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openCartoon/ anime teen has powers and in one episode finds mutants in an old abandoned train station
Please does anyone remember a show we’re a teen has super powers and in one episode he goes to a part of town or maybe an island where he finds a group of mutants that live in a train/ train station. Their leader is a guy that was the guy who shoveled coal into the fire and when the mutant explosion or whatever turned them went off he was sealed inside the train and resulted in him being less mutated. The mutants are teens and young kids besides the older man that is their leader sort of. Please help and I also believe one mutant wanted to go back to the city and had long arms and could climb easily. The whole show wasn’t featured around the mutants it was just one episode when the protagonist goes there for some reason. I believe he has 2 friends that know his identity a girl and boy
openWeird wizard school cartoon Western Animation
I unfortunately can only really recall the fact that the main character had a broken radio antennae while all the other characters had actual wands. Also there may have been a bit in the intro where they ride magic carpets? Any help would be appreciated!
openShow where boy turns into animals Western Animation
I have a very vague memory of a show (or maybe it was a game??????) where a boy (maybe there was also a girl) turned into animals. The things I remember most is that the kids had toothbrushes representing the animals they'd be that night and they had a talking pet Goldfish who was basically The Smart Guy. My family denied remembering it when I mentioned it to them years ago, and I can't stop questioning if this really happened, or if it was all a very vivid dream. Help!
openHelp me find this im going insane Anime
Ok, so i remember a guy, teen-ish, that had a wooden carrage of sort (that are like mini houses) and had magic cooking ware like pots and pans that talked, and ate stuff and made delicious food,then he met a girl that had blue eyes, was blonde and wore a blue and white dress (blue was the dominant color) and there was this evil guy (can barely remember his face) But i believe he wore black clothes like a tux or something, then in the end the guy was shown to make pizzas with his new "girlfriend", thats all i can remember i would really appriciate the help
Edited by ZappyNNopenMobile game with multiple minigames at once Videogame
There was this Mobile Phone Game that I got off the Google Play store a few years ago, but I can't remember what it was called.
When you started up the game, there were 9 little screens that appeared. One of the screens would light up, and you would play a minigame. As you kept playing, more screens would light up, and you would have to do more minigames at the same time, and the object of the game was to last as long as you can before running out of lives.
I don't remember many of the specific minigames... there was one where you have to hold up an umbrella to prevent the room from filling with water and drowning a guy. I think there was also one where you had to pull up a rope.
Does anyone know what this is?
openSimpsons Episode Where Lisa Makes Friends With One of Marge's Friends
And sort of made Marge jealous because Lisa seemed to prefer her as a mom. There was a treehouse and a lava flow involved...
openCan’t remeber
The show im trying to remember is similar to xiaolin showdown in the sense that the main characters dual their enemies...and in the show when it was either 1v1 2v2 or 3v3 boths sides would gamble a card(?) on the fight, the card would go to the winner and the winner would be able to use the power/magic of that card...i know the main characters were 2 boys and a girl and i believe they had a master not 100%sure tho....i hope someone might be able to help me find the show!!!! thank
openKids Can Cook or Kids Can Cook Too or Kids Cook Live Action TV
The show was aired on local TV in New York at some point between 1999-2001. It had children cooking with a player from the Miami Dolphins. In particular, there was an episode on making a smoothie.
Edited by BarthasheartopenDemon on Shoulder Live Action TV
Newbie question thanks in advance for your help but this is been driving me nuts.
It’s maybe from 1980s, perhaps before. Possibly UK made. May have been something like tales of the unexpected or the Twilight zone. Can’t remember much about it other than the main character is a middle-aged guy whose shoulder starts to sag, it becomes progressively worse throughout the program. Anyway it turns out that he’s got some kind of invisible devil or Demon sitting on his shoulder, I think at some point it might have even transferred to his wife. Thanks
Edited by BoorishHelminthopenOuter Limits? Twilight Zone ? Modern franchise Live Action TV
I have been trying to locate/remember a TV show: Outer Limits or Twilight Zone, possibly, in which there is a female comic book artist and she is either drawing a new character or an established one. Nevertheless, the character comes to life and enters her life/world. I have Googled and looked through Wikipedia and in this forum. Also tried IM Db, nothing. I would say the time frame is the early 90s, not later than 1996. However, since I cannot seem to find the episode the timeframe could be one of my problems, it's in color. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
openE/I show from the early 2000s Live Action TV
I'm looking for this live-action Saturday morning show about animal rescue. The only thing I can remember about it is that every episode ends with one of the characters breaking the fourth wall while looking inside a refrigerator.
opengame in video Videogame
Can someone tell me what the game shown in this video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lssJDNKFLZ0 (not Deus Ex the one with the player shooting fireballs
openOldish Anime Movie Anime
So when I was a little kid there was the anime-esque film that I cannot remember the title of for the life of me. The film was probably from the 90s, maybe early 2000s. It featured this kid with black hair. When he was a child, his father was going to be attacked by some men. So his dad hid him and i think he possibly told him to run? The dad was killed, and the kid ended up in like this underground area i think. I vividly remember that he ate a carrot when he woke up from this. There were animals around him, and he may or may not have socialized with them. I’m not sure Eventually, he meets this man that knew his father or something, and i believe he trains him to fight. then he goes to fight the people who killed his dad. I’ve been looking for this film for y e a r s so if you have any idea what it’s called, please let me know.
openTreehouse, artifacts, jungle, monsters
I really need to know what this serie is called. There was a jungle, and they lived in the big treehouse so other creatures can't get them, there was multiple people that lived there, the world wasen't the regular world but a mythical place- ish that very few people has managed to get into. Everyday they were hunting for new artifacts i think, and battling monsters. This is a serie that is not animated, but its kinda getting old (2000-ish) and i remember watching it often as a young boy.
openKitchen Nightmares episode and Children's Novel
Two things on complete opposite ends of the spectrum, but just hear me out.
