In what might just be the best bug of all time, Netflix accidentally started mashing up one-sentence summaries from different movies and TV shows. What follows is a list of the most amazing movies you’ll never get to see.
The journey seems to have started on May 17th, when the Twitter account @SummaryBug hummed to life, spitting out pictures of weird, nonsensical, and incredible summaries that were appearing on “a Netflix app.” The results are so hilarious it almost seems too good to be true (coughcougheverysingleautocorrectjokecoughcough), but Netflix confirmed to Slate that, yes, this is a real bug.
According to the Netflix Twitter, the bug has been squashed, which means no new movie mash-ups going forward. Fortunately, however, SummaryBug put together quite the archive. These are but a few of our favorites.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/469461696658931712
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 21, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 21, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 21, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 21, 2014
Goat man? more like renaissance man pic.twitter.com/DY8zjZm8Kc
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 20, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 20, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 20, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 20, 2014
spoiler: it was stagnant wages! pic.twitter.com/OA2HhCofX5
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 20, 2014
brooks is bitter about millenials pic.twitter.com/R4LCqlNlSF
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 20, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 19, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 19, 2014
This one’s for @PFTompkins pic.twitter.com/lcOt79WCCS
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 19, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 19, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 18, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 17, 2014
sons of worf pic.twitter.com/8nH9wRR0iL
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 17, 2014
it's not a duplicate tweet, twitter. each one is a snowflake pic.twitter.com/SuBnvTQN3g
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 17, 2014
#TNG barrage continues pic.twitter.com/C1hFrgRGpx
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 17, 2014
— Summary Bug (@SummaryBug) May 17, 2014
Did we miss any gems? Spot your own in the wild? Throw ’em below, and we can all pine for an alternate reality where these movies exist.
[SummaryBug via Slate]
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/22/summarybug_netflix_problem_mashes_up_movie_plots_with_amazing_results.html?wpisrc=burger_bar
