Does this widget use our wiki as a database or something?
This bacon is awesome
If not,
#!/bin/bash # preperation script for x in Series AnimatedSeries NoteworthyAnime # etc. do curl https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/$x?action=source | grep $* >> works.txt done sed 's/* /' works.txt | uniq > works.txt # Repeat for trope indexes into tropes.txt #!/bin/bash # output script wlines = `wc -l works.txt` wrand1 = `expr $RANDOM % $wlines + 1` wrand2 = `expr $RANDOM % $wlines + 1` tlines = `wc -l tropes.txt` trand = `expr $RANDOM % $tlines + 1` echo -n "Your challenge is to write a crossover combining " more +$wrand1 works.txt | head -n 1 echo -n " and " more +$wrand2 works.txt | head -n 1 echo -n ". The story should use " more +$trand tropes.txt | head -n 1 echo " as a plot device."
I have not tested this and make no guarantee that it will work guarantee that it will not work.
Edit: No greater-than signs for me, apparently. Replace the > s with > s augh I give up.
edited 24th Aug '09 10:26:34 PM by Comonad
Torment liveblog is still hiatusing. You can vandalize my contributor page if you want something to do.
The Other Troper
"Your challenge is to write a crossover combining The Simpsons with Cardcaptor Sakura."
You don't even need a second part. That's just awesome enough as it is.
I saw a similar thing combining Family Guy with FLCL.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Your challenge is to write a crossover fanfiction combining 4chan and Captain Planet. The story should use losing one's virginity as a plot device!
A hilarious combination, but unfortunately, far too easy.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Alf and Terry Tate, Office Linebacker. The story should use anal sex as a plot device!
lolwut?
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Diff'rent Strokes and Malcolm in the Middle. The story should use an orgy as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining South Park and Doug. The story should use evil clones as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining CSI: Miami and Batman. The story should use furries as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Gordon Ramsay and Blue's Clues. The story should use a seemingly routine day as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Michael Moore and The Real World. The story should use someone opening a gate to Hell as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining The O'Reilly Factor and Superstar USA. The story should use brainwashing as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Incredible Hulk and Final Fantasy X-2. The story should use unclogging a toilet as a plot device!
(hss potential to be hilarious, like bruce bannor hulks out while taking a dump and clogs his toilet so deep it's filled he pipes)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Lord of the Rings and Rock Band. The story should use trying out for a sports team as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Dance Dance Revolution and 4chan. The story should use someone opening a gate to Hell* as a plot device!
(*/b/)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Super Mario Bros. and Big Brother. The story should use losing one's virginity as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Max Payne and Final Fantasy 7. The story should use the future as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Silent Hill and The Jeffersons. The story should use winning the lottery as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Snakes on a Plane and NASCAR. The story should use living on a farm as a plot device!
Somehow, all three of those things are the opposite of each other.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Twilight and Law & Order. The story should use terrorism as a plot device!
I can easily see this making sense. I’m picturing Edward doing his stalking thing to someone important in NYC and having that interpreted as part of a terrorist plot.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Moulin Rouge and Digimon. The story should use unclogging a toilet as a plot device!
This wins the 2009 Crackiest fic award
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Azumanga Daioh and the Little Mermaid. The story should use living on a farm as a plot device!
The previous entry only just beat this one out for that award.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Outlaw Star and Home Improvement. The story should use car accidents as a plot device!
This will either be epically hilarious, or epically bad.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Snoop Dogg and Walker, Texas Ranger. The story should use drug abuse as a plot device!
Too easy, really.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining X-Files and Serial Experiments Lain. The story should use body switching as a plot device!
This is something that could plausibly happen.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining the National Hockey League and Brady Bunch. The story should use an orgy as a plot device!
And I’m done. Now if y’all would excuse me, I’m going to find the Brain Bleach.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Animaniacs and Big O. The story should use trying out for a sports team as a plot device!
YES.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Oregon Trail and Dance Dance Revolution. The story should use somebody misplacing their pants as a plot device!
YES.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Rock Band and John McCain. The story should use a sex-change operation as a plot device!
