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resolved What is this meme from?
Who is that guy in the second panel, and what work is he from?
resolved Kids' novel about sidekicks Literature
This is a kids' novel that I read somewhere between 2003-2008. I do not know who the author was. I think it was part of a series, but I don't know which book in the series it was, and I never read any of the other books.
The title was something like "Sidekicks", but this is not the graphic novel by Dan Santat. The art style was similar, but it wasn't a graphic novel, just a novel with illustrations. Also, there were no animal characters.
It takes place in a city where superheroes exist, but the story is about their sidekicks. The main character is called something like "Speedy", because his power is Super-Speed. "Speedy" is the sidekick of quite possibly the worst superhero ever: Pumpkin Pete, who has a pumpkin for a head and appears to be wearing a green unitard. Pumpkin Pete claims to have "all the powers of a pumpkin", but the fact that he runs away from every fight makes it clear that he has no powers at all. As if that wasn't bad enough, he's a total glory hound who takes all the credit when someone else saves the day. And all the citizens believe that he saved them.
"Speedy" hates this, and wishes he was a superhero so that he could be acknowledged for once. He gets his chance when a Mad Scientist attacks the city with a giant robot. Hilariously, when he first meets Speedy, it takes him a while to come down and meet Speedy face-to-face because he has to go down the stairs in his robot. When he finally makes it to the bottom, he's out of breath.
I don't remember the mad scientist's name, but I do remember this: He was really short, and he hated it. His plan was to use his robot to crush everyone so that he would be taller in comparison. (I only just realized how horrifying this is.)
There's one other thing I remember: One of the other superheroes was called Haggis Man. I bet he's still more effective than Pumpkin Pete.
Does anyone remember this?
resolved A "Cracked" article Web Original
There was a really cool article I read on Cracked about 1-2 years ago. Can you help me find it?
It was a reader-submitted collection of GIFs. The topic was factory machines.
The only one I remember was a GIF of an old mattress going along a conveyor belt and into some sort of grinding machine.
Sorry that this isn't much to go by, but does anyone recognize this article?
resolved High fantasy novel with priestesses and dragons Literature
I read the first book in this series a while ago and it completely slipped my mind. It involved a king and queen, and a convent of priestesses, which is where one of the main characters came from. I'm sure she was a priestess named Melisande or something similar but even that might be wrong. What I do remember vividly is the queen travelling away for some business and one of the antagonists, a dragon disguised as a human, stopped her and raped her in his original dragon form, which is rather graphically described as almost tearing her in two from the size difference. I think she'd also had sex with someone else recently (possibly the king). She returned to her palace and fell pregnant, and gave birth to a normal human child and some disgusting dragon-human crossbreed, which she had her head maid send away somewhere.
I've been trying to find this one on-and-off for years. Please help!
resolved Nazi/WW2 German Yaoi Manga/Manhwa with a Bishonen Protag? Anime
I swear blind that, in my random meanderings over this site, I stumbled across a page on a WW 2-set Boys' Love manga or manhwa that featured a Germanic Camp Gay Agent Peacock Bishonen as the protagonist - but I can't for the life of me remember what the title was. Anyone else there seen this page, or am I going nuts?
resolved Shorts about a cat Western Animation
Once again I can't give an exact time of release but in the Netherlands it aired during the nineties. It was a western animation style cartoon about an alleycat on his last life. The gimmick was that every time he said a number from one to eight the ghost of that life showed up generally to "help" him, I only remember that #1 was a stereotypical caveman cat maybe with a club and dinosaur I'm not so sure. Whenever he said nine however a giant floating 9 appeared and attempted to kill him. As the title says the episodes were all shorts.
resolved cartoon and movie
I can't tell when the show was released, as all I know is that it ran in the Netherlands during the nineties which isn't saying much. But anyway it was about a small monster that in exchange for eggs himself (yes himself) laid eggs that hatched into different monsters created for specific tasks. Since those monsters always failed at the tasks they were created for in each episode multiple of them were created always for the cost of one egg per egg.
Once again I can't tell you the airdate just that I watched it in the nineties later than the cartoon and it was definitely an anime. Anyway some kid had the ability to ether summon or transform into an armor that resembled the armor from https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Guyver except it was white, and over the course over the movie it turned this ugly brown and seemed to be killing it's owner or the owner slowly dying affected the suit. Also the villains were either monstrous aliens disguised as human or humans who could transform into monsters. It wasn't Guyver out of control, since that ova doesn't have the whole armor "rusting".
