you can tell from the memes I'm rusty at content.

[sugar]

TV Tropes meme, stolen from harbek. I saw a completely serious post the other day that started with a warning that it included a link to TV Tropes. Because, you know, it's the biggest time-suck known to man. Also, forget about ever going there if you have anything less than 100% willpower regarding spoilers. I risk my precious innocence about the last season of BSG every time I click. *whimper*

Anyway, meme: pick 25 movies/comic books/video games/literary works/tv shows and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

Now with bonus answers!

1. Man has a really lousy time at a corporate Christmas party, but manages to
reconcile with his estranged wife. - Die Hard guessed by phonciblepbone

2. Spider tricks farmer into worshiping his dinner. - Charlotte's Web guessed by emiliglia

3. A transsexual rock musician stalks her ex-boyfriend in an attempt to sue him for copyright infringement. - Hedwig and the Angry Inch guessed by carpetofstars

4. Twenty-something Muppets search for a purpose in life and extol the virtues of porn while living in a building run by a short black man played by a woman. - Avenue Q guessed by emiliglia

5. A couple of hitmen discuss everything from hamburgers to theology. One retires, the other dies, and their boss is anally raped. - Pulp Fiction guessed by carpetofstars

6. A teenage girl is killed in a terrorist attack organized by her friends. A copy of her soul ends up in the body of a robot killing machine that will one day destroy human civilization. It's a family drama. - Caprica guessed by crumplysnorkack

7. Three young orphans, including a baby, go through a series of abusive and/or ineffectual guardians, while being stalked by their arsonist cousin, their mother's first boyfriend, and a secret fire department. - A Series of Unfortunate Events guessed by carpetofstars

8. Teen girl throws a fit at prom. - Carrie guessed by emiliglia

9. Car salesman can't convince his employer that his paperwork is finished, also fails to upsell a promotional extra to his customers. Grumpy Old Man shits on everyone beneath him, refuses to help his daughter in an important financial transaction. A pregnant sheriff tries to work out who the main character is in the movie. - Fargo guessed by emiliglia

10. A paranoid nerd and an attractive doctor (who may or may not be sleeping with each other) spend a lot of time trudging through forests and other out-of-the-way places in search of the truth whilst an elderly government employee smokes a lot. - The X-Files guessed by emiliglia

11. Dysfunctional family band together to save youngest member from giant lungfish that may or may not be carrying SARS. - The Host guessed by phonciblepbone

12. Young man fights in the Second World War, goes home, gets married, is abducted by aliens, goes home, dies. Not necessarily in that order. - Slaughterhouse Five guessed by emiliglia

13. Two people meet on a train. They do not plan a murder. They are both exactly who they claim. There are no series of humorous misunderstandings. They just talk for a bit and then have sex. - Before Sunrise

14. A pair of bitter war veterans, a prostitute, a mercenary with an ugly hat, a cute mechanic, a Hawaiian-shirt wearing pilot, a preacher with a Mysterious Past, a socially inept medical genius and the cutest little psychotic killing machine ever all get together on a ship. They Fight Do Crime! - Firefly guessed by crumplysnorkack

15. A former actress is threatened by metafiction. - Wes Craven's New Nightmare

16. Boy meets girl. Girl wants him to write script for her. Boy writes script with other girl instead. Boy dies. - Sunset Boulevard

17. Women who are tired of putting up with celebrities go and rent a car, kill Kurt Russell. - Deathproof guessed by phonciblepbone

18. Homeless man wearing Cool Shades fights alien economists, who, presumably, are responsible for world bubblegum shortage. They Live

19. A semi-amnesiac scientist travels through time with his horny, invisible friend, who carries a computer disguised as a tetris cube (sometimes a calculator). - Quantum Leap guessed by siluria

20. A middle-aged junkie prostitute attends a high school where all the other students are of normal age and the principal is an insane narcissist. The teachers hate the students and angst about everything. Important lessons are introduced but nobody learns them. Homes are broken, lives are ruined, and every episode ends in a dance sequence. - Strangers With Candy guessed by carpetofstars

21. Recovering alcoholic can't keep a secretary, but can keep a painter. Hilarity Ensues. - Murphy Brown guessed by memphis

22. The Chosen One saves the world from French Aliens with his sentient tongue. - Kung Pow: Enter the Fist guessed by crumplysnorkack

23. A street-smart teen moves in with his rich relatives. The lives of all involved are flipped, turned upside-down. - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air guessed by emiliglia

24. A trigger-happy botanist and an elderly sanitation worker fall in love. Then they rescue some fat people from a steering wheel. - WALL-E guessed by emiliglia

25. A very angry man will die if he stops moving. - Crank guessed by phonciblepbone

Bonus description which is too accurate to really belong in this quiz: An aging Elvis Presley and the reincarnated John F. Kennedy fight a zombie, who is picking off the residents of a senior's home. - Bubba Ho-Tep, for the curious.

