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openBuilding of Adventure meets Grey Goo... ...equals Crapsack World Anime
A manga or Animesque comic in which a grey goo scenario creates a sentient and ever-expanding "building" of spherical floors ascending outwards from what used to be Earth. The surviving humans barely knew their history, and myths describe the Earth and how the expansion of this thing even consumed the moon in the sky. Because Writers Cant Do Math, the stated size of this thing at the time of the storyline would be so large that it had incorporated the matter of Saturn, and require so much matter that such a feat would be impossible logistically even if otherwise ignoring the laws of physics.
Basically it's an endless Arcology of pain like Incarceron or Necromundo, which I'm pretty sure had a page at one time but was lost in The Great Crash or otherwise removed if so.
Edited by SimYouLateropenSuperhero team parody on Teletoon in Canada? Western Animation
Was on in or showing reruns in the 2001-2003 period. The main characters were grown men superheroes with very childish mannerisms. One episode plot involved a villain-of-the-week doing something that removed water from people without killing them, and the protagonists thought it was a "water sucker" which was treated like a bee they were scared of ("That's no water sucker, it's just a harmless fly!"). Another episode had them fight a villain (or rival superhero?) called "Flesh Man" who had a sidekick and a "Flesh Cave". There was always a joke skit at the end where they took "calls from the audience", with one joke being a rant on hot dogs always coming in 10-packs but hot dog BUNS coming in dozens, and since the calls were requests to fix "evil" stuff, the protagonist answering the call flew through the window of "the hot dog bun company" and complained to the boss of the place - who, being terrified, admits the conspiracy is forced on them by "the hot dog company" (yes, somehow there is only on e of each).
openPrisoners on a runaway train... Film
Okay, so the most I remember is that these four guys and a woman were being transported by train, it was the middle of winter, at least one of the guys was a convict being moved (the rest might have been witnesses in a case, suggesting that the convict(s) were too) and the woman was a psychologist specializing in criminal minds.
A bridge gets blown up ahead of the train and the cabs turn out to be empty, with only the first of four locomotives at the front of the train had working controls; the big suspense part was that three of the locomoties were normal North American freight diesels which they could walk between but only the second locomotive (just behind the lead engine with the controls) was a "streamliner" (an EMD F-series with the nose light and smooth snout) that they had to get past somehow (cue the special effects and stunt doubles) before the train flew off the end of the destroyed bridge.
open"Train race" episode? Western Animation
One of my very first memories was from watching a TV show in the early 90's. It was your typical 80's cartoon animals show (I'm pretty sure it was a rerun). Something about a race with a locomotive (finish line ribbon), the historic rail line and/or town being demolished by the villain if the protagonists didn't win, and the right-hand rail being missing just before said finish line. Not sure how it ended, the TV was probably shut off before I could see.
I don't think the episode was from Duck Tales or that "80's pro-environment cartoon" with cartoon animals whose name I can't recall save for beginning with "The", though I could be wrong.
openWhat is SomniCorp? Videogame
Most YKTS are for stuff you remember but can't find the name of. What would a YKTS look like as an Inverted Trope? Well, exactly like this... https://player.vimeo.com/video/98081922
This little video is quite obviously an Alternate Reality Game clue. The only issue is that I have no idea which game that would be. Even /r/arg didn't respond (though that may be due to their customs or the way I worded the question in my post), and search engines, wikipedia/infogalactic and This Very Wiki have given literally no results of use. The Vimeo account holder is a fake name with no photo, and some other "True Art" videos are also on the account with no rhyme or reason; either the owner is a professional marketing designer posting miscellaneous works to attract clients yet has no face to the name nor lists themselves as having an occupation, which makes little sense, or its an ARG clue of unknown origin.
Additional Info usually considered important in AR Gs: "Project Vrij" "Groep 4" Is there even an IRL person behind the videos actually named "Keni Voermans"? Or are they simply a character in the game's plot?
