There was a series of short stories — apparently somewhat famous because I know at least one of them, the donut one mentioned below, was turned into a movie. I //think// they took place around the 1920's, but I'm not sure.

I can recall the plots of two of the stories: In one of them, the main character's uncle (who ran the general store) acquired a donut-making machine, and made thousands of donuts. A woman accidentally dropped her engagement ring into the batter, and the people of the town began eating through all of the donuts looking for it.

In another story, everyone in town got a song stuck in their head — it was basically the ultimate Ear Worm. The cure was a second Ear Worm that had the power to knock out the first. The problem was that the second one would get stuck in your head //until you sang it to someone else.// It got passed around to everyone in town until they finally managed to pass it off to someone who was just boarding a train.

Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.

I know that this was a song by They Might Be Giants, but hunting through their fan-run wiki has not helped me. In one of their songs, there's a bit that goes something like this:

"Remember that time in the past when we looked forward to the future, but all we saw was us looking into the past to that point when we looked at ourselves in the future?"

I don't remember the exact working. If I remember correctly, it's a total non-sequitur and unrelated to anything else in the song.

Any ideas?

I recall reading a series of books in the 80s or 90s about a teenage boy who goes to live with a relative out in the country. If I remember correctly, the books didn't have an overall plot, but each chapter was like an individual short story.

The only story I can remember with enough detail to describe accurately is this: The main character is walking through the wilderness (forest? desert? other?) when he suddenly gets a horrific nosebleed (it's explained in expository that he's prone to these). Since his clothes are soaked in blood, he takes them off and washes them in a stream so they don't get stained. But now he's covered in blood himself and his nose is still bleeding. He decides he needs to stop the nosebleed first and then bathe. He lays down with his head tipped back, and accidentally falls asleep. When he wakes up, he washes up and gets dressed. However, apparently a woman riding on horseback saw him asleep covered in blood and thought he was dead — the victim of a violent murder. She rides into town and gets the police, but by the time they get to where he was he's gone. I can't remember if she ends up thinking she's crazy or if she recognizes him and thinks he did it as a prank.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Two books I vaguely remember reading as a kid, but the titles escape me:

The first was a picture book in which a little boy's dinosaur-shaped birthday cake turns into a real dinosaur. The dinosaur ends up in a zoo and is miserable, so the boy helps it escape and takes it somewhere it will be safe from the people who want it in the zoo.

The second was about a girl who tries to befriend two new students at her school. She initially succeeds with the one who turns out to be a jerk, but makes friends with the other girl toward the end. I think there was also a subplot about how one of the girls (can't remember which) is bi-racial and is ashamed of having a white mother because her grandmother hates white people.

It's an old edutainment game. Played it in my youth, so it must have been released in 2008 or before. You have an evil twin. The narrator is a brain. C Omplete minigames/puzzles to unlock weapons allies. When you meet in teh city, you battle. Some examples:

• There was a female scientist/chemist which countered a fire attack.
• A monkey (looked like an organ grinder monkey) countered a giant robot.

There was this old puppet show which had a theme song with the words : "check out the rooster" and it had a puppet rooster as one of the characters. i cant remember the rest but can anybody tell me what the name of this show was?

Children's show, had little worm alien riding in little flying saucer with camera lens sticking out. Rest of regular charaters are two boys (puppets, iirc), and girl(maybe mid teens). Time/space travel thru portals. I think mainly space, the time may have been single ep. She spent first season in garage while boys were lost, second she travelled with them. Edit: the boys were lost on earth hopping portals, and learning about where the were. It seemed that was the edutainment angle.

I grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada in the 80's, There was a live action anthology series that ran on either TVO, PBS or the french station(don't remember the name, sorry). It was a series about myths and legends.

I only remember little bits:

The end credits featured a woman in a hooded black robe walking across what I think was the moors towards a ruined castle. The music was very creepy.

One episode was about a fisherman's wife who was taken to the bottom of the sea by a merman. She lit a match (underwater!) so that she could see her new husband, and although his body was human, his face was that of a fish

Another episode had a boy and a girl being chased by a man with a beard through a jungle. There was a golden frog necklace that the man was after. At the end, they escaped the jungle, and the man was dead and covered with green moss.

