Better Than It Sounds meme!
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works/television series and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she runs into and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. The Wizard of Oz
2. A military officer working for a foreign dictator hides in a small American town under a false identity with three subordinates posing as his relatives. He regularly has sex with a local woman who doesn't know his true identity. Hilarity Ensues. 3rd Rock From the Sun
3. A bungling coward saves Not-Quite-Australia from a drought. Meanwhile, his colleagues travel to a deserted island, and accidentally inspire the invention of natural selection and sexual reproduction.
4. Children neglected by their workaholic father and political activist mother befriend a busker, participate in magic with their flighty governess, and cause an economic crisis. It's a musical. Mary Poppins
5. A young aristocrat suffers a severe emotional crisis, is betrayed by his most trusted ally, abandoned by his family and country, treated with contempt by his friends, and attempts to kill himself repeatedly. Tales of the Abyss
6. A cargo deliveryman escapes from being stranded on an alien world with a poisonous atmosphere with the help of an army of carrot-creatures.
7. A neurotic ballet dancer takes singing lessons from a serial killer who lives behind her dressing-room mirror.
8. An old woman leaves her home in pursuit of another old woman, and ends up becoming the housekeeper for a selfish, immature Bishounen.
9. 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
10. A semi-amnesiac scientist travels through time with his horny, invisible friend, who carries a computer disguised as a tetris cube (sometimes a calculator).
11. The same story of a boy saving a girl from a pig, told over and over again six or seven times. The Legend of Zelda
12. 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. House
13. Millionaire picks his heirs because they live in the same building as his murderer, dies several times before blowing up his estate as a birthday present for his wife.
14. A miner and a delinquent team up with an underage girl for the purpose of fighting a race war.
15. The old friend, who is a cravat-wearing prosecutor, gets hysterically laughed at, tied up, and even assaulted by a badger in the course of solving crimes with logic and really dramatic pointing. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
16. You are tasked with guiding a bunch of retarded, suicidal rodents to safety. Lemmings
17. Small people with random skills go on a road trip and fight large people with government connections.
18. A soap opera wrapped in High School Musical- but it works. Glee
19. People are sick. Their doctors don't know why, until they do.
20. The people are not motivated. A squad of manly cheerleaders tries to alleviate this.
1. Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she runs into and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. The Wizard of Oz
2. A military officer working for a foreign dictator hides in a small American town under a false identity with three subordinates posing as his relatives. He regularly has sex with a local woman who doesn't know his true identity. Hilarity Ensues. 3rd Rock From the Sun
3. A bungling coward saves Not-Quite-Australia from a drought. Meanwhile, his colleagues travel to a deserted island, and accidentally inspire the invention of natural selection and sexual reproduction.
4. Children neglected by their workaholic father and political activist mother befriend a busker, participate in magic with their flighty governess, and cause an economic crisis. It's a musical. Mary Poppins
5. A young aristocrat suffers a severe emotional crisis, is betrayed by his most trusted ally, abandoned by his family and country, treated with contempt by his friends, and attempts to kill himself repeatedly. Tales of the Abyss
6. A cargo deliveryman escapes from being stranded on an alien world with a poisonous atmosphere with the help of an army of carrot-creatures.
7. A neurotic ballet dancer takes singing lessons from a serial killer who lives behind her dressing-room mirror.
8. An old woman leaves her home in pursuit of another old woman, and ends up becoming the housekeeper for a selfish, immature Bishounen.
9. 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
10. A semi-amnesiac scientist travels through time with his horny, invisible friend, who carries a computer disguised as a tetris cube (sometimes a calculator).
11. The same story of a boy saving a girl from a pig, told over and over again six or seven times. The Legend of Zelda
12. 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. House
13. Millionaire picks his heirs because they live in the same building as his murderer, dies several times before blowing up his estate as a birthday present for his wife.
14. A miner and a delinquent team up with an underage girl for the purpose of fighting a race war.
15. The old friend, who is a cravat-wearing prosecutor, gets hysterically laughed at, tied up, and even assaulted by a badger in the course of solving crimes with logic and really dramatic pointing. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
16. You are tasked with guiding a bunch of retarded, suicidal rodents to safety. Lemmings
17. Small people with random skills go on a road trip and fight large people with government connections.
18. A soap opera wrapped in High School Musical- but it works. Glee
19. People are sick. Their doctors don't know why, until they do.
20. The people are not motivated. A squad of manly cheerleaders tries to alleviate this.