# "A Bore is Starred," and other snarky titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034 "2012-04-17T13:28:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/1 "2012-04-17T13:28:56Z")
In another thread, someone brilliantly referred to the TV series \*Awake \*as _My Two Deads_, which will always be its title to me. Over on the Television Without Pity site, they are calling Julian Fellowes’ \*Titanic \*miniseries _Drownton Abbey_. I remember calling Barbra Streisand’s _A Star is Born_ by the OP title, and her _The Mirror Has Two Faces_ became _The Camera has Two Filters_. Any other clever, nasty title take-downs you can remember? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/2 "2012-04-17T13:52:26Z")
I’m surprised you didn’t come up with Howard Hughes’s **The Outlaw** being called **The Sale of Two Titties.** ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/3 "2012-04-17T14:07:00Z")
I used to refer to “Sex in the City” as **My Friend Flicka.** “Deadwood” was always **The Cocksucker Chronicles.** ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/4 "2012-04-17T15:27:29Z")
Well, of course there’s Christopher Plummer’s coinage, “The Sound of Mucus”. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/5 "2012-04-17T16:25:08Z")
These have probably already been used by Mad Magazine. _Star Drek Matin’ Place Flee_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/6 "2012-04-17T16:43:34Z")
More from Mad: _Loused Up in Space Bananas_ (for _Bonanza_) \*The Mess of Adrian Lissinger \* ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/7 "2012-04-17T16:48:46Z")
My wife coined one of my favorites: “Long, Actually” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/8 "2012-04-17T18:16:57Z")
Mad had all kinds of great titles. Some of my favorites: Jur-ass-has-had-it Park. (For Jurassic Park) Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid. Star Roars Epicload I: The Fandumb Mega-mess. The Odd Father. The Odd Father Part, Too. Jaw’d. Jaw’d, Too. Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind. Also, all of their Star Trek parodies have gone by the title of “Star Blecch.” Star Blecch: The Next Degradation. Star Blecch: Deep Space Swine. Star Blecch: Voyeur. Star Blecch II: The Wreck of Korn. Star Blecch III: The Search for Plot. Star Blecch IV: The Voyage Bombs. Star Blecch V: The Farcical Frontier. Star Blecch IV: The Uninspired Continuation. I could go on and on. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/9 "2012-04-17T18:56:57Z")
Not a clever pun, but I heard more than once **Avatar** being referred to as **Dances with Smurfs**. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/10 "2012-04-17T19:06:55Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Not a clever pun, but I heard more than once **Avatar** being referred to as **Dances with Smurfs**. \*Ha! \*See, that is brilliant. Puns not nec. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/11 "2012-04-17T19:16:12Z")
**She’s Got Mail** **Braveheart II - The Patriot** ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/12 "2012-04-17T19:47:03Z")
You know that series about the plane crash on the uncharted island. Did it leave any mysteries unexplained or plot points unresolved? LOTS. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/13 "2012-04-17T20:40:01Z")
Han So Low, Luke Streetwalker, Princess Lay Orgasma, and many others were involved in a movie called “Star Whores.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/14 "2012-04-17T21:04:35Z")
The OP probably doesn’t want the porn pun titles, do they? Lord of the G-Strings (this one was actually kind of funny) Sex Trek-The Next Penetration Penocchio (it’s not his nose that grows!) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/15 "2012-04-17T21:26:47Z")
After \*\*Ishtar \*\*was lambasted as being an awful, expensive flop, Kevin Costner came out with **Waterworld** , which I heard referred a few times…as **Fishtar**. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/16 "2012-04-17T21:31:55Z")
The 1946 flick “Duel In The Sun” was often referred to as “Lust in the Dust” (way before the Divine comedy came out), due to its overwrought just-below-the-surface sexual tension. Fairly snarky, for the 40’s. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/17 "2012-04-17T21:36:45Z")
16 posts in and no one has mentioned _Bored of the Rings_? ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/18 "2012-04-17T21:58:02Z")
Kelsey Grammar’s comedy about a navy submarine crew - “Down Periscope, Up Chuck” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/19 "2012-04-17T23:13:37Z")
There was an amusing [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=124045) on the SDMB where everyone came up with names for the just-announced Indiana Jones movie, all of course ripping on Harrison Ford’s age. _Raiders of the Lost AARP_ was my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034/20 "2012-04-17T23:39:32Z")
Stephen Frears’ excellent film _Prick Up Your Ears_ is generally referred to by the laziest and most prurient anagram ever, in our household. (Not sure if that counts as snark, though, as it is likely the intent of the author.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bore-is-starred-and-other-snarky-titles/619034.md?page=2)