Been searching the internet for years for this show! Any help is appreciated. :)

I say anime, but it's really manga. I have been trying to find this one for YEARS. The only thing I remember about this manga is that it has chinese names, and there are magical vials around their neck, and I think when they are in contact with water, two characters shrink to chibi sized. (They're living with someone too)

PLEASE HELP

It's the near future and something has happened so that almost all the water is gone and people in this area have to go get water at a pump that's controlled by some sort of bad guys who charge outrageous prices. The scene is in a desert, or at least it's very dry and dusty. A family or at least a parent with a child come to get water and can't afford it, and get into some kind of altercation with the people controlling the pump. I think a mysterious stranger intervenes.

This is all hazy so I could be wrong about why water is scarce or the fact that it's the future.

Late 80s or early 90s though it could have been a rerun, or even part of a movie. I was pretty young, and wasn't allowed to watch much on TV, and we didn't have cable. For years I've thought it was an episode of Highway to Heaven, which I watched occasionally, but I just looked at a list of all the episodes and I can't find it.

One more - an edutainment video-game that I played in third grade. There were little dwarves, I think, trying to reach the top of this really snowy mountain? I think in one of the final levels, you get inside this castle, and there's a treasure chest you need to open. Does this ring any bells?

A song I heard that had a sort of religious undertone to it, it had an organ in it and was sung by a woman. I reminder she said that it was always darkest before the dawn and that she had a demon inside of her. There was a line in the background saying 'shake it' or 'shake it up' that repeated a lot

I'm looking for a sci-fi anthology I read a while ago - I think it was for young-adults. The only story I remember involved a class of students trying to study Shakespeare after most of his plays have been banned by various groups going for political correctness. In the end, I think they end up convincing their teacher to let them read King Lear, and there's only three lines that haven't been banned. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

There's an old Western Animation (though I don't know how old) about three guys who wore something resembling plug suits, who would carry out missions by receiving equipment from a space station, which would attach to their plug suits. Any idea of the name and whether a tv tropes page exists on it?

zerky remembers reading this book as a child. It couldn't have been written any later than the mid-late 90s. In the book there was a girl who was born to two ghost parents.

As in, her parents were both ghosts, and somehow a living child was born to them.

She goes to an ordinary school and at one point, her teacher comes over to her house to see how she lives. Her parents use a sort or garlic poultice to treat a wound.

It was an edutainment show on Playhouse Disney that aired around the late 90s or early 2000s. It involved two hosts, one white woman and one black man, and a rotating cast of kids they would play with hanging out and having fun in a clubhouse supposedly made of cardboard boxes. I think the title might have been a box pun, although I'm not positive. Did this show exist or was it something my four-year-old mind made up?

I'm pretty sure this was a made-for-tv-movie on Disney Channel. All I remember was the promo where a vampire was on the ceiling then hard cut to a cute smiling blonde vampire boy and then there were three normal kids. This has bugged me for a while and I remember seeing it so many times. I remember seeing the promo in the 00's but it might have been made sooner because Disney doesn't air it anymore. Maybe it was called the Littlest X or something along those lines but I can't be positive. Any help is appreciated.

That show about bear like characters and they had these magical trinkets that let them animate three totem pole creatures, a turtle, an eagle, and the most powerful being the bear to fight evil.

Made a previous request for this show, about a series from the 80s. Apparantly European, and the episode focuses on a seahorse race, and a man who flies away after seeing it. Here are some screenshots from it (I have it on VHS but it doesn't have any other information on the show, as it only recorded half). The brown... bear thing is the 'storyteller', and I think it might be German in origin.

http://tinypic.com/r/1zpl5b4/5 http://tinypic.com/r/30bh8uf/5 http://tinypic.com/r/28r2vxf/5 http://tinypic.com/r/eg75ox/5 http://tinypic.com/r/iw5icy/5

Remember a scene from an anime. So, a presumably magical girl is about to transform. She's about to transform... so she goes behind a building and starts to take her clothes off. Some guy finds her, and she runs away.

Any ideas on waht anime it is?

