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openAnime with angels + demons...? Anime
I'm trying to find the name of a show I watched in anime club some time ago (probably 2012-2013)...I remember that the main character was an angel who mainly dressed in white with small wings (I think they got bigger when she was fighting, but that might be my memory getting mixed up). Her companion was some sort of demon boy who (I think) was shirtless most of the time. All I remember from the episode(s) I saw was that it started with the angel girl at the bottom of some sort of large pit/hole in the ground, partially buried by rubble, and she was dug out by the demon boy. Later on, there was a scene with another, older demon guy who was a Christian for some reason, and they were making fun of him because of it. The older demon guy wanted the angel girl's powers or something, too, and at the end of the episode he fell into some sort of chasm (?) while the main characters walked away. Thanks for any ideas of what this might be!
openTeen/tween lit book Literature
This is a teen or tween lit book. It was about a girl who is part of a play at school that is putting on "The Tempest". I think she plays Miranda. The "outcast boy" of the school is playing Caliban, suitably. The main character girl has a crush on this "bad boy", who has a lot of siblings and his family is known for being troublesome. His older brother stole a ton of goldfish out of some community pond and put them in a table filled with resin as a present for their mom. There are also twin boy siblings. I am pretty sure the book takes place in England and there might be a "straight edge" boy vying for main character girl's attention and telling her what scum the bad boy is, predictably. It is not the Georgia Nichols books by Louise Rennison.
openA bunch of guys competing to become the real life Ken Live Action TV
It was a competitive reality show. They would get their own Ken doll modeled after them if they won, and... some other thing, I don't really remember. I think a hispanic guy won, and I thought that was pretty interesting at the time. Other than that, I can't remember much.
openDarkly Animated show w/ whiny kid with big glasses Western Animation
I remember watching this show all the time as a kid (probably 99-03) yet i can't remember ANY details except for the description of one kid. From what i remember of the show, this kid was some kind of evil genius and was always coming up with plans. The best i can remember, the kid was drawn as a skinny, nerdy looking kid with black hair, almost in a bowl cut but with a part on one side; he always wore big, round glasses, and (i think) he wore suspenders. If i recall correctly he had an assistant or servant who he would always get mad at and blame when his plans failed (i believe he was under pressure from his father?). He threw alot of tantrums. I can't really rememebr much else for details, other than it was a rather darkly animated kind of show...more serious than the other stuff i watched, with darker tones and coloring. I think i can rememebr there being a room with a lot of clear tubes, much bigger than the boy, filled with some sort of green fluid.. For some reason i thought there was some kind of gargoyle or something involved as a hero (but no, the show is not gargoyles...its darker than that). Does anyone have any idea what i'm talking about??????
Edited by kjk2495openBritish TV Horror Show - Stone Face Found in River Live Action TV
Looking for the name of a one-episode show (maybe one of a 70's horror anthology series) about a writer living alone in a old country house. He hears strange voices in the night, suffers from blinding migraines, finds a creepy stone face in a river during a walk, get's visited by strange relatives. There's a mood of paranoia and the suggestion he may be hallucinating the whole thing throughout. I saw this on You Tube a couple of years back but can't for the life of me find it again. Any help appreciated!
openBirds in an airship Western Animation
I have another one show I can not remember. It was about couple of birds, they were rescuers, the couple was made from an owl, a woodpecker, hummingbird and flamingo, but I am not sure, I think I have forgotten one or more members of the team. They travelled by airship, in one episode it was pierced and they covered the hole by non-edible cake/bread/whatever it was. In one other episode (or it was the same?) they met two hedgehogs, which were arguing if it is better to jump or be in the middle of a road if vehicle goes through. I think in one episode they got Sixth Ranger, but like with the original couple, I am not sure.
Do somebody know this one? It is bugging me, that I know something, but do not know, what it is:/ Thank you for help:)
openWintery Anime Death Scene Anime
I have a dim memory of a few minutes of an anime from the early 2000's. There was a character, possibly a child or young teenager, being hunted because of their anomalous powers, where they could manipulate ice, to some extent, but their lack of control made them a danger to others. Eventually, the person in question is cornered outside in the snow and darkness, leaving a few seconds of tense silence, before a gory discretion shot cuts to a sillhouette or shadowed shot, the sound of ice impaling flesh is heard, and blood splatters across the snow.
