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openTrapped In Another World plot via impending (occurs at the end) death? Film
Okay, I only saw a short bit of this movie, basically the ending. Live action, not animated. The teenage hero had found himself himself trapped in another world (apparently on his birthday) where he saves said world and/or stops an ultimate evil or something. As a reward at the end they let him into a paradise whose door was locked until plot resolution; cue family reading birthday card to him thinking he's asleep, only to realize he's not waking up or breathing... unexpected cut to closing credits. Was likely on TV in the early 2000s, but possibly as a rerun.
openChildren's book with pictures of a "cityscape" of kitchen utensils and food? Literature
A book I saw at some point prior to 2003 was a picture book where food, kitchen utensils and food storage jars were drawn in an arrangement resembling a skyline. Milk cartons and food jars were commonly used as "skyscrapers", and a sausage link was placed on something to make it appear like an elevated rail line.
openTV show Psychics
TV show. Possibly British. Guy thinks he's crazy. In mental hospital, gets a girlfriend. They switch bodies. He escapes as chaos reigns. People trapped in walls and rooms where the doors have vanished. Secret go to agency catches him and he winds up chained to a chair in a swimming pool set up to electrocute him. Paramilitary organization of psychics breaks him out
openDO YOU KNOW THIS KIDS MOVIE NAME? Live Action TV
I am not good at explaining but i will try my best.. So it was a movie that aired on either jetix or diseny in the year 2009 i think so. the story was about a boy who is always sad and depressed becoz he was dumb i think so later he meets a pumpkin or potatoe like creature who knows magic.the creature was small not very big he was approximately 2 to 3 feet tall so yeah. they both became friends then.and that creature helps the boy with his magical powers but later it turns into a big problem and so the movie was with a happy ending. here are some scenes that i remember from the movie so in a scene the patatoe like creaure give him some foods to eat like noodles burger etc with his magical powers. in this the creature helps the kid by helping him in exam but it turns into problem becoz he copied the whole answer sheet of a girl he copied the girls name to in the boys paper so the teacher comes to know that he had copied. so...i tried my best to explain you now ur trun plzz help me i cant focus on anything else
openChristian VHS tapes for kids?
This is very obscure, but maybe someone else will know what I'm talking about. My family had a set of VHS tapes that I remember watching sometime around the turn of the millennium; I think they were published under the Family Films brand by Concordia Publishing House (a niche Christian book publisher). They had hard blue plastic cases. There were around 5 or 7 tapes in the set, but I only remember a few of them. I've managed to track down several of them online (the Nanny & Isaiah ones), but there are others that I need help finding.
One (possibly two?) featured this gaggle of kids; I remember scenes where they were talking in a treehouse and hunting for gold with metal detectors. Another tape featured the same kids on a camping trip, where they found this reclusive guy living in a cabin in the woods. Oh, and there was a scene where they had sneaked into some dude's house, but they saw him coming and they hid in different places in the living room, like behind the drapes. For a while I thought I dreamed all this up, but my sister remembers these same scenes, so I know they exist somewhere.
I remember watching these tapes around 1999, but my parents probably bought them used. I'm sure the quality was terrible, as is the case with most religious child-oriented video content, and I doubt any of these tapes were ever even aired on TV. Again, this stuff is super obscure - it's in the same vein as Adventure in Odyssey, The Puzzle Club, and the original Veggietales.
EDIT (7/14/2017): I finally found them! The videos are both from The Goosehill Gang series; the episodes are Gold Rush Treasure Map and The Mystery of the Howling Woods. Both titles appear to be from the early 80's, and just as I suspected, they were published by Concordia Publishing House under the Family Films brand. The entire series is available on You Tube here.
Edited by ChevopenAnime role play film. Film
All I remember is that It is about some people that go to an anime foreplay type convention and they use a book and they gain powers, but also unleash a demon. The demo is female. It is really gory in some bits and the demon woman thing eats peoples guts. Open to any suggestions. Please help. This has been stuck in my head for gates and I can't find any film that matches it.
openHOUSE M.D. EPISODE? Live Action TV
This one should be easy. I think this was an episode of House M.D. I remember watching this on TV, I think it was certainly a television show, it was in color and I saw it (in the U.S.) in 2010 sometime. A woman drove her son(s) to school, and though the weather was chilly, one of the sons had more clothes on than necessary. I think his name was Jason. During the drive, the son was feeling a fever coming on and his mother panicked and drove him to the hospital. I cannot remember anymore, sorry.
openDoes anybody know this show? Live Action TV
I'm trying to find a TV-Show I watched as a child. As I remember it was a show created for children and ran on chrildren's television. It revolved around the search/hunt for a formular a guy had invented. The formular made it possible to grow plants in the snow or in the desert, that normally wouldn't grow there. (I remember an orange-tree, full of oranges covered with snow).
openCan anyone tell me the name of this children's tv show?
