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There was this animation shown as part of the children's TV programming in Norway in the mid/late 80s early 90s. It had a dog (possibly black) in it, and cat or a mouse, I cannot fully remember. But the dog was inspired by/inspiration for Muttley in Stop The Pidgeon. I don't fully remember what the show was about, but I do remember that either the dog or the second character was showering in the opening sequence. Can anyone help me figure out which series this is, because it is driving me NUTS!
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I'm pretty sure that this is a Goosebumps book, It was about a girl who found this creature that gave her extremely bad luck, she couldn't get rid of it, and there was something about the letter J showing up on her arm or something odd like that. At the end, when she finally got rid of the creature, another one found her, but it was like a potato and it bit her thumb.
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Hey... I remember a live-action children's movie, don't remember what it was called (pretty sure "Legend of [something]"), don't remember much of the plot, but there are a few things I remember vividly:
- Set in Alaska, or maybe Canada.
- A little boy who plays too many video games (Pac Man Fever, but I think era-appropriate, although got jarring before I outgrew the movie), the mother saying "he's going to grow up with that thing glued to his hand."
- In one scene, his mother turns it off and he protests that he "almost made it to level ten!" Followed by this exchange, or one just a few words off:
"What about equal rights for kids?""What about equal rights for mothers?""And grandfathers!""Grandfathers can get away with murder.""Well, I certainly hope so."
- Watching Fargo as an adult, the mother, boy, and grandfather seemed very similar...
- A Magical Native American named Ray who constantly uses You Are the Translated Foreign Word.
- The bad guys frame the Magical Native American for poaching, and the boy pawns a Gameboy for $50 and several games to make the $100 bail. (I very clearly remember the phrases "got any games?" and "we're here to bail Ray out.")
- Something about a magic drum that broke once it had served its purpose; pretty sure Ray presented it with a "You Will Know What to Do," possibly in his people's language.
- Gets kind of trippy at the end, although having seen it through a child's eyes, I'm not sure if it was meant as a metaphor, Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, or if the villains were actually wizards in plain sight. I vaguely recall a cave.
Might have been a TV movie, but if it was, we taped it.
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Reading through all of these threads has drudged up an old memory of a cartoon I used to watch when I was dropped off at my babysitter's house early in the morning. I dont know what channel it was on. But I remember there being a young boy as one of the lead characters, and he would visit a house of some sort that would travel through time and let the characters observe what I believe were old bible story events. Any ideas?
Edit: Timeframe would have been mid to late 80's
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There used to be a show on Cartoon Network about people who were like "ninja" personifications of the signs of the Chinese Zodiac.
The main plot was about two twin siblings, boy and girl, and their quest for something (can't even remember it), but it involved both of them training and interacting with the other personifications of the zodiac.
They were both dragon zodiacs, and the boy was good and the girl bad. They were separated, and the girl was off with the bad guys, so they only interacted when big fights happened, or their goals interfered with each others'.
I last watched it (very avidly, mind you) in the 2007-2009 area. Being thirteen, this major memory loss is worrisome....
Ring any bells?
openNo Title Literature
This is a pretty popular kid's book, I think. It was about a mouse who was trying to hide a big strawberry from a... bear, maybe? He kept dressing it up and pretending to have dinner with it, and I remember he put some of those funny mustache-with-glasses things on it, and it was illustrated very nicely, warm colors. Another kids' book: Probably a little adaption of the Ants Go Marching song, it had a bunch of ants going to a picnic (At which there were no people for some reason) and then they ate all the food.
openNo Title Western Animation
Some years ago I catched a glimpse of a cartoon, I thought it was a animated movie, not a cartoon series. I remember there was this man and he was talking to an old man (I may be recalling it wrong, but I think the old man was drawn in a more humoreous style than the rest of the characters, kind of like Mr. Magoo), they were in a construction site. I remember the old man gets trapped inside a portable toilet, and gets thrown down a hill. When the old man gets out he says something like "Oh, the most terrible thing! I'm covered with human feces!". I changed channel at that moment, because I did not thought it was funny, but catched it again later when the old man takes the man to a gym where there are some other guys playing basketball. The old man comes with a boy (I thing he was redhead), he is taking care of him while his mother is out (or something). The old man starts ranting about how the man can't play basketball because alcohol has destroyed his body (at this point I was like "What kind of cartoon is this?"). The man plays basketball anyway, and he convinces the boy to play with him against the other guys. Shirts versus Skins. I remember the boy starts being very shy and insecure but the man is able to motivate him and they win. The other guys are forced to eat the shorts of a fat man (because they lost the game). I remember that during the game, the mother of the boy appears and seems very happy to see him playing, but after they win, the man encourage the boy to make fun of the other guys... I don't remember what he screams, but it really shocks the mother, and gets angry to both the man and the old man.
That's all I can recall, I really disliked it, but it bugs me. I think I watched it in cartoon network (Latinamerican), and it was still too early for adult cartoons, that's the reason it got me so intrigued in the first place.
openNo Title Western Animation
A cartoon from around the late 90's to mid 00's. It was about a group of dogs who were spies (or something along those lines) but acted like non-sentient dogs when not solving crimes. There was one dog who was always strapped to a gurney or stretcher for being too violent.
