TV Tropes Meme!
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works/comics/etc and put their summaries from the TV Tropes entry, Better Than it Sounds, and have your friends guess what they are.
As a note, I only did movies/anime/tv shows.
YAY! All solved!
1. Everything you know about life is wrong, and these two guys are going to tell you why. Bombastically.
2. Nine people look out into the blackness of space and see nine different things.
3. Woman pursues man who wants to be a woman. There's also a jailbreak.
4. Willy Wonka exacts revenge on Snape, but to do so he has to kill Borat. Meanwhile, a woman sticks weird things into her pie(s).
5. Seven military officers facing court martial look for whales so they can fly them into the sun.
6. Crippled Doctor can't decide if he's Batman, Sherlock Holmes, or Nietzsche; solves medical mysteries to keep the crushing ennui at bay only to find that Victory Is Boring.
7. In Meiji-era Japan, a former assassin fights evil with a backwards sword.
8. A girl has to figure out how to get possessed by a bird.
9. A blacksmith's rich girlfriend gets kidnapped by zombie pirates, and he goes to rescue her with the help of another pirate who is not a zombie but wears eyeliner.
10. Teenage girl fights with mother over pregnancy, then writes about it in her diary.
11. An apathetic virgin with a death certificate gets press-ganged into collecting the souls of newly departed when not hanging out in a diner with her dysfunctional co-workers. Post-it-notes are Serious Business.
12. Five kids walk westward for a few days. All the while, their de-facto leader is following the advice of what is either a hallucination or his mother's ghost. And then they kill the guy who killed the leader's mother.
13. The quest for food and treasure is key, but keeps being interrupted to save the world.
14. A widowed surgeon imprisons his daughter. The dead wife's ex-boyfriend tries to break the daughter out. Daughter befriends a drug dealer.
15. Factory owner has trouble in keeping his workforce
16. The main character is charming, personable, and homicidal. He's a cop by day and a killer by night...
17. A widowed man tries to redeem a corrupt organization, but his father won't have it; meanwhile, his brother is breaking his heart and his sister is having marital problems. It's a comedy, with a heaping helping of Large Ham
18. Two slackers discover that the dead have risen and decide to go to the pub.
19. A commercial for granola bars causes a schizophrenic ninety pound girl and a Shell Shocked Senior to topple a government
20. A trigger-happy botanist and an elderly sanitation worker fall in love. Then they rescue some fat people from a steering wheel.
Solutions that have been figured out!
1. Penn and Teller: Bullshit!
2. Firefly
3. Silence of the Lambs
4. Sweeney Todd
5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
6. House MD
7. Rurouni Kenshin
8. Fushigi Yuugi
9. Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl
10. Precious
11. Dead Like Me
12. The Land Before Time
13. The Slayers
14. Repo! The Genetic Opera
15. Schindler's List
16. Dexter
17. Arrested Development
18. Shaun of the Dead
19. Serenity
20. Wall-E
As a note, I only did movies/anime/tv shows.
YAY! All solved!
1. Everything you know about life is wrong, and these two guys are going to tell you why. Bombastically.
2. Nine people look out into the blackness of space and see nine different things.
3. Woman pursues man who wants to be a woman. There's also a jailbreak.
4. Willy Wonka exacts revenge on Snape, but to do so he has to kill Borat. Meanwhile, a woman sticks weird things into her pie(s).
5. Seven military officers facing court martial look for whales so they can fly them into the sun.
6. Crippled Doctor can't decide if he's Batman, Sherlock Holmes, or Nietzsche; solves medical mysteries to keep the crushing ennui at bay only to find that Victory Is Boring.
7. In Meiji-era Japan, a former assassin fights evil with a backwards sword.
8. A girl has to figure out how to get possessed by a bird.
9. A blacksmith's rich girlfriend gets kidnapped by zombie pirates, and he goes to rescue her with the help of another pirate who is not a zombie but wears eyeliner.
10. Teenage girl fights with mother over pregnancy, then writes about it in her diary.
11. An apathetic virgin with a death certificate gets press-ganged into collecting the souls of newly departed when not hanging out in a diner with her dysfunctional co-workers. Post-it-notes are Serious Business.
12. Five kids walk westward for a few days. All the while, their de-facto leader is following the advice of what is either a hallucination or his mother's ghost. And then they kill the guy who killed the leader's mother.
13. The quest for food and treasure is key, but keeps being interrupted to save the world.
14. A widowed surgeon imprisons his daughter. The dead wife's ex-boyfriend tries to break the daughter out. Daughter befriends a drug dealer.
15. Factory owner has trouble in keeping his workforce
16. The main character is charming, personable, and homicidal. He's a cop by day and a killer by night...
17. A widowed man tries to redeem a corrupt organization, but his father won't have it; meanwhile, his brother is breaking his heart and his sister is having marital problems. It's a comedy, with a heaping helping of Large Ham
18. Two slackers discover that the dead have risen and decide to go to the pub.
19. A commercial for granola bars causes a schizophrenic ninety pound girl and a Shell Shocked Senior to topple a government
20. A trigger-happy botanist and an elderly sanitation worker fall in love. Then they rescue some fat people from a steering wheel.
Solutions that have been figured out!
1. Penn and Teller: Bullshit!
2. Firefly
3. Silence of the Lambs
4. Sweeney Todd
5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
6. House MD
7. Rurouni Kenshin
8. Fushigi Yuugi
9. Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl
10. Precious
11. Dead Like Me
12. The Land Before Time
13. The Slayers
14. Repo! The Genetic Opera
15. Schindler's List
16. Dexter
17. Arrested Development
18. Shaun of the Dead
19. Serenity
20. Wall-E