I'm trying to remember an old TV show episode. It was The Dark Side or something similar. There was a lab, and some scientists were working with rats. They were stressing the rats to see if the stress caused them to evolve. They chose rats because they breed fast. To their horror and demise the rats did evolve. They were stealing stuff to make weapons with, and ended up killing the scientists.

I very vaguely remember a show, perhaps just a pilot for a show, which I think was on Nickelodeon. It was about this boy band, which at some point works in a restaurant. The food comes to life and starts talking to them, saying "if the something something inspire, something something perspire". This somehow convinces them to dance, and that resolves the conflict.

As I said, I have only the vaguest idea. Only that one scene sticks out in my memory.

This is REALLY vague, I apologize in advance. I won't bump this or anything, I am just seeing if anyone here can hazard a guess.

A friend of mine heard a song last night, and she was sure she was going to remember what it was, but she didn't.

Here's what we know for 100% certain:

It was a cover. The intro sounded so much like the original that she didn't realize it was a cover until the singing started. Both the original and the cover had men's voices singing.

Here are the "probables":

Probably,

It was mostly electronic. It was "pop" or "rock" (but not too hard) The original was by a British group. The original was by a white group. The original was from the 80's. The cover was by a black group. The subject of the song had to do with illegal activities, crime, jail, and/or prison.

The original was not by a band that she knew the name of, so we are thinking some sort of one hit wonder band of the 80s.

Does this inspire anyone to make a guess?

Does anybody remember a trendy evening show from the 90s UK TV, it had the following title sequence, the last part of it went like this: It was all CGI and it featured clean red can-like robots on a white background. The last part was a robot snapping his teeth at the screen. It was quite simple, but well animated. I thought at first it was something like 'The Tube' or 'The Word' but searching those names brought up different titles. Does anyone know the name of it? Thanks, Dave.

Someone once told me about a story where a hero (possibly a Hero With Bad Publicity or some other for of outcast) commits a Heroic Sacrifice and is killed by a volcanic eruption... Does that ring the bell for anyone?

I remember my father reading this book (at some point before 2007, and probably after 2000), I started reading it too, but never got very far. Several years before the start of the story, the protagonist's brother disappeared after being accused of raping and murdering a woman. Said brother's blood was found on the crime scene, but the protagonist believes it to be a result of a fight between the brother and the real rapist/murderer. Several years later, while going through his mother's stuff, the protagonist finds his brother's picture, and according to the date on the picture, it was taken some time after the brother's disappearance. I never read further than that, but I would like to read the book. Does anyone know what it is?

There was this book that I read four years ago. I it was published in the mid 80's or early 90's.The main character's name is Casey.

The book was about her feeelings and conflicts with her older sister and her baby sister Charlie, whose relationship with her is the main focus of the plot. One of the parts of the book that I remember the most,is when Charlie had a babysitter who was especially fond of her but ignored and was rude to the rest of the family. The climax is when the babysitter kidnaps Charlie, because she believes Charlie was her baby that was taken away from her.

Sorry if this query is vague. I last saw this when I was 5 or 6. It was a set of educational videos about human anatomy that used a mix of live action segments and maybe CGI. The videos were organized by the systems of the body starting with the skin and ending with the reproductive system-don't trust me on the last part. One of the videos included a video of yodeling to illustrate the act of respiration or something like that. I hope this is enough.

I remember seeing a couple scenes from this anime-esque animation back in 2009 or so. It showed a very graphic depiction of what looked like World War I. It may not have been made in that year though. I would appreciate some ideas.

I remember reading this book back when I was around 13 or 14; It was a completely bizarre story featuring a bunch of patchwork sacks that appeared in airports around the world that started disgorging monsters, which rapidly destroyed human civilization. The human protagonists got around the country on a stellar-powered train. The cover had what appeared to be a recolored basset hound with badly shopped-on monster parts. the cover was also rather cracked, so I'd imagine that the book wasn't a recent (back then) publication.

Trying to identify an animated film (or series?)I saw in the 90s about a girl who could talk to a dolphin, and there was a stranded female whale too. I have only vague memories but I'm pretty sure Moby Dick (or his ghost?) also made an appearance and told a story to the girl about whaling or something like that. I don´t remember anything else about it.