This must have been on tv roughly around and between the years 2003-2006. The main charector was male and I think was a little doll. The programme involved a Rube Goldberg machine that was made out of small objects (e.g. A reel of thread) however they looked big because the characters where small. The main character would try to find objects to add to the machine by asking his friends. I remember he'd ask to borrow things and they'd say "you can't borrow it... but you can have it". His friends where lady birds and other bugs I think.
openBest Out of Infinity... Print Comic
Does anyone know which Darkwing Duck comic it is that provides the picture for that trope? I don't think it's part of either of the two newer runs, unless it's from one of those I haven't read.
openTime travel cartoon with a magical book and a dragon Western Animation
I remember this cartoon that I watched on cbbc in like 2007ish? It may have been british but not entirely sure on that....It centred around a girl who had a magical book which somehow manifested a dragon and they would go on time travelling adventures. I remember a specific episode where they encountered a viking raiding party and half of the crew turned out to be women dressed up as men. Would looove to know what this show is called as I'm looking for babysitting entertainment and ! know a few kids who'd love it!
openCartoon that shown on disney chanel Western Animation
There is a cartoon that I watched on disney channel in 2008 or 2010 (I'm not sure). It's about a team of 4 (or 5) young people (they have 1 girl in their team) and they joined a spaceship competition. Each of member have their own color and as I remember the girl drive green ship (she wears like military too and her hair is blonde), others drive red, blue amd yellow ship. The girl's dad is a commander. If my memory serve me well, the boy drives the red ship have a good feeling for the girl and her name start with M (I'm not sure it's Meg or Magaret but 60% it's Meg). One more detail, I saw marathon media 's logo on that cartoon too. I really want to know the name of that show. Hope you guys can help me find it. Thanks!
open90's show probably nickelodeon Anime
I remember a cartoon i use to watch, the caracters kinda look like cardboard it was an old brother and a little sister i think she had two pig tails. One op the épisodes was where they had the flu and it was acutally a person and it was in the basement what i remember also is at the end they get a post card from him and he's on the beach please can someone help me
openNeed to know, killing my brain!!!!!
Idk if it is a show or a movie but what i can remeber is that it is aboit a family, the daughter has a friend sleeping over for a long time becaise her parents get deported, the friend gets deported. They become more than friends and skype all the time. Either the daughter or the friend was really quiet
openDark show removed from Netflix Live Action TV
Okay so, there was this show, each episode had different stories. It was dark and disturbing kinda vibe. A little like Black Mirror but not. Possibly American or Canadian??
I can only remember a few stories like there was a guy and he kept hearing a buzzing and he smashed everything trying to get it to stop but it was something inside his ear. Then another one was a woman in a hotel room saw a man watching her from the other side of the street and at first she's creeped out but then she's really into it but it turns out to be a dead body. Probably made like this decade or early last?
resolved Isometric Webcomic, Anybody? Webcomic
The main character wakes up in a hospital with amnesia, finds the world is in the middle of apocalypses. Yes, plural apocalypses. There's a robot uprising, plant monsters eating people, zombies, vampires, there might be aliens, but I don't remember. Oh, and the main character, the chosen one, is an idiot.
openKids TV show from the 2000's?
PLEASE HELP. This show was around the 2000s. It is a kids cartoon tv show, about a brother and sister who live in an apartment. The only episode I can remember is the kids have a school project where they design a dinosaur. They dream about their dinosaurs they have made, and one of theirs has weak legs and is wobbly, and the other one is cold because they didn't put felt on it. In the end they put their ideas together and the dinosaur is happy and they play hide and seek with it.
openBlack and White Movie involving Monsters Afraid of Rain after Nuclear Strike Film
Movie starts with a father and his visiting daughter up in a mountain house by a lake and they hear on the radio that a nuclear bomb has striked down below. The daughter is worried because her poor fiance is still traveling up. They hear a knock on the door expecting him and the daughter almost rushes to it, but the father stops her and pulls out a shotgun. He tells her to stay back as he slowly opens the door. He opens the door to find a group of people including a perverted moonshiner, a blonde lady, an ex-con, and some other people I don't remember. They plead to come in, afraid of the effects of the nuke. With the daughter's coaxing, the cautious father relents and lets them in. Together they start to worry, dance, and generally bond in the cheesy black and white sci-fi horror movie way. Eventually through the days, the fiance still missing the father tries to keep them all inside food in the cellar. The father does eventually go out in the woods to check rabbit traps, and he finds that some sort of creature ate it. Then in a long series of scenes every one except for the ex-con, the father, and the daughter die. The moonshiner tries to make moonshine in a river, cut to monter POV, moonshiner stumbles and is dead. Blondie clears leaves from hidden pool and goes swimming, monster pov, and she gets drowned. This continues until most are dead. Eventually the daughter goes over a bridge, is attacked by an ugly, prosthetic faced monster in a tuxedo. She exclaims that it is her fiance, and he begins to attack her. Ex-con and father come to begin to rescue her, but the rain pouring down and making the monster's skin burn is what finally scares it away. I think in the end Ex-con and daughter fall in love while father also remains with them. Credits roll. It was in a disk pack of three other old sci-fi movies, one I remember involving a scientist in a time macine that was basically a room with a wall of flashing squares for a moniter, and a room wallpapered in tinfoil.
Edited by THENEGUYopenArchie comic with a dragon ride
I remember an archie double digest with some theme park ride with a dragon. It was designed so that Archie dressed as a knight could pretend trescue Betty from a dragon. I think there may have been some dream sequence in there.
Edited by greatgodofmineworld
I remember a homebrew tabletop RPG based around Mega Man, where the GM played the "mad scientist role" and had to sic robots on the protagonists, but all players were allowed to contribute ideas for said robots and thus assist in designing their foes.