# Summarize something (tv, movie, book) you like to make it sound stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499 "2008-06-19T18:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/61 "2008-06-20T19:47:35Z")
Till the one day when the lady met this fellow And they knew it was much more than a hunch, That this group would somehow form a family. That’s the way we all became the Brady Bunch. The Brady Bunch, That’s the way we all became the Brady Bunch. The Brady Bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/62 "2008-06-20T20:21:48Z")
It’s kind of like _Spice World_ - this band has a concert that night, but they all wander off and go make fun of random people and stuff. Also, one of their grandfathers is there, and he’s this dirty old man. They really are a good band, though, I think you’d like them. Kind of poppy, but catchy. - [A Hard Day’s Night](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058182/) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/63 "2008-06-20T21:00:45Z")
There’s this movie with Paulie Shore … but, I’ve said too much already. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/64 "2008-06-20T21:22:20Z")
Big hungry fish ruins tourism. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/65 "2008-06-20T21:35:42Z")
It’s Snakes! On A Plane! Wait a minute… ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/66 "2008-06-20T22:19:51Z")
Total Recall - I can’t remember the plot. 😃 Total Recall - Is it real or Memorex? I think this sums it up completely. Groundhog Day - This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. … If you liked that you’ll love Groundhog Day. If you skipped down to here, you’d best skip Groundhog Day. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/67 "2008-06-20T22:45:13Z")
The Postman - The bright point of everybody’s day is getting the mail, and watching the Sound of Music. Water World - This is a very wet movie. The opposite of Dune. This movie would be improved if the people at least received mail and watched the Sound of Music. The star of the film collects mud and sells it to people. The fact that there is a market for mud should warn you off if you haven’t already been. Brigadoon - Now you see it. Now you don’t. A Scottish town that can’t be found, more than once a century. To stay one night, is to stay forever, so be sure you’ve got it right. Lots of music, girls in skirts and guys in skirts. Only the dogs don’t wear skirts. No one there wears short shorts. Don’t watch if you can’t stand plaid or skirts. That damn near kilt me to do that review. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/68 "2008-06-20T22:56:49Z")
A convicted murderer and the rest of his hillbilly family go to California to pick fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/69 "2008-06-20T23:05:21Z")
Princess Bride: A grandfather reads a bedtime story to his sick grandson. Anchorman: A comedy about sexual abuse in the workplace, animal abuse, the mentally handicapped, and gang violence. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/70 "2008-06-20T23:18:08Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] A Swiss Student goes to University in Germany, and thinks he knows everything. He tries to make a new friend, but runs home. His friend follows him to Switzerland and makes his life miserable. Finally, the student agrees to set his former roomie up with a date, but it goes wrong and the guy holds the student responsible, so he continues to make his life worse and worse until they die. [/QUOTE] The Swiss student’s grandson finds his grandfather’s diaries, makes a new friend, named Abby, who is a song-and dance man. Eventually the grandson and his friend swap wives. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/71 "2008-06-20T23:31:05Z")
A bad 70’s sci-fi TV show gets re-made, but they change the one cool thing about the old show. The robots no longer look like robots, but instead like look like regular people. And they changed a bunch of characters from men to woman. It is brought to us by one of they guys that worked on _Voyager_. _Battlestar Galatica_ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/72 "2008-06-23T17:46:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Governor Quinn** > Two sportswriters, a crazed pianist, and a friend spend a half hour being questioned by a literary critic about every subject under the sun. At the end, three of them (but not the friend) agree to do it again next week. > > Quote: > Originally Posted by **lobotomyboy63** > Two hit men interact with other crime figures during an eventful day. > > Quote: > Originally Posted by **Rachael Rage** > Nerdy guy pretends to be cool so he can get laid. Then he blows up some buildings. > > Quote: > Originally Posted by **Rachael Rage** > Bored kid with daddy issues runs away from home and joins the rebellion. Loses hand, mourns dad, wins revolution. > > Quote: > Originally Posted by **Annie-Xmas** A famous writer is wounded in a car crash and kidnapped by his “number one fan.” She forces him to write a book just for her. > > Quote: > Originally Posted by **Gangster Octopus** > Princess Bride: A grandfather reads a bedtime story to his sick grandson. I don’t see how any of these make it sound stupid. They just boil it down to an extreme degree of over-simplification, but it doesn’t make it sound good/bad/stupid/anything in particular. The idea here is that when people are dissing a movie/book/etc they _didn’t_ like, they will describe it to you (often unfairly) in a derisive way that makes it sound lame as hell. I posit that just about anything, no matter how good, can be described in such a way as to seem lame and stupid. That’s what we’re trying to do here. Also, some of you guys aren’t telling what it is you’re summarizing, which kind of defeats the point. Despite one person saying it would be fun to make it so, this thread isn’t a guessing game. **Linty Fresh** : I have never seen Flash Gordon but now I want to. That was hilarious 😃 Similarly, **Marlitharn** , I have no idea what you were describing but now I want to see it or read it or whatever. **Eutychus** , great summary of 2001 😃 [QUOTE=KneadToKnow] There’s this movie with Paulie Shore … but, I’ve said too much already. [/QUOTE] Bahahaha! (except that technically you were supposed to summarize something you like. Unless… that means… :eek: no!!! say it isn’t so!) ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/73 "2008-06-23T18:02:07Z")
There’s this spaceship, see, that’s been gone a really, really long time. And then it crash lands on a planet. The guys get out and walk and walk and walk until they come to a cornfield and then they get captured by these big gorillas with guns on horseback. And then they get taken back to the gorilla-city, but there’s also orangutans and chimpanzees that talk. Some stuff happens and this one guy and his hot as shit but mute girlfriend escape and ride up the beach until they see a statue. The guy then REALLY overacts. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/74 "2008-06-23T18:22:40Z")
Please state the name of whatever it is that you are summarizing. If you really feel it needs to be super-secret then just put it in a spoiler box. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/75 "2008-06-23T18:33:00Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Please state the name of whatever it is that you are summarizing. If you really feel it needs to be super-secret then just put it in a spoiler box. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=plnnr] There’s this spaceship, see, that’s been gone a really, really long time. And then it crash lands on a planet. The guys get out and walk and walk and walk until they come to a cornfield and then they get captured by these big gorillas with guns on horseback. And then they get taken back to the gorilla-city, but there’s also orangutans and chimpanzees that talk. Some stuff happens and this one guy and his hot as shit but mute girlfriend escape and ride up the beach until they see a statue. The guy then REALLY overacts. [/QUOTE] This is obviously _Beach Blanket Bingo._ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/76 "2008-06-23T19:06:09Z")
Ha ha very funny. Look, I know that one was obviously _Mystic Pizza_, but the general trend of not saying what they are is not good. Not everyone has read/seen even every common book/movie. I didn’t intend this thread to be a guessing game (though it might make a good thread, if someone wanted to start it). ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/77 "2008-06-23T19:08:54Z")
[QUOTE=True Blue Jack] :dubious: Um, was this supposed to be hard? Or was it supposedly needing a spoiler box a joke? - TBJ [/QUOTE] Maybe you just don’t realize your own brilliance. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/78 "2008-06-23T19:37:00Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] A convicted murderer and the rest of his hillbilly family go to California to pick fruit. [/QUOTE] Sorry, **Opal**. This was _The Grapes of Wrath_. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/79 "2008-06-23T20:12:10Z")
There’s this snot-nosed, whiny little kid in New York who feels sorry for the homeless bums who hustle chess in some park. His dad teaches him to play, and he starts beating his dad. Then his dad gets all pushy and makes him compete in tournaments, even though he’d rather just stay home and mope. The dad also hires a tutor for the kid, a burned-out and pissed-off former chess great, who warns the dad that chess is a dead-end street - witness the homeless bums, many of whom are well-known players in the chess world. Dad pushes the kid anyway, the kid takes it too seriously, then the dad takes it too seriously, then they go to Russia to half-assedly search for Bobby Fischer, who dad says is a total dick but the world needs him anyway. The kid cries, then doesn’t win some big tournament, then gives up on chess. Dad realizes that he was a dick for pushing his kid too hard. The end. _Searching for Bobby Fischer_ (the book, which was better than the movie) ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499/80 "2008-06-23T20:21:00Z")
A bullied kid goes off to a boarding school, where some of the kids regard him as a hero, some regard him as a kook, and others regard him as a threat to their way of life, so the bullying continues. He finds out that some murderer is looking for a magic rock that is kept at his school. The kid and his friends, though sheer pluck, make their way past a series of challenges that the headmaster of the school thought would foil the murderer, to get to the rock. The rock, it turns out, is in the kid’s pocket and there’s no way he can keep it from the murderer or his accomplice, so the kid’s basically screwed, but the murderer decides that now would be the time to taunt the kid. The accomplice touches the kid and his (the accomplice’s) skin burns, the accomplice dies, the murderer flees, and the kid gives the rock back to the school’s headmaster. Then the kid gets on a train to go back to a place that he doesn’t really consider home. _Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarize-something-tv-movie-book-you-like-to-make-it-sound-stupid/453499.md?page=5)