# Drop One Letter Off The Sign, And Change The Movie Title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2005, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617 "2005-03-15T09:57:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/101 "2005-03-16T01:34:29Z")
The Chin Syndrome Chin Town ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/102 "2005-03-16T01:45:19Z")
**Runaway: A Rod Adventure** A young third baseman gets mixed up and runs the bases backwards. Now with more slapping! ---
**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:** [March 16, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/103 "2005-03-16T02:10:47Z")
**The Iger Sanction:** Willow Bay loses her anchor spot on MSNBC after hubby Bob is promoted to CEO of competitor Disney. **Hot Sots:** Charlie Sheen gets totally sh!tfaced. **Rainspotting:** Scottish druggies do nothing but stare at cloud formations. **BA Lieutenant:** Harvey Keitel leaves the police force to complete his college degree. **About Schidt:** Middle-aged guy discusses bowel complaints with pen-pal in Africa. **K-Y Captain and the World of Tomorrow:** Jude Law lubricates himself out of tight situations. (XXX) **Sweet Hoe Alabama:** Reese Witherspoon redefines Southern hospitality. (XXX) **Shek:** Story of the huge green man who led Nationalist China. **Aw:** People chained to a radiator befriend a cute kitty. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/104 "2005-03-16T09:26:41Z")
Time for some scatology… **Shat** : Who’s the black private dick who took a dump on all the chicks? **Peed** : There’s a madman who’ll urinate everywhere if the bus drops below 50! **Slash** : A young Tom Hanks discovers a real mermaid and proceeds to piss all over her. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/105 "2005-03-16T13:17:34Z")
A Haley Mills retrospective (or is that Haley Ills?): [bIger Bay\*\* – Young Haley is bonds with the new Disney Chairman after his crime of passion. **The Parent Rap** – Haley plays identical twins trying to get their estranged parents sent up the river. (See also Parent Rap II, Parent Rap II, and Parent Rap: Hawaiian Honeymoon.) **Poll anna** – An optimistic young lady enters the high-stakes world of professional political statistics. **That Darn At!** **The Dayreamer** – (Don’t ask!) –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/106 "2005-03-16T13:33:05Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Time for some scatology… Scatology! That’s…That’s… Perfectly legitimate, actually. The fact I doesn’t like it doesn’t make a lick of difference. Well, I will take this entry, and modify it to mean what I think of when I hear the word “slash” That is too say, fanfiction about male/male relationships. I am aware that many think this is grosser than scatology, so I have made this entry in white font. Highlight to read. **Slash** : A young Tom Hanks: discovers a real merman and proceeds for in love with him/discovers love with a handsome sorcerer from another dimension/ discovers he is in lust with his best friend/in love with that girl he danced with in Old Soho, who is turns out is actually a man/ in love with an older version of Tonks, or maybe Pansy Parkinson, or the Harry Potter world. Think this couldn’t happen? Just wait until the children of major slash writers grow up, enjoy their parents stories and get jobs in the film industry, so as to put on film the stories in their heads. P.S. No, I will not tell my kids these stories, I am a guy. That would be creepy. I am talking about Women talking to their daughters. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/107 "2005-03-16T13:49:23Z")
**The Brides of Madison County** –Tales of good girls **The Bridges of Madison Cunty** –Tales of better girls **Ira Levin’s Death rap** -That one writes itself. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/108 "2005-03-16T13:50:06Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > A Haley Mills retrospective (or is that Haley Ills?): Ha_y_ley, actually… > [@](#): > > **That Darn At!** The irritating adventures of an internet newbie who can’t tell a URL from an email address. Had a few more during the night: **When Harry Et Sally** : (XXX) You’ll want to have what _he’s_ having! **My Favorite Ear** : Comedy writer recalls his youth in the twilight days of radio. **The Ig Chill** : College chums rent a country house, only to discover a dead lizard in the refrigerator. **The Searches:** John Wayne Googles a missing girl - then Yahoos!, Lycoses, and even Lexis/Nexises her… **Somewhere in Tim:** A “Fantastic Voyage” through the body of actor Allen. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/109 "2005-03-16T16:46:42Z")
**Reservoir Dos:** Programmers attempt a daring heist, unaware one’s undercover C++ **The Enemy Blow:** Conflict between a german and allied commander comes to a head **The Long Ho Summer:** or Pretty Tall Woman II **The Bad News Bars:** People without reasons to drink are given some ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/110 "2005-03-16T20:24:13Z")
**Rn** –Akira Kurasawa’s revolutionary film about the nursing profession. **Full Meal Jacket** –“Whatta mean these uniforms are made of corn mush, Sarge?!” **Apocalypse ow** –“Kurtz, he daid. An’ it hurt real bad, too.” **Hot Wet American Sumer** –Camp counselors suddenly find themselves in the ancient Fertile Crescent. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll build ziggurats. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/111 "2005-03-16T22:00:10Z")
**The Fellowship of the Rig** (9 men bond out at sea on a oil drilling platform) **Star Was** (Yup, It sure was.) **001: A Space Odyssey** (The little-known New Testament story about Jesus’s trip to Jupiter) **Raveheart** (The club kids just want some X and FREEDOM!!!) **Crouching Tiger, Hidden Drago** (Dolph Lundren reprises his role as the Soviet Boxer, and this time he’s after the Green Destiny.) **Forrest Ump** (“Baseball’s like a box of Chocolates…”) ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/112 "2005-03-16T22:28:56Z")
It’s a pity we have to drop one letter, rather than changing one letter. If we could change one letter, I’d be able to tell you all about **Pilates of the Caribbean** , which is all about childbirth in the islands. But, as it is, I have a few more before I get back to work… **Pan 9 From Outer Space** –Really, it’s kind of like the original, since Ed Wood made his flying saucers were made of pie tins and paper plates in all his movies. **A Tale of Two Cites** –In which two researchers battle it out to be accepted as _the_ authoritative source on Revolution-era France. **Wath of Khan** –Stawwing Ewmer Fudd as the feawsome Kwingon. Pwincess Pwecious appeaws in a bweif cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/113 "2005-03-16T22:29:40Z")
It’s a pity we have to drop one letter, rather than changing one letter. If we could change one letter, I’d be able to tell you all about **Pilates of the Caribbean** , which is all about childbirth in the islands. But, as it is, I have a few more before I get back to work… **Pan 9 From Outer Space** –Really, it’s kind of like the original, since Ed Wood made his flying saucers of pie tins and paper plates in all his movies. **A Tale of Two Cites** –In which two researchers battle it out to be accepted as _the_ authoritative source on Revolution-era France. **Wath of Khan** –Stawwing Ewmer Fudd as the feawsome Kwingon. Pwincess Pwecious appeaws in a bweif cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/114 "2005-03-16T22:51:07Z")
\*\*Ome Alone \*\* - What happens when a precious young Tibetan monk discovers he is the only one in the Monastery. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/115 "2005-03-16T23:13:09Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > A search of adultfilmdatabase (not linking because, well, it’s a porn title database) did reveal “Black Men In Black.” (Plus “Men In Black Chicks” and “Men In Black Leather”) No “Men In Back,” or for that matter the joke title that I always assumed would be made, “Men In Black Men.” The following isn’t really appropriate here, but then again, it’s not appropriate anywhere. 😃 It is a list of Pornos, with names ripped off from famous movies: [Porn Movie Titles](http://xxx.aquasmack.com/) Based On Real Movies (NSFW) "Alice In Wonderland = Asswoman In Wonderland " etc. I stole the link from [Crazykimchi](http://kungfool.transpect.net/webpages/archive_CK/200503_3.html#01), an on-line comic ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/116 "2005-03-16T23:50:53Z")
**I, Root** –A movie loosely based on the Isaac Asimov classic about a sentient carrot. Lots of orange special effects, very low-calorie, and good for your night vision. Man, I’m really reaching at this point, aren’t I? ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/117 "2005-03-17T00:00:34Z")
**Watership Dow** –The story of a group of fugitive rabbits who went on to form an enormous chemical manufacturing conglomerate. **Watership Don** –A gritty, uncompromising look into the rabbit underworld. **Barershop** –Profits are taking a nosedive due to lack of customers. Calvin decides to boost his clientele by hiring topless stylists. **Vera Rake** –An intrepid woman in Britain provides women with much needed lawn care. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/118 "2005-03-17T00:00:54Z")
You do know the NZ and Aussie meaning of the verb “root”, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/119 "2005-03-17T00:03:31Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > You do know the NZ and Aussie meaning of the verb “root”, don’t you? No, I don’t. But from the way you asked, I assume it’s something related to doin’ the nasty. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/120 "2005-03-17T01:54:41Z")
**Lot Horizon** : A parking attendant finds new spiritual vistas. **Bing John Malkovich** : Stage-screen actor finds portal into life of golfing Irish crooner. **Roadway Danny Rose** : Inept showbiz agent moonlights as _truly_ inept long-haul truck driver. **Absolut Power** : Clint Eastwood sees vodka bottle shapes everywhere he looks. **Apeheads** : Zany record store employees go to work in gorilla masks. **The Private Lives of Elizabeth and E-Sex** : The Virgin Queen goes looking for love online. **Insey** : Biologist studies the effect of navels on human sexuality. **Star Trek: Fist Contact** : Picard and Co. beam down to a planet where their phasers don’t work. **Saving Private Yan** : Tom Hanks goes on a mission to rescue the best Chinese cook in the Army. **A Clockwork Orang** : Futuristic tale of a murderous robot monkey. **Once Upon a Tie in America** : Gangsters fight to take over the stickpin industry. **Gory** : An unflinching look at Civil War combat. **Brie of Frankenstein** : Mad scientist invents living cheese. **Kind Hearts and Cornets** : Trumpet player on a murder spree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617.md?page=7)