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openBook from my childhood-deeply disturbing Literature
It was a children’s book about a kid with a tragic backstory (maybe he was an orphan?) and all he wanted was to try an apple. I think he ended up getting the apple but ultimately did not get to eat it — I think because bullies kicked it in the gutter?? It took place in an Asian country I think.
openSome Blues Clues Live Action TV
Watching stuff from Everything Is Terrible channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iFsYXR36Kg) and I'm really curious of what this show was called. It basically a dude who carries a "magic music bag" containing instruments and other stuffs as well as teaching kids numbers and the alphabet.
I can't find any other details of this show other from that video, looks like it in the early to mid 90s and seem to be aired only locally.
The only other video of this guy is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tmuezpBYwI
openAirport scene from a film Film
A group of passengers, all wearing the same shirt with "___ Bound" printed on it, board a plane, and just as it is about to depart, we cut to a tarmac crewmember who proclaims, "Time for me to do my job." Cut back to the plane, captain/FO announces they'd have to deplane. What film does this appear in?
openDoctor wearing a large coat Western Animation
On a Discord chat I'm one someone recently bought online what appears to be a storyboard sketch from some old cartoon. The sketch shows an apparently fat character (labeled as "Doctor XXX") entering through a door and taking off his coat, revealing it's actually very thin underneath. Any clue? Here is the pic◊.
Edited by PhantomDusclops92openMonth-named sisters - Resolved Webcomic
I know I've asked about this before and gotten a response, but I recently lost all my bookmarks and can't find the original query.
I'm looking for a web comic with a relatively detailed art style. Full color, or mostly full color. It would have stopped updating a while ago. Two of the characters were sisters - either orphans or runaways. One of them was a young adult or teenager. The other was a young child. They were both named after months.
There was some sort of powerful being or fairy with long purple hair. There might have been a corgi. Alternate dimensions/time travel/something similar factored into the plot somewhat.
Edited by rachiebirdopenA Western Animation about kids that travel though food realms.
They come from the milk place and travel for some reason. The Cereal realm is poblated with Asians, the Candy/Junk Food realm is a illusion and they have a movile phone-like thing that scans food .
openFirst Time I Used This Chat (Resolved)
Alright... Since this is the first time I used this chat. I want to ask you guys about a show:
"Anyone here remembers a movie about a girl being attacked by unknown entities in a car wash?"
Edited by ElfenLiedFan90openNumbered supersoldiers Western Animation
The show had these kids with powers that were activated by biting a chip that was implanted in their teeth. I think the characters were given numbers for names. It is even possible it was an anime, but I cannot remember. I've been trying to remember forever, but its hard to remember the details.
Edited by Codimac14openA whole YouTube channel
I’m looking for a whole You Tube channel that has all these old news specials, like mini-documentaries from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. One was about interviewing prostitutes on the streets of NYC, one was about segregated schools and the reporter mentioned how he went to one when he was young, and another one was about the state of NYC and how it could be improved (this one was sponsored by a life-insurance company).
Edited by Loopytires55openA song with a female singer about being in love with your friend Music
I know a few of the lyrics but I can't find the song. It's a slow ballad-esque song about being in love with your best friend:
"And it's killing me alive. Reached the bitter end. Can't pretend I'm not in love with my best friend".
openAnimated animal movie
The only time I've ever seen this was when I was a child home with a stomach bug. I missed most of it because I went into my room to sleep and emerged an hour later, so I only saw the beginning and ending. I just remember a bunch of animals backstage at a movie set or play or something. Animated film.
openVideo to teach kids French
In my fifth grade French class, our teacher made us repeatedly watch a video that sung (rather annoying) songs about things like spiders and butterflies to teach us French. I don't remember a whole lot about it, which is precisely why I'm trying to track it down.
openDark multiple-ending platformer with a gravity-defying mechanic Videogame
I remember seeing this on Kongregate. It might have also been on Jay is Games, can't remember. The player character is some type of blob thing in an abandoned laboratory, but I think all other people in the game were drawn just like the player character. One of the very first notes you find is some cutesy explanation of the controls like "this subject likes to move around with the arrow keys and jump with the space bar" that serves in contrast to the later plot developments.
The art-style is mostly minimalist and you learn about the plot by collecting cut-out newspaper snippets and papers that are left around in the lab. The main idea was that a scientist had invented some sort of anti-gravity device (which you find in-game and is used as a mechanic) that the military somehow used as a weapon to wipe out fleets of opponents much faster than normal. In response, the scientist committed suicide after realizing what his invention was used for, but you only learn that detail in one of the endings.
