You Know That Show...
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4 Oct 14th, 2016 at 1:01PMI found this game a few years back online, i quit the game because I couldn't even beat the first dungeons monsters(I was too young to actually realize that if you run from all fights till the boss battles you won't be able to beat the boss) in the game these kids are trick or treating, they knock on the door of a haunted house and fall into this weird halloween town type place, the main character has Cloud's(ff7) hairdo and what if I remember right looked like Tidus' Brother Hood sword which went from plastic to a crystal blade, and the Big Bad if I remember was Gipetto, that's all I remember plotwise, thx for your help if you can tell me the answer! Just remembered that you got jack Skelingtion on your team, and I think a pirate, the pirate definitely taught you to fight though.
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Sounds a lot like Kingdom Hearts, though that's not online. Possibly a KH fan game. -
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2 Oct 18th, 2016 at 9:09PMSo Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 parodies a song that I know form *somewhere* in this performance of her song "Anus" The song starts at around 1:39 and the chorus that I recognize is at about 2:25. This video is NSFW unless you work in a drag bar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJh9Sn4-7qM
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2 Oct 18th, 2016 at 7:07PMIt's more along the lines of background music, but I'm certain it has a name. The closest I can get for the rhythm goes in a "la-lalala la la-lalala" and just keeps going; I'm not good with identifying rhythms, unfortunately. The tune is relatively calm if disturbing. It's a kind of circus music (at least, I affiliate it with circuses).
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1 Oct 18th, 2016 at 10:10AMWestern AnimationOK, so the show I'm looking for had a clip used in the Youtube Poop "SUPER DUPER SUPER MEN," so be sure to check there. It's animated in paper cutouts, and one of the main characters is a bear. It aired on the Finnish channel YLE. One scene involves a boy saving the bear from a crack in an icy pond. (That's about all the info I can give you.) It will help me if you can find the name of the show. Thanks.
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If the bear is a three-dimensional plush figure, not a paper cut-out like the other characters, this is Paddington.
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3 Oct 16th, 2016 at 2:02PM[1]
◊ They look like they're from the same episode.
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4 Oct 8th, 2016 at 4:04PMLiterature
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10 Oct 16th, 2016 at 1:01PMMy friend was describing a creature that she saw a little girl holding a stuffed animal of. She thought it was a Pokemon and told me about it because I'm a huge Pokemon nerd, and I'm trying to figure out what exactly the stuffed animal could be. She described it as a cross between a tiger and a dragon, with normal yellow/black tiger colors and it had dragon wings. I asked if it was more cute or badass, and it was more badass looking. It was on all fours, and she thinks the dragon parts were blue/black colored. I then showed her a bunch of possible Pokemon that I could think of and none of them were what she saw. The Pokemon that I showed her: Raikou, Arcanine, Landorus (the changed form version), Pyroar, Luxray, Solgaleo, Absol, Entei, Type: Null, Ampharos, Heliolisk, and also Saber Leomon from Digimon (might as well give it a try lmao) So now I'm not sure if it's a Pokemon or if it's from some other creature-based show. It's killing me not knowing.
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If it's not a Pokémon or Digimon, maybe something from Monster Rancher or Yo Kai Watch?
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3 Oct 17th, 2016 at 6:06AMLive Action TVExactly what it says on the title. Little kids fight over a crystal, and there is a scene when the crystal was catapulted off and a kid got a telephone stuck on his/her head. There is also a part when a couple get joined together (I mean, they became one body two head person thing) because of the aforementioned crystal. Also, there is a joke about someone who literally uses rolls and rolls of tissue after touching one "unhygienic" thing. Ideas?
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2 Oct 17th, 2016 at 11:11AMLive Action TVA teenage girl (brunette) was worried about being in the hospital on Friday night as she wanted to do stereotypical Friday night stuff including dating. I know it was British as everyone had English accents and the girl was calling soccer "football" and didn't like it. And there was a baby named Aggs or even Eggs and there were cartoon stink lines when she needed to be changed, and I remember at the beginning, the girl said that the "world was adopting the shape of a pear".
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Possibly The Story Of Tracy Beaker, or one of its sequels or spin-offs? The main character had dark hair and there were animated sequences, which might fit with the cartoon stink lines. -
Probably Girls In Love (the adaption of The Girls Series)
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1 Oct 17th, 2016 at 7:07PMLiteratureI cannot remember if this is a book, film or show, but I think I read about this on TV tropes, I cannot remember which tropes. In it, a teacher is resentful towards a student whose father has criminal charges. I think the student is bullied as well. I wish I can remember more, but can anyone please help? This is driving me nuts.
