What is the crow on the Orient Express joke?
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A twitter user @jameshannah put out a tweet “Depluralise a film. I’ll start. Jaw.” Another user @benjaminjudge replied “A Crow on the Orient Express.”
The joke is based on the concept of “depluralizing” a film title, which means taking a movie title that has a plural word in it and making that word singular.
The original tweet by @jameshannah gives the example of taking the movie “Jaws” and turning it into “Jaw.”
@benjaminjudge’s reply “A Crow on the Orient Express” is a play on the movie title “Murder on the Orient Express.” The joke here is that “murder” is not only a term for the act of killing someone but also a term for a group of crows. So, by “depluralizing” the group of crows (i.e., a “murder” of crows) to a single crow, the title becomes “A Crow on the Orient Express.”