We've been watching The Office and this game came up in a recent episode.

You're stranded on a desert island. Miraculously this desert island has a working television. You get 5 books, 5 movies, and 5 television series. What are they?

Books

1. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlein
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
4. The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) - Stephen King
5. The Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4) - Stephen King

Books:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Divine Comedy
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Gone With the Wind
5. A Tale of Two Cities

Movies:

1. The Godfather
2. To Kill A Mockingbird
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Remember the Titans
5. Dumb and Dumber

Series:

1. Game of Thrones
2. The Wire
3. Breaking Bad
4. The Simpsons 
5. The West Wing

Tried to get every category covered for movies. War/Sports/Comedy/Mob and then To Kill A Mockingbird. Tough to leave off Friday Night Lights from TV Series. Wanted to get a sports one in there, but couldn’t knock the others off, especially wanting a political show as well.

TV Series

1. Parks and Rec
2. The Wire
3. Breaking Bad
4. Seinfeld
5. The Twilight Zone

TV Series:

1. Wire 
2. Breaking Bad 
3. Mad Men 
4. Simpsons 
5. Law and Order (Last two simply because they have so many episodes)

Movies:

1. Godfather Saga (Where Godfathers 1 and 2 are combined) 
2. Empire Strikes Back 
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark 
4. Dark Knight
5. Heat

Books:

1. 1984 
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. The Stand
4. Guns of the South (Civil War Alternative History book) 
5. Guns of August 

 

Books:

Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain

1984-George Orwell

The Old Man And The Sea-Ernest Hemmingway

The Bronx Zoo-Sparky Lyle

You Win With People-Woody Hayes

Movies:

The Godfather Saga

Goodfellas

Blazing Saddles

Caddyshack

Animal House

TV Series:

Breaking Bad

The Sopranos

The Wire

M*A*S*H

The Carol Burnett Show

 

posted by ptown_trojans_1

TV Series:

1. Wire 
2. Breaking Bad 
3. Mad Men 
4. Simpsons 
5. Law and Order (Last two simply because they have so many episodes)

Movies:

1. Godfather Saga (Where Godfathers 1 and 2 are combined) 
2. Empire Strikes Back 
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark 
4. Dark Knight
5. Heat

Books:

1. 1984 
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. The Stand
4. Guns of the South (Civil War Alternative History book) 
5. Guns of August 

 

I was just browsing Audible and this was recommended to me, and listed as sci-fi. Reading the synopsis, it seems like it would be pretty interesting.

 

TV Series:

1) Breaking Bad

2) The Wire

3) LOST

4) Arrested Development

5) NOVA *maybe I'll figure out how to leave the dam island

Movies:

1) Raiders 

2) Caddyshack

3) Shawshank

4) Empire

5) Godfather

Books: 

1) Atlas Shrugged

2) The Prince

3) To Kill a Mockingbird

4) The Worldly Philosophers 

5) Pride and Prejudice 

Albums:

1) Kind of Blue

2) Four Seasons

3) Aja

4) Rumors

5) Nevermind

Have to think about books...

Movies (in no order)

1) Braveheat

2) Gladiator

3) Empire Strikes Back

4) Hoosiers

5) Caddyshack

 

TV series (no order):

1) GoT

2) Seinfeld

3) Curb Your Enthusiasm

4) Law & Order SVU (number of episodes)

5) Simpsons

 

Honestly, I think number of episodes for a great comedy is like end of thread....

Yeesh, can't believe I forgot about Seinfeld. Had to update my tv list. Sorry Bob Newhart...

posted by justincredible

TV Series

1. Parks and Rec
2. The Wire
3. Breaking Bad
4. Seinfeld
5. The Twilight Zone

This is a good list.

Books

• A Farewell to Arms
• Sun Also Rises
• Old Man and the Sea
• The Forever War
• Great Gatsby

TV Series

• Mad Men
• Pawn Stars
• Seinfeld
• Nickelodeon Doug
• Simpsons

Movies

• Lost in Translation
• Bloodsport
• Big Fish
• Big Lebowski
• Inside Llewyn Davis

Movies was the hardest one to cut down. The Descendants, The American, Road to Perdition, Pulp Fiction, No Country for Old Men, like 10 Tom Hanks films, several JCVD, etc.. were all in contention. 

 

Still thinking about my books.

 

Movies:

The Wizard of Oz

The Dark Knight

Superbad

Good Will Hunting

Fifty Shades of Grey 😂

 

TV Shows:

Breaking Bad

Friday Night Lights

Grey's Anatomy

Mad Men

The West Wing

Books:

Desert Island Survival

Tips for the Beginning Hunter

Tips for the Beginning Fisher

Starting Fires with No Fucking Supplies

The Bible

MOVIES:

Dumb and Dumber

Lethal Weapon 4

DieHard

Rocky IV

Ace Venture (When Nature Calls)

 

TV SHOWS:

FRIENDS

Gilligan’s Island (duh)

Quick Pitch (MLB Network)

Fresh Prince of Bellaire

Just Shoot Me

LOL at Ironman's book list. It makes sense though.

posted by cat_lover

LOL at Ironman's book list. It makes sense though.

🤷🏻‍♂️

Movies: 

Pulp Fiction 

Tombstone 

Departed 

Green Mile 

Big Lebowski

 

Tv shows:

Lost 

House 

Rescue Me

Sons of Anarchy 

Game of Thrones

posted by Commander of Awesome

Books

• A Farewell to Arms
• Sun Also Rises
• Old Man and the Sea

Nooooo!  

BOOKS:
1.  Just give me some penthouse or something and I'll be okay

MOVIES:
1.  The Departed
2.  Shawshank Redemption
3.  American Sniper
4.  Zombieland
5.  Schindler's List

SERIES:
1.  Game of Thrones
2.  Breaking Bad
3.  Sons of Anarchy
4.  The Simpsons
5.  Dateline (an entire series of this would lead to years of entertainment, haha)

posted by Verbal Kint

Nooooo!  

??? Not a fan I take it?

posted by Commander of Awesome

??? Not a fan I take it?

Not a fan of EH, tried several times on several books, horrible.

Books:
1. NASB Bible
2. Love Your God with All Your Mind by JP Moreland
3. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
4. Hot Money by Dick Francis
5. Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps by Richard Rohr

Movies:
1. Inside Man
2. Sphere
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Spotlight
5. The Matrix

Series:
1. House, MD
2. Burn Notice
3. Suits
4. Lie to Me
5. Breaking Bad