This was a game demo for Macinotosh/and or Windows 95 (it came on some game I had). In the game you were a guy you were lost or kidnapped. I think you were on the run from someone. You were in woods or maybe an island. I don't remember a lot of it, since I only had the demo, but I think you were looking for a knife? I remember one part where you walk across a bridge. I know it's a terrible description but does anyone else recall this game???

I remember an Edutainment Game for the Apple II. I played it in Kindergarten and first grade. It was a math game with dinosaurs, and I know it was mini-game based, but the only one I remember is one where a dinosaur has set up an ice cream stand and you need to count all of the scoops of ice cream or something. That's about all I can remember.

There was this children's show on Australian television in the 90s that had this man and a woman, I think, from another dimension. The show revolved around this Mac Guffin that I think was called "the gift" which was located in a "special suitcase." Each episode opened in the alternate dimension with them saying "the gift will remain in the special suitcase," or something, and then they'd go to to Earth for some reason. Once there, they were chased by a dog, so they teleported onto the roof of the train. Oh, and chocolate was poisonous to them; and one of the episodes had the woman getting sick after wolfing down a girl's birthday cake. I just wanna know what the hell all this was about.

Trying to remember the title of an SNES game I rented once long ago. It was definitely side-scrolling action. Dark color scheme, at least from my recollection. I think it was set in a fantasy feudal Japan - your character might have wielded a spear. The Japanese setting possibility is reinforced by your magic capacity being enumerated by kanji. I think you earned a new spell after each level. I know for certain it isn't First Samurai; I tracked that one down recently.

When I was about 10 years old (before 2005), I had a wrist watch that played a pixel-based cartoon of a teenage punk and a dog. In one scene, the teen flushed the dog down a toilet or something.

So, here's sorta how things happened. We have totally nude girl (or close) save for a mask. She fights crime. Uses groin attacks, as in, attacks with her groin. Help?

A collection of stories. It had a green cover. The introduction said "hold on to your hat". One part had a theme of friends. "Ira Says Goodbye" and "Since Hanna Moved Away" were in that part. "Since Hanna Moved Away" was on a page with a poem about girls who matched. It used the phrase "two pierced ears and two bare ones". There was also a section of humor. It had jokes such as "Why do cows wear bells? Because their horns don't work". It also had the poems "Eletelephony" and "Banananananananana...". The latter's name is not exact, but it's about someone who kept spelling "na" in "banana". "Amelia Bedelia" was also in the book. The last section was about science. It had an experiment to prove that air takes up space.

Okay, this is gonna be a tough one, because of how little detail I can remember about it. It was a manga that was released here in the States a few years ago. Its first volume was considerably thicker than the average manga volume, and instead of having the standard 16+ readers only warning that most manga for older audiences have, it had what equated to an 'M' rating (in fact, I think M was used in the actual rating). Either the front or the back cover had a morose-looking older schoolgirl with long dark hair standing up and facing the reader, holding a sheathed katana in a vertical position (though the details of this aren't 100% clear in my mind, so if you see something that doesn't fit that exact criteria, still let me know). One thing I definitely remember about the actual content of the manga was that the first volume had a high school massacre, where seemingly one fair-haired dude (though he may have had help, it's difficult to recall) brutally slaughters most—if not all— of the students and teachers in the school at the time. And I definitely remember supernatural powers being involved in the story.

Again, sorry for the vagueness of this all.

It was a claymation program I saw on PBS, I think based o a Russian fairy tale, where the hero had to bring the Tsar the head of the Tatar king. At some point the hero had gloves that gave him super strength and he flew on some king of swan boat, and a funny looking monster took the credit for killing the Tatar king.

I'm sure there was a Looney Tunes cartoon where Sylvester sees something that terrifies him, and the colour literally drains out of him. It doesn't seem to be one of the Hoppy ones (there's one where he turns white, but off-screen) or the Porky-haunted-house ones (likewise) or even "Hyde and Go Tweet" (where he literally "falls to pieces" instead). And I can't think of any other cartoons where Sylvester faced anything that scary. Any ideas?

