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arishaI kind of love this meme. WARNING: the link leads to TV Tropes!! xD
Pick twenty movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than it Sounds, and have your friends guess WITHOUT CHEATING.
1) Two power-plant workers temporarily adopt a poisonous child and foil an inter-dimensional abduction scheme.
2) Two teenagers help their emo friend get laid. Said friend kills himself when the postal service arrives late.
3) Emotionally abused six-year old attends a school where the principal emotionally abuses everyone. Hilarity Ensues.
4) A guy's birthday screws up his love life and strains his relationship with his adoptive family. Who are pirates!
5) Tim Allen kills a man and is forced to assume his identity.
6) Insurance salesman lives humdrum life completely unaware that he's the most famous person on the planet.
7) A crazy red-haired woman regularly subjects elementary-aged children to life-threatening situations without the knowledge of their parents.
8) Four self-interested adults talk.
9) Orphaned Street Urchin falls in love with Rebellious Princess, seduces her with the help of near-omnipotent comedian and a piece of fabric, and defeats the bad guy by trapping him in a device used for lighting.
10) 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.
11) A girl enrolls in a mysterious academy where fencing is practically a way of life and everyone has issues.
12) A group of people are at the complete, utter mercy of a whimsical and cruel god who alternates between deleting their toilets and trapping them inside the very walls of their own homes.
13) An oddly named boy and his horse set upon destroying sixteen statues in order to revive his dead girlfriend.
14) A hyperactive homeless man reviews movies and asks for change.
15) A pirate tricks a blacksmith into serving a man with a Scots accent and a Welsh name with an octopus for a head who lives in a Dutch submarine and plays the organ.
16) A forty-five-minute-long low budget romantic comedy supervillian musical tragedy in the form of a video blog.
17) A squadron of insane soldiers try to not die in the war. Paradoxical bureaucracy gets in the way of that.
18) Guy gets arrested because he can't read. Tries digging a tunnel out of prison, but never gets to use it. Proceeds to ruin nearly everyone else's lives.
19) Half-naked orphan with nobility backstory deals with animals and lost civilizations.
20) A whole lot of bizarre, frightening, and disturbing stuff happens to five traveling friends who are looking for a giant. It is not a horror movie.
Pick twenty movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than it Sounds, and have your friends guess WITHOUT CHEATING.
1) Two power-plant workers temporarily adopt a poisonous child and foil an inter-dimensional abduction scheme.
2) Two teenagers help their emo friend get laid. Said friend kills himself when the postal service arrives late.
3) Emotionally abused six-year old attends a school where the principal emotionally abuses everyone. Hilarity Ensues.
4) A guy's birthday screws up his love life and strains his relationship with his adoptive family. Who are pirates!
5) Tim Allen kills a man and is forced to assume his identity.
6) Insurance salesman lives humdrum life completely unaware that he's the most famous person on the planet.
7) A crazy red-haired woman regularly subjects elementary-aged children to life-threatening situations without the knowledge of their parents.
8) Four self-interested adults talk.
9) Orphaned Street Urchin falls in love with Rebellious Princess, seduces her with the help of near-omnipotent comedian and a piece of fabric, and defeats the bad guy by trapping him in a device used for lighting.
10) 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.
11) A girl enrolls in a mysterious academy where fencing is practically a way of life and everyone has issues.
12) A group of people are at the complete, utter mercy of a whimsical and cruel god who alternates between deleting their toilets and trapping them inside the very walls of their own homes.
13) An oddly named boy and his horse set upon destroying sixteen statues in order to revive his dead girlfriend.
14) A hyperactive homeless man reviews movies and asks for change.
15) A pirate tricks a blacksmith into serving a man with a Scots accent and a Welsh name with an octopus for a head who lives in a Dutch submarine and plays the organ.
16) A forty-five-minute-long low budget romantic comedy supervillian musical tragedy in the form of a video blog.
17) A squadron of insane soldiers try to not die in the war. Paradoxical bureaucracy gets in the way of that.
18) Guy gets arrested because he can't read. Tries digging a tunnel out of prison, but never gets to use it. Proceeds to ruin nearly everyone else's lives.
19) Half-naked orphan with nobility backstory deals with animals and lost civilizations.
20) A whole lot of bizarre, frightening, and disturbing stuff happens to five traveling friends who are looking for a giant. It is not a horror movie.