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openVillage game from late 2010s (deleted?) Videogame
Hello, I remember a village game that was probably on most phone and tablet app stores back in the late 2010s. It might have been deleted, I don’t know.
It is closest to the game Virtual Villagers in its gameplay. You would try to grow this community and see it progress. The villagers were cartoony humans.
The map had a river in the upper part and land everywhere else. There was a major quest where you had to save a child that was in a basket. The child was supposed to be in the river and you had to craft a thing to help them get out.
I’m pretty sure it existed.
openRoad movie / action thriller (probably 1990s)? Film
I'm looking for an American road movie / action film / thriller, probably from (the second half of) the 1990s. My memory is very fuzzy and unreliable, but I dimly remember the following:
- a family travels by (a red?) car and is harassed by a (biker / rocker?) gang on a desert highway
- some family members (mother and/or daughter?) are kidnapped or tricked to come with the gang
- father sets out to rescue them(?)
- mother has short, dark brown hair
- "realistic" thriller (no comedy / horror / scifi / fantasy)
- set in USA
- climax: shooting in a biker bar(?)
- some similarties to "Breakdown" / "Kalifornia", but none of the two; probably lower budget, no famous actors (at least I don't remember any), possibly a tv movie.
Thanks a lot for any hint!
Edited by clueless66openLooney Tunes/Merry Melodies cartoon
I remember seeing a vignette style Looney Tunes or Merry Melodies cartoon when i was very little. I remember some of the skits: One was a large man drinking cow milk and then mooing like a cow, another involving squares where the "audience" closed their eyes and the screen went blank (a brief time the eyes opened and the narrator said "no peaking"), another one had a man chopping a tree shouting "Timber!" But it was then revealed to be just a stump. Anyone know this cartoon?
openWhat's the song in this video's outro Music
I know the song at the start, but what about the outro? https://youtu.be/SuU6kjNFPhA?si=2TrjD6c_DTWzOOqE
openSome movie from a long time ago. Film
I dont really know the details, all I remember is that the main character was a boy, it was animated, it took place in medieval times, and there was a scene where a man was trapped under a giant church bell.
openPuppet Airship Live Action TV
I seem to recall a show (possibly educational) about these puppet animals who lived on an airship.
There were transition scenes where I saw the airship rendered in CGI.
resolved An adult swim cartoon about a married couple with a baby. Western Animation
This is the most recent one I came across. Let me give the hint of the episode: Basically it focused on a married couple (The guy had orange hair and glasses while his wife's hair was black and curly) with a baby. The episode had the married guy attend a mall arcade where there was a birthday stripogram and the episode ended with a kid using an arcade gun and being mistaken for a hostage taker which caused the police cars and helicopter to surround the mall?
openA certain episode of Sailor Moon
I remember a scene from Sailor Moon where Uranus and Neptune were "teleported" in freaky way - by a bunch of black tentacles bursting from the floor and ensnaring them.
I think it was in the "Galaxia" arc but I'm not sure.
openreverse angry birds Videogame
title says it all pretty much, it was like a reverse angry birds game where you had to build a structure with a set of given parts that would stand up to an attack, that attack being from cats and the structure being made of household objects
openGirl and Boy on a Train Western Animation
Children's cartoon, possibly of UK origin, circa the late 1990s.
The setting felt Victorian/Turn-of-the-Century and focused of two characters: A little girl with dark hair, pale skin and a red dress and a young boy (who I think was poorer) with red hair, pale skin and a brown waistcoat suit. There may have been an older character who was a relative of the little girl who minded them.
The tone was grounded, don't really recall the story, but they went from place to place, I think. The art style, if I recall correctly, felt sort of like moving storybook illustrations. Sketchy, colourful, looked like colouring pencils and watercolour.
I definitely watched this a few times when I was very young, but all I really remember is the intro: the girl and the boy are on a train, with the carriage windows down. I think they go through an tunnel and the boy's face gets covered in soot.
openPost-apocalypse sci-fi movie where men hunt virgins Film
I don't remember where I saw this, but I think it was a 1990s or 2000s film, possibly 1980s. I must have seen this over ten years ago. It looked like a very low-budget B-movie. The costumes looked very cheap and the acting was terrible. The introduction showed a post-apocalypse kind of society where men hunted down virgin women. The women were stereotypically dressed in all white costumes. The men were hunting the virgins to use them for trading (for slavery or forced marriage). I remember a man chasing a woman (dressed in white) through a desert looking area with dirt and boulders. She was desperately trying to escape him. He caught up to her and wanted to rape her instead of capturing her, which would have ruined her value since she would no longer be a virgin.
