Sandy Wood
Brain Game: My Name’s Friday
by Sandy Wood - January 23, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Kara and I love Dragnet… particularly the late-60s color version of the show with Jack Webb and Harry Morgan. And one of our favorite anecdotes describes how the LAPD came up with a set story to tell viewers who visited their offices asking for Sergeant Joe Friday, believing that he was a real-life cop. “Sorry,” they’d say, “it’s Joe’s day off.”

Today’s Brain Game gives everyone an opportunity to answer, so feel free to chime in!

Please comment with the name of
a celebrity or fictional character
who shares his or her name
with a day of the week.

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Comments (51)

  1. The first one I thought of was Wednesday Addams!

    posted by Aaron on 1-23-2009 at 7:49 am

  2. Thursday Next! from Jasper Fforde’s literary detective series.

    posted by Andrea on 1-23-2009 at 7:50 am

  3. Tuesday Weld

    posted by Tim B on 1-23-2009 at 8:02 am

  4. First thing I thought of was the movie ‘His girl Friday’ but then her name is not Friday it’s Hildy

    posted by Sean on 1-23-2009 at 8:03 am

  5. Tuesday Wells from the old Doby Gillis TV show I LOVE NICK AT NITE

    posted by adele on 1-23-2009 at 8:05 am

  6. Jeff Saturday, center for the Indianapolis Colts.

    posted by Jeff on 1-23-2009 at 8:11 am

  7. It’s not a REAL person or character so to speak…

    But, how about
    “Mr. Saturday Night Special”???

    posted by will on 1-23-2009 at 8:14 am

  8. Billy Sunday. Susan Sontag (if you don’t count spelling).

    posted by chas on 1-23-2009 at 8:30 am

  9. Everyone’s going to hate me for this, and it’s kind of cheating, but…

    Christmas Jones

    posted by Reed on 1-23-2009 at 8:37 am

  10. Mr. Wednesday from American Gods by Neil Gaiman

    posted by Whitney on 1-23-2009 at 8:40 am

  11. Joe Friday from Dragnet?

    posted by Joel on 1-23-2009 at 8:42 am

  12. A classic book by GK Chesterton is titled The Man Who Was Thursday, with characters with names from every day of the week.

    posted by joanna on 1-23-2009 at 8:43 am

  13. Billy Sunday – Men of Honor
    Alex Monday – Scary Movie
    Prince Tuesday – Mr. Rogers
    Wednesday – Addams Family, Robinson Crusoe and the Flintstones(my favorite)
    Nelli Thursday – The Lemon Drop Kid (great movie)
    King Friday – Mr. Rogers
    Queen Sara Saturday – Mr.Rogers

    That was fun!!!

    posted by Kev in GA on 1-23-2009 at 8:43 am

  14. Placido Domingo (if you count days in other languages)

    posted by DB on 1-23-2009 at 9:19 am

  15. Kate Monday from Mathnet

    posted by ADL on 1-23-2009 at 9:25 am

  16. Thursday Next in Jasper Fforde’s novels.

    posted by PlanX on 1-23-2009 at 9:28 am

  17. Kate Monday from Mathnet on SquareOne, a children’s show parody of Dragnet.

    posted by Hodge on 1-23-2009 at 9:32 am

  18. Wednesday Addams from the Addams family. Love her, especially Christina Ricci’s version from the movie.

    posted by Tricia on 1-23-2009 at 9:43 am

  19. Robinson Crusoe’s friend, Friday.

    posted by kate. on 1-23-2009 at 9:44 am

  20. Friday aka Marjorie Friday from Robert Heinlein’s novel “Friday”

    posted by Deuce on 1-23-2009 at 9:47 am

  21. Eli Sunday from “There will be blood”.

    posted by d on 1-23-2009 at 9:58 am

  22. The Flintstones occassionally had celebrity guests or spoofs…I think there was an episode with a Tuesday Wednesday…for the actress Tuesday Weld.

    posted by deej on 1-23-2009 at 10:02 am

  23. How about April Wednesday, an obscure character from Alistair McClean’s novel- The Golden Gate.

    posted by David on 1-23-2009 at 10:02 am

  24. Rick Monday was a MLB outfielder from ’66-’84.

    posted by Zach on 1-23-2009 at 10:06 am

  25. King friday, and Prince tuesday from Mr. Rogers

    posted by Joe Pa on 1-23-2009 at 10:06 am

  26. Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451.