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved YouTube horror video - with walruses?
About 6 months-1 year ago, I remember overhearing two people talkig about a creepy video they saw on YouTube. I don't remember much of what they said - it was something about a guy who turns people into walruses by cutting up their bodies. I'm guessing it relies strongly on Surreal Horror and Body Horror. Any ideas on what this is?
resolved No Title
Trying to remember a movie I saw as a kid. At the start, a kid was playing a video game when his grandmother called him in for dinner, but he said he needed to save the princess. The grandmother said something about saving a real princess. At some point the kid ended up in a desert, with some sort of monster burrowing through the sand towards him. I think a pirate and a mermaid were involved at some point, too.
Edited by Tylendalresolved No Title Literature
A kids/young adult fantasy novel I read probably some time around the late 2000's. It takes place in ancient Greece, in a world where all its mythical creatures are real. The main character is a boy with goat legs, but he isn't referred to as a satyr. Instead, the villagers call him a name that meant something like "demon child."
The villagers ostracize this boy, so he comes to live with a group of monsters. I can't remember much about which ones there were: There was definitely a harpy, and the Nemean Lion. I think there was also a hydra, and I think there was also Medusa, or some other gorgon. I think there was one part where they summoned a giant made out of bronze, or some other metal.
The main villain is similar to Gaston - he is a human man who is well-known and loved by his peers. When he finds out about the monsters, he organizes an army to go and kill them. In an intentional, hilarious use of Anachronism Stew, he even starts a line of action figures based on himself!
I think the gods - most likely Zeus himself - were the ones who wanted the villain to go kill the monsters.
The harpy has a Disney Death.
The book's overall theme is that Dark Is Not Evil.
Any ideas on what this is?
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved No Title Anime
(I am submitting 2 queries for the same reason: to write examples for a particular trope. The trope in question is Fade Around the Eyes. I was originally going to put both of my questions under the same query and label it "Not Sure", but I felt it would be better to seperate them instead.)
My little brother used to love watching Yu-Gi-Oh! (the original series, I think. The one with Dan Green) on Netflix, and I would sometimes sit down and watch with him a little, even though I didn't really know what was going on.
I need help remembering one episode. I think it was the episode in which Marek first appears. It was definitely one of his first episodes. Anyway, at the end of the episode, the screen fades to black around his eyes.
If anyone knows, could you please tell me:
- What the name of the episode was
- What happened in that last scene
resolved No Title Western Animation
An All-CGI Cartoon I saw sometime in the late 2000s, or maybe the early 10s. I'm pretty sure it was aired on Cartoon Network.
I don't know if it was a Halloween special, or just a Halloween Episode of a pre-existing show, but I think it was the former, because it didn't resemble any show Id ever heard of.
The only thing I can remember is this: There are these kids preparing to go trick-or-treating, and they're waiting for their friend to come. Suddenly, the friend, dressed as a Big Red Devil, jumps out from behind a bush and says dramatically, "Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear!"
Does anyone know what this might be?
resolved No Title Literature
This was a novel I saw in the public library a few weeks ago. I read the inside jacket, but I didn't check it out. Now I regret not checking it out, because it sounded interesting, but I can't remember what it was called.
It was in the library's tween section, and because I saw it on display, instead of on the shelves, I think it was a new book.
From what I remember, the story is about a boy and his imaginary friend, a Mega Neko with a very British-sounding name. The cat's name was also the title of the book. It started with a C. For some reason, the name "Cheswick" keeps popping into my head, but I'm sure that wasn't it.
If this helps, I'll describe the picture on the cover: It appeared to be at a park, at night. The picture is the back view of a bench, where the boy and the cat are sitting side-by-side, leaning against each other.
Sorry that this isn't much to go by, but does anyone know what this book might be?
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved Songs being parodied in this "SCIENCE WARS" video?
What are the songs they are parodying here?
Edited by Maladyresolved Fanfic with a kid goddess named after rebirth
I'm trying to find a Percy Jackson fanfic that had... I think it was Hades and Persephone's child, and it was a girl whose name was supposed to mean "Rebirth", and seemed to start with Ana-something... so I think it was a derivative of anagénnisi that looked more like a name.
Edited by Maladyresolved No Title Videogame
This is an arcade game that is very similar to CarnEvil, but it's not that game. The graphics were much smoother, so I'm guessing that this game is newer.
I didn't actually play this game, I just watched 2 other people playing it, so I don't remember much, but this is what I remember:
It's a 2-player shoooting game that takes place at an Amusement Park of Doom. There was one part in the game when the two protagonists come across a ferris wheel, and see that a Monster Clown is keeping a person hostage in each car. The heroes get out their sniper rifles to kill the clowns, but the challenge is that you have to avoid shooting the hostages.
In another part of the game, the heroes are in a Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs-themed cottage. There are these midgets dressed as the Seven Dwarves, and each one has An Axe To Grind. One of the dwarves turns out the lights, so the heroes activate the night vision on their guns so they can see the dwarfs and kill them. I remember this being the scariest part of the game to me, as the dwarves' costumes are very Uncanny Valley-provoking, and the way they slowly walk toward you in the dark, swinging their axes.
Not sure if this will help, but I'm pretty sure I saw this game at a Dave & Busters'.
Sadly, that's all I can remember. Does anyone know what this game is?
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved No Title Videogame
A PC Edutainment Game I first played some time in the late 2000's. It was part of a collection of other edutainment games, including a revamped version of Super Solvers Midnight Rescue. I can't remember what the collection was called.
Anyway, the game starred a German scientist who basically served as The Host. It was meant to teach logic, and was comprised of several short games where you would have to solve a certain problem. Here are some of the problems you had to solve:
- Keeping a prisoner from escaping prison.
- Beating a chess champion.
- Helping a Non-Ironic Clown cross a tightrope wire - with a tightrope that isn't long enough.
- A guy tries to mail food to a friend in a foreign country, but the mailman keeps opening the packages and eating the food. You have to figure out how to get the food past the mailman without making it impossible for the foreign friend to open the package.
- A man wants to marry the daughter of a medieval banker, who agrees to let them marry if the man solves a puzzle: There are some bags of coins and a scale. You have to figure out which bags contain real coins and which ones are fake, but you can only use the scale a limited number of times.
Does anyone know what the name of this game might be? And, better yet, does anyone know what the name of the collection might be?
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved No Title
(I put "Not Sure" because it doesn't match any of the other categories.)
This was a Youtube Poop I saw sometime in the late 2000's. It stars Dr. Robotnik, who creates a machine to make himself stupid.
He tests it out by trying to count to five, and the numbers are all out of order.
Then he inhales a lot of air and inflates himself. The Tankbot music from Kirby's Epic Yarn starts playing as he floats upward, eventually reaching outer space, where he explodes.
Anyone know what this video is called?
resolved No Title Literature
I'm trying to find a horror short story that I believe I first read after seeing it mentioned on this site. I know that I read it online, but Google has proved useless so far.
The story is from the POV of a wife who I believe is visiting her husband's parents for the first time. She is constantly thinking to herself how great her husband is, how in love with him she is, things like that, but the only dialogue we get from the husband is sort of flat and unimpressive. (I want to say the husband's name was also something really dull like Kevin.)
We start to realize that the husband is not this incredible dreamboat but something way worse - he has sort of hypnotized his wife into adoring him and caring for him - I seem to recall something about her clipping his awful toenails while she's in this hypnosis. Anyway, this all comes out after the wife meets her mother-in-law, and it turns out the husband's father has the same thing going - "hypnotizing" the mother-in-law to tend to him and take care of him when really he's kind of awful - even monstrous. The two women are alone together when they manage to figure out that they've been married to these toad-like, horrible men who have convinced them to be their caretakers. There's a sort of awful realization where the wife has flashbacks to taking care of her husband where she is able to see that he's ugly, charmless, the toenails, etc. etc.
As the women are realizing this they both turn to each other in horror and I think decide that they have to kill their husbands to break free of this awful hypnosis. I think they do end up murdering their respective husbands - I forget the murder weapon but want to say it's a shotgun or a shovel for the wife (POV character). Despite recalling the plot this much I haven't been able to find hide nor hair of this story - can anyone help me out?
Edited by pellycan
I saw each of these cartoon during the nineties in the Netherlands but that doesn't mean much.
The first one was about a wish granting alien with a star shaped sidekick. The antagonists were a witch with her pet vulture and a gang of aliens who could transform into different objects.
The second involved a human couple living a town of red white and blue people. Since the town produces paint the rulers made sure that all the colors hated each other to keep the paints they sold pure. But somehow the humans had a cupid, there were other cupids in the show as well but they were minor characters, who used his arrows to make the different colors get along.
The final cartoon was about a girl who I believe was originally from Earth and lived in a world with giant strawberries. She was good friends with the prince but the queen didn't like her.I don't think it was Strawberry Shortcake