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openZOOG DISNEY Western Animation
There was a bunch of shorts on Disney Channel from 1998 to 2002 starring the "Zoogs". Does anyone want to add a page.
openSteert Sharks Brown Hammer Head Western Animation
So I have this vivid memory of (I think) Street Sharks where a brown Hammer head shark has been hooked up to a brain device and having it's it's mind controlled. Help?
openSci-fi/fantasy kids show - two magical roads Live Action TV
This has been bothering me for years and I'm beginning to lose hope that my memories may have made it up. I only remember the beginning (which happened in every episode), and part of the reason that I want to figure this out is because I'm so curious what happens afterward. It's a series, where the protagonist is a black young boy - probably around 12, though I'm not sure. The show starts out with the boy being faced with two magical roads, each one identified by a light. I think one road was marked by a red light and one road was marked by a blue light, but I can't be sure. He would then take one of the two magical road, and that would lead him to some sort of separate magical universe (I don't remember where after that). If i remember correctly, he was almost always led by the light to take the red road - but every once in a while the blue light would come on and he would take that road instead, and that was a real treat because it didn't happen too often.
I might be hazy on the details here - but does this ring a bell to anyone?
resolved Children's(?) Fantasy Creature Picture Book Literature
I'm looking for a book that sprung back into my mind a few days ago. I wouldn't be able to tell you when it was published, but I had it last around ten years ago, I think. It was a full-colour illustrated "bestiary" of fantasy creatures - it for certain had dragons and gryphons in it, but plenty others that I don't remember. It was written in first person, possibly from the point of view of an old lady. That last point is fuzzy, so don't rely on it. The only exact phrase I remember from it was on the section about gryphons, the narrator comments that they always "reminded [her] of flying kittens". The gryphons are drawn exactly like that; my memory of the image is of them on a tree - small, fuzzy, big paws and cute faces. Please help me find this! It's been mystifying me since I remembered it.
openUnknown Live Action TV
It was an educational show that had multiple episodes. Mid to late 80s. Possibly early 90s. I remember one episode where an old man with a beard, a 12ish year old boy, and some other people were on a boat out at sea. The land on the island, and had to learn how to survive. They collected rain water and dew. The boiled water from the sea and streams. They made fire and shelter. I thought the kid was a famous actor, but I'm not sure.
openPrincess possessed by a demon Anime
It was either an Anime or Western Animation Film, I think it was the former. After a Princess dies, a young soldier is ordered to guard the body for three nights until the funeral, but on the way is warned to hide in a different specific location (In the church) each night, so the demon or evil spirit possessing the princess won't find and eat him. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
openQuebecois Short Film Film
I remember starting this film a few years back, but never finishing it. It was starred by the director of the film, whom, if I remember correctly, is bisexual, as is his character. It won a Quebec Film Award or something of the like.
I only watched the first few minutes or so, but I remember the main character fighting with his mom about little things, on the drive to school, and I'm pretty sure the fight escalated to the point where he jumped out of the car during a red light to walk to school. And I was thinking, "Wow! No wonder his film won the award, the director portrays a high-school student's life perfectly."
So yeah, does anyone remember watching this? Thanks!
openWeird Anime Anime
I can't remember the name of the anime, but, some kid got a blue jewel stuck in his arm, I think, and thanks to it, he turns into what You Tube comments I saw call "orange dolphin".
openA couple children's animations
I remember a couple films I saw when I was little and just can't place their names.
The first was a story about a young seal learning about life. I remember him being taught that flat-tailed swimmers (like whales) were friends while vertical-tailed swimmers (like sharks) were enemies, but ships, despite "having flat tails", were to be avoided at all costs due to them containing humans. The one other thing I remember is there being some sort of "legendary" safe haven, an enclosed lagoon where man could not reach them.