This could either be a TV series, a made for TV movie or a TV pilot. It's about a boy and a girl who could travel through different parallel worlds, like Sliders, I believe. I remember the girl speaking broken English (broken Spanish, actually, since the show was dubbed, although I'm sure the original language was English) and having a futuristic gun, and the world they were in was one in which the was no oil (I think because a fungus-eating oil or microorganism consumed it all, but I'm not sure) so there were no combustion machines. There were bicycle gangs instead of motorcycle gangs, for example. They also had to use vegetable oil (castor, perhaps) as lubricant.

Any ideas?

I have a vague recollection of watching someone else play a game, don't remember the console, although it was 3D and rather modern graphics, probably PS 2 or something like that.The memory involved a level (?) and you having control of first a man, then a woman and finally some sort of animal (mentioned as a dog) transcending the level (might have been a tower) and then getting sealed away one after another. Anyone know this game from this?

It was a young adult novel, average length. I believe there was an egg on the cover. I'm not sure when it was written, sometime in the last few years most likely. It was about the future, and in it, only teenage girls can become pregnant. People sponsor girls to become pregnant. The protagonists are two twin girls that were separated at birth, and the chapters switch between their POV. One of them lives with her adopted parents, and is trying to find someone to be their sperm donor. The other lives with nuns, and is really religious and perky and thinks these teen pregnancies are wrong. I didn't get very far into the novel, but at one point, via a screen, an adult male contacts the twin that's trying to get pregnant, only that twin is asleep and they mistakenly talk to the religious twin instead.

This may have been a 'Sci Fi Original' or not. I certainly saw it one weekend on Sci Fi (before the name change). Flavor-wise, in my head, I'm thinking it was a parody of Jeepers Creepers, though very much on the comedic side of horror-comedy, but hopefully that won't mislead anyone. The protagonists were 'Those Two Guys', and the climactic scene involved them utilizing the baddie monster's transforming mecha monster truck thing against him. This took place on an abandoned farm, I think.

Any idea what this was?

My mom's trying to find a show that she used to watch in the 90s. She says that it was an anime, but she also told me that the only channels she would have had access to at that time were Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. It might have been a Western Animation that resembled an anime in style. There was a girl and her brother, and they went to a village. She thinks that they went there to find their dad. There were stalls of rotten food. Nothing in the village was right. That's all she can remember. Anybody have any ideas?

Let's see. I'm pretty sure this was Western Animation I saw while on a long roadtrip from Southern California to South Dakota, as I was fairly young, and have lots of family up in the Midwest. My Granny lived in South Dakota. Could've been anywhere from 1990-1999.

My sister and I were watching a cartoon, and I don't remember much but the plot. It was some female superheroes, and at the end the leader, I think, made a Heroic Sacrifice to shove the bad guy into the sun, taking her with it?

Very vague, I wouldn't know what it looked like by now, just that plot sticks with me. I think it was new at the time, but I could be wrong.

I remember that the intro had something to do with bacteria, virus or some other microscopic thing in the clouds dropping down with the rain and infecting people, a secret team that's like x-files\xcom responding, an episode about a mars invasion machinery that converts people into skeletons in vacuum suits with hand cannons for soldiers. It was something too creepy to be a children's show and I can't get this out of my mined after watching it like 10 years ago...

It's an ANIME about an Earthquake. Can't edit the medium.

I'm not talking about Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.

I remember watching a few minutes of the first episode. A kid, who's the main character I think, goes to school and when he gets to class, he's just talking to his friends and then theirs an earthquake. I stopped watching after that, but I remember reading a bit about the plot and I think the show goes a few months or years into the future after the earthquake. I think all electronics will no longer work and there is some sort of government plot though I'm not entirely sure.

I remember the poster of the anime showing the three main protagonists. All three are kids; 1 girl and 2 boys.

