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openArchie 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 greatgodofmineworldopenPre-1960 comic book about boy and his adoptive father Print Comic
My mother told me about some magazine-shaped comic books she read as a child in the early 1960's. She says they seemed old when she found them, so they were probably printed well before 1960. The main characters are an orphan boy and a single Catholic man who adopts him and enrolls him in a Catholic school. The boy's placement test score puts him a year behind the other boys his age, which angers the boy. The boy and his adoptive father both have black hair with blue highlights. In the middle of each comic book is a history lesson. Does anyone else remember this comic book series?
openKids finds gaunlet in crevice
so i was recollecting on robot films and tv shows when i remembered this show that i watched on netflix. it was an animated show, i'd say released after 2000 where all i can remember is this boy goes out on this barren land and falls into a crevice where he finds a gaunlet or glove and this evil organization tries to get it from him. (There were robots or androids in it) thanks in advance
Edited by dankosauropenCartoon character come to life through a portal Film
Quite a while ago, back when i was a child I watched this 3d animated film and i just can't remember the name. The film in question is old, around 2004 and isn't popular. The plot goes like this: there is a TV show with these cute elf like characters that make their own cars and then race. One day, as they race for the princesses hand, a huge portal open in the sky and takes away the orb in the midle of the city, putting the city in darkness. Few characters run through this portal to get the orb and they end up in reality (still 3d animation). Here they meet their animator and find out that a evil scientist made that portal, the portal can bring any animated object to life and he is using that orb as an energy source. He later on spawns a mech using the portal, but the main characters stop him and return to their animated land with the orb. The main characters are few inches tall, one is a smart inventor, one is a strong good-lookig fellow, there are a few baddies who cheat in races and the princess really likes adventures. I remeber that there is scene where the princess jumps off a real building using a rope as she majesticly flies through the air. I just can't remember the name of the movie and can't find it on google, can anyone help me? Do you maybe know the movie by my description?
openWebcomic with bad karaoke guy Webcomic
A webcomic with a specific strip in which a guy is at a karaoke. His thoughts are along the lines of "If I keep singing, someday a music producer will notice me and my life of stardom and musical fame will begin". Everyone else's thoughts are along the lines of "Good god this guy sucks", and the last one is thinking "In my entire career as a music producer I've never heard anyone so bad".
openSynthpop/New Wave or Maybe Progressive Rock song Music
This may be hard to due a complete lack of lyrics, but I've had this song stuck in my head for the past couple days and it's driving me insane. It's just this one part that won't go away, if I were to spell it out it would be something like "doo doo duh-doo doooo (this one lasts for about four seconds), doo doo duh-duh dooo". As for the artist, I believe it's one of the following; The Police, Tears for Fears, A-ha, U2, A Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, The Psychedelic Furs, Billy Idol, Supertramp or Styx, that last one especially, though it could be none of them, they're just suggestions. However, it might also be an alt rock/grunge song, but I doubt that. I believe it's from the eighties or nineties, has a somewhat uptempo vibe, and was fairly popular. I remember the lyrics were something like "take me/ taking/taken away" or just "something away" or "something to me". And finally, the part in question sounds somewhat similar to the part from KMFDM's Looking for Strange that starts at 0:56.
Edited by IHateMyselfAndWantToDieopenA sitcom
I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the sitcom if it was even classified as such but every episode was supposed to be a recording that a kid who is now grown up made. There's a lazy father and an overprotective mother and the main character (the kid) had an older brother and an older sister. The main character (the kid) liked to film and at the end of every episode we would usually see a real life clip from the creators childhood on which the episode was based on. So if somebody knows which show i'm talking about could they please tell me the name
Edited by DevilishChevonopenScience Fiction Book, World Stuck at Medieval Technological Levels Literature
Years ago I read a summary for a book/ series about a world kept at a low level of technology. I do not remember any specifics about the plot, only that the setting was a planet forced into Medieval Stasis by a Kill Sat that destroyed anything moving faster than about 30 miles an hour. (So riding around on horses and carts was alright, but trains and automobiles and projectile weaponry were right out.) Nothing in the Literature sections of the Medieval Stasis and Kill Sat pages rings a bell, so any help tracking down this book would be much appreciated!
openim not sure
there used to be a tv show back in the late 90s or early 00s and it was a lot of little skits to make up the whole episode. there was one skit that i remember that had like i wanna say a french painter who never spoke throughout the show but would draw and interact with the audience (us) while there was a pretty popular classical song playing in the background. he would be wearing like a blue "dress" with black "leggings", a stereotypical french hat, and had a huge mustache across his face.
openHawaii Five-O (1968) Episodes Identification
This should be fairly easy for any die-hard Five-O fan. These snippets were all I could get from the Season 11 and 12 DVD previews... Links to said previes and timestams provided below.