There was a (hand-drawn?) webcomic about a female swordmaster who set up a school for girls to train as she had learned. Other characters included some sort of spirit shaman-esque monster hunter, a wizard who lived in the building where they set up the school (which doubled as a lighthouse?), some kobolds who also lived there and the dragon they reported to. Antagonists included feral elves, some kind of highly powerful spellcaster as a big bad, rival martial arts schools etc. Better than it sounds.

Okay, I'm looking for an edutainment game for children where you play as this weird goblin/monster thing, and he has a crush on a monster tv star? And she gets kidnapped, so he rushes to a mad scientist's place to save her and the other people who were missing. There were ghosts involved.

EDIT Also, the kidnapped people were turned into inanimate objects.

Familiar to anyone?

This one christmas special that I remember watching on cartoon network years ago. It was like, the story of santa claus and how he started to get into the "present making" business and how his legend form.

There was a collection of horror short stories I remember picking up in a library years ago. The front cover showed the terrified shadow of a kid at the top of the stairs, and we could see that downstairs, there were some autumn leaves blowing into the house through the front door. The front cover's image was from one of the stories in the book, where a boy has to, for one reason or another, rake the front yard of this weird old woman's house. Eventually, the old woman dies, but her spirit comes back to haunt the kid, and the story ends with her entering the house one evening with a bunch of leaves blowing in, and her calling his name. I may have gotten some things wrong about the story, but it has been a while.

Another story in this collection is about a studio exec looking over a movie script sent to him about a young pizza delivery guy (or mechanic, I can't remember which) fighting off giant alien (or mutant) mosquitoes, and eventually triumphing. The story ends with it being revealed that the exec (and presumably his colleagues) are mosquito creatures disguised as humans, and with him saying that he'd love to meet up with the author of the script, and "discuss" it with him.

This is a weird vampire movie from either the late 80's or early 90's. In this film, there are many different kinds of vampires, some with really bizarre abilities and weaknesses. The once scene I remember involves a female vampire who has to sleep in a tub of water with her lungs outside her body. If I remember correctly, the vampires are slowly taking over an entire town and the heroes need to find them and stop them. I think there's also something about a lake, like maybe that's where the main vampire(s) stay.

I couldn't find this movie in Our Vampires Are Different or on Wikipedia's list of vampire films.

Any ideas?

I'm trying to find the name of a pop song done by a female singer. She sounds kind of like the singer from Aqua. I'm not sure of the lyrics other than a chorus that goes something like, "I know, I believe [something]" and whole bunch of repetitions of "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh". It starts to sound like a chipmunk with the record skipping.

I don't actually like this song at all, but I just want to know WTF it's called.

I was pretty young when I saw this, so I don't know if I'll be able to remember enough... I'm not sure if the medium was western animation or anime. It was definitely animated, though. It was on US television around ten years ago (give or take four years)

What I know: It was about a kid (male) that ends up in another world. The boy got involved with a team of good guys including a moving stone statue and a pink... thing that was practically useless in combat until later on when it learned some powerful beam attack.

What I think I know: Another team member was a wolf, possibly anthropomorphic. One episode featured a large pit that slowly filled with sand, and almost everyone lost the will to fight (but then someone gave the rest a pep talk and they banded together to escape). The world may or may not have been a video game that the boy was playing before he got sucked in. If the previous statement is true, then the ending MAY have been the boy going home (sad, possibly crying) and seeing some sort of "You win!" screen on the TV (or just the characters he met in the game waving to him or something). I'm least sure about this part, so don't be afraid to suggest something that ends completely differently.

What I don't know: any and all names or the general plot

Most likely a film, although I'm not 100% certain. The only thing I remember is this one scene:

There's a 12-year-old girl on the sofa and this older man (middle-aged) is pulling her jeans off. She's sorta squealing and wriggling to get them off.

Cue the main character arriving and being all WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP THAT IMMEDIATELY and the young girl getting VERY freaked out because all it was, was that her jeans were stuck because she'd wriggled into jeans multiple sizes too small and her dad was trying to help get them off for her.

I have no idea what this was and it's driving me MAD.

Okay, I know what I'm looking for actually, I just don't know the version. In my literature class we watched about 8 different versions of "phantom of the opera", and I can't remember which version was my favorite.