A movie about a kid with leukemia or something similar. I don't know how it begins. At one point, two bullies tell the protagonist that they will beat up another kid, who also has leukemia. He tries to warn him, but ends up leading the bullies to him. The other kid now hates the protagonist and tells the whole baseball team that he is a bed-wetter to get him kicked out of the team. The protagonist ends up finding some magic cure for leukemia that has to be taken on a specific night (I think he had a scientist friend who died). In the end, he ends up giving the cure to the other kid while the other kid is asleep. I also remember that the protagonist's best friend's brother was named Percival, and in one scene, the best friend punches one of the bullies in the stomach, because, according to Percival, fat people always cry when hit in the stomach.

I don't remember much about this film, but I remember it's about two criminals who hide in a church, and they're wet, and drops of water fall from them towards St. Mary's statues, making it look like the statue is crying.

If I remember correctly, this film takes place in some Arabian kingdom during the Middle Ages. A king enters a tailor's shop, and the young man working there manages to solve a puzzle contained in the king's necklace. This convinces the king that the young man is his long lost son, and the young man goes with the king. In the end, the king finds out that the young man is not the prince, and the young man returns to the tailor's shop, only to escape soon after to go on another adventure.

I saw this show when I was about 4 or 5 around 1998-1999. I'm not sure if it was made during this time, but it was a (possibly) black and white animated kids show that had two talking dog characters that lived together, and i think they had british accents. The one episode I remember clearly was that they were redoing the wallpaper in their house and one dog scraped off a layer and found a secret door behind it. when they opened it it put them in another dimension and it was REALLLY trippy. They rode off into the universe on a train car. If anyone knows the name of this show please reply! It is such an erie memory.

A boy's tongue grows really, really long. I think it is because he was granted a wish. It's a show for kids. I think he may have been on a boat when it happened. I think it was a british canal boat. Watched 10 years ago.

I believe it was a videogame cutscene. I saw it once somewhere. It was some giant godlike dude holding the earth. And like, he poked it with one finger, and there was flames from him breaking into the atmosphere. and just before he touches the ground, the finger is caught by a hero with stupidly bulky muscles, and is driven into the ground. I don't remember there being any more than that. Anyone know what is was?

A film we got to see the first half of in school, set in rural southern USA post Vietnam war (I think, could be WW 2), features a poor family (father can't work due to PTSD from the war, lots of flashbacks), a lot of it centres on a group of kids and their friends, searching junkyards, freewheeling into a pond on a bike. There's also an antagonist blonde guy who bumps the veteran's car, and a fairly young girl driving a car. Can anyone help? :)

A boy's tongue grows really, really long. I think it is because he was granted a wish. It's a show for kids. I think he may have been on a boat when it happened. I think it was a british canal boat. Watched 10 years ago.

(Double post. Sorry)

(Possibly a film broadcast on TV.) Long, long ago—probably between 1965 and 1970—I saw a program that involved a villain who could not be killed because he had removed his heart and hidden it in a safe place. Thus it was an instance of the Soul Jar trope. Here's what else I think I remember (no guarantees): The setting was lavish and baroque, like something from the Arabian Nights. The bad guy was a ruler or a wizard (or both). The protagonist(s) was/were young; no more than teen-age. It was shown during the "family entertainment" block that used to exist on Sunday evenings.

All very vague and so long ago. Does anyone else recall something like this?

Inane, but my brain is horribly bad at remembering things. I was at a grocery store today and saw an interesting magazine, but I can't remember the name of it now. It was mainly white, with a name like Independent Artist(s), and was talking about specular highlights, aerial/overhead views and drawing inspiration from landscapes.

US, and this was for sale, just published. Issue 91?

I read somewhere that the original planned ending for this show (could have been a movie) would have the main character or the main character's wife murdered by (I'm almost positive) a hitchhiker. It would have been a Sudden Downer Ending, since the show (?) was a comedy.

I'm sorry this is so vague, but it's been bugging the hell out of me.

I need your help on this one. What costume is Stuart wearing at the Halloween party in "The Holographic Excitation" from The Big Bang Theory? It looks like it must be something, and I cannot tell what it is. Purple coat, huge brown hat, rather big beige cravat. Historical costume, probably stylized Victorian period. Does it ring a bell? Here's a link (youtube video).

