Mutant Scavenger Hunt!

[PoolMan]

Okay, kids. New game time!

Welcome to the Mutant Scavenger Hunt. This is a non-prize game (like the ones Rich used to run, except I'm not going to promise you a prize and THEN tell you I don't have one), you're just competing for glory. Here are...

THE RULES
- any member of the Forum can play, including Mutants
- I will post a list of five items, actions, characters, etc. Your goal is to name five different movies that contain each item and describe how it appears. (eg. if I say "a shrubbery", you could reply with "Monty Python's Holy Grail - Arthur delivers a shrubbery to the Knights Who Say Ni"). Both parts of your answer must be correct
- a maximum of FIVE POSTERS can reply once to each List. If you're sixth in line, you get nada
- after five posters have responded (or a reasonable amount of time, usually 24 hours, goes by), I will update the score. I will try and do this at least once a day
- subsequent posters may not repeat answers. So if Poster #1 lists Back to the Future for Question 2, you must list a correct answer BESIDES BttF
- you may not repeat your OWN answers. So if "War of the Worlds" happens to fit the first three clues, you may only use it once. HOWEVER, if you use it to answer Question 1 and someone ELSE uses it to answer Question 2, that's fine
- movies with the same name are fine if they're unrelated (eg. Crash 2004 and Crash 1996), but not if they're direct remakes (Italian Job 1969 and Italian Job 2003). Sequels are fine
- you get one point per correct item found. If it's in a movie I haven't seen, I may call on the other Mutants for verification, but all decisions by PoolMan are final
- first poster to get all 5 items on a List gets an extra 2 points (so the max possible score per List is 7)
- extra-clever entries may - MAY - earn an extra point. Hooray for intangible measurements!
- you may not edit your post. If you and Poster #1 happened to name the same movie because you were both typing at the same time, tough. Posts with "Last Edit..." at the bottom are disqualified * (and don't count towards the maximum of five posters)
- first player to 50 points is declared "Reigning Scavenger Hunt Champion" (I would suggest including this in your signature line for the Forum!) and the score is reset to 0 for all players
- further rules may be announced by me if we get into a loophole situation

Ready? Great! The first List will follow in my next post!

* No, that doesn't count THIS post, wiseass.

[PoolMan]

List #1

1) a banana
2) a car crash
3) a movie involving characters dying where a black guy lives
4) time travel
5) a reference to Star Trek (answer can NOT be a canon Trek movie)

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

1) Billy Madison - the bus driver (Chris Farley) eats a banana and throws the peel out the window
2) Misery - James Caan's car falls off the road during a snowstorm (although I'm not sure this one will count, cause he doesn't hit any other cars)
3) Deep Blue Sea - LL Cool J makes it to the end of the movie without dying
4) Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure - characters travel through time using a phone booth
5) Kill Bill Vol. 1 - the Klingon Proverb ("Revenge is a dish best served cold") that starts off the movie

[StarOpal]

1. K Pax - Kevin Spacey eats a banana, peel and all.

2. Crash - It's how Holly Hunter and James Spader meet, and the whole basis for the movie really.

3. The Fog (2005) - The black guy survives.

4. Timecop - It's a movie about cops that travel through time.

5. Armageddon - Steve Buscemi, "Well, I don't know about him, but you know me. Beam me up, Scotty!"

[Lissa]

1.) Shrek 2- during the dinner scene, either Shrek or the king squeezes a banana

2.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- Harry and Ron crash the Ford into the Whomping Willow

3.) Philadelphia- Tom Hanks dies and Denzel Washington lives (what? you never said action movie.)

4.) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- how many Harry Potter movies can I get away with?

5.) Galaxy Quest- the entire thing is a Star Trek reference

[puggyd]

1) Beverly Hills Cop - Eddie puts one in the car's tailpipe, that rascal
2) Wet Hot American Summer - Guy with the fro was too busy singing "Danny's Song" and thinking about that one girl to see the tree coming up
3) Seven - Morgan Freeman survived, unlike poor *spoiler deleted*
4) Clockstoppers - Oh those wacky teens and their high tech time stopping watches that they use to battle French Stewart
5) Wayne's World - Wayne's line about champagne. "Ah yes, it's a lot like 'Star Trek: the Next Generation'...In a lot of ways it's superior but will never be as recognized as the original."