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That is a pretty vague starting point to work with. However, the trope at play sounds like Sins of Our Fathers so you might find the work on that page.
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0 Oct 17th, 2016 at 8:08PMI watched this show once when I was very young and my mother told me not to watch it anymore because of how gross it was. This little girl needs help unplugging the giant nose mountain because someone shoved a giant cork in its nostrils. The nose threatens to sneeze the entire episode, which would blow it up and the town below it. The girl goes to a big cave where an evil momster is supposed to live, but instead a HUGE Scottish cyclops or three-eyed monster(complete with bagpipes, kilt, and accent) lives in peace because he doesn't like visitors. He fixes her some tea maybe and they talk about the nose mountain until they come up with how to fix it. Somehow the nose is unplugged and it sneezes, but instead of exploding giant snot cubes float down the river, this is why I wasn't allowed to watch it. The girl and the monster go back to town where the monster is accepted by the townspeople.
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3 Oct 16th, 2016 at 12:12PMI seek the name of a TV-Serial for children/Teens from ´80s: Some children, maybe with an adult as leader, are able to teleport and/or time travel. I think that they are using a wristband. In one scene, one or more of the children jump of a bridge and disapeer i a bright oval light. It could be a British show. I think that in one episode they go back i time to the middel age and help some local kids. I know that is not much to go on. Thanks, René
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Could be the 1970s version of The Tomorrow People, later episodes of which had the main characters use wrist devices called "jaunting bands" to control their teleportation (in earlier episodes they used belts). The term "jaunting" for teleportation was a shout-out to Alfred Bester's novel The Stars My Destination. I believe the series did feature the occasional time travel story. -
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2 Oct 17th, 2016 at 1:01AMWeb OriginalSo there was this youtube clip circulating on tumblr a while ago of a weird 3d anime with graphics that glitched out and character models that would distort when they talked. I feel like the audio was really scrambled as well. The title was something cryptic and the description was a paragraph of weird nonsense text that started with something like "Wanna see a dead body?". TBH it's kind of haunting me, it was very strange and I want to see it again but for the life of me I can't find it. Thanks guys!
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2 Oct 14th, 2016 at 9:09PMLive Action TV
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4 Sep 16th, 2016 at 11:11PMwhen i was younger i watched a show (it may have been a movie? i think it was a show, though) about a group of dogs who owned a tv channel or tv show. there was a jack russell terrier, a great dane, a chihuahua, and maybe a shar-pei? there was also a girl dog. the episode (?) i saw was where one of the dogs was having a costume party, i remember the chihuahua was dressed as dracula. the phrase 'roll over rover, this is dog tv' was used. help!
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I randomly found an old TV series on YouTube that has dog puppets. It's called Dog City and seems to be a Noir parody. It's by the Jim Henson company. Could that be it? -
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4 Oct 12th, 2016 at 7:07PMI think it was From Billy and Mandy or Dexter laboratory, They Scream WHATS IN THE BOX, WHATS IN BOX?????(In a Funny Voice) Everyone Tells me im thinking of the Movie Se7en But No, i remember hearing it as a kid and one of my friends are agreeing with me and were going crazy trying to remember what cartoon its from.
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Sure it wasn't Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure? (fast forward to 9:52
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It wouldn't happen to be from "The Secret Box" episode of Spongebob Squarepants, would it?