    posted by Nick on 1-23-2009 at 10:32 am

  27. I love that I’m not the only one reads Jasper Fford. Let’s not forget the Thursday Next and Landen Parke-Laine had 3 kids; Friday, Tuesday and Jenny.

    posted by Kendyl on 1-23-2009 at 11:00 am

  28. Actress Tuesday Lynn Knight.

    posted by Brian Utterback on 1-23-2009 at 11:24 am

  29. Maybe this is pushing it, but how about most of the characters in Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday (each member had a day-of-the-week code name).

    posted by Jackie on 1-23-2009 at 11:30 am

  30. Heidi Montag is on that reprehensible “The Hills” show.

    posted by Bob on 1-23-2009 at 11:59 am

  31. The 1968 western, ‘Bandolero’, starring Dean Martin, James Stewart and Raquel Welch, had George Kennedy playing ‘July Johnson’, one of my favorite characters.

    posted by ArtW on 1-23-2009 at 12:42 pm

  32. Ruby Tuesday!

    posted by loripop on 1-23-2009 at 12:51 pm

  33. George Sunday from My Hero

    posted by AaronGNP on 1-23-2009 at 1:10 pm

  34. Mr. Monday from “The Venture Bros.”! Great show on Cartoon Network

    posted by bedhead on 1-23-2009 at 1:28 pm

  35. Nice one, Zach. I was wondering if anyone would remember Rick Monday. He played for the Dodgers, if I recall… I used to watch all the Braves games on WTBS back then, when they were still in the NL West and faced the Dodgers quite often.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 1-23-2009 at 1:45 pm

  36. Didn’t Nicole Kidman name her new baby Sunday?

    posted by KS on 1-23-2009 at 2:13 pm

  37. What about Baron Saturday from Witches Abroad and Mr. Monday from Stardust? There’s also Thursday October Christian, son of Fletcher Christian of Mutiny on the Bounty fame.

    posted by Sam on 1-23-2009 at 2:18 pm

  38. Nicole Kiddmans daughter Sunday Rose

    posted by Angie on 1-23-2009 at 2:25 pm

  39. Tuesday (and her siblings West and Brown), the not-as-nice-as-she-seems best friend in Carolyn Cooney’s Freeze Tag.

    And Sunday, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s new baby.

    posted by Chelsea on 1-23-2009 at 2:30 pm

  40. From the classic Abbott & Costello routine, Who’s On First?

    The Pitcher: Tomorrow

    The Catcher: Today

    posted by Tex on 1-23-2009 at 2:38 pm

  41. Thursday from “The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday”

    posted by Judy on 1-23-2009 at 3:22 pm

  42. Baron Samedi from Voodoo legend and James Bond Live & Let Die. Samedi means Saturday in French.

    posted by M on 1-23-2009 at 3:39 pm

  43. Rick Monday, former Major League Baseball player and baseball TV announcer.

    posted by Scott on 1-23-2009 at 4:27 pm

  44. Pat Tuesday was also on Square One’s Mathnet.

    posted by matt on 1-23-2009 at 6:16 pm

  45. Antonio Sabato Jr., if you’re speaking his native Italian.

    posted by Meghan on 1-23-2009 at 7:14 pm

  46. How about the villain group off the episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force

    “Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday….”

    “Just one week is enough please…”

    posted by Erik on 1-24-2009 at 12:22 am

  47. heir to the throne: Prince Spaghettiday

    posted by emaneff on 1-24-2009 at 1:56 am

  48. Jasper fforde characters: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Next

    posted by Cat on 1-24-2009 at 12:25 pm

  49. The eponymous anarchist in G. K. Chesterton’s novel The Man Who Was Thursday.

    posted by Gar on 1-24-2009 at 1:02 pm

  50. In the movie Mr. Brooks, his assistant was named Sunday

    posted by Shanise on 1-26-2009 at 9:01 am

  51. Don’t forget Lemony Snicket’s Book the thirteenth “The End”. The girl Friday. I believe her mother’s name was Wednesday. Her father’s name was probably Thursday, although we never meet him in the book.

    posted by Sara on 1-26-2009 at 4:18 pm

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