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openSome song I used to hear, really vague but driving me crazy! Music
Alright, so I almost didn't ask due to how vague this will be, but it's been bugging me for literally many years. There is some song, that I have sometimes remembered a bit of for years, and it's too vague to search for. I think I heard this song in the late 2000s. I probably heard it a few times possibly more than a few, but not sure. Thought it was a song I heard being played in stores or something. I am almost certain it was a female singer with a deep or raspy voice, but could be way-misremembering. It could have been pretty much any mainstream genre. It was pretty upbeat and possibly angry sounding. I remember that the chorus started something like "I try to make you undestand I (words that I can't remember, but I am pretty sure the line ends in a -ay sound). I could be off on those lyrics though. This has seriously been bothering me for a long time, gosh I hope someone can help me finally figure out what this was. Thanks.
openFind a book
The book's title is "Strange Tales of B Street" or something like that. The first story of the book: a man hired a haunted house. The witch who haunted that house gave him 3 chance to request. If he demanded sothing she can't give, she would leave, else she took his soul. The man asked his friend, who had a goldfish that can talk. First request is jewels shine as gold and elastic as rubber. Third request is a hairy frog (the witch's true form) The last story of the book: a prince's love with a mermaid
openEarly 2000s talk show Live Action TV
I used to watch this syndicated talk show that has a segment where somebody stands in front of a door, then the door opens by itself revealing whether or not somebody is in there. Any ideas?
openTwo Shows I Want to Remember
Two series I'm trying to remember that I can't recall the name of but liked. One I think was online flash animation. It featured an apocalyptic world where a hero who was a skeleton protected this little girl with his zombie dog. On one episode they encountered a resurrected Velociraptor and fought it. It turned out to belong to some new female character. I'd like to remember what this was. Think it was from early 2000s.
Second show that was shown on TV once here in Finland had animated sketches. Both cartoon and stop motion. I describe all I can remember. Cartoon where in an underwater society two octopuses rob an bank, and end up shooting an octopus clerk because he didn't put all his eight tentacles up. Turned out a moray eel had taken one. In one a typical strong man hero is ordered to save the sick president of USA. He is to go inside him to cure him like in the movie Fantastic Voyage. But when he asks about shrinking he is told not to be silly because it isn't sci-fi. So he basically puts the president on him like cloths and walks about.
A very short stop motion sketch where a scientist asks another what do you get when you cross a sheep and I think it was a kangaroo. The other one gives some quaint guess and the other responses: "No, this." Opens a door next to them and this The Thing like creature with sheep parts sticking from it appears and claws them to death. The last I remember (another stop motion bit) had aliens abducting a woman to make her pregnant with their offspring. She and a young male alien talk in bed and she ends up liking him. They tell the alien's father that they did the deed. But it turns out he realizes it isn't true as she should be dead as their *cough* stuff is poisonous to humans. She gets angry and says something about all men being the same. The name on the tip of my tongue is is something like The Strip Show, The Trip Show. Something like that. Does anyone have any idea what these show were?
Edited by CatwithoutatailopenBook Club turned into Murderous Cult Live Action TV
I can't remember which channel it was on, but ABC or FX comes to mind. I believe it was on around 2011-2012. From what I remember, the plot centers around this one modern literature cult that pulls a lot of crazy stunts, like lighting people on fire in the streets and plain ol' murder. If I'm correct, Edgar Allan Poe was most likely the author they all worshiped or something like that. The leader too, was probably in the middle of writing his own twisted book, and they looked up to him too. I'm pretty sure the genre would fall somewhere in mystery, crime, drama.
openHelp me
So this show was about 2 guys and they hung out in this one house that had a lot of different rooms for different things.. they wou meet children in these rooms and use there fingers like little men to walk around and be smaller than usual. I'm pretty they had a pet flea o fly or something, and it had its own little room with a teeny tiny dorr.
openName of song Music
Since music is hard to translate on paper i will tell the songs music video. I saw this a couple months back but i didn't save it here it goes. The music videos thumbnail shows an a tactical armoured soldier looking almost but not quite like an armoured german ss soldier. The video shows a street riot that is getting gundowned, everyone is rioting but the soldiers are trying to stop it. But the riot is getting out of hand so a tactical armoured soldier is sent to kill the rebellion/riot. The rioters or rebels go to the sewers. They make a plan to stop the soldiers the rebels give a young man a soldiers tactical armour mask and all including a machine gun. The rebel in armour takes down unaurmored soldiers and helps the rebels win. This scene includes gun fights, a flame thrower and lots of death. The video was animated i cant really say lyrics because i dont think it had any. But that was the animated music video i saw on youtube hope someone can help.
