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openLive action show in Japan - nerdy girl gets into a fight? Live Action TV
Okay, this is a real long shot. I was in Japan in April and I happened to be flicking through TV stations - I remember one of them was NHK but I have no idea if that's what this show was on. It was a live action show that seemed to be set in a high school; I think it was a brand new show. The main character was a nerdy girl who, if I remember correctly, at one point got into a fight and had a nosebleed which prevented her from attending a dance.
It's really silly but I'd love to find out what this show is!
openBooks with creepy tales Literature
I remember in one of my books from middle school some short stories that I presume came from collection of sci-fi/horror stories, but I can't remember the titles.
First story features a family getting some kind of hi-tech house with holographic walls that can change each room's appearance when asked. It's all fine and dandy until the father asks to make the story of Aladdin appear in his bedroom and it doesn't happen. He then hears some weird noises from the kids room and discovers that they asked for a savannah setting before the house's hologram system broke down, with a hologram lion becoming real and eating the kids.
Second story is about a kid writing letters from camp to his parents. He tells that apparently there is a T-Rex roaming in the woods, but it's obviously a tale told to scare people. Then, some days later, he writes them another letter stating that the T-Rex is real and is chasing him, who is now closed in a hut writing the letter so that they can hurry and get him back home, and then the letter stops in midwriting, implying the kid was eaten by the T-Rex. It's followed by a letter from the camp organizators, informing the parents that their special program to get rid of disobeying kids was indeed successful.
openAnimated children's show with green airships
Children's show with giant green airships, and I believe they either used some kind of mech or summoned some kind of avatar that looked like one.
openThere was this one children show i don´t know the name of
There is this one children show i remember which there was 3 main characters. One blond kid who always got in trouble. and his friends were a boy and a girl. In this one i remmember he was over at his friends house and there was some girls there and suddenly the light went off and he tought he kissed this one girl but instead it was his friends mom or something like that. Do anything ring a bell for someone?
openChildren's Show Western Animation
I have a cartoon stuck in my head about 3 villains, one of them had a bucket on his head, and the military that was trying to stop them. It was CGI and was made in the early 2000s. The show was very dark in aesthetic and was on Netflix at one point. And the show was NOT Monsters vs. Aliens or like it in any way.
openSuperhuman kid detective Film
I only remember the main character, and one episode, but the main character is some blonde male that from what I remember was a good detective, and in one episode he faked his own "death by heart attack" after the some dude tries to scare the MC away by spooking him from inside a mirror, to which the main character then gets back up, and somewhere later or probably right after the scene they explain how he did it and it said something like he trained to stop his heart for a short amount of time without dying. I think there was another 1 or 2 main characters, but if I give details about them I could be wrong
openReality TV Live Action TV
I remember watching this program about real life accidents in which one of the segments I watched was a man having trouble drilling a hole in a tree in his back. One of his methods was shooting it with a gun, in which the bullet ricochets and hits a woman in the chest. The woman is then seen on a gurney crying in pain where she eventually dies. What show is this from?
openAnime about a prince in exile Anime
There was a anime that aired here in Brazil in the early 2000's on cartoon network i think on the weekend mornings, to be honest i don't know if it was an anime or western animation but it looked in my memories more like an anime. It was set in fantasy kingdom (i think) and it was about more than one character character but the only episode i remember was the one of a prince, a young prince that was in a kind of exile and in this episode he is confronted by an entity that i don't remember well but this entity takes his forms, although he defeats it, this entity by the end of the episode makes him thinks like he is not himself (the prince) anymore. For some reason the designs, i can remember, reminds me kind of like Zelda wind waker but i'm not so sure.
openEarly 2000s tv show
I remember they lived in a trailer and they weren't human, they would make smoothies, and look out of a large telescope.. that's all I remember. It was aired on treehouse
openEarly 00's Cartoon Western Animation
I've got this cartoon in my head about a young girl that grew up in a city (possibly new york) who somehow ended up in a 3rd world like village somewhere by herself. I remember an episode where she thought it would be a good idea to try and make a small skycraper with the village, but ended up only making a single floor because another young character, most likely the village leaders daughter wanted her own place so changed the plans everyone was following so that there was only the bottom floor with a giant roof. Also remember an episode where the city girl introduced currency for the first time. If anyone can guess this show you're a gem!!!!
openFresh Prince episode
Hi, I'm looking for the episode in which uncle Phill gets an English/british colleague over and starts to act "british". Anyone got the Series/Episode?
open Film
It was about 2015, and I believe it was on Cartoon Network, not sure.