Some cursory searching keeps pointing me to s-CRY-ed but I can't definitely find anything in the show that resembles this scene. I believe I saw it on Adult Swim back in the day.
openNick Jr Short from late 90s Western Animation
t was a one-shot short, traditional animation. Possibly UK/AUS origin, aired around 1998-2000 on Nick Jr. It was about a little girl with red hair and a group of animal friends, one was a pig I remember. They were on a beach and trying to get into a seaside shop/snack shack and weren't allowed in, probably b/c of a no-animals policy. They tried to sneak in via the trench coat totem pole. At the end they gorged on snacks (presumably from the shop) and it ended with them being full from gorging on snacks. It was not Maggie and the Ferocious Beast.
Edited by DinkySwanopenPossibly an mtv challenge episode Live Action TV
So this was a number of years ago and I was younger so the details are slightly fuzzy. It's possible it was one of the older episodes of the MTV show The Challange. All I remember is that a group of people was split into two teams. When they arrived in their location which was desert like, each team had to select one person who had to strip down to a bathing suit and get into a tub. Once that Person was in there, multiple tubs of different kinds of gross and crawling bugs were poured on them. The other team members then had to essentially lick the bugs off of that person and use their mouths to transfer them to a large plastic container and the first one to fill it to a certain line won. The most distinct part was at the end one girl who had been covered in bugs was like cleaning off and someone noticed there was another one climbing up on her inner thigh and she kinda squealed until it was off. I'm hoping someone can tell me if this was an episode of the challenge, or what show for that matter, and what season and stuff. Thanks.
openTasty kid
I remember a website/app that was titled something like tasty kid ( yes this should be a somewhat easy one) that askedmyou what you liked ( comparing a video game to a videogame, or a movie to a movie, Ect) and showed you what you might also like. I would appreciate a link. Can't seem to find it.
openComedy set in Ancient Rome Film
I only remember a scene from this film. I saw it as a kid in the 1970s and it felt like it was a 1960s or 1970s comedy. It was set in Ancient Rome, the scene I'm thinking of was probably the end of the movie, and increasingly slapstick as the camera pulls away. The scene may have been sped up, like a Benny Hill skit, but not as fast. As part of the comedy, someone was running into a fat man and bouncing off his belly with a comical boing or bass drum boom sound. One of the actors might have been Roy Kinnear (the comedian, not his son Rory who has been in recent Bond movies) although I could have that confused with the episode of the Goodies where he is the Roman Emperor. I am child of the 1970s and this is a hole in my entertainment memory I would be grateful to have filled!
Edited by TargetOnMyBackopenRocket Competition TV Series Live Action TV
Hi, I'm trying to remember this name of a kid's show that I watched sometime around 2006 on ABC (Australia). From what I recall, the show was about two British kids entering a competition to build a model rocket, but they continued to almost fail to cross various hurdles (such as lack of thrust, fuel, etc.) because they lacked money. The series finale had the two kids reach the final contest and, in a desperate attempt to get their rocket working, they cover it with an assortment of good-luck charms, only for it to turn into a huge spaceship and take them both out into space.
Can't remember anything else about it, but the ending keeps popping into my head and I'm just curious to see if there was any build-up to it in the show, because it seemed to come out of nowhere to me.
openAnimated kids (teens/young adults) show about entering a computer and resetting time Western Animation
I remember watching a show on YTV somewhere between 2000 and 2006 that featured a group of school kids who had a computer and some kind of AI in the computer. When they were outside the computer, it would be 2D animation. However, they would enter the computer in each episode and the animation would switch to 3D. They would all get new costumes and they would fight their way to some kind of "terminal." They would then enter the "terminal" and this would cause time to jump back several hours, meaning that they could prevent some catastrophic event in the real world. During one particular episode, the geek of the show spilled cereal on his keyboard, allowing the AI to manifest in the real world, but she had to go back in as part of the time-resetting, and he didn't know what keys were pressed.
openThree Children's Books Literature
I remember reading three children/pre-teen novels when I was younger. This was probably around the early 2000's but the books were most likely much older, possibly from the 80s or 90s.
