# Punchlines in Movie Titles **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 20, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punchlines-in-movie-titles/686558 "2014-04-20T19:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punchlines-in-movie-titles/686558/1 "2014-04-20T19:58:02Z")
Inspired by this thred: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17302446](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17302446). Take a movie title and alter it to be the punchline of a joke but still recognizable as to what movie it refers. For example: When an investment banker played by Pierce Brosnan and an insurance investigator played by Rene Russo decide to have children, they realize their busy schedules require that they hire some live-in help to assist them. That person is referred to as “The Thomas Crown Au Pair.” Then there was the Von Trapp family dog. They called him “The Hound of Music.” ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punchlines-in-movie-titles/686558/2 "2014-04-20T23:03:51Z")
If the Von Trapp dog was Sicilian, he could have been the Dogfather. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punchlines-in-movie-titles/686558/3 "2014-04-21T19:13:20Z")
Luke Skywalker touched a frog and now he has “Star Warts.” Which truck driver can get his cargo of fuzzy robot toys to the store first? Find out in “The Fast and the Furbiest.” Scarlett O’Hara takes up percussion instruments in “Gong with the Wind.” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punchlines-in-movie-titles/686558/4 "2014-04-21T21:02:48Z")
The Aristocats! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punchlines-in-movie-titles/686558/5 "2014-04-21T21:05:34Z")
The Beatles appear in present day New York City and try to determine the best places to go and the grooviest shops to frequent in _Yelp!_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punchlines-in-movie-titles/686558/6 "2014-04-21T22:05:15Z")
R&B/Soul artist Gladys Knight and her backup singers star as Air Force flyers in a Vietnam War film: _A Flock of Pips Now._ ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punchlines-in-movie-titles/686558/7 "2014-04-21T22:07:21Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > The Aristocats! I believe we have a winner.