There was one particular room with three exits to it (not including the one you came in from) and each exit offered a different ending. Of those endings I remember two: you escape the laboratory and see a mushroom cloud form over a city in the difference, or you gradually go deeper into the laboratory and find the room where the scientist had killed himself and scrawled the words "I'M SORRY" in blood on the wall.
Edited by iwantedtoaddsomethingopenCartoon TV Show Set in Medieval Times
I watched this show as a child. All I remember is it was set in a castle in medieval times. There was a wizard, a big male who wore red, a princess who was vain and a younger ginger girl who acted kind of like a monkey. Their parents (king and queen) were away for some reason so they were looking after the kingdom but in each episode something goes wrong that they have to fix.
resolved Final Boss Linked to Greed? Videogame
So, I read about this game in a Trope description, but I can't remember which game it was.
Basically, the difficulty of the final boss was directly linked to a room full of treasure. If you opened all the chests and took everything, the boss would be INSANELY hard. If you bypassed the room, the boss would be super easy, like killing a Mook.
Does anyone know what this was?
openLooking for info on two '80s PBS shows Live Action TV
Hi folks! Sorry to inconvenience you with one of these requests because I actually found out once what it was called via a YKTS post from at least three or four years ago, but so much has happened since and I completely lost track of the answer! Anyway, so that first show I was talking about concerned a young woman who was a recent immigrant to the U.S. and lives in an apartment next to a young American man who's a writer and who teaches the woman proper English grammar and how to write English more clearly. She uses that knowledge at her workplace, a department store where she's the secretary to a black American woman who's the head manager of the store, and teaches the janitor of the store some of what she's learned. The immigrant woman had long, curly red hair and spoke in what I would assume was a Central or Eastern European accent, and there was a "will they or won't they" element between her and her neighbor.
The second show is something that's bugged me for almost as long, but I've never gotten anywhere with regards to finding out on my own what it was called. It was perhaps a Texas PBS production that was set in medieval times and was basically a sort of mock evening news program; during said program they began by showing a particular date in the past on the screen (similar to how ABC's or NBC's evening news programs displayed that day's date info when they began their broadcasts), then the camera moved in closer to the fictional news anchor, who'd report on historic events in that particular time period as if they were news reports. I don't think there were any field reporters or anything, though people were shown in the background working as if they were hustling to write and file reports; I think what was shown on screen instead were historical artworks depicting whatever event the "news anchor" was reporting on. I wasn't traditionally interested in history, but I remember that show making medieval history seem interesting and would love to see if there are even the shortest of clips available online for me to enjoy.
As stated in the title, these were shows that aired on my local (a city in Texas) PBS affiliate in the 1980s, both during the afternoon "instructional TV" block. During that time I was a young child who watched PBS more than any other channel and found the instructional programs of the time VERY entertaining (even if I never picked up anything, e.g. "French in Action", a show that failed to teach me even the slightest of French), but the above shows were my absolute favorites of the group. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'd be highly appreciative.
openUrban fantasy novel Literature
It was an urban fantasy novel (might have been a series) about a shadowy war between good and evil. I remember that Dracula was involved, but for most of the story no one knew whose side he was on (good, I think). The characters were trying to collect various magic items including two powerful magic wands (one good and one evil).
I know it has a page here, that's where I heard about the story.
openMedieval Third Person game, one boss was a giant snake? Videogame
Ok, so this is one I'm not sure I remember too well.
I never played the game myself, but I watched a replay of my friend playing it on his Xbox 360. There was a giant snake-like boss, and I believe my friend attacked it with a sword or a bow and arrow. There were a lot of dark colors and foliage, I remember that, and I believe the ability to record certain parts and replay them was a feature in the game itself, not the console.
That's literally all I remember, and I'm not about to buy every medieval video game until I find the one I'm looking for. If anyone knows what this game is or could be, please let me know. A video of that boss fight would be even better, as I'd know immediately if it was the one or not.
Also, this game had to be released BEFORE the XBONE and PS 4, so anything that's meant exclusively for those consoles is automatically out. I want to say it was around 2006-2012. I know that's a huge span of time in the video game world, but that's all I've got to go on.
Edited by Xion_the_Undead-Huntress
So I remember this TV show years back and it was a group of teenagers, I think 4 or 5? One was a rich girl, another was a boy who worked at the hotel the rich girls dad owned, then his best friend had pretty curly hair, and another hot guy. But at the end the girl with curly hair had sex with both guys on the same night, losing her virginity. And I believe they had Australian accents? Please help me find it