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openFemale detective show and someone dies and she solves it with spider eggs in hair! 90s...
Been driving me mad for ages but in the 90s I remember watching an episode of a crime series with a lead female. Her criminal "insider" gets murdered and she solves it by finding spider eggs in his bleach blonde hair. Any ideas what this was?! Been trailing through Silent Witness and Prime Suspect but can't find anything.
openName of Bananas In Pyjamas episode (Original Show, No Reboot) Live Action TV
Been trying to look around for this episode on the internet to no avail. Luckily the episode is vivid enough in my mind; the bears were sleeping in a bedroom (possibly having a pillowfight?), but regardless they go to open the door only for the doorknob to fall off, trapping them inside the room. Eventually the Bananas find out about the situation and attempt to get the door open (iirc they wind up breaking the outside doorknob by accident), but to no avail. The Bananas decide (presumably waiting for a proper rescue squad or something, I'm not exactly clear on this part) to get the Bears food which they attempt to slide under the door. iirc cookies and jelly were two failures (the jelly in question just broke apart when they force the plate through) until they finally figured out that pizza was the perfect food to slide under. It's at around this point that the door is finally opened and the Bