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I've completely lost the name of this game — that stunningly gorgeous Russian or Eastern European puzzle game that starts with the asteroid and the tin can rocket and the little man in the white hoodie trying to change the course of the asteroid/ship. Screens include the ski slope and man with a hookah; the squirrel and his record player; the aardvark blocking the path to the building...
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Comic book, specifically a DC comic.
I never saw the book in question, just panels excerpted, but there was an arc where Robin (Tim Drake, I think) is working with another teenage costumed hero (not Spoiler), a short-haired girl who I want to say used yellow predominantly in her costume. The girl was Eastern European and Robin was helping her avenge the death of her father. At some point in the comic, Robin's been defeated in combat until she uses a chemical compound which renews his energy and will to fight, but also puts him in a murderous rage within which he beats a man to death. I think it was later established that it was commonplace drugs that she got him to take there.
After that... I think she proved to actually be a villain, or at best an anti-hero in it for the killing. ^_^ Does this spark a memory for anyone?
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A show I watched when I was a little kid, I barely remember the specifics. This show was animated, though I barely remember the kind of animation, probably western but I would not be certain. It was at most older than the very early 90s or late 80s, because that is when I watched it. It involved a boy/adolescent who lived in some apartment. He had an inflatable rocket he'd use to travel to some new Adventure Planet where he'd have some adventure before returning home and deflating his rocket for next episode. Oh and he'd launch the rocket from his apartment's rooftop. If I recall he did this at night while his family slept so they would not know it (not sure about that) and I think he had a talking animal partner of some sort.
I believe (Though I am not sure of this) that the rocket was mauve or pink. I watched the show in french as a kid, so I have no clue of its origin (could be french, could be translated from english or japanese or italian or spanish or even eastern european. We got A LOT of either here)
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I've been wondering about this for over ten years and am hoping someone here can help. This was an adult educational program, presumably for G.E.D. preparation, that aired on PBS in the late 1980s. It featured a male writer who lived in one apartment and a recent Eastern European immigrant (who was a woman) who lived in the apartment next door. The woman worked as the secretary to a black woman who managed a department store and relied on her next-door neighbor to help her learn proper English grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure, so she could do well at her job. The secretary was friends with her superior and the male janitor at the department store, and there was quite a bit of chemistry between her (the Eastern European woman, whom I remember as having long, flowing, wavy red hair) and her male next-door neighbor (whom I remember as having short, dark brown hair). I remember this as being the first time I ever 'shipped something. What I can't remember is the name of this program! I want to say it was produced by a midwestern U.S. PBS station because it felt like it was set somewhere in Iowa or Missouri. Anyone else remember this program and can help me out on I Ding it?
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Anyone familiar with a strange Eastern European/Russian cartoon from way back? It featured a peculiar fairy story setting in which three heroes (one fat, one thin, and one squat) fall in love with three local girls (one scene that comes to mind is when the fat hero falls for a milk maid, and helps carry her milk yolk). Unfortunately, there is a local haunting and the trio are tasked with trying to eradicate a house stuffed full of ghosts, ghouls, witches and a smorgasbord of monsters. They eventually kick the crap out of the ghosts, stuffing them in a barrel and ridding the town of evil.
I remember seeing this years ago on a crummy old video, though it was probably released decades ago (anywhere from 1940s up to 1970s). Done in colour, somewhat shoddy quality animation.
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This is a play. It takes place in an American schoolhouse in an Alternate History where the U.S. was successfully occupied by another country. (It's intentionally vague about which, although the script suggests an eastern one.) The teacher is from that other country, there to influence the children and make them question their traditional values. She's quite subtle about this. Here are two parts I remember:
1) They end up cutting the American flag in their classroom into little bits, so everyone can have a piece of it. Then the teacher looks pointedly at the empty flagpole until the children notice and start giggling.
[paraphrased]
Teacher: It does seem silly, doesn't it, to have a flagpole with no flag?
(agreement)
Teacher: What do you think we should do with it?
(pause, then:)
Boy: We can throw it out the window!
(laughter at this)
Teacher: (shrug) Why not?
(murmurs of excitement)
So, they throw it out the window with a "heave-ho" and watch it crash to the ground spectacularly. Looking outside, they see another classroom doing the same.
2)The teacher is leading them to question God, asking what he might look like. A girl says that she thinks he would be smiling. The script notes that the teacher is impressed with the girl's wisdom, and realizes that she must discourage her. She asks the girl to elaborate. The girl says that when it's calm, peaceful, and beautiful, like at sunset in summer (or something like that), and she looks to the sky, then she can feel God smiling.
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Teacher: So, there's a big smile in the sky? He's like a Cheshire cat then, just a big grin hanging in the air?
(the other students laugh at this)
Girl: (upset) No, that's not what I mean at all!
The teacher pokes fun at her words some more, so no-one is taking her seriously, and the girl gives up on "trying to be silly".
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1) A live action comedy about cavemen that looked to be from the 60's or 70's. I'm pretty sure it's not Caveman (which made me remember the other film when I watched some of it), because it looked older than that and actually had the cavemen speaking in proper (if badly dubbed) English - come to think of it, it could have even been a Gag Dub. The only scene I remember is one where a pair of cavemen are fighting, a third one accidentally gets hit in the process, and he joins in while scolding the other two because "Violence only begets more violence!"
2) No one will find it from this one detail alone, but it's worth a shot anyway: It's live action film, it's set in a desert (or at least the relevant scene is), and a middle-eastern accented man cheerfully responds to a question with "That would be the goat's blood!". "That would be the goat's blood" became a minor in-joke among my friends for a while, even though we originally heard the line said while flipping through channels and had no idea what the context was.
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It might have been eastern animation or just american, but I'm not too sure.. Anyway, I vaugely remember the opening of the show containing a priest looking guy, two dragons (serpenty looking ones) jumping out of the water and lunging at each other, and a monkey kid. I think there may have been an episode with a girl with an orb, that turned her into one of the dragons in the opening but... I'm not too sure.. And I think the priest guy was telling the monkey off for attacking the girl/dragon at one point. It's been so long ago, I was just like 5 or something... So I may be a little wrong. Any ideas tropers?
Years and years ago I rented an Xbox (I think) game created by an Eastern European company. This was most evident in the dialogue, as the characters spoke in a bizarre cadence and often emphasized the wrong syllable. The plot was that at a young age a pair of fraternal twins is separated, and years later after growing up the main character is told by some evil dude his sister is in said evil dude's clutches, and if he wanted to see her again he has to go do things for the evil guy. Main character does so reluctantly, but fortunately he's able to make telepathic contact with his sister and plot against the evil guy. I think. It was either that or the evil guy wanted them in contact as a way of keeping in touch. It was a long time ago. Anyway, the character makes contact with a previous acquaintance, some old wizard dude, who wants his help in restoring an ancient magical portal network thingy. At the beginning of the game, before the actual plot is revealed, you're heading up to a FREAKING HUGE old temple at the northern edge of the world map. You have to clear out the goblins squatting in it before you can head back down the path to the starting village. The only other thing I can remember about the game is that you can attach things like gems to your weapons to boost their stats, and you can even combine multiple weapons of the same type together.