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openOld Cartoon Western Animation
I remember watching this cartoon on a dvd that might have been like a dvd mix of cartoons but the animation looked a lot like rocky and Bullwinkle style and I am not sure whether these two are completely different cartoons or the same one but I remember two different plots. The first one, there is a professor standing on a stage in front of a crowd and he is telling them about his journey into like the amazon or the jungle or something (for some reason I'm thinking New Guinea?) but he gets captured by cannibals who plan to cook him but he escapes and survives being attacked and almost eaten by the animals of the jungle by playing music on his instruments. The cannibals also hear the music and basically he introduces music to the jungle. The cannibal leader thanks the professor and they become friends and the professor gets to go home. Now the second plot I remember is about like a cat detective who wears a trench coat and he smokes and plays the piano as he narrates the story of a case he had. I remember it involves a guy who is famous because he is always smiling and his face is like permanently smiling and I believe he freezes himself still smiling. At one point in the cartoon I think he somehow stops smiling? Haha idk I gave as much details as I could remember and its KILLING ME not being able to remember this cartoon so I hope someone can help me. I don't think it was a very popular cartoon.
open1960s/1970s anime with boy and equine Anime
I'm looking for the title of an anime that would have broadcast in the 1980s in Italy; the anime itself would have either been produced in Japan during the late 1960s through the 1970s given its more cartoony style.
It involved an ensemble consisting of humans and at least one funny animal character that was either a donkey or horse. They had various adventures; the one I remember most was kind of a Mind Screw involving a dairy farm. Some thieves were using milking machines to steal from the cows. The protagonists set a trap for them involving a fake cow that the donkey/horse was hiding inside of; the fake cow gave so much milk that the thieves actually started to suck at the fake cow's udders. (I'd expect that from something out of Japan.)
The only other thing I remember were the bumpers depicting the protagonists riding a roller coaster.
If anyone can ID this anime, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
openHELLPPPP!!! Western Animation
There is this animated show that I really liked when i was kid but I can’t remember the title. I think it was on Disney Channel. Maybe it was inspired on a chinese dynasty because the vibe is like Mulan. There’s 3 main characters. 1 guy with an undercut hairstyle and sleeveless top with a shorts. 1 guy with a glasses and a traditional chinese outfit, I think it was color blue. 1 girl with also a chinese outfit vibes. Pls help me 😭
open2D Beat 'Em Up video game featuring Lincoln, Gandhi, Hitler etc Videogame
I remember playing a 2D Beat 'Em Up video game on PC in the last 15 years (probably 2003-2010) where you controlled parodies of famous historical characters like Lincoln, Hitler, Gandhi, etc and you had to jump around and fight the other characters. It was a very fast-paced game where you had to keep jumping around the screen and punching or kicking the other characters. It was a small, indie game as far as I remember. The characters were either chibi/super deformed or tiny with large boxing gloves.
Edited by 42edopenEarthdog competition on animal planet Live Action TV
I am trying to find my favorite earth dog competition that I believe aired on Animal Planet in the late 90’s/early 00’s not past 2008. I though it was originally on Zig & Zag Alpha dog competition but I didn’t see earthdog on their competition list. This earthdog competition had terriers go through a challenging tunnel with obstacles, even water, to reach caged prey at the end. You could see the dog in the tunnel because one side was made of what I think is plastic or plexiglass. This might be an old AKC or Eukanuba competition but I’m trying to find the year if that is so. I know it was a show that didn’t only have earthdog, but I don’t remember it being part of a breed show like Westminster. I know it’s obscure but if you could help Inwould appreciate it. Can link You Tube video of a similar home made course if needed.
openWhat TV show is this ?!
I used to watch this show early mornings, I think on a new York tv station. The host was in his 60's wore a tan hat and had facial hair. I vaguely remember painting being a subject and a big painting brush. At the end of the show they would show drawings kids had sent in and at the end it said it was filmed in New York,new York.
openBy Dean Koontz Literature
What's the name of the book by Dean Koontz that has a couple of sisters drive home only to discover that everyone in town is missing?
openTrying to find these music videos Music
There's not really much I can give, unfortuantely, but there's these two music videos I caught on... I think it was Rage some time in the early 2000s. Both had an Anime/Manga style to their visuals, with no live action.
The first video... I can't recall anything about the song itself, but the video depicted these two very Transformers-like robots, one male and one Fem Bot, who were in a relationship of some kind. I believe it came to a tragic end with the female getting killed, and I think there may have been a motorcycle (hovercycle?) ride at some point, either before or after the female's death?
The second one had this female super spy breaking into some MegaCorp style lab, defeating giant Mooks (can't recall if they were mechanical or not), and there was this one scene where she was standing against the lab's owner, this scowling man with an exaggerated, chiseled face and gray skin, kind of like something from Sin City. There was a female vocalist singing in the background, but again I don't remember the song itself. I do remember the chorus was rhyme-based, and ended with three pants - an "Ah! Ah! Ah!" sound. To my memory's ear, it always sounds something like "I am of the night, darkness and delight, (something) Ah! Ah! Ah!"
Any clues?
openTransforming thing a majig Western Animation
I remember watching this show in the early 90s where the people had a bunch of trinkets that would change into different things they need or want.
openthe annoying skinny guy with dreadlocks Live Action TV
trying to remember this guys name... he was on canadian tv channels in the early thru late 90s, he was of small stature and had a bit of an annoying voice, his hair was like shaved on the sides and back with blonde dreadlocks out the the top...one later appearnce he had blue dreadlock and was saying how he got in an altercation and the guy had ripped out one of his dreads, i cant remember what channel he was on but it was like Achannel or R Dtv, it was just occasional segments in between shows. he also had a show with llike... strategy guides for the games on the video way... kinda reminds me of carrot top just cant place his name.... i wanna say it was peter something but im not sure
openAn old romantic comedy with a nonlethal gun duel. Film
I remember watching an older film (perhaps 1960s at the latest) which was a romantic comedy that had a climax of two men having an outdated duel in the hallway, ending in one man being shot in the arm, but no fatalities, and the injured man getting the girl. There was also a supporting female lead who was more like a fun party girl than someone interested in the romantic conflict, while I'm hesistant to say that the main female lead was a working woman. I'm sure the film was in color, and I recall a large fancy living room being a key setpiece, but while the film is in my house, I can't for the life of me identify it without wasting time popping them all in to see if I recognize it.
openlate 2000's cartoon that came on late at night on boomerang(maybe)
if i saw the name, i think id recognize it. i remember a girl in the basement of a university? and LOTS of green slime. just green slime everywhere. But not the kind of slime nickelodeon would dump on people. more like green slime that would kill people. it was animated. i know it was at least 2 main characters it was similar to scooby doo in the way that these kids may have solved mysteries? i dunno. i remember it was kinda scary for me but of course i was a lot younger then. this was the late 2000's and was on directv somewhere around the upper 290's channels. im not sure it was boomerang, but definitely a couple channels above or below it.
openKids Animal Show Film
OKAY! I have been trying to think of the show for forever and I am hoping it wasn’t one of my dreams.
It was early 2000s. There were these kids that worked with kids. Maybe the were at a zoo or some sort. It was real it wasn’t animated. The only part I can remember is the kids hanging around an elephant singing “Do Your Ears Hang Low”
I know it isn’t much but it is all I have. If anyone has any sort of clue, please tell me cause it has been bothering me for almost a year.
Edited by NebulousGorillaopen90's-2000's Childrens Live Action Serise Live Action TV
I'm trying to find a live-action kids tv series or show I used to get from the library on VHS. It had four or five main characters that were sort of anthropomorphic people in makeup. The girl one was pink and maybe sort of catlike. The main things I remember is that in the opening sequence one of them cartwheeled, one was this pink cat girl and another was a sailor, and there was an episode which a "red slippers" storyline where the pink one got these magic red slippers so she could dance even better but then she could stop dancing. I've been trying to find this for years, please help!
openA deadly game platformer Videogame
There was this old 80s PC game that i'm trying to remember. It was a side-scrolling platformer where you were a condemned criminal who got put into a Deadly Game where you were locked in a suit of power armor (which looked vaguely like ED-209) and forced to climb to the top of an arena past numerous traps and enemies, while the entire arena was filled with acid.
opencharacter unpeeling his finger like a banana
i would like to know the cartoon and the episode
openchildrens book about a small (tooth) fairy? Literature
so when I was like six I went to the library and found this awesome book with beautiful painting-esque illustrations. it was about a little fairy who somehow ended up with a coin that the 'queen' (official tooth fairy I think I dont really remember) had forgotten and therefore wouldnt be able to give to a child who lost their tooth. the only scene I really remember was that at one point the coin was stolen and put on the crown of a (evil? just mean? idk) mermaid queen and the little fairy had to bargain to get it back. it was old-timey painting style, like those old rosey cheeked santas and stuff from what I remember. I've been looking for this book since forever because after getting it at the library that once it vanished off the face of the earth.
openOld kids Tv show 80's-90's Western Animation
I am trying to remember the name of a show I watched when I was little. It was set in a world that was mostly industrialised, there was one small forest left where the main characters lived. Pretty sure the main character was a blue bunny, a small pink animal (probably a mouse), an owl and several other woodland creatures. The bad guy lived in a big concrete castle, he was short, fat and grumpy, he had a robot butler and a dog. The only episode I can remember is where it was the bad guys birthday on February 29th and he stopped time to make his birthday last forever. It might have been a direct to video series. I remember a song from the episode that goes something along the lines of 'Time time, tick tock time, has no reason or rhyme time, where is goes no one can tell'
open2000s tv show Videogame
I remember there was a tv show on disney channel or nickelodeon ( i'm not rlly sure ) with some group of teens that we're playing a videogame multiplayer, they we're about 4-5 idunno and one of them was actully one of the main hero from that game that was saving the world and anytime he was playing with his friends the boss of his sent after him a rocket or a plane i'm not sure, and there he recive the mission and the villans from that game we're the rl villans that he was fighting.. so if he was fighting in the game with a guy, after that he was fighting in rl with him, and his friend have no clue about what he is doing.. please help me lol i'm searching for this sh*t for a while and is stressing me out P.S. sorry for my bad english
Hi, I remember a small time singing contest show in western australia in the 80s like young talent time, but it was called "Pye". Maybe it was a part of countdown or something? The problem is, no one else I've ever asked remembers it, nor does Google it seems, as I can't find anything about it. Please tell me I'm not nuts! Starting to think there was a glitch in the matrix somewhere along the way and I entered another reality in which this show never existed here?