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openNo Title Music
I'm trying to remember a song from the UK, mid-90s. I'm thinking of an upbeat tune, where the main melody consisted of possibly a string instrument, which repeated itself. I'm not a music expert, but I'll try to represent it numerically:
6 5 3 4— 4— 4— 4— 4 3 4 5 4
There were also vocals in this song. From memory, they kinda sounded like Ali Campbell. If it helps, I'm sure they used it as background music on CBBC at around the time the song was released.
resolved No Title Film
I need to know about a film that I saw as a child, but I can't remember the name. I had it on VHS, and the plot went like this:
'Two children, a boy and a girl, if I recall correctly, somehow enter a world of talking Loch Ness monster-esque creatures named after emotions/personality traits, like 'Happiness' or 'Pompousness'. If I recall, the Pompousness character was the main villain, and had two henchman. There was an elf-like, old man who seemed to act as a leader for the Nessies. And there was some sort of ship, as well, but I can't remember what purpose it served.'
Does anyone have any idea what this was called?
resolved No Title Literature
There was a YA (probably) book I read in the mid-90s or so. The main character was a girl (pre-teen or teen), who moved from Milwaukee (random specific detail, eh?) with her mom and brother, to some small town.
They lived in an older house that would creak because it was settling. Somewhere nearby there was an abandoned mine that either she was trying to convince her brother was haunted, or vise versa.
I seem to recall that one of them had planted this tape recording of ghostly cries in the mine to try to scare the other.
At the end of the book, the ground was so unstable (due to the mine?) that the house settled all a-whack, breaking the gas line, which caused the house to catch on fire.
I'm not sure when it was written or who wrote it, but I might recognize the title or the cover if I saw it.
openNo Title Literature
Desperately trying to find this Fanfic that I really liked. It was a Descent:Freespace fanfic, involving an alternate universe, a ship called the Medway and another one called a Kraken Ship Killer. The adversaries were some sort of alien bug race, the alternate universe's equivalent of the Shivans. My hopes aren't high, but I thought I'd ask here regardless.
openNo Title Film
I've been trying to remember the name of a film for the life of me, fairly certain it came out around the early 2000s. It was a caper flick, and it involved some people stealing gold at the movie's outset. As they were driving along a scenic mountain path, one of the guys betrayed them and took the gold. Another thing that sticks out was a thief who left behind a black fox statue, and a policewoman who could open safes. Hope this is enough to go on.
openNo Title
I'm looking for a video game that was advertised during the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era. Its commercial showed a tree that had fallen on a house. Then the scene rewound back in time - from when the tree fell to while it was growing the house was getting built and eventually to an empty field where the tree goes back into its seed and flies up into a farmer's mouth (with a reverse spitting sound effect) and the farmer walks backwards. It then showed game footage of something planting a full grown tree down, while a voice-over said "whatever you do will affect the future" or something like that.
I don't know what the game was about, or what genre it fell into. All I remember was the advertisement. Most likely it was for the PS 2, Because I remembered thinking that game looked interesting, but decided not to pursue it because I didn't own a Play Station at the time.
Edited by OssleyopenNo Title Live Action TV
This was a TV movie, I think, from the late nineties or early 2000's. I want to say it aired on Nickelodean. It was a scary movie, and it starts off with a kid who works in a bowling alley having a birthday party there after hours. He sees that there's someone else in the bowling alley with them.
openNo Title Anime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKTL-pynm_w What is the anime seen at 0:19-23, 0:48-54 and 2:37-41?
openNo Title Western Animation
Anyone familiar with a strange Eastern European/Russian cartoon from way back? It featured a peculiar fairy story setting in which three heroes (one fat, one thin, and one squat) fall in love with three local girls (one scene that comes to mind is when the fat hero falls for a milk maid, and helps carry her milk yolk). Unfortunately, there is a local haunting and the trio are tasked with trying to eradicate a house stuffed full of ghosts, ghouls, witches and a smorgasbord of monsters. They eventually kick the crap out of the ghosts, stuffing them in a barrel and ridding the town of evil.
I remember seeing this years ago on a crummy old video, though it was probably released decades ago (anywhere from 1940s up to 1970s). Done in colour, somewhat shoddy quality animation.
Edited by maninahatopenNo Title Anime
Hey guys. Trying to find a Sailor Moon fic that I remember from way back, can't really remember much about it except its about Jadeite doing a Heel–Face Turn and joining the Senshi, except it goes a bit wrong and he ends up as a Senshi. Bit vague I know, but if anyone knows the fic, can you PM me (or reply here, y'know).
openNo Title
I've seen quickly a show on tv while I was at a friend's house (not having cable ftl...).
It was about this western-style superhero kid that is in an anime world with anime characters. I remember a cut Ditzy girl, a friendly giant (I think), a Yandere/beech in sheep's clothing, and a sensei.
Anyone knows what I'm talking about?
openNo Title
I don't know if this is allowed here because what I'm looking for is two kids' PC games I played in my childhood (the 90's). If it's not allowed someone can delete it, or just troll it, however that works.
The first one was pretty educational, it featured two clocks, one standard who was female and a digital one that was male. They lived together, and various things you clicked took you different places, if I remember correctly. There was a mouse in a spaceship that could take you to space and from there you could look at how the weather was typically in different regions of the world during different seasons in comparison to in America. There was also a game that was in a sandbox, I think.
The second one was a virtual dollhouse probably based off of a particular brand that was normally too expensive for me to otherwise afford. xD It appeared to be mostly promotional, you couldn't really do too much with the people. You could bathe the children in the house, however, and if you clicked on something dangerous, like a toxic liquid, a nanny would come in and scold you. There were also mouse holes with mice in them (surprise, surprise) and they had their own little scenes. One I specifically remember was a tiny mouse wedding. The mice were blue, if that helps.
Hope someone knows what I'm talking about, I've been looking for these for YEARS!
openNo Title Western Animation
Its the 2nd time i try to figure out what the name of the movie? is i am looking for, would be great if someone has an idea. I only got a few fragments, but hope they are enough: My memory says its the style of 70/80´s western animation movies. Its in space, or at least there is a landed space-ship/capsule on a planet. There is a male captain and a male engineer with a metal plate in/ontop his head. There is a boy who befriends/tames an animal and starts riding upon it( I think it later dies). The planet is thick dangerous jungle-like. Mostly greenish/dark. Afair with branches to walk/ride upon. The most memorable scene was an attack of huge "mosquitoes" at the shore of a lake.
Any ideas? Else i have to dive more into my forgotten memories.
openNo Title
When I was a kid in the late 80s, early 90s, I remember watching a show that featured a kid with the ability to imagine an animal, then reach into a wooden table and pull out a wooden figurine of that animal. Some adult hated the kid for this ability and some terrible fate befell the child. Some other child(ren) unraveled the mystery of what happened to this child. This program featured actors & was not a cartoon. Does anyone remember this show?
openNo Title Webcomic
I saw it back in the nineties. It was a sprite comic using the graphics from SMB 1 (in fact, aside from the talk bubbles, the panels could've all been screenshots). Mario was going around looking for nads/balls. One time, he found a room full of coins and remarked that they weren't balls. Another time, he got killed by a koopa or paratroopa and said "All I asked for was some balls!"
I haven't been able to find it.
openNo Title
Some years ago, I watched a friend of mine playing a game for the PS 2. I don't know when it's from, but I do remember it being about a man and I think he had to save his girlfriend. To do this, he needed to slay these HUGE monsters made of stone - he had to climb them and hit weak points. I only think he had a horse and a sword with him and he had to climb these things to reach plateaus with moss on them. If it's any help, my friend said that it held the record for biggest video game monster ever (though that may have changed since then or she may have been wrong).
A Google search gave me absolutely nothing because I don't remember the name. Any ideas on what it's called?
openNo Title Live Action TV
I remember stumbling across a show on tvtropes that I meant to bookmark for future watching but forgot the name. I think it was about a group of teens who were delinquents or had serious family problems at a reform school or something? From what I remember reading it was pretty 'very special episode-y' but I went through that entry and couldn't find it. Pretty sure it had a couple of now-big names, I want to say Brittany Murphy but I couldn't find anything in her filmography.
A show that I saw a while back that have time travel. In one episode the main character knock out Paul Revere and took his place. He get caught and George Washington let him go. I pretty sure there was a computer or a robot in it.