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Universal Studios tried to rename American Graffiti: Here are the 60 titles they pitched
We would've picked "Burger City!"
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Apparently, Universal Studios wasn't too keen on the name "American Graffiti." It's a generation-defining film, but they just couldn't get on board with the title. So, being the all-powerful media conglomerate that they are, Universal tried to change the title.
In a recently-released LucasFilm memo, someone took the time to list all sixty names the studio pitched. They're all differing degrees of terrible, and each uniquely misses the mark.
Here, for posterity's sake, are all sixty names:
1. The Hot Time
2. The Wild Summer
3. Color Them Wild
4. The Young Crowd
5. Summer Blood
6. Wild is the Blood
7. The Young and the Doomed
8. The Last Free Summer
9. The Summer Before
10. The Savage Heart
11. The Cherry Coke Summer
12. Look Back Once
13. The Fast and the Deadly
14. The Fires of Summer
15. The Violent Four
16. Before We Grow Up
17. No More Rock
18. The Frantic Heart
19. The Games of Summer
20. The Toy Dreams Gone
21. The Yesterday People
22. The Boys and Their Girls
23. Last Night to Make Out
24. Burger City Blues
25. A Night to Get Ready
26. Make Out at Burger City
27. A Night in '62
28. Rock Around the Clock
29. Last Night Together
30. Remember '62
31. Goodbye Burger City
32. Rock Around the Clock
(This one is actually listed twice!)
33. Last Night Together
34. Remember '62
35. High School's Over
36. Kids
37. Buddies No More
38. Ask Wolfman Jack
39. Pals 'N Gals
40. Make-Out
41. Buddies
42. Supercola
43. The Race
44. Growing Up
45. Burger City
46. The Drag Years
47. Those Were the Days
48. The Good Times
49. The Sock Hop
50. Wine, Women & Song
51. 1962 Was Some Year
52. Collage
53. Make-Out
54. Class of '62
55. The Rock Set
56. Rock Generation
57. To Learn About the World
58. A New World Tomorrow
59. Misadventure
60. Rebus
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