LOL, Meme

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works/musicals/TV shows/etc. and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

(Yes, that is a TVTropes Link)

1. Archaeologist shares candy with aliens. Then they rebel against GOD! - Stargate, guessed by krillia
   
   
2. A girl enrolls in a mysterious academy where fencing is practically a way of life and everyone has issues. Revolutionary Girl Utena, guessed by krillia & autophanous
   
   
3. Government employees read their employer's financial information, steal a business vehicle, and go off to violate their now-former boss's purchasing agreements.
   
   
4. A Badass Longcoat, his oversexed half-brother, a policewoman who is not his girlfriend, a religious fanatic and his jail-bait goth girl daughter battle the forces of darkness. -- the Dresden Files (books), guessed by sabinelagrande
   
   
5. Four kids face such horrific monsters as moving traffic signs, violent hippies, animate cups of coffee, and living fire hydrants in order to stop a time-traveling facelike entity.
   
   
6. The UN in space, with lizards and peacocks. (I think dqbunny used this one too, so she can't guess.)
   
   
7. A heavily tattooed kung-fu Dalai Lama, his Eskimo pals, a blind Chinese loli of mass destruction and some animals that don't exist (but should) take on an army of arsonists who wear giant shoulderpads. - Avatar: the Last Airbender, guessed by galuxkitty & autophanous
   
   
8. Literally going where no one has gone before. Anybody have a map? -- Star Trek: Voyager, guessed by yuuo
   
   
9. A teenage boy goes to a fair. Apocalypse ensues.
   
   
10. Redhead from Japan gets "taken home" to rule over a world that vaguely resembles China. Twelve Kingdoms, guessed by autophanous
    
    
11. Children see a Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know, run around country looking for another one. -- Fullmetal Alchemist, guessed by yuuo
    
    
12. A commercial for granola bars causes a schizophrenic ninety pound girl and a Shell Shocked Senior to topple a government. -- Serenity, guessed by sabinelagrande
    
    
13. A talking pile of crap with a really big gun joins a group of mercenaries taking advice from a book on the methodology behind being a superior thief of a trading vessel's cargo. - Schlock Mercenary, guessed by yuuo
    
    
14. Man is betrayed by his best friend. Twice. They're still friends at the end of the game. In addition, the man eventually has to help his brother defeat an evil guy who lives in a fortress on the moon.
    
    
15. Thieves kidnap a young princess as part of a political coup. They're the good guys. -- Final Fantasy 9, guessed by earthstar_chan
    
    
16. Extraordinarily Empowered Girls kill zombies with bells. Or: young women splash around in a freezing river to make sure nobody cheats the system. -- Abhorsen trilogy, guessed by corellianrogue
    
    
17. Garbage collectors IN SPACE!. -- Planetes, guessed by earthstar_chan and hatone
    
    
18. A girl navigates a maze at the whim of a fairy rock star. - Labyrinth, guessed by autophanous
    
    
19. A young woman's loss of sanity causes concern for a friend of her missing parents.
    
    
20. The people of the future have a big bug and weed problem. -- Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind, guessed by earthstar_chan

Some of these need to be a bit more punchy.

Okay, real update

I'm heading to Boston tomorrow -- not to visit family, but for a conference. Though if folks in that area want to hang out, there will be a nice public astronomy lecture on the Harvard campus on Monday. (Seriously, who doesn't love extrasolar planets?)

Anyway, because I have yet to maintain a stable weight (and a lot of my clothing gets ratty pretty quickly), I picked up some dress clothing. And half a dozen T-shirts. It was kind of amusing to watch what drew my eyes in the clothing store(s) -- bright colors and tie-dye and broomstick skirts, and colorful knee-high socks instead of stockings. And also black pants, because they're a staple of my 'I'm not wearing jeans, so that counts as dressed up' wardrobe. It's a good thing I'm an academic, because the business world would probably think I was crazy. (Already I might look more like a hippie English major, but I am a Cornellian, so that's probably expected.)

Anyway, I'm skipping anime club tonight because I still have some changes to make to my talk (and I'll bet I'll be tweaking it later, as well). After that, artses!