A Hilarious (Yet Sad) Discovery
All pop songs use the same four chords. Here, let the guys from Axis of Awesome prove it:
IT'S BETTER THAN IT SOUNDS!
Pick 20 titles from any media (movies, video games, literary works, etc.) and find their summaries on Better than it Sounds. Have your friends guess without cheating.
1. Dead people fight other dead people but almost never to the death. Bleach (vethica)
2. A schoolgirl is surrounded by bishounen vampires, proceeds to get in a love triangle involving her half-brother, and then everyone starts drinking everyone else's blood, probably to stay alive. Vampire Knight (vethica)
3. An Unlucky Everydude accidentally becomes a Magical Database and fights crime with the help of a hot blonde CIA agent and a grumpy male NSA agent.
4. A teenage girl teams up with a cellist and a giant-revolver-wielding David Bowie to fight vampires.
Or: A teenaged girl has to keep her sister from getting pregnant.
Or: A teenage pop idol does horrible things at her manager's insistence. Blood+ (vethica)
5. Undead detectives foil a doctor's sinister plot to discover the cure for decapitation.
6. A pair of bitter war veterans, a prostitute, a mercenary with an ugly hat, a cute mechanic, a Hawaiian-shirt wearing pilot, a preacher with a Mysterious Past, a socially inept medical genius and the cutest little psychotic killing machine ever all get together on a ship. They Fight Do Crime! Firefly (vethica)
7. A guy who eats vampires acts like a complete idiot while occasionally eating vampires and making a scythe out of his blood. Nanomachines started it. Trinity Blood (hoyvinglavin64)
8. Four guys are sent west in a very small jeep by a hermaphroditic deity. Hilarity Ensues.
9. Artist mopes because girlfriend is dead. At her request, he is put through Hell-but at least a poet he admires greatly is there to guide him through it. He gets better, but even then he has a long journey ahead of him. The Inferno (vethica)
10. In a totalitarian world, a man has philisophical discussions with himself, has sex whenever he is alone with his girlfriend for longer than ten minutes, then gets tortured. 1984 (vethica)
11. A man tells his children the story of how he met a bunch of women who aren't their mother with the help of Doogie Howser. How I Met Your Mother (vethica)
12. A boy and his butler solve murders and sometimes commit them. Sometimes there are zombies and often there is incest.
13. A boy with a misleading name tries to solve peoples' problems using a Sharpie and a hammer. Cast includes a green amnesiac, a neurotic vampire, a masochistic med-school dropout, a pervy sharkboy, and a walking grandfather clock. Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name (vethica)
14. Twenty Minutes Into The Future, nobody reads. Man starts to question his job. Fahrenheit 451 (vethica)
15. Military specialist searches for a magic rock recipe to get his brother out of a can. In one version of the story, the rock is their father, in the other version the rock is us. Fullmetal Alchemist (vethica)
16. Jesus and Buddha celebrate their divine bromance by moving to Japan and renting an apartment together. Saint Young Men (vethica)
17. A whole bunch of people with superpowers play recreational sports with the Idiot Ball.
Or: The X Men minus the tights, and with somewhat better dialogue.
18. Three kids use The Power Of Love to help save the universe from a disembodied brain who's really big on conformity.
19. LOL Aspergers.
Alternatively, Red Dwarf IN PASADENA!
20. An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler. Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler (vethica)
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Pick 20 titles from any media (movies, video games, literary works, etc.) and find their summaries on Better than it Sounds. Have your friends guess without cheating.
1. Dead people fight other dead people but almost never to the death. Bleach (vethica)
2. A schoolgirl is surrounded by bishounen vampires, proceeds to get in a love triangle involving her half-brother, and then everyone starts drinking everyone else's blood, probably to stay alive. Vampire Knight (vethica)
3. An Unlucky Everydude accidentally becomes a Magical Database and fights crime with the help of a hot blonde CIA agent and a grumpy male NSA agent.
4. A teenage girl teams up with a cellist and a giant-revolver-wielding David Bowie to fight vampires.
Or: A teenaged girl has to keep her sister from getting pregnant.
Or: A teenage pop idol does horrible things at her manager's insistence. Blood+ (vethica)
5. Undead detectives foil a doctor's sinister plot to discover the cure for decapitation.
6. A pair of bitter war veterans, a prostitute, a mercenary with an ugly hat, a cute mechanic, a Hawaiian-shirt wearing pilot, a preacher with a Mysterious Past, a socially inept medical genius and the cutest little psychotic killing machine ever all get together on a ship. They Fight Do Crime! Firefly (vethica)
7. A guy who eats vampires acts like a complete idiot while occasionally eating vampires and making a scythe out of his blood. Nanomachines started it. Trinity Blood (hoyvinglavin64)
8. Four guys are sent west in a very small jeep by a hermaphroditic deity. Hilarity Ensues.
9. Artist mopes because girlfriend is dead. At her request, he is put through Hell-but at least a poet he admires greatly is there to guide him through it. He gets better, but even then he has a long journey ahead of him. The Inferno (vethica)
10. In a totalitarian world, a man has philisophical discussions with himself, has sex whenever he is alone with his girlfriend for longer than ten minutes, then gets tortured. 1984 (vethica)
11. A man tells his children the story of how he met a bunch of women who aren't their mother with the help of Doogie Howser. How I Met Your Mother (vethica)
12. A boy and his butler solve murders and sometimes commit them. Sometimes there are zombies and often there is incest.
13. A boy with a misleading name tries to solve peoples' problems using a Sharpie and a hammer. Cast includes a green amnesiac, a neurotic vampire, a masochistic med-school dropout, a pervy sharkboy, and a walking grandfather clock. Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name (vethica)
14. Twenty Minutes Into The Future, nobody reads. Man starts to question his job. Fahrenheit 451 (vethica)
15. Military specialist searches for a magic rock recipe to get his brother out of a can. In one version of the story, the rock is their father, in the other version the rock is us. Fullmetal Alchemist (vethica)
16. Jesus and Buddha celebrate their divine bromance by moving to Japan and renting an apartment together. Saint Young Men (vethica)
17. A whole bunch of people with superpowers play recreational sports with the Idiot Ball.
Or: The X Men minus the tights, and with somewhat better dialogue.
18. Three kids use The Power Of Love to help save the universe from a disembodied brain who's really big on conformity.
19. LOL Aspergers.
Alternatively, Red Dwarf IN PASADENA!
20. An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler. Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler (vethica)