All I remember was that it was much funnier than the others we watched, with the phantom having a sarcastic sense of humor.

he often conversed with the theaters manager (I think), and one conversation during which an actress is singing, the manager says to the phantom "You can't kill her just because she can't sing!!"

Does anyone know which version this is?

Most likely a film, but could be TV. Color, live-action. I only saw one scene: A woman and man are at a cinema or fancy train, when a soldier appears pointing a gun at them. He was most definitely an officer and maybe a nazi. They talk for a short while when a gunshot is heard, implying that the soldier had shot one of the other two. However, he stands there for a moment, then calmly spits out a bullet and drops dead, revealing that a bearded man had shot him through the neck and into the mouth.

It was a book, released by 1990 because I remember reading it as a kid. The main character was a boy who visited a house peopled by a witch or witches (I want to say that it was three witches). One of the things pointed out in the book was that witches could be told by their double chins, which they'd encourage by placing their chin on their chest (I seem to remember there was a picture of it in the book with one of the witches with her chin on her chest and looking up at the reader. As a child, it inspired me to practice until I could get my chin to do the same). At some point, the kid's walking through a field of grass towards their house (for some reason, the grass sticks out in my head) and the witches give him fantastic things (I want to say, again, three) of which at least one of them was a flying automobile in return for... something. I want to say his soul or for him staying with them forever. Except that a man (I want to say he had a beard and twinkling eyes that were pointed out in book) instead showed up and took his place.

Very odd little book from what I remember of it now. Oddly enough, I largely remember it because of the chin-to-chest thing, and in part because looking back on it, I get this strong feeling of the man who sacrificed himself being an analogue to Jesus, sacrificing himself to save this child who got into the situation due to his own greed.

^_^ Any ideas?

Looking for a few things. 1. A Edutainment Game from around 1998-2002, that has you help a middle aged woman do her daily errands in the city where she lives.

2. Saw the ending of a movie or tv show from around 1993 on a homemade (recorded on a VCR) videotape of Looney Tunes cartoons, that aired on TBS (I think). The only thing that I know about it is that it ends in a desert.

3. Two western movies from either the 60's or the 70's. The first was part of The Dollars Trilogy and it had a scene where an army general massacres an entire group of innocent civilans with a gatling gun. The second one had a man trying to rob a safe inside a prison and he had one of the prisoners tell him if he had the combination right. I also would like to say that both movies starred Lee Van Cleef◊ as one of the major characters, though I'm not sure about that.

Sorry for being vague on the second one.

Live Action Television series that aired on ABC during the mid-nineties, though it probably came from the UK. About a girl (protagonist) who spent an inordinate amount of time in a big mansion house on the coast — very wild coast, big waves. I think she had made friends with a boy who lived there, who was cared for by his more than slightly psycho mum? step-mum? who incidentally was a power-mad alchemist and the show's principal villain.

Set pieces I remember include:

• A cave that the villainess was obssesed about, which had some strange and nasty contraption that needed four substances to open, including salt-peter and antimony (i.e. alchemical elemental blah-di-blah magic).

• A passage to and from that cave that was underwater, littered with barrels of (toxic?) waste and led to the coast.

• An underwater scuba knife fight?

• I think the protagonist's dad/uncle lived on a boat.

Back in 1st or 2nd Grade ('84-'85), I recall checking out a book that dealt with ghosts and other scary things. This book was fully illustrated (it's not 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'), and if my memory is correct, it was a about a man who recalled his frightening journey through a forest (on a dark and stormy night). On this journey, he encounters many frightening monsters (including some sort of ghost or ghoul with a pet wolf who actually devours him). The book even talks about how he managed to escape from the wolf's stomach...somehow. Also, this journey is what the man encountered as a child, and he is relaying it to another child.

The book was hardcover with a fully illustrated dust jacked, and every page was fully illustrated to show exactly what was going on at each moment of his journey. I know it was a child's book, but I can not recall what the name of it is.

What I'd like to know is what this book's title is. Does anyone out there know of or otherwise remember a kid's book like this?

