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25 Nov 2nd, 2014 at 1:01PMMusic
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No, was faster tempo and less happy. Also I meant the lyrics literally were "something/someone in the way" not that I couldn't remember what the first word was. -
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It was actually "something/someone in the way" though I tried that it's not there. Now that I think about it it could have been "someBODY in the way" -
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"In the Way" by Ani Difranco? -
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Suggesting for exclusion. "Nothin's gonna stand in our way" Spectre General It matches the era and the one bit of lyric. Just doesn't match the genre -
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Also the song was fairly sad/minor key and medium tempo -
Probably totally off, but Apocalyptica - Far Away Vol. 2 has the lyrics 'There's something in the way, you're always somewhere else' and it's kinda medium tempo and sad? -
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Closest I can think of that I've heard once is "Something in My Way" by Gemma Hayes. I know it's not "in the way," but, just throwing that out there. -
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6 Nov 10th, 2015 at 9:09PMWestern AnimationPretty sure this was a TV cartoon (series) circa mid-late 1990s. I don’t remember the context but it was an adult male who was annoyed by the dorky teenaged/adolescent boy with him, who would keep singing impromptu songs in a high-pitched voice. One of them went along the lines of “We’ll have more fun than a barrel of monkeys!” Not much to go on, but I’ve had the silly “barrel of monkeys” song stuck in my head all day, and it’s driving me crazy! I need to remember what it’s from. I think it was one of those short-lived cartoon series that proliferated around the time (i.e.: in the wake of The Simpsons).
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Bump. I was thinking this might be a pilot that aired on Cartoon Network that was never picked up for series. Looking through their list of unsold pilots is pretty daunting, though. -
Bump again. As I recall, the lyrics went something like: “Fun, we’re having fun, more fun than a barrel of monkeys! Fun, we’re having fun, more fun than a barrel of MO-ON-KEYS!” I seem to remember the boy having blond hair and maybe glasses, whereas the older man he was with (perhaps the show’s villain) had dark hair. Might have been intended for kids and not adults. -
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2 Nov 2nd, 2013 at 3:03PMActually, it’s a website, and I can’t remember the name, The Simpsons for British Viewers, or something like that. It explained the US-centric cultural references in The Simpsons for UK audiences. I’m not British, but I found the site interesting. I tried doing a search, but my search terms aren’t bringing up the relevant site. Anyone know the site I’m talking about?
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0 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 2:02PMAnimeThere's a certain anime I've been trying to find for years now without any success. In it, a girl with blonde hair was rescuing a boy with red hair from...something in what I vaguely recall to be the desert. She also had to push through some sort of windy magic/power to reach where he was trapped, and upon reaching him I believe she hugged him. If this helps, there was once a fairly popular AMV about it on YouTube, set to "Inama Nushif" from Children of Dune (this AMV is the only place I've seen evidence of this series, and unfortunately it now appears to be deleted). If anyone can tell me the name of it, I'd greatly appreciate the help. Thanks for your time.
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0 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 10:10AMFilmI'm trying to find out the title of an old black-and-white movie about two men plotting the perfect murder, as a purely intellectual exercise — or so it seems. It turns out that one man intends to employ the scenario on the other, in revenge for the death of a woman he loved. It takes place in an isolated mansion, and at the climax the victim finds himself locked inside, while a recording of his own description of the perfect murder plays over and over. Finally, he breaks out and begins driving away at top speed, thrilled at the prospect of escaping and surviving. The other man appears on the road with a rifle, intending to shoot the victim as he rounds a bend, but has second thoughts and doesn't go through with it. However, the victim loses control of the car and crashes, dying anyway. I keep thinking this might be one of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, or maybe an episode from his TV series, but I can't find anything that matches it in his filmography.
