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openIdk Live Action TV
I don’t know much about this show. What i can remember is there being a group of maybe young adults that live together on a space ship, in space. They had these flip phone sort of devices that they used.
There was this one episode, where a green slime thing had somehow managed to get inside the spaceship, and took over their leader i think he was, the leader was a middle aged man.
That’s about all i can remember. I think i should add that it was not an animation and i watched it on Australian TV around 2010ish.
open90's tv show or movie?
Hello! I'm a 90's kid and grew up on shows like Are you Afraid of the Dark and So Weird. I remember this plot (I thought it was from Are you Afraid of the Dark but I can't find it anywhere). It's something like: there are two best friends who are teenagers. A new girl moves to town and both boys like her and try to get her to like them. They send her gifts, one guy sends her funny/jokey things and one friend sends her something like a locket or a ring. She chooses the friend who sends her jewelry. My memory is kind of hazy after this but I think that guy dies and the other friend may have had something to do with it?
Anyway, does anyone know what this is from?!
open??? Western Animation
All I can remember is there are dogs or some kind of animals driving cars down a road and they finally reach a tree and they climb up the tree and then they all just party in the tree. I can’t rememeber if it’s a dr seus book or a wacky races sort of thing but I need to know
openThe Originals (or could have been The Creatives)
TV series on original thinkers/creatives. I'm in Australia and have not been able to see this series again. I am sure it was called The Originals but all references online are to a more recent TV series called 'The Originals' which is very different. Series from Canada or the US. Most likely made in the 1990s. The intro was urban at night. I believe the host was late 40s or 50s and bearded. The host spoke in an office setting. Each episode dealt with a different creative. I remember this being on Australian TV about 15-20 years ago. Any help on finding references to it would be appreciated.
openmaybe obscure christian time travel cartoon? Western Animation
I can barely remember anything about this, but i think the premise was that these three people(a guy, a blonde woman, and some kid probably around twelve) time traveled to various bible stories. I cant remember anything about their names, i have a vague mental image of them wearing tan explorer vests but that could be from something else. I do definitely remember that there was an episode where they went to the bible story of Queen Esther, and the blonde woman got dragged into the "find a new queen" preparations. I watched it probably somewhere between 2001 and 2003? I think they might have been on vhs tapes though(and therefore possibly older), i'm not quite sure because i was around pretty young. I think there was also an episode where they got thrown into the lion pit or the furnace with daniel? it's just been bugging me completely for months even though it's just a little thing.
openI cant remember this show its been 5 years and i still cant find it
So basically this movie would have been on in early 2010's and I only saw the pilot. So basically what this show is centered around the young male protagonist and his group of soon to be friends. It starts with a scene from his young friends fighting these adults with cards. It is kinda like in Bakugon but not quite, as they have these contraptions to put their cards in and get abilities. Like this girl was able to control the water in the place she was at because of the card. The friends also had face and arm markings like in Thunder Cats, like lines on their face like cats, that I am pretty sure are red. Later in the episode the boy and his mom are in the house and it catches on fire and this bad guy kills his mom. He is super sad and angry and scared and fights this guy with a card (cant remember where it came from) without one of the contraptions. Then his soon to be friends (they were close in the intro) walk in on him crying and fighting the guy w/o the contraption on his arm and offer to help him.
I would really love if anyone could help me find this show. I am not sure how many episodes there were but I really need/want to know what happens.
Also I remember exactly what the graphics looked like so if you have a link for a pic let me know. Again thank you so much just for trying.
open80's dragon animation Western Animation
Back in the late 1980's, I remember watching this show that I want to say used stop-motion animation. The only thing I remember about this show was that there were these two kids (a boy and girl I think) that had set a book down in the middle of a suburban street. For some reason, an enormous dragon appears from the book, and that's literally all I remember. If anyone has any recollection of this, please let me know. Whether it was a series, one-time special or a segment from some other show I have no idea, but I remember seeing the scene on TV more than once. I live in Ontario, so this may have been something that didn't air in the US.
openI need to know a series or movie name. Film
I am slightly inclined it's a tv series.NOT SURE THOUGH. It starts with a drone strike in a family wedding of a terrorist. His nephew, X, is a medical student, he films the air strike in his phone. This guy survives and comes back to college. His roommate uploads the video to the internet saying the world needs to know. After uploading the videos, someone comes and threatens him not to talk to the press about this. from there the story starts. X steals medicines from the hospital to for the terrorist who apparently survives the air strike which was intended for. X gives a bag full of medicines to his girlfriend which her father finds out and throws it out. He now doesn't have the medicines. A spy comes in as journalist to find out about the air strike offers him money for the medicines in exchange for information about the air strike. She has to get the information in 3 or so days which he is not interested to give. So she seduces him and sleeps with him for the information. That's all I can remember. Does this ring a bell to anyone.? Somewhere i remember English (British) accent in this.
openI need to find a yaoi manga Webcomic
So the manga starts off with two guys in high school who are friends. They both fall in love and start dating. But one of the guys parents want to meet the person who they are dating so they enlist a female friend to help out and pretend they are dating. So when they are over at his parents house they experiment and have sex with each other. She gets pregnant and the other guy moves away. Years pass and the guy and girl are married and have a kid. The girl dies of cancer. So now the guy is walking and gets in trouble with some shady characters but is saved by a crossdresser who ends up being his ex. He drops his wallet which is picked up by his ex and they start getting close again. PS the kid was a boy I believe and Please help this has been bothering me for years!!!!
