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openDisney or Nick show about performers and singers Live Action TV
There was a show that was on at night on Nickelodeon or Disney which featured a group of talented performers/students. There was a girl who is shy and doesn't like singing in front of people but is really good. A guy who can dance and some other singers. I think on e of the guys said they were gay. There is another girl who can't sing but is told she can but gets lessons by someone who is too nice to give any negative comments. In the beginning of an episode, there is a comparison between a shy good singer and bubbly not good singer to probably highlight how good female lead is. There's an audition somewhere. Also a performance showcase.I only saw one or two episodes so this is the best I can do.
openWebsite which listed every MMO, ever (before it disappeared) Web Original
I found a website in the late 2000s (2009-ish) which listed practically, if not literally, every Massively Multiplayer Online game ever made, including foreign ones from southeast Asia. Some of these were extremely obscure, like Yogurting or Ray City, and sometimes very short-lived. I'd search the internet archive except I don't have a clue on the URL and it's been gone since around 2010. Does anyone know this site or sites like it?
Edited by SimYouLateropenSong Playing During Big Smoke's Order Videogame
A bit of a dumb question. Does anyone know the name of the song that plays in the background during the infamous "Big Smoke's Order" scene from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? Judging by the vocals it sounds like a song by Gang Starr, but I don't know the name of it.
openSo Bad It's The Tropeless Tale Film
Specifically, the movie was So Bad Its Horrible, to the point of being incoherent, that it was the first such work to specifically be described as close to "The Tropeless Tale"; or rather linked directly to it in a sentence claiming that it was basically what a Tropeless Tale would look like if only because it has absolutely no continuity or logic, not even Fridge Logic could be gleamed from it due to the sheer incompetence of the company and/or crew behind it. The film was made between 1970 and 2005, I can't be more accurate than that because it was in color but had grainy film from using either very old cameras or very cheap cameras (maybe both). It is not among any of the works currently listed as something relatively close to the Tropeless Tale, and I conclude that the page was lost in The Great Crash back in January of 2008. Said crash caused literally thousands of articles to be lost forever after the servers and backups had an Epic Fail and the then-latest backup which worked was from October of 2007, and I likely found the page for it between late-October of 2007 and January 2008.
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open3 Chefs travel around Europe (?) Not compatition or reality show Live Action TV
There was as show where three possibly British chefs -one woman and two men- traveled around to different places and each one would then either be the head chef, the ingredient finder/collector and the last the guest. It was always the same three people.They went to large manors or castes or estates then would cook old recipes from that family or one that has to do with the place. They'd cook in the manor/castle's kitchen and the one that ran around getting the ingredients would talk about the ingredient of the time period and the one selected to be the guest would go around the place with the owners and learn about it's history. The chef would of course talk about the difficulty of the recipe and the kitchen and other fun things as well. I only saw a few episodes and I do not know if there were a lot of episodes. It ALWAYS made me hungry. I can see the title sequence in my mind, but the words aren't there. There were different types of meat animals (pork, fish, cows) and I think fruits and veggies and the title was a cursive script? The way the selection of who did what each episode was they would each have a covered dish in front of them and in them would be different things that would tell them which they would be for that episode. I can't even remember what the items were. I think one was a spoon which meant chef, on was a napkin which meant guest and the other....I can't remember which meant ingredient collector who would then help the chef out in the kitchen. Any suggestions would be awesome. I am wanting to show this to some mates as well as to see if there were more episodes of the show.
openShort Anime about a mangaka artist and his little sister Anime
I got a lot of replies from others saying "it's Ero-sensei", but that's not the one. The anime I looked for aired around 2015 and each episode is at least 3 minutes long. This one also was filled with ecchi-ness as well. does anyone remember the name/title at all?
openTrivia Video From Fifth Grade...
So I've been trying to find some information on this old trivia video my teacher played for us in 5th grade. Sadly I never got to see a title screen or box cover, but I do recall a blonde woman who talked to you in between rounds and questions. In addition I believe it was all science trivia questions, but that's all I can remember about it.
openBuilding of Adventure meets Grey Goo... ...equals Crapsack World Anime
A manga or Animesque comic in which a grey goo scenario creates a sentient and ever-expanding "building" of spherical floors ascending outwards from what used to be Earth. The surviving humans barely knew their history, and myths describe the Earth and how the expansion of this thing even consumed the moon in the sky. Because Writers Cant Do Math, the stated size of this thing at the time of the storyline would be so large that it had incorporated the matter of Saturn, and require so much matter that such a feat would be impossible logistically even if otherwise ignoring the laws of physics.
