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openCreate a superhero and vote on battles Web Original
This was a website I used to go on where you could create a superhero/villain with some sort of point buy system and write a backstory/powerset. These would then be matched up with other characters and users would vote on the best one. The only example I can remember is an infinite sided dice that warped reality based on what it rolled as it moved around.
open80s 0r 90s show in Australia Live Action TV
This is a question annoying a friend. Her whole family remember a show in the early 90s/late 80s about a rock that swallows people. The show was in Australia. I don't know if it was one episode of a show. Or a show all by itself. They said it was pretty scary but a kids show. Are they making this up? I can't find any reference to this
openKids Show from the 80s? Live Action TV
I think it was Australian? -A kid was visiting relatives for the summer -there was a large rock that moved around and made noises, and I think destroyed construction equipment -green amphibian-man puppet about the size of a small dog that talked in riddles and knew how to stop the rock thing
I might be totally off base, but it's been bugging me for a while now.
openCatDog episode Western Animation
In which episode of CatDog did Cat say "Roses are red, violets are purple / Sugar is sweet and so is maple syrup-le"? I seem to remember it being like a poetry competition or something.
openCooking show on PBS? Live Action TV
Once, when I was little, I was watching the PBS Kids block and when it signed off for the day, the show that came on was a cooking show. There was a guy in a giant pig costume standing next to the host. I didn't get to see all of it.
I don't know if this show was nationally aired or just aired on my station, WNET (I lived in a New Jersey town that was pretty close to New York). Another station I had that this show possibly aired on was the now-defunct NJN. Please help!
openLion Costume. Unsold pilot? Live Action TV
I saw this on TV in Canada in the late eighties or early nineties, when I was a little kid. It seemed to be a comedy, and it took place in an office; it reminded me of Murphy Brown.
The bizarre thing is that one of the characters was a person dressed as a lion, in a costume that looked like a mascot suit — but he was actually SUPPOSED TO BE a real (albeit a talking) lion, and everyone acted as though that's what he was. Not out of the ordinary for a kids' show, but everything about this show screamed "grown-up show" to me, except for the person in the lion suit.
The lion's name may have been Leo or Leah or something. He got nervous anytime anyone said the word "shoot", and at one point one of the other characters does indeed shoot at him with an elephant gun. I seem to recall one of the other characters being a nervous guy with glasses.
Perhaps it was a sketch on a sketch show?
Another troper contributed this: "I know the show you’re talking about but I can’t think of the title. It was short-lived and pretty infamous and it may have been an unsold pilot that only aired once. I want to say that it aired on Fox, but don’t quote me on that."
Anybody have any more information?
[A repost from 2011.]
openWalter needs more data! Live Action TV
I saw this live-action show in Canada in the early 90s; it was an "edutainment" show for kids. No idea if it was a series or a one-off. This particular episode was about space.
The characters were a bunch of kids in a clubhouse or something, accompanied by a talking computer/robot character called "W.A.L.T.E.R.". At one point in the show, Walter went crazy — he kept repeating "Walter needs more data!" and singing the phrase "dancing weightless in the sky" to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". He also teleported one of the kids onto NASA's Vomit Comet.
[A repost from 2011.]
openhelp Western Animation
hey guys i need help anyone remember the show where there were these little characters and there was an episode where when they woke up their whole neighborhood was black and white and these kids find a rainbow and change it back to color and there was another episode where they get like this cookie thing and they can’t fit it through the door or something so they change the direction of them fit it through the door, it was the animation!!! help
openWhich PAW Patrol episode is this? Western Animation
When coming home from my sister's college, I saw a car with a TV playing a Western Animation/PAW Patrol episode where Chase was looking at the viewer and turning his head while in his normal dog form (not the PAW Patrol one). Which episode is this?
