One Letter Off Movies
Fight!
Sesame Street Parody Songs
Educational Games
Poetry in Video Games
Characters with Extra Life(ves)
200

Take a 2006 William Friedkin thriller about a war vet who's triggered by an insect infestation to get a 1988 movie about Tom Hanks who finds a way to grow up really fast

"Big" (from "Bug")

200

From the first to the last blow, Keith David spends 5 minutes and 16 seconds pummeling this pro-wrestler to get him to literally see the truth in John Carpenter's "They Live"

Rowdy Roddy Piper

200

Norah Jones performed a song called "Don't Know" this letter of the alphabet

Y

200

This "amphibious" company makes the educational line of LeapPad tablets

LeapFrog

200

In the game called this company "Ultimate Alliance 2", Hulk works on his rage with poems, creating some Hulk-ku

Marvel

200

Bill Murray plays an a-hole anchorman from Pittsburgh who gets trapped in an endless, day long time loop even when he offs himself in this Harold Ramis comedy classic 

"Groundhog Day"

400

Replace one letter from a family friendly Pixar movie to get a Jordan Peele horror movie about a much less friendly family

"Us" (from "Up")

400

If you take Superman's side in the fight against Brainiac in the game "Injustice 2," the final scene features Supergirl learning the horrifying truth that a megalomaniacal Jor El now controls the mind of this DC superhero

Batman

400

"Sesame Street" parodied Fine Young Cannibals with a song called this letter "Drives Me Crazy"

C

400

In a geography computer game, you need to find out "Where in the World Is" she

Carmen Sandiego

400

A plug-in in the "Lord Of The Rings" online game lets you recite a poem that ends, "in" this place "where the shadows are"

Mordor

400

Every time this actress dies on screen, her character Nadia Vulvokov goes back in time and returns to her friend Maxine's bathroom apartment in the Netflix comedy-drama "Russian Doll"

Natasha Lyonne

600

Change a letter from the title of a Sam Rockwell movie about (spoiler!) a cloned astronaut and replace it with another letter to get a movie about a semi-pro hockey brawler named Doug Glatt

"Goon" (from "Moon") 

600

Wanna fight Mike Tyson without having to tell him he talks funny to his face? Pop in a copy of Mike Tyson's Punch Out! in your NES and "punch" in this passcode 

007-373-5963

600

A version of "Despacito" was called "El Patito", Spanish for little this fowl - sung by Ernie, of course

Duck

600

The Amazon Trail is a spin-off from this classic history game

The Oregon Trail

600

In "The Legend Of Zelda", a poem called the Sun's Song inspires you to play a tune on this egg-like instrument

An ocarina

600

The villainous Ra's al Ghul gets a little more villainous every time he revives himself in this "Pit" named for the benefactor of one of Jesus's miracles from the Book of John

Lazarus

800

Take a 2016 horror story about a kid with a life size doll, change one letter and get a 1982 movie about a spoiled rich kid who pays Richard Pryor to be his best friend

"The Toy" (from "The Boy") 

800

Brick Tamland stabbed a guy in the heart with this ancient weapon that the Hindu god Shiva calls "trishula" in the local news team brawl in the first "Anchorman" movie

a trident

800

Tony Bennett and Big Bird sing a duet about this Sesame Street worm muppet going "... to the Moon" just as the title says

Slimey

800

Ms. Frizzle & the yellow title transport feature educational adventures in web games when Flash was worth something based on this TV show

The Magic School Bus

800

"The Book Of The Blind" gives rhyming tips on how to survive a level in this role playing hack 'n slash dungeon crawler

Diablo

800

During the final episode of the 14th season, the undying Kenny is revealed to be this "South Park" superhero 

Mysterion

1000

Replace the first letter in the title of a video game flick starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to get a Disney bomb that cast Tim Allen as a retired superhero. It was really good the first time I saw it...when it was called "Sky High."

"Zoom" (from "DOOM")

1000

Mike Ehrmantraut starts and decisively ends a disarming fight in the first season of "Better Call Saul" with the loudmouth bodyguard Sobchak played this "Grand Theft Auto V" actor

Steven Ogg

1000

James Blunt rewords his first Number One single to sing a love ballad with Telly about how he lost "My" this polygon

Triangle

1000

Mavis Beacon, who has taught this life skill to millions, is not a real person

Typing

1000

This game uses "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" - but with the ending, "the cube had food ...and immortality"

Portal

1000

Even though he died in the first film, this pirate captain played by Geoffrey Rush returns from death at the end of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"

Hector Barbossa