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openOld show they played in middle school about a library Live Action TV
I can't remember the name of this show I watched in middle school. I watched in early 2000s but it looked a little old so maybe it was made in the 90s? I remember a boy would go to this library and the librarian was an old guy and the kid I think would tell the librarian about something that happened that day and the librarian would give him a book. I remember the Anne Frank episode where the kid went to like a holocaust museum or something and the book took him to Anne Frank's time so he could experience it himself? I remember the kid who talk to the librarian, get a book, and be transported to the time the book is set in.
It was one of my favorite things about middle school and I was wanting to see if I could find it to watch again.
Edited by SteampunkeropenPLEASE HELP!
So there was a TV show I used to watch an animated one. It wasn't very popular it was a bunch of kids with futuristic like gadgets and they were superheroes and they had costumes that had diff colors. I remember in one episode they fought a villain or something in a library. Pls help pls.
openShort bits of Electronic Songs Music
I got this MP 3 player around 2008 that already had a bunch of songs on it. They were all "real" songs (as in, by famous artists rather than the typical array of default MP 3 player songs by people you've never heard of), but this one was different. It was this electronic song that seemed to be made up of several short "snippets" of other electronic songs. They didn't really fade into each other, each part just sort of abruptly ended, and the next immediately started. One part in particular I remember sounding a lot like (or even being the same song) as the theme from the Fairly Odd Parents episode "Information Stupor Highway", when Timmy is flying through the internet. (if anyone knows what that song is, it may help too) I don't have any memory of who the artist might have been, but I remember the song itself having a name that consisted of just numbers and/or letters, maybe. Kind of like YYZ by Rush or Afx 237 v.7 by Aphex Twin (those are just examples, I know it wasn't either of those songs). I say maybe because YYZ was actually on the same MP 3 player, and I might just be confusing the two names. Also, I doubt this will help, but the MP 3 player was Craftsman brand. Again, any help is much appreciated.
openTwo Deleted Nickelodeon Online Games Videogame
Does anyone know which games I'm thinking of? I'm having a hard time finding anything on them online. I remember them being Teen Nick (The N?) games circa 2008-2011.
One was a dating sim. I remember it being on The N's website.
The other was probably on The N as well. I remember you being able to create a character. It was a high school sim. You could date and other things. I don't think it was a MMO.
openSome show i cant remember Western Animation
I cannot seem to remember the name of a show. I think it was on Nicktoons or something like that during the 2000's. It was about a teen with i think a red jacket and blonde hair who could transform into a mutant or something. I thought his first name was Johnny or Danny but im not sure. I remember a stupid mini-ad saying what if his last name was avocado. If anyone knows please say cuz its killing me that i cant remember
openFrench? Rock Song Music
I saw a music video circa 2003. It was on a compilation VHS of European music videos. The blonde female singer kept screaming something along the lines of "C'est Le Rock!" while a group of teenagers tore through a brick wall with their bare hands. And no, it is most definitely not the Ebonys song with that title. Or the Plastic Bertrand one. Does anyone know what this song was called, or who was singing it? "C'est Le Rock" may or may not be the title, but if I knew the name of the artist, I would probably be able to find the song. There are an awful lot of songs with names similar to that phrase.
Edited by SomberCaeliferaopen???
Excuse me for my grammar
It’s a zombie SERIE The things i can remember are there is a rich man with an audi and there is also this kid with a football from soccer at first they were annoyed by each other and later they went on a surviving journey together because his parents were dead and I think some of the show happend in London. Also there were 2 carecters that met on a road and or somwhere by a hospital later they went on a journey together also someone hit the woman olmost with a car i think it was a hit and run but it could olso possibly be that men that she met whitch had a lot of survival gear an olso i think there was a group of people in japan or somewhere in that area hiding in a store the women and the man from earlier i believed that was going on in America and later the women and the man and the rich man and the kid met each other and be a group together thats all i could remember please someone help me get the name for this show i want to see It again it was good and I didn’t finish it
So please help (It’s a SERIE not a movie and from the definitely after 2000)
Thanks :)
openRed pickup, missing mom and tarot cards Live Action TV
Ya know I haven't been lucky with these but maybe this will change?
