Better than it sounds

[eve11]

I am up way too late but this meme is too much fun:

TVTropes meme: go to Better Than It Sounds and find some shows/books/whatever that you like. List 20, let people guess.

Ah, I've also added a few of my own (or mildly edited some of theirs) since I couldn't find them over there or didn't like the summaries.


Fifteen summaries from books/TV/movies. I'll post who gets the answer (in order) but not the answer itself so you can continue to play along and guess if you'd like :)

1. A disillusioned punk rocker starts a new career in debt collection. --cromarty

2. Police officers investigate crimes. Lawyers argue about them in court. --sallymn

3. Three ex-military criminals and their insane friend help small businesses by harassing their competitors. --casett, auntiemeesh, maypanic

4. A government employee has a really bad day. --casett, auntiemeesh, maypanic

5. A variety show (eta: often involving animals) where nearly all of the acts end in total disaster. Comes complete with its own MST3K riffers. --astrogirl2 (pre-edit clue)

6. Well-dressed men talk about Madonna and wonder if one of them is a police officer. --astrogirl2

7. Cranky squatter kidnaps school teachers and then gets lost. --sallymn, maypanic

8. Scientist, police officer afraid of water and war veteran go fishing. With explosives. --casett, maypanic

9. A stammering cripple pretends to be retarded so his family doesn't murder him. Becomes king of the world in the sequel. --sallymn

10. A sheltered genius with an identity crisis rebels by tormenting those he feels deserve it. --auntiemeesh, astrogirl2

11. After the lights go out, a super secret Government project in Washington can barely manage to deliver packages on time. --maypanic

12. A boy reads a book and really identifies with the main character. --aralias, maypanic

13. Stolen answering machine leads to first recorded leftist cyber crime. With modems. And saxophone music. --maypanic

14. An elderly dentist pursues a long-distance runner. --elyssadc, maypanic

15. A Cult Classic Marty Stu Self Insert Fic about The Bible.

Comments

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

Woo! Think we still have that somewhere on VHS. Don't have a VHS player anymore, though...

11- Dark Angel?

[eve11]

Yeah, I had it on VHS for a while too. And had a CD of the soundtrack which was quite brilliant.

11- Dark Angel?
Bingo!