MEME
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. MIBs solve everyone's problems through spontaneous song and dance numbers.' Elite Beat Agents
2. An anarchistic dominatrix and her Mad Scientist archnemesis/boyfriend engage in over-the-top, surreal action sequences intercut with Mind Screwy dialog and kinky sex. Alternatively, barely dressed Anti Heroine may be trying to save the world, but keeps getting distracted by her habit of having sex with the villain. She dies. Repeatedly.
ANSWER: Aeon Flux
3. A heavily tattooed kung-fu Dalai Lama, his Eskimo pals, a blind Chinese loli of mass destruction and some animals that don't exist (but should) take on an army of arsonists who wear giant shoulderpads. Avatar: the Last Airbender
4. Smug witch makes a Weirdness Magnet her bitch.
ANSWER: xxxHolic
5. A brave but dim young man with a goofy haircut enters the high-stakes world of bread-making.
ANSWER: Yakitate Japan
6. In A World where not-terribly-nice people can kill you with their minds, a fat guy, a talking cat, an emotionless girl and a man with a bulletproof jacket take on odd jobs every two episodes.
ANSWER: Darker Than Black
7. A group of really screwed-up losers investigate a murder whilst a big blue naked man contemplates the nature of time and space. Then a giant Space Squid kills most of New York. Alternately: Washed-up former celebrities deal with their sexual identities on the eve of the apocalypse. Watchmen
8. A psycho declares war on the government. He may or may not be right to do so.
ANSWER: V for Vendetta
9. Emo Kid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a White Haired Pretty Boy and tries to get his sister to accept him.
ANSWER: The Sandman
10. A walking skeleton decides to be jolly instead of scary, and nearly ruins Christmas as a result. Nightmare Before Christmas
11. A musical about a slut and an asshole who get corrupted by a crossdressing mad scientist and his retinue. Rocky Horror Picture Show
12. A sadist has therapy.
ANSWER: A Clockwork Orange
13. Girl talks to animals and fights giant metal birds with human heads and later falls in love with her teacher, who is twice her age. And her father actually has horns.
ANSWER: The Immortals Quartet
14. Ex-delivery boy pursues knife-wielding Eskimo both online and off. Has much stuff explained to him, then fights Sumerian neurolinguistic death meme. Or, a plot to Mind Control every geek in America is foiled when teenage skater chick with a thing for Mafiosi decides to deliver a pizza. Snowcrash
15. A band consisting of a blue haired childish Casanova and both eyes pressed into his head, a Satanist who owns Satan's own bass (El Diablo), a 15 year old Japanese Super Soldier and a drummer who has been possessed by multiple spirits.
ANSWER: Gorillaz
16. Two French guys who cut bits out of good songs, add a beat, and then appear onstage to perform them standing in a pyramid made of incandescent tubes. Oh, and they pretend to be robots.
ANSWER: Daft Punk
17. Stick figures make one-shot jokes about grad-level sciences and esoteric nerd culture. The fact that 95% of the general population has no idea what the hell is going on just makes it that much sweeter for the 5% who do. xkcd
18. Two disgraced angels try to exploit a loophole in Catholicism to kill God and destroy the universe, and it's up to an abortion clinic worker, two stoners, a stripper, and the 13th Apostle to stop them. And there's a monster made out of crap.
ANSWER: Dogma
19. A poor girl is forced to pretend she's a boy and hang out with obnoxiously rich Bishonen as punishment for destroying private property. Ouran High School Host Club
20. Lots of children get sick, and join a cat-eyed cult led by three brothers, whose mother is a head in a box. One brother eventually grows up to become their father, only to get beaten up in a spectacular fashion. Meanwhile, a man sees dead people, thinks about deep things, and fights lots (often doing all three at the same time).
ANSWER: Final Fantasy Advent Children
1. MIBs solve everyone's problems through spontaneous song and dance numbers.' Elite Beat Agents
2. An anarchistic dominatrix and her Mad Scientist archnemesis/boyfriend engage in over-the-top, surreal action sequences intercut with Mind Screwy dialog and kinky sex. Alternatively, barely dressed Anti Heroine may be trying to save the world, but keeps getting distracted by her habit of having sex with the villain. She dies. Repeatedly.
ANSWER: Aeon Flux
3. A heavily tattooed kung-fu Dalai Lama, his Eskimo pals, a blind Chinese loli of mass destruction and some animals that don't exist (but should) take on an army of arsonists who wear giant shoulderpads. Avatar: the Last Airbender
4. Smug witch makes a Weirdness Magnet her bitch.
ANSWER: xxxHolic
5. A brave but dim young man with a goofy haircut enters the high-stakes world of bread-making.
ANSWER: Yakitate Japan
6. In A World where not-terribly-nice people can kill you with their minds, a fat guy, a talking cat, an emotionless girl and a man with a bulletproof jacket take on odd jobs every two episodes.
ANSWER: Darker Than Black
7. A group of really screwed-up losers investigate a murder whilst a big blue naked man contemplates the nature of time and space. Then a giant Space Squid kills most of New York. Alternately: Washed-up former celebrities deal with their sexual identities on the eve of the apocalypse. Watchmen
8. A psycho declares war on the government. He may or may not be right to do so.
ANSWER: V for Vendetta
9. Emo Kid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a White Haired Pretty Boy and tries to get his sister to accept him.
ANSWER: The Sandman
10. A walking skeleton decides to be jolly instead of scary, and nearly ruins Christmas as a result. Nightmare Before Christmas
11. A musical about a slut and an asshole who get corrupted by a crossdressing mad scientist and his retinue. Rocky Horror Picture Show
12. A sadist has therapy.
ANSWER: A Clockwork Orange
13. Girl talks to animals and fights giant metal birds with human heads and later falls in love with her teacher, who is twice her age. And her father actually has horns.
ANSWER: The Immortals Quartet
14. Ex-delivery boy pursues knife-wielding Eskimo both online and off. Has much stuff explained to him, then fights Sumerian neurolinguistic death meme. Or, a plot to Mind Control every geek in America is foiled when teenage skater chick with a thing for Mafiosi decides to deliver a pizza. Snowcrash
15. A band consisting of a blue haired childish Casanova and both eyes pressed into his head, a Satanist who owns Satan's own bass (El Diablo), a 15 year old Japanese Super Soldier and a drummer who has been possessed by multiple spirits.
ANSWER: Gorillaz
16. Two French guys who cut bits out of good songs, add a beat, and then appear onstage to perform them standing in a pyramid made of incandescent tubes. Oh, and they pretend to be robots.
ANSWER: Daft Punk
17. Stick figures make one-shot jokes about grad-level sciences and esoteric nerd culture. The fact that 95% of the general population has no idea what the hell is going on just makes it that much sweeter for the 5% who do. xkcd
18. Two disgraced angels try to exploit a loophole in Catholicism to kill God and destroy the universe, and it's up to an abortion clinic worker, two stoners, a stripper, and the 13th Apostle to stop them. And there's a monster made out of crap.
ANSWER: Dogma
19. A poor girl is forced to pretend she's a boy and hang out with obnoxiously rich Bishonen as punishment for destroying private property. Ouran High School Host Club
20. Lots of children get sick, and join a cat-eyed cult led by three brothers, whose mother is a head in a box. One brother eventually grows up to become their father, only to get beaten up in a spectacular fashion. Meanwhile, a man sees dead people, thinks about deep things, and fights lots (often doing all three at the same time).
ANSWER: Final Fantasy Advent Children