I remember this show that used to air in my home province of Quebec, probably late 80s, probably early 90s. It's a bit of a vague period for me. I didn't actually like it much because it was live action on the channel that usually aired cartoons and it annoyed me but now I'm curious.
It feature this guy (I'd say late 20s, early 30s, very generic jeans and t-shirt blue collar look) who I think had been adopted and he was looking to find the identity of his birth mother. He would go around the country in a pickup truck, possibly red (though my neigbhor had a red pickup truck at the time so I might be conflating it?) and each episode began with a shot of a tarot cards and a woman explaining its meaning. It's possible the tarot deck was a clue to find his mom?
I think he finds out he has a sister and his real name was 'Sun'?
I think the show was Canadian because I CLEARLY remember the pickup truck going down an empty road in the middle of this super flat field in almost every episode. Possibly the opening?
Any help would be appreciated.
openAnime that aired on 4Kids Anime
The first episode had the protagonist looking for something to give his mom for her birthday/Mother's Day. He decides on getting her this jewelry(?) box he found in a shop, but comes home to find his mother missing and his house burning down.
He quickly finds out that he's either an alien that looks human or a human that can gain lion/tiger features. He's forced to join this group who fights people that can gain draconic features. They use scanners and cards to boost their abilities, and are possibly on a quest to find more?
openBoard game movie? Film
There were two kids, brothers. I don't think they got along well. They find a board game and start playing it, which starts messing with reality, including freezing their sister and bringing in a astronaut that turns out to be a previous player of the game.
It's not Jumanji.
openTraveling to Find Gems Anime
There was an anime pre- "Pokemon" the animation. About a guy early teens looking for gems and the gems would add to a mecha suit. The gems each had their own power, and the guy was traveling across the country to fight this bad guy. I don't know what happened at the end because I didn't see him fight the bad guy. Green was a big color in the show, and most people had dark brown hair.
openSOME RECENT SHOW (2010-2015) I CAN'T FIND
I'm searching for a serie I watched a few years ago on the internet. I can't remember the exact year but it was around 2013-15, so it may have been produced around 2010 and 2015. It was only a short season (maybe 6 episodes), with 45 minutes episodes at least.
There were four principal characters,on their late thirties. I think they live in New York but i'm not sure..Two women : one blond, one that may be indian or from sri lanka - she's a painter, and two guys that are cousins, one of them is good looking and the other one is chubby and a bit "simple". The blond girl and the two cousins are living just next door, and they meet the "indian" girl while she's selling painting on the street.
On the first episode, the good looking one loses his job and his apartment. He shows up to the burial of the last parent of his cousin and moves to his place, pretending that is going to help him to mourn his parent. The chubby one will eventually find out that his cousin betrayed him. At the beginning, his apartment is full of strange stuffs and mess, he hadn't moved anything that belonged to his parents. Next door, the blond girl just accepted to marry a guy that her mother wants her to because she's in her late thirties and still single. Has she's struggling to prepare the meal for her future husband, her new neighbour come to ask her something, starts to help her with the food, seduced her and they start doing stuffs in the kitchen (light). She brokes her engagement, and at the end of the episode (I think it's this one) the four of them are sitting in a bench and having fun making fake voices for a groom and bride at a wedding far away. Of course, they all become friends. It's kind In another episode, the girl that probably indian has to deliver a painting to be exposed in a very famous place (a hall or a gallery..) because someone saw and loved another painting of her, but she's unable to produce because she's stressed and she doesn't believe in herself, and she's trying a lot of ways to succeed. At this point, she lives with the blond girl. I think she moved away from her ex-boyfriend place with like no compassion at all, she's always really cold. Please it's killing me I searched for it everywhere with every words search possible in french and in english it just seem to have disappear
Edited by Clara410openPoint-and-click adventure game about ghosts Videogame
I’m looking for the title of a computer game I bought at Staples a few years ago. I think I may have bought it before Windows 10 came out, making it somewhere around 2010-2015. It was likely either a modern title or a port, since I think it played on my Windows 7 laptop without issues.
