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openThat inaired cartoon pilot Western Animation
What was that pilot show called the one about a kid who got summoned by this elf that was trying to summon a hero and when the kid showed up he tried another spell but all it did was give the kid a tail and there was this feral girl in it too
Edited by YieldingKookaburaopenName of A Kids Show
I remember watching an episode or clip of this show years ago. It was animated and on a kids channel I think but, I'm pretty sure that it wasn't Disney Channel. I think there were four main characters, 2 girls and 2 boys, who are all friends/ partners. One girl had brown hair and tan skin and her hair was up in either 2 pig tails or a pony tail. The other had a short, yellowish type of blonde hair and lighter skin compared to the other girl. I don't remember how the boys looked though.
From what I can recall, these 4 friends would work together to stop or contain monsters of that nature. Specifically, I remember a small bit of an ep. where the girl with the brown hair had either a cast, concrete, or some other substance stuck on her foot and she had to drag it down the street to try to stop someone for reasons I don't know. If you have any ideas about this title please comment and thanks for the help in advance.
openCGI cartoon with baloons and posession Western Animation
So i recall an old tv show about small beings that fly around on helium baloons of different shapes, and can posess things by turning into eyes and flying towards the thing. one episode had a character end up posessing a piece of melted snow(flake?) when their snowman melted, and another one had tone of them posseses the body of a fox that was killed by a hunter to help its ghost?
openPossible Cryptid Related show Live Action TV
Alright this show that I've randomly remembered had these major points that I remember: 1) I believe it was a cartoon network show. Im 90% percent sure, if not it could possibly have been disney or nick. 2) I believe there were 2 or 3 main characters. Mainly a guy, and possibly a girl and another guy. They were supposed to be teens in High School if memory is good. 3) There was this episode that i remember where they were trying to stop a Basilisk. This particular basilisk was more Velociraptor like, meaning it stood on two legs and had a long neck where its head rested, and made in some CGI animation. I believe the whole show was about capturing monsters. 4) Im pretty sure this show aired between the years 2005-2011 based on other shows i've watched before and after that time. However i cant remember shows that i for sure watched along this one.
openLate 80s - early 90s children's show Live Action TV
I'm trying to figure out a show I watched as a child that had both real people and puppets. The specific episode that comes to mind includes a man who visits the characters house with a basket of kittens for the kids to play with. I also remember either the man giving them pineapple upside down cake, or the main female character giving it to him. I also vaguely remember the female talking on the phone and the phone is the type that is see through with the inside mechanisms being rainbow colored. According to the only other person that I found on the internet who also remembers this episode, there is a talking clock, an inch worm outside of their window, and a mouse family who plays rock n roll. At first I thought the show was "Under the Umbrella Tree", but I can't find this specific episode within that series.
Edited by GoingcrazyopenI need your help to find the name of two shows Western Animation
Hi, I'm trying to find the name of 2 TV shows (or perhaps animated movies) that I saw on TV when I was child, around 2000. I can't be 100% sure that it was western animation.
1) The first one was about the 2 heroes (one female and one male characters, child or young adults), that were trying to arrest a mad scientist. This one has built / taken control of a satellite weapon, firing laser. The Army also tried to arrest the bad guy, they send several tanks to his base. The heroes decided to hide on one tank. However, the bad guy used the satellite, destroying the tanks, except the one carrying the heroes, which turn and fell in a lake.
2) The second was about a group of soldiers, agents, or mercenary (I'm not sure if they were the good guys or not), piloting little hovercrafts. If my memory is ok, they were dressed in blue and white. They were trying to intercept / destroy / steal a giant cargo truck, escorted by an other faction (if my memory is right, they were in red and black). While the "blue and white" faction was piloting their hovercrafts, they begin to argue, until a female character used her hovercraft gun to shoot a net on an other pilot. When they reached the convoy, they destroyed a building to try to block it, however the convoy escorts used their weapons to clear rubble.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thank you in advance !
openCartoon with rodents? Western Animation
I remember years ago, either very late 90's or very early 2000's, me and my dad were up early in the morning, as he was flipping through channels. We came across part of a cartoon involving a pair of either mice or rats. It was a traditionally animated cartoon, and from what I remember, it definitely looked like it was made in the 80's or 90's.