...No.
edited 25th Aug '09 12:36:49 AM by Inkblot
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Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining I, Robot and the Lion King. The story should use someone opening a gate to Hell as a plot device!Positronic Simba goes to the Underworld for a final showdown with Scar, anyone?
"I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to truth! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes- and very likely a hundred and fourteen." - Razumikhin, Crime and Punishment
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Dance Dance Revolution and American Beauty. The story should use marriage as a plot device!
Here‘s a Crack Pair if I’ve ever saw one.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining John Mc Cain and Snakes on a Plane. The story should use hurricanes as a plot device!
Someone needs to write this. Now.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Full House and Evil Dead. The story should use a tournament of some sort as a plot device!
When you’re done with the previous crossover, start on this one.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Muppet Babies and Garfield. The story should use anal sex as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Kingdom Hearts and the Daily Show. The story should use gay relationships as a plot device!
I don’t know how this would work, but I bet it would be funny.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining James Bond and 24. The story should use terrorism as a plot device!
Gee, I wonder how this would work?
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Law & Order and 1984. The story should use a journey to outer space as a plot device!
You know, Law & Order and 1984 would work well together, but I don’t know how a journey to outer space fits in.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Road Rules and Star Trek. The story should use a party as a plot device!
Road Rules is that MTV knock-off of Real World, right? If so, this has the potential to be utterly hilarious.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Penny Arcade and Metalocalypse. The story should use losing one's virginity as a plot device!
You know, I think this very plot device was used on Metalocalypse once, and it wouldn’t be too much a stretch to see a few Penny Arcade refs in Metalocalypse.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining The Real World and World War II. The story should use car accidents as a plot device!
Do they mean The Real World as in that MTV show, or as in reality? Cause if it’s the latter, then the crossover is canon. If they mean the former, then I’m picturing Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt in a house together. One day, Hitler get drunk and goes joyriding in Stalin’s car, and promptly crashes.
I’m picturing Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt in a house together.That in itself would be insane!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Family Circus and Rugrats. The story should use a seemingly routine day as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining I Love Lucy and Friday the 13th. The story should use good characters becoming evil as a plot device!
Well, this has potential to be interesting...
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Twilight and Cowboy Bebop. The story should use mystical creatures as a plot device!
This, on the other hand, has potential to get ugly.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Jesse Jackson and Final Fantasy 6. The story should use a tournament of some sort as a plot device!
OK, this has a lot of potential.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Spongebob Squarepants and Half-Life. The story should use murder as a plot device!
Somebody needs to write this, NOW!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Indiana Jones and Snoop Dogg. The story should use competing in a Rock Band tournament as a plot device!
See above.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining The Fairly Oddparents and Resident Evil. The story should use becoming the President as a plot device!
But please start on this one FIRST!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Sesame Street and Batman. The story should use martial arts as a plot device!
FUCK YEAH!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Most Extreme Elimination Challenge and The Magic School Bus. The story should use tornadoes as a plot device!
This just keeps getting better...
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Pirates of the Caribbean and Grand Theft Auto. The story should use a zombie attack as a plot device!
OH. MY. GOD!
edited 25th Aug '09 4:45:15 AM by tennessean
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Incredible Hulk and Walker, Texas Ranger. The story should use Christmas as a plot device!
I swear I’ve seen this cover on superdickery.com
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Road Rules and King Arthur. The story should use a plague as a plot device!
“Ok guys, listen up. Our challenge today is to find the Holy Grail, take it to Avalon, so they can use it to cure the black death. Who should we send first, Lancelot?”
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Michael Moore and Neil Patrick Harris. The story should use a zombie attack as a plot device!
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have the sequel to Shaun Of The Dead.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Mythbusters and Star Trek. The story should use evil characters becoming good as a plot device!
I would love to see what Adam and Jamie could done with Star Trek Tech. They could do an entire season on Holodeck myths. All of which would invariably involve an explosion or two.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Smurfs and Muppet Babies. The story should use a journey to outer space as a plot device!
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to learn that at least one executive tried to pitch this during the 80’s.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Lord of the Rings and Metroid. The story should use a parade as a plot device!
