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openAdult Reasoning with a Child under the influence
There was something happening where everyone was acting high or something, including a kid who had some very important control that was essential for getting everything back to normal. This is a paraphrase of their exchange:
- Man: [Child's Name], you are not in your right mind.Kid: Is that why I feel all hot...and weird?Man: (Getting hopeful) Yes! That's it!Kid: (Big, goofy grin) So I'm drunk!Man sighs/facepalms/something of that equivalent
openFilm set in Red China Film
I'm looking for the name of a film, ether made in '80 or '90. Unfortunately, I only remember two scenes:
- A Caucasian woman with short hair somehow end up in Red China, possibly for work during Mao's era. The culture shock is great. In one scene she has to bathe in a large barrel. When she looks at the water it's blackish and dirty and she recoils in disgust.
- In another scene the woman seem to have gotten herself in trouble with the authorities, as she may have fallen in love with a Chinese man.
Any guesses? Thank you!
Edited by Nevermore2002openA girl and an Alien? Western Animation
All I mainly remember is the intro, which is an Alien slowly heading toward earth, where he meets a girl and they become friends. I think i remember some lyrics to the into too: ___(girls name) and ____(Aliens name) _______(idk) story! I remember the girl having orange hair and being short , but I could be wrong. I'm a 2000's kid and the animation wasn't that good when I saw it as a kid, so I'm assuming it came out in the 90's. I think the alien was short and green and had had two intenas. (Btw I'm from Canada, so idk if it was a Canadian show.)
openTV show in Romania Live Action TV
I remember watching this show when I was younger, it had to have been anywhere from 2000-2005, and it was a show about two children, one male and one female, and I believe they were siblings? They lived in a treehouse on an island by themselves. This was not a cartoon, there were actual people portraying the characters. I'm not 100% sure but I think every episode there would be pirates or different bad guys trying to get to them or capture them and because they had lived on the island so long, or even their entire lives, they knew all the hidden passages and booby traps and were able to get rid of the bad guys and not get caught. I'm pretty sure it's a show because I remember watching it every day, but it may very well have been a movie but I was just too young to remember.
Edited by fran1998openTv show where man turns invisible when he gets wet
I think it was a british show from the 90s.
Some guy (a prisoner I think) has something done to him and he turns invisible when he gets wet.
He also has an invisible motorbike at one point as well I think
openKids Adventure Show Live Action TV
This is a show that I believe aired on Nickelodeon in the early 2010s for one season. It was something of an Indiana Jones style semi-"history" based show, where the main character had all kinds of adventurey skills because they had been raised all over the globe doing crazy things. The main character was going to high school in a normal area, living with maybe a cousin (definitely not his parents), and on the side finding cool things, going on adventures (and maybe sometimes solving crimes) I believe it may have been set in North Carolina, because I remember one episode was definitely set in Roanoke, where they were doing some sort of archaeological dig. Any help?
openKid show on cable TV
Hey so there is this Show/TV series i watched as a kid when i was younger, but i don't remember the name or much about it. what i do remember is a part of the beginning of the first episode. I watched on a cable network around 2008-2011. anyways the part i remember is that there were three kids and they were in a park one of them fired off a model rocket. They were standing talking about how cool it was and the they heard cop sirens. suddenly a ship popped out of a wormhole like thing and crashed basically right in front of them the kids then got on the spaceship with a girl and they went time traveling. at on point in a later episode they came back and realized they came back right to when they left and decided to keep going with the girl time traveling. Sorry i don't know much but i would like to figure out what this show was. its been bugging me for years.
openBlue haired glasses girl in an animation
There was an animation in Murican TV that featured a ditzy blue haired glasses girl that ran in early 2000s, anyone know what it is?
openAnimated movie or tv series about future or weird animals Film
I remember watching an animated movie or tv series about future or weird animals. It might have been on animal planet or the Discovery channel, but it featured living boat animals amongst others. Anyone know what it's name was?
openCartoon Network MMORPG Videogame
I vaguely remember playing an MMORPG on the Cartoon Network website sometime from around 2008 to 2010. I know for a fact it's not FusionFall, because this game had a different interface and, to my knowledge, none of the characters were from any CN property at the time. This game had a top-down view, and you started out by customizing your human player character. I only played as a guest and never saved my progress, so I don't think I got far enough in the game to really get into the plot (if there was one). I do recall walking around an alien spaceship and some woods (the trees were blue in color, so it might've been a haunted/Halloween-themed area). There was a menu with various faces expressing different emotions you could send out for everyone to see, and there might have been a menu were you could select poses for your character to reenact (this might be a memory from a different game though). I don't think I've seen this game mentioned anywhere listing Cartoon Network's games, so it's entirely possible it was a third-party game they decided to host/promote. I wanna say it was around for only about a year or less, so I don't think it was very popular/successful either.