We only saw a short clip from the show, where both rodents were presumably in a kitchen. They had both been covered by some kind of sticky substance, and one of them mentioned something about being in a "sticky situation". Then, large glass (or clear plastic) bowl is suddenly placed down over them, and the second rat says something along the lines of "Now we're in a bowl in a sticky situation!" As he says this, we're shown the angry looking face of the human who had just trapped them with the bowl. After that, it went to a commercial break. I'm pretty sure my dad changed the channel after that, because I'm certain I never saw what happened after that.
To this day, I have no idea what this cartoon might be. My first guess would be Capitol Critters, but I don't think that show ever reran past 1995, and I definitely know that wasn't the year that I saw this. Any help on this would be appreciated, thanks!
openA bunch of movies and shows I watched in class
I couldn't find my old syllabi, and I would really like to watch these shows...
1. I watched this in my Japanese class two years ago. It's an anime movie, about a girl who goes to an island with her mom to visit her grandparents during vacation, or something. She can see the guardian spirits of the island and they follow her around. At first she's annoyed by them—or they are annoyed by her—but they become friendly. I remember a scene where a girl gets lost in the mountain and is stranded during the rain in a shrine(?).
2. This one is a J Drama, about a Japanese teacher for non-native Japanese speakers. It's a comedy, but quite educational too. She is constantly belittled by her colleagues because she's young-ish, and was a delinquent in the past, I think? The episode that I remember was that the teacher was helping one of her students, an Italian, ask his crush out, who works at a maid cafe. It also pointed out the difference between formal Japanese vs. informal/casual Japanese.
3. This one is a European film. German or Russian? We watched it in film class, also two years ago. I don't remember much about it, except that it was weird and had some animated segments that was trippy af, but the music was nice. In the ending, the woman wins a lot of money in a casino, and gets supersonic screaming powers, or something.
openmodern scooby doo rip off? Western Animation
In the mid 2000s I remember watching a show that was in many ways your typical scooby doo rip off. There were 4(?) kids/teens with a dog (80% sure there was a dog) who went around solving mysteries in their local community. The only character I can remember is the girly girl daphne clone who saved them in one episode by using her makeup and a hair dryer. I have a feeling that the town they lived in was by the ocean? at least I remember them being at a lightouse at one point. I can also vaguely recall them driving around in a yellow car or vehicle of sorts. I know it wasn't the clue club because the quality and overall presentation was very....not 70s. I'm also pretty sure it wasn't drawn in the hanna-barbera style, and at the time at least it felt like a contemporary cartoon.
openLive action teen (mostly australian)
So this is going to be a jumble of shows that i can remember bits and pieces of. All of them watched about 10-15 years ago and they are all pretty much australian teen shows (i think at least). The oldest one is about two kids and a man in a black trench that seem to travel to different realms and there is this blue crystal like thing, that is seriously all i can remember. Another is a kid and maybe his family i think they live near a zoo? And someone can transform into a tiger? A very specific scene i can remember, though i have no idea where it is from is an autralian girl eating an apple and talking to a boy, maybe her brother, i also think they are at school. The apple was green if that helps XD. Soooo if anything here seems familiar do comment
Edited by WarlikeBaconopen1950s/1960s book about a Boston Marriage? Literature
I could have sworn I added it to Queer Romance but I don't appear to have had. I've forgotten the name. It's [x] and [x]. I remember it's about two women in a relationship during the 1800s where one is Disguised in Drag.
openTwo life-action kid shows from the Noughties Live Action TV
Hi! I remember watching two shows when I was younger, between 2005 and 2010. Note that I live in Spain, but I'm positive these shows came from an English speaking country.
1. A Disney Channel show about a boy and a girl. One of them lives in a warm place (like California) while the other lives in a snowy place (like Alaska). The boy's parents force him to sleep in the basement, and there he finds a weird... slimy portal, hidden behind a closet. It turns out he can use said portal to travel to the girls house, and vice-versa. I'm pretty sure it was a show, but it could have been a movie.
