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open"He poisoned me with a lobster"?
So this is either a TV show or a movie that was playing on TV in Auckland in 2009 or 2010 or some year like that. it could also have been on DVD, I wasn't watching it, my mum was. It as live-action and set in this slightly old-timey looking building with candles and there was this guy looking sick and gasping and saying, "It's the lobster—he poisoned me with a lobster!"
openNot sure what it's called Film
I can't really remember it that well because I was so young when I watched it, but I'm pretty sure that it was not animated because I remember seeing real people. I watched it when I was little, so it must've been rated G or PG (my parents are very strict on that) Anyways, the movie was like where a boy pretends (< I think) to be sick and tells his little brother that only frog eggs can save him so his little brother runs away to try to find frog eggs and ends up making a friend that is homeless I'm pretty sure on the way (I think I watched it on Netflix but they took it off a while back)
openWHAT IS THIS SHOW
there was this show i (unfortunately) watched. it may have been on cartoon network, and the characters looked like cheese sticks. there were two male cheese sticks and a female. they went to many locations to do things (i think i remember them fighting monsters). it aired in the early 2000s and i have no idea what it is called. PLEASE HELP !!!
openAsian Anthology TV Show Focusing On Urban Legends Live Action TV
I've been trying to find this show for years, so I'm really hoping that I could find some help here. I remember it was a late night show when I was younger (so it probably played around 11-ish pm?) and it would have a different story/different stories every episode. I remember some of the more memorable episodes, I may have the details wrong however.
One episode is about a young woman who borrows a series of VHS tapes that she finds is about her life, and it can predict her future. Luckily, she used the tapes to her advantage and aimed to improve her life, which works out for her until she realizes she's missing the second last VHS tape. So instead, she watches the last tape and sees herself hanging herself in prison. Desperate to get her hands on the second last tape in order to see how she ends up offing herself in prison, she goes mad and accidentally kills a woman she believes had the tape, which got her into prison.
Another episode is about this high schooler(?) whose friend died in an accident, but he somehow manages to travel back in time (something with a baseball?) and tries to save his friend but it never works out.
Another episode shows a man who tries to kill himself every time it turns to 3pm, and only snaps back to consciousness a minute later. The plot twist is he was in a coma, and the doctors have been trying to wake him up for a while, and they give him something to help him wake up every day at 3pm, which is why the guy would try to kill himself.
Those are all the episodes I remember, but I really hope someone will know the TV show I'm talking about.
openShow that used to air on YTV and can't remember the date but I think around 2010-2013 Western Animation
its animated tv show with brother and sister who have an alien robot spaceship crash land in their treehouse with 3 robots who become their friends one is a girl one is an inventor boy and there is one with 1 wheel to move and one arm who is orange and was used as a remote once can anyone help me with the name?
openLate 90s early 2000's kids show Western Animation
I don't remember much about it but I remember one scene from an animated kids show where a character is in trouble for doing something wrong and to compensate they end up finding a old statue head (possibly with something inside it) behind lockers in a school hiding an old hallway or set of lockers. They knew it was in a set of lockers because they found a locker combination hidden somewhere inside the school.They then revealed they found this and whoever did it stepped up and explained why at the end of the episode I've been stuck looking for this all day and was hoping someone would know
openA cartoon I remember watching when I was a kid. Anime
I remember watching a show, not sure what it was. It had a magical raccoon thing (brownish orange color with stripes on tail) in blue suspenders and a young girl with blue hair (wearing a red and yellow outfit). I believe this is a Chinese animation. If anyone would be able to find it, I would greatly appreciate it :)
openAn owl Teacher and the theme was old Macdonald. Film
I've been searching for this for years. It used to be my favorite movie when I was a kid. It must have come out mid 80s. It started with puppets, a boy with red hair and an owl, who I think was a professor, anyways they were inside a tree and the owl was trying to teach the boy. Then they started going into animals and counting, the movie changed from puppets to live action with children at a farm. The best part I can remember is that the farm had trained the animals to do special things for their food. There was a goat who had to headbutt a ball, a chicken who had to play the piano, and another animal would go down a slide. All the activities the animals did triggered a release of food into their dish. Also they had a song about counting chickens. I remember so much about this movie but can't seem to find any leads. I'm guessing it was a straight to VHS movie. If anyone knows what I'm talking about PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!! I'm going crazy trying to find it. My search continues....