I thought it might be Doctor Who as Stuart once wore another Doctor's outfit (the one with the iconic colourful scarf). I was Googling pictures and I read Iconic Outfit but nothing popped up. It also vaguely reminds me of Mad Hatter from Alice In Wonderland, but not quite, so I don't think that's it either.

Thanks!

I'm trying to remember this game a childhood friend of mine had. It must have been around 10 years ago we played it, probably on a PS 2 (though it could have been older). I live in the UK.

It was a fantasy setting and a turn-based strategy. You could adventure around a map (not in first-person, it was literally a map view) and hope to encounter different fantasy creatures that you could hire for your army. I remember using ogres, giants, dragons, daemons and sprites, with sprites looking like how I would picture faries. The battles were done by moving your groups - represented by one of each species/band thing - around a chessboard-like grid, with some types of units able to attack from range.

Do you know this one show where children would sing and dance at a diner? That's all I could remember and there was also a red head waitress.

I remember that the intro had something to do with bacteria, virus or some other microscopic thing in the clouds dropping down with the rain and infecting people, a secret team that's like x-files\xcom responding, an episode about a mars invasion machinery that converts people into skeletons in vacuum suits with hand cannons for soldiers. It was something too creepy to be a children's show and I can't get this out of my mined after watching it like 10 years ago...

It's going to be difficult to find this music video, because I don't remember anything about the song or the main part of the video, just a Talky Bookends type intro - it definitely was a music video, because the place I saw it was Pop Up Video. The intro had two people talking, we only saw both parties from the neck down, and there were a lot of hand gestures, presumably to make up for the fact that we couldn't see their facial expressions. The pop up captions informed us that this was a cost-cutting loophole - apparently it was cheaper to hire two actors in non-speaking roles, then dub them over with voice actors later than it would be to just have two actors both speaking and appearing on screen.

A French (maybe) cartoon about the human body. White blood cells are fighters/police and the red blood cells are firefighters. They ride in blood vessel trains and fight viruses, some (T-cells, maybe?) with whips and swords and other with some guns or stuff. The last one or two episodes are about a girl who gets leukemia and the cancer cells are invisible cells that tear up the trains and grope the women cells (?). She later gets a blood transfusion and gets better.

Hello - I'm searching for a book I read a few years ago. The main character was teenage girl, I think, and she was in some kind of fantastic land that was actually the Internet (she somehow believed/felt herself to be there physically and "talked" to people who were in chatrooms; etc. One person in one chatroom might have been named "Elektra" or something similiar. In the German version, anyway.) and had an animal partner there (a white ferret, maybe? It talked.) Also, the "villain" was a dragon, I think, and there was a creepy children's laugh when it was around because the dragon was somehow connected to a group of young children who were used as memory storage system by the actual villains. (That revelation was pretty much the (happy, as the kids got saved) end, I think.) Does anyone recognize this?

Science fiction slash possibly dystopian book I saw in a bookstore in South Africa within the last three years (2010-2013). Was a new release at the time, and possibly the debut novel by its author.

The cover was pink and grey. The blurb described a situation very similar to that of Nine Inch Nails's Year Zero concept album: surveillance state, new designer drug taking the world by storm, people across the globe having weird, possibly religious visions (possibly including hearing the Voice of God).

I looked up the author at the time. There was very little info on him, but I did find his Linked In page, which stated that his previous writing work was predominantly in video games (not extremely popular ones though). Pretty sure the author was English, though I suppose he could be American. I think his first name is some variation on Christopher.

Any ideas?

Either anime, or just a western cartoon. There was a group of people consisting of a boy and a one-eyed green monster who was similar to Mike Wazowski (but not), and some other people (probably, but i can't remember.) In this episode, I think the group had just left an outdoor market in the desert and were walking up a mountain path. That's all I can remember! Thank you in advance!

There is a scene from a cartoon I saw back in the 90's.

A boy goes on a school bus. He meets a girl there who has some kind of creepy marionette. I think it makes fun of the boy, but the girl is nice. Something happens and the puppet turns evil and takes control of the bus...and they have to find a way to stop him...I dunno, my memory's foggy on this part.

It stayed in my head all these years cause it creeped me out as a little kid, but I have no clue as to what it's from.

