"BAD" SONGS
BEFORE AND AFTER
ADAPT
IMPROVISE
"OVER"COME
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What is "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga?
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Overtime scenario where the first to score wins the game + the only two certainties in life
What is sudden death and taxes?
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The Lion King is famously an adaptation of Hamlet -- with this murderous feline uncle filling in as King Claudius
Who is Scar?
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This film's "you're gonna need a bigger boat" was not originally in the script, and added in after it became an on-set inside joke
What is Jaws?
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The first game of this team shooter franchise was shut down on October 3, 2022, and fully replaced with its free-to-play successor
What is Overwatch?
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What is "Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood & The Destroyers?
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Dickens character asking if he may have another + 1963 "shake it up baby" hit for the Beatles
What is Oliver Twist & Shout?
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Sir Peter Jackson's director's cut of this iconic Tolkien book-to-film adaptation series is 11 hours and 36 minutes long
What is The Lord of the Rings?
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An IED is an improvised one of these -- composed of a switch, initiator, container, charge, and power source
What is an explosive device?
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"Something happens and I'm" this Tears for Fears hit from 1985, like someone who's fallen wildly in love
What is "Head over Heels"?
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What is "I Did Something Bad" by Taylor Swift?
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A piece of lumber twice as wide as it is thick + ideal hash bash date
What is 2 by 4/20?
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This numeric teen film, starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, is an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
What is 10 Things I Hate About You?
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The line "take the gun, leave the cannoli" from this iconic 1972 mafia movie was improvised by actor Richard Castellano
What is The Godfather?
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This three-word "topographical" phrase describes someone who is middle-aged or older -- like a climber descending the mountain of life
What is "over the hill"?
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What is "Good Girls Go Bad" by Cobra Starship?
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1971 action thriller where Clint Eastwood hunts a vicious killer + "the boy who lived"
What is Dirty Harry Potter?
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Gregory Peck stars as Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch in this 1962 film adaptation, named the same as the Harper Lee book it is based on
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
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"Adapt, improvise, overcome" is the memed-on catchphrase of this "grizzly" British survivalist and TV star
Who is Bear Grylls?
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This sole directorial work of Stephen King's, centered on a group of murderous automobiles, was the final straw that caused the intervention of his cocaine habit
What is Maximum Overdrive?
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What is "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King?
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Alternate feminine name for the "jumpy" German Schrapnellmine + cake mix brand created by General Mills in 1921
What is Bouncing Betty Crocker?
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Not Stone or Watson, but this Jane Austen novel adapted into 1995's Clueless, as well as same-name film adaptations in 1996 and 2020
What is Emma?
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This Lord of the Rings actor is well-known (and well-memed) for having improvised actually kicking a metal helmet and breaking two toes in The Two Towers
Who is Viggo Mortensen?
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Rewatching this Cartoon Network animated series, following two half-brothers and their pastoral journey through a ghostly landscape, is a annual fall-time tradition for many
What is Over the Garden Wall?