Better Than They Sound...
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Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/tv shows/cartoons/literary works/etc, put their summaries from Better Than it Sounds, and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess. (warning: TV Tropes link!)
ETA: TWO LEFT! :3 I've put them in a larger font and italics, so they're easier to pick out. ^.^; If trouble is still had, I might add a second summary line.
1) Fight a gang of thieves with silly names, led by a Criminal Mastermind in highly visible clothing, with the power of social studies.
-- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
2) A Funny Animal who thinks he's Batman balances fighting crime with being a single dad.
-- Darkwing Duck
3) A teenage boy goes to a fair. Apocalypse ensues.
-- Chrono Trigger
4) An utterly selfish boy-king ruminates for a few days and learns to care about others as a result. Features a severely ageing Catwoman and half the cast of Just Shoot Me.
--The Emperor's New Groove
5) Military officials assign a man to share a ship with crazy people (including Jason Vorhees) in hopes that he'll get killed. Hilarity Ensues.
-- Irresponsible Captain Tylor
6) Buzz Lightyear, Professor Snape, Monk, Dana Barrett and some other people meet real aliens in a ripoff of an old TV show.
-- Galaxy Quest
7) In the Prequel, a girl is kidnapped, but the boy decides that's too easy and rescues seven.
-- the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
8) Two Brits take a train ride, and spend the second half of the game wandering an old mining town completely stoned. Puzzles are still Serious Business.
9) One of the duo teams up with the damsel, the turtle, a living cloud who was raised by frogs, and a possessed action figure to beat up giant talking weapons and fix a wishing star.
-- Super Mario RPG
10) Adam's metaphysical soul reincarnates into a schizophrenic teenager. He fights God with kung-fu.
-- Xenogears
11) An amnesiac rebels against her former employers, one of whom is a clown.
-- Final Fantasy VI
12) A girl has to figure out how to get possessed by a bird.
-- Fushigi Yuugi
13) Thanks to a discontinued sports car, a boy nearly commits incest with his mother after teaching his father how to use violence. All their lives improve as a result.
-- Back to the Future
14) A teenage boy is made to fight his father and the local gods in between two timelines in order to free a girl from an alien parasite monster. Beating the final boss triggers the bad ending.
-- Chrono Cross
15) The quest for food and treasure is key, but keeps being interrupted to save the world.
16) A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton's evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans.
-- Vision of Escaflowne
17) Prisoners concoct elaborate escape plan with help from American circus acrobat after learning that their captors intend to turn them into pies.
-- Chicken Run
18) Dr. Frank 'N Furter, Doc Brown, and a bunch of other blackmail victims run around a big house looking for a murderer and debating simple mathematics.
-- Clue
19) Four guys drive around in a van and trap restless spirits with laser-powered vacuum cleaners. They save New York City from a giant candy mascot by taking serious risks with their equipment.
-- Ghostbusters
20) 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
seattleotakuPick 20 movies/anime/video games/tv shows/cartoons/literary works/etc, put their summaries from Better Than it Sounds, and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess. (warning: TV Tropes link!)
ETA: TWO LEFT! :3 I've put them in a larger font and italics, so they're easier to pick out. ^.^; If trouble is still had, I might add a second summary line.
1) Fight a gang of thieves with silly names, led by a Criminal Mastermind in highly visible clothing, with the power of social studies.
-- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
2) A Funny Animal who thinks he's Batman balances fighting crime with being a single dad.
-- Darkwing Duck
3) A teenage boy goes to a fair. Apocalypse ensues.
-- Chrono Trigger
4) An utterly selfish boy-king ruminates for a few days and learns to care about others as a result. Features a severely ageing Catwoman and half the cast of Just Shoot Me.
--The Emperor's New Groove
5) Military officials assign a man to share a ship with crazy people (including Jason Vorhees) in hopes that he'll get killed. Hilarity Ensues.
-- Irresponsible Captain Tylor
6) Buzz Lightyear, Professor Snape, Monk, Dana Barrett and some other people meet real aliens in a ripoff of an old TV show.
-- Galaxy Quest
7) In the Prequel, a girl is kidnapped, but the boy decides that's too easy and rescues seven.
-- the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
8) Two Brits take a train ride, and spend the second half of the game wandering an old mining town completely stoned. Puzzles are still Serious Business.
9) One of the duo teams up with the damsel, the turtle, a living cloud who was raised by frogs, and a possessed action figure to beat up giant talking weapons and fix a wishing star.