I only remember watching a few minutes of the beginning and I thought it looked like a terrible film so I stopped watching. Since then I have grown a certain appreciation for low-budget B-movies so I'm interested to know what it is. It is possible that it was one of those "skin flicks" they used to show on Cinemax, Showtime, and HBO late at night in the 1990s and 2000s, but really I could have seen this anywhere.
opena book i read in elementary school, involving time dilation Literature
basically what i remember of this book is that this kid discovered an alternate universe in his basement. i forget what exactly he had to do, but he had to do something, so he told his friend that if his parents asked, he was staying at his house.
then when he went in and started getting closer to his goal, he felt time warping around him. afterwards, he went home and the only ones there were his now adult baby sister and her baby. i don't know why i remember nothing else, it's just this ending that really stuck with me.
i also remember the cover having these creatures on them that kinda looked like clockwork versions of the Pokemon Kabuto?
openSun sets in the credits Live Action TV
When I was about four or five years old I caught the credits of some show in my grandmother's house. The only things I can remember were the background footage being a close-up of a sunset and the music being a children's choir singing something (not sure what though). The only other things I recall are the credits themselves being in plain white text and both the text and the music stop when the sun disappears below the horizon. It's stuck with me ever since and I still have no idea where it came from.
openCartoon about a caterpillar Western Animation
I'm doing a trope single definition page and I'm trying to find a source for this cartoon. Do any of you know?
openComic about a little girl in a vaguely Midwest setting
The main thing I remember about this comic book I read years ago is this scene in a comic where the main character is drowning and the panel gradually gets filled up with their thoughts as they’re freaking out until what’s implied to be a hallucination of their mom’s ghost shows up and goes *hush*, and takes up the whole panel hugging her. and they get out of the water.
The main character is this spunky little girl, and the comic’s color palette mostly concists of these orangey reds and pinks.
openRich Man Buys Things and Paint them Red Print Comic
A short comic, probably from an anthology - in a small town, the richest guy in town is driving around when he sees a couple on a date at a restaurant. He thinks the scene is romantic, so he buys the restaurant and paints the table, chairs and some of the floor red.
The townspeople don't mind at first, because they're getting the money. But, he keeps doing it in other places - a bench where an old man was feeding the birds, a swing in a park where kids were playing... the people start getting mad about him trying to buy their happiness and keep them from going to those places. In the end, they all storm his mansion and kill him.
The story's a bit like a Tales from the Crypt story, but it was probably made much more recent, maybe during the eighties or nineties. It might be from some european anthology, but if it is, it's been translated to english.
Edited by Mac_RopenTumblr Post About Specimen Tube Trope Web Original
This was a humorous post about a sci-fi trope (I don't know if it has a name). It went something like this...
"What did you do with the unknown life form?"
"It's suspended in a vertical tube of translucent blue liquid."
"Are there bubbles in the liquid?"
"Yeah, every couple minutes a bunch of bubbles rise to the top."
"How's the lighting?"
"Well, the lab's pretty dark, but there's a bright light shining into the tube from underneath."
"Good work."
resolved Video game where villain turns people into wolfman minions (including the heroine in a Game Over) Videogame
The main villain blasts people with a transformation beam thing that turns them into wolf like creatures that are under his control. There's a Non-Standard Game Over where the if the heroine gets blasted in a particular fight (I think against her brother, who just got transformed as well) we see her transform and then get booted to the Game Over screen in a complete aversion of Heroic Willpower. I think the game was a pretty standard PS 2 era action game with a slightly cartoony art style.
openLiterature/Sandstorm
Literature.Sandstorm: Made in 2011, the only info on the internet seems to be that page?
On YMMV.Phineas And Ferb, under Accidental Innuendo, this quote is listed:
"Wow...Heinz Doofenshmirtz is way too hot, we should get out of him."
As someone who grew up with this show and probably saw just about every episode of it, I have no idea what episode this line came from. Does anyone know.