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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.
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.
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.
open90s children show about shapeshifting man "dissolved" by water Live Action TV
I'm struggling to remember a UK children's afterschool programme, probably CITV though possibly CBBC which I think would have aired very early 90s.
There's a bad guy who can shapeshift/change his appearance to look like anyone else. I think this really meant that he appears on-screen as the same man, but none of the other characters can tell it's the same one except a boy who isn't believed when he points this out to others. I'm pretty sure he appears as an ice-cream van man at least once, maybe this is his default persona, but appears in different clothes to appear as different men. I think once, the boy runs upto someone such as a policeman/park attendant to tell him and then realises that the man he's telling is actually the bad guy.
I can't recall what the bad guy's scheme is, but I remember the ending where the boy and man are in a park. The kid is trying to lure him onto a (turned off) water fountain as for some reason, water kills/dissolves him. Realising the plan, the man confidently jumps onto the fountain saying it's turned off (probably for the winter) so he'll be ok. The fountain then turns on and the man is vanquished.
It's stumped me for ages. Can anyone help?
openTWO CARTOONS Western Animation
I was browsing through tapes years back, VHS, and I saw these cartoons, I last saw these on the tape in 1996-, but they are probably from the earlier 90s. They are both cartoons. This is all I can remember.
1) A bunch of fairies are friends, one has black hair, one has brown, one or two have blonde. It is not one of Disney's Tinkerbell cartoons. A few kids do the "star light, star bright" wishes and the fairies come to each kid and grant them their wish. In the cartoon, a two headed dragon (one with red hair, one with blue hair), make a wish, I think, and the dragon is given a toy ball. That might have been from another cartoon, but I cannot remember.
2) This one is more obscure. The animation is quite similar to a Cowboy Needs a Horse, one of Disney's Silly Symphonies shorts. It involves a wizard or warlock (it looked like some sort of male witch) singing. He was outside a barn. I think he was sprinkling dust on the ground, which he made out to be his gold. He had a classic deep singing voice. It was nighttime. That is all I remember.
Please help, any help would truly be appreciated, thank you.
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!!!!
openOld vhs puppet show Live Action TV
This had been bugging me. I remember when I was very young I had a vhs tape of a puppet/musical show were it was a few stories that the man would tell. The one I remember the most was about a baby doll that had a deep scary voice. It took place in a very dark room. the guy should sing about it saying that when ever the lights turned off the doll will say in a deep voice “feed me”. then in the end he flips the doll and opens its back to find out that the dolls batteries were just dying and needed to be replaced and that there was nothing to be scared of. I remember that this story always scared me when I watched it. I think I remember that most of the storys had a bit of a dark side. Like one about driving down a dark road in a thunder storm. I do vaguely remember that he often had a puppet monkey that always sat on his shoulder during the story’s. If it helps I remember that the shows logo was a rabbit with a magic hat.
Edited by THLIttleMonsteropenA cartoon about monsters in a hotel Western Animation
I'm looking for a cartoon about monsters like vampires and werewolves who all live in like one place, I'm thinking it was a hotel but I could be wrong but it would play at like 6 in the morning if that helps and I think its at least six years old. (NO ITS NOT HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA OR SCOOBY DOO GHOUL SCHOOL!) Also, they went to school and had parents I think.
openAnimated "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.
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'
openI can't stop thinking about this!! Western Animation
Anyone remember a 2000's cartoon wich may be CGI? The premise was about a group of kids where one of them was a alien, she had short blonde hair and (I think) was dressed with green and purple/pink clothes; She also had a uncle who was a inventor and alerted the kids when a treat was close. I recall fragments of an episode in where she encounter a old frienemy who has the power of read minds, wich is later defeated by not thinking at all. I hope that you can help me. Thanks.
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?
openOld Horror Show Live Action TV
I remember a scene of a prospector type dude finding a weird object that was glowing then weird smoke coming off and melting him. Also a scene where two men are talking at a job site and people are inconspicuously dying in the background.
openI don't know Film
A group of hikers spill some ancient blood and the sin doesn't come up after that . They draw sticks to see who they sacrifice then the sun comes back up but only for a day
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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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?!