# Sequel Names That Should Have Been **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158 "2010-07-09T22:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/21 "2010-07-12T14:03:45Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Malcolm XI You mean **Malcolm Y.** Jet Li returns in **The Two**. **Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.** Roy annoys the aliens so much they bring him right back. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/22 "2010-07-12T14:09:30Z")
**Close Encounters of the 3-D Kind:** A pointless update of the original. This time, all the national guard troops are armed with walkie-talkies. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/23 "2010-07-12T14:12:17Z")
For Bring It, my daughter proposed It Has Been Broughten! ---
**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:** [July 12, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/24 "2010-07-12T14:13:47Z")
\*\*1787 – The Musical Constitution \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/25 "2010-07-12T14:19:38Z")
_(Original title) 2-Electric Boogaloo_ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/26 "2010-07-12T14:25:01Z")
Brokeback Gap. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/27 "2010-07-12T14:44:14Z")
The Haberdasher Josey Wales The Old, The Infirm, and The Medicated Oklahoma Sucks! The Texas Schoolboard Massacre ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/28 "2010-07-12T15:25:27Z")
The Fall of the House of Usher, Yo 7:30-ish: A Vampyre Film Series for the Elderly ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/29 "2010-07-12T15:30:25Z")
**Finally Forgiven.** ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/30 "2010-07-12T15:38:51Z")
\*\*Brokeback Valley Rejection Letter for the Vampire Star Peace / Star Detente / Star Border Wars Lunch at Tiffany’s\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/31 "2010-07-12T15:41:47Z")
Breakfast at Denny’s Placenta of a Nation It’s a Wonderful Life, until the wife has an affair and the kids grow up they don’t call they don’t write, and what’s the point anyway, you just die alone ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/32 "2010-07-12T15:46:29Z")
**Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter is Still Dead.** ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/33 "2010-07-12T16:28:36Z")
The all-Stephen King edition: Salem’s Lots More The Shawshank Fall From Grace Teenagers Of The Corn Carrie On The Slightly Tarnished Firecompleter Cujojo Dancer, Your Life is Calling Pet Crematorium The Light Half Miserier The Green Kilometer The Mostly Dead Zone ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/34 "2010-07-12T16:53:37Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > The all-Stephen King edition: > > Salem’s Lots More > > The Shawshank Fall From Grace > > Teenagers Of The Corn > > Carrie On > > The Slightly Tarnished > > Firecompleter > > Cujojo Dancer, Your Life is Calling > > Pet Crematorium > > The Light Half > > Miserier > > The Green Kilometer > > The Mostly Dead Zone The Sitdown The Tarnishing Livers in Chicamauga Oops, I see you have The Shining covered. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/35 "2010-07-12T17:03:59Z")
McCabe & Mrs. Millest ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/36 "2010-07-12T17:05:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Placenta of a Nation Shouldn’t that be **Afterbirth of a Nation**? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/37 "2010-07-12T17:06:09Z")
Four Honeymoons and an Interment ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/38 "2010-07-12T17:07:37Z")
**Old Guns** ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/39 "2010-07-12T17:09:37Z")
J.R.R Tolkien’s _The Return of the Ring_ The Matrix Demystified Kill Bill Vol 3: Pay Bills The B-Team ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequel-names-that-should-have-been/546158/40 "2010-07-12T17:11:10Z")
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