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm trying to remember some movies. The first one I'm trying to remember came out around the 2007-2008 time period (maybe even before that, but I remember seeing it around that time). It was about a man who could see into the future. The one scene that stands out in my mind is at the end, when he sees that a building will explode (maybe it wasn't a building, maybe it was a vehicle, but I'm pretty sure it was a building), so he goes out to stop this from happening, and that's how the movie ends.

The next movie I'm trying to remember came out sometime in 2009 or 2010 (I remember seeing it on DVD in early 2010, so I think it might have originally come out in '09). It was a really sad movie about a father whose daughter was killed, and he kept having flashbacks to all the good times he had with her. One of his flashbacks was of them at the beach, and another flashback involved his daughter coming into the bathroom while he was shaving. I remember the movie ended with him in the hospital, and then we see the ghost of him reuniting with his daughter (implying that he died).

The third one, I hardly remember. I saw it around 2000-2001, was 6 or 7 when I saw it, and I think it might have come out in the 80s. I only remember one small scene, in which a woman taps a man on the shoulder, the man turns around, and then the woman punches him in the face and he falls to the floor. I don't even remember anything else about the movie. I told my parents about this scene a few times, and even they have no idea what movie this was from.

I read a fantasy novel once about a princess named Sylvia - who actually lived inside the book, performing her role as the star of the story every time someone read the book, as if she was an actor. She and the other characters actually treated it like a performance that they repeated over and over each time the book was opened. Sentences and pages were described as physical things they could interact with, and if someone messed up in their performance, it changed the book the person was reading. The book Sylvia lived in was implied to be suffering from a Keep Circulating The Tapes situation, and eventually the last physical copy was destroyed, leaving them alive only in the memory of a woman who had loved the book as a child. Literally - they lived inside her mind and participated in her dreams. At the end, Sylvia influences the woman into rewriting the book, which becomes a major bestseller. There's also a sequel I never read, in which the book becomes avaliable online and the characters have to learn to adjust between the weightlessness of an ebook and the solid reality of a traditional book. I can remember all of this, but I have no idea what it's called!

A SNES RPG that featured a Hopeless Boss Fight at the start, and a female party member named Wild later on. Sorry there's so little to work with. I think the protagonist might have been blond.

EDIT: The Hopeless Boss Fight took place in a tower, and it was against a huge monster, not a person. It was in the first town, or your school, or something (I think it was a school, but that might just have been how I was interpreting the relative lack of buildings).

The battle perspective was from behind your characters, looking forward, not from the side.

An animated short, possibly Hungarian. I saw it on Night Flight some time in the 80s or 90s. There was no dialogue. In it, a man in a white suit begins eating everything in sight in a fancy restaurant and growing to the size of a giant. He eventually consumes the whole earth and begins eating planets, stars, etc. Finally he’s racked with pain and transforms into a a cooking egg on a frying pan. Anyone know the title of this short?

it's a really old video game for the playstation 1. The game is called monkey hero. it is about a monkey who must collect pages of the magic storybook to defeat the nightmare king (who vaguely resembles a roach for some reason...) . it was vaguely based off the journey to the west. Anybody remember this game? .. it's a shame it's virtually unknown since the game was actually pretty good

An Arabian-themed fantasy film, no more recent than the 90s.

The Big Bad was some sort of supernatural being named Calypso (possibly Calypto?). At the end of the movie, the heroes trap him inside a mirror, but then it turns out that it didn't work (I think he traps the heroes inside the mirror instead) and so the The Bad Guy Wins.

The hero is a teenager whose mother is missing in the real world, but he later finds her in the "Arabian" world -she turns out to be the queen of a group of man-eating women. She assures him she's very proud of him.

Around the middle of the movie, there's a philosophical contemplation about the desert being a sea of sand, where a mentor figure compares the hero to Simbad.

An old man (possibly the hero's grandfather) is reading the story of the movie in a book, back in the real world. I think there was a close-up of his terrified face when he read the ending.

And maybe I'm thinking of another movie, but just before Calypso breaks free, when the heroes (the boy and his love interest) think they had defeated him, one of them asks "To China?" and the other answers "To China", when contemplating what to do now that they had saved the world.

I still remember the music that first plays when the ending credits roll and I could totally tell if that was the one from this movie if I heard it again now, if that helps.