I'm trying to remember the name of a movie I watched years ago in class one day that was about a guy who was working on a graduate thesis, which he lost the rough draft of (I think he dropped it into a sewer or something) and it was found by a hobo. The hobo kept it and refused to give it back unless the guy did what he said, the point being to teach him an Aesop about being nice to others or something. I think the hobo moved into his house or lived in his car or something while they did this. Judging by the overall feel of the movie it was made sometime in the late 80s or early 90s and starred a fairly well-known actor (I want to say Matt Damon but it doesn't look like any of his movies fit this description). Does anyone remember it/have any idea what it might be?

Probably live-action tv or a movie, but there's a small chance it might be a book. I'm looking for a work with a Scannable Man, who is among other people who do not have barcodes (through time travel?). They ask him/her what it's for, and he tells them it actually rings up as a food item, possibly bananas.

This instance is not listed on the trope page. Anyone know?

I remember seeing something — I think it was a manga, but it could really be anything — in which two martial artists were poised to fight, but they weren't actually fighting, just making lightning-fast hand motions and changing stances while standing in the same place. Someone may have asked why they weren't doing anything, but in any case someone nearby explained that they were both so skilled and so equally matched that no one could do the first move, locking them in a position where neither of them could do anything but change stances to counter the other's prepared technique.

This film has a humorous scene in an open air or very airy restaurant, probably in New York, where some Jewish people are dining. The joke goes something like this:

Waiter brings dessert (let's say apple pie).

Customer: Oh I've changed my mind I want some [let's say chocolate cake].

Waiter duly brings alternative dessert.

Scene switches to the end of the meal and the bill. The customer who changed desserts seems confused.

Customer: This bill is wrong; you've charged me for chocolate cake. / Waiter: Yes that's right, sir. You did eat a chocolate cake, I believe. / Customer: But I gave you an apple pie in exchange for that chocolate cake. / Waiter: I agree, sir, but you didn't pay for the apple pie. / Customer: But I didn't eat the apple pie!

I believe the film was presented as a collection of Jewish American anecdotes.

I remember seeing a preview for this on a British gaming show called Game Pad, a video game I think was either survival horror or action adventure, but I'm totally unsure...

What I can remember is that it appeared to be Sci-fi, the main character was a male and he's talking to a woman in a cutscene. Suddenly, the girl is captured by a giant monster that proceeds to bite her head off then chase the protagonist. A Gilligan cut to a hallway where he has to press face buttons to dodge obstacles before he's killed.

If it helps, the game was probably rated M (due to the onscreen and bloody decapitation) and was definitely for a Play Station console due to the face buttons matching those for a Play Station controller

There is a song that I think I heard during the end of the 1999 or 2000 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards.

I know the singer was female... You know those Award Bait Songs? This would probably fit the theme.

EDIT: here's the (re-created) melody, and some of the lyrics in one of the posts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAENyZ5Lz8

^I guess a few people still remember some of the song...but what was it called? Who sang it?

Is there *coughhopefullycough* an mp3/ cd track for it? :)

I'm looking for a book I read in my middle school library, around 2008. The setting was very ancient egyptian and the main character's job was carrying a bowl of scorpions for the ruler. The ruler later dies and she has to escape the country and find his reincarnation. I think it had 'bowl' in the title? There's also some scenes in a catacomb and water is a very precious commodity. I think rain is an important plot point.

I remember seeing video's about some cool haunted house sim game or something where you need to use ghosts placed on various levels like a home and a party boat to scare people away. Also there were some sort of ghostbuster ripoff guys in the later levels and one of the ghosts was a cat that huanted a pinball machine or something. Also it was relatively recent.

This may read weird, but I'm trying to find this game that was still in development, last time I saw it. I think the basic premise was that you woke up on a space station, without other humans(this part I could be wrong about, or either all the humans are missing). The space station was either a testing facility or a space station, like in Doctor Who. I don't remember if you fought against anything. I know that there is a room in there that was a surgical room, and a machine would operate on you, givin you put in the correct stuff in the computer. The game was Fallout esque

Sorry if this seems confusing, but I'm hoping someone will know what I'm talking about.