Basically it's an endless Arcology of pain like Incarceron or Necromundo, which I'm pretty sure had a page at one time but was lost in The Great Crash or otherwise removed if so.
Edited by SimYouLateropenSuperhero team parody on Teletoon in Canada? Western Animation
Was on in or showing reruns in the 2001-2003 period. The main characters were grown men superheroes with very childish mannerisms. One episode plot involved a villain-of-the-week doing something that removed water from people without killing them, and the protagonists thought it was a "water sucker" which was treated like a bee they were scared of ("That's no water sucker, it's just a harmless fly!"). Another episode had them fight a villain (or rival superhero?) called "Flesh Man" who had a sidekick and a "Flesh Cave". There was always a joke skit at the end where they took "calls from the audience", with one joke being a rant on hot dogs always coming in 10-packs but hot dog BUNS coming in dozens, and since the calls were requests to fix "evil" stuff, the protagonist answering the call flew through the window of "the hot dog bun company" and complained to the boss of the place - who, being terrified, admits the conspiracy is forced on them by "the hot dog company" (yes, somehow there is only on e of each).
openPrisoners on a runaway train... Film
Okay, so the most I remember is that these four guys and a woman were being transported by train, it was the middle of winter, at least one of the guys was a convict being moved (the rest might have been witnesses in a case, suggesting that the convict(s) were too) and the woman was a psychologist specializing in criminal minds.
A bridge gets blown up ahead of the train and the cabs turn out to be empty, with only the first of four locomotives at the front of the train had working controls; the big suspense part was that three of the locomoties were normal North American freight diesels which they could walk between but only the second locomotive (just behind the lead engine with the controls) was a "streamliner" (an EMD F-series with the nose light and smooth snout) that they had to get past somehow (cue the special effects and stunt doubles) before the train flew off the end of the destroyed bridge.
open"Train race" episode? Western Animation
One of my very first memories was from watching a TV show in the early 90's. It was your typical 80's cartoon animals show (I'm pretty sure it was a rerun). Something about a race with a locomotive (finish line ribbon), the historic rail line and/or town being demolished by the villain if the protagonists didn't win, and the right-hand rail being missing just before said finish line. Not sure how it ended, the TV was probably shut off before I could see.
I don't think the episode was from Duck Tales or that "80's pro-environment cartoon" with cartoon animals whose name I can't recall save for beginning with "The", though I could be wrong.
openWhat is SomniCorp? Videogame
Most YKTS are for stuff you remember but can't find the name of. What would a YKTS look like as an Inverted Trope? Well, exactly like this... https://player.vimeo.com/video/98081922
This little video is quite obviously an Alternate Reality Game clue. The only issue is that I have no idea which game that would be. Even /r/arg didn't respond (though that may be due to their customs or the way I worded the question in my post), and search engines, wikipedia/infogalactic and This Very Wiki have given literally no results of use. The Vimeo account holder is a fake name with no photo, and some other "True Art" videos are also on the account with no rhyme or reason; either the owner is a professional marketing designer posting miscellaneous works to attract clients yet has no face to the name nor lists themselves as having an occupation, which makes little sense, or its an ARG clue of unknown origin.
Additional Info usually considered important in AR Gs: "Project Vrij" "Groep 4" Is there even an IRL person behind the videos actually named "Keni Voermans"? Or are they simply a character in the game's plot?
NOTE: This is under video game because the creepy 3D graphics part that interrupts the main video clearly has arrow buttons on both the left and right side of the screen, which suggests it has a smartphone app component or at least an interactive thing for plugin-based browsers.