2. A Nickelodeon show about a boy who use to be a bully, so an old man (not sure if he was a wizard or if he had weird sciencey/cosmic powers) transforms him into a dog as a punishment. He is then taken in by the boy he used to buly. The show is about the bully trying to redeem himself by doing a series of good deeds (100?) so the old man will turn him back into a human.
It would be awesome if you could help me. Thanks!
openBook about teens discovering a beachouse w/ a door that takes you back in time. Also, shark murder. Literature
I remember reading this book that featured these teenagers finding an abandoned shack on the beach, and inside the shack was a door that would send you back in time. I'm pretty sure the 80s were involved- either as the time period the book was set in or the time the door sends you back to. I don't really remember the plot, but it featured a guy tying a girl to a post in the middle of the ocean with a slashed wrist , so that sharks would smell the blood and kill her. A girl survives this treatment after getting rescued by fishermen, and uses the door to get revenge. This is all revealed in an expositional monologue/through flashback chapters , though- the main characters didn't know about that backstory. Any ideas on what this book could be?
openOld Asian kids show
my memory is very vague but i used to watch this asian show when i was a kid early 20s, i got it from a cd and it had multiple episodes about this kid that is very young that seemed to live alone in a house, and it had educational episodes, in one of them he went to eat multiple types of food/snacks and then falls asleep with his mouth open then they zoom to germs? bacteria getting in his mouth and drilling or making a hole in his teeth and the episode was about brushing teeth i think, it was very high quality drawing or most likely CGI though i checked many lists of shows and couldnt find it so it has to be not that well known.
openCGI cartoon Western Animation
Hi! I was wondering if maybe tropers could help me figure out this one work I recall seeing somewhere.
It was a CGI cartoon, I don't remember if it was a movie or a tv series.
I think it was from France? I'm not sure though; I looked through the French cartoons list on Wikipedia and nothing rang a bell.
What I do recall is two characters designs. One was an adult woman with a bobcat haircut, black-rimmed glasses, black suit, white shirt, black pants and black fingerless gloves; maybe a beauty mark too, I'm not sure. She was one of the bad guys, I think; not sure about that either. The other was a small child, pink shirt, long sleeves, brown hair and a pink hat; I think it was a beret. She was one of the main characters or a one shot character.
As for the show, I think it involves aliens? Again, my memory is fuzzy. I drew a terrible doodle of them if it helps. http://imgur.com/a/y7NLx
Edited by EmmanuelaDeLacroixopenNSFW Adult Cartoon from either the Late 90's or Early 2000s Western Animation
I remember seeing this in the early 2000's, but it's possible that it could have been made in the very late 90's, like '99 or something. It was a traditional hand-drawn animated show about a group of kids, probably in middle school or elementary school. It was strictly for adults.
No it was not South Park or Drawn Together. It was very liberal with foul language and one episode's plot revolved around the main character, a blonde-haired boy, being hypnotized and couldn't look at anyone or anything without seeing breasts and female genitalia attached. The only other episode I remember was a Halloween special where they receive treats from an old lady and fear that those treats might be poisoned. One of the things that stands out in my mind is a bully character who frequently used the word "fuck" and wore a shirt with a hand giving the middle finger printed on it.
I have tried to find this cartoon for several years and nothing has shown up. I couldn't even find it in the Wikipedia list for animated shows. Does anyone know what this show is? Thank you!
Edited by DjonnyUnchained81openRandom adult cartoon that was never popular
There was this animated adult cartoon on late at night yeeeears ago (i'm thinking early 2000s) & it kind of reminded me of South Park. It was a bunch of elementary or middle school kids & they would swear. I remember a blonde hair kid & there was an older kid who was basically the bully. I remember a specific episode where the blonde kid (who was basically the main character of the show) went into a diner & saw the bully & the bully told him "I'm undressing the waitress with my eyes !" & the blonde kid is like "How do you do that ???" & he tells him to stare at her, rip off her skirt with his mind, then the shirt, & it's "as easy as that" apparently. But, when the kid does it, he sees blank spaces where her body parts should be. So he finds a porn magazine with his friend & they find out what a woman's body looks like. So he undresses the waitress at the diner with his eyes again & "sees" how she looks naked. But, then he can't stop doing it to literally every women that approaches him, so he freaks out & runs home. He doesn't want to inagine his parents naked so he keeps his eyes closed & his parents are like "What's wrong ? Why are your eyes closed son ??" & he's like "They are ? Oh, so they are !" & his parents convince him to open his eyes, & when he does everything is back to normal.
