I would have put the KHR BtiS summary here too, but it was actually pretty boring.

[makeste]

1. Happy Birthday, caffeinexsugar! I'm sorry I can't draw anything for you (unless you count the failtastic memecat below the cut), but I hope you have an awesome day! ♥

2. So yeah, I took a meme from thisiscyrene:

1. Open MS Paint or the equivalent program of choice.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Draw a cat.
4. Share it with the world!



...yeah, no comment. XD

3. And then I also took a meme from poisontea and juniormint:

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BetterThanItSounds) and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.


1. Scrawny young teen stops a seven-generation long war and impresses his dad by eating a raw fish that his best friend spit back up. Cuteness ensues. How to Train Your Dragon (amcw177)

2. The world's nascent chance of salvation is a boy who farms water in a desert and has inappropriate sexual attraction to his sister. He kills millions of enemy soldiers through exploitation of faulty safety regulations. Star Wars (aroundight)

3. Three men and four hundred extras travel through space in their futuristic living room/model UN club, going where no man has gone before. Star Trek (amcw177)

4. People stuck in a place where weird things happen and no one has any idea what's happening. Not even the producers. Also features a soap opera set in East Asia. LOST (katsumeragi)

5. A misogynist addicted to smoking and cocaine lives together with an ex-army doctor with a mysteriously migrating injury. Together, They Fight Crime! Sherlock Holmes (aroundight and ojuzu)

6. A government employee has a really bad day. 24 (reana_camellia)

7. Orphan discovers his parents enrolled him in boarding school before they died. He kills one of his teachers and doesn't want to go home for the summer. He's the hero. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (juniormint and cleartempest)

8. Two kids get invited to visit their grandfather's zoo and watch a lawyer feed one of the animals. Jurassic Park (aroundight)

9. Dead people fight other dead people but almost never to the death. Bleach (katsumeragi)

10. Bounty hunters in space barely make enough money to eat properly. The soundtrack is popular. Cowboy Bebop (katsumeragi)

11. Ayn Rand fights The Mafia, twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Then you show up and resolve the situation. With a magical hand that shoots bees. Bioshock (thisiscyrene)

12. Military specialist searches for a magic rock recipe to get his brother out of a can. Fullmetal Alchemist (aroundight)

13. A tavern waitress cons a ronin and a bandit into following her around Japan, looking for a guy she can only recognize by smell. Samurai Champloo (aroundight and ojuzu)

14. Kids fight slugs by turning into animals. Animorphs (aroundight)

15. A reclusive, middle-aged, single industrialist invites young children to tour his business, which is operated by undocumented immigrants who live in the facility. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (ojuzu)

16. Children are sucked into the Internet and are assisted by advanced artificial intelligences while coming out of various states of denial. Digimon (azartti)

17. A man beats himself up. Lots of people think this is a good idea. Fight Club (katsumeragi)

18. A boy sniffs around in the dirt, scares the hell out of innocent townspeople and hunts for bugs while developing a meaningful relationship with his shadow. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (katsumeragi)

19. Two Brits are trapped in a town where puzzles are Serious Business. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (katsumeragi)

20. 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. Back to the Future (aroundight)

ETA: All guessed! \o/

Comments

[escherichiacola.livejournal.com]

Scrawny young teen stops a seven-generation long war and impresses his dad by eating a raw fish that his best friend spit back up. Cuteness ensues.

Sounds pretty lousy TBH

11. Ayn Rand fights The Mafia, twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Then you show up and resolve the situation. With a magical hand that shoots bees.

System Shock

UNDER WATER

6. A government employee has a really bad day.

I'm gonna go for one serious stab: Stranger than Fiction?

[makeste.livejournal.com]

BUT IN THIS CASE "BETTER THAN IT SOUNDS" MOST DEFINITELY APPLIES. XD

#11 is a good guess, but nope. Same with #6, though that would actually fit StF very well, come to think.

[escherichiacola.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, can I have one more guess at 6? Just realized it's probably Brazil.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Nope, sorry. XD If it helps, #6 is a TV show?

[escherichiacola.livejournal.com]

/fails utterly

[makeste.livejournal.com]

YOU HAD GOOD GUESSES, it just happens to be an incredibly generalized summary. XD

[rikasaurus.livejournal.com]

LMAO That cat is adorable /has to try this meme

#1, 17, and 20. I am dying XDD

[makeste.livejournal.com]

DO IT DO IT DO IIIIIT.

#17 is by far my favorite of the bunch, lol.

[rikasaurus.livejournal.com]

lmao done.

I wish I could guess some of these, and now knowing that Bleach is #9 makes it even funnier XDDD

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I wish there was some sort of lol emoticon on LJ so I could just post that. But since there isn't, I will have you know that I am LAUGHING SO HARD I almost choked. XD

The 'but almost never to the death' thing is what really makes the summary for #9 awesome.

[katsumeragi.livejournal.com]

4: Lost?
9: Bleach
10: Cowboy Bebop
17: Fight Club, ha, have this on mine XD
18: I'm guessing this one might be Twilight Princess :\
19: Layton!

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Right on all counts! o/

Huh, I must've missed yours when I was browsing through my flist. *goes to check it out*

[rodicks.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed of my lack of talent. T__T


Also
18. A boy sniffs around in the dirt, scares the hell out of innocent townspeople and hunts for bugs while developing a meaningful relationship with his shadow.
lmao epic

[makeste.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD I-I can't... breathe... XDDDDDD THAT IS AN AMAZING CAT.

From now on, if anyone ever asks me to describe that game, that is exactly how I'm going to do it.

[aroundight.livejournal.com]

oh geez typing on phone, but this meme is too awesome to ignore...

