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openSitcom, not too old
I can't find a tv show where there's a family living in an apartment in different flats. Mother is a control freak and dominating character and father is quite dumb and forgetful.There are 2 children(I think), grownups, one married and other has a lot of sexual partners. . There is an episode where the son has an asian wfie that the mother does not like. Mother has a habit of cropping out his girlfriends from the christmas cards. The asian girl tries very hard to get in the centre of the photo but in the end the cards are not posted. A doorman and a child too have a role. Please help.
open90s VHS how it’s made/works show
Okay as a child I watched this 90s VHS series which I thought was called The Works but I cannot find it. They made pottery, showed how to make a basket, there were various episodes. In one they make a blue berry pies, one they show you how the mail is sorted and delivered, one they make apple juice too! I distinctly remember it and it’s reallg bugging me! The kids put on a red construction looking hat at the beginning
openCartoon show from mid 2000's Anime
Tv show in mid 2000's where kids would go into a building and would then go into a different type of world as fantasy creatures. I think one of the creatures was like a cat warrior.
openOlder shows I barely remember. Western Animation
These all aired in the USA during the mid-late nineties and probably early 2000s.
1. I think this was a Loony Tunes short, but I guess it could've been something else. I don't even remember who the main character was. I remember there being these husband and wife birds (I assume they were husband and wife anyway) and at one part a rock and some sticks are made up to somehow look like the female bird, probably by the main character and/or the wife bird. The fake bird goes over the side of a cliff and the husband bird tried to pull it back up, somehow not noticing that it was an obvious fake, but the 'leg' just snapped off and he started crying.
2. I'm sorry this is probably next to nothing to go on, but I remember next to nothing about whatever this was. All I remember is a girl asking her dad, "Daddy, when the baby comes, will I still be your little princess?", the dad saying something and the girl sitting on his lap. Then a later part had the mom saying "The baby's coming!" or something to that effect and the girl and the boy looking at each other and saying "The baby?!" I think the girl had a ponytail and the boy had glasses and the girl brown hair but I'm not sure.
3. The characters were in some tunnels or caves and there was some treasure or gems or crystals maybe, and a dark haired elf boy or somebody with pointy ears said "Look at all the sparklies!" A girl asked "Sparklies?" and another guy said something (I think) about elves/whatever the boy was liking treasure/gems/crystals/sparkly things. I think this aired on PBS Kids but I'm not sure.
openCarton show about monster family
I cannot remember the name of a show please help. I remember watching it around the late 2000's and it was a cartoon about like a monster family and like girl had different colored hair if I'm not mistaken and like her mom was a spider and it was weird but so good and i cannot find it anywhere. Please help!!
openBoyband Song About Science Music
A friend was playing this song in her car years ago, around 2008. It was a boyband and the song was about a scientist or professor in his laboratory, I think he was doing a time travel project. It was probably also a love song and there were probably some science-related puns but I don't remember entirely. It seems very likely it was an album-only song never released as a single. It may have been the Backstreet Boys because I know she was a fan of them but Google doesn't help.
openwhat 90`s tv series
im looking for a tv series whit some people who ithink went too a music school lived in a flat and one of the them played a guitar he called watson and had a mohawk/ponytale
openI can't find it Western Animation
It's a cartoon from the early 2000s. Whenever I ask anyone about it they have no idea what Im talking about. All i can remember is a pink girl with pink hair that curled up at the end ( animated) and it was based in the city if I remember correctly.
openUK live action false accusation of wife's murder Film
It's at least ten years old (saw some of it on TV when I was a kid, so it's probably even older). There was a middle aged, dark haired, sarcastic man whose wife went on holiday but for some reason everyone thought he had murdered her. The cop in charge of the investigation at one point gets him to "write a confession" and the man writes about how he killed his wife and made her into sausages, but then signs it "Sweeney Todd." There is a scene where someone is giving him a Rorschach test, and says "what does this look like?" and he says "it looks like a Rorschach ink blot test." When pressed, he says the blot looks like a butterfly perching on a geranium. The doctor asks him if he doesn't think it looks like, for instance, a woman dead in a pool of blood, and the man says "well of course I do, but I'm not going to tell you that, am I?"
openSome book monster s Western Animation
I remember the main character summoning this strong big red dragon like monster from a tablet in the beginning which like a girl or something told him not to touch after he summoned him the monster was mad and also at the end the dragon got wings I’m pretty sure and I think he had a family and was the only one not having wings
Edited by KnowingUrsineopenSome movie about a mouse... Film
So, there was a mouse movie that I watched a long time ago. I remember quite a bit of it actually, just not the title of the film.
Basically the movie started with a funeral, this old rich guy had just died or something, and they were carrying him in his coffin down the steps of the church where they held his service. It was cold, dark, and rainy outside. The coffin slipped out of their hands and went down the stairs, opened up, and flung his body into an open manhole to the sewer.
Later, his house, or some other house, was going to be moved into by this family. I think the old dead guy was the owner of a yarn factory, and it used to be his house or something. There was a mouse inside that was causing trouble, so they hired an exterminator named Caesar to come kill it. Thus, the long game of "cat and mouse" began of Caesar trying to catch and kill it. I remember at one point he found mouse poop, picked it up with tweezers, and ate it to taste how to find the mouse (weird movie, I know).
