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openPolice/Crime-Solving show Live Action TV
I watched an episode of a show like Bones, Castle, Criminal Minds, etc, where there was a certain virus. To solve the case they had to pretend the virus had infected everyone in the building and told the workers they were going to die. Two of the main characters were sitting inside the building talking, and one of them asked the other if they were going to call someone since it was their final hours. The person said "If I was going to call anyone, I would call you". Then the other character says "You said 'if' we were going to die, which means we aren't actually going to die! It wasn't real!" and of course the other character already knew. Then a scientist who was actually infected dies inside a room while saying goodbye to his/her family via videochat. IT'S EATING ME INSIDE, WHERE IS THIS FROM? Please.
Edited by iminiredcupcakeopenKids Show
It’s a very vague memory, but I remember as a kid watching something- it was either a VHS or a DVD. There was a blue bedroom and on the bed were stuffed animals. I believe the animation centred around said stuffed animals. There was one part in it where there were colourful elephants at a sophisticated party eating cake and some had monocles. There was also a section where there were pigs, they were outdoors and there was strange music that would play from a speaker that looked like an old record player type speaker. Hopefully somebody knows what I’m talking about?
openA couple of children's shows.
I have a vague memory of a show from between...I wanna say 2002-2008? It was one of those shows where all the characters were just people in big goofy costumes, kinda like Boobah or something, but in this show, they had this big house with a yard.
The other show had some kid who liked playing with a tire. I think it was even named "Mr. Tire".
Edited by BG99openTrying to remember this show Western Animation
A orphan kid with a light yellow ball. And he escapes from that place and talks with a lamp lights. And one shadow monster who has been hunting them/street lamp lights or any other lights/ for a long time. And helps them aaand i can't remember more... Fat yellow lamp guys. And hide in there/street lamp and makes light/ etc
openBlocky toys that you change parts on?
I had a couple of these when I was young but I can't remember what they are. The main figure is a blocky stickman, and you place different parts on them using the square holes. I had one which had some kind of green monster face.
openTrying to remember a show that was on Hulu Western Animation
The show was about this guy, i cant remember his name and his name was in the title of the show, he was a very angry guy with black hair, and every episode was about him getting upset with something or someone, for example one episode was him vs Goodwill because he parked his car in the donation lot and Goodwill took it, and he spends the whole episode trying to get revenge for him being wronged. Other details I remember, he has a black and white cat, his best friend is always hungry, and his best friends wife is a secret agent and no one knows. Thanks in advance for any help.
Edit: I am pretty sure the title of the show is "<name of main character> VS" or something similar
Edit 2: I figured it out! It is "Dan VS"
Edited by zeldatp151openChinese-American (?) Short Film Film
What's the name of this short? It's about a girl whose mother and sister moved from China to California. She doesn't fit in well and is always fighting with her sister The short ends with her and her sister getting their hair cut due to lice.
openNot sure Live Action TV
It was a Halloween show, a special maybe, back in the early 2000s , of this scientist who showed the viewers how to make vampire fangs out of clay using a pen to create the pores, he would also tell spooky stories about things like ware wolfs and other spooky things, I also recall is Nina where he was talking to the viewers but then the power went off, I hope you can help me!! Lol
openTV show i cant remember the name of Live Action TV
There is a show i have been trying to find, the first episode has two kids or teens going out on a boat and they end up in some alternate world that seems to be mostly water. i have the name storm runner stuck in my head but am finding nothing on that, also the title of the show is the name of a sub in the show.
openA Hetalia Fanfic I Read On Fanfiction.net in Summer 2012 Anime
(Putting this under anime because there's no fanfic option.) This fanfic involved Lithuania forgetting everything that happened since around the middle ages (I think he hit his head or something?). He wakes up in the modern day and is confused because Poland is not there with him. At one point, he vomited in a shoebox(?) because he couldn't find any other place to do so. I only read the first few chapters of this fic, and this was in the summer of 2012, so there's a possibility that it might not even be online anymore. Thanks in advance!
openAnime series with airships powered by blue glowy stones Anime
About 10 years ago there was this anime running on Norwegian TV about a girl living in a world set in the time period before people learned to build planes. She was experimenting with this and got a lot of trouble from her parents for it (being 8 yo or something). Her brother went on an expedition to the eastern part of the world to look for a mystical substance and never returned. Years later she went out on a journey to find him and met a bunch of people on the way. When she found him he was a chief scientist in this utopian society. They had giant flying machines, kinda looking like trains that ran of a blue crystall they were mining.
