Describe a movie / TV show briefly, and make it sound boring

[skullturfq]

These examples are taken from various commenters on a recent thread on this topic at Reddit.

"A group of people fall asleep several times"

"A group of guys went for a long walk so one of them could return a piece of bad jewelry"

"Group of people hang out and do random things instead of studying"

"Man lives in a phonebooth. Invites people (mostly women) into it, promising to show them the 'wonders of the universe'."

"Some kids go and play in a closet"

"A guy takes more than seven years to tell his kids why they exist"

[Ponch]

These examples are taken from various commenters on a recent thread on this topic at Reddit.

"A group of people fall asleep several times"

"A group of guys went for a long walk so one of them could return a piece of bad jewelry"

"Group of people hang out and do random things instead of studying"

"Man lives in a phonebooth. Invites people (mostly women) into it, promising to show them the 'wonders of the universe'."

"Some kids go and play in a closet"

"A guy takes more than seven years to tell his kids why they exist"

My guesses
Inception
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Community
Doctor Who
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Neat game

[BrennerM]

These examples are taken from various commenters on a recent thread on this topic at Reddit.

"A group of people fall asleep several times"

"A group of guys went for a long walk so one of them could return a piece of bad jewelry"

"Group of people hang out and do random things instead of studying"

"Man lives in a phonebooth. Invites people (mostly women) into it, promising to show them the 'wonders of the universe'."

"Some kids go and play in a closet"

"A guy takes more than seven years to tell his kids why they exist"

For the last one: How I Met Your Mother

[skullturfq]

Those are all correct.

[Ponch]

These examples are taken from various commenters on a recent thread on this topic at Reddit.

"A group of people fall asleep several times"

"A group of guys went for a long walk so one of them could return a piece of bad jewelry"

"Group of people hang out and do random things instead of studying"

"Man lives in a phonebooth. Invites people (mostly women) into it, promising to show them the 'wonders of the universe'."

"Some kids go and play in a closet"

"A guy takes more than seven years to tell his kids why they exist"

For the last one: How I Met Your Mother

Funny, I saw that when I first read the post but missed it when I was answering them

[rockgolf]

For "Group of people who do random things instead of studying", I thought it was The Breakfast Club.

[billiej]

For "Group of people who do random things instead of studying", I thought it was The Breakfast Club.

My first thought, too.

[Paucle]

I was trying to think what would exclude The Breakfast Club from the clue. I came up with: Community is based around a study group, they are supposed to be studying; in TBC they are not supposed to be studying, they're supposed to be sitting doing absolutely nothing all day.

[jzerocsk]

For "Group of people who do random things instead of studying", I thought it was The Breakfast Club.

I was thinking Harry Potter, but I guess they did do SOME studying at Hogwarts.

[Muskrat]

For "Group of people who do random things instead of studying", I thought it was The Breakfast Club.

I was thinking Harry Potter, but I guess they did do SOME studying at Hogwarts.

Actually, without the qualifier "students," "Group of people who do random things instead of studying" could be literally anything not a one-person show. "The Longest Day"; "Singing in the Rain"; "Dangerous Liaisons" -- all people doing things but not studying. Unless the point is the absurdist randomness of Community, in which case only "The Longest Day" qualifies.

[Paucle]

Again, the point of mentioning that they're not studying is that they are supposed to be studying. If the people in The Longest Day were successful in studying, D-Day would've been a miserable failure.

[rockgolf]

Could you have a duller description of an episode than "One member of a study group loses a pen", yet have a funnier episode?

[marpocky]

Could you have a duller description of an episode than "One member of a study group loses a pen", yet have a funnier episode?

That's still one of my very favorites.