The younger guy who owned the house ended up going to the yarn factory at one point, where a switch was thrown and made all the machines start working. He ran through the factory, but the machines were stripping and unraveling his clothes and tying them up into yarn balls, which he then used to cover his manhood since he was now naked. He got to the main office to find a person there, who saw the whole thing happen, and he ended up dropping the yarn balls in shock before it cut to the next scene.
I think in the end, they couldn't kill the mouse, so in a pure "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" fashion, they teamed up and became friends. That's really all I remember, it was a hilarious movie and I want to watch it again. Thanks!
openNo Title Videogame
Here are three games I remember playing as a kid (2000, 2001). They were likely DOS games, as I played them on my dad's laptop along with "Monster Bash with Johnny Dash" and "Commander Keen", but they could have also been emulated games since my dad was really into emulation. Here are three games I remember playing:
1. This game was a platformer where you played as an elf-like character. The graphics made it so that he didn't have a face, but you could see the signature hat. For the first part, you ran through a forest or mountain, than entered some structure, probably a castle. Along the way, there were little gems to collect and keys to unlock doors.
2. This game was a top-down game similar to The Legend of Zelda. The main character was a viking (or a dwarf). There were two or three levels. I think the player would eat apples to get points or restore health points. One part I remember quite clearly was in the first level, where you entered a cave and the perspective changed to 2D, again much like The Legend of Zelda. After climbing some ladders, there was a part where several snakes extended down from the ceiling and you had to time it so you didn't get hurt as you ran under them. Every time the player was injured there would be this crazy-loud grunt that would sound.
3. This game was also top-down, but it was a shooter and the graphics were better (perhaps 16 bit). I strongly believe the title of the game had the word "Dogs" in it. There were several levels, and I'm fairly sure the first one was indoors. I don't remember the story, but there were several enemies to kill as you moved through whatever the building was.
openInternational Cartoon Network shows Western Animation
About 12 years ago, when I was visiting relatives halfway around the world, they had some different programming on their local versions of American TV channels like Cartoon Network. I can remember two of these shows, but not their titles:
- A cartoon involving some kid dressed like a superhero with a monkey sidekick.
- A sci-fi cartoon involving a family that live in a space station city.
openSome kind of monster show Western Animation
I remember this blue horse like monster was the hero’s main dude and there was like this thing that made people evil and turned black and purple and they try to take over the like guardians or something I remember one of the It was some kind of volcano monster and during that episode they had to get a key or something but it was in acid and they figured out they didn’t need gloves to get it it’s also wheee the final battle was
openIt was on a vhs my grandma played for me
Long shot but I can’t get it out of my head
Roughly 18 years ago when I was a kid (I’m saying around 2000-2003) don’t know exact date the show/movie was released but the time frame I watched it wasn’t early 2000s
My grandma had a vhs, there was a cartoon the animation style was old but not sure on exact time it was out but it was just a short 30-60 minutes
The was an old man in the cartoon, he was short and had a hat if I remember correctly And he tried taking/stealing a “treasure” from a small girl, I believe it was eggs but I’m not 100% on that I just know it was some type of “treasure”
At one point the girl is in an abandoned/collapsing building and the walls start closing in on her. Another part I vaguely remember is someone is running down steps and they drop the “treasure” and have to run back for it as someone is chasing them?
I’m sorry my information is lacking it’s just all I can remember and lately I can’t get it out of my head and I’d really like to just be able to see it again to help my memory
It’s not Angels Egg Or the Resucers
I think the girl may have had an animal with her either monkey or a dog? If anyone can help I’d be extremely grateful and I know with my limited information it’s a long shot but I’ve checked so many other sites
openThat cartoon/show where the characters fight with symbols
There was this one show I used to watch half a decade or so back and it was where the characters (who I remember to be kids) fight with symbols like yin, Yang, Omega, and things like that. I couldn't remember if it was anime or Western, the artstyle seemed to be leaning towards Western but I really can't remember
openI thought it was an episode of Galactica or Battlestar Galactica... Live Action TV
This episode would have been early 90's but likely the 80's. I swear it involved a character Captain Starbuck(s) ? but I have Googled all the episodes and can't find anything that sounds like it so maybe it has nothing to do with Galactica. Anyways all I remember is that the main character stops these kids from playing this flute. The music attracts something bad and the main character realizes that it's the flute music. My guess is some kind of monster. It was a creepy episode and I feel like it was a science fiction type of show.
openSome kind of monster show Western Animation
I remember this blue horse like monster was the hero’s main monster and there was like this thing that made people evil and turned them black and purple and they try to take over the like guardians or something I remember one of the guardians, It was some kind of volcano monster and during that episode they had to get a key or something but it was in acid inside the volcano monster and they had gloves for it and they figured out they didn’t need gloves to get it it’s also where the final battle was at the end there was this tornado or something
Edited by KnowingUrsine
I saw this clip and cant remember what the show is called https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTRke0f4yZI 1:12-1:36 Its about people wearing ear sets and saying whatever the commanders say for money no matter how outrageous