weirdest original names belongs to google which believe it or not was supposed to be named back rub
Imagine back rubbing something instead of googling. It sounds ridiculous, right well back in
1996 this was the original company name before it was changed to Google in
1997 and thanks to that back rubbing yourself as a widespread thing never came into being or
How the band's smile sang had bitten the dust
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Bonkers original company names that almost never came into being if there was a contest in your opinion
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