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openElemental Magic and Such
I don't remember much at all but what I do know is this. It is about how everyone in the world uses elemental magic except for fire, people who were born with it usually die. When kids start showing that they can use it they are usually killed or die from lighting themselves on fire except for one who lives and grows up learning to control it. That's all I know if you know anything about it let me know. Thank You.
openLooking for a cartoon featuring a female mouse Western Animation
I used to watch a cartoon series that featured a female mouse who lived in a cottage. The cartoon had no dialogue, so I strongly suspect it was a foreign cartoon picked up as an easy kids show that wouldn’t require any English dubbing (like La Linea and Strippy).
For specific episodes I can recall, one episode involved the mouse dealing with a mole digging tunnels and molehills in her garden. After struggling to get rid of the pest, she eventually drives him out by placing annoying windup laughing toys in his burrows. Another episode involves hedgehog police on the lookout for an evil weasel who likes to eat small animals like mice. The weasel manages to draw the mouse to his lair by dressing as an old woman carrying a heavy bundle of sticks, but the mouse gets away when the weasel get some his tail caught in one of his lair’s bear traps. The hedgehog police capture the weasel and the mouse shows her appreciation by giving the hedgehog captain some strawberries and cream; she tries to hug him as well, but she keeps pricking her finger on his spines.
If this sounds familiar, I’d love to know the name of this series. Thanks.
openChildren's show about a small floating alien robot collecting sounds on earth Live Action TV
I'm trying to find the name of a show either on cbeebies or citv in the 00s about a woman travelling round the country with a small silver blob robot alien collecting different sounds, at the end the Blob releases a multitude of tiny floating blobs that dance around to a song created from all the different sound effects and everyone is happy. It's similar to the format of nina and the neurons.
openNo Title Western Animation
There's this cartoon that I used to watch around the Turn of the Millennium. There was this orange thing and this blue thing. I think it was called something like "Something & Something" or "Strange & Stranger". I think it was a Canadian show, but I'm not sure.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77openLow-budget fish movie Western Animation
What's the name of the movie being shown at 10:33-10:35 in this video?
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenKids VHS Live Action TV
Watched this when I was a kid, probably mid 90s. I can't remember how the show starts out but in the show there's a guy who mixes a pancake and recites the pancake poem and when he flips it, it lands on his face. Bits and pieces also include a wind up frog and him mixing some colours. Somehow, I think the show is called Colours/Colors (not sure about the spelling), as that resonates in my mind but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Please help!
openChildren's show about man who lives in a small magic box Live Action TV
OK, so this was a live action childrens show. I saw it in the early 80s, but those might have been reruns and it's actually from the 70s. I definitely remember watching at school, so it probably had some educational elements to it. There was an older man that had a magic box about the size of a Rubic's cube, and he had two children friends. The man and kids were able to shrink down and go inside the box, which was some kind of high tech computer or device or vehicle. They entered the box which a particular rhyme or chat that included something like "Magic Box 1 2 3" and I remember always being annoyed at my class mates for referring to the show as that, but it wasn't actually the name. The man also gave the children a riddle for them to solve to explain where he really came from, something about "at night I sleep on my bed under the bed" and the answer was that his civilisation actually lived in caves/hollow Earth under the *sea* bed.
openold animation back in the 70's o 80's Western Animation
I remember seeing an animation a very long time ago. I can't remember much about it other than these creatures brought dreams. The blackbirds were the ones that brought the bad dreams. I know, not much to work on
openI think it’s a sci-fi show, maybe a mystery detective Film
I only remember a snippet of a scene: there’s this supposedly blind lady in court (who I think is there for committing a crime) and the protagonist walks in, throws a pair of sunglasses (like the ones blind people wear in shows) and the blind lady plucks them out of the air with superhuman reflexes. Also, later in the episode, the protagonist takes down the blind ninja lady, after having his or her ass handed to them, by striking her then going completely still.
openNo Title Western Animation
I'm looking for either a film, or tv show that aired in Australia sometime in the 90s or early 2000s. I think it might have been part of a series of Arabian Nights stories but I'm not really sure. The bit I remember is a scene where this sultan or something is hunting a deer and and there is a little boy who's trying to protect the deer. I'm fairly sure the deer was magical...
openNo Title Western Animation
There was this show I saw three, maybe four years ago. I was staying at my aunt's house in the Philippines and I remember seeing this show on Disney Channel, or at least I think it was Disney Channel. It was about three kids, two boys and a girl. It was set in China I think, but I remember watching a couple videos on Youtube of it not in English since the show was originally from France or something.
