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openThis sounds familiar
The only thing I remember about it is that a character or these people were able to teleport to another world in another universe. Later on, it turns out they're not in separate universes, but they're actually in the same universe and are just very far away from each other.
If nothing rings a bell, then maybe I just made it up somewhere.
openscientist mom turns into baby Western Animation
I've asked this before but can't find my own post :/ Pretty sure this single mother was a scientist and got turned into a baby somehow and her teen daughter has to find a way to turn her back. She meets this teen boy who's a runaway and they have an alliance because pretty sure they're being chased by evil scientists, this show was animated and made in 2000-2010. It was weird and slightly gross, and it was based on a book.
The teen boy eventually finds someone who he thinks is his dad but turns out not to be, and the dad says something like "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family, but if you could, you'd be at the top of my list."
openXCOM meets magical girls
Something I once saw referred to as "if a magical girl show had a non-magical XCOM-like gritty military operation as a side antagonist". I don't think it was Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka because I think I saw this comparison when 2012 XCOM: Enemy Unknown was still fresh (I also don't known all that much about the former besides aliens, military, and magical girls are elements in it).
openSecret Super hero show Western Animation
I remember the MC being a little girl who, (possibly) transformed into a super hero to fight evil, or at least was some kind of super hero, that had a male sidekick that might have been her little brother or something, in the episode I remember the most from, they were looking for some important plot device, that they might have lost during the course of the episode, they might have gone to a saloon either in the past or in another dimension/world, but I'm not sure about that.
openNo Title Live Action TV
I need help finding these:
1. A life-size puppet show, possibly PBS Kids, aired in either 2001 or 2002. The intro of the show is somewhat similar to the Hoobs, although it is not because I checked. The episode of that particular show involves kids sitting in front of blue tarp or sheet (Video is somewhat similar to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdGL4hbWV4Q]); does include animation, somewhat similar to Sesame Street. The ending shows the same clip of kids in front of blue tarp or sheet (1st half shown), and 2nd half shows credits with audio of clip still playing.
2. An American TV sitcom (1960s through 1980s); A woman dressed in blue falls in water, probably a fountain. The next scene shows the same woman, still dressed in blue, being questioned by another person.
If any of these descriptions are wrong, please let me know. I have been trying to find these for a very long time. Please help me. Thanks.
Edited by lpbtheactoropenNo Title Music
I know that this was a song by They Might Be Giants, but hunting through their fan-run wiki has not helped me. In one of their songs, there's a bit that goes something like this:
"Remember that time in the past when we looked forward to the future, but all we saw was us looking into the past to that point when we looked at ourselves in the future?"
I don't remember the exact working. If I remember correctly, it's a total non-sequitur and unrelated to anything else in the song.
Any ideas?
openDocumentary about a girl murdering her own family Live Action TV
It revolves around a girl who was treated like a princess by her family. But after her brother is born, she becomes insanely jealous after he takes the spotlight away from her and with the help of her boyfriend, kills each and every last member with her family. The method being a gunshot to the face followed by multiple stabs with a pair of scissors.
openMan finds out wife faked (?) pregnancy
This was either a TV show or movie, live action. A husband and his friend were standing in the husband's living room, and his friend realizes that his wife wasn't pregnant when she said she was, pointing out Christmas photos and photos where she's drinking during when she'd be very far along, but she's not showing
openChildren's Educational Library Game. (Edit: Solved!!) Videogame
Ok so I played this game on the children computers at my library. The game has 2 main characters a boy and girl who you lead around point and click style. They also have a talking flying yellow rectangle that follows them around. (It might be a backpack or something) The game taught math and science. The girl had an uncle (I think) Who took them to this goo island where the game takes place. The island is very Mayan Temple themed. This was all at a 3rd grade level. Every time you solve a puzzle you get goo beetles you need to collect to finish the game. Some of the mini games included figuring out different parts of a life cycle, logic puzzles, strategy, etc. The goo was hurting the characters on the island. I vividly remember a bunch of anthropomorphic flowers who sung a song about the goo that infected the island. I only ever played this game at the library on children computers, which have preset games on them and can't access the internet. The goo beetles came in all different colours that were needed for a final puzzle. The game also had a squeal for 4th graders that focused more on history and took place in a desert. PLEASE let me know if you remember anything about this. Thanks!
