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open"I'm Roger McGough, and I'm off" Live Action TV
Any British tropers here watch a TV show around the 90's featuring the poems of Roger Mc Gough? I have vivid memories of it, but can't think of a title and it's driving me mad that there doesn't seem to be any record of it online.
openSong from a YouTube video?
Anyone know the song from here? (starts at 13 mins 40 secs, ends at 16 mins 13 secs) I tried using Siri to look for the song title, but it didn't recognize the song.
openImagination and kids Live Action TV
A small group of kids/teens would travel these scenes of imagination. Can't remember when but figure late 80s - early 90s. Don't even remember the real main premise but some scenes I remember are; they walk into this room and see a guy sitting at a table holding a teaspoon above a cup so that when he falls asleep it clatters and wakes him up, another one is they go to this box building with two doors and signs above them- one says work and the other play- when they go in each door they find the opposite kind of scene then they were expecting, last one I can remember clearly is they come across a set of stars that are an optical illusion that just keep climbing to itself that they climb. I also believe the opening had a hot air baloon but don't quote me on that one. P. S. Sorry for no spacing, on phone, has no way of creating new line [Enter].
Edited by LostLinxopenCartoon with "run, don't walk" cane ad? Western Animation
I'm pretty sure that this is in The Simpsons, but I'm not sure, and I can't name an episode. Basically, there's an ad for walking canes that says "run, don't walk", the logic being that people who need canes have trouble walking so they should run instead, except if they can't walk well, they're likely even less good at running.
open2010s puzzle(?) game Videogame
I'm having a hard time remembering the title of a game my sister discovered a Let's Play of some time ago. The game had an interesting concept, in which the PC is a young girl with impaired vision, who uses glowing Ridiculously Cute Critters to help her see. That's pretty much all I can remember about it.
openGaurdian Angel Sitcom? Live Action TV
I vaguely remember a few clips from a show that centered on the topic of a Guardian Angel who was tasked with helping a high school student. God or the the equivalent of him was depicted as a giant head( an old man who might have been wearing glasses). In one episode the angel helps an old black woman who died in her home of presumably natural causes. He takes her to meet the giant head and she says "You never told me he was so handsome!" In another, the angel spends the day with a rock star. This was not a traditional looking angel. He was just a teen in a jacket and jeans. This was not a show that operated under the assumption that any one religion was true as far as I could tell. Any help is greatly appreciated,. It would be nice to have a name to put to the memory. This was a live action show with a laugh track and everything.
Edited by Benthelameopen2008ish TV series Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember the name of this one series. I remember the promotional material for season one had an african american as the president of the United States saying "I'm the president of the United States, I have a right to know" or something along those lines and the first episode of the series featured a plane disappearing.
What was the name of that show?
openWhat was the name of that Webkinz ripoff? Web Original
I don't know why this is bothering me so much. But in like 2007 I saw ads for the site that was undoubtedly nothing but a Webkinz ripoff.(Maybe I'm wrong, and people who actually played on it will tell me I'm wrong, if so I apologize.) The stuffed animals you bought looked very generic. The whole thing looked very generic and honestly outdated to me from the ads. This was not associated with a known brand like Beanie Babies 2.0, or Rescue Pets Epets. It was also not Shining Stars. It just did not stand out or appear to have much of an identity besides appearing to be a ripoff of Webkinz. I also think it might have had a very generic name, or maybe a weird name, Whatever it is, I know I'll know it when I hear it. I also think this site existed until at least 2010 or 2011 because I remember it appeared as part of an April Fools joke pulled by the owner of a Webkinz fansite one of those years. Gosh I feel like I sound nutty for this though. Thanks.
Also, just to be clear, Webkinz ripoff means it was a site where you had to buy a physical stuffed animal with a secret code to adopt a virtual pet version. It was very generic animals, and didn't look to me like it was trying to be something more unique like Shining Stars.
Edited by ProbeMeRogerSmithopenSong that plays at the end of the first episode of "Story of Film: An Odyssey" Music
So I've been watching Mark Cousins' documentary Story of Film: An Odyssey, and there's a particular piece that plays at the end of the first episode (1895-1918) that I'd love to know the name of/where it's from. It sounds a little like something from a later Sergio Leone film, or some sort of Epic. I don't have access to apps like Shazam or Soundhound - else I would do it myself - and I can't find anything from googling. Therefore any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Edited by GenericSnakeopenTrying to find two live action older kids science shows/videos Live Action TV
When I was about six, I had two science shows meant for kids a bit older on VHS(this was around 2003-2004, and these could have been fairly old.) I just can't find either.
The first one I think I had several tapes of. It is extremely likely this one was made by NASA, because I think I found them years later but didn't mess with them. It involved a group of kids, doing and talking about different science things, and visiting places like field trips. I think their main place was a clubhouse. There were parts of it with an animated skunk newscaster on TV.
