Better than it Sounds meme
Nicked from idioticonion...
Pick twenty artistic works that you like and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
Some of these are pretty easy, but answers in the comments please! And, I'm not sure what it says about me that most of my favourite music artists have references to being gay in there... hmm.
Film:
1. Teen girl throws a fit at a prom.
2. A Russian woman marries a German dwarf for his money. His friends disapprove.
3. One guy stops caring about his job, another wants to rob his employer, and a third just wants his stuff back.
4. A musical about a slut and an asshole who get corrupted by a crossdressing mad scientist and his retinue.
5. A guy goes through way, way too much effort to gather enough evidence to support a copyright dispute. Otherwise, a movie about a BASIC programming command.
Literature:
6. A widower chases after a serial killer whose killing spree is the widower's own fault. Nowadays, most people confuse the widower's name with the killer's.
7. Teenage underachiever whose life philosophy is derived from a misremembered song lyric gets into misadventures in New York.
8. Man marries woman because he lusts after her prepubescent daughter; after said woman is conveniently written out of the picture, he starts a sexual relationship with his stepdaughter.
9. Old man moves to England and leeches off young women while he's there. Eventually, their friends hunt him down and kill him with knives.
10. A man never gets old due to his art collection.
TV:
11. A super-strong cheerleader, a Jewish computer nerd witch, a goofy slacker, and the school librarian fight undead (mostly) monsters of the week while their personal lives turn into a soap opera. Beloved people die with depressing regularity.
12. Everyone is gay. Sex is abundant.
13. A Dungeon Master sends children into his dungeon to deal with problems he doesn't want to take care of himself. They almost always fail.
14. Two gorgeous brothers with major-league Daddy issues seek out monsters and kill them in various nasty ways, using things as diverse as salt-filled shotgun shells, barbed wire, and circular saws. Lots of sex is had along the way. A really great car and lots of eighties rock, apocalypses, and angst are also involved. The world really really sucks, but it's funny anyway.
15. A historical Sit-Com, in which every generation of a charismatic but extremely unlucky man's family both looks the same and possesses the same name, as does almost everyone else he encounters. Each man is unfortunate enough to be surrounded by half-wits, incompetents and lunatics, and is waited upon by a servant whose standards of personal hygiene are barely human at best.
Bands/Musicians:
16. British man famous for unusual songs, androgyny, and appearing in movies.
17. Fat, gay, nearsighted, balding piano player from England with silly clothes and Knight Fever. He writes songs about Marilyn Monroe, weird robot rock bands, The Wizard Of Oz, dance steps named after reptiles, and children's music from time to time. Loves to shop, throw tantrums, play tennis and cavort with British royalty.
18. 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.
19. The gay, bilingual Marty Stu son of two folksingers, with a flair for the dramatic (or more specifically, the operatic). Possesses a voice that could either wreck ships or peel paint, depending on whom you ask. Sings about beverages and vices in his signature tune.
20. Band managed by a London shopkeeper, who hired the singer because he liked his t-shirt. Had a hit with a song named after the British National Anthem. Bassist couldn't play much and tended to have his amps turned down. Toured America but it was a bit of a disaster so they broke up.
Pick twenty artistic works that you like and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
Some of these are pretty easy, but answers in the comments please! And, I'm not sure what it says about me that most of my favourite music artists have references to being gay in there... hmm.
Film:
1. Teen girl throws a fit at a prom.
2. A Russian woman marries a German dwarf for his money. His friends disapprove.
3. One guy stops caring about his job, another wants to rob his employer, and a third just wants his stuff back.
4. A musical about a slut and an asshole who get corrupted by a crossdressing mad scientist and his retinue.
5. A guy goes through way, way too much effort to gather enough evidence to support a copyright dispute. Otherwise, a movie about a BASIC programming command.
Literature:
6. A widower chases after a serial killer whose killing spree is the widower's own fault. Nowadays, most people confuse the widower's name with the killer's.
7. Teenage underachiever whose life philosophy is derived from a misremembered song lyric gets into misadventures in New York.
8. Man marries woman because he lusts after her prepubescent daughter; after said woman is conveniently written out of the picture, he starts a sexual relationship with his stepdaughter.
9. Old man moves to England and leeches off young women while he's there. Eventually, their friends hunt him down and kill him with knives.
10. A man never gets old due to his art collection.
TV:
11. A super-strong cheerleader, a Jewish computer nerd witch, a goofy slacker, and the school librarian fight undead (mostly) monsters of the week while their personal lives turn into a soap opera. Beloved people die with depressing regularity.
12. Everyone is gay. Sex is abundant.
13. A Dungeon Master sends children into his dungeon to deal with problems he doesn't want to take care of himself. They almost always fail.
14. Two gorgeous brothers with major-league Daddy issues seek out monsters and kill them in various nasty ways, using things as diverse as salt-filled shotgun shells, barbed wire, and circular saws. Lots of sex is had along the way. A really great car and lots of eighties rock, apocalypses, and angst are also involved. The world really really sucks, but it's funny anyway.
15. A historical Sit-Com, in which every generation of a charismatic but extremely unlucky man's family both looks the same and possesses the same name, as does almost everyone else he encounters. Each man is unfortunate enough to be surrounded by half-wits, incompetents and lunatics, and is waited upon by a servant whose standards of personal hygiene are barely human at best.
Bands/Musicians:
16. British man famous for unusual songs, androgyny, and appearing in movies.
17. Fat, gay, nearsighted, balding piano player from England with silly clothes and Knight Fever. He writes songs about Marilyn Monroe, weird robot rock bands, The Wizard Of Oz, dance steps named after reptiles, and children's music from time to time. Loves to shop, throw tantrums, play tennis and cavort with British royalty.
18. 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.
19. The gay, bilingual Marty Stu son of two folksingers, with a flair for the dramatic (or more specifically, the operatic). Possesses a voice that could either wreck ships or peel paint, depending on whom you ask. Sings about beverages and vices in his signature tune.
20. Band managed by a London shopkeeper, who hired the singer because he liked his t-shirt. Had a hit with a song named after the British National Anthem. Bassist couldn't play much and tended to have his amps turned down. Toured America but it was a bit of a disaster so they broke up.