This one I’m posting not for the humor but for the massive Crazy Awesome potential from having two of the biggest Bad Ass Hot Amazon meet.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Pirates of the Caribbean and Oregon Trail. The story should use martial arts as a plot device!
So, instead of hunting with bullets, you punch buffalo. And people contract scurvy, not dysentery.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Silent Hill and Barack Obama. The story should use evil clones as a plot device!
This could be a very good game.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Walker, Texas Ranger and Evil Dead. The story should use becoming the President as a plot device!
So, would the ticket be Ash/Walker or Walker/Ash? Or would they run as both?
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Ah! My Goddess and Stargate SG 1. The story should use mystical creatures as a plot device!
A rare, entirely workable idea.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Lord of the Rings and Grand Theft Auto. The story should use a seemingly routine day as a plot device!
Question, would that seemingly routine day be from Aragon’s, a GTA protagonist, or my perspective, cause all three are very different things.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Sesame Street and Silent Hill. The story should use a journey to outer space as a plot device!
Great, now I’m picturing the other world version of Sesame Street. I’m not going to get any sleep tonight.
Brutually Utilitarian
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Dukes of Hazzard and Starsky and Hutch. The story should use winning the lottery as a plot device!
Lol? Lol Caesarum? That premise is possible in a scary way.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Cinderella and Chronicles of Narnia. The story should use martial arts as a plot device!
That gives me images of the white witch kicking Aslan's head straight off.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Step by Step and David Blaine. The story should use religion as a plot device!
Didn't southpark already do this?
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Psych and . The story should use regicide as a plot device!
A crossover between Pysch and a period mark?
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining The Magic School Bus and NYPD Blue. The story should use brainwashing as a plot device!
"Fenring thinks that this idea has potential, mmmmm, ah."
"We live once, with a meaningless existence, and life is all that there is. There are no gods or devils watching over us. But we must act moral and for the greater good none the less." -A view of mine on life.
resident moonatic
Your challenge is to write a crossover fic with Lizzie Mcguire and Saving Private Ryan with the Christmas Special as a plot device.
Your challenge is to write a crossover fic with High School Musical and The Passion Of The Christ using a trip to outer space as a plot device.
You're looking for this person.
vigilantly taxonomish
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Iron Chef and Sonic The Hedgehog. The story should use oral sex as a plot device!
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resident moonatic
I laughed out loud at that one Bobby G.
Your challenge is to combine Saved By The Bell and My Chemical Romance with gaining superpowers as a plot device.
You're looking for this person.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Goof Troop and Lord of the Rings. The story should use a plane crash as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Muppet Babies and Army of Darkness. The story should use a seemingly routine day as a plot device!
(What?)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Incredible Hulk and Finding Nemo. The story should use bondage as a plot device!
(Oh god I can't get the images out of my head!)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Kingdom Hearts and Pulp Fiction. The story should use legalizing gay marriage as a plot device!
(This might actuallly maybe if mankind is really, REALLY lucke get good. If not...)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Smurfs and Digimon. The story should use marriage as a plot device!
(Lolwut?)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Neon Genesis Evangelion and West Side Story. The story should use a blizzard as a plot device!
(This one has potential.)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Pokemon and Nancy Drew. The story should use love triangles as a plot device!
Nancy: Oh Ash, I love you.
Ash: But my heart belongs to Brock!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining 4chan and Dance Dance Revolution. The story should use mystical creatures as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Frankenstein and Superman. The story should use living on a farm as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Azumanga Daioh and the Legend of Zelda. The story should use rape as a plot device!
Oh god there goes my innocence.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining The Simpsons and Phoenix Wright. The story should use regicide as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining The Magic School Bus and Flavor Flav. The story should use moving to a new place as a plot device!
Those poor, poor children.
edited 5th Sep '09 11:36:28 AM by Katrika
"You fail to grasp the basic principles of mad science. Common sense would be cheating." - Narbonic
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Command & Conquer and Resident Evil. The story should use body switching as a plot device!
This would be a fun as hell game with ludicrously campy cut scenes.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Inuyasha and Teen Titans. The story should use puberty as a plot device!
