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As Good as It Gets stars Jack Nicholson as Melvin (a crazier version of Jack Nicholson) and Helen Hunt as Carol (a frumpier version of Helen Hunt). It's one of the best romantic comedies ever, but we'll be the first to admit that the title is pretty generic if you haven't seen it. Is it saying that babysitting a dog for your gay neighbor is as good as life gets? Or that this is the peak of Nicholson's career? (Obviously they had no way of knowing back then that he'd go on to make that one movie with Adam Sandler.)

Hong Kong would have none of this ambiguity bullcrap, so when the movie released there, they gave it a title much more specific ...

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The Foreign Title: Mr. Cat Poop

No, seriously. We checked and triple-checked. Hong Kong knows As Good as It Gets as Mr. Cat Poop, or the way classier Mr. Cat Feces -- ask the nearest Cantonese speaker if you don't believe us, or just check Google Translate:

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"Please, that was my father. Call me Pussy Turd."

The weirdest part is, there are no cats in this movie. You could make a case for Mr. Dog Piss, considering the amount of screen time spent on Melvin's neighbor's dog urinating where it isn't supposed to, but how the hell do you arrive at Mr. Cat Poop? Well, there's a somewhat logical explanation: in Hong Kong, "cat poop" translates roughly to mao fen, which sounds kinda similar to Melvin. Basically, this is like if an American distributor saw an Asian drama with a character called Wang and said, "That's great -- let's rename it Dr. Penis."