The first book was about a family where their new stepsister is a witch and teaches the younger children witchcraft. One particular part I remember is that they talked about familiars and how every witch or warlock had to have one. (Found this one. It's The Headless Cupid)
The second book was about a girl who was a bit full of herself. I remember a part where she gets a baby grand piano thinking it's a tiny piano only to find out its humongous. She also read a book called "How To Win Friends and Influence People" or something along those lines to try and have better relationships with people. If I remember correctly, the title of the book was her name and it started with a V.
The third book is about two friends who make their own advice column. At one point they track everything they eat to help someone who wants to lose weight. The parts with the advice column looked handwritten and the pages were a different colour. Another part of the book has their class at school release balloons with messages and one of the girls gets free subs from a restaurant because her letter landed on their roof. The other girl's letter traveled to a farm in upper New York state,
Edited by axelsonfireopenPrison World Literature
It was a '70s science fiction novel, the characters were the descendents of prisoners who had forgotten they were on a prison planet, and the starport and other facilities were protected by laser fences.
openRainbow-y Alien Non Binary? Webcomic
I'm pretty sure that this is a web comic. A while back I was browsing tv tropes and found a cool webcomic, but had to put away my laptop. Now I can't find it again. It starred what I think was like, some completely white alien character who was a little bit rainbowy, and had a companion with it of some sort. I think that the alien person might have been a non binary, not sure. Haven't found anything in the ambiguous gender tag. The style seemed as if the comic was done in watercolor. I'm extremely iffy on most of the specifics, all I can really remember was a floaty, surreal creature, and the colors white and mix of rainbow. Plz halp.
openSiblings Travel to a Fairy World
Okay, so, I honestly can't remember if it was live action or animated (though i'm leaning towards animated) but when I was pretty little there was either a cartoon or tv show or movie about a pair of siblings (an older sister and younger brother) who... move, or something, or just happen to stumble upon a fairy world, and then the little brother eats some of the fairy food and due to fairy law he can't leave? And then either just the sister or both of them have to go on some sort of journey to... change the rule or... something? It's a really vague recollection, and it could have also just been the episode of something else. I also remember the ending scene being a celebration and the boy getting to eat as much fairy food as he wanted because it was no longer forbidden to eat. Also I think they shrunk down when in the fairy world.
openMurder Mystery Literature
I read this book a while ago, in like, Junior High or High School. Some old guy died, and there is like, a completion to get his money. All the contestants have to live in his house, and there are clues hidden in his will. In the end, it's revealed he's not even dead!
openDetective series Literature
A series of detective novels featuring a pair of amateur detectives I'm fairly certain were set in pre-WWII America (but after Prohibition). They're not married, since a Running Gag across the series is the man's efforts to get a marriage licence are constantly foiled. The woman Drives Like Crazy (at one point she's taken hostage and goes from highway speed to reverse in a secodn to escape) is extremely rich, but the man's sense of chivalry forbids him to live off his wife no matter how much easier it'd make his life. There's also a bumbling cop whose every appearance features him talking about his lastest get-rich-quick scheme and dream job.
I think the author's name was Rice, and I'm fairly sure it's not The Thin Man.
Edited by Chabal2
This is a live-action movie from the late-90s/early-mid '00s, I think. From what I recall, it's about a Shakespearean actor who typically plays female roles, but is replaced by a female actor (I think it was set around the time when women started performing on stage, rather than just men). The one scene I remember is them practising the scene from "Othello" where Desdemona is murdered. The male actor, I think, performs the role first, with the typical swooning and exaggerated death; however, someone (the director?) complains it isn't realistic. The female actress performs next, making the death scene realistic (screaming, fighting off Othello, etc.). Not much to go on, but I know it was a fairly mainstream movie (rented it from the video store).