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1 Oct 17th, 2016 at 11:11AMLive Action TV
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2 Oct 16th, 2016 at 8:08AMLive Action TVI remember a quite unique sitcom from around the early 2000s, where the main character was a black man around the age 25-30 (might have been bald, or very short hair) who was killed by Death/The Grim Reaper/Angel of Death, but it was actually a mistake, so the man was given the option to return to his old life, altought he would be technically dead. One of the "symptoms" was that he didn't feel any pain, other might have been something like no heartbeat and cold body temperature. The Death character was a middle aged white man, who was a HUGE fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and(/or) her actress, having a big portrait/poster of her in his office building or whatever the place was. The main character would visit him sometimes. Other characters: (who all lived together in shared flat or something like that) White woman with short, blonde hair. Don't remember much about her, except that part of the greater plot was that she and the main character would eventually fall for eachother. *SPOILER* The big twist was that she was actually the person that was supposed to die. White woman with dark brown hair. While the blonde woman was generally nice, this character was angry/moody/bitchy. White man with somewhat long, brown hair. This character was bit immature and kind of a loser or deadbeat, who liked playing videogames, and asking the moody woman for a date. Some things I remember: While the main character was black and dead, I don't remember any focus on racial themes or humor, and the being dead aspect wasn't always the main focus for plot. The show might have been british, or maybe even australian. No idea really. I doubt there was more than one season. Some episode plots or situations: 1. For some sitcom reasons, they had a bar, atleast for a night. Everything was ready for the customers inside, everyone else was waiting for customers inside, while the moody woman was standing outside the door, and was supposed to lure in as much customers in as possible. Not a single one was coming in, and after checking the situation, the woman was declining every single person at the door for not being good enough for the place. 2. The deadbeat is playing videogames, and the MC asks for time. He replies something weird, like 4 am, and when questioned about it, he would reply it would be 4am in Vietnam, where the game was taking place. 3. The deadbeat suspects something is weird about the MC and comes to a conclusion that hes a russian spy or something along the lines. He (purposefully?) spills boiling hot water on his hand, and when he realises that he didn't feel any pain, says or thought something like "they trained you well, comrade". 4. Somehow, the moody woman accepts to go on a date with the deadbeat. He made a poor choice for the location, because it was a steakhouse, and she was a vegetarian. After looking trough the list, she says that "Ill have to take the starter salad, as its the only one no meat on it." He replies "But it has beef tomatoes in it." She: "Idiot, beef tomato is type of a tomato, its not meat!" Waitress interrupts: "Actually, the sir is correct. Our beef tomatoes are actually filled with beef." Thats pretty much all I can remember, everything might not be correct as it must be around 15 years since the show was shown in Finland. However, I doubt there is more than one show with that premise.
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0 Oct 17th, 2016 at 11:11AMLiterature
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0 Oct 17th, 2016 at 11:11AMLive Action TVIt's this live action TV show and all I remember is this one scene I watched when I was seven and looking for a different show. A woman (I think she was a brunette) was looking shocked, and (I think accidentally) flushed a bag of peppermints down the toilet. Then, she's seen crying and getting all emotional in front of a man and says in a choked up-voice "I'm sorry about the mints, Karl".
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0 Oct 17th, 2016 at 8:08AMBack in the 70's I remember a tv show that used B&W photos to describe life in the 1890's or 1900's. I have always believed that William Shatner narrated it but that could be me projecting. The only other thing I remember about the show is that it was broadcast basically in the Boston area. If anyone remembers the name of the show I would be deeply grateful.
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10 Oct 6th, 2016 at 1:01AMAnimeI think I saw this anime in around 2007-2010. The scene started with some kind of red and black monsters looking around a dark room. A little girl is shivering in a corner, and a white and blue monster saved her by using a laser to cut the entire roof of the room. The chase scene happens on a ruins, and ended in a high-tech looking room, where the white monster died after getting shot. The monsters look very simple, spherical in nature, and the girl wears red clothing if I remember correctly. There is also a scene that shows a chunk land falling from the sky, and the escaped girl holding something resembling a crystal close to her chest Edit: more details Ideas?
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The falling reminds me of Castle in the Sky -
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2 Oct 9th, 2016 at 12:12PMLiteratureAs the title implies i'm looking for a book of short stories that I read at some point in the 90's. I remember one story that was about a kid that was scared to dive form the high board. The instructor tells him to come after closing time to practice diving from the high board. As he arrives he sees a girl dive into the empty ( as in drained of water pool) while the instructor cries. I think it ended with the boy being forced to climb up to the board by the instructor but I might be wrong. There is a chance this book was Dutch
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0 Oct 16th, 2016 at 5:05PMFilmI've been trying to remember the name of this movie... for years. I saw it in the late 1990s/early 2000s, possibly as a TV movie or a TV show pilot, on broadcast TV in the USA. It was a scifi adventure, with a spaceship. It starts out on a planet that is not Earth, with mostly humans, but included several different alien species coexisting. Here's what I remember about the characters: -main character is blonde or brown-haired man. -a tough, dark-haired woman -a child (I think a girl; it may have been the main character's daughter) -scary, hairless, humanoid aliens with pale white faces (they also wore robes) One of the first scenes is the main character arriving at a trading post on the planet, featuring an open sky with a few tents. This is where the main character and the woman meet. They later leave the planet together in a ship for a voyage or a mission. I don't remember the main plot, but I remember the subplot. The kid is abducted by a group of scary aliens on the planet. She was special, and they were using her for her mind or messing with her memories somehow.They helded her underground, in a cave. Their leader or god may have been trying to meld with her or use her for some purpose. I only remember it being a scary scene, watching it as a child. Anyways, the adults rescue her at the end. Any ideas?

















