Why Not
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by terrorizing population of home city. His arch-nemesis is a a jocular Luke Skywalker. (Batman: The Animated Series, verbanonfacta)
2. Heroic terrorists try to create World Peace Through Superior Firepower. Many plot twists are revealed, and lots of people die, while fans of both genders ogle the male leads. (Mobile Suit Gundam 00, verbanonfacta)
3. Longstanding territorial dispute is seen from multiple viewpoints as outside forces take advantage of the conflict to further their own goals.
4. Children see a Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know, run around country looking for another one. (Fullmetal Alchemist, dragons_cosplay)
5. The father of the hero of the prequal which is actually the sequal goes off on a journey to find his dad with the help of two musical dragons. Then he has to go stop a Gonk from destroying the world and sucking out everyone's soul in the universe.
6. Humanity battles aliens with Transforming Mecha, The Power Of Love and/or The Power Of Rock and Lots and Lots of Missiles. (Super Dimension Fortress Macross, verbanonfacta kinda sorta)
7. A young man travels into a magical kingdom to find a meteor to give his girlfriend, except the meteor is another woman. (Stardust, ryuuzoku_aya)
8. Transforming Mecha become cyborgs because their fuel source is poison to them, reenact historical events on an alien world while Sufficiently Advanced Aliens get pissed that they're ruining their petri dish. (Beast Wars, dkellis)
9. A group of geek and a hot geek blow stuff up in the name of science. (Mythbusters, mors_rattus)
10. Tsundere who happens to have massive engineering knowledge meets a bunch of crazies, falls in love with the one who she catches stealing her underwear. (Full Metal Panic!, theeternalmind)
11. A family fights a corrupt government with a jumping car in a town that won't let the Civil War die. (The Dukes of Hazzard, ryuuzoku_aya)
12. Good-natured college kid wishes that he could find a girl, finds God instead. (Ah! My Goddess, ryuuzoku_aya)
13. A Scotsman helps a young woman he meets on the street, and ceases to exist. He spends the rest of the book following the girl he helped around London. (Neverwhere, dkellis)
14. A drunken cynic, a middle-aged fat guy, a kleptomaniac midget, and the world's tallest dwarf save their hometown from a dragon. (Guards, Guards!, parasaurolophus
15. Fighting the Soviet Union after a nuclear war.
16. Police officers investigate crimes. Lawyers argue about them in court. (Law and Order, verbanonfacta)
17. Three ex-military criminals and their insane friend help small businesses by harassing their competitors. (The A-Team, makoknight)
18. Tevye and two Americans end up on another planet, where they meet BRIAN BLESSED, Timothy Dalton, and Max von Sydow dressed as Fu Manchu. (Flash Gordon, verbanonfacta)
19. 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, flying_landon)
20. Housewares-salesman travels through time, causes and averts Zombie Apocalypse. Then bores his co-workers with tales of derring-do. (Army of Darkness, purophet)
1. Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by terrorizing population of home city. His arch-nemesis is a a jocular Luke Skywalker. (Batman: The Animated Series, verbanonfacta)
2. Heroic terrorists try to create World Peace Through Superior Firepower. Many plot twists are revealed, and lots of people die, while fans of both genders ogle the male leads. (Mobile Suit Gundam 00, verbanonfacta)
3. Longstanding territorial dispute is seen from multiple viewpoints as outside forces take advantage of the conflict to further their own goals.
4. Children see a Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know, run around country looking for another one. (Fullmetal Alchemist, dragons_cosplay)
5. The father of the hero of the prequal which is actually the sequal goes off on a journey to find his dad with the help of two musical dragons. Then he has to go stop a Gonk from destroying the world and sucking out everyone's soul in the universe.
6. Humanity battles aliens with Transforming Mecha, The Power Of Love and/or The Power Of Rock and Lots and Lots of Missiles. (Super Dimension Fortress Macross, verbanonfacta kinda sorta)
7. A young man travels into a magical kingdom to find a meteor to give his girlfriend, except the meteor is another woman. (Stardust, ryuuzoku_aya)
8. Transforming Mecha become cyborgs because their fuel source is poison to them, reenact historical events on an alien world while Sufficiently Advanced Aliens get pissed that they're ruining their petri dish. (Beast Wars, dkellis)
9. A group of geek and a hot geek blow stuff up in the name of science. (Mythbusters, mors_rattus)
10. Tsundere who happens to have massive engineering knowledge meets a bunch of crazies, falls in love with the one who she catches stealing her underwear. (Full Metal Panic!, theeternalmind)
11. A family fights a corrupt government with a jumping car in a town that won't let the Civil War die. (The Dukes of Hazzard, ryuuzoku_aya)
12. Good-natured college kid wishes that he could find a girl, finds God instead. (Ah! My Goddess, ryuuzoku_aya)
13. A Scotsman helps a young woman he meets on the street, and ceases to exist. He spends the rest of the book following the girl he helped around London. (Neverwhere, dkellis)
14. A drunken cynic, a middle-aged fat guy, a kleptomaniac midget, and the world's tallest dwarf save their hometown from a dragon. (Guards, Guards!, parasaurolophus
15. Fighting the Soviet Union after a nuclear war.
16. Police officers investigate crimes. Lawyers argue about them in court. (Law and Order, verbanonfacta)
17. Three ex-military criminals and their insane friend help small businesses by harassing their competitors. (The A-Team, makoknight)
18. Tevye and two Americans end up on another planet, where they meet BRIAN BLESSED, Timothy Dalton, and Max von Sydow dressed as Fu Manchu. (Flash Gordon, verbanonfacta)
19. 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, flying_landon)
20. Housewares-salesman travels through time, causes and averts Zombie Apocalypse. Then bores his co-workers with tales of derring-do. (Army of Darkness, purophet)