One episode of the United States version of Kitchen Nightmares involved a restaurant owner who was in a vegetative state for a few years, although I don't recall if the reason was specified. I believe the owner's name was Rose(?), and her business suffered due to her absence. I remember Chef Ramsay finding the kitchen and storage disgusting, he told the staff to smell how rotten the food was. When Rose tried to see the poor state of the food, Gordon told her "No, I don't want to put you back into the hospital."
The children's novel is a bit less clear. I think the title had something to do with blackberries. The beginning, or at least a very early part of the novel, involved the narrator and his best friend playing outside. A swarm of bees attacks them, I don't recall the reason, but when the narrator gets inside to get away from the swarm, he finds his friend lying around. He doesn't think much of it because his friend had a tendency to joke around, but then an ambulance arrives. He is informed that his friend was allergic to bees and that no one knew until it was too late. At the funeral, I recall the narrator's wording as he looks down at his feet. "It's hard to think about God when something as small as a bee could kill your best friend."
openPuppet animals teach kids about insturments
I can’t really remember this show that well but I’m really curious where it went. So the show was targeted towards children and there was this pink and blue mouse(?) animal puppets who would go into their shack or something like that and play insturments. I’ve tried to find it but I’m clueless.
openWeird old CGI tv show - Purple City/Town, night time, moon, non verbal - slightly creepy.
This has been driving me crazy. I can see almost everything in my head but it's super blurry. Only one of my friends remembers a TINY amount of it, but the memory is super blurry.
This was when I lived in Malaysia around 2003 - 2009, but I'm pretty certain the animation was European. It was about this purple urban city/town and had a few odd human like (?) characters. The animation is akin to the typical bad 90s/early 2000s cgi, like Reboot, but the town was designed with a whimsical feel to it. I remember it being on late at night, on either Cartoon Network or
The streets were like cobble stoned and the houses - search 'french old cobble stone city streets' into google images
And everything was a shade of purple, there's an image which really reminded me of it - search 'Spooky graveyard with moon at night time lapse' (I cannot link image urls on this site) - The moon seemed very prominent.
I mainly remember feeling very unsettled by the animation and everything about the show. Everything was slow and drawn out. And the crude facial expressions were like uncanny, but at the same time bad animation. I specifically remember that it was non verbal and had no language, just vocal expression.The buildings were all purple and there were roof top areas and balconies.
Regarding the characters, I remember the main person being very large (yellow) and he had a (red?) umbrella, he had a lowish sounding voice - he sort of reminds me of a yellow Big the Cat from the Sonic series, or even Totoro - he had very empty eyes and sounded super dumb - he lived in a flat in one of the purple houses. Another character was a shorter lankier male... I vaguely remember him wearing something stripy and he wore a beanie hat, he had a big freakish smile, like the Hamburgler. In one episode I think I remember the big cat guy cutting his finger, and drops of cgi blood slowly coming out and him making a low wailing panic noise.
I am so sorry for the seriously lacking story/anything, it's so blurry but the memory is so vivid! Does that make any sense? I really hope it rings bells for at least someone, and someone could help me out here, it's making me feel like a crazy person. Please! Thank you so much!!
Edited by purplecity
I've got two games that I'm curious about. Both are PC edutainment games, probably from the mid-to-late 90s.
The first was one of those games where you had a central area, and could access a number of minigames from there. It had a space theme, and the central area was a spaceship. There was one minigame where you were on this planet with a lot of craters, and you were playing a kind of "whack-a-mole" thing. These weird, brightly colored, cartoony-looking aliens would stick their heads out of the craters, and you'd hit them with something. I don't remember if you had a bludgeon or if you were shooting something at them. I can't seem to remember any of the other minigames, or what exactly the goal of the game was. I think there must've been more than one of these games, because I remember a friend having one that looked similar, but had different minigames.
The other one is similarly hard to remember, and again, all I have is bits and pieces. It had the same kind of "central area" format as the other one, but that's the only thing they had in common. This central area was mostly dark, I think, with spotlights on the things you could do. I know there was at least one minigame that involved music, but I don't remember anything about it besides that. The thing I remember most clearly was some weird little game where you were making these fluffy critters. I think they were fluffy, anyway. You were in a building, and people would come to the door and ask you to make them one. They'd tell you the specifics, and you'd give it to them. I remember that those things eventually got their own spinoff - something to do with a town full of them. Aside from that, I remember there being more than one of these games, but I only ever played this one because I was too young for the others.
Come to think of it, the one with the music minigame and the one with the critters may have been two different games, but I'm not sure.
I know this isn't much help. I'm not too concerned about finding out what these were, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate it.
Edited by SapphireBlue