A young lady goes out for pizza, meets the Doctor, discovers she is some sort of universe-changing super being, goes back home five years later with pizza from the best pizzeria in the universe. Her boyfriend expresses his surprise.
The pizza is delicious, though.
"You know how they say there is always someone better? He is that someone."
The Hardboiled Detective introduces The Rival (who also happens to be The Ace).
In my experience, there are a few situations where setting yourself on fire helps and plenty where setting your enemies is a valid solution. Setting your friends on fire to save them's a new one to me....
TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faerJacob had to light his friend Bill on fire in order for him to be spared by the fire king. Jacob's wise dad says the above quote as some kind of advice.
"Do you even know how to drive a turkey?!"
BIG RED 4 LIFEA farmer is teaching a new hired hand techniques on maintaining the farm.
And in that moment, when I stared myself in the eye through the mirror, I realized I couldn't stop it. I was on a runaway train to oblivion.
{Star Trek}** exists in large part because of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov was assassinated and I don't know how to feel about thatLisa is a nerd looking at her reflection in the window of a subway, which is taking her to a game store so she can buy Elder Scrolls 4.
It seemed like pathways were there that were never there before, but any thoughts aimed in that direction went nowhere or hit detours and turned left at the corner with the highwaymen angrily shouting about how the bridge wasn’t built yet.
Our heroes have been captured and taken prisoner by bandits, and one of them, from whose perspective the story is being told, suffered a blow to the head and is now suffering from disorientation and temporary amnesia.
Two weeks. He'd been gone for over four months, and in the last two weeks, they'd come in and taken her.
ok boomerHe was missing for over 4 months, but 2 weeks ago, they kidnapped his girlfriend as bait.
"He knew where I was. He just needed to know HOW I was."
BIG RED 4 LIFEThere's been a natural disaster where the protagonist is vacationing, and the father is understandably worried and scared.
I've danced through these stars for ten years now, I think. Battles have come and gone, and I've seen wonderful and terrible things, defeated and plundered three capital ships and many smaller vessels...but I haven't gotten the thing I was looking for yet. The thing that will make this all worth it.
What rises must fall, what falls may rise again.The narration of a man from the year 4000, where he lives in space. For ten years since 3090 he fought people on the stars. But he stills needs one object to make it worth it- the Atomic Rifle!
"I'll have the salad with KILL EVERYTHIIIING."
edited 12th Oct '13 12:35:54 PM by BigRedTroper
BIG RED 4 LIFEIn a Playing Cyrano situation, a man's twin sister is trying to help him look good on a date via a Bluetooth headset. Just then, her 6-YO brother walks into her room asking for video game advice.
These were my rain boots from when I was a kid.
My name is Susan.I was The Thnikkaman, but then my cookies were borked and I forgot my password.A young woman shows her new husband around her childhood home and tells her about all the things she did, like playing in the rain while wearing her favorite rain boots.
Sounds like you've got a badger trapped inside there.
Is not impressed.The hero had set up a trap for a deer as he was hunting, but it caught a badger instead.
Do not put that box there, or else something lime will happen.
BIG RED 4 LIFEThe person who said that line is a bit frazzled at the moment. The kitchen has somehow been turned into a pigsty, and there is (implied to be lime) juice all over the counter where his buddy is about to put a box from the moving truck.
Not that anybody cares, bu I found a pencil...
My name is Susan.I was The Thnikkaman, but then my cookies were borked and I forgot my password.A group of people are trapped in a deadly obstacle course made by a mass murderer, as the group mourn the death of a friend the jerkass reporter in the group is glad to find a pencil to record their progress in the hopes of making it into a major story.
It's not every day your mother tries to hook up with you...
Is not impressed.A teenager's mom called him to try to hang out with him.
Tommorrow you won't know when the yesterday will develop.
BIG RED 4 LIFEThe Philosopher is having an off day when attempting to find a good saying for "you won't know the effects of the past immediately."
I destroy you because I love you. The real you, not this lie we call existence-the Tao of you, the essence of what you'd be without all this living and dying and flesh and pain and ideology...
What rises must fall, what falls may rise again.A weary mother picks up her favorite china dish and drops it on the floor.
We're off to kill the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz...
"I loathe bus stations. Terrible places. Full of lost luggage and lost souls."Four huntsman, in an alternate telling of Wizard of Oz, are going to kill the Wizard for his lies about his magic, and his crimes against sanity and justice. The twist is it takes place at the exact time of the real Wizard of Oz, so Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, The Lion and Toto fight against the four huntsman. In the end, Toto wins, and takes over Oz.
I never knew you were so fluffy.
BIG RED 4 LIFEA cute line from a interspecies couple in a Romantic comedy finally touch and he feels her soft fluffy fur.
I had thought of putting: and he lived happily ever afterwards to the end of his days. It is a good ending, and none the worse for having been used before. Now I shall have to alter that: it does not look like coming true.
edited 21st Oct '13 2:43:41 PM by Soban
In a post-apocalyptic world, a formerly famous author talks about his latest story, which he hopes to make into the first book after The End and is slightly autobiographical in nature, and how with the prospect of a large scale battle taking place he's having second thoughts on how to end it.
Welcome to Refuge.
edited 22nd Oct '13 11:03:35 AM by Avenuewriter
Is not impressed.The last group of humans to escape the destruction of earth finally make it to the evacuation ship 'Refuge' This is the start of the family's adventures in space as humanity looks for a new homeworld.
Silence, never to be lifted, fell when the song ended.
edited 22nd Oct '13 3:04:41 PM by Soban
An aging singer sings his last song on his deathbed.
"There is a story, about a man who sacrificed his kindness to be king. Have you heard it?"
edited 22nd Oct '13 8:49:38 PM by Leliel
What rises must fall, what falls may rise again.A shakespeare fan talking to a nice king in a run-down society.
There are only three people in the world who can say the perodic tables in 10 seconds. We of those three can save everything.
BIG RED 4 LIFESaving the planet demands that they communicate detailed information about physics to the Aliens before they destroy the planet.
"I was dead. Not in the physical sense, in the emotional or spiritual sense that makes someone really human. Yet I was still me, so I would carry on."
edited 4th Nov '13 10:03:39 AM by Soban
Title to a song about zombies eating brains.
Who takes FIVE YEARS to pick up a pizza?
edited 17th Apr '13 10:53:20 AM by HistoryMaker