Better than it sounds

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You know the drill: Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from better than it sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

1. Celebrity stalker is lied to by his girlfriend and a momma's boy has a temper tantrum. Side plots include racing birds, stealing motorcycles, the militant arm of Green Peace, and everyone feels bad because the Cutie gets cut by a Ginsu knife. - Final Fantasy VII, guessed by lostinapapercup

2. A suspiciously wealthy waste management executive has panic attacks, recurring dreams, extramarital affairs and occasional bouts of violence. - The Sopranos, guessed by gao

3. Terrorists put a very intelligent man in a cave with a box of spare parts. This leads the man to solve unethical business practices of his company. - Iron Man, guessed by misslucyjane

4. A boy worries about meeting his godfather and later decides that he should try to kill his best friend's pet. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, guessed by misslucyjane

5. A hero's attempts to slay a dragon are delayed when everyone makes him/her solve their problems first. - Dragon Age: Origins, guessed by lostinapapercup

6. A Scotsman helps a young woman he meets on the street, and ceases to exist. He spends the rest of the book following the girl he helped around London. - Neverwhere, guessed by lostinapapercup

7. Two lab rats, one short and irritable, the other tall and easily impressionable, devise schemes to take over the world. - Pinky and the Brain, guessed by lostinapapercup and misslucyjane

8. Mission to go where no man has gone before continues, but this time with a wee bit more attention paid to the rules, as opposed to just going along with whatever we feel like doing at that moment. - Star Trek: The Next Generation, guessed by lostinapapercup

9. 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. - M*A*S*H, guessed by govcampbell

10. People fight over a piece of jewelry. A bunch of pot-smoking midgets provide a convincing argument that size doesn't matter. - Lord of the Rings, guessed by lostinapapercup and misslucyjane

11. Two phenomenally stupid high school heshers irritate everyone they come into contact with, including each other. Their most notable trait is their tendency to chortle hysterically at the slightest sign of a (usually unintentional) double-entendre. - Beavis and Butt-head, guessed by amberdulen

12. Opinionated young woman meets snob and doesn't like him, until it turns out that she does. - Pride and Prejudice, guessed by misslucyjane

13. A dysfunctional family consists of an effete Parisian socialite, an emo former slaveowner, and an increasingly bitter "child" who kill for fun and profit. Later, two of them conflict with a theatrical group. - Interview with the Vampire, guessed by lostinapapercup and misslucyjane

14. A small blue mammal steals batteries from a fat man. - Sonic the Hedgehog, guessed by innerbrat

15. A peasant, a river man and a forest wise man try to cure their ADHD noble friend of his on-the-fly, erratic obsessions. Road rage, prison breaks, theft and property repossession abound. - The Wind in the Willows, guessed by govcampbell

16. A group of dysfunctional people are chased by their pissed-off children. In Space! - Battlestar Galactica, guessed by agonistes

17. A pizza delivery boy goes on a one-way trip to the future, where he meets and befriends a physically deformed orphan and an alcohol-fueled criminal. They all quit their jobs to work for the delivery boy's senile nephew. - Futurama, guessed by kriscynical and villainny

18. Girl falls for bad boy, but marries someone else. Bad boy chucks an Emo-fit and seeks revenge. - Wuthering Heights, guessed by lostinapapercup

19. A Chinese teen becomes a transvestite and runs away from home for unselfish reasons. - Mulan, guessed by villainny

20. Ordinary man from an ordinary planet (which has recently been torn down) goes galaxy- and dimension-hopping with a hot scientist, a perpetually unhappy robot, an alcoholic daredevil, and a narcissist with two heads and three arms. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, guessed by lostinapapercup and misslucyjane