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I remember this show from (I think) a few years ago, and I believe it might have been on Cartoon Network. I remember it centered around a music teacher and kids that might have been his class. I remember a line from the theme song: "Washington DC, that's where life becomes a sitcom; if you ain't got no rhythm we're gonna show you how to get sommmeeee YEAH!". I also remember one episode where the kids were imagining a world without music. One kid said:"If there was no music, we wouldn't have hearts because there'd be no beat" or something like that. Thanks!
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OK, this one's for a specific character. I could be hallucinating, or this could be from another medium, so keep that in mind. There's this character in The Simpsons who's a very bad doctor, seedy. And every time he appears, he says "Hi everybody!", and they all say "Hi, dr. [his name]!"
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Does anyone remember a TV pilot called "Things That Go Bump"? It was about a division of the New Orleans Police Department that concerned itself with ghostbusting, and it had a cop named Bumpstead as its protagonist. Never made it to a series, but I found out what it was only last year or so. I'm just trying to spread the love and see if anyone else knows about it.
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Video game Ok, can anyone remember a platforming pc game that involves you controlling a bug where you have to go through various levels which usually involve colored gates you have to open to continue? I remember there was a playroom level, and a backyard level that involved giant sprinklers. As well as a special level where you were sliding through a pipe.
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This might be a little too vague, but I'll try: The main character goes on a guided tour through some caverns... only the tour guide is just driving in circles, going through the same cavern over and over again, and calling it something else each time, and the main character never catches on. I'm unsure if this was part of a regular show or just a one-off short, but I kind of suspect the latter. I remember the animation style was pretty simplistic, with little in the way of backgrounds, and it may not have even used any colors other than black and white. I saw it as a kid, so it's probably not from any time later than the early 90's.
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Some years ago I catched a glimpse of a cartoon, I thought it was a animated movie, not a cartoon series. I remember there was this man and he was talking to an old man (I may be recalling it wrong, but I think the old man was drawn in a more humoreous style than the rest of the characters, kind of like Mr. Magoo), they were in a construction site. I remember the old man gets trapped inside a portable toilet, and gets thrown down a hill. When the old man gets out he says something like "Oh, the most terrible thing! I'm covered with human feces!". I changed channel at that moment, because I did not thought it was funny, but catched it again later when the old man takes the man to a gym where there are some other guys playing basketball. The old man comes with a boy (I thing he was redhead), he is taking care of him while his mother is out (or something). The old man starts ranting about how the man can't play basketball because alcohol has destroyed his body (at this point I was like "What kind of cartoon is this?"). The man plays basketball anyway, and he convinces the boy to play with him against the other guys. Shirts versus Skins. I remember the boy starts being very shy and insecure but the man is able to motivate him and they win. The other guys are forced to eat the shorts of a fat man (because they lost the game). I remember that during the game, the mother of the boy appears and seems very happy to see him playing, but after they win, the man encourage the boy to make fun of the other guys... I don't remember what he screams, but it really shocks the mother, and gets angry to both the man and the old man.
That's all I can recall, I really disliked it, but it bugs me. I think I watched it in cartoon network (Latinamerican), and it was still too early for adult cartoons, that's the reason it got me so intrigued in the first place.
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This ones been driving me crazy for a while. Its a show from the late 80's or early 90's.
A middle aged "time cop" of sorts hops from time to time, somehow controlled by a pocket watch, capturing evil time travelers. In the premier he accidentally picks up a kid who travels with him throughout the series because for some reason they cant get him back to the appropriate time. Anyone remember this one?
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I used to watch this show that somehow involved banished royalty, it involved an Evil Chancellor somehow. The main character was the royalty and he got a chick with him at some point. There was some kind of magical McGuffin that was inside a large rocky place, but it was flooded while he was retrieving it and he had to leave it to escape. I think. That was an early episode, and the rest also involved getting some kind of powerful magic so that he could return home.
Oh, also it was on Nickelodeon, quite late at night.
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which donald duck cartoon did this screencap come from http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/07/25/donald-duck-suicide/
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A couple of years ago I read on the wiki a description of a short story. I'm having trouble remembering the name of the story.