NOTE: This is under video game because the creepy 3D graphics part that interrupts the main video clearly has arrow buttons on both the left and right side of the screen, which suggests it has a smartphone app component or at least an interactive thing for plugin-based browsers.
Edited by SimYouLateropenChristian Kids Show With Live Action Bible Characters in Present Day Live Action TV
There was a show that I cannot for the life of me remember the name of, but some kids find a device that lets them bring characters of the Bible into real life. There was an episode with David from David and Goliath, there was an episode where Saul comes and burns down the community church and the whole town comes together to rebuild it, there was also an episode where some kid ends up in a tipped over port o potty. I watched it on VHS so it was 90s-2000s era. If anyone remembers this show and remembers the name that would be awesome because I can't find it anywhere
Edited by imjustadowopenWeird Music Video about Record Scratching Western Animation
There was this music video, a kind of long one, from the early 2000's at latest. It was based around the record scratching noise and urban culture at the time. The plot involved "inner space" where atoms were equivalent to solar systems and electrons were planets. The villains were VERY strange; a thing that looked like a baby with a red tint that had a worm sticking out of it's belly button which was portrayed like Darth Vader, and later on a blue doppelganger portrayed like Darth Sidious. All the "spacecraft" looked like someone made a Scavenger Punk shuttle in scrapbook format out of a picture of a vehicle with the wheels cut off and replaced with solar-powered satellites.
I've tried looking for this thing on occasion over the last 15 years with no luck. Even an earlier question about it on This Very Wiki - back when "You Know That Show" was a page on the wiki which you edited to post what you were looking for - didn't even get a response.
Any ideas?
openChildren's sci-fi movie from the 90s or early 00s (?)
I have this memory of a sci-fi movie that I watched as a kid, but I'm not sure if it's a real memory or something I invented. All I remember is the ending. I think it was made for children, and the leads were a brother and sister I think, with the boy having dark hair and the girl having light hair (maybe), and they were lost in space or in an alternate dimension or something. They were accompanied by a man and woman who were like parental figures to them, but I don't know if they were in fact their parents or just a couple they met somehow who acted as surrogate parents. At some point in the plot they encountered a benevolent race of aliens who were advanced and peaceful, like the Space Elves or Angelic Aliens trope. These aliens helped save the humans from whatever danger they were in. At the end when the humans were being sent back to Earth or wherever, (this is the most vivid part I remember) the aliens offer the chance to let the boy stay behind and join their society because he's special for some reason, maybe a telepath or empath or something, or just smart and shy and fit in with them better. The parental figures ask him if he wants to stay with the aliens or come with them, and he decides to stay with the aliens. Does anyone have any idea what this could be? I am not even sure if it was a movie or TV show or book, but I am certain I have seen some piece of media that has an ending like that.
openSTABBER OR SHOOTER MISSES VITAL ORGANS Film
There is a scene in this tv show or movie where someone shots or stabs someone and the person who shot someone intially misses any vital organs, causing the person to live. I believe the shooter or stabbed had to shoot or stab the victim because someone had to believe the victim was dead, when the victim isn't? I believe, I'm not really sure... and I think the stabber or shooter says, "Oops, I missed."... I don't know...
openI'm starting to think I made it up Western Animation
There are kids, maybe teenagers, who go into a world under their bed where things are scary (it is not the movie Little Monsters). There is maybe a roller coaster involved. It's not Little Nemo either. I've found a few things close, but they all came out after 2000. I watched it sometime around 1985-92. I know this sounds like it's definitely Little Monsters, but I've watched it since this has been bugging me and it's definitely not what I'm thinking of here.
openBook from my childhood Literature
I'm looking for a children's picture book that was about two classroom hamsters who, while the class is away picking apples, find a bunch of apples on a table along with some paints. (Hilarity Ensues) At the end of the book, there was something about the class making applesauce, which there was a recipe for on the last page. The hamsters were yellowish and burnt orange in color, and I think they had alliterative names. Harry and Harvey, was it? The book was very thin, only twenty or so pages. I loved this book so much my first grade teacher let me take it home, but it seems it was recycled or donated. Can somebody help, please?