Don’t both shows already use puberty as a plot device?
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining 4chan and Silent Hill. The story should use possession by Satan as a plot device!
This might just warp around creepy/scary and come out as utterly hilarious.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining 1984 and American Idol. The story should use someone opening a gate to Hell as a plot device!
It's definitely easy to picture TV talent shows featuring prominently in a dystopia, but I don't know where the rest fits in.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Family Guy and Superman. The story should use an ancient prophecy as a plot device!
"Superman" and "Ancient prophecy" sound like components for a solid story. Family Guy being included, not so much.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Terry Tate, Office Linebacker and Pirates of the Caribbean. The story should use incest as a plot device!
I don't even know what Terry Tate, Office Linebacker is.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Night of the Living Dead and I Love Lucy. The story should use regicide as a plot device!
Okay, what!?
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Indiana Jones and Emeril Legasse. The story should use anal sex as a plot device!
Even though the answer to this question will probably disturb me even more than I already am...what's Emeril Legasse?
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Emeril Legasse and the Princess Bride. The story should use getting sucked into the "real world" as a plot device!
Wow, this generator seems really determined that I write something about Emeril Legasse, even though I don't know what that is.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Lord of the Rings and Shin Chan. The story should use martial arts as a plot device!
That sounds potentially hilarious.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Rock Band and Shin Chan. The story should use alcoholism as a plot device!
BAHAHAHA.
The man was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the best at both killing and not killing - Stranger
Nerd
"Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Homestar Runner and Ctrl+Alt+Del. The story should use alcoholism as a plot device!"
Not too implausible.
These are the ones I got:
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Brady Bunch and Carmen Sandiego. The story should use rape as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Family Ties and Street Sharks. The story should use the apocalypse as a plot device!
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Captain Planet and Metroid. The story should use hurricanes as a plot device! (Oh come on, that's easy...)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Final Fantasy 6 and the National Hockey League. The story should use a malevolent artificial intelligence as a plot device! (Again, pretty easy.)
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Final Fantasy X-2 and Batman. The story should use car accidents as a plot device!
resident moonatic
Your challenge is to combine The Land Before Time, Jurassic Park, and Barney with international espionage as your plot device.
Your challenge is to combine Libertys Kids and Scooby Doo with going to outer space as your plot device.
Your challenge is to combine Friends and Terminator with a Hurt/Comfort Fic as your plot device.
Your challenge is to combine Indiana Jones and The Naked Brothers Band with ancient prophecy as your plot device.
edited 6th Sep '09 2:31:10 PM by OuttaTheBLAM
You're looking for this person.
"Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Gilligan's Island and Star Wars. The story should use a secret government plot as a plot device!"
That could easily work.
"Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Xmen and My Little Pony. The story should use a malevolent artificial intelligence as a plot device!"
I'm not sure how to fit My Little Pony in there... but the rest is pretty much canon.
"Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Left Behind and Full House. The story should use gay relationships as a plot device!"
I have nothing to say to this one.
"Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Scientology and Freakazoid. The story should use furries as a plot device!"
This could so easily work.
"Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Hellsing and Twilight. The story should use trying out for a sports team as a plot device!"
...Someone write this. Right now!
edited 8th Sep '09 8:35:18 AM by NeonProdigy
Your challenge is to write a crossover combining NASCAR and Family Circus. The story should use drug abuse as a plot device.
Your challenge is to write a crossover combining Fight Club and Harvest Moon. The story should use unplanned pregnancies as a plot device.
Your challenge is to write a crossover combining Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Starsky And Hutch. The story should use getting sucked into the 'real world' as a plot device.
Your challenge is to write a crossover combining Matlock and I Love Lucy. The story should use furries as a plot device.
Your challenge is to write a crossover combining Most Extreme Elimination Challenge and Full House. The story should use evil clones as a plot device.
Your challenge is to write a crossover combining The Simpsons with Cardcaptor Sakura. The story should use competing in a Rock Band tournament as a plot device.
Your challenge is to write a crossover combining Blaz Blue and Black Adder. The story should use an ancient prophecy as a plot device.
These just keep on coming.
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