# Game - Squashed Movie Titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408 "2000-07-03T01:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/1 "2000-07-03T01:56:22Z")
A game my wife and I play sometimes is to come up with funny squashed movie titles. The only rules are these: You have to put two movie titles together. The last word(s) of one title have to be the first word(s) of another title. For example: **The Princess Bride of Frankenstein**. You cannot ignore articles such as A, An, The, etc. in the titles. Therefore, you could not use “Past Perfect Storm” since it ignores the “The” in The Perfect Storm. The bridge can consist of more than one word. Thus you could you use **East Side, West Side Story**. Some of the ones we came up with are: \*\*The King and I Know What You Did Last Summer Call of the Wild, Wild West Father of the Bride of Frankenstein Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in Wonderland \*\* What can you guys come up with? Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/2 "2000-07-03T03:33:24Z")
I didn’t make these up myself but… Down and Out in Beverly Hills Cop The Empire Strikes Back to the Future Now for originals… American Beauty and the Beast Dirty Dancing at Lughnasa The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Come Back The Sixth Sense and Sensibility Escape from New York Stories Boogie Nights in White Satin Fight Club Paradise Independence Day at the Races ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/3 "2000-07-03T03:46:27Z")
Off the top of my head… My Fair Lady and the Tramp 80 Days Around the world is not enough The quick and the dead man walking Coccoon: The Return of the jedi ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/4 "2000-07-03T04:04:15Z")
Man Without a Face/Off Escape from L.A. Confidential The Lost Boys Town Blind Date With An Angel Kiss of Death Becomes Her Lilies of the Field of Dreams Legends of the Fall of the Roman Empire Around the World in 80 Days of Wine and Roses The Adventures of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (in which Errol Flynn beats Kevin Costner silly?) ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/5 "2000-07-03T07:22:41Z")
Aliens Under Siege Murder in the First Blood Porky’s Revenge of the Nerds Point of no Return to Paradise Con Air Force One Reservoir Dogs of War ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/6 "2000-07-03T07:26:47Z")
Aliens Under Siege? What’s the bridge? ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/7 "2000-07-03T08:00:18Z")
There is no bridge. I messed up. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/8 "2000-07-03T08:05:30Z")
Johnny Dangerously aisons (Ya gotta buy it). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/9 "2000-07-03T09:21:58Z")
Dirty Harry and the Hendersons Live and let Die Hard End of Days of Thunder ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/10 "2000-07-03T09:30:29Z")
Batman and Robin and the Seven Hoods Cape Fear of a Black hat Midnight Run, Lola Run Animal House of Games Bordello of Blood Simple You only live Twice in a lifetime ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/11 "2000-07-03T09:38:45Z")
> [@](#): > > A game my wife and I play sometimes is to come up with funny squashed movie titles. Funny. I used to play hide the salami with my wife. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/12 "2000-07-03T10:43:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Johnny Dangerously aisons (Ya gotta buy it). > \*\* I love it ChiefScott!!! You are the coolest! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/13 "2000-07-03T10:57:41Z")
Chicken Run, Lola, Run The Magnificent Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Independence Day Of The Dead Calm American Beauty & The Beast Withnail & I Know What You Did Last Summer Of Sam ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/14 "2000-07-03T11:44:55Z")
Red Dawn of the Dead by dawn ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/15 "2000-07-03T13:20:08Z")
The Big Easy Rider Raging Bull Durham It happened one Night of the Living Dead OK, I’ll stop now. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/16 "2000-07-03T14:04:35Z")
Another favorite of mine: There’s Something About Mary Poppins Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/17 "2000-07-03T18:03:59Z")
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the Drum Slowly ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/18 "2000-07-03T19:18:57Z")
Animal House on Haunted Hill Enemy of the State Fair It’s a Wonderful Life Stinks A Boy and His Dog Day Afternoon The Goodbye Girl, Interrupted ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/19 "2000-07-03T19:23:00Z")
JFK-9 Brain Dead Again Whoops Apocalypse Now Bright Lights, Big City Slickers CB-4 Weddings and a Funeral Humanoids from the Deep Blue Sea The Blair Witch Project A-Ko The Minus Man of La Mancha The Lion King Kong Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Alaska What’s Love Got To Do With It Conquered The World How about using the last word as part of a one-word title? Legal? For example: Office Spaceballs My Life as a Dogma A triple: I Know What You Did Last Summer School Ties And a quadruple: Night of the Living Deadbeat at Dawn of the Dead Presidents ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408/20 "2000-07-03T19:47:02Z")
A sevensome!: The Godfather of the Bride of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man for All Seasons of the Heart Like a Wheel. Withnail and I Was a Teenage Werewolf of London Raging Bull Durham The Big Red One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Losin’ It! The Terror From Beyond Space! Master Harold and the Boys Don’t Cry Freedom Gone With the Wind in the Willows It Happened One Night of the Living Dead [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-squashed-movie-titles/24408.md?page=2)