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openBooks with creepy tales Literature
I remember in one of my books from middle school some short stories that I presume came from collection of sci-fi/horror stories, but I can't remember the titles.
First story features a family getting some kind of hi-tech house with holographic walls that can change each room's appearance when asked. It's all fine and dandy until the father asks to make the story of Aladdin appear in his bedroom and it doesn't happen. He then hears some weird noises from the kids room and discovers that they asked for a savannah setting before the house's hologram system broke down, with a hologram lion becoming real and eating the kids.
Second story is about a kid writing letters from camp to his parents. He tells that apparently there is a T-Rex roaming in the woods, but it's obviously a tale told to scare people. Then, some days later, he writes them another letter stating that the T-Rex is real and is chasing him, who is now closed in a hut writing the letter so that they can hurry and get him back home, and then the letter stops in midwriting, implying the kid was eaten by the T-Rex. It's followed by a letter from the camp organizators, informing the parents that their special program to get rid of disobeying kids was indeed successful.
openSuperhuman kid detective Film
I only remember the main character, and one episode, but the main character is some blonde male that from what I remember was a good detective, and in one episode he faked his own "death by heart attack" after the some dude tries to scare the MC away by spooking him from inside a mirror, to which the main character then gets back up, and somewhere later or probably right after the scene they explain how he did it and it said something like he trained to stop his heart for a short amount of time without dying. I think there was another 1 or 2 main characters, but if I give details about them I could be wrong
open👽 on 🌍 | Nickelodeon Live Action TV
This show where a black kid (not to be a racist) played an alien who is on Earth and is a part of a family, this is around 15 years old, may be more... Today, when I picture him, I see Marquees Brown-Lee (from the youtube channel mkbhd?) I remember this distinct scene where he is walking on a rocky path and stands by a sign board for hours, as it reads STOP, Thank u in advance!
openTv show about a lost child
I'm searching for a tv show that I watched not too long ago. It's about a child who was ought to be lost/dead came back as a grown guy to his family, but he suddenly had superpowers. I remember a scene where news outlets were going after the family right after he returned. Also remember a scene where he melted some stuff in his room.
openEarly 00's Cartoon Western Animation
I've got this cartoon in my head about a young girl that grew up in a city (possibly new york) who somehow ended up in a 3rd world like village somewhere by herself. I remember an episode where she thought it would be a good idea to try and make a small skycraper with the village, but ended up only making a single floor because another young character, most likely the village leaders daughter wanted her own place so changed the plans everyone was following so that there was only the bottom floor with a giant roof. Also remember an episode where the city girl introduced currency for the first time. If anyone can guess this show you're a gem!!!!
openA cartoon fable Western Animation
Hi guys. Years ago i saw this cartoon (not CGI), it was a beautiful fable but I don't know the who draw it. Here's the plot, I remember the whole thing: A young man wander in a church at night and there he sees two ugly mugs trying to pry open a coffin: he asks what they were doing and the criminals tell him that the dead inside was someone who owed them a lot of money, so they will take everything valuable is still on his corpse. Out of pity the boy give them the satchel with all of his money to compensate the robbers. In the morning he meets a tall stranger with a goatee that become his traveling companion. He seems to be some sort of warlock because, seeing a dead swan, he states that while he cannot help the creature there is still something he can do, and make the corpse disappear leaving only its wings (then he takes the wings and puts them away); later he repairs a tiny puppet that represent a princess with a salve that even makes the marionette become alive. The two arrive at a castle where the boy fall in love with the princess, a girl with black hair and a cold stare: indeed the old king himself warns the boy that his daughter is cruel and merciless, and that she executes all the pretenders who don't pass her trial (guessing what she is thinking). Nevertheless the young man is determined to complete this quest and the king, accepting his will, gazes sadly from a window a large field behind the castle, completely covered by the tombstones of the killed pretenders. Long story short: the stranger use the swan's wings to follow the princess and discovers that she is mind-controlled by an evil troll (the monster looks like a tall and muscular greenskin orc) that tells her an item for the pretenders to guess. Thanks to the stranger the boy wins two of the three trials, so the enraged troll orders the princess to think of the troll's own head: she departs and the stranger approaches the monster, unsheating a sword and grinning. The next day the boy give to the princess a burlap sack with the troll's head inside, winning the last trial and breaking the spell. So the stranger congratulates the couple and bids farewell to the boy, revealing to be the grateful spirit of the man inside the coffin and than vanishing.
