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Twitter lit up on Thursday with playful movie identify puns focused at Republicans, from "Tedtanic" to "start Wars" to "Honey, I gotten smaller the middle class."

The hashtag #GOPMovies become buzzing on Twitter, with thousands tweaking conventional movies titles because the hours counted all the way down to the Republican presidential debate in Houston on Thursday night time, the last earlier than the terrific Tuesday primaries.

The hashtag turned into tweeted out more or less 20 times in line with minute, in keeping with social media analytics firm Zoomph.

The trend took off late on Wednesday when Comedy central's overdue-night time display "@nighttime" tweeted: "For all we recognize, #GOPMovies are our future! test out these examples and give us your very own!"

The show, hosted with the aid of Chris Hardwick, then tweeted a quip of its own: "Saving Paul Ryan," focused at the speaker of the house of Representatives.

Comedy important (@ComedyCentral) accompanied with a tweet early on Thursday morning: "Ghostfilibusters," which received greater than 100 "likes" and 50 retweets.

A Republican countrywide Committee spokeswoman turned into not right now available for remark.

This changed into the network's 2d massive swipe at Republicans and popular culture in the last few months. In December, Hardwick and Comedy central launched a comparable hashtag, #GOPSongs, which went viral beforehand of the Dec. 15 Republican debate in Las Vegas.

lots of Thursday's #GOPMovies posts took purpose at Republican the front-runner Donald Trump's controversial stance on immigration.

One Twitter user, Dani Fernandez (‏@msdanifernandez), tweeted "show you're a Citizen, Kane," a twist at the 1941 movie "Citizen Kane."

Eryn ‏(@Eryn_NotErin) wrote: "Trump's WALL-E," a dig at the candidate's campaign promise to "build a excellent wall" on the U.S. southern border and have Mexico pay for it. The 2008 movie "WALL-E" is ready the final robotic on earth.

different tweets focused GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

"The ardour of the Cruz," tweeted Jason Richter (@JasonRichter), tweaking the name of the 2004 movie "The ardour of the Christ," which Mel Gibson directed.

also poking fun at the Calgary, Alberta-born Texas senator, Victoria Aveyard (@VictoriaAveyard) morphed "12 Years a Slave," a 2013 release that received the Academy Award for best image, into "12 Years A Canadian."