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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
open 80s Cartoon Western Animation
This will prob. be a difficult one. I remember an 80s cartoon (I suppose it could be early 90s but highly unlikely) that featured a boy with a boomerang and possibly some other weapon or tool and possibly a small side kick of some sort. He might have flown on the boomerang? Pretty sure he "holstered" it on his back. This has literally been driving me nuts for about 30 years. Thanks and good luck!
Edited by ScoBusopenGirl knocked out of fence Live Action TV
When I was little (I guess I saw this sometime around 2000, I guess), I saw this advertisement for a movie that was showing on this channel. It was a Spanish channel, but I don’t know if the movie is in Spanish or it is an English movie with Spanish dubs.
I saw a girl, she looked either like a little girl or a teenager, I think little girl, and she was hanging on a metal picket fence. (I think she has blond hair. I dunno.) The next shot is her falling to the grass ground, her eyes closing as she landed. The next scene is people gathering around the girl. One man, who is likely her father, was on his kneels and crying. The next scene is the girl being carried away in a stretcher. An ambulance or two is in the background. The last scene is the girl in a hospital bed where the people from the previous scene are around her.
Do any of you know where this is from? Thank you.
openPink Cyborg?? Western Animation
So the show was a childs cartoon about some sort of super hero team lead by a cyborg. I think the cyborg started as a kid but had some big event which turned him into a teenager, he may have been corrupted for a bit aswell. Any ideas?
open123 Anime
I remember watching a cartoon early in the morning (in Canada) about 7-8 years ago where a young girl traveled through space to alternate worlds for her parents who were in a space station. She befriended 2 humans from earth, a skinny red head girl and a big blonde guy and she had a pet squid. No one I've asked knows what I'm talking about Was possibly on YTV
openNaked girl rides a talking wolf and talking gorilla warriors Anime
So there was a channel called animax that was focused on airing anime, I put it on once and was greeted with a scene of a guy shouting(he appeared to be in pain) inside what appeared to be a cave(there may have been monster inside the cave surrounding him, not attacking but watching him like he was in some kind of tournament) then it cuts to a village where gorillas (that can walk and talk like humans) with armor and spears are harassing an old person and to stop then from hurting the elder a young girl takes off her clothes right in the middle of everyone (it probably makes more sense with context) and everyone, including the gorillas, look stunned at her but then a talking wolf appears out of nowhere and tells the girl to come with him so she hops on him and they get out off the village, in the next scene they have stopped on a cliff, she’s on top him and while she’s enjoying the view the wolf starts saying things like “Uhmm...so soft...so good...” and then the woman asks “hum? What are you saying?” And the wolf is all like “well,um...nothing” and this is all I remember. The only things I know about it is that 1) it’s an anime and 2) it aired on animax. I’m really curious to know just what the hell was going on, so anyone has any of what this anime might be please shared with me.
openHelp Finding An Anime Anime
There was an anime that had a halfway antagonist I would say, that had very strong powers (I think it was something like with his mind he could break peoples bones or something or crush them I remember sometimes their bones break other times they hold their head and yell I think) but the more he uses them the more he decays or dies. I remember he is tall and thin, wears a black long coat, wears a grey or brown hat, and brown gloves. In one episode I also remember his gloves come off and his hands are black from his ability. I think the anime was about protecting this kid and training him because he also had abilities and the MC becomes friends with the antagonist and tries to help him in his goal of being forgotten. Also, I think they were all ninjas who went to a school (only the protagonist and his friend and teacher) and he was brought into a martial arts club to trained by his teacher and friend so that they could protect him from the antagonist and his friend who took care of the antagonist. If you know anything please let me know! Thank You!
openBoy gets trapped and almost attacked by an alligator or crocodile
I remember this short cartoon/animated film on vhs that I used to reenact as a kid. It starts off with a hazey-white boarder scene of a swamp or lake landscape. Then I remember a boy gets his ankle trapped in some kind of metal trap for animals or something. He struggles to get free as either an alligator or crocodile gets closer and closer. The boy uses some kind of wood or like branch to try and pry the trap open and he escapes. I also vaguely remember some kind of owl in a tree within a dark forest that the boy then meets...but that could be a memory from something else.
openMan takes elevator up through company to speak to bosses Western Animation
I remember watching a short cartoon back in the early 90s. I am pretty sure the cartoon is from an earlier time than that (60s or 70s maybe). The protagonist has some sort of comment or complaint that he wants to make to his boss. He is sent up an elevator to the next floor and speaks to the boss. He is then continually sent up the elevator to higher floors to speak to bigger and bigger bosses. The floors get more ornate has he goes up. At some point he makes it to the very top of the building and speaks to the big boss (the president?) of the company. I can't remember why he wanted to talk the boss or what the resolution was. I do recall the cartoon as being kinda psychedelic in its style. This has been driving my crazy for decades.
open2000's or Earlier Cartoon DVD (or VHS) about Dragons, came with Playset Film
I don't know much about this except that it was a DVD that came with a plastic playset I had as a kid. The title definitely had something to do with dragons, and I got it when I was a young kid in the early 2000's. I remember the main character was a boy, and he almost definitely had a pet lizard that he fed jellybeans. There were two girls who bullied him and at the end the lizard jumped out and bit them. The main antagonist was this dragon humanoid looking guy, he had a red dragons head but the body of a human with armor. I also remember it starts out in the real world where the boy is getting bullied and then he somehow ends up in a realm ruled by the evil dragon man. It was a short cartoon, one of the grainier ones reminiscent of old Care Bear cartoons, but it definitely came with a playset. The toy company wasn't Imaginext but it was similar, with the toys being less bulky. I've been trying to locate the source video for ages but I don't have any luck. Thank you!