open80s/90s KBPS Kids Programming Puppet or Live Action Live Action TV
My sister and I are trying to remember a show broadcast sometime in the 80s or 90s on KPBS children's programming. We can recall details such as a spinning clock on the wall that resembled a "sunburst" style clock with squiggly "arms," and one episode had something to do with a character being afraid of a mop with a raincoat on it, thinking it looked like a monster. The characters sang a song after they realized what it was, and one lyric was "it's just a big old mop" sung by a lady or maybe a lady puppet. Anyone else remember?
openMovie from the 80s/90s/early 00s live action animal/girl Film
Anyone remember a movie where there was a girl (early teens?) who was rescuing/saving/traveling with an animal named Beatrice? I can't remember if Beatrice was a llama or some other kind of al paca, but I don't think she was a horse. She was something unusual for a girl to have— not like other "horse and girl" movies of the time. Anyway, I can picture a scene where the girl is thrashing in the water at night (a pond or something?) and screaming "BEATRICE!!" I remember the name very distinctly. Any help is appreciated!
openA show or movie on Diva
I only saw half or the endpart and didnt get to seee the title 😭😭. So a guy was worrying about this halloween exhibit or something, and then i think his 'son' made this maze with hay blocks and stuff to suprise him.they were also having an election i think with this pushy girl and stephanie i think and stephanie was losing. They also have this girl that manages stuff on the city council. Uhm and then this girl was talking to a guy then a girl and then she found mail with a key on this 'special' painting and then stuff. I took notes of some of the characters names, they were Kelsie stephanie brandon jackson and i think they live in middleton?Advance thank you to every help that comes. :)
Edited by ShalondaDykesopenSome Movie about cavemen Film
Its this movie, in which cavemen live in a forest and think there is nothing else beyond it. They then somehow venture out and go to a medieval city, where one guys just primitively circumcised his son. The son comes to the cavemen for revenge and tells them something along the lines of "they just cut the top part of my Penis" and the cavemen reply something along the lines of " Well, isn't that the only useful part?". Also in that movie a cavemen girl is taken as a slave and a slave owner kinda guy tries to look under her skirt when one guy, who was a caveman but was pretending to be a slave owner shouts and asks the girl to bring her something, trying to save her. I think it was a comedy movie and this is all I can describe....
openShow from mid-2000s or earlier, Magical pendant, Talking fox and other creatures, manor, baby. Live Action TV
I can't remember a ton of details, but I recall seeing a show or miniseries on TV that involved a family in the modern day, who lived in this sort of old manor or castle like house. The children (I think they were pre-teen/teen) knew something about some sort of magic, and they could communicate with some animals, in particular a red fox. I specifically recall that there was some sort of magical pendant involved, that was like a brass chain with a heavy brass blob at the end, and that there was a part where the kids had to sabotage their dad's truck (an old school land rover or something IIRC) so that their pregnant mother would have her baby in the house, because that was important for some reason. I can't recall where it was set or if the characters had north american/british/Aussie accents or anything, can't recall what side drive the jeep/landrover was.
