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 A) Princess Toadstool = Princess Peach Hell, I can remember when we didn't even know her name. All we really knew was that our princess is in another castle. For years we all called her Princess Toadstool. It probably had something to do with her ruling those mushroom headed people. Then out of nowhere her name suddenly became Peach. I still refuse to call her that on the basis that I just don't like peaches. B) Prince = O+> = The Artist = Prince Possibly the most controversial name change was when Prince changed his name to a symbol that nobody could even pronounce. It was a neat idea in that oddball artist sort of way, but the majority of people felt it was too weird and turned their backs on his royal purpleness. When he changed his name back to Prince people started to care again. C) Jesse Cochrin = Jesse Katsapolis On the first season of Full House, Jesse's last name was Cochrin. Sounds like medication for PMS... Anyway, when the second season rolled around the show decided to give everyone's favorite Uncle a last name more in tune with his Greek heritage. D) John Cougar = John Cougar Mellencamp = John Mellencamp Here's a little ditty about a guy who just doesn't know who he wants to be. I don't know why he changed his name. I don't care why he changed his name. I just know his music was best when he was a cougar on the prowl. E) Star Wars = Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Did you know that when Star Wars was first in the theater it didn't have that "Episode IV" in the opening scrawl? True! They edited that in for the first of about a bajillion re-releases when The Empire Strikes Back came out. For years after, the movie was still always referred to as just Star Wars, but somewhere around 1996 or so people started calling it Episode IV. And then when the prequel trilogy came to be, and relied heavily on the use of the Star Wars brand name in their titles, the original '77 flick completely lost it's name and became A New Hope for the rest of time. So hopefully these little tales will convince you to never change your name to something stupid. Based on what we've learned today, I might change my name to Ryan Cougar Episode IV: The Fan Club Formerly Known as Princess Cochrin.
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