Help Kevin Smith Rename His Ad-Unfriendly Couple of Dicks

It's hard being Kevin Smith, at least when it comes to those deep, pot-saturated, post-flop funks and the squirmy network bosses uncomfortable with the title of his forthcoming Bruce Willis/Tracy Morgan cop comedy A Couple of Dicks. On the bright side, Smith got to take his cause to the masses at Comic-Con, who heard his sob story out and who, I hope, will now contribute just the right alternate title to make the filmmaker, the studio, skittish media outlets and the general public equally happy. Movieline will take your submissions after the jump.

First a little bit of background courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, which covered the branding difficulties alluded to in Smith's SDCC appearance:

Smith was't putting the onus on [WB president] Alan Horn, though. He said the reason for the name-change wasn't studio nervousness but TV repression -- and that the title's descriptiveness, therefore, could just as easily apply to those running NBC, CBS and ABC.

"TBS and Fox said they'd be happy to take an ad, but the big three said they wouldn't run an ad before nine o'clock at night," Smith said. Which is kind of a problem given that the movie has a baseball-card theme and would be most opportunely flogged during daytime and primetime sporting events.

Smith went on. "Why are they (network execs) fuckheads? Because of Janet Jackson's tits. Janet Jackson's boob. That boob haunts me."

I know the feeling, but let's keep our eyes on the prize, Kev. What commercial-friendly Plan-B might suit all involved parties? I'll start:

· A Couple of Characters Not From a Script by Kevin Smith

· Like Tracy Morgan on 30 Rock, But With Swear Words and Bruce Willis

· Life After Harvey

· A Guy's Gotta Eat

· From the Studio that Brought you The Hangover

Your turn.

· Kevin Smith on who's really a couple of dicks [THR]