# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/141 "2005-03-19T04:07:26Z")
**Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dad**. _She thought she was hiring a real sitter!_ **Cockstoppers**. _Needs no explanation. (Clockstoppers)_ I’m so retarted. I thought of the first one and laughed at myself for 5 minutes. Then I had to think of another one because I didn’t want to look dumb and post just one when everyone else has like 10. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/142 "2005-03-19T04:22:14Z")
Oh, thought of some more. **Cop and a alf**. _Because it’s time we brought Alf back._ **Pear Harbor**. _The true story of the defruiting that started the war._ **28 Days Late**. \*Might wanna think about picking up one of those home pregnancy tests. \* **Jurassic Ark**. _Noah came a bit too early…_ **Met the Fockers**. \*Been there, done that. \* ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/143 "2005-03-19T16:27:18Z")
**Pearl Arbor** – A tragic lovestory set against the backdrop of the Japanes bombing of a national forest. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/144 "2005-03-20T03:43:56Z")
On Tact: A movie about good conversation with extraterrestrials. Jurassic Par: A movie about regenerated dinosaurs on the loose at a golf course. 2001: A Pace Odyssey: About a very long walk 941: Starring John Belushi as a rogue Irish sailor trying to get to the Scottish coast before the Vikings invade. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/145 "2005-03-20T10:55:06Z")
**Diving Miss Daisy** : Leni Riefenstahl wasn’t the first female octogenarian to explore the undersea world. **IO BRAVO** : John Wayne and Bo Derek clean up a Western town. **End It Like Beckham** : the story of Victoria’s heartfelt plea for her over-rated footballer husband to be taken off life-support. **Free Will** : Finally Descartes gets a biopic. ---
**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 20, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/146 "2005-03-20T18:23:11Z")
**Deuce Bigalow, Ale Gigolo** : A guy who will do anything for free beer. **Hosage** : Bruce Willis gets sprayed with a lot of cold water. **Iss Congeniality** : Sandra Bullock speaks her other first language of German as a Miss Universe contestant. **She Ate Me** : Spike Lee goes XXX. **The Bi Clock** : Charles Laughton lives a double life. (Possibly a documentary.) **The Pawbroker** : Rod Steiger runs a dog and cat adoption agency. **The Man in the Gass Booth** : Adolf Eichmann’s sentence is finally carried out. **Moscow Does Not Believe in Teas** : Soviets confiscate samovars. **Nothing Acred** : Carole Lombard loses all her land. **¿Que Via Mexico?** : Eisenstein and film crew get lost in South Texas. **Eefer Madness** : Classic study of crazed hillbilly novelty singers. [sub]For the love of Og, someone stop me before I post here again.[/sub] ---
**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 20, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/147 "2005-03-20T20:14:30Z")
[**Ruthless Pople**](http://www.popples.org/) - A group of fuzzy, magical creatures who can pull anything out of the pouches on their backs, formerly of a 1980s trend kidnap the wife of their inventor, only to find he doesn’t want her back. ---
**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 20, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/148 "2005-03-20T20:16:23Z")
That should have been poples, plural, not pople. :smack: ---
**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 20, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/149 "2005-03-20T20:24:08Z")
At least you used the letters that were there… Just had a bit of a squidgy one: **I’m Bled On** : Tennis players fall in love during “her time of the month.” ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/150 "2005-03-20T23:35:18Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > How To Make An American Quit > Mr Holland’s Pus > Ill Bill Can I add a letter? Bless the Breasts and Children Otherwise, Roo Service – the Marx Brothers in Oz The Pop of Greenwich Village – Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts as soda jerks mixed up with the mob Lien Resurrection – a real estate horror movie ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/151 "2005-03-20T23:49:27Z")
Big Trouble in Little Chin – Kurt Russell has a bad case of micrognathy, and Kim Cattrall won’t look at him. Mad Ma: The Rod Warrior – Mel Gibson’s post-apocalyptic mother comes after him in the last of the V8 Interceptors. I really don’t know how to work the Rod and Ma references in at the same time without paging Dr. Freud. Mad Ma: Beyond Thunderdom – Burt Reynolds’ favorite sidekick breaks a deal and faces the wheel with Tina Turner and Mel Gibson. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/152 "2005-03-21T00:24:53Z")
People are starting to repeat titles (and slight variations on them) that I contributed on the first two pages. “Big Trouble in Litle Chin”, indeed. How about if I take away _two_ letters? **Clash of the Tits** ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/153 "2005-03-21T00:59:10Z")
**The Hitchhiker’s Gide To The Galaxy** : _The Immoralist_ is a wholly remarkable book. **Lay Misty For Me** : Sometimes a weary Clint was forced to deputise. **Pay Misty For Me** : Sometimes a broke Clint was forced to ask for credit for hookers. ---
**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 21, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/154 "2005-03-21T01:03:42Z")
\*\*Gus, Who’s Coming to Dinner Prim Fear The King of Come Ms. Attacks Like War for Chocolate Ax Driver \*\*…and its sequel, **Meet the Parts** ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/155 "2005-03-21T12:20:06Z")
Frida the 13th - The lead singer from ABBA goes on a killing spree Night Are on Elm Street - horny teens are stalked in their dreams by a psychotic grammar teacher Stephen King movies: The Stan - post-apocalyptic Marvel universe and only the legendary creator can save humanity Christ In - a nerdy teen buys a 1958 Plymouth Fury that’s possessed by the spirit of the Lord To My Knockers - a woman uncovers an alien spacehip and unwittingly gives unsuspecting New Englanders evil boob jobs. T - an evil gold chain-wearing clown with a bad haircut lures children to their doom in the back of a badly detailed van ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/156 "2005-03-21T19:06:04Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > To My Knockers - a woman uncovers an alien spacehip and unwittingly gives unsuspecting New Englanders evil boob jobs. There is no such thing as an evil boob job. Inc. Edibles: The story of a superhero run restaurant.\* [sub]\*Alright I cheated, so sue me.[/sub] ---
**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 21, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/157 "2005-03-21T19:12:08Z")
Hey, :wally ! > [@me](#): > > \*\*The Inedibles \*\* doesn’t count, since that is two letters. > > umm… > > **Stemboy** > > No, that’s just weak. > > Darn… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/158 "2005-03-21T20:17:51Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > There is no such thing as an evil boob job. I guess you didn’t see Tara Reid’s recent wardrobe malfunction, then? ---
**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 21, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/159 "2005-03-21T20:55:43Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > There is no such thing as an evil boob job.[/sub] left eye: _twitch_ … You’ll see the meaning of the word "evil boob job. _Oh hohohohohho!_ ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-one-letter-off-the-sign-and-change-the-movie-title/294617/160 "2005-03-21T21:42:08Z")
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