The other one I feel might be harder to find, though more likely to have been something that actually aired on TV. I had one tape with like 6 episodes. This one consisted of various short segments. One segment in like four of the episodes I had was about a talking head in a green jar. In one of the episodes, he looked different, so I think it was from a different season. I suspected this one might have been Newton's Apple, but I could find no evidence of such a character in it. Could have missed it though.
openWeird old PC game Videogame
No one will probably have any idea of what I'm talking about and this might just have been some crazy dream I had, but there was this really weird game I played when I was really young in like 2004-2005. One of the few things I remember from it was that it had a version of MS Paint with sound (or it gave MS Paint sound, I can't remember) and it's own paint thing with different kinds of erasers and weird brushes. One certain eraser I remember from it was something eating the color with a chewing sound and burp sound when you stopped using it and one of the brushes I remember was cartoon footprints using footstep sounds. I also vaugley remember it having other weird games as well, but I don't remember what they were, unfortunately.
Again, I don't think anyone knows what the heck I'm talking about and it's probably just a crazy dream I had. I also probably sound like a weirdo for even asking about it, but I wanted to ask about it anyway in case it does exist and someone happens to know about it
Edited by Sidosido11openPolice series Live Action TV
Anyone remember the name of the short lived police series that aired at the end of 1979 or in the early 80's. They drove a yellow chevy nova In a few episodes and the team consisted of a woman and 2 men. This show started a little bit after the Starsky and Hutch series ended.
openLooking for a sitcom! Film
So I am looking for a tv comedy that I saw once in the UK, but it probably is an american sitcom. I was on my work break so I was just watching whatever was on the tv. In this episode, there was a blonde woman who went on a date with a man who was babysitting at the moment. And then the child's mom came home unexpectedly. The blonde woman has two children I think a teenage boy and girl. Well that is all I can remember, it was a while ago since I saw it. Thanks for any help.
openTV Show about a robot kid Live Action TV
I'm trying to find a show I once saw a family member watching. I can't remember the name of it. It was set in the far future. The technology was very advanced. There might of been an asteroid mining mission. The main character was a robotic kid. He had artificial intelligence. The boy looked no older then 10. The robot's hair was short, brown and curly. He looked 100% human. He was being raised or watched by his "mother". The parents tried to put him into a school but they rejected him because he was not human. His father died at some point (before or after the timeline of the show). I remember a specific scene where the kid was at a museum talking to an informational robot (IR). The IR was talking about humans and their history, stating the boy was homosapien because he was human. The robot boy replied he wasn't. The IR asked "What do you mean?". Just as the boy was going to respond, he was rushed else where. I vaguely remember a scene where the mother (which I think was kidnapped) gave birth to a baby (which I think the kidnappers gave her). She had hallucinations or dreams about typing on a keypad which killed the baby or something. Please help me identify this TV show.
openfox private detective Western Animation
I am thinking of a cartoon show with anthromorphic animals. I watched the dubbed version when I was little so I don´t know the original tiltle or names of the characters. It was about a private detective who I think was a fox (his dubbed name started with an F and is my country´s equivalent to Finn) and he had a sidekick who was a puppy dog. There was a rooster who was a bartender I think, and the town´s currency was gum or something like that. There was also a female hare or rabbit who was always jogging and wore sports cloth, and a couple of rats (I think) who were petty criminals
openJohny caine
Looking for show from 1950s 60s about a detictive the show imtro starts wit man knocking door down and says johnny caine knocks door down i beileve the main charcter is johnny cain spelling may be kane kaine bit please just looking for name of show
openRecent YA novel Literature
There's this Young Adult novel that came out pretty recently, that is, in the last eyar or so I think. It's about a girl who's got some weird disease which means that she can't be with people that much. There are drawings or diagrams or something to illustrate her condition too, I think. I don't remember too clearly, so feel free to mention books that don't fit this description absolutely perfectly.
openRandom details for a detective show
Here is everything I remember: 1. the plot of the episode was that a man was trying to sell art (a photo) and the police told him he couldn't sell it because there was a man committing suicide in the background. 2. There was something about businessmen, a woman getting raped. 3. The detective was oldish suppossed to retire 4. he accidentally changed the stocks by sitting on the keyboard 5. in the end there was a woman in a wheelchair that came into their office. 6. I think the show was british but i can't remember. 7. pretty sure I saw it on channel Thirteen here in the USA.
at least 10 years ago Christmas a movie came on, it was a cartoon. I have a vivid recollection of the story but no one else in my family does and I've looked it up before but can't find it. the story is that this guy is a toy maker and falls in love with a forest fairy. he tries to become more successful and ends up cutting trees in her forest. he gets cursed by forest spirits and gets turned into a monster. then I think it flashes forward and his company is still huge but he just hides. at the same time, this girl wants a deer for Christmas (which is apparently something you can do) and it ends up being the forest fairy the guy was in love with. I don't remember the middle that much but the girl ends up meeting the man and he apologizes in the end and goes back to being a small shop toy maker and lives with the fairy.