Can anyone remember this show or the name of the substance?
openWhat's this song, please? Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM This is someone's analysis of why Sherlock is not actually any good and looks at some of Stephen Moffat's other work and concludes he's a hack. But that's not the point here - my question is, what is the song you hear a brief snatch of at 47:06?
openMusic videos names i can't remember Music
Pop and House hits of 2016 and 2017. The first one is House music and shows a girl walking in a high grass and she becomes a vampire at night. The second music video shows two girls holding eachother's hands and dancing on the outside of a building near the sea. Please, name them for me and thanks.
openTime-Loop show Live Action TV
A tv show a bit like groundhog day but in tv format and for a younger audience i watched it probably pre 2012. i remember there was an evil super villain who would reset the day at the end of each episode, the main guy was I think ginger and the show was set in England. I think the show's title was the main guys name but not sure. in title sequence he did a monologe and stuff like getting pooped on by a bird and breaking glass happened every day. there was also a future version of himself there too.
openA book about a Bird/Bear/Wolf or something. Literature
I learned about it here. It was a about a bird that became friends with a wolf or Bear. The Bird and or bear were exiled.
Edited by AegisPopenAn old US cartoon with a giant blue gorilla robot Western Animation
I've searched a number of times for this cartoon and haven't seen anything about it. It was late 90's, early 00's. All I really remember were the toys because I only saw the show a couple times. The main protagonist was a kid who was friends with /controlled a giant blue robot that had the general appearance of a gorilla, instead of huminoid. There was also another good guy that had a big tracked tank, like the size of a house. I remember it was set in a desert world. This may be wrong, but I remember the main stumbling across the giant blue robot like it was an ancient artifact. No memory of an antagonist. Also the name was very unusual... And it might have been the name of the robot.
openWhere's this plot from?
I THINK this is either a video game or tv show but I'm not sure. The plot im remembering is something like: in the future instead of having wars when countries have a dispute they send some champions of some sort to fight it out, and which ever nation's champion wins gets their way.
openAn animated show
It was a show I watched as a kid, it was definitely older than 2010. It was I think about a guy who had I think long hair and he had a ponytail. He had the ability to gain somehow the powers of a dragon and his uniform would become red and he would get some tattoos, idk, something like that. And he would fight with people who had the same ability, but they had a different creature. There was a girl or a guy who i'm pretty sure had the powers of a serpent or snake, and his/her uniform would become green. That's all I known.
openCant stop figuring it out Film
2 of them, both remember just a few seconds of them but they are bugging me
1st All I remember is a windy wall inside a structure that gets triggered by the blood of a special person on opposite sides of the earth kind of recent
2nd wounded wife flying a helicopter and firing a missile at a falling car blowing it up before it hits the ground mid 80's I believe
It's vague, but I remember very specific points about it for some reason.
For one, it was based off science and botany (for that one, I think I remembered there being more on different subjects, but I could be wrong) it started you off in a room with some characters and a list of options (I dont remember all of them, but I do remember one where you're basically reads it out loud to you and ocasionally gives you a multiple choice thing to answer based on it)
The second thing I really remember though, were the songs...parts of them anway. i know two song names and one lyric from each. This is the part I'm hoping will help someone figure it out
That's how they grow: "Some plants grow in the hot, desert heat. Some plants grow in the cracks in the street"
This is how a plant grows: "They come in different sizes, they come in different shapes. A big, old avocado or a tiny, little grape"