Lets have fun: Popular story descriptions turned on their head

[Fri]

A coming of age story where a teen boy skipped school to went on road trip with the hottest guy from school, his racist grandpa, and two dodgy foreigners, one of them is a religious cultist.

[Dasgovernator]

This might be a little too vague, but here goes:

A government official tells a fable to a reporter about an urban legend the former is confident he's killed before they both become it's latest victims.

Spoiler: Hint

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This urban legend wears a spotless suit . . . most of the time

Spoiler: Answer

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Hitman: Blood Money

[Sermil]

From the Bible to the popular song
There's one theme that we find right along
Of all ideals they hail as good
The most sublime is... motherhood

There was a man though, who it seems
Once carried this ideal to extremes
He loved his mother and she loved him
And yet his story is rather grim

Spoiler: What story is that, with someone who loved his mother?

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There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud's Index 'cause he
Loved his mother!
His rivals used to say quite a bit that
As a monarch he was most unfit,
But still and all they had to admit that he
Loved his mother!

Yes he loved his mother like no other
His daughter was his sister
and his son was his brother
One thing on which you can depend is
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is
When he found what he had done
He tore his eyes out one by one
A tragic end to a loyal son who
Loved his mother

So be sweet and kind to Mother,
Now and then have a chat
Buy her candy or some flowers,
Or a brand new hat
But, maybe you had better let it go at that
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex
And
You may end up like Oedipus
(I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus)
Then end up like old Oedipus Rex!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScdJURKGWM if you haven't heard the song)

[Knaight]

From the Bible to the popular song
There's one theme that we find right along
Of all ideals they hail as good
The most sublime is... motherhood

There was a man though, who it seems
Once carried this ideal to extremes
He loved his mother and she loved him
And yet his story is rather grim

Spoiler: What story is that, with someone who loved his mother?

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There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud's Index 'cause he
Loved his mother!
His rivals used to say quite a bit that
As a monarch he was most unfit,
But still and all they had to admit that he
Loved his mother!

Yes he loved his mother like no other
His daughter was his sister
and his son was his brother
One thing on which you can depend is
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is
When he found what he had done
He tore his eyes out one by one
A tragic end to a loyal son who
Loved his mother

So be sweet and kind to Mother,
Now and then have a chat
Buy her candy or some flowers,
Or a brand new hat
But, maybe you had better let it go at that
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex
And
You may end up like Oedipus
(I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus)
Then end up like old Oedipus Rex!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScdJURKGWM if you haven't heard the song)

The last two lines before the spoiler did a pretty good job confirming this one.

[happyturtle]

More clues:

3. A person commits bigamy to avoid being questioned by the authorities, most particularly a sadistic double of their first spouse. When offered a choice to return to their first spouse, they choose their second spouse instead.


4. A talented young person chooses a career that their parents disapprove of, leading to a violent face-to-face dispute. Another person leaves their job under fire. A third begins having visions after discovering a weapon owned by a war hero.


Classics edition:

1. A person who never made any provision for their children is annoyed that their spouse wants to find them rich marriages.

2. A person takes an improbably long time to weave a shroud.

3. Someone feels VERY VERY GUILTY!

4. In which the plot to receive an inheritance early can only be improved by adding an unwitting doppelganger and an insane asylum.

[Ruslan]

4. A talented young person chooses a career that their parents disapprove of, leading to a violent face-to-face dispute. Another person leaves their job under fire. A third begins having visions after discovering a weapon owned by a war hero.

Order of the Stick ?

[happyturtle]

Haha! No, but that's pretty funny.

[The Troubadour]

1. A person who never made any provision for their children is annoyed that their spouse wants to find them rich marriages.

2. A person takes an improbably long time to weave a shroud.

3. Someone feels VERY VERY GUILTY!

4. In which the plot to receive an inheritance early can only be improved by adding an unwitting doppelganger and an insane asylum.

Let's see:

1. "Pride and Prejudice"?
2. Hmmm... "The Odyssey"?
3. "The Tell-Tale Heart", perhaps?
4. ...I'm stumped! ETA: Oh, wait. Could it possibly be "Peer Gynt"?

[Knaight]

4. In which the plot to receive an inheritance early can only be improved by adding an unwitting doppelganger and an insane asylum.

The Importance of Being Earnest?

[happyturtle]

Let's see:

1. "Pride and Prejudice"?
2. Hmmm... "The Odyssey"?
3. "The Tell-Tale Heart", perhaps?
4. ...I'm stumped! ETA: Oh, wait. Could it possibly be "Peer Gynt"?

1 and 2 are correct. 3 gets honorary points, but it's not the one I'm thinking of.

The Importance of Being Earnest?

I have not read Peer Gynt or The Importance of Being Earnest, so I don't know if those get honorary points or not. But I was thinking of something different.

[An Enemy Spy]

Another description I've heard for the Odyssey is: A man lies to his wife about why he came home late.

[Durkoala]

More clues:

3. A person commits bigamy to avoid being questioned by the authorities, most particularly a sadistic double of their first spouse. When offered a choice to return to their first spouse, they choose their second spouse instead.


4. A talented young person chooses a career that their parents disapprove of, leading to a violent face-to-face dispute. Another person leaves their job under fire. A third begins having visions after discovering a weapon owned by a war hero.


