# Replace one word in a title with a homonym **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196 "2012-06-15T02:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/1 "2012-06-15T02:15:11Z")
We’ve [subtracted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=620102) a letter from movie titles, and [added](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617791) a letter to the same, and then [changed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=628485) one letter in a TV/movie title. Now let’s change one word in titles, but there’s a catch: the word you change must be replaced with **a homonym**. After you change the word of your choice tell us about the movie or show. Note: We’re not going to argue about what is/isn’t a homonym in this thread, we’re just not. To some of you Mary, marry & merry are homonyms, and to some of us Concord and conquered are (but not Concorde, oddly enough). Just accept that other people might consider different words to sound the same and move on, k? Anyway… **Don of the Dead** : In the middle of a power struggle with other members of the mob, a mafia don finds himself fighting off the Undead who also want a piece of his city. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/2 "2012-06-15T02:51:57Z")
**The Empire Strikes Bach** – the death start hunts down a baroque composer. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/3 "2012-06-15T02:55:54Z")
Don and Shaun are homonyms in what universe? Am I not getting something? “So I Married an Acts Murderer” - Lady gets hitched to a really bad actor. Hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/4 "2012-06-15T02:58:09Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Don and Shaun are homonyms in what universe? Am I not getting something? Dawn. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/5 "2012-06-15T03:09:56Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Don and Shaun are homonyms in what universe? Am I not getting something? The fact that Shaun of the Dead was a take off on a more famous title? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/6 "2012-06-15T03:56:59Z")
Star whores. It’s a stretch. Rated X-wing. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/7 "2012-06-15T04:11:10Z")
**The Hunt for the Read October** - Man reads, then loses, then searches for book titled **October.** ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/8 "2012-06-15T04:23:50Z")
**Lein on Me** In a post apocolyptic world, a man mortgages _himself_ to pay for his child’s operation, and the bank says “pay up”. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/9 "2012-06-15T04:42:18Z")
**Groundhog Dei** In the latter days of the second millenium AD, God anoints a prophet to prepare the way for Judgment Day…and his name is Punxsutawney Phil. Phil is granted the power to hold back the march of days, preventing Armageddon until his message is heard and understood, but–having been sound asleep when he was Chosen, unable to communicate anything more subtle than “Put me down!” to humans, and rather grumpy about the whole affair–Phil just uses it to go back to bed. Repeatedly. (It’s possible that a filing error in the Celestial Bureaucracy resulted in another fellow with a similar name to that of the Prophet being able to perceive this exercise of divine power, but unable to influence it in any way. The filing angels insist that even if such an error occurred, it didn’t matter, because God eventually gave up on Project Groundhog, and ended the world the next day.) ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/10 "2012-06-15T04:48:17Z")
The Mall Tease Falcon - A bird in a pet store lures victims into its claws. Schindler’s Liszt - Man protects Jewish refugees in his orchestra King Cong - Vietnam vet climbs the Empire State Building Rebel Without a Coz - Remake of I Spy without a black guy Do the Wright Thing - Spike Lee’s take on Wilbur and Orville A Knight at the Opera - Wasn’t this [already done](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot_(musical))? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/11 "2012-06-15T04:50:40Z")
**King Leer** - The monarch’s three daughters don’t care for the way he looks at them. **Annie Haul** - A quirky Manhattanite starts up the La-De-Da van rental service. **Thyme Bandits** - A gang of cosmic midgets search the universe for the map to God’s herb garden. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/12 "2012-06-15T04:59:56Z")
Annie Haul - Girl scores big at vintage clothing store The Banned Wagon - Censors object to gay settlers on the Oregon Trail Bourne on the Fourth of July - Matt Damon joins Will Smith to fight alien invaders ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/13 "2012-06-15T05:08:43Z")
Cramer vs Kramer - Wife divorces husband after he gives her a bad stock tip The Outlaw Josey Whales - Clint Eastwood stars in remake of Free Willy ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/14 "2012-06-15T05:10:42Z")
**Reign Man** - A man ascends to the throne, in spite of his mental disability. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/15 "2012-06-15T05:13:17Z")
To Have and Have Naught - Bogy loses Bacall when he admits that “Actually, no; I don’t know how to whistle”. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/16 "2012-06-15T05:51:15Z")
**Sines** - The aliens are invading, and only ex-mathematician Mel Gibson can stop them. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/17 "2012-06-15T06:21:09Z")
**Citizen Caine** - The journey of a Shaolin monk through the heartland of America. Armed with the spiritual training and martial arts skills endowed to him by a Shaolin monastery, Kwai Chang Caine travels America fighting prejudice, injustice, and Homeland Security agents in his quest to obtain US citizenship. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/18 "2012-06-15T06:43:31Z")
**The Hounds of Music** A slightly spastic Austrian nun with a light British accent and a five-octave singing range is given the responsibility of rearing seven orphan basset hound puppies. Cheering the puppies up and bringing some light into their lives, Maria teaches the hounds to sing, eventually entering them into a talent show in the city of Mozart, where, naturally, they win. Plus, Nazis! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/19 "2012-06-15T08:09:44Z")
Apokolips Now. Darkseid, Ride of the Valkyries, napalm, I dunno, you figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196/20 "2012-06-15T11:48:36Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > **Sines** - The aliens are invading, and only ex-mathematician Mel Gibson can stop them. Are they attacking in regularly spaced waves? Sorry… “ **Thaw** ” It is very cold in Scandinavia so the local gods hatch a plan to mug Prometheus and solve their central heating problem. High-jinks ensue! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replace-one-word-in-a-title-with-a-homonym/625196.md?page=2)