openCan't find a couple of specific articles from "a certain creepy wiki"... Web Original
In other words, the SCP Foundation wiki. The articles in question are years apart in origin, and I'm absolutely sure one of them was removed and replaced with a different "anomaly". The missing one was titled "Identity-Stealing Smartphone" on the list and was a mid-00s Blackberry with a mini keyboard and low-res screen but had no charging port, and basically stole and consumed people's souls via Artifact of Doom powers. The other I do not have the name of, and may have been removed as a Go I attempt which never caught on; a series of SC Ps centered on an Eldritch Abomination illegal immigrant from who-knows-where that decided to stop doing whatever terrible things cosmic horrorterrors normally do and attain the American dream by programming anomalous software.
Provided you were willing to read the above and haven't already scarred your innocence from these kind of works (...pass the Brain Bleach...), anyone have any idea which ones these were and if a web archival site has one or both of these articles?
openChildren's story - standing stones are the devil's horns
I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read a long time ago, like 20 years ago, which is about two standing stones, miles apart, which are revealed to be the points of the devil's horns and he's about to rise up. IIRC the main characters are two kids, they get help from a witch and I think they used circles of salt to help defeat the devil, something like that. Any ideas?
openTabletop RPG based on classic Mega Man games
I remember a homebrew tabletop RPG based around Mega Man, where the GM played the "mad scientist role" and had to sic robots on the protagonists, but all players were allowed to contribute ideas for said robots and thus assist in designing their foes.
openTrapped In Another World plot via impending (occurs at the end) death? Film
Okay, I only saw a short bit of this movie, basically the ending. Live action, not animated. The teenage hero had found himself himself trapped in another world (apparently on his birthday) where he saves said world and/or stops an ultimate evil or something. As a reward at the end they let him into a paradise whose door was locked until plot resolution; cue family reading birthday card to him thinking he's asleep, only to realize he's not waking up or breathing... unexpected cut to closing credits. Was likely on TV in the early 2000s, but possibly as a rerun.
openChildren's book with pictures of a "cityscape" of kitchen utensils and food? Literature
A book I saw at some point prior to 2003 was a picture book where food, kitchen utensils and food storage jars were drawn in an arrangement resembling a skyline. Milk cartons and food jars were commonly used as "skyscrapers", and a sausage link was placed on something to make it appear like an elevated rail line.
openTV show Psychics
TV show. Possibly British. Guy thinks he's crazy. In mental hospital, gets a girlfriend. They switch bodies. He escapes as chaos reigns. People trapped in walls and rooms where the doors have vanished. Secret go to agency catches him and he winds up chained to a chair in a swimming pool set up to electrocute him. Paramilitary organization of psychics breaks him out
openDO YOU KNOW THIS KIDS MOVIE NAME? Live Action TV
I am not good at explaining but i will try my best.. So it was a movie that aired on either jetix or diseny in the year 2009 i think so. the story was about a boy who is always sad and depressed becoz he was dumb i think so later he meets a pumpkin or potatoe like creature who knows magic.the creature was small not very big he was approximately 2 to 3 feet tall so yeah. they both became friends then.and that creature helps the boy with his magical powers but later it turns into a big problem and so the movie was with a happy ending. here are some scenes that i remember from the movie so in a scene the patatoe like creaure give him some foods to eat like noodles burger etc with his magical powers. in this the creature helps the kid by helping him in exam but it turns into problem becoz he copied the whole answer sheet of a girl he copied the girls name to in the boys paper so the teacher comes to know that he had copied. so...i tried my best to explain you now ur trun plzz help me i cant focus on anything else
So I've been trying to find some information on this old trivia video my teacher played for us in 5th grade. Sadly I never got to see a title screen or box cover, but I do recall a blonde woman who talked to you in between rounds and questions. In addition I believe it was all science trivia questions, but that's all I can remember about it.