Edited by CritterMasteropenFresh Prince episode
Hi, I'm looking for the episode in which uncle Phill gets an English/british colleague over and starts to act "british". Anyone got the Series/Episode?
openReality TV Live Action TV
I remember watching this program about real life accidents in which one of the segments I watched was a man having trouble drilling a hole in a tree in his back. One of his methods was shooting it with a gun, in which the bullet ricochets and hits a woman in the chest. The woman is then seen on a gurney crying in pain where she eventually dies. What show is this from?
open80s kids cartoon Western Animation
Hi, I am trying to find an old cartoon I enjoyed as a kid, from either the 80s or early 90s. The name is something like 'Les Jontas', either french or spanish made I think, could be wrong, even through it aired on New Zealand TV. They didn't actually speak a language in it. It was a kinda cartoon, and it was all in plan view -looking down, and it was a social setting seeing coloured dots moving around, supposed to be the top view of the heads of people I guess. It was usually humourous with someone causing a raucous and being chased or causing a fight, and groups moving in and out of buildings. So you would see like a bunch of orange dots and the protagonist yellow dot move amongst them, and they would shake a litte for whichever one was speaking, but what they said didn't matter, you could infer from shouting, or whisper etc, it was quite clever in that way.
openAn old cartoon seemed to have vanished from everywhere :/
Well the problem is it wasn't series or anything, it was just a film cartoon. As much as I can remember it was 2D. It all starts with a family living in the countryside and owning a ferris wheel, there was the father mother and that little funny cute girl. She had an uncle I guess who happened to turn into a king one day and coming back against the family. He owned a remotely controlled creature, I ain't too sure what it was, but I reckon some kind of giant machine of either a turkey, dragon or chicken. But he used it to impose his rule... Well it's been YEARS since I've been trying me and my twin brother to figure out the name or anything to find it again because we've watch it together in our early childhood... And the scene we mostly remember was the time two guys of the police came to arrest the family members and they were asking for the father who had been hiding and then that innocent girl shouted: "Mom, Pavo is hiding" I am not sure about Pavo maybe she said Papa but I'd love if I could find it back guys, thanks in advance for your help!!
openReality TV show about polygamous family
Reality TV show that aired on TLC. Was about a man who had four wives, one of the wives was called Christine, the fourth wive was called Robin.
openPhysics fails
I saw a kind of series on national geographic or something like that about 5 years ago. A crazy grey hair physicist explaind the science behind funny fail videos from the internet. I am looking for this for an hour now and I'm really annoyed.
openTv programme
Hi! I am searching for the name of a programme I watched years ago. Basically a male British presenter tries a selection of the hardest jobs in the world. Getting to know the people in the trade and what makes them do the job they do. From experience I remembered the presenter tried Canadian/American logging and also working at an Australian mine where he eventually completed his dump or “haul truck” test. Many thanks Dan
openDog 3d tv show? Anime
like 4 / 5 years ago i would watch this tv show and it was ehh stupid but i liked it since i was like 7 at the time and the show was basically abt these dogs, like there was a village or a town and i totally forgot most of the details except that it was 3d and that there was some princess dog who was in love with the main character whose name was also the title of the show and they were dating and some other dog appeared and started to fall in love with him its really confusing but if anyone could help me out that'd be great. It was on this like OK kids program thing i dont remember tbh but if any of you know a similar show please tell me .
openHallmark movie Film
I have seen this movie a long time ago and somehow it came in my mind but I can't remember the title anymore. All I can remember that it was a drama, shown on Hallmark if I am not mistaken. There was this badass criminal guy, had a son who had leukemia I think and needed a blood transfusion. The woman in lead was a blondie. I can't really remember much, just some moments. If you have any tips, please help me out. :)
Edited by Chi91openWhich show is this?
All I can remember is that there was a little boy who would try something knew each weak, be it karate, horse riding or whatever. Eventually the actor was replaced with a younger Asian girl. Plz help me know what show this is (obviously not animated)
openWedding Dance that leads to Death Film
I watched this scene from what I think is a movie a long time ago. It featured a senior man dancing at a wedding, and a gunman appears from behind and starts firing shots every so often. The man says, "Ooh! Ah!" as if he's showing off, but when he notices the blood on his outfit and notices the gunman, he falls to the ground in slow-motion as the entire crowd panics. What is this from?
open Film
It was about 2015, and I believe it was on Cartoon Network, not sure.
There was this movie playing about this little ginger girl with a cane (never explained) and her dog (it was white with black spots if I remember correctly) who was in some sort of hellhole. I don't remember much because I was very tired and it was two years ago, but if you have any idea what I'm talking about, please tell me.
I remember they lived in a trailer and they weren't human, they would make smoothies, and look out of a large telescope.. that's all I remember. It was aired on treehouse