That's all I can think of for detail...
openGirl and Pet Dragon
Animated kids show about a girl who has a secret small purple pet dragon. They go on adventures around the world by pressing on symbols in a book? Tv show is named after the main girl. Pretty vague but thats all I can remember and I have been driving myself crazy trying to remember the name of this show for years.
openCan't Find it anywhere(Cartoon)
Hey Forum I need your help with an Old Cartoon I saw as a child.. Can't seem to find it anywhere! I'll try to describe it as well as possible: Okay so its an old Cartoon Series(Saw a episode each morning before I went to school) It's about animals, but its in the medieval ages, which I can tell from them fighting with Swords and living in a castle! But what I remember from the show was the ending! It ended with the Main characters wife gets stabbed! They are animals, I actually think that they are foxes, So in a sword fight where the protagonist(King fox) needs to save his wife(Queen Fox), she gets stabbed in the stomach.. It all ends with him defeating the villain, but losing his wife.. which they held a ceremony for! (Its the only think I can remember, was that ending)
openCompilation of ghost stories with a floating, screaming head Literature
I didn't actually read this one myself, and I can't really rely on my sister to answer questions about it, but I remember when I was younger, she mentioned reading a book about an old woman who had been haunted by this same ghost for years, and every night it would appear as a floating head over her bed, screaming at her? I want to say this was based off "real" ghost experiences, although I probably would've had a heart attack after one night of that, even as a young person, so maybe not lol. I don't remember any other details about the book, and I can't really ask my sister about it as she lives far away and is pretty much constantly busy, but if I can guess, I want to say it was a collection of experiences/stories, and this was just one of the stories. This is really vague and probably gonna be hard to find, but one of the posts below just reminded me of it, and I've been curious about it on and off for years. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks.
openSomeone is trying to find it Anime
A DeviantArt user has a picture. In the description, he says that Nessie's design was based from a "cute anime show" that had a pink female Loch Ness monster, but he does not remember the title and could not find it anywhere on YouTube either. Here is the submission that has these details: http://koleyl.deviantart.com/art/Searching-for-Nessie-671670575
Edited by MitchellProductionsopenGuy Summoned to be killed Anime
I found a manga. A high school martial artist is summoned to another world to be sacrificed. Rather than die, he kills the men who summoned him and escapes the ritual room by disguising himself as a guard who is badly injured. He escapes and finds two sisters who become his slaves. I think it is based on a Light Novel.
openTV show around 2015ish that lasted 1 season about roommates/neighbors/single people
There was a TV comedy on circa 2014-2015ish that lasted only 1 season. It was about neighbors that lived in a set of condos. The show was about how these people were all single and trying to find love and were either divorced or had never been married. I remember that at the end of the first episode, all of the main characters crashed a wedding and it ended with them drinking at the back of the reception as night was closing in. One of the characters was a crazy artist who painted large paintings and sold them on the street. Also, two of the characters (who had just met) ended up starting to like each other. In one episode, one of these two (I think it was the female?) tried to make dinner for the other. She ended up burning the meal. Also, for some reason that I don't remember, 1 person found a way to hide in the other neighbors ceiling and was spying on the second set of neighbors. It was a good show, but I think it only lasted for one season. Does anyone remember this?
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I'm not quite sure if it was a tv series, mini-series, or movies, but i have distinctive memories about watching it once a week in the late evening. Might not be a 90's show, could also be 80's or 00's. Not sure when i watched it, early 2000's most likely. I was a young child at the time (i watched it with my parents, even though it was WAY to terrifying for kids to watch, pretty sure it was an adult horror show), so the details are very hazy. It was a horror series of sorts, about 30-60 minutes dramatization (like mini movies) of famous ghost stories like the lady in white, etc. I remember a particular gruesome story about a young woman who worked at a theatre, she had an affair with an older man, and when she got pregnant (i think) the man beat her half to death. She staggered out on the stage in the middle of a show, all bloody and horrific, then died or disapeared. Later, people who worked at the theatre would see bloody footprints in the hallway and stuff. I swear i was traumatized for years. There was also another story about a man who went out on his boat to fish, but stumbled overboard and drowned. He then came back to haunt his wife, who was having an affair or something, so he killed the lover. I really wish i remember more details, but these particular scenes are burned into my mind.
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