Movies With -ing Added

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I’m Grant Barrett.

And I’m Martha Barnette.

There’s a game making the rounds on the internet, and it’s called, If You Added ING to a Movie Title, How Would the Plot Change?

Oh, boy.

So, for example, Gone with the Wind.

Gone with the Winding?

Mm—

The story of what happened when we all started wearing digital watches.

Gone with the Winding.

Yeah.

Or how about this one?

Dude, where’s my car?

Turns into, dude, where’s my caring?

And that’s about, you know, the bleakness and apathy of urban life.

Oh, no.

And the great thing is that on our Facebook group, our listeners are having a field day with these.

So I wanted to share some of these.

This is from Baron von Boren.

He suggested the Blair Witch Project, which becomes the Blair Witch Projecting.

High schooler Blair Witch reads too much into the inflection of her friend’s words.

And Tom Sarve suggested Jesus Christ super staring.

Jesus wins every staring contest he enters.

These are so great.

Angie J. Bean wrote The Right Stuffing.

There must be sage.

Julia Child’s special Thanksgiving edition.

Oh, you want to?

I’m not even going to do it.

And now that I’ve started reading these, I’m just, I can’t stop.

I can’t stop thinking of these.

Every movie I run into, I’m adding ING to the end of it.

So on Twitter, is there a hashtag for this so I can search and find more?

Movies with ING?

I bet if you search, you’ll find a ton of them.

Probably.

Probably.

And there’s a discussion on our Facebook page, and I will share some more later in the show.

Yes, please.

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