The theme song was the kids walking around with their arms in the air or something going "Nyeah nyeah nyeha nyeah nyea nyeah nyea nyeah" & it would pause every couple seconds for the blonde kid to talk.
Weirdest show, but for some reason I can't find it online anywhere ??? Even with how specific I remember the episode. I remember another episode was a halloween one &the blonde kid dressed up as some weird fish thing. He ends up running into someone with the same costume as him & freaks out running. & The bully kid goes "Ha ha ha, what a fucking idiot !"
It wasn't a popular series or anything, I literally only saw it once .
openMachinima/SFM animation Web Original
I once saw a machinima or Source Filmmaker animation short involving some police or security guys busting into a restaurant to apprehend someone, resulting in a shootout. I've seen the SFM short "Prime," ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGBEqnsbedU ) which is a little similar but isn't what I'm looking for or thinking of, though the one I'm looking for may have also used Neo Tokyo assets.
Edited by RocketDudeopen2 games I played on a Windows 95 computer
I'm trying to remember 2 games that I played on my Grandmothers Windows 95 pc in the early-mid 20s. The games them selves are older, even 90s and they may have been versions for other systems but I had CD cases for both so they were definitely for Win 95/98.
The first is a maths game that was comprised of small minigames. It was space themed with alien creatures that were in various colours that had long necks and large trumpet like mouths. The only parts of them you ever saw was the neck and head. The only game parts I remember is one minigame that involved the aliens popping in and out of craters on a moon/planet and you had to click on the for some reason and that the credits screen that appeared when you pressed exit was apparently the developers office at night with strange stuff in it and there names on things in the office. The quit button itself was clicking on the door leaving the office.
The second one is a point and click adventure game set in a park where you had to find something as the main goal. You could get to the place it was in very easily which was inside a large upright tree trunk but there was a guard dog (I think it was a dog) inside the tree guarding the door inside that you had to get through (its a big tree) and the rest of the game was exploring the park on a big mystery tour looking for something that would lure the dog out. The solution involved putting something on the end of a fishing rod line. Inside the door was the villain but I can't remember what it was. Seem to think it was a witch thought but i'm not sure. I remember 6 screens from it all, the guard in front of the door, camera looking up the trunk from the bottom, a long path leading down the side of the park, standing with a path leading to the right (the one leading down the side of the park I think) a path to the left and a shed also on the left. I also remember inside the shed and a closer looking screen at a shelf next to the window of the shed.
I don't remember as much of the first game as the second but it's all I can remember. Any help is appreciated.
Edited by Septimus01
A single stand-alone comic page I read in a kid's magazine sometime in the early 2000s. The premise was that there were so many characters in the comic that they could barely fit. Each panel would be a single body part (usually the hand) of two different famous cartoon characters, and it was a guessing game to figure out who they were.
It opened with Homer Simpson finding his donuts stolen. In the next panel, he asks for help from... someone, then perhaps in the following panel that someone accused Garfield of the theft, and in the panel after that Garfield suggests that Scooby-Doo can find the thief, and it goes on like that for a few dozen tiny panels all squeezed into a single page. SpongeBob was in there somewhere, and Sulley from Monsters, Inc., the Powerpuff Girls, Batman, and many others I don't remember. It ended with Spider-Man accusing the Grinch, then the Grinch confessing and George W. Bush thanking him for his confession, and finally Bush giving Homer a new box of donuts.
I don't remember exactly what magazine it was in or what month and year it was, but it was obviously during the George W. Bush administration, almost certainly within the first half, so around 2001-2003. If a scan of the strip exists online, I'd certainly like to see it.
Edited by trulymadmoves