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which donald duck cartoon did this screencap come from http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/07/25/donald-duck-suicide/
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An animated tv-series. COULD have been an anime, but I am not sure. The characters were all anthropomorphic felines. Only their heads were animal-like, the rest of their bodies (apart from the fur) were human. The protagonists were three typical Adventurer Archaeologists: Always hunting treasures in ancient ruins, at least one of them dressed like Indiana Jones, seemingly living in the first half of the 20th century, ect. They were two males and one female. Interestingly, the female was more anthropomorphic than her two male companions: (Caucasian) skin-coloured instead of fur-coloured, and with a less protruding and less animal-like muzzle.
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I remember watching a cartoon when I was little that I think was on the Disney Channel at one point. It was about two cars (or something like that), an little which I think was red, and a bigger car that I don't remember the colour. All I can remember was that the little car wasn't allowed to play near the train tracks. At one point the little car decides to rebel, dons a raccoon-skinned cap and drives off to the tracks. I think he ends up getting hit by a train, because the next scene I remember was about the little car being in hospital.
I'm not sure whether this was a real cartoon or just a weird dream that I remember, but I think it was an old Disney Cartoon.
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Does anyone remember a TV pilot called "Things That Go Bump"? It was about a division of the New Orleans Police Department that concerned itself with ghostbusting, and it had a cop named Bumpstead as its protagonist. Never made it to a series, but I found out what it was only last year or so. I'm just trying to spread the love and see if anyone else knows about it.
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This might be a little too vague, but I'll try: The main character goes on a guided tour through some caverns... only the tour guide is just driving in circles, going through the same cavern over and over again, and calling it something else each time, and the main character never catches on. I'm unsure if this was part of a regular show or just a one-off short, but I kind of suspect the latter. I remember the animation style was pretty simplistic, with little in the way of backgrounds, and it may not have even used any colors other than black and white. I saw it as a kid, so it's probably not from any time later than the early 90's.
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I'm trying to find out if I'm just crazy or if this was actually on the air at one point. It could have just been a Canadian thing, or it could have been international (or it could have been a Candle Cove/Eldritch Abomination thing)... This was in the late-80s/early-90s or so.
Anyway, there was this girl (I think her name was Hope), and an evil witch/queen/something. The witch had a henchmonster (fuzzy brown puppet guy) called Erg (possibly spelled differently, but pronounced as I spelled it). There was also a talking waterfall/spring/pond/well/something. I think it was probably either a well or a waterfall, because I seem to recall if being an alliteration with the word 'wise' or 'wisdom'.
Edited to correct 'canned' to the more accurate 'called'.
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I watched a cartoon years ago set around Baker Street. It was centered around a group of street urchins, two in particular (a boy and girl) who lived in a boat moored to a dock. They went around solving some crimes or other peoples troubles. They caught and sold rats for some money. It had a catchy theme song. (something about "How do they munch?/How do they munch?/How./do./they./munch?") - word might be different it was years ago. Any ideas?
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Does anyone remember this kid’s show? I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM. I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
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Saw this anime on TV when I visited Japan in the early-to-mid-80s. A group of 4 or 5 people, each having a huge bike/trike/bike-with-sidecar of his/her own, led by a sexy black-haired lady. Their vehicles can combine into one giant mech. (Each vehicle is big enough for a person to fit into when it transforms for combining.) They seem to lean on the spy/cloak and dagger stuff and then they form the giant robot for the climactic battle of the episode. Been trying to look for this for decades.
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Only saw the end of this film on TV more than a decade ago, maybe even 2 decades ago, and my memories of it may have changed. It was about a kid who seemed to be trained to be as an escape artist. When I got into the show he is apparently making his escape from some kidnappers. I remember him contorting his body to get off his cuffs. By the end he gets out and is being chased by the crooks. He hides inside what seems to be a public mailbox. A suspicious crook drops a knife inside and the kid gets hurt, but does not shout. Once the crook leaves the boy comes out and goes his way, dropping what seemed to be some origami or small artifacts on the road. And that's how it ended. Anybody knows this?
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It's a music video actually, but here's what I remember:
It starts with a concert for a boy band type group, with the audience cheering and whatnot. The boy band is on stage singing, when suddenly the audience stops cheering, and looks back. Some guy shows up in a medical gown with a bald cap and starts singing the chorus of the song. The audience just stares at the guy, and the band tries to out-sing him. The guy looks at the band and starts shooting lasers from his mouth and killing the band members one by one. Eventually the guy gets back on stage and the band reappears in different costumes and they start singing again.
I know this is a long description, but the music video just kind of freaked me out and I can't remember the name of the band or the song. The video looked fairly recent, at least based on the special effects.
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My girlfriend is trying to remember a Young Adults book (maybe in more than one part) that involved both killer sheep and 'zombie' snails (that when captured in a box, would move in the direction of the Big Bad). The protagonists were brother and sister, and their mother had died in a bus crash previously - there's a scene where they revisit the decaying bus and time starts skipping backwards, a skeleton of a goat rebuilds itself. Kind of creepy but offbeat in tone. Probably had a green cover?
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There's a kids' novel I read in the 80s or 90s that I want to add to But You Were There, and You, and You, but I don't recall the title. This girl's sister or cousin gets kidnapped by evil goblins and she goes on a quest to rescue her. Her quest companions include a robot similar to her know-all brother, and an eagle who reminds her of her father. At one point they meet the queen, who has no legs (the girl's mother is bedridden with illness). And the goblins turn out to have been torturing the sister or cousin by brushing her teeth until the enamel thins and scrubbing her face until she loses layers of skin (yeah, good hygiene as Nightmare Fuel. It was that sort of book...)
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A very hazy memory from my distant youth, so it could be a total fabrication, but it was an animated film, or possibly series, which featured an anthropomorphic mouse, who I think might have been some kind of noir-ish detective. The one distinguishing feature I recall is that he had some kind of compartment in his chest that he stored things in, possibly clues, despite being wholly organic. That's the part that stuck in my brain anyway. Was it all just some strange fever-dream?
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I remember watching a muppets YouTube Poop with the phrase "shit everywhere!" in it a lot
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Yet another early-to-mid-80s anime series. This time the memory reminds me of Urusei Yatsura, except there's no Lum or aliens; just a bunch of down-to-earth high-schoolers with the slapstick humor. I remember characters who now remind me of Urusei Yatsura's Mendou, Ataru, and Sakura. The Sakura-like character is also very attractive to schoolboys who keep pestering her. She would literally send the boys flying, and as they soar through the air, the boys have their arms stretched out and their legs forming a diamond (soles clapped together), leaving jet contrails in their wake. The episode I got to watch was the gang visiting a temple and they seem to be taking up the challenge of breaking the temple's bell. The Mendo-like character uses a ladder to try to break the bell from the inside, while a couple of other guys are repeatedly punching and kicking it from the outside. The Ataru-like character comes on to the Sakura-like lady who slams him into the bell (as apparently was his plan). Apparently they fail and the priest gives them their consolation prizes, which are smaller versions of the bell. (The Ataru-like character gets a very small one for hitting the bell only once.) I'm really interested in knowing the series' title.
OK, this one's for a specific character. I could be hallucinating, or this could be from another medium, so keep that in mind. There's this character in The Simpsons who's a very bad doctor, seedy. And every time he appears, he says "Hi everybody!", and they all say "Hi, dr. [his name]!"