# Change a letter in a movie/tv show title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222 "2011-10-20T05:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/1 "2011-10-20T05:03:35Z")
We’ve [subtracted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=620102) a letter from movie titles, and [added](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617791) a letter to the same. Now let’s change one letter in a title; do not add or subtract letters, just change one. After you change the letter of your choice tell us about the movie or show. **The Tutors** : Henry, the darling of the literature department, tutors and then marries a string of women in this lush epic about the inner workings of the Brit Lit department at an Ivy League college. **Prick** : in this neo-noir an abrasive young man looks into the death of a his ex-girlfriend. **Raven** : A woman who is a former FBI agent, along with a young police chief and the local bad boy (the chief’s rival for her affections), work to solve one mystery in their Maine town - what the hell is wrong with the local birds? **Bad Men** : a period piece about a bunch of jerks. **Not In Cleveland** : The story of four women, none of them in Cleveland. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/2 "2011-10-20T05:10:45Z")
Pulp Diction. I think it’s the same movie though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/3 "2011-10-20T05:12:23Z")
**Doctor Pho** – An alien chef travels through time in search of the perfect noodle soup. ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/4 "2011-10-20T06:12:19Z")
**How I let your mother** : A father narrates to his children the stories of his life as a pimp. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/5 "2011-10-20T09:28:47Z")
**Breaking Bed** : A man beset with terminal cancer decides to live out his remaining days binging on drugs and banging his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/6 "2011-10-20T09:35:49Z")
Yet another sing of cultural regression: _The New York Times Review of Boobs_ ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/7 "2011-10-20T09:49:38Z")
_The Silence of the Jambs_ - How to fix creaking door hinges. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/8 "2011-10-20T09:56:05Z")
A real movie: [Capablanca](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0136747/): a biography of one one the best [chess players](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca) ever. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/9 "2011-10-20T11:27:08Z")
**Star Jaws** - We’re going to need a bigger space ship. **The Liver of Others** - Hannibal Lector opens a new restaurant in Seattle. \*\*B.A. Confidential \*\*- Baracus knows, but he isn’t telling. **The Green Bile** - Tom Hanks struggles with seasickness. **Dull Metal Jacket** - Arthurian epic told from the Black Knight’s PoV. **Die Bard** - A cyborg assassin is sent back through time on a mission to kill Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/10 "2011-10-20T12:11:40Z")
**Schindler’s Lift** - A documentary charting the rise (and fall, and rise again, after the doors jammed temporarily in the sub-basement level) of the Schindler elevator company. **Tight Club** - The first rule of Tight Club is don’t expect anyone to buy you a pint. **Apocalypse Not** - Wayne and Garth go to Vietnam. Excellent! **Allen** - After answering an SOS call from a remote planet, the crew of a mining ship are terrorised by a hideous self-obsessed character wearing thick-rimmed glasses. **Bark to the Future** - Einstein the dog is revealed as the real brains behind the flux capacitor. **Legends of the Fail** - In the wilds of Montana, three brothers pass their time LOLing at YouTube videos of people injuring themselves. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/11 "2011-10-20T12:17:41Z")
**Hones:** A forensic scientist and her co-workers and one hot FBI guy, hang around sharpening their knives and scalpels and wits. Yes, wits. Lame, I know. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/12 "2011-10-20T12:30:17Z")
Pie Hard. A low budget porn movie about a sad little man and his kinky sexual obession with pies. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/13 "2011-10-20T13:29:09Z")
**Torched By An Angel** A team of heavenly beings help people on Earth by committing fire by hire. **James and the Giant Perch** The touching story of a young boy and a really big fish. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/14 "2011-10-20T13:44:14Z")
**American Pip** - A remake of _Great Expectations_ that moves the action to New Jersey. **American Pig** - A remake of _Babe_ that moves the action, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/15 "2011-10-20T13:48:52Z")
**Star Bars** : The adventures of a alcoholic…_in space!_ **Moldfinger** : Don’t let him touch you, you don’t want to know where that’s been! **Boldfinger** : Goosing his way across America! **Lard of the Rings** : After centuries of waiting for the time to be right, it turned out that Sauron _really_ let himself go. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/16 "2011-10-20T14:06:49Z")
_MUS_H:\*\*\* Alan Alda and Phil Donahue sit around, crying about how their fathers never said “I love you,” and how they wish they were women. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/17 "2011-10-20T14:09:09Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _MUS_H:\*\*\* > > Alan Alda and Phil Donahue sit around, crying about how their fathers never said “I love you,” and how they wish they were women. **M_A_S\*K** - Jim Carrey plays the new recruit at a military hospital in Korea who quickly drives everybody batshit with his incessant unfunny gurning. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/18 "2011-10-20T14:17:26Z")
Fanny Farm. No ifs, ands or buts about it, but plenty of butts. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/19 "2011-10-20T14:26:22Z")
**Warne’s World** - A fat Aussie cricketer sits in his basement with his thick friend Ricky eating pies and texting photos of his knob to women. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222/20 "2011-10-20T14:44:01Z")
**LOFT** - A ragtag bunch of strangers find themselves unable to leave a large apartment. They have to fight against another group of awful flatmates known as the Others and at the end it’s all a bit of a letdown. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-a-letter-in-a-movie-tv-show-title/600222.md?page=2)