In the game, you go through this house, room by room. In each room, there’s a ghost that you need to help so they can “move on”. I think there were 7-9 ghosts total. The first room was to the left when you walked in, and might’ve been a living room or library. In it, you put together the pieces of a monkey idol, and then used the idol to travel back in time to the circumstances surrounding the first ghost’s death. The first ghost died via human sacrifice. I think they were Mayan or Incan. After solving the puzzle in the past, the ghost was able to move on. The ghosts all seemed to follow the same formula, at least as far as I got— solve a puzzle in the present (maybe to make them trust you?), travel back in time to their death, and solve another puzzle, ghost moves on. The second ghost was a ship captain, and I think the third one was a Japanese bride in the basement. The Japanese one had a jump scare when you went to look through the keyhole (a bloodshot eye staring at you). The Japanese one’s current day puzzle involved trimming a bonsai, and the past one involved moving furniture around to match a scene. Upstairs was an ancient Egyptian in the bathroom (with another jump scare I think). I don’t think I got much farther than that. I think you had to get through all the ghosts on the ground floor before you could go upstairs, and there was another ghost that acted as a guide, that may have had a female voice.
openLost trailer Film
There once was a trailer i watched when i was a kid i believe it was back in 2012 or 2013 all i know is that in the trailer i saw a kid and his parents playing the ps vista and 2 guys with guns go in and try to rob them, but all of the sudden its the zombie apocalypse so basically the family has to decide whether they trust the guys with guns or try to survive the zombie apocalypse. Please i have been looking for this for a while. Ps i remember it was a redband trailer so it might be a little hard to find all o want to know is the name
openFully 3D animated kids show about instruments Western Animation
So, this show was probably aired around 2003-2012, wich is a very very broad spectrum. The reason im making this post is because this show traumatized me to the point of almost dying from exhaustion from the nightmares i had at the time. I dont remember much, but what i do remember peaked my interest. I remember the show being about a bunch of humanoid classical instruments, no dialog, instead everything was done through visuals and a very loud random classical music piece such as Mozart would be playing. The CG was worse than the show REBOOT if memory serves. I lived in belgium at the time if that helps. Ive been searching far and wild but im beginning to fear its a wild goose chase...
openWhere is this from ?
https://tenor.com/view/anime-amazing-shiny-sparkly-gif-5881789
Anyone ?
Edited by OmniscientFlutteropenPossibly EDM commercial music? Music
I have been looking for this song and commercial for awhile now, so I decided to ask you all. I think it was either advertising a car or headphones, I'm not sure. At the end of the commercial two halves of a picture are slowly spinning on rope and eventually line up to form a picture, maybe of a crocodile. I tried to remember was many details as I could, I just really want to find this.
openNo Title Videogame
This one's a PC game.
It's some sort of real-time tactics thing (think Commandos) where you begin with some caveman, you can dictate his posture and movement speed to a very fine degree. The options being standing up, hunched slightly, crouching, crabbing and crawling, and whether to tiptoe, walk, jog, run and sprint. There might have been some type of subsystem damage for his limbs, and maybe squad commanding in later levels. I distinctly remember getting mobbed by some enemy and hearing him complain about "How am I supposed to run with a leg like this?!" before promptly dying.
I vaguely remember watching a show for kids about a man who would cook with the assistance of a orange gorilla like creature who lived in a cave. The setting was made to look like it was outdoors in some dessert or jungle type place? I’m not really sure it was a while ago that I saw this show but I cant seem to find it any where. Not sure if it was an Australian show or a foreign show that aired in Australia. Judging from what I remember I don’t think it was created earlier than the 2000s.