Inspired by the Book: The Bun Also Rises

It began with The Bun Also Rises. My friend and I, both English majors with a penchant for word games, began, completely spontaneously, texting each other book title-food item puns. Neither of us can remember why it started, nor did we ever discuss the rules to our game.  Eventually, we had a list of over a hundred book-food combos.  Among the best of them: Candide Yams, Love in the Time of Cauliflower, and 100 Years of Solid Foods.

As I said, The Bun Also Rises was only the beginning.  Our game's gone through many iterations now, with no theme being too stupid for our consideration (case in point, the short-lived cat-themed round, from whence came Catlass Shrugged). We made our own the game the late Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie played, in which you take a classic book title and make it lame: Celsius 232.78, A Tale of Two Unincorporated Census-Designated Places, The Pretty Good Gatsby... It's harder than you'd think.

Our current version is the most challenging yet: book titles crossed with TV shows. The short list, so far:

1. Clarissa Explains it All (works for Clarissa OR Mrs. Dalloway! Double points!)
2. Death of Two and a Half Salesmen
3. On the Road Rules (followed by Around the Real World in 80 Days)
4. Full House of Mirth
5. Are You There God? It's Me, Matlock
6. Saved by the Bell Jar
7. Tuesdays with Maury
8. The West Wings of the Dove

I won't say which of us came up with what. But I am opening the game up to all you internet-folk out there. Leave your best puns and suggest new, equally ridiculous themes for the next round.