-- Super Mario RPG
10) Adam's metaphysical soul reincarnates into a schizophrenic teenager. He fights God with kung-fu.
-- Xenogears
11) An amnesiac rebels against her former employers, one of whom is a clown.
-- Final Fantasy VI
12) A girl has to figure out how to get possessed by a bird.
-- Fushigi Yuugi
13) Thanks to a discontinued sports car, a boy nearly commits incest with his mother after teaching his father how to use violence. All their lives improve as a result.
-- Back to the Future
14) A teenage boy is made to fight his father and the local gods in between two timelines in order to free a girl from an alien parasite monster. Beating the final boss triggers the bad ending.
-- Chrono Cross
15) The quest for food and treasure is key, but keeps being interrupted to save the world.
16) A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton's evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans.
-- Vision of Escaflowne
17) Prisoners concoct elaborate escape plan with help from American circus acrobat after learning that their captors intend to turn them into pies.
-- Chicken Run
18) Dr. Frank 'N Furter, Doc Brown, and a bunch of other blackmail victims run around a big house looking for a murderer and debating simple mathematics.
-- Clue
19) Four guys drive around in a van and trap restless spirits with laser-powered vacuum cleaners. They save New York City from a giant candy mascot by taking serious risks with their equipment.
-- Ghostbusters
20) 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
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Date: 2010-05-10 04:09 am (UTC)11--Kill Bill?
13--Back to the Future
18--Clue the Movie
19--Ghostbusters
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Date: 2010-05-10 04:14 am (UTC)Yes to 6, 13, 18 and 19... but no to 11.
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Date: 2010-05-10 04:34 am (UTC)9 - Super Mario RPG
12 - Fushigi Yuugi
14 - Chrono Cross
20 - Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Date: 2010-05-10 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-10 04:45 am (UTC)I'm trying to add this to my journal... and I can't figure out how to look up the summaries on this site. Am I stupid?? O_o;;
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Date: 2010-05-10 05:00 am (UTC)To find the 'summaries', go to this link: Better Than It Sounds" (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BetterThanItSounds), then click on each individual link... eg the "Better Than It Sounds Film".
That will take you to another page, where they list all the various descriptions of films (with the titles in spoiler boxes. You have to highlight them to see them).
To find a specific title, it's just easiest to go "CTRL-A" to highlight EVERYTHING... and just scroll down until you find the show/movie/game/whatever you're looking for. Then click on a blank spot on the page to de-select everything, and just highlight the sentance(s) you want to copy. Titles should be in alphabetical order, so that should help.
((had to delete and re-post my comment, cuz I borked up the HTML in there. c.c; TWICE!))
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Date: 2010-05-10 05:10 am (UTC)7 - The Legend of Zelda - A Link To The Past
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Date: 2010-05-10 06:28 am (UTC)5. Irresponsible Captain Tylor (It was this Jason-in-a-tux that I cosplayed for one of SC's early Masquerades, heh)
10. I'll guess Xenogears?
16. Vision of Escaflowne (though they should list something about "Two coffee empires and David Bowie" for the Nescaflowne spoof-dub, too, hehe)
17. Chicken Run :)
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Date: 2010-05-11 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-11 02:19 am (UTC)I'll have to skip #15, since I remember that one from when I did my set, heh. :)
Nescaflowne (http://sokodei.com/nescaflowne/)'s probably a tough one to find, since the fan group who dubbed it wants it to air only at Conventions and such events; I caught it at SC back in the airport-area hotels years ago.
Kingdom of Fanelia = Kingdom of Folgeria
Van = Juan Valdez, pilots the giant "brewer", Nescaflowne.
Hitomi = Hitme.
Allan = Head N Shoulders (from the House of Maxwell) and his giant brewer, Mr. Coffee.
Zaibach Empire = Starbach Empire
Folken = Ziggy Stardust, idolizes Labyrinth-era Bowie.
Dilandau = (can't remember the parody version...)
Donkirk = Con Seanery
Hilarity Ensues. ^_^
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Date: 2010-05-11 02:55 am (UTC)And if, after a while, no one guesses #15, you can claim it. ^__~
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Date: 2010-05-10 07:51 am (UTC)I'm gonna have to steal this, especially since I was laughing one of these type summaries about a certain movie last night. =D
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Date: 2010-05-11 01:11 am (UTC)Do so... it's a lotta fun. ^___^