openName of movie? Film
Look i saw a chinese kung fu movie back when i was a kid. I saw the movie but i forgot the title. Here is the plot or what i remember of it. There was a chinese kid living in mid to late 1800 china. He was getting bullied by another chinese kid and his gang of bully friends. He tried to fight them but he lost miserably because he didn't know kung fu and then was beaten by the whole gang. After that he went home but his parents where upset for him fighting he was going to get whipped but his mom saved him from getting whipped by his dad. He was sent to study but he hired his best friend who was very smart to do his homework but he said to his friend that he will train to get his vengeance from those bullies. Eventually he becomes a karate master and fights every single bully that hurt him but now he is an adult and a karate master. They all sign some kind of death wish thing where it says whoever looses must die or pay some hefty price and loose all their honor. He beats every bully in the gang untill he reaches the finall fight against the main bully that beated him in the beginning of the movie. He wins in an epic fight and is given a lot of money. Some time goes by and he finds the main bully the guy he won the fight against in a restaurant that happens to be the same one he went to eat at. He finds out ita his bullies birth day and that the bully wants to forgive and forget but he doesnt and goes into mortal kombat with him and kills him. He gets thrown out of his village by all the villagers because he killed a husbanf and a father. He gets kicked out and his wife and daughter die. He goes to a mountain village to retain his anger and learn to be a better person by becoming a rice farmer and working with a blind girl who teaches him to be a kind person. He goes back to his village but he finds out it has been modernized and sees cars and trains and it basically it is 1900s industrial revolution china. The world's strongest man is in town and is in a fighting tournament and he is undefeated. The guy in the beginning comes back and challenges him. But he doesn't sign the death note wish. And he begins to fight the worlds strongest man and he wins, but he saves his life because during the fighting he falls down and almost hits a board with a nail in it. But the hero saves him by grabbing his hand so his head doesn't hit the board with a nail. He is humble about his win and the worlds strongest man congratulates him on his win. The hero goes around town with his cash and finds his old smart friend. He now has an accounting and book keeping business. He asks his friend for a loan so he could start a kung fu school. The friend is skeptical at first but he agrees with him and helps him start his kung fu school seeing how he has changed. That is as far as I know so please some one give me an answer!
openGame in this video Videogame
What game is shown at 0:46 in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90hJCeEHFs
Edited by YqatubaopenI Cant seem to remeber what was the name of this tv series. Live Action TV
Has anyone seen a kid riding his bmx with big afro high with high socks. It's 2017 it had one episode i watched it like one month ago ?
openhorror mini serie Music
mini serie 3-5 episodes about paranormal things on a little girl's room, there are a lot of people helping with cameras on the girl's room and watching from another room while she sleeps cause thats when the ""ghost"" attacks. there is also a medium and an old man who has a dead son (he dies in a motorcycle or car crash i dont remember) and that man is the one that helps the most, he goes to a graveyard with the girl and then takes her to outside of an airport where the airplanes take off to yell at the airplane noise to relief stress/anger from everything thats going on.
i really need to find this if u can i'll be thankful forever, if u think u know it even if u are not sure just tell me what u thinking of please!
openFrom the mid 2000's Western Animation
It had something to do with these people that would be transferred into a different world where robot like spiders would chase them while they were on hover boards with swords with some type of weapon, they also had tails if that helps, the setting was different every time I think, sometimes it was a jungle, sometimes it was a framented land.
openI don't know Live Action TV
In the first episode it has a woman who is getting coffee when a robber comes in so she ends up getting the man to go by giving him bear what tv show is this from
open90s or 2000s TV show cancelled after one season
The show I'm trying to recall had a psychologically messed up businessman who slept on his floor, naked. It seems like it was a one-word title, a play on words.
Edited by Sstngds9openhumanity in the sky Western Animation
for the love of me cannot remember the name. earth is gone but there is bits of floating land everywhere water is rare and only found as ice. people use steampunk style ships to travel apart from some shadow government-paramilitary group who have a loose grip on the remains of earth. the ship they always use never appears from a cloud sans the bridge. the main protagonist (a girl if memory serves) is sought after as she is some sort of psychic. who the shandow govement want to collect and use for something (can't remember what). if you have any clue let me know.
openBig dumb giant
It was an animation (can't remember if CGI or cartoon...but I think CGI) where a dumb giant would sit in the forest and dozens of little men would slowly form a picture for him to guess. It always followed the same formula and he always had trouble. The men were tiny and had big (red?) helmets to make the picture. They would make the picture in stages and the giant would always guess wrong. It was around 2007 when I saw it on TV.
openSomething about jungle
Hi. It was a show on Animax- not anime, show with real people. A group were on a boat, and they were researchers and they were looking for the father of a boy in the group. His mom was in the group too. The were going on a river with a boat, and i think it was jungle around them, maybe on Amazon or smth. The show contains supernatural things. I hope you can help me. Thank you.
openCowboy themed new wave forgotten hit? Music
Sometime in spring 2016 when I would listen to the Sirius XM channel '80s on 8 I heard an intriguing song during regular rotation that I don't think I've heard or heard refrence to before or since. It had to have been a hit, but is probably a very forgotten, practically obscure one (pretty good amount of those on there.) It shows what years songs are from on there on screen, I know this was an early '80s year, probably 1982, but maybe not. I think it was new wave or something. Had something to do with cowboys, or maybe just the wild west. Male singer. I feel like it might have had a spoken part near the end, but not completely sure. Am so sure this was not Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo. I think the title directly refrenced cowboys or something, but could be wrong. Really hope this isn't hard to find. Thanks.
OK so some time within the last 8 years or so, we found a random anime DVD at a local dollar store. Watched it, loved it, moved and lost it. I cannot for the life of me remember what's its called , and all google "keyword" searches has gotten me no closer!! Here's what I do remember: Show opens with a Man in a cow boy hat breaking a young boy out of prison. While there (I think) they meet a woman who is a a witch. She can perform magic with a special deck of cards she has. A little girl, who is also a vampire that follows the witch around. The man in the cow boy hat was hired to break the kid out because he was the only one powerful enough to control and use a certain huge gun. The gun had a blue colored half moon on it. We had only the first season, and watched it multiple times while we looked for more. We never did find it again, and like I said before we don't even remember now what its called. If anyone knows what I'm talking. Please please please let me know. Id love to order whatever other seasons there are available.
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Edited by Ruby_Rebellion