I don't remember anything aside from that, but it's been bugging me for weeks now.
openNo Title Western Animation
A movie about ants, that was not Antz or A Bug's Life. It involved a little brat who roasts ants with a magnifying glass, and then gets shrunk down to the size of a bug and has to live with the ants. The ants all had multifaceted, oval eyes with no pupils. I would have seen it in a theater probably several years ago.
openNo Title Western Animation
It's an animation show that aired around 2003/2005, probably in Nickelodeon. It was set in a boarding school for magic/school were magical stuff happened; but it didn't feel(too much)like a Harry Potter rip-off. I believe it centered around a group of "normal" students having to deal with this fantastic world. The principal/main teacher was a witch who may have had some sort of weird looking flying pet. Among the main children, there was a blonde rather whiny girl(she also had a weird-looking nose) who had to share the room with a "goth" student (Her hair was black and quite big) who had rapidly adapted to the school. Some of the other students and teachers might have been trolls or different kinds of supernatural creatures. Episodes I remember centered around a student messing with magic they don't understand to deal with a regular problem and learning some sort of lesson. There was an episode in which they were putting up a play and the got possessed by the characters until they finished the play. The opening sequence, as I remember it, showed the characters being dropped off at school, encountering weird stuff, trying to escape while the theme tune narrated the facts and may have said something about these students being mistakenly sent to the school. The show was probably American or Canadian, was traditionally animated and may have been named after the school.
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Okay, this was a short-lived kids' show from the nineties. I'm pretty sure it aired on Saturday mornings, but don't quote me on that.
Anyway, the premise involved a kid who had converted his attic into a hi-tech computer lab with a sort of Batcave feel, which he would use to play pranks on people. The title was something like "Television Dairy" or "Video Diary", but searching for those isn't turning up results. The intro involved the other characters (such as his family) being distorted by him, photoshop style.
The one episode I can remember clearly had him needing to take care of a baby doll as if it were an actual child for a class assignment. About the same time, his parents' conversations make him believe that they're having another kid, so he modifies the doll to be as gross as possible to change their minds (having it "vomit" up pea soup and so on), but it turns out they were just talking about buying a new fan. Not sure how those two got confused, but hey, it was years ago.
Any ideas?
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I've been looking for an anime movie/short series for a while. It's about a boy (blue yes, black hair, lanky) who discovers that he's half-alien and has to save his mother/girlfriend/family from his alien counterparts, who want to use him for....something. He's chased by two other half-aliens (a brother and a sister, who, for some reason, I think were faternal twins), and there's sexual tension between both the girl half-alien and the the Main half-alien character, as well as between the the brother and sister.
The secene that stands out in my mind is where they corner the Main Character, and he uses a glove (yes, a *glove*) to access some kind of magic/technology to knock them both out. Then, the Aliens come and demand the Main Character goes with them because the "glove has chosen you". He refuses, and fights them off, only to be left on the ground (knocked out) when the half-alien girl wakes up, steals the glove from the aliens, and uses it against them before the glove starts to break her hand.
It was on in the 90s-I want to say early to mid (1990-1997)-and I know it part of a larger series/broken-up movie. It was on either on Syfi (during their anime mondy special) or on Fox (about 9:30-11:00 pm).
Does this sound familer to anyone?
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A fantasy novel of some kind, and literally all I'm sure of is that the main character was a girl, and she started on her journey because she kept hearing a deep voice in her mind saying "Follow me to Alderloon". I'm not sure if I'm spelling that right - neither that nor any of the alternate spellings I've tried ("aldarloon", aldairloon", etc) have yielded anything relevant. I know that's not a lot to go on, but for whatever reason the "follow me to Alderloon" bit has just stuck in my mind for the longest time and I have to figure out what it's from.
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I remeber a webcomic about a girl and a guy who (here is were the bad memory comes in) are roommates *I think* the characters are drawn in a very chibi-fied style and I destinctly remember a comic where they put paper eyebrows on a cat and I remember I used to love this comic but I just kinda forgot about it
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It might have been eastern animation or just american, but I'm not too sure.. Anyway, I vaugely remember the opening of the show containing a priest looking guy, two dragons (serpenty looking ones) jumping out of the water and lunging at each other, and a monkey kid. I think there may have been an episode with a girl with an orb, that turned her into one of the dragons in the opening but... I'm not too sure.. And I think the priest guy was telling the monkey off for attacking the girl/dragon at one point. It's been so long ago, I was just like 5 or something... So I may be a little wrong. Any ideas tropers?
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I might have dreamed this, but I think I remember finding this as a short on a DVD.
Stop-motion animation, but the characters were furry rabbits. The whole thing was very blue in color, and there was no dialogue. The grandmother rabbit sees her washing machine shaking, so she climbs inside it. She goes deeper and deeper before finding a white "light at the end of the tunnel", which is supposed to symbolize that she died.
It's probably not Aardman.
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I actually don't remember this one myself, but my dad does- he remembers me watching it when I was little. I'm in my teens, so don't go looking for something from the eighties or anything.
From what he can recall, there was a kid (male) with a dog and a fish(?), and he swears the fish was named Dennis. The dog looked kind of like a bulldog, and the fish could shapeshift or something. It might have been an animal-based show.
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This one's driving me crazy. I guess you'd probably call it alt rock, and the music video starts with the camera going through a long yellow tube before stopping at the lead singer's face. Aside from that, I remember the following details: -Lyrics contained a lot of "-tion" words. -People singing in front of a brick wall. -Guy wearing a teddy bear head and no shirt flips off the camera. -Paint?
No idea when it came out, but probably early 2000s. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
It's a fantasy book for youngish children.
It starts with the protagonist living on an island but he gets swept away to adventure. The four elements are each ruled by a different king or queen (Air and fire were kings, water and earth were queens I think) who were all created by or children of Night and they're going to have a war, which causes the elements to meld and that's bad.
The protagonist meets a hermit philosopher type and his daughter, and one of the air kings soldures who made snowballs? Hailstones? in the back of a cloud for war but crashed it on his adventure, it ends when they meet Night who's spent years trying to figure out Truth but getting nowhere and convince her to tell her children to stop fighting.
Any ideas?