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http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/10/26/wizard-of-oz-movie-description/

[font size=5]'Wizard of Oz' movie description goes viral[/font]

by Erin Strecker


There’s no place like the Internet.

An old one-line movie blurb has gone viral this week thanks to mentions all over the world wide web. In 1998, for a Wizard of Oz listing on TCM, writer Rick Polito wrote, “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”

This morning, Polito told JimRomensko.com, “That line is going to follow me to the grave. It was just on Leno, it was a clue in a crossword puzzle, it showed up in Playboy, and people use it as their email sigs.”

It’s easy to see why the terrifying silly line caught on. It got us at PopWatch thinking about how we could cryptically describe some other popular movies in one sentence: (inside the link)

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I'm on a crusade for correct attribution. It went viral last week with the wrong name after Jay Leno read it in Headlines (for the second time!).
On Friday, it was getting three likes per second on George Takei's page. It's been shared 38,000 times just from that page. It got 2 million views on Reddit.
All of that with the wrong name.
I wrote it. Really. Google me.
I need people to email The Tonight Show and tell them to set the record straight by having me on. tinyurl.com/9v4hlu5 I have hundreds of jokes just like that.

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2012/10/wizard-of-oz-synopsis-by-rick-polito-goes-viral-14-years-later.html

She manages to steal a pair of ruby slippers and go on to illegal drugs in the field of poppies.

Just a badass, uh huh, uh huh...

posted this last time this came up. Some more...

Suicidal man hallucinates on Christmas Eve -[font color="white" size="size" face="face"]It's a Wonderful Life[/font]

Farmboy moves to the city and helps people. -[font color="white" size="size" face="face"]Superman[/font]

Pair of men from different backgrounds compete for the affections of a younger man. -[font color="white" size="size" face="face"]Toy Story[/font]

A man and his employee encounter difficulties returning a piece of jewelry. -[font color="white" size="size" face="face"]The Lord of the Rings[/font]

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