DE: play it again, Sam

[baptizemyself]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I don't have to go anywhere today so I am STEALING the Daily Entertainment! :P

I was thinking the other day about plots of a bygone era which I would like to see happen again. I personally would like to see:

*IMDB Flu - where your pup catches the flu and it makes them think they are other characters with the same PB

* and Once More With Feeling - a singing demon makes everyone express their feelings through song.

So: what plots would you like to see come around again? Who knows, maybe if there's enough support we could get some of them up and running...

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Hmmm. Must say, I liked IMDb Flu because it wasn't a real plot. You pup can be as sick for as long as you like or as short as you like. There was lots of room for silliness of all stripes, but it did have a delightful undercurrent of creepiness. And it was so much fun seeing what could be mixed and matched.

And I will add that the man who voiced the Question on JLU is the one and only Jeffrey Combs. Ask any Trekkie about his resume. I didn't get Charlie sick last two times. I would consider changing that.

Also, Kevin McNally (Gibbs) was a paranoid Lone Gunmen type on Supernatural last season. The mind boggles.

[baptizemyself]

If I take in to account voice actors I can use Amy Acker and have Helena think she's Illyria XD

[bjornwilde]

I love the IMDB Flu and believe it should be an annual occurrence. I think it's a toss up between Usagi thinking he was Mike or Jessica Drew thinking she was Sarah from Labyrinth as to which was my favorite. = p

If we do do it soon, I think I'll infect Ben while he's human...mwhahahha.

Cubefall is another great annual plot. I wish I could think of more, but I am blanking.

[baptizemyself]

Ahahahahahaha one of the reasons I want to do IMDB flu is so that Helena can think she's Sarah from the Labyrinth XD

[bjornwilde]

Be sure to have her bump into Gene if you can as Jess did when she had the IMDB and the crack could be mighty!

[ceitfianna]

I love IMDB flu for the ease of it. I also really enjoyed the critter plot where the chair turned people into animals. Something like that could be fun again just with a different mechanism and flexible.

Also I can hit Charles with it as he's my newest and hasn't had a round of it.

[nocarename]

It's also an excellent chance to dig out the fuzzy critter pictures, which is always a plus.

[nocarename]

Less around again and more alternate approach, I've been thinking that there might be something in a plot where people get confused with their namesakes or others of the same name.

Mostly because it makes Artemis extra twitchy about meeting Helena. You are not my mother!

[minkhollow]

Maaaaaaaan, IMDb flu is so much fun. (I refer you to Sam and Alyx's rendition of Tango: Maureen, which came about when Leesha said she was sad Dr. Horrible's mun hadn't gone with the Rent connection and I went '...I can help you with that!')
I want that to come back, partly because I haven't been able to justify hitting Claudia with it yet. But now I can!

[newredshoes]

IMDb flu?



UM, YES.

[gavin62truck]

IMDB plot, please. I wasn't around for it the last time, so any excuse to turn Tommy into the cop from Spider-Man is a good one.

Also the critter plot. It's a toss up between making Tommy morph into an Irish wolfhound or Diego from Ice Age. (I know the bar used to have an actual Diego, not sure if they're still around?)

[bjornwilde]

Or Tommy can think he's Diego for the IMDB Flu! ;p

I like his as Captain Stacy as well. = ]

[genarti]

Yes to the critter plot from ages back! That was a lot of fun.

[gondolin_noble]

Dungeon crawl. From WAY the heck back, that was all kinds of ridiculous fun.

[minkhollow]

Also: Part of me wants to run the mall subplot from Reaper Man, sometime. Let the bar's dead/vampire/werewolf patrons save the day.
I'd need to reread the book, and it mmmight probably require a little finagling with Debi (but then, Death doesn't work in the bar, so...), but it would be a hell of a lot of fun.

[notinthebook]

IMDb? I missed that! Though, admittedly, the idea of making Emma think she is either Dr. Cameron or Kirk's mom is...odd.

I would, however, have a great time with Danny as he gets ready to attempt a heist on the Bellagio!

[numbered_doctor]

However, making her think she was Cameron could be pretty lulzy.

