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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
20th Aug, 2017 11:03:26 PM
Could it be
from Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension?
dutchguy1986
Since: Jul, 2014
21st Aug, 2017 01:41:36 AM
Something like 2 definitely happened in Eerie indiana: the other dimension, but I think 1 was from the original series, not sure though.
jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
21st Aug, 2017 03:39:27 AM
1 sounds like "The Newsroom" episode
Edited by jormis29 Working on cleaning up List Of Shows That Need Summary
Yam
Since: Jan, 2010
21st Aug, 2017 08:00:00 AM
It was Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension. Thank you.
Live action show about a high school or middle school student that keeps having sci-fi scenarios happen to him. Probably from the late 90's or early 2000's. Aired in Canada. Here are some episodes I remember.
1) He orders a machine from a newspaper. When he gets the machine it is just a decorated cardboard box. He goes to the newspaper office and complains. The newspaper employee shows him that the fine print of the ad says that the machine may not look as advertised or do the things the ad saids it can. The employee then smugly saids that everything that their paper saids is true (turns out the newspaper makes things that are written in it true somehow). Some time later they are asking the protagonist how many people should die in a story they are writing. The employee thinks it should be eight because it sounds sadder to him. He asks the protagonist the question like this "what do you think sounds sadder, fourteeen or eiiiight."
2) The protagonist's older sister meets a woman that makes beauty products. At some point the sister willingly allows herself to have a plastic mask affixed to her face (she also wears a blonde wig, and maybe a pink dress that matches the woman's aswell). She looks like she is in a Halloween costume. The brother narrates "when some one loves you they'll sometimes call you a doll, but now I'm afraid that [woman's name] is trying to make my sister into her plaything." The mask will break if the sister thinks too hard. The brother decides to give her a math problem to solve (as she has a love for math). She does the math problem, the mask cracks and she peels it off.
Edited by Yam