Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy is a popular British glove-puppet show for children, featuring Mr. Punch and his wife Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between the anarchic Mr. Punch and one other character (the show is traditionally performed by a single puppeteer, known as a Professor, who of course can only perform two characters at a time).

Derived usage

• Punch, a long running British humour magazine, derives its name from Mr. Punch.
• The Punch and Judy Man was a 1961 movie, starring Tony Hancock as the title character.
• Punch and Judy was the title of a 1967 opera by Harrison Birtwistle.
• "Punch & Judy", a song about marital strife, appeared on Marillion's 1984 album Fugazi.
• ', a 1994 graphic novel by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, features a boy whose memories are triggered by a Punch and Judy show.
• A song entitled "Punch and Judy" appeared on Elliott Smith's 1997 album Either/Or.
• Bitch Magnet's 1988 album Umber included a song entitled "Punch and Judy".
• Baseball players who provide very little power are sometimes called "Punch-and-Judy hitters".
• Annual awards given at the Cartoons by the Bay Festival in Positano, Italy is named the Pulcinella Award.
• There is a brand of cigar by the name of "Punch." The logo of the company is, of course, a punch puppet.

Many pairs of fictional characters in other works are named "Punch" and "Judy" in homage; for example:

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• Punch & Judy (probably stage names) are hosts of a fictional cowboy-themed crime show (akin to America's Most Wanted) called Big Shots, in the anime Cowboy Bebop.
• Punch & Judy are a pair of characters in the Girl Genius comic books by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio.
• Punch & Judy are among the few surviving artifacts of the old world in Russell Hoban's postapocalytic masterpiece Riddley Walker