Writer's Block: Back to the future

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Twelve was a really difficult year for me (junior high, no surprise there, right?), and I'd probably be annoyed that I was teaching high school instead of college - and possibly confused that I was married but didn't have kids. But the twelve-year-old me would have been overjoyed at thirty-five-year-old me being a practicing witch, a performer, and a pervert, so I think on average I'd have been pleased.

Writer's Block: Back to the future

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Twelve was a really difficult year for me (junior high, no surprise there, right?), and I'd probably be annoyed that I was teaching high school instead of college - and possibly confused that I was married but didn't have kids. But the twelve-year-old me would have been overjoyed at thirty-five-year-old me being a practicing witch, a performer, and a pervert, so I think on average I'd have been pleased.

The Better Than It Sounds Meme

Warning: References a TVTropes page. Click at own risk.

THE RULES: Pick 20 movies/TV shows/cartoons/video games/literary works and post their summaries from Better Than It Sounds; then, have your friends guess (WITHOUT CHEATING).

As per my usual, I'm screening responses so this isn't a speed test. Everyone who guesses correctly will get credit after a vague unstated period of time that will be greater than 24 hours and less than a week.

1. Thanks to a discontinued sports car, a boy nearly commits incest with his mother after teaching his father how to use violence. All their lives improve as a result.

2. Nerd gets superpowers while losing sanity. Eventually, insanity dilutes into everyone else, including the audience.

3. A cute little girl navigates a world of very confusing and complex love relationships, while collecting cards in her spare time.

4. A bunch of Americans living abroad in the 1950s talk and act like it's the 1970s, and crack a lot of jokes about death.

5. Secret world-saving club gets pushed around by the anime club next door.

6. Man retires from his stressful job to an exclusive and seemingly idyllic resort, but spends all his time bitching about it and refuses to join in the fun and games like everyone else.

7. Two former celebrities and their children fight a wannabe ex-fan.

8. European thieves are defeated by man without shoes.

9. A Pac-Man ripoff, various music stars, a pair of police detectives, and assorted other people teach children mathematics.

10. Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world.

11. Some minority kids study for a math test.

12. Giant robots trapped on a primitive world wage war on each other while hiding from the planet's populace.

13. Evil painting comes to life and summons pink goo within disused subway tunnels to stalk an infant. He is eventually defeated by four guys piloting a mobile national monument.

14. A man dreams about his ex-girlfriend before meeting her on Valentine's Day. They end up going on a date to a lake they used to visit, but they both become upset when she finds a tape of him complaining about her. The moral of the story? Mind Rape will bring you closer together.

15. Prisoners concoct elaborate escape plan with help from American circus acrobat after learning that their captors intend to turn them into pies.

16. Smartass kid neglects his education, shamelessly manipulates the sympathy of his parents and those around him and, for his own self-gratification, triggers a series of events that results in the destruction of his best friend's father's priceless car. Without remorse. Despite this, everyone loves him.

17. Two musicians go on a Mission From God and antagonise everyone they come across.

18. A Presbyterian minister shows children how various things are made, sings to them, and then tells serial stories set in a kingdom in his wall.

19. 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.

20. Three ex-military criminals and their insane friend help small businesses by harassing their competitors.

Not using it, because it contains the title, but dang: A Sams Club is built on the Moon.

The Better Than It Sounds Meme

Warning: References a TVTropes page. Click at own risk.

THE RULES: Pick 20 movies/TV shows/cartoons/video games/literary works and post their summaries from Better Than It Sounds; then, have your friends guess (WITHOUT CHEATING).

As per my usual, I'm screening responses so this isn't a speed test. Everyone who guesses correctly will get credit after a vague unstated period of time that will be greater than 24 hours and less than a week.

1. Thanks to a discontinued sports car, a boy nearly commits incest with his mother after teaching his father how to use violence. All their lives improve as a result.

2. Nerd gets superpowers while losing sanity. Eventually, insanity dilutes into everyone else, including the audience.

3. A cute little girl navigates a world of very confusing and complex love relationships, while collecting cards in her spare time.

4. A bunch of Americans living abroad in the 1950s talk and act like it's the 1970s, and crack a lot of jokes about death.

5. Secret world-saving club gets pushed around by the anime club next door.

6. Man retires from his stressful job to an exclusive and seemingly idyllic resort, but spends all his time bitching about it and refuses to join in the fun and games like everyone else.

7. Two former celebrities and their children fight a wannabe ex-fan.

8. European thieves are defeated by man without shoes.

9. A Pac-Man ripoff, various music stars, a pair of police detectives, and assorted other people teach children mathematics.

10. Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world.

11. Some minority kids study for a math test.

12. Giant robots trapped on a primitive world wage war on each other while hiding from the planet's populace.

13. Evil painting comes to life and summons pink goo within disused subway tunnels to stalk an infant. He is eventually defeated by four guys piloting a mobile national monument.

14. A man dreams about his ex-girlfriend before meeting her on Valentine's Day. They end up going on a date to a lake they used to visit, but they both become upset when she finds a tape of him complaining about her. The moral of the story? Mind Rape will bring you closer together.

15. Prisoners concoct elaborate escape plan with help from American circus acrobat after learning that their captors intend to turn them into pies.

16. Smartass kid neglects his education, shamelessly manipulates the sympathy of his parents and those around him and, for his own self-gratification, triggers a series of events that results in the destruction of his best friend's father's priceless car. Without remorse. Despite this, everyone loves him.

17. Two musicians go on a Mission From God and antagonise everyone they come across.

18. A Presbyterian minister shows children how various things are made, sings to them, and then tells serial stories set in a kingdom in his wall.

19. 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.

20. Three ex-military criminals and their insane friend help small businesses by harassing their competitors.

Not using it, because it contains the title, but dang: A Sams Club is built on the Moon.