Edited by CosmicCatopenCartoon, three or four differently aged versions of a girl Western Animation
I remember watching this cartoon one time, I can't remember when or what channel, though I live in Canada, if that helps at all. It had this one episode where a girl was with two or three differently aged versions of herself. I'm certain one was a baby, and I vaguely remember one being a young girl and another being a teenager. Whatever it was, I think the main one was in the middle age wise. The other versions came to be from some sort of time machine or a time travelling spell, I just remember something about time travel. Also, if anyone does know the show, if they could post some sort of link to the actual episode, it would be much appreciated.
Edited by IHateMyselfAndWantToDieopena "Big Brain" gameshow Live Action TV
I remember seeing a sort of gameshow as a kid. I remember some odd spots, first off, I remember most of a very short theme"
"All the smarts in the universe got sucked up in a drain, then wound up in his head, now he's called Big Brain" (and yes, I tried searching up the theme, I didnt get it
It featured an oddly colored head in space, giving off a gameshow to the audicnce, he'd ask a few multiple choice quesitons talking through them. And by the end, he'd give off a sliding tile type puzzle.
Anyone got any ideas?
openSeries of books about the 7 deadly sins? Literature
I saw part of a series of books at a yard sale. Each book was just named after on of the sins. They had simplistic covers that depicted the sin. I believe they were all by different authors. They each talked (I believe) about the sin and examples. They were not christian books, just show how the sin manifests today (I think). They were not YA novels, but that's all I get when I google for them.
openSet in the future, then time travel back to modern times
There are super (maybe advanced, maybe aliens?) humans and the regular humans. For some reason, a huge group of people (like thousands) time travel back to modern times, but they land in water because in their time they're on land but the past (modern time) is in water. Loads of them die leaving only like 40ish left to survive. I know its on hulu, and I think the title is something like "the o_______" And everything I mentioned happened in the first 2 episodes.
openTelevision Show from Possibly...the 50’s? Live Action TV
I am on a hunt for an older show from somewhere around the fifties or so. It was in black and white and often reran in the 70’s on Saturdays and Sundays. The show might have featured a man living in a closet or wall of a child’s room. It ended with the family moving away and this man throwing a knife and it sticking to the top of the family’s car. A friend of mine has been searching for the show for many years and has recently brought it up to me. Anything helps!
openAnimated Short Western Animation
This one was an animated short that I saw on Toonami around 2000. It was a boy walking left to right with clouds overhead that kept changing into different patterns. That was it. There was no dialogue and possibly no music. I believe the word "Cloud" showed onscreen at the beginning or end. This has been bugging me for years.
openShow About a kid that plays football and dances? Live Action TV
I was at the movies recently and I saw this show that was in the advertisements, before my movie started that caught my eye but have no idea what the title is. I look up everything I can think of but can’t find it. In the theater it was this lightskin kid in high school, dressed in his football gear as he sing Macklemore part from his song “I Feel Glorious”. Then he ends up dancing with some girl as skyker grey sings her part in the song. That’s all I can remember.
Edited by VagabondTerzelopen80’s or 90’s kids help me out! Live Action TV
I’ve got a movie and a tv show I saw when I was a really young kid (like between 6 and 8) and they have been driving me insane for years. What I remember about the movie is: There’s a giant, I think the main character has his heart in a box or something, and the guy has a horse that the giant wants or wants to eat or wants to kill or something along those lines. I’m pretty sure it ends with the giant dying because the guy stabbed or crushed his heart.
The tv show was like teenage detectives or something, and the episode was in town where everybody is falling asleep and won’t wake up. They end up realising it’s because they’re eating these weird little eggs and then they go into the sleep. The detectives (at least I think that’s what they are, it’s a group of teenagers) get some sort of amulet and one of them goes into the dream with this girl and they end up in a chapel with everyone else that’s asleep but when they try to leave the statue won’t let them out. I think the statue is St Anthony but not sure. Whatever it is, it’s caused a paralysing fear of chapels throughout my entire life
Been looking for a show last few days about talking cats or dogs (puppies maybe) and they had a little green frog friend that only ever said "ruby" its name in a weird voice and they would hang around a playground. I can't remember when i watched it