Edited by mimitchi33resolved hunchback of the notre dame Western Animation
Back in the 90's there aired a cartoon based on the hunchback of the notre dame in the Netherlands. It wasn't based on the disney version and in fact had a more darker artstyle. I remember Quasimodo quoting something his mother used to say about how the twisted oak grows the strongest. I hope this is info for something to find what I'm looking for
openWeird Kids' Show [SOLVED♡] Western Animation
There was this boy (I think he was a boy) who I believe dressed in blue and had a weird name that sounded like Ponyo. I think it was a CGI thing. I think it may have been a little surreal
Edited by GoodNewsEvry1openUnderrated sitcom
Really need to figure out the name of the show. I remember the girl being suicidal meets a guy and they decide to be together without complicating things. Also has a chubby girl with a geeky but rich husband. She breaks up with him and freezes his sperm and then kind of blackmails him. In one episode they do a list of challenges together. The main girl is dark haired. Kind of irish/scottish accents. Show was in the 2010s. Please help
openCustomised robots and killer teddies Videogame
Hello all.
I have vague memories of a game from the ZX Spectrum or Atari era. Graphics were wire-frame, and the game-play revolved around constructing a team of modular robots to escape a facility.
Enemies were other robots that you can take parts from once defeated, and if you strayed out of bounds too far you were beset by nigh-indestructible robots that looked like manic teddy bears.
I can't remember anything more as I don't think myself and the friend who owned the game got particularly far. Thank you for any help in finding this!
openA type of disaster show Live Action TV
This is a possible limited series or a one-off TV movie perhaps. It centers around a family of four (mom, dad, son, daughter) that lives in LA and a disaster strikes. They then try to leave LA but the streets have 1000s of deserted cars so they set off on foot. They travel North and wind up getting robbed and I think the mom dies. They eventually reach a good community in Northern California or Oregon and they are able to settle down as society begins to rebuild from the disaster that occurred. In the end, the father gets struck by a rusty nail and dies of Tetanus in the community. It was narrated I think and I believe I watch in the lates 2000s, early 2010s. Possible networks include Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Thanks!
Edited by tojofallzopenSome Kind Of Children's Novel Tie-in to a Spy Toy Series. Literature
This has been an enigma for years. There was a period in the late-90's/early-2000's when spy fiction made a comeback, and with it came a distinct style of millennial futurist design that permeated these works. The wraparound shades, the chrome macGuffin, the sleek, organic looking plastic gizmos that were probably brightly colored.
Anyway, deep in this convergence of millennial psy fiction and this distinct futurist design was a toy series, which naturally I don't remember the name of, which markets itself to kids who wanted to be superspies. And for whatever reason, they had a tie-in novel about a group of kids who find an abandoned secret base full of spy equipment. What makes it particularly noteworthy to me is a half-remembered sense that the book was surreal as all hell.
I remember this side character who lives in his car because he couldn't escape the labyrinthine suburbs the characters live in.He asked one of the characters "How's your ping?" as a casual conversation starter somewhere near the beginning of the book. Another point in the novel, a bully is getting attacked by a cat and it goes into absurdly gruesome detail of the wounds being inflicted without ever mentioning blood, but it did mention maggots, and spoiled meat with a color no meat should ever have. Lastly, there was a really long aside unrelated to anything that somehow related to camera angles and man-eating land octopi. I really want to know what novel this was, and I really want to prove to myself that it was as weird as I remember.
openElectronica song? Music
I heard this song a while ago but I don't know the name of it. It was mostly electronic, but I remember there was one lyrics interlude with a female voice that went something like: "I can't find the reason why / I still don't know how to let you go"? The second part is fuzzier but the first I'm definitely sure was in the song. Thanks for any help.
Really need to figure out the name of the show. I remember the girl being suicidal meets a guy and they decide to be together without complicating things. Also has a chubby girl with a geeky but rich husband. She breaks up with him and freezes his sperm and then kind of blackmails him. In one episode they do a list of challenges together. The main girl is dark haired. Kind of irish/scottish accents. Show was in the 2010s. Please help