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2 Aug 27th, 2016 at 9:09PMWebcomicThe story stars with the spawning/creations/purchase of a expensive princess unit, and continues mostly from her world view for the first major arc. The country is a city-state. First part of the story arc 1 is her proving she worth the resources, Secondly it deals with the troubles of City-State. Her country eventually does fall, while she is out on a mission with a few other units. She can feel the status changes. and the second arc continues after a longtime (very large amount rounds) later to follow a new cast, that after a lot of adventure, happen to find and capture the old capital from arc 1, with a small weak force. Not being able to hold it they raise the capitol for the resources. They also found a note from the old king's fortune teller, address to them. Not long after they run into the former princess who is still alive an operating a a rouge/wild/barbarian unit This is a mostly text based similar in format to Paul Gassis's "R-505 Flying Cloud". http://airships.paulgazis.com/001/FlyingCloud001.htm
The setting is Fantasy, so weapons are magic, beasts, bows etc. In arc two one of the parties had flying animals (griffins I think). The characters taking in terms of rounds, turns and movement.
Arc one Characters are all movers-and-shakers for the city-state, the the issues they have. Arc two hints at larger world troubles but the characters are more adventure level feel (ie not the top government types)
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0 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 4:04AMLive Action TVI'm trying to remember the name of this show that had a domino-masked protagonist. Apparently, it involves demons or something. One episode that I can recall is about some girl in a Catholic convent has a magical macguffin that the bad guys (one of them being some kind of BDSM nun?) want and apparently were responsible for her parents' death. And she was half-demon too.
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1 Sep 2nd, 2016 at 1:01AMLive Action TVI will be so grateful if anyone remembers this show... A woman who I think had a Northern European (not British) accent, I think had red hair, I think was called Molly, went on journeys to European countries (Denmark, Holland...) in each episode in her 'mechanical mole' (kind of a steampunk submarine vibe) and would try some of the food, talk a bit about the culture and tell folk stories from the place. I have been tormented for months trying to remember! Please help. I was born in 1987 so it was probably screening around 90-94ish, probably on BBC.
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3 Aug 11th, 2016 at 4:04PMLive Action TVSince my old post has over 50 replies, I decided to make them two different posts hoping that it will be easier. An American sitcom (sometime between the 1960s and 1990s) with one episode involving two friends (both female) at a party with a snobby woman (I assume she's wearing blue) and then they 'accidentally' push the snobby woman into the fountain (which was in a courtyard in the middle of a house, so it was a patio type area), it was at nighttime but really bright as if lit by moonlight as well as the lights of the house. Does anyone know what the show is? And if so, what episode was I referring to? This has been bugging me for the majority of my life and I have yet to find more information about it. PLEASE HELP ME!
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1 Sep 2nd, 2016 at 11:11AMWestern AnimationI remember as a kid I used to watch Wow Wow Wubbzy, but when I watched it for too long these zombie-like characters popped up and spooked me. I believe the zombies spoke in Creepy Monotone or something like it. Does anyone know what episodes they were in or what characters they were, for that matter?
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5 Sep 1st, 2016 at 1:01AMMusicHey there. I'm looking for 2 specific songs. The first I heard at Universal Studios, while leaving, on City Walk, from the big NBC sports bar. It was an uptempo rock thing, definitely sounding European, maybe English or Irish. I remember it because the singer did this wild falsetto thing with his voice, randomly flying way up the scale for basically no reason. Some of the lyrics were "talk to me, talk to you" and "I believe in a little thing called love." Sounded newer but I could be wrong. The second one is this bluesy thing, sung by a black American-sounding lady. It was on a commercial for Kohl's or something forever ago, with a black kid wearing headphones and walking down a school hallway. The main thing I remember from the song is the line "gotta get up," and there was some line about "stomping" too. Thanks to anyone who helps!
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First one has to be "I believe in a little thing called love" by The Darkness -
And the second one is probably Ride On Time (aka Hot Temptation) by Black Box -
The first one is right! Thank you so much. Sadly, the second one is not. It's more recent sounding and definitely not a dance track. "Gotta get up" is like a hook before an instrumental bit, I'm pretty sure. It's bluesy and really big, it sounds like the band Royal Deluxe, which is what caught my attention. -
Probably a worse guess, but Serena Ryder's Stompa? -
THAT'S IT! Thank you so much!! Not a bad guess at all! I didn't know it went Alt #1, though. Shameful that I didn't know it. Also, I totally got the race of the singer wrong and now I feel like a jackass.
