Removed a few examples - to qualify, there needs to be an actual pun on the name, not just have the name in the title.
- I Dream Of Jeannie — [yes the name's a pun, and yes the name's in the title, but the title itself isn't a pun. Maybe if it was "Jeannie in a Bottle"...]
- Will And Grace [this is a questionable example — they're both personality traits, but I think they're common enough names that it'd need a Word of God confirmation that it's an intentional pun]
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Moon and Son
, about a professional "psychic" called Gladys Moon and her genuinely psychic son Trevor. -
KateModern: A Web Original series about an artist named Kate.
"Moon and Son" is a pun on "moon and sun"; and "Kate Modern" is a pun on "Tate Modern".
Fair enough, must not have been in a very imaginative frame of mind when I was reading them. Still, I think on a page like this we can dispense with Don't Explain the Joke, so I'll add the explanations to those examples.
Going with Johnnye's post above, does the Shakespeare example count? It's questionable not only in that Will is a common name, but in punning off the author's name instead of a character's.
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The majority of the examples are non-British; and the "America" section alone has more examples than the "Britain" section; so I don't see how the trope "is most common in the United Kingdom, but still happens elsewhere".
"A trope about George and Barry Pun, two very different brothers who start up a removals firm - with hilarious results!"
Masters of Sex might marginalize Johnson, but even Showtime would have had trouble with a show called All about Johnsons.