Basically a guy goes on vacation on some beach after his wife has died and meets this girl there who claims to be a time traveller. Eventually they fall in love. This girl is using her fathers time machine to travel back in time but has limited amounts of use.
Eventually she uses the time machine to go back to when the man is younger and changes her name and becomes his secretary and it turns out the girl is his wife.
Sorry about the long post but I really loved this story and want to find it again.
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Does anyone remember this kid’s show? I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM. I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
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Okay, TV Tropes. I have never called on you before, but this is my Holy Grail.
I can not accurately give a time frame, but if I had to guess I would say most likely late 90's. Some time in the past, either I believe Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon held a sweepstakes. The prize was a personalized cartoon. The winner, a young girl, was drawn by whoever was running the sweepstakes into a cartoon character. She was then placed into a sort of duel with a pig character. I think his name was Piggly Wiggly. Most if not all of the cartoon was a back and forth between the two characters, the girl claiming "This is my cartoon!" and the pig claiming "This is the Piggly Wiggly show!" as they fought to out-do each other. It aired probably once.
As you can see, I've already got most of the details. What I am looking for is validation. I have been unable to find any information relating to this cartoon on the internet, and I have been unable to find it on You Tube. I can't find a scrap of documentation on this thing. Any acknowledgement or proof that this show exists (It must!) would be a great peace of mind. Please tell me I am not crazy.
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I'm looking for a show that was on Nickelodeon in the mid-late 90's (it premiered no later than 1998, I know that much). It might have been a failed pilot, because I only think one episode ever aired. It was a sketch comedy show, I'm pretty sure, and it involved a lot of completely life-size puppets that may have been completely black whose puppeteers were visible moving around with them. The end of the episode ended with some kind of dance party, I think. I remember this only because those puppets freaked me out hardcore and it's been driving me crazy for well on 12 years that I can't remember what it was. I had taped it onto VHS and had it written on the label, so it's on the tip of my tongue all the time.
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An animated tv-series. COULD have been an anime, but I am not sure. The characters were all anthropomorphic felines. Only their heads were animal-like, the rest of their bodies (apart from the fur) were human. The protagonists were three typical Adventurer Archaeologists: Always hunting treasures in ancient ruins, at least one of them dressed like Indiana Jones, seemingly living in the first half of the 20th century, ect. They were two males and one female. Interestingly, the female was more anthropomorphic than her two male companions: (Caucasian) skin-coloured instead of fur-coloured, and with a less protruding and less animal-like muzzle.
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Allright. There's this show that comes on at least once a week on Japanese TV, and it's about a group of monsters. There's a kid with huge ears and stretchy limbs, a werewolf, a frankenstein-type monster, a vampire (with an Ill Girl love interest who he met at the supermarket), an elderly woman and two younger kids. There's also a powerful monster underground that a different group is trying to revive... does anyone know what the title of this is, because I don't speak Japanese and I have no idea.
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I remember watching a cartoon when I was little that I think was on the Disney Channel at one point. It was about two cars (or something like that), an little which I think was red, and a bigger car that I don't remember the colour. All I can remember was that the little car wasn't allowed to play near the train tracks. At one point the little car decides to rebel, dons a raccoon-skinned cap and drives off to the tracks. I think he ends up getting hit by a train, because the next scene I remember was about the little car being in hospital.
I'm not sure whether this was a real cartoon or just a weird dream that I remember, but I think it was an old Disney Cartoon.
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I vaguely remember this show (I think it was anime) that my mom rented for me when I was little (mid-90's). All I remember was that there were giant centipedes throwing the world into chaos because they were eating fairies which I think controlled nature or something. And there was a scene in a church/cathedral of a priest writing something with a quill pen by candlelight. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Looking for a film which is set in a school/college. There's an art student who's handing his work into his teacher, it sort of looks like this◊ album cover, but in pencil and drawn on tracing paper. Somehow it gets ripped up. While this is going on, the school is having windows broken. It turns out that the main character is punching the windows, but can't remember doing it. He has his hands bandaged up I think. At the end, his friends tape back up the picture and give it back to him.
It was probably made in the late eighites to late nineties. Saw it on the BBC around 10 years ago.