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2 Aug 27th, 2016 at 10:10PMLive Action TV
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0 Sep 2nd, 2016 at 8:08AMIf anyone can help me, im looking for a Studio 4C animated short falling under their "amazing nuts!" series. The short featured 2 young ish people and what looked like an alien prince and I believe theyre trying to rebuild his rocketship to get him back home? The mood of the short was dreamy and had a dark blue palette. There is a questionable scene where it looks like the alien prince has some kind of foot fetish for one of the younger characters. The song in the BG reminded me a lot of the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" with whispery vocals, but the song itself is quite different. I havent seen this short since maybe 2008-9. Any help or leads are appreciated!!
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2 Sep 1st, 2016 at 7:07AMLive Action TVOkay so when i was little, i remember watching a Tv show about a team of 4(i think) young(20-30) engineers/inventors who would create awesome things, i remember that one of them's name is pronounced like:( zozy ), he is a blonde and they always used him as a tester for all their inventions, and i think their 'leader' was brune and tall, and the third one had a beard and he was the more 'expert' engineer! i can remember one episode they wanted to create a coffin like shaped capsule bed, that when you wake up, it would rise, take your clothes off, and start the shower! In my language they translated the show's name into: "The Prototype" but i can't seem to find a show with that name! By the looks it looked like it was made somewhere from 2006 to 2010, it looked pretty new! Random facts: every episode they would go to different engineers, for help and questions, and they would do different tasks with the help of engineers for ex: in one episode the leader went to someone in a different city, and they together cut some kind of cloth in shapes(dont remember why), and after they were done with the invention they would gather a lot of people(50-200) in their stage like thingy where they would present their invention! And i remember seeing this like 3-5 years ago(2013-2011) not quiet sure, the channel i watched this was 'Explorer Shkencë' which is in albanian and means science explorer!
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Prototype This! - here is the capsule episode. The show is made by the same people who made Mythbusters
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3 Feb 4th, 2016 at 1:01AMThere was a segment on a kids' variety show (I THINK the show may have been Itsy Bitsy Town, but I'm not sure) that was stop motion and involved moving foods around to create pictures or scenes. The food was not anthropomorphic at all, and there was no plot to the segments whatsoever, therefore I know that it was not Veggietales. There are two more key things I remember about the show: 1.) Each segment had the same background music; It would begin with an opera yell, which then transitioned into what I can only try to describe as "Sega Genesis" music 2.) The show these segments were a part of aired on Fox Family Channel (shortly after they'd just became Fox Family Channel) PLEASE get back to me, this has been driving me insane for years.
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And now it has it's own page
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2 Aug 31st, 2016 at 9:09PMIt was this kids TV show with an animation and format similar to Mr. Meaty. With grotesque puppets, but the main characters were a combination of puppets with 2d animated faces. The story was about a girl who has a paranormal investigator service and helps people with their weird problems. A running joke among the series was that when the girl answers her business phone she always changes the company slogan.
