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A TVtropes-related meme! Taken from windexneenja.
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works/television series/musicians and post their summaries from the TVtropes Better Than It Sounds page. Make your flist guess the fandom!
(I have edited one or two a tiny bit for clarity and hilarity.)
1. In a city of narcoleptics, one man suffers from insomnia
2. A dysfunctional family consists of an effete Parisian socialite, an emo former slaveowner, and an increasingly bitter child who kill for fun and profit. Later, two of them conflict with a theatrical group.
3. Police officer ruins village competiton
4. A guy with an ABD in astrophysics joins forces with a flamboyantly gay singer to write mini-rock operas about riding a bicycle. Over 30 years later he gets that PhD.
5. A guy who can turn into a bird guides kids on a quest.
6. Disaffected Teen saves mother from obsessive nocturnal video store owner. Billy Idol tries to seduce Jim Morrison.
7. Young girl must travel to a magical land in order to apologize for shouting at her mother.
8. Trivia enthusiast attempts to solve world's problems with help of young idealists.
9. Bellatrix Lestrange helps Jack Sparrow exact revenge on Snape and Wormtail. Along the way they kill Borat.
10. A sailor loves the Captain's daughter. Fortunately, the sailor and the Captain turn out to be each other.
11. Heiress attempts to woo paleontologist with use of leopard.
12. Batman writes a newspaper story about a David Bowie Expy who may or may not have faked his own death. Later, Obi-Wan and Batman may or may not have gay sex on a roof.
13. An Officer And A Gentleman throws away his Naval career for his new pet.
14. 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 and is killed by a man who sees dead people.
15. A pack of inept sex-crazed maniacs attempt to fight aliens, fail repeatedly, die often.
16. A guy really ought to leave town right away, but stays to be with some chick he dated once. Another guy refuses to put down his camcorder.
17. A pro ballplayer's hometown is blown up by a giant Space Whale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father.
18. Loquacious snob works his hardest to ensure that a man never accomplishes anything of merit.
19. A pug-nosed toddler, her furry sidekick, and her egotistical horse fight evil with the power of the visible light spectrum.
20. Guy goes on quest to bring a girl a meteorite. Meteorite has other plans.
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works/television series/musicians and post their summaries from the TVtropes Better Than It Sounds page. Make your flist guess the fandom!
(I have edited one or two a tiny bit for clarity and hilarity.)
1. In a city of narcoleptics, one man suffers from insomnia
2. A dysfunctional family consists of an effete Parisian socialite, an emo former slaveowner, and an increasingly bitter child who kill for fun and profit. Later, two of them conflict with a theatrical group.
3. Police officer ruins village competiton
4. A guy with an ABD in astrophysics joins forces with a flamboyantly gay singer to write mini-rock operas about riding a bicycle. Over 30 years later he gets that PhD.
5. A guy who can turn into a bird guides kids on a quest.
6. Disaffected Teen saves mother from obsessive nocturnal video store owner. Billy Idol tries to seduce Jim Morrison.
7. Young girl must travel to a magical land in order to apologize for shouting at her mother.
8. Trivia enthusiast attempts to solve world's problems with help of young idealists.
9. Bellatrix Lestrange helps Jack Sparrow exact revenge on Snape and Wormtail. Along the way they kill Borat.
10. A sailor loves the Captain's daughter. Fortunately, the sailor and the Captain turn out to be each other.
11. Heiress attempts to woo paleontologist with use of leopard.
12. Batman writes a newspaper story about a David Bowie Expy who may or may not have faked his own death. Later, Obi-Wan and Batman may or may not have gay sex on a roof.
13. An Officer And A Gentleman throws away his Naval career for his new pet.
14. 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 and is killed by a man who sees dead people.
15. A pack of inept sex-crazed maniacs attempt to fight aliens, fail repeatedly, die often.
16. A guy really ought to leave town right away, but stays to be with some chick he dated once. Another guy refuses to put down his camcorder.
17. A pro ballplayer's hometown is blown up by a giant Space Whale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father.
18. Loquacious snob works his hardest to ensure that a man never accomplishes anything of merit.
19. A pug-nosed toddler, her furry sidekick, and her egotistical horse fight evil with the power of the visible light spectrum.
20. Guy goes on quest to bring a girl a meteorite. Meteorite has other plans.