2 Star Wars
5 Sherlock Holmes
13 Samurai Champloo
20 ...Back to the Future?

[aroundight.livejournal.com]

...and eight is Jurassic Park!

[makeste.livejournal.com]

All correct! 8D

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

2. The world's nascent chance of salvation is a boy who farms water in a desert and has inappropriate sexual attraction to his sister. He kills millions of enemy soldiers through exploitation of faulty safety regulations.

Sounds kind of boring. If there's fic about the enemy soldiers I might read it, though.

5: Sherlock Holmes, of course. XD

7. Orphan discovers his parents enrolled him in boarding school before they died. He kills one of his teachers and doesn't want to go home for the summer. He's the hero.

Another one that doesn't sound very interesting. Pity, really.

9: Oh, how I wish Bleach were just the new ending. It would be so fantastic and Baccano-esque. ♥

12: FMA, however, has remained pretty consistently awesome. Major General Armstrong~ ♥

13: I so need to watch the rest of Samurai Champloo. That series is the best. (Although one of the musicians connected to it died recently. Nujabes~ ;_;)

15: CatCF was one of my favourite books as a kid! I wore the binding out so much the pages started falling out.

16: I don't know what this is, but I would probably like it.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

#7's summary is brilliant because it's COMPLETELY ACCURATE and yet so dull-sounding that it's tricky to guess. It's one of the few that pretty much everyone knows, though. XD

I didn't know Nujabes had died. :( Now it's going to be bittersweet the next time I go back and watch an episode.

CatCF was one of my favorites too. Though I liked Great Glass Elevator even more. VERMICIOUS KNIDS FTW

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

Battlecry is one of my favourite songs ever. :( AHAHA, YES. XD

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Same here. Might just be my favorite anime opening ever.

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the pretty, pretty promo-video they put on the DVDs as a special feature? It's just so incredibly gorgeous. The colours . . . *_*

[makeste.livejournal.com]

No, I have the DVDs, but I've never bothered to look at any of the bonus features. /fail I should go check that out.

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

It's basically clips from the series with lovely effects over them. It's beautiful. (Aha, I wouldn't have looked at any of the bonus features either if "battlecry" (opening) promo video hadn't been listed in large font on the box. :D)

[juniormint.livejournal.com]

YOURS ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE A CAT. HOW DO YOU DO THAT? IDEK WHAT MINES IS. XD

7 is Harry Potter?

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Ehhh mine looks more like a tentacle slug with a deformed stuffed animal head imo, lol.

And yep! Wasn't sure if anyone was actually going to get that one. XD

[cleartempest.livejournal.com]

LOL that is Yama in cat form. I mean what.



pfffft

Is number 7...HARRY POTTER?!
If I didn't know better I'd say number 6 is District 9 XD but I know it's not.
god, I suck at these.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

lolololololasdflkjasdlfjka

IT IS INDEED HARRY POTTER. And #6 is not District 9, but it's a good guess. Initially I thought #6 was one of the better summaries, but now I'm starting to wonder if it isn't too general, sob. It does seem to fit a lot of things.

[amcw177.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! I know some of these! I think *scratches head*

Could 1) be How To Train Your Dragon?
3) Either Star Trek or any of its parodies LOL
6) Falling Down? Or Chuck Norris.
15) Possibly the most pedophile-sounding summary of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'?
16) My life LOL XD

Oh dear. I shouldn't be trying to answer guessing memes when it's past my bedtime *facepalm* But the summaries are hilarious :D

[makeste.livejournal.com]

#1 and #3 are correct! So is 15 but that was already guessed. AND YES, IT IS AMAZINGLY PEDO-SOUNDING. And #16 could be any of our life stories, really. XD

apparently, I am back!

[aroundight.livejournal.com]

Shot in the dark, but is 14 Animorphs?

Re: apparently, I am back!

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Yep! \o/

[azartti.livejournal.com]

6. Wanted? The Office?
16. Reebot? Digimon?

IDK.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

That's a no on #6, but #16 is indeed Digimon! :D

[azartti.livejournal.com]

AWESOMECAKES!! At least I got one lol

[chibikaya.livejournal.com]

OH SHIT WHY ARE YOUR MEMES ALWAYS SO AWESOME HAHAHA
THE TV TROPES ONE IS FREAKIN' LOL.

STEALIN'!

[makeste.livejournal.com]

STEAL AWAY! Can't wait to go guess on yours. :D

[thisiscyrene.livejournal.com]

BEST CAT EVAR. It looks very pleased with itself.

...TOTALLY ganking this movie meme.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

He's a happy little guy, weird mutations and all. XD

\o/

[thisiscyrene.livejournal.com]

Is 11 Bioshock?

[makeste.livejournal.com]

IT IS. :D

[reana-camellia.livejournal.com]

6 -> 24

[makeste.livejournal.com]

You are correct! I was really starting to think no one was going to get that one. XD

I gratefully accept your beautiful cat as my b-day present! XD

[caffeinexsugar.livejournal.com]

That cat... looks so happy that it makes me happy XD

Thank you for remembering my birthday! I usually forget, but this year so many people remembered it for me. I'm so touched T^T

And why is your meme always WIN? XD I LOVED the Harry Potter and BLEACH and... well, almost everything, but these two made me crack ALOUD. And one could mistake #1 for a Khaled Hosseini novel LOL

Could #11 be Nadia: Secret of Blue Water?

Yay. \o/ HE LOVES YOU A LOT NOW.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

He appears to be a Yamamoto-type, that cat.

And of course! You're awesome. <3 I'm glad lots of people remembered; I hope you had a good day, too.

I could probably spend all day browsing through the TV Tropes summaries, they're all so amusing. HP and Bleach were definitely two of the best. XD

And #11 was Bioshock, but good guess!