Rachael's Ramblings

I'll reply to all the comments people have left over the past ten or so days and hopefully have time to scroll through the flist from when I was gone later today. In the meantime, have a meme ganked from failte_aoife:
Go to Better Than It Sounds at TV Tropes and find some shows/books/whatever that you like. List 20, let people guess.

I've got a mix of books, comic books, TV shows, movies, bands, and plays, I think. I'll strike through the ones people have figured out but hide the answers behind spoiler tags in case others still want to see what they can get.

1. Dr. Frank 'N Furter, Doc Brown, and a bunch of other blackmail victims run around a big house looking for a murderer and debating simple mathematics. [Answer]Clue


2. Musical, theater and film: An obnoxious lawyer, an emo farmer, a horny doctor and a bunch of middle-aged white men bitch about the heat and call each other names while trying to start a revolution. There are more sex jokes than you might expect. A lot more. [Answer]1776


3. A college professor joins forces with a bartender to fight an entire army over a box that will kill you if you try to open it. [Answer]Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones)


4. Musical, best known for film version: A famous actor must reinvent himself after the surprising discovery that he can't actually act. His girlfriend has a co-worker try to take credit for her work.[Answer]Singin' in the Rain


5. A squadron of insane soldiers try to not die in the war. Paradoxical bureaucracy gets in the way of that. [Answer]Catch-22


6. 1960s band: It's a Fake Band formed for a TV show that consists of a TV actor whose career involved the circus, a British guy who gave up horse racing for the musical stage, a folk singer from the East coast, and a Texas hillbilly who wears a thick green piece of winter clothing. [Answer]The Monkees


7. Book series: Guy who looks like Clint Eastwood hikes to the center of the universe because he feels like it.


8. A man gets his sofa unstuck from the stairwell, with help from an old college professor. [Answer]Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency


9. Classic book or play for alternate version: A widower chases after a serial killer whose killing spree is the widower's own fault. For an alternate version: Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes take turns being complete assholes to one another. [Answer]Frankenstein


10. Classic Play: Young man suffers from mental illness, hallucinates, desecrates a grave, then murders his family. [Answer]Hamlet


11. A good-hearted but spineless Upper Class Twit is constantly manipulated by his more ruthless associates, family, and manservant. Wackiness ensues.[Answer]Jeeves and Wooster


12. Comic books: Emo Kid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a White-Haired Pretty Boy and tries to get his sister to accept him. Or: A depressed workaholic stages an elaborate suicide. His family doesn't really care. [Answer]Sandman


13. 1970s and 1980s TV Show: 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. [Answer]M.A.S.H.


14. A variety show—starring assorted singing and dancing animals, not to mention talking food—where nearly all of the acts end in total disaster. Comes complete with its own MST3K riffers. [Answer]The Muppet Show


15. 1960s Band: Four guys from California named after a beer commercial write songs about the Deep South. Their popular songs are often misunderstood or misheard. [Answer]Creedence Clearwater Revival


16. Two slackers discover that the dead have risen and decide to go to the pub. [Answer]Shaun of the Dead


17. Book series: An Officer and a Gentleman throws away his Naval career for his new pet. [Answer]Temeraire series a.k.a. the His Majesty's Dragon series


18. Comic books: A Massive Multiplayer Crossover featuring characters from Fairy Tales and folklore, who are forced out of their homelands by a ruthless dictator and take refuge in New York City.


19. An old man spends several lifetimes convincing hot young things to join him inside a box. He is routinely harassed by tin men, Nazi saltshakers and his old college buddies.[Answer]Doctor Who


20. A guy with an ABD in astrophysics joins forces with a flamboyantly gay singer to write mini-rock operas about riding a bicycle. Over 30 years later he gets that PhD.[Answer]Queen