[missginnytonic]

Danny thinking he's Tweeter from Varsity blues makes me lulz

[chanter1944]

Yes to a recurrence of the IMDB flu! :) I had a wonderful, if breaky, time with it when I gave Sariel the bug. I'd definitely do it again, though I'm not sure how serious I'd make things event-wise.

Yes to once more with feeling! I've wanted that to happen again for a while, though with Sweet having been chicken-fied at the end of the last one... would a second spell casting yank him out of that form and set him off again? Hmm. And then how would he be stopped? Hmm hmm.

As for others... let's see. I wish we could do something with daemons a la His Dark Materials temporarily manifesting for patrons in the bar.

[minkhollow]

Well, the first time we did Once More With Feeling plot was in LJ continuity, so there's always the possibility of invoking One Universe Over.

[thenewblack]

Oh great googly moogly, having your soul outside your body and talking back. That will, in no way, lead to shenanigans.

I'm in!

[baptizemyself]

... Ooooohhhh daemons inna bar would be so awesome.

[masterofgunfu]

OMG, LOVE the daemon idea! Especially with this lass here who is actively ignoring a big part of herself. Forcing a conversation with that side...

[genarti]

I've thought about the daemon thing too! What stopped me from suggesting it was wondering how it would work in terms of having them go away again, given that in HDM canon they really don't. But I'm sure it could be worked out, or modified a tad, or whatever, to fit the needs of a bar-plot.

[bjornwilde]

Maybe a device is found in the Lost and Found that turns on? Or a fracture in that magic crystal somewhere? Or a magic cold?

I know I'm reaching.

[genarti]

Or something! I am 100% sure that this crowd can work out a handwavy justification. :) I was thinking less about the initial appearance of daemons -- that can always be some handwavy soul-summoning/strengthening/etc artifact -- and more about how to justify them fading back into internal non-personified (animalified?) souls afterward. But I suppose if the soul-whatever artifact's power were of inherently limited duration, that'd do it! So I may have answered my own question by dint of rambling at you. Uh.

[bjornwilde]

I actually had an idea on my way home. I seem to remember the dust had some like to the daemons. Perhaps a rift opens outside, letting in a finite amount of dust that triggers the shift to daemons for pups who are from a universe with "sympathetic vibrations" (i.e. muns who want to play). Later, the rift seals (or is sealed) and eventually the dust fades, taking the daemons with it.

[not_my_sandbox]

That sounds like the plot for Stargate SG-1 season 6 episode 13 -- Sight Unseen

Exposure to an ancient device makes people see huge, luridly colored bugs, and the symptoms are spread by physical contact. Turns out that the bugs didn't stow away in the device like was originally thought and weren't really affecting anything except freaking out people and causing car crashes. They were from Earth the whole time but no one ever noticed hem before because they were invisible and phase shifted.

The 'cure' also came from the device and was also spread through physical contact. Scary, luridly colored huge bugs went back to being invisible and not effecting anything, and everything went back to normal. But not before some adventures amongst the populace of Colorado Springs, of course.

*enables like an enabler*

[bcgphoenix]

Oh, man, I would LOVE to participate in a daemon plot. *______* (I...may have decided on daemons for basically all of my pups a while ago. Because I am That Person.)

IMDb flu would crack me up solely because of Alessandro Juliani's long, long list of voice acting credits -- which includes stuff like several Barbie movies, Gambit from X-Men: Evolution, and L from the English dub of Death Note. >:DDDDD

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Sweet got de-chickened for the Gentlemen Plot. Singing defeats silence :D.

[withherhands]

*eyes her new pup*

You know, I never even thought of the possibilities of IMDB flu with M but now...

[mnt_mike]

If the plots involve lots of people and have a more than likely chance of making me laugh, then I love plots.

All kinds of plots.

I say we should totally have an reinfection of the IMDB flu. No doubt.

[psyched_you_out]

Thirding (fourthing?) critter plot. That was way too much fun.

[hey35andholding]

I DESPERATELY want IMDB flu to run again because shenanigans. And Juliet dressed like a Hooters waitress.