Comments

[emiliglia]

I really need to get icons for this account. -_-

2. Charlotte's Web
4. Avenue Q
8. Carrie
9. Fargo?
10. X-Files
12. Slaughterhouse Five
23. Fresh Prince of Bel Air
24. WALL-E - LOL

[sugar]

Yes! LOL, I love the WALL-E one. The whole second half is just so "What??"

[emiliglia]

I just posted it to my journal and did a facepalm since I can't believe I missed #14.

[sugar]

Hee, it's okay, I think I missed it on other people's quizzes, too! "War veterans" just kind of takes you to a completely different place.

[carpetofstars]

#3 hedwig!
#5 pulp fiction
#7 series of unfortunate events
#20 strangers with candy

[sugar]

Yay, Hedwig! You win a special prize! Or, umm, a Gonzo icon! :D

mmNFxptCKgGOlc

[(Anonymous)]

I certainly can unrtsdeand, as an actor, one needs to keep the character being portrayed as it's written in the screenplay. Reading the books might lead to confusion, such as Tara's character is a white gal who owns a clothing store. I've enjoyed Tara in True Blood without needing them to be exactly alike, but I don't think I could do that if I were portraying Tara.

crumplysnorkack from LJ

[(Anonymous)]

6. Caprica
14. Firefly
22. KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST OH GOD THAT MOVIE. OOWEEOOOWEEOOWEEEOOWEEEE. *ahem* It sounds so awful, and it is as stupid as it sounds, but it's so good. I don't even know.

Re: crumplysnorkack from LJ

[sugar]

Helloooo, you totally rule for getting Kung Pow!!!! :D

(although I should have known you'd be a fan!)

"We're children! We're children!"

Re: crumplysnorkack from LJ

[(Anonymous)]

Alfalfa.



Hey guys, what's goin' on--ooh!



He's an outsider. Have you seen him before?

[memphis]

21. Murphy Brown!

(OMG did I finally figure out one of these? I am excited if I did)

[sugar]

You did! :D

They should run Murphy Brown in syndication. Every time I come across a reference to it, I immediately glomp on and start reminiscing about how great it was.

[harbek]

Man, I know 4, 5, 7, 12, 14, 23... But yeah, all taken. XD

[sugar]

That's what happened to me with yours. Doh! :D

[harbek]

That's cause I linked it to people, and they immediately answered like almost all of them. XDD The only ones left are two Chuck Palahniuk books, and two adventure games from the mid 90s.

[sugar]

Crap, I should go look again. Palahniuk, you say?

[harbek]

Palahniuk, I say.

*uses Palahniuk icon*

[lirazel]

Hi! This is penny_lane_42, by the way. I just added you, though I don't really update over here, because I haven't figured out how to crosspost, so I just periodically import the entirety of my lj here. *sigh*

I am epically bad at this game, but I'm finding it hilarious. Hilarious and awesome.

[sugar]

Hi! Of course I knew it was you :)

I hadn't really figured out crossposting either until last week I stumbled upon this page. I don't know if it's a newer, simpler way or if I just hadn't noticed it before, but it's made things very easy.

[lirazel]

Oh, good! Just wanted to make sure! :D

Huh. I had already had that set up, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Strange. I guess I'll have to play around with it more. Thanks for the link!

[phonciblepbone.livejournal.com]

1. Die Hard
11. The Host
17. Death Proof
25. Crank? This is the only one that I'm not reasonably sure of... Possibly because I never actually saw it- just the commercials

[sugar]

Got 'em all! I'm so glad The Host got some recognition! :D

[phonciblepbone.livejournal.com]

haha yeah I love The Host! It's no coincidence that I only recognized the action/horror type movies...

[siluria]

#19 Quantum Leap??? :)

[sugar]

YESSSS. OMG, it was breaking my heart that no one had guessed this :D