openPLZE NEED HELP i need to know this cartoon! Anime
So this animations main character is a girl. She is lazy and eats all the time but she goes out on missions with her pet that talks. She goes through these portals to help different beings. She has a crush on her guy friend. The last thing I can remember is that I discovered she was a robot that was created by the man she calls father who I believed passed away already. She was on the windowsill. I really am dying to know this anime. Please help. Ps i dont really remember what they look like
openVHS rented from the library
There was a VHS that my mom used to rent from our library when I was little. It was made in the 90s. It was about these children talking about their fears. There was some sort of monster that all of the children were afraid of. At the end of the show, they found out the monster was nice. I don’t know if it was part of a show or not. I watched it so many times when I was little but I cannot find it. It seems like I’m the only person that remembers it but I have been trying to figure it out for years.
openSimon Templar on Mars Literature
I read this book ~25 years ago probably. It's a not very good pastiche of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSaint set on mars. The protagonist has a name similarly cheaply symbolic in the same fashion. I don't want to read it again, just to know what it was. A part of it involves extremely forced efforts to rhyme 'silver'
openStory about government conspiracy featuring some Floridian kid and female scuba diver? Literature
I can't remember the plot as a whole, but I do know a few key moments that are pretty unique to the book. In many points of the story, words are blocked out, supposedly to keep confidentiality, so I'm inclined to think that the US government or military was involved. I believe the setting was in a coastal areas, 99% sure it was in Florida. The protagonist may have been a kid, not sure of what age, but he becomes friends with a strange woman in a scuba suit that may or may not have had a neurotic tic.
Of the two most memorable scenes in the book, they both involved uncovering a secret message. One of them was simple, where a note had slight indentations with a message that became visible after running the side of a pencil on the surface. The other note involved invisible ink from the juice from either a lemon or onion, and the message was revealed when the paper was held over a candle flame.
This book was from long ago, I read it back in third grade and have no idea what it was even called. Thank you to whoever knows what book I'm talking about.
Edited by SkullySnotopenAnimated "children" show about a love story. Anime
I have some very vague memory about this one animated show that was rerunning when I was a kid (around 2006 maybe?) I say rerun because I was in China, and it was one of the few shows actually dubbed for a Chinese kid's channel. Whoever made that decision had to be fired, because I remember the show being boring as hell and rarely ever watched it. All I can remember it's a love story set most likely in historical Europe, with a peasant girl with blonde hair fallen in love with a man of loyalty or great wealth. The man have black hair, and a younger brother with blonde hair who also likes the girl. The villain I think was a girl with black hair who is more within the "prince's" social circle. Another bad guy was a duke(maybe?) who I pretty sure had a beard, and stayed in his dungeon a lot, who also has a shadow that never matches his movement. There is also a girl from a circus who I think got kidnapped a lot. Finally the opening credit's ending has the "prince" and the blonde girl spinning and dancing in front of a pick/red background. Also the only episode I remember had a doctor who looked exactly like the "prince", and was hired by the duke for his evil plan of some sort. it's also the same episode where everyone took sick of a disease that makes they temporally go blind or something.
openFantasy Show
A few years ago i watched a fantasy show but i cannot recall the name of it. It wasnt a show everyone i knew was watching. the first episode i remember a woman and her sister running for theirs lives, I don't remember why, but the sister was shot with an arrow i think and the woman had to leave her sister and keep running. This woman later travels with a man who is the "savoir" of all. When she found him he was just a simple farm boy whos father i cant remember either had already died or will die in a fire. there is also a wizard to help them. this wizard grew up in the saviors village and everyone thought he was crazy. and if i remember correctly the wizard was actually the saviors grandfather, but the savoir didn't know until sometime later. does anyone know what this show is called?
openWell, it's actually homeschooling software... Videogame
Back around grade 5 / grade 7 - 2002/2004 (in Alberta, Canada), my mom used a piece of software to help us with our homeschooling. It had a variety of subjects, there was a quiz at the end of each lesson, and it was a really well-put together piece. You could customize your profile with a variety of themes, at least one type of quiz had this cool rocket theme where you were zipping about in a space station trying to answer the questions... I learned a lot from that piece of software, and the gamification of the whole thing always made me look forward to learning. I remember there was one video in a water module about not wasting water; it had a song and everything put to videos of people flushing, brushing their teeth, and washing their hands. I may have grown past the need for it, but it still brings me fond memories and I'd like to see if I can find videos of it online.
I thought it was called Operation Schoolhouse, but when I searched that term, all I found was a charity. I don't know if it was widespread or not, but I'd love to find it if possible.
openVideoGame for PS1 or PS2 Videogame
I cannot seem to remember the name of this video game, so I'll do my best to describe it. It was an an adventure quest style game with three characters a magician who had reddish hair, a knight in armor, and a girl. I feel like you were the magician but sometimes would play as the other characters as well. Anyway, that's all I really remember of it I played it a ton back from 2002-2004. Hopefully, someone will be able to help with this.
Thanks,
openHELP ME FIND THIS SHOW
Okay so I don’t really remember any episode specifically from the show. It was a live action show for little kids. I remember 2 characters but there could of been more. There was a man who I remember wearing yellow face paint and having stringy yellow hair who also wore yellow clothes(or maybe a yellow costume?) There was a pink character who was a woman who had a similar theme. I don’t remember as much about her as I do the man. I also remember them living in some weird place where there were fireman poles which they would slide down from. I remember watching it between 2006-2008ish (give or take a few years) it’s driving me nuts not finding this show so please help, thanks!
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A show about 2 men (I think brothers) who go all over the world to seek the best high (drugs etc.) They did do ayahuasca, theyve eaten blowfish, played japanese drinking games and got an prostate massage. Thats all I remember. I think the show was on MTV/Discovery/Nat. Geographic.