Stan Alda Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Anyone here a fan of [i]Uncle John's Bathroom Reader? [/i]I sure am, and one of my favorite things in those books are the pop culture puzzles. One good example is taking the premises to two or three works, combining them into one paragraph, and then getting the reader to guess the combined title. For example: [quote] [i]Question:[/i] An old Mafia don, played by Marlon Brando, is getting nervous about his daughter's (Joan Bennett) wedding to a deep-voiced monster-man (Boris Karloff) made out of reanimated human remains. [i]Answer: The Godfather (1972)+Father of the Bride (1950)+Bride of Frankenstein (1935)=[b]The Godfather of the Bride of Frankenstein[/b][/i] [/quote] Pretty fun, eh? So here's my variation: combining an anime/manga/animesque series with another film. Those who get at least 3 correct will get a like.[list=1] [*]A pair of angelic sisters--one of which can turn underwear into guns, and the other socks into swords--are tasked by God to travel to the naughty bits of London and recover a pair of antique shotguns for a crime lord, played by Lenny McLean. [*]A high school in the western U.S. is split between rival cliques over the "forbidden" romance between the lead jock (Zac Efron) and the lead nerd (Vanessa Hudgens). However, the two factions call a truce during a field trip to Japan, where a pair of even greater threats hang over the school: a plague of zombies, and an illness that causes female breasts to become strangely gelatinous... [*]In a fantasy anime-esque world, war was beginning. After a century of conflict, an empire of pyrokinetic bad guys is plotting to conquer the world by autumn, and only a 12-year old budding master of elemental magic and a loose-cannon LAPD detective/movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger) can stop their plans of world domination! [*]A silent, stoic animal trainer and a perky young girl clad in a disturbingly short miniskirt must take up arms against an invading coalition of Soviet, Cuban, and Nicaraguan forces (and their North Korean reinforcements). ([i]HINT: You just have to name the characters from the first to get the entire title.[/i]) [*]In this sorta-josei series, a magic subway train travels through the Tokyo metro and whisks lost, lonely women to everlasting happiness. But one day, they have unusual passengers: a trio of escaped convicts (led by Coleman Francis) that are searching for a tungsten/diamond/uranium/whatever mine...despite the fact that the mine is actually in Arizona, and not in a Tokyo subway. Why the bishie subway guys and the psychopathic ex-con hobos meet is never adequately explained, and the subway (and plot) grind to a screeching, awkward halt about an hour and a half later. But hey, at least [i]MST3K [/i]made it funny. ([i]HINT: Use the alternate title of the movie part. This is the hardest one by far, so don't beat yourself up if you don't get it.[/i]) [/list] Think you've got what it takes? Remember, you must phrase the answer as [i]Show 1+Show 2=Combined show name.[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Zero Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Moved to Games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Alda Posted June 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 [quote name='Legend Zero' timestamp='1339680612' post='5956848'] Moved to Games. [/quote] Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stan Alda Posted June 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 OK, it's been a week since I posted this, and I haven't gotten any responses. This game ends today at 4:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. Anyone who gets at least 3 of them right will get a like, so take this opportunity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Alda Posted June 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 It's 4:30 and nobody's responded, so this game is over. You can still answer, but you're not going to get any prizes. Don't say I didn't warn you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Alda Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 All right. this is it. Here's the answers:[list=1] [*][i]Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt+Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels= [b]Panty and Stocking and Two Smoking Barrels[/b][/i] [*][i]High School Musical+Highschool of the Dead=[/i][b][i]High School Musical of the Dead[/i][/b] [*][i]Avatar: The Last Airbender+Last Aciton Hero=[b]Avatar: The Last Action Hero[/b][/i] [*][i][b]RedXDawn:[/b] OK, this one was a little contrived. The Shows are Pokemon+Red Dawn, but the characters mentioned are Red and Dawn. So it's more of a pun than anything. Sorry.[/i] [*][i]Miracle Train+Night Train to Mundo Fine (alt. title: Red Zone Cuba)=[b]Miracle Train to Mundo Fine[/b][/i] [/list] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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