I Liked It When I Saw It The First Time, Entries Beginning with M

This page is inspired by the comedy of David Spade. Yes, David Spade. During his stay on Saturday Night Live, he would occasionally put things down that seemed to copy things before them by saying something like "I liked 'Black Sheep' the first time I saw it, when it was called 'Tommy Boy'". So this is my attempt at ranking on the movies and television programs of the nineties (and present) by pointing out what they copied from the eighties. Since there always seems to be a lot or unoriginal ideas in Hollywood, this should be an easy page to fill up quickly.

This page currently edited by: Indy Gent. Past editor: Banasy



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I liked "M. Night Shyamalan" when it was called Alfred Hitchcock
I liked "MTV" when it was called MUSIC Television
I liked "MTV's Sink or Swim" when it was called The Gong Show
Okay, so The Gong Show was seventies, but it ended in 1980 so it should still count.
I liked "MTV2" when it was called MTV
I hate that MTV has turned into a game show/reality TV station. I thought the "M" in MTV stood for "music".
I liked "MTV2 Video Mods" when it was called DTV
"Video Mods" is a show on MTV2 that have video game characters 'performing' popular songs. 'DTV' was a buch of clips from vintage Disney cartoons mixed into a popular song, in form of a music video, and aired on The Disney Channel inbetween movies and tv shows.
I liked "Macarena" when it was called La Bamba
I liked "Macy's" when it was called Jordan Marsh
I liked Macy's when it was called Jordan Marsh.
I liked "Mad TV" when it was called In Living Color
I liked "Mad TV" when it was called Saturday Night Live
I liked "Maddie" when it was called David Spade
About time Spade has a current equivalent. Like Spades' famous sarcastic receptionist bit from "Saturday Night Live", Maddie, played by Ashley Tisdale also works behind a counter and says sardonic/smart_ss remarks to people, including a 12 year-old who have a crush on her and a snobby hotel heiress. Also similar: Her uniform looks similar to the clothes Spade wore as "Dennis Finch" on the '90's sitcom "Just Shoot Me" (a light blue work shirt).
I liked "Maddie (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody)" when it was called Andrea (Beverly Hills 90210)
Andrea from "Beverly Hills 90210" is slightly similar to the character of Maddie from "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody". Both are smart, but pretty and played by actresses who are older than the characters they portrayed. Ashley Tisdale is 20, but plays a 15 year old and the actresses who played Andrea (Gabrielle Carteris) was in her early 30's when she played the teeanger.
I liked "Malcolm in the Middle" when it was called Married with Children
I liked "The Man Show" when it was called No Ma'am (from Married... With Children)
Both are mainly about beer,dirty mags,sports,and other "manly" stuff. The only difference is that "No Ma'am" appeared in about 30 episodes of "M.W.C."
I liked "The Man Show" when it was called No Ma'am (from Married... With Children)
Both are mainly about beer,dirty mags,sports,and other "manly" stuff.
I liked ""Man, I Feel Like A Woman" by Shania Twain" when it was called "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper
Both songs have the same general idea. However, Cyndi Lauper was not obviously a country singer trying to make it big on the contemporary charts, and I still prefer her song to Shania's.
I liked "Mandy Moore Coverage" when it was called Tiffany (self titled)
Both albums that mostly contain cover songs from a teen pop singer who were either a baby or weren't born when the original songs were released. Not to mention the originals (Beatles, Tommy James covered in "Tiffany" & XTC, Elton John, Blondie covered in Moore's "Coverage") are far better than the covers, IMHO.
I liked "Marshall Field's" when it was called Hudson's
A great department store in Detroit. Hudson's got bought up by Target, and they changed Hudsons to Marshall Field. There used to be was a huge Hudson's store downtown, but it shut down in '83, when I was born.
I liked "Marvin Harrison" when it was called Jerry Rice
I liked "The Mask of Zorro" when it was called The Three Musketeers
I liked "Master Chief from Halo (Xbox 2001)" when it was called Samus Aran from Metroid (NES 1987)
They look strikingly similar.
I liked "The Matrix" when it was called Sneakers
I liked "The Matrix" when it was called Tron
I liked "The Matrix" when it was called Blade
Not exactly from the 80s, but heck!! Blade even has the same bullet sequence with the rings behind it! Nobody acknowledges that. Why you gotta waste my flava??
I liked "The Matrix" when it was called Terminator
I liked "Mean Creek" when it was called Stand By Me
Same plot, same length, it is just too close to each other.
I liked "Mean Girls" when it was called The Breakfast Club
It's kinda like the same except "The Breakfast Club" had all different kinds of clicks. [Ed.'s note: I think Ashley has her source material mixed up. "Mean Girls" had all the chicks. "The Breakfast Club" only had 2 that I know of.]
I liked "Men in Black" when it was called Ghostbusters
MiB ripped off everything good and Aykroydian... The black suits an obvious rip off of the blues brothers and they should have called Men in Black: Ghostbusters 3
I liked "Michael Buble" when it was called Harry Connick Jr.
Both are jazz singers.
I liked "Michael Kelso from That 70's Show" when it was called Vinnie Barbarino from Welcome Back, Kotter
I liked "Michael Vick" when it was called Randall Cunningham
At least Randall can throw like a quarterback and he was one of the best multi-task QBs of all-time. Michael Vick is basically a running back calling the shots.
I liked "Michel Gerard (Yannic Truesdale)" when it was called Benson DuBois (Robert Guillaume)
Michel is the sardonic butler from "Gilmore Girls". Benson is the sardonic butler from "Soap" and "Benson". Actually, Benson was witty and Michel is an a**hole.
I liked "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" when it was called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
MMPR was a cheap knock-off.
I liked "Mimi from The Drew Carey Show" when it was called Louie from Taxi
Mimi is SO Louie!
I liked "Misfit 2000" when it was called Cannonball Run
I liked "Mitsubishi Eclipse" when it was called Ford Mustang
The Eclipse is just a cheap knock-off.
I liked "Mobile Suit Gundam" when it was called Robotech
Robotech rules!!
I liked "Moesha" when it was called The Cosby Show
I liked "Molly Shannon" when it was called Gilda Radner
I liked "Monica Geller" when it was called Felix Unger
I liked "Monster House" when it was called The Monster Squad
Both movies deal with kids under 12 years old dealing with scary situations with haunted houses. The only difference I can think of right now is that MH is animated and TMS is live-action that. TMS is IMO is better!
I liked "Monster House" when it was called The 'burbs
Just take away Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, and the fat guy from Scary Movie and add the CGI animated kids and poof it's a computer animated version of Joe Dante's cult classic "The 'burbs".
I liked "Montel Williams" when it was called Geraldo
I liked "Mp3 Files" when it was called Cassette Tapes
I liked "Mr. 3000" when it was called Major League
Funny baseball movies
I liked "Much More Music" when it was called Muchmusic
Muchmusic is geared more to the kids and Much More Music is geared more to the adults.
I liked "Much Music" when it was called MTV
I liked "The Mummy" when it was called Raiders of the Lost Ark
I liked "Munch's Make-Believe Band" when it was called The Rock-aFire Explosion
The latter was the animatronic "house band" for Showbiz Pizza, the former what the RAE was forced to become as a result of "concept unification" (i.e. when Showbiz merged with Chuck E. Cheese).
I liked "Mutant X" when it was called The Misfits of Science.
I liked "My Life As A Teenage Robot" when it was called Small Wonder
The only difference is that "My Life as a Teenage Robot" is a cartoon.
I liked "Mystic Knights Of Tir-Na-Nog" when it was called The Princess Bride


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What else can you think of that is ripped off from the 80s?

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