There was this movie playing about this little ginger girl with a cane (never explained) and her dog (it was white with black spots if I remember correctly) who was in some sort of hellhole. I don't remember much because I was very tired and it was two years ago, but if you have any idea what I'm talking about, please tell me.
openAn old cartoon seemed to have vanished from everywhere :/
Well the problem is it wasn't series or anything, it was just a film cartoon. As much as I can remember it was 2D. It all starts with a family living in the countryside and owning a ferris wheel, there was the father mother and that little funny cute girl. She had an uncle I guess who happened to turn into a king one day and coming back against the family. He owned a remotely controlled creature, I ain't too sure what it was, but I reckon some kind of giant machine of either a turkey, dragon or chicken. But he used it to impose his rule... Well it's been YEARS since I've been trying me and my twin brother to figure out the name or anything to find it again because we've watch it together in our early childhood... And the scene we mostly remember was the time two guys of the police came to arrest the family members and they were asking for the father who had been hiding and then that innocent girl shouted: "Mom, Pavo is hiding" I am not sure about Pavo maybe she said Papa but I'd love if I could find it back guys, thanks in advance for your help!!
openTv programme
Hi! I am searching for the name of a programme I watched years ago. Basically a male British presenter tries a selection of the hardest jobs in the world. Getting to know the people in the trade and what makes them do the job they do. From experience I remembered the presenter tried Canadian/American logging and also working at an Australian mine where he eventually completed his dump or “haul truck” test. Many thanks Dan
openReality TV show about polygamous family
Reality TV show that aired on TLC. Was about a man who had four wives, one of the wives was called Christine, the fourth wive was called Robin.
openBollywood Musical Film
I saw this film in a world cinema class during college. It's a Bollywood Musical about a British born Indian who meets this Indian girl during a European school trip. They fall in love but have to go their seperate ways. That's the first half of the movie. The second half is him going to India to meet with the girl's family and have her not get married to another guy.
At least that is what a vaguely remember, so I may be be wrong on a few details.
openDog 3d tv show? Anime
like 4 / 5 years ago i would watch this tv show and it was ehh stupid but i liked it since i was like 7 at the time and the show was basically abt these dogs, like there was a village or a town and i totally forgot most of the details except that it was 3d and that there was some princess dog who was in love with the main character whose name was also the title of the show and they were dating and some other dog appeared and started to fall in love with him its really confusing but if anyone could help me out that'd be great. It was on this like OK kids program thing i dont remember tbh but if any of you know a similar show please tell me .
openWoman with really orange hair
There’s a movie about this woman with two *really* bright orange braids who is a famous Manic Pixie Dream Girl character irl, and that’s honestly all I can remember.
Edited by Loopytires55openHallmark movie Film
I have seen this movie a long time ago and somehow it came in my mind but I can't remember the title anymore. All I can remember that it was a drama, shown on Hallmark if I am not mistaken. There was this badass criminal guy, had a son who had leukemia I think and needed a blood transfusion. The woman in lead was a blondie. I can't really remember much, just some moments. If you have any tips, please help me out. :)
Edited by Chi91
ok so in this show, a specific scene is a guy in a small car with a acoustic guitar. The room goes dark and he’s on a track and he moves around a stage meeting different creatures such as a troll, and a big goofy looking mechanical dragon/crocodile with googly eyes and has a goofy voice which a spotlight shines on the different creatures and when the car starts moving the guy sings something like “I think we better get out of his way” after every encounter. It’s not a animated show it’s on a stage or small studio but it was meant for kids
Edited by Brolic