# Make one change to the plot of a movie or show to improve it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359 "2012-10-30T20:46:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/41 "2012-11-01T15:34:14Z")
Rhett Butler: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Roll Credits… ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/42 "2012-11-01T16:08:05Z")
In The Matrix, make Zion part of a “larger Matrix”, making people who escaped the original Matrix believe they are free, even though they are still part of a simulation (this would explain, for example why Neo had superpowers in Zion) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/43 "2012-11-01T16:27:53Z")
**The Big Bang Theory** 1. Move to HBO. 2. Dramatically reduce the dialogue. 3. **Kaley Cuoco naked** and dynamically pliable. **That’s** a show I would watch each week. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/44 "2012-11-02T00:58:53Z")
Audrey starts sleeping with Duke at the beginning of the “Who What Where Wendigo” episode. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/45 "2012-11-02T17:54:53Z")
In _Fringe_, keep the story about the tensions between the two universes. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/46 "2012-11-02T18:12:11Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > **The Big Bang Theory** > > 1. Move to HBO. > > 2. Dramatically reduce the dialogue. > > 3. **Kaley Cuoco naked** and dynamically pliable. > > **That’s** a show I would watch each week. _clap, clap_ In the same vein, (since the the thread requires a _plot_ change, Apollo (Jamie Bamber) acquires a dire allergy to synthetic fabrics and has to spend most of his screen time naked. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/47 "2012-11-02T18:15:58Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > **The Big Bang Theory** > > 1. Move to HBO. > > 2. Dramatically reduce the dialogue. > > 3. **Kaley Cuoco naked** and dynamically pliable. > > **That’s** a show I would watch each week. IMHO, you misspelled Melissa Rauch, but otherwise I support this fully. > [@vislor](#): > > Many thoughts: > > BSG: Give us the Starbuck ending I think they led us up to and then did a Deus Ex Machina at the last minute that made no sense. For those of us without access to your thoughts, what ending is it you think they led us to? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/48 "2012-11-02T18:18:42Z")
A very minor change. At the end of the movie **Dave** , we see Kevin Kline actually running for political office, and the final shot shows former Secret Service agent Ving Rhames standing guard outside his office. They really missed out by not showing him standing there wearing a v-neck sweater, which would have been a perfect shout out to a previous scene where Kevin and Ving talk about that very thing. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/49 "2012-11-02T19:54:08Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > IMHO, you misspelled Melissa Rauch, but otherwise I support this fully. On such a program, would it not logically follow that the 2 females do some kind of “experimenting”? Oh, the DVD sales… ---
**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:** [November 2, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/50 "2012-11-02T20:17:19Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > On such a program, would it not logically follow that the 2 females do some kind of “experimenting”? > > Oh, the DVD sales… You + Charlotte = beer ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/51 "2012-11-03T01:41:48Z")
Jack in _Meet the Parents_ just comes right out and says “I don’t want my daughter marrying a hebe.” Greg tries to win him over anyway. My serious improvement to that movie: Greg actually deserves Jack’s scorn (and “wanting to marry his daughter” doesn’t count, I mean actually being a pothead or whatever). OR Greg decides at the end, “the hell with the Byrnes, Pam’s not worth putting up with this bullshit the rest of my life.” ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/52 "2012-11-03T01:43:32Z")
I don’t know why this double posted ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/53 "2012-11-03T01:51:42Z")
Original paranormal activity. Instead of the girl standing and watching dude sleep. She should have jumped him and had hot monkey sex. She had previously been against performing for camera. Having sex would have demonstrated the obvious change within her. And it would have been super creepy. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359/54 "2012-11-03T04:33:04Z")
> [@Kiyoshi](#): > > Why doesn’t Ross, the largest of the Friends, not simply EAT the others? > > [/futurama] I have a couple ideas I’m kicking around for that show. Most go something like this: “FRIENDS! A show about six 20-somethings in New York. Starring Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, and David Schwimmer as her deaf-mute brother, Ross.” Or else dub him with James Earl Jones. Prometheus: making one change is not enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-one-change-to-the-plot-of-a-movie-or-show-to-improve-it/639359.md?page=2)