[Spiderdancer]

1)Austin Powers: TSWSM - Much as I hate to quote THIS one, a banana is used for blocking purposes.
2)Signs - You know, the truck, the tree, the doomed wife character...
3)Predator 2 - Danny Glover makes it all the way through the alien slayage.
4)Trancers - Jack Deth travels through time to stop someone from killing the ancestors of blah blah important people blah blah.
5)Oblivion - Numerous, because George Takei is in it and is consequently forced to say numerous lines such as "Jim, Beam me up!" while drinking whiskey.
5)

[puggyd]

Holy cow I'm dumb. Do we count stopping time as time travel?

[StarOpal]

I believe the preferred term is 'Time Progression Impairment'. Consult your physician.

[PoolMan]

Five posters up! Time for our first ever scoring!

OogieBoogieMan has 7 points.
Near thing, too. I very nearly didn't allow the Klingon Proverb... I'm pretty sure that's a Human Proverb, too. But hey, first round, I'm feeling generous.

Lissa has 6 points.
I gave her an extra one for being the first to put a non-action movie in for "black guy doesn't die". It pays to make Pooly laugh.

StarOpal has 5 points.
I nearly called foul on Crash until I realized you meant the older one! Well played.

SpiderDancer has 5 points.
I'll have to take your word on a couple there, but seeing as you're part of the panel I would go to, I'll assume you're not lying. If I find out you ARE, I'll dock your next pay.

Macaroni & Death has 4 points.
I laughed as soon as I read it, and then again when I read your "d'oh!" post. Stopping time is not travelling in time. It's pulling over.

So, on with the next List! Let's try some tougher ones, hm?

List #2
1) five or more midgets/dwarfs
2) a severed human head
3) someone comically (COMICALLY) flipping the bird
4) an ironic death (yes, I'll be forgiving with this)
5) a character named Justin

[puggyd]

1) The Terror of Tiny Town - An all (or nearly all) midget western
2) Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag - I get eight points for that, right?
3) Evil Dead 2 - The hand, natch.
4) House of Wax - Paris Hilton's video performance
5) The Constant Gardener - Ralph Fiennes character

[Head Mutant]

1) five or more midgets/dwarfs

Garbage Pail Kids

2) a severed human head

Doom Generation - with RELISH

3) someone comically (COMICALLY) flipping the bird

The Naked Gun - Stephanie takes her driver's exam

4) an ironic death (yes, I'll be forgiving with this)

Guy gets a nail gun to the forehead -- "Nailed ya" (or "nailed them both", I forget) -- Lethal Weapon 2.

5) a character named Justin

JUSTIN: The movie! Yes, I made it, once. Along with Justin II and Justin III. I was a holy horror with a camcorder as a teen.

[blinkfan]

Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory-Those oompa loompa's are not exactly 6'8
Windtalkers-A war movie with Nic Cage and Christian Slater.
Erin Brockovich-Julia Roberts does I think
The Crow-Any of the Gang member Deaths
From Justin to Kelly-They used there real names so yeah a character named Justin

[StarOpal]

1. Willow - The village Willow comes from is entirely peopled by dwarfs.

2. Braveheart - When you want to send the king a message with a special touch.

3. X Men - Wolverine uses his claw to flip the bird.

4. Hard Target - *villian disarms handgrenade* Ha ha ha! *it's still too close together and sparks* Oops... *BOOM*

5. Chamber of Secrets - Justin Finch-Fletchly

[Al]

List #2
1) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sneezy, Bashful, Doc

2) The Doom Generation: it spews relish! And sickens me!

3) Men In Black: Will Smith subtly to Agent J when he's toild he can have a flashy thing "when he grows up."

4) Dodgeball: Patches O' Hoolighan crushed to death by a 2 ton sign in a casino stating 'the luck of the Irish'

5) From Justin to Kelly: Justin Guarini's character