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19 Apr 10th, 2016 at 12:12PMFilm
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Sure it wasn't Japanese? The doctor didn't have white hair perchance (Mushishi)? -
Definitely the Chinese countryside, with Chinese people speaking Mandarin and all. I also remember a scene where the girl, by an open fire, treating her own hemorrhoids. -
Another hint, it played in a theater in Chicago's North Side in the winter months. -
Could it have been Chunmiao (1975)? http://asianwiki.com/Chunmiao
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The film wasn't made in the 70s, and that when we see the girl in the present day, she is driving a car from the 2000s. -
Ah, I see. Could it have been Under The Hawthorn Tree?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Hawthorn_Tree_(film)
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Nope, I don't believe there was a romance in the film, just her going into the village, going back to the village, and remembering it while driving. -
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"Not one less" by Zhang yimou? -
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1 Aug 31st, 2016 at 2:02PMMusic
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1 Aug 29th, 2016 at 2:02PMLive Action TV
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0 Sep 1st, 2016 at 1:01PMLive Action TVI've been searching for this tv show for YEARS. It premiered (possibly) around 2005-2007. I am from Las Vegas so it appeared on myLVTV so i'm not sure what other tv networks it appeared. Basically it was about 2 brothers and one of the brothers gets kidnapped by someone (mafia I believe). The other brother is searching for him but eventually starts falling in love with this girl. I want to say that the girl was the other brother's girlfriend/ex-girlfriend but I don't remember. It only had one season and I remembered that at the end, the tv network had a whole big announcement about how it was the "last episodes EVER". If someone can find this show I would appreciate it so very much!
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0 Sep 1st, 2016 at 1:01PMLiteratureI remember a couple of sci-fi stories being part of my literature textbook freshman or sophomore year of high school, but I can't remember the titles or authors. The first one was about a teenage boy who goes to take the test to get his driver's license. He causes an accident that kills a child, only to find out that the whole thing was a simulation and he never got behind the wheel at all. He ends up in a mental institution because he decides he still wants to get his license anyway, as the society he lives in figures anyone who would still want to drive after the experience must be dangerously insane. The story mentions skid marks on the floor where many more people have been dragged off to the hospital for the same reason. I remember less about the other one. A scientist has just made a major discovery (forget what it was), and his friend, another scientist, comes to visit to celebrate. The scientist's son has an intellectual disability of some kind, and the story ends with the friend giving the boy a gun as a gift. The father wonders what sort of person would be stupid enough to give a gun to a disabled child, and it's meant to be a metaphor for why it would be irresponsible to allow humanity to have whatever superweapon/technology he discovered.
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2 Jun 19th, 2016 at 10:10PMOkay, so, when I was a little kid, I had a video about tigers that taught the alphabet. It was a cartoon. It was barely animated though, as the characters were still images and would occasionally change poses. One of the Tigers was the host of the show, and his little sister helped. At one point I think they talk to aliens. Thanks in advance!
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I was actually thinking of asking about this same video! The title appears to be something like "Know the Alphabet" or "Know the Alphabet with Timmy Tiger." Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlZHrovhDhg
I still remember parts of the "Alphabet Friends" song, and I saw this when I was in kindergarten (1992-93). I was apparently too young to realize how awful the animation is, though.
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1 Aug 21st, 2016 at 3:03PMAnimeA few years ago, I read an one shot of a (japanese) manga. In it, the teen potagonist find a magical shop where he can change years of his life for a skill. At the end of the one shot, he uses all his life years and ends in negative, and the girl he likes dies because of his actions. In the end everyone lives. It is not and old one. It was published after 2006 for sure, and I forgot the title of the one shot. Thanks in advance.
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0 Sep 1st, 2016 at 12:12PMAnimeSo, I'm trying to find the name of a manga that I stumbled across some time ago. The specific chapter I remember reading involved gender bending. The protagonist visits a hospital and finds out that before the hospital performs gender reassignment surgery they require their patients to enter sort of a vr simulation that will show them what life as a girl will be like. The protagonist enters the simulation and has a lot of fun playing around and dressing up as a girl, however near the end of the simulation he finds out that he also has to experience what it would feel like to give birth to a child. The guy pulls out after things start getting really painful and the chapter ends with him considering his friend, a transgender girl who went through the procedure, and marveling at how strong she must have been to go through with it.
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3 Aug 15th, 2016 at 6:06PM
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Did the firefighting section have a little nonsense song that went something like "Here goes firetruck, there goes firetruck, everybody fire fire firetruck?" If so, sorry, I have no idea what it is either, because I've been wondering too! -
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Was it a musical show? If so, that could be Kidsongs, particularly the "What I Want to Be!" video.
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