There is one episode that sticks in my mind. I remember one of the boys was turned into something called a kwei (quei? Quei? Not sure, but I know it's pronounced like "qwey") and in the end of the episode a kiss from the girl turned him back.
Thanks in advance!
openNo Title Western Animation
I remember this really old show, it had things that flew around by holding onto balloons, one was a Hippo i think... they could possess things, they once possessed the corpse of a dead Fox in order to make sure its family is safe and put its spirit to rest, a character possessed a snowflake as it melted, and i think someone possessed some fast food once... i think someone near the top of the page asked about it as well, but nobody replied
openNo Title Western Animation
I remember this weird CGI animated series for kids about these colourful aliens or stuffed animals that can leave their bodies as floating eyeballs and string and then possess living and inanimate things. I specifically remember one episode where one of them gets stuck in an animal, I think. My memory of it is a little fuzzy and I tried to search for it online based on what I know about it, but Google is giving me nothing. If anyone out there remembers or knows about this show, could you please tell me its name?
openSimilar to Telitubies
In the late 90s/early 2000s I received a toy for Christmas. It was a plastic sort of action figure that was almost soft. It was a bald red boy with a yellow backpack. I believe a VHS came with it. I can't for the life of me remember the name.
openSome painting I saw a long time ago.
Hey, there isn't a medium for artwork so I just set it as none, I hope that's okay, but anyways. I remember a long while back I saw a painting depicting soldiers from all eras of time and from all over the world gathered around Jesus in reverence. I have no idea what the painting is called but I'd like to look at it again.
openold disney-like show with a super powered grown up bambi Western Animation
Im looking for a show that had a grown up bambi (maybe not bambi but a deer 100%), that was protecting the forest from evil or something. He and some other characters had marks on their chests that would glow.
openHelp me find my show! Film
I'm trying to find a show. I'm pretty sure this is an episode of something. The premise is an e-sports event. A guy is drinking some sort of drink that is increasing his abilities like reaction time. The girl on the other team finds out and starts drinking the same thing. All of a sudden she "snaps" to a post-apocalyptic future in which she is a sheriff, married, and has a kid. Everyone who drank that stuff did the same kind of snap and when they wake up they freak out because they have no recollection of their life between the snap. These people are looked down upon and I think they are part f the reason the future turned out the way it did. Eventually she finds the asian guy that gave her the stuff initially and takes more to go after the guy from the competition who is with a rebellious group.
That's the best I got
openName the show Live Action TV
I thought it was "This is Us" but I don't think it is. Women has a son named Jamal and introduces him to his father, the father is living on a houseboat. Eventually they get an apartment together. She is a dancer. The family doesn't like the father because they think he abandon the family when in fact the women never told him that he had a son.
openCartoon/Anime Asian Trio fight Ninjas
I watched it while in Asia. Basically there were these three kids and one guy wielded like a pipe or stick, another boy used a sword i think, and a girl used these whip cords. No this is not avatar. They lived at a temple i think, and there was this old wise master.
Edited by CeaselessSheep
When I was a kid, I remember seeing a television series episode regarding an child's birthday, an evil/psychotic babysitter from next door, and a heroic clown doll. I recall that this series was one where they showed the "reveal" from the previous week's episode at the beginning of the current week's episode. I believe that it was around 9:00 or 10:00 Central, and this would have been late 70's or early 80's. We didn't have cable television, so I believe this would have been on the major 3 networks. In the episode, it starts out with the parents celebrating the little girl's birthday. I believe that she might have been deaf, but I'm not entirely sure. They give the little girl a clown doll/statue as a birthday gift. The parents then have a party or some other commitment, and the neighbor teenage girl comes over to babysit. She torments the little girl, and before she kills her, the parents come home. She informs the little girl that if she tells her parents about her being crazy, she will kill her parents. The next morning, the little girl wakes to police lights next door, and we see that the babysitter is dead. The camera then shows the clown doll's handkerchief with blood on it. It was kind of the anti-trope, as you don’t see many “good” incarnations of the doll/clown/automaton device. I've searched every conceivable horror/mystery anthology series, and looked through every episode, and I cannot find any reference to this. It's one of my earliest TV memories, and I would greatly appreciate anyone that has information to share. Thanks!
Edited by shoptb2277