Classics edition:

1. A person who never made any provision for their children is annoyed that their spouse wants to find them rich marriages.

2. A person takes an improbably long time to weave a shroud.

3. Someone feels VERY VERY GUILTY!

4. In which the plot to receive an inheritance early can only be improved by adding an unwitting doppelganger and an insane asylum.

4) Star Wars: the Force Awakens?

Classic 2: The Odyssey

Classic 3: The Tell-Tale Heart

Classic 4: I want to say a Shakespeare play, but I can't think what.

[happyturtle]

4) Star Wars: the Force Awakens?

Classic 2: The Odyssey

Classic 3: The Tell-Tale Heart

Classic 4: I want to say a Shakespeare play, but I can't think what.

4. Yes! Star Wars: TFA!

Classic 2 is the Odyssey
Classic 3 is not The Tell-Tale Heart, but that gets honorary points
Classic 4 is not Shakespeare

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More clues

Books and Movies:
3. A person commits bigamy to avoid being questioned by the authorities, most particularly a sadistic double of their first spouse. When offered a choice to return to their first spouse, they choose their second spouse instead. Set in Scotland.

Classics:
3. Someone feels VERY VERY GUILTY in Russia!

4. In which the plot to receive an inheritance early can only be improved by adding an unwitting doppelganger and an insane asylum in Victorian England.

[Dienekes]

Classics:
3. Someone feels VERY VERY GUILTY in Russia!

4. In which the plot to receive an inheritance early can only be improved by adding an unwitting doppelganger and an insane asylum in Victorian England.

The guilty man wouldn't happen to be named Raskolnikov, would he?

[happyturtle]

The guilty man wouldn't happen to be named Raskolnikov, would he?

It would indeed!

[Iamyourking]

A coming of age story where a teen boy skipped school to went on road trip with the hottest guy from school, his racist grandpa, and two dodgy foreigners, one of them is a religious cultist.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Season 3?

[Dasgovernator]

1. An overweight child goes on a globe-trotting adventure where he manages to cure the blind, feed the hungry, and even save a puppy's life after finding true friendship. He is subsequently murdered by two aliens after they drain the life force of almost every human in the world.

2. A prince learns how useful slavery can be for accomplishing his political goals.

3. A recent immigrant has to repeatedly take time out of his busy schedule to entertain his easily amused cousin.

[Kato]

1. An overweight child goes on a globe-trotting adventure where he manages to cure the blind, feed the hungry, and even save a puppy's life after finding true friendship. He is subsequently murdered by two aliens after they drain the life force of almost every human in the world.

2. A prince learns how useful slavery can be for accomplishing his political goals.

3. A recent immigrant has to repeatedly take time out of his busy schedule to entertain his easily amused cousin.

Buu Saga for the first one I guess.

Slavery makes me assume Pokemon but the rest won't fit. Prince and politics should fit well enough to something but...

No idea on the last one.

[Dasgovernator]

Buu Saga for the first one I guess.

That is correct.

[Rater202]

3. A recent immigrant has to repeatedly take time out of his busy schedule to entertain his easily amused cousin.

Whichever GTA game spawned the "Hey Cousin, let's go bowling" meme.

[Dasgovernator]

Whichever GTA game spawned the "Hey Cousin, let's go bowling" meme.

GTA IV, and that is also correct.

To help narrow down the 2nd one, it takes place mostly in "Japan".

[Kato]

To help narrow down the 2nd one, it takes place mostly in "Japan".

Ah, I was thinking Code Geass but I couldn't put the slavery. Now I get it, though.

[Knaight]

It would indeed!

That one's really obvious in retrospect.

[happyturtle]

Dostoyevsky uses hundreds of pages and dozens of characters to tell basically the same story as "The Tell-Tale Heart". Russian literature is weird.

[John Cribati]

It's the same Indie Video game as before, but now there's more story.

In a realm where everyone's an animal. The Fire Nation attacks itself, and the crown prince flees in disgrace. Elsewhere, an Earthbending beetle attempts to return a pet plant to its owner, while being followed by a flamboyant falcon whose best friend he'd nearly killed.

[Hiro Protagonest]

It's the same Indie Video game as before, but now there's more story.

In a realm where everyone's an animal. The Fire Nation attacks itself, and the crown prince flees in disgrace.

...I must've missed the words "Indie Video Game" before, because now I can easily tell it's Rivals of Aether. Don't even need the other hints, but the earth beetle makes it beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[Dienekes]

Alright, I think I have one.

Brain damaged individual is experimented upon. Ends up losing her only friend, when he becomes an astronaut.

[Sermil]

Here's one. It's a little old, but it was certain popular at one time (during the twentieth century:)

A man offends a powerful magic user. In fear, he asks a builder to build a defensive wall around his property to keep the offended one out. After the wall is completed, the man realizes that the wall has no doors. The builder was the magic user in disguise, and used the man's fear to trap him.

[SirKazum]

Ooh! What about:

A feud between paleontologists and a meteorologist is settled by a physician.

[Rater202]

Ooh! What about:

A feud between paleontologists and a meteorologist is settled by a physician.

Doctor McNinja: There's a raptor in my office.