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starcrossed_sky , who bummed it off of someone else. Take your pick of 25 series, look them up on TV tropes' Better Than It Sounds pages,and post the summaries below. Then the Flist gets to guess! :D
1. A dozen guys sit in a room and argue for an hour and a half.
2. Cynical writer can't get out of his hotel room.
3. Big rectangles change the course of human evolution, a computer goes nuts, and an astronaut sees lots of colored lights.
4. Estranged husband tries to bond with his kids, only to find out that he really picked a bad time to do so.
5. Bicycle courier finds himself on the run from extremely ticked-off urbanites. He meets up with a woman keen on hacking people to death with a machete, a slightly mad taxi driver, and his quiet daughter, who take him on a road trip through the countryside. The four encounter a small group of soldiers living in a country mansion who intend to restart the human race. One of them wears a pink apron.
6. Barely dressed soldiers fight with "metrosexual version of the Devil". (Sort of) based (indirectly) on what might be a true story.
7. Remember Adam Sandler? Drew Barrymore doesn't.
8. A hopeless romantic falls for a quirky young woman who doesn't believe in true love. Hilarity/heartache ensue.
9. Dolls take on a rogue Mook Maker.
* Alternately, a "hero" is born...and proceeds to kill the first friendly person he meets. Before it's over, many others are dead, including the pope.
* A naive but courageous doll saves a post-apocalyptic future by accidentally killing (almost) all his friends.
10. Burn victim who is supposed to be dead seeks vengeance on those responsible, sometimes via their children.
* Or: Slowly-dying man comes up with overly elaborate deathtraps for enemies, but sometimes leaves a possible way out.
* Or: Elusive Poetic Serial Killer takes inspiration from The Bible.
11. Time-travelling ghosts teach a cheap old British guy to be less of an asshole.
12. The Sixties happen to a group of young people who fall in love, take some drugs, have lots of sex, briefly hate each other, and then reunite as friends in the end. And they express these emotions by singing Beatles songs. One of the young people is a cute fella from Liverpool who does not have a visa, and thus does not legally exist in America; he tends to do the wrong thing with good intentions. Another young person gets drafted into the surrealist division of the US Army. Oh, and this is really a musical.
13. Robot decides to Become A Real Boy, with the help of a teddy bear and sarcastic Fetish Fuel built to resemble Jude Law.
14. Food poisoning leads Shell Shocked Senior to pilot a passenger jet.
15. 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 into a device used for lighting.
16. Girl with sleep disorder accidentally takes a wrong turn while fleeing from reality. She then teams up with a neurotic butler, a midget warrior, a crazy cook, and a fashion-conscious contortionist to help an imprisoned pacifist, whose sister has strange taste in interior design.
17. A stomach cramp gets out of hand.
18. A dog dies twice.
19. A down-on-his-luck songwriter's fortune changes when he takes in a trio of singing rodent siblings, before a Jerkass record producer entices them into record label slavery.
20. An old man is still obsessed with his rival, decades after killing him.
21. A spaced-out but shy waitress plays matchmaker with her friends, whilst an old man who can never leave his apartment tries to set her up with a weird guy who works in a porn shop.
22. Dirty old man fantasizes about teenager, smokes pot, dies.
23. '80s yuppie has serious mental issues.
24. Two tourists get attacked by a crazy dog. Hilarity/Horror ensues.
25. A family moves into a Haunted House and instead of leaving immediately live there for twenty-eight days for some reason.
starcrossed_sky , who bummed it off of someone else. Take your pick of 25 series, look them up on TV tropes' Better Than It Sounds pages,and post the summaries below. Then the Flist gets to guess! :D1. A dozen guys sit in a room and argue for an hour and a half.
2. Cynical writer can't get out of his hotel room.
3. Big rectangles change the course of human evolution, a computer goes nuts, and an astronaut sees lots of colored lights.
4. Estranged husband tries to bond with his kids, only to find out that he really picked a bad time to do so.
5. Bicycle courier finds himself on the run from extremely ticked-off urbanites. He meets up with a woman keen on hacking people to death with a machete, a slightly mad taxi driver, and his quiet daughter, who take him on a road trip through the countryside. The four encounter a small group of soldiers living in a country mansion who intend to restart the human race. One of them wears a pink apron.
6. Barely dressed soldiers fight with "metrosexual version of the Devil". (Sort of) based (indirectly) on what might be a true story.
7. Remember Adam Sandler? Drew Barrymore doesn't.
8. A hopeless romantic falls for a quirky young woman who doesn't believe in true love. Hilarity/heartache ensue.
9. Dolls take on a rogue Mook Maker.
* Alternately, a "hero" is born...and proceeds to kill the first friendly person he meets. Before it's over, many others are dead, including the pope.
* A naive but courageous doll saves a post-apocalyptic future by accidentally killing (almost) all his friends.
10. Burn victim who is supposed to be dead seeks vengeance on those responsible, sometimes via their children.
* Or: Slowly-dying man comes up with overly elaborate deathtraps for enemies, but sometimes leaves a possible way out.
* Or: Elusive Poetic Serial Killer takes inspiration from The Bible.
11. Time-travelling ghosts teach a cheap old British guy to be less of an asshole.
12. The Sixties happen to a group of young people who fall in love, take some drugs, have lots of sex, briefly hate each other, and then reunite as friends in the end. And they express these emotions by singing Beatles songs. One of the young people is a cute fella from Liverpool who does not have a visa, and thus does not legally exist in America; he tends to do the wrong thing with good intentions. Another young person gets drafted into the surrealist division of the US Army. Oh, and this is really a musical.
13. Robot decides to Become A Real Boy, with the help of a teddy bear and sarcastic Fetish Fuel built to resemble Jude Law.
14. Food poisoning leads Shell Shocked Senior to pilot a passenger jet.
15. 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 into a device used for lighting.
16. Girl with sleep disorder accidentally takes a wrong turn while fleeing from reality. She then teams up with a neurotic butler, a midget warrior, a crazy cook, and a fashion-conscious contortionist to help an imprisoned pacifist, whose sister has strange taste in interior design.
17. A stomach cramp gets out of hand.
18. A dog dies twice.
19. A down-on-his-luck songwriter's fortune changes when he takes in a trio of singing rodent siblings, before a Jerkass record producer entices them into record label slavery.
20. An old man is still obsessed with his rival, decades after killing him.
21. A spaced-out but shy waitress plays matchmaker with her friends, whilst an old man who can never leave his apartment tries to set her up with a weird guy who works in a porn shop.
22. Dirty old man fantasizes about teenager, smokes pot, dies.
23. '80s yuppie has serious mental issues.
24. Two tourists get attacked by a crazy dog. Hilarity/Horror ensues.
25. A family moves into a Haunted House and instead of leaving immediately live there for twenty-eight days for some reason.