Season 11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilfkfih2wsc)
- This episode has Mc Garett declaring "I will not have you bringing your hoods to Honolulu and turning this place into a shooting gallery." (0:28)
Season 12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XklrF55kPD0)
- Bearded man smashes a store window (0:25)
- Mc Garrett declaring "I will not have a group of self-styled vigilantes roaming the streets of Honolulu." (0:30)
- An apparent Ms. Fanservice is shown taking off her clothes and revealing her legs (0:34)
- Mc Garrett in a Mexican Standoff with a sniper. Mc Garrett then warns him, "Put it down, or else I'll blow your brains out!" (0:40)
- Mc Garrett angrily berating a man over the radio with "Don't you threaten me!" (0:57)
openLive Action, Fantasy, Spanish Language Film
I asked this on Reddit(https://goo.gl/9Ye98R) a year ago, with no success, so I thought I might as well try it here. I apologize for the spelling mistakes in the original post. It was a fantasy Spanish film that I suppose was made by the '50s or '60s judging by the look and sound. By the time I found it, the movie was half over, so I don't know what happened before then. The details, or at least what I could remember at the time, are outlined in the Reddit post, but the most prevalent features to me were the shantytown, the angel-like creatures, the oil tycoon whose name was Mr.(SeƱor) Moby or some variation of it, and the scenes I listed. I especially recall the gag of the citizens paying to have a 'front row seat' to the sunset. The film aired on a Spanish channel(if I'm not mistaken, it was a Sony channel), so it wasn't dubbed or subbed. My knowledge of Spanish at the time was, at best, mediocre, so sorry I wasn't very exact on here nor Reddit. Thanks in advance.
Edited by uncreativeusername8openA Interior Desing Competition
A Tv reallity show where couples decorated a white apartment and were judged by a man with a cane. If they wan the competition they would receive a house for themselves to live
openOld show on Adult Swim Live Action TV
This show is pretty old I think. I remember watching it on Adult Swim when I was younger. It was about people who lived underground for some reason. I think there was a robot but I can't really remember much else. I think one of the guys name was Sal? for some reason that name sounds familiar. I wish I could remember what it was called.
openA group of kids in power suits? Western Animation
I remember a cartoon from when I was a kid so it probably came out in the late 1990s or early 2000s and I'm not entirely sure if it was a western animation or anime. What I remember is a group of kids who end up on an island and they receive pendants that give them a power suit. I remember one episode where the girl is called to the sea by her pendant and has to fight a female sea monster to get it. I think towards the end of the series they had to fight their shadow selves to save the world or something. It's really all a blur and I could have combined shows or something but I would love know what the show is so it stops eating away at me.
open"Two friends hear a noise" skit.
I saw this video years ago. And I NEED to know what it was called, here's the structure: Two friends are watching TV and making fun of Ellen De Generes, and then they hear a mysterious sound from outside. Scared out of their mind, they decide to do a bunch of mini-competitions (rock paper scissors, thumb wrestle, etc.) to decide who will go outside to see what the noise is. After one of the friends loses, he goes outside shoulders straight and chin up, and investigates. We only see the other friend at this point. Inside the house, waiting patiently for answers, after a ton of loud sounds, his friend comes back and says something like "It was the neighbour's dog." I may not have gotten the video correct exactly, but it was something along those lines.
openSome cartoon with kids that have fighting monsters Anime
It had 3 protagonist,2 male 1 female and they had thease monsters they call out to fight,one was like a polar bear and tiger hybrid,the other one resemled a moose and the third one i cant remeber,they had some blue elements and the monsters of the bad guys had red elements,it was eithwr anime or western media i dont remember that much
openAnimated show ,possibly anime?
its was a while ago, its driving me nuts , there was an animated show with possibly detectives trying to solve these murders , and i think it was demons or vampires killing humans, and i think they found a portal in the ground that they originated from in some town. The problems is that i cant remember if it was on adult swim or was on some anime channel. Other possible details are that there was also an elite force of these detectives that the main character was introduced to , and the last episode i remember there was a guy with a group of people holding a bat across the back of his neck. Not sure if he was part of the elite group or was one of the bad guys..
openTravelling/teleporting man in black Top Hat?! Western Animation
An 80s - early 2000 era kids animated series. Of a gentleman wearing a top hat and suit who would visit new places. I don't think he would speak much if at all. He would also change his attire to blend in with the new environment. Had the show on vcr and reaaally want to remember the name!!!
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 THENEGUY