Edited by SimYouLateropenChristian Kids Show With Live Action Bible Characters in Present Day Live Action TV
There was a show that I cannot for the life of me remember the name of, but some kids find a device that lets them bring characters of the Bible into real life. There was an episode with David from David and Goliath, there was an episode where Saul comes and burns down the community church and the whole town comes together to rebuild it, there was also an episode where some kid ends up in a tipped over port o potty. I watched it on VHS so it was 90s-2000s era. If anyone remembers this show and remembers the name that would be awesome because I can't find it anywhere
Edited by imjustadowopenWeird Music Video about Record Scratching Western Animation
There was this music video, a kind of long one, from the early 2000's at latest. It was based around the record scratching noise and urban culture at the time. The plot involved "inner space" where atoms were equivalent to solar systems and electrons were planets. The villains were VERY strange; a thing that looked like a baby with a red tint that had a worm sticking out of it's belly button which was portrayed like Darth Vader, and later on a blue doppelganger portrayed like Darth Sidious. All the "spacecraft" looked like someone made a Scavenger Punk shuttle in scrapbook format out of a picture of a vehicle with the wheels cut off and replaced with solar-powered satellites.
I've tried looking for this thing on occasion over the last 15 years with no luck. Even an earlier question about it on This Very Wiki - back when "You Know That Show" was a page on the wiki which you edited to post what you were looking for - didn't even get a response.
Any ideas?
openChildren's sci-fi movie from the 90s or early 00s (?)
I have this memory of a sci-fi movie that I watched as a kid, but I'm not sure if it's a real memory or something I invented. All I remember is the ending. I think it was made for children, and the leads were a brother and sister I think, with the boy having dark hair and the girl having light hair (maybe), and they were lost in space or in an alternate dimension or something. They were accompanied by a man and woman who were like parental figures to them, but I don't know if they were in fact their parents or just a couple they met somehow who acted as surrogate parents. At some point in the plot they encountered a benevolent race of aliens who were advanced and peaceful, like the Space Elves or Angelic Aliens trope. These aliens helped save the humans from whatever danger they were in. At the end when the humans were being sent back to Earth or wherever, (this is the most vivid part I remember) the aliens offer the chance to let the boy stay behind and join their society because he's special for some reason, maybe a telepath or empath or something, or just smart and shy and fit in with them better. The parental figures ask him if he wants to stay with the aliens or come with them, and he decides to stay with the aliens. Does anyone have any idea what this could be? I am not even sure if it was a movie or TV show or book, but I am certain I have seen some piece of media that has an ending like that.
openSTABBER OR SHOOTER MISSES VITAL ORGANS Film
There is a scene in this tv show or movie where someone shots or stabs someone and the person who shot someone intially misses any vital organs, causing the person to live. I believe the shooter or stabbed had to shoot or stab the victim because someone had to believe the victim was dead, when the victim isn't? I believe, I'm not really sure... and I think the stabber or shooter says, "Oops, I missed."... I don't know...
openI'm starting to think I made it up Western Animation
There are kids, maybe teenagers, who go into a world under their bed where things are scary (it is not the movie Little Monsters). There is maybe a roller coaster involved. It's not Little Nemo either. I've found a few things close, but they all came out after 2000. I watched it sometime around 1985-92. I know this sounds like it's definitely Little Monsters, but I've watched it since this has been bugging me and it's definitely not what I'm thinking of here.
openBook from my childhood Literature
I'm looking for a children's picture book that was about two classroom hamsters who, while the class is away picking apples, find a bunch of apples on a table along with some paints. (Hilarity Ensues) At the end of the book, there was something about the class making applesauce, which there was a recipe for on the last page. The hamsters were yellowish and burnt orange in color, and I think they had alliterative names. Harry and Harvey, was it? The book was very thin, only twenty or so pages. I loved this book so much my first grade teacher let me take it home, but it seems it was recycled or donated. Can somebody help, please?
In general I was a easily scared child in the mid 90s but I'm trying to remember what show/episode I saw at my neighbors house that scared me so much. There was a young boy in bed with a teddy bear that had an obnoxiously dumb name like Mr. Teddy or something. A creature/demon/monster came up from the beneath the bed and talked to the kid. They made some sort of deal and the monster took the kids teddy bear back down, either off of the side of the bed or sucked into the bed ala the wicked witch melting. The kid grabbed at the descending bear, screaming its dumb name a lot.
This is NOT Outer Limits Under the Bed. The kid never left his bed and the stuffed animal was taken, not the kid. I assumed for a while that this was an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? But none of the summaries on Wikipedia seem to match. The scene I remember was I think framed as a flashback or something in the past and that kid maybe was older for the rest of the episode and his younger sibling had to deal with the weird Goblin Monster thing for the rest of the episode? That part I'm not as sure about. If anyone knows what show/episode this was, I'd greatly appreciate it because I'm at a loss.