Edited by TheGoodUsernamesAreTakenopenOld children's show about hamsters (not Hamtaro) Live Action TV
I remember watching this a time or two as a kid (I'm 26). The hamsters and some other small animal species lived in a out door area (forest?). I barely remember one part of one episode involving either a lot of raw corn or a popcorn machine being left in the forest. All the corn popped (because of the sunlight?) and the hamsters were trying to clean up a massive amount of popcorn while it was scattering everywhere. It was live action.
open(Solved)UK based TV I think about overcoming bullying and being different Live Action TV
UK based TV I think about overcoming bullying and being different. I watched it in school so it may be one of those educational TV shows specifically for school. Had this gay guy called Lawrence who used to smile and move his hands and point to his smile a the same time while saying his name
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The guys name was Loris, not Lawrence.
Edited by EnterUsername2openIRA movie that starts with an assassination and a gunfight Film
It’s a movie about the IRA, I remember a family at a table when all of a sudden some guy bursts in and shoots the dad at the table. In the next scene there’s a big gunfight with the IRA in a building and the military outside, and the IRA end up retreating. One of them is injured and pretends to be dead, but shoots a guy as he walks in. He surrenders afterwards, but gets executed by some guy who I think was wearing a suit. It could have not been a suit, but he definitely wasn’t dressed like a soldier.
openChildren/YA novel about a circus of fear
I'm trying to remember the name of this novel. It's set in the early 20th or late 19th Century. The protagonist is a teenage girl who lives in a small town that's experiencing a bad drought when a Circus of Fear comes to town.
The ringmaster is strongly implied to be Satan and promises to bring rain to the town in exchange for planting the seed of evil. He's going to fulfill his promise because he's got a teenage boy that has the magical ability to create rain, and the protagonist falls for him and tries to rescue him from the ringmaster.
The ringmaster tries to get him back by sending his hulking assistant to catch him, but the assistant is defeated when they find out that he draws his strength from contact with the earth. Then the ringmaster sends a sinister suit of armor, which is defeated by knocking the helmet off and causing everyone to realize that it's empty. Then the ringmaster conjures up a dragon which is defeated by the teenage boy unleashing his powers to call up a torrential rainstorm.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
openFreeform Jazz
What's the Sponge Bob episode with the Freeform Jazz scene?
Forgot to add this in the Western Animation category.
Edited by AutisticAliviaopenCartoon with cave painting scene (SOLVED) Western Animation
I don't remember the cartoon itself, I think it was a TV show - There's a scene where the main character is hanging out with some cavemen (thanks to time travel or something) and they show him some cave drawings, so he puts a piece of chalk in his mouth, chews it, puts his hand on the wall and blows on it, making a handprint. Then he smiles, showing his teeth are the color of the chalk (yellow/orange?)
Edited by PisthetairosopenCanadian TV show possibly set in Prince Edward Island. Live Action TV
I remember the show having like 5 main characters. One was like a drunk uncle and drunk nephew. They're looking for work, the sister or niece runs a coffee shop. One episode she dates a Ben Franklin impersonator who lives the part. At one point he pulls out a rabbit intestine condom? I'm just throwing random parts I remember. One of the characters takes a shit on the dunes of a beach and gets arrested for shitting in an endangered bird species nest. If this is ringing any bells to anybody pleaaaasssee tell me the name of this show.
openscifi story involving temporal dislocation Literature
A scifi book about an astronaut who returns from an extended period of time out in space to discover he is temporally out of sync with the rest of the world. He is reacting to things before they happen and saying his parts of the conversation before other people have even come up to talk to him.
openEducational tv show set in spaceship NOT SPACE CASES Live Action TV
Hello fellow troopers I have a goody for you! I was homeschooled in the late 90s early 2000s and I would go to the library and rent educational tv shows. this is whatremember: a white male highschool student would have a teleporterin his night stand which would beep and teleport him to a space ship which he is the captain of. Then the spaceship would get caught by another “bad” spaceship in a gravity hold. In Star Trek fashion a bad alien humanoid show up on the big screen and would threaten to blow up the ship of the white kid UNLESS he answered 3 or 5 questions about a historical figure such as Ben Franklin etc. the space crew would then teleport the historical figure to the ship to learn about the person. The big bad alien would return and ask the three or four questions about the said historical figure. I remember one of the “bad” question askers to look kind of like a pinhead rip off. This has been bugging me for almost 20 years and I can’t find it. The show is not space cases or voyager. Good luck and thanks
I saw at a film festival a short live-action Japanese film. In it, a middle aged energetic man seemingly tries to cheer up a woman he doesn't know, who isn't interested. I think he does some magic tricks? It ends with her getting up from the bench and walking away.
He then howls in rage and the camera pans over to her shoes and reveals they were on a rooftop and he was trying to dissuade her from suicide. And failed.