The other is really absurd but I want to get the confusion out of my head. There was a talking poodle (or similar dog), which was accompanied by a C 3 PO-wannabe. If it's a series not a film then the episode I saw had an archaeologist and his son lost in a hidden city of an ancient civilization and they helped get them out, after getting an herb the natives demand that would erase everyone's memory of the city. Incredibly dumb, but can't stop wondering what that name was.
openCGI Christan movie Film
I remember catching this CGI Christian kids movie on a Christian channel, but can't seen to find it anywhere. The Movie was about a bunch of toys who put on a play of Noah's Ark. I also remember what I believe is the narrator the play being ether this action figure, or an actual shrunken human.
openJapanese children's song about a ghost Music
In 1st/2nd grade I heard a Japanese children's (presumably) song about a ghost. The person who told us the song didn't have an exact translation, but one of the lines was something like "Can I mix it?" There were associated hand motions, and the Japanese lyrics contained something like "scu-my-nee".
openold cbbc kids show????? Western Animation
okay so it was like an animated tv show, but like, that type where you can see the hairs moving about? like it's done on a computer and stuff. anyway so i think it was like these purple monkey guys on a spaceship? i don't remember much but i remember they had to go on an island sometimes. i have this quite vivid image of like their pets, who were shapes, and they'd get them to jump through stuff? this is from the era of like perhaps 2006-to maybe around 2009ish. if it helps, it was always on at around 6am, when i was getting ready for school. i've been looking for this for absolutely ages, i hope someone knows what it is!!
openStar Trek fan video Live Action TV
Sometime around five to four years ago, there was a star trek fan-made You Tube video. The plot involved the small crew of a cargo ship who made a delivery through a dangerous nebula, as well as another, newer vessel. The captain of the newer vessel said something like "I bet you can't even get warp 7 with those warp coils." Later on, the newer cargo vessel is disabled in the dangerous nebula, the protagonist's vessel helps them out of the nebula and to the nearest star-base. Question: what You Tube video am I remembering? And does anyone have a link to it?
openPeriod Drama Live Action TV
Could be Film, I suppose, but I just remember seeing it on TV. It revolves around a man who frequently falls into trancelike states, where he stands completely still and stares off into space for a while, and at one point an old man dies on his watch because of one of these episodes. People around him don't understand what's happening, as it doesn't fit their idea of a fit or a stroke, and rumours start up that he's possessed by the devil.
openTwin Paranormal show Live Action TV
I once watched this show and it starts off that this twin has to go and search a town for clues of her missing sister and after like three days or so she finds that she had died and her body was in the morgue, she had a special birthmark on her shoulder that matched her dead sisters, the further you get into the show you find that everyone in the town is like immortal as long as they take the blood of the people with those special birthmarks, it would have been on Netflix in either 2013 or 2014
openCartoon set in an alternative Earth
I can't remember much of this cartoon except that it had some sort of dark water mud thing..that made people stronger and also mad. The main character guy had some sort of sword too. Its not much but I hope that dark tainted mud water thing will help.
Edit: i remember it had a similar draw style to batman beyond.
Edited by OneillopenNo Title
I asked this before but got no reply. I remember seeing a flash video back in 2003 or 2004 and there was this pregnant lady with babies popping out of her to the beat of a disco type song that went "Ooooooh, baby." I don't know the name of the video. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
openVery vauge specific scene Anime
Okay I've been stuck remembering once chunk of a scene from an anime, and have no clue where it's from. All I remember is a close-up-ish of a guy's face, the guy has the happy squinted-but-not-closed eyes and is crying a little and is saying "My Son!" [possibly "Son's name? My son!"] ...any suggestions?
Edited by flamyangelwingsopenshow about a girl from the future, with a v head band, could move things with her mind Live Action TV
Another vague one, may have been from Australia. Kids show from late 80's or early 90's. Girl is for the future, wears a V head band on her forehead, can move things with her mind.
I remember watching an anime, at least I'm pretty sure it was an anime, when I was about ten, I don't remember a great deal of it, but bits of the ending have stuck with me for twenty plus years, so bit may have changed. It was about a magical girl who some how ended up in a cabin in the forest, I think she might have been a princess and she may have been in hiding, I'm not quite sure of that. Suddenly it cuts to a villainous dark shadowy figure on horse back riding fast through the forest, the image I have in my head is of his face, he has quite pointed angular features, maybe looks a little like Vampire Hunter D, and there are speed lines behind him. He gets to the cabin and the magical girl comes out sees the dark figure and opens a large ravine in the ground with lava at the bottom, there is a battle and the dark shadowy man ends up falling into the ravine and the last shot I can remember is of a skull sinking into lava. I have scoured the internet looking for any kind of clue, hopefully someone her can shed some light.