Edited by Equiraopen8-10 year old animated show
I always remember I would watch it on channel 9, comcast I believe. The show pretty much had a race track, and there were always 2 dudes fighting it out, putting cards into their vehicles. One of them had a circular vehicle with a seat in the middle.
openWWII Prisoner camp movie Film
So this was a movie I saw quite a long time ago only once. I think it was from the 70s or early 80s.
It was set in a WWII prisoner’s camp filled with British soldiers. The leader of the prisoners has a respectful relationship with the Nazi commander who has obviously no passion for his job or cause. In fact, the prisoners are planning an escape and the Germans ask to leave with the British! Come the time of the escape the British ask the Germans to go first and then someone realize “Hey! We have the camp to ourselves, let’s just bunker down and wait out the war instead of go out there!” so they lock out the Germans in their civilian clothes and take over.
The former prisoners split into two groups to make it appear like everything in fine. Some will try to learn German and play the Nazi while the others remain the prisoners, with the leader of the prisoners becoming the new commander.
Obviously it doesn’t go well and the fake guards, especially the fake commander, starts abusing their power. At one point a SS officer visits and they barely make it without being found out… It goes actually so well that near the end the fake commander gets invited to Berlin to get a medal from Hitler himself, in his bunker. It’s a super awkward scene where Hitler shows off his painting to the uncomfortable commander.
As the commander returns to the camp, the War ends and the soldiers who come to liberate the camp are doubtful of the guy in a Nazi outfit with a medal, especially with the other prisoners not being fond of the fake commander anymore. The soldier (I think an American?) knees the fake commander in the balls (or just kicks his shin?) which causes him to start swearing… in German. The movie ends on the scene of the fake commander swearing on the ground.
Edited by undraveopenClaymation adult show
I remember watching this in late 2000s, it's an adult clay mation show, it's not robot chicken. I remember one episode where the dad is at the doctor and he gets needles put in him and he loses the feeling of pain. So he walks around town and he walks into glass and doesn't feel it. What show is this?
openTrying to find a film with an island of giant animals Film
I'm trying to find this film that I rented and only bothered to skim through because I found it so boring. It was back in the 2000s, pretty sure it was before the 2010s, and I think it was a film adaptation of The Mysterious Island. I remember it involved a band of characters being stranded on an island that a Mad Scientist had populated with various giant versions of normal animals, and there was a climatic scene where a bunch of soldiers or pirates or something armed with guns were swarmed by various giant animals, including a giant snake and a giant chameleon (or maybe it was a lizard, but I know it did the tongue-grab thing) and many of them were Swallowed Whole on-screen.
This ring any bells for anybody? Might have been the 2005 film for Mysterious Island.
openParanormal Show? Live Action TV
I remember seeing a show that was pretty average except for the presence of paranormal elements. In the episode I remember, there are a few mysterious deaths and the main character sits with the man they've arrested for the crimes. He recounts how in the house where the bodies were found the father of two boys went crazy and killed their mother with an ax, The two of them hid beneath the kitchen sink while their father searched for them and watched as he gave up the search before hanging himself. Somewhat relieved the older boy climbs out of the cabinet and waits for his brother to do the same only to discover that he was so terrified of being found and killed that he died from the fear. Basically his spirit was responsible for the killings. The man they arrested knows this but figures (understandably) that nobody would believe him anyhow. The show ends with the Main character saying something like "You're going to prison, but I know who killed those people and it wasn't you." He promptly exits the room and for some reason we cut to two little boys in the back of a car, one of whom is wearing a mask. The episode ends there. I may have the details wrong in some places but any help is appreciated. The main character was a Caucasian man that may have had spiky hair.
open1960s-1990s animated movie help me Western Animation
I need help finding this really old movie i used to have on vhs tape. I remember almost nothing about it except for these things. It involves people, possibly gnomeish people like smaller and a little plump and cute maybe with pointy hats possibly? (Not actual garden gnomes tho) and at one point they might be sewing togrther flowers or making a table cloth. And at another point theres lots of flowers in the water. one scene someone is outside on the dark and these stars come down and start bouncing around and they eventually turn into a guy like a star guy. Please help
openEarly/Mid 2000s Hotel commercial with somewhat creepy fantasy people
I remember this hotel commercial which shows a family of people outside at night with weird/long fantasy noses and/or ears, and maybe they whistle or produce another noise. I would like to find this commercial again.
openWeb Game Featuring Rabbits Videogame
I played it circa 2010 to 2012. It was still unfinished at that point. I remember it taking place on an island where you had to break rocks, build things, and kill monsters. It was most likely a sandbox game. It was long too and I believe it used a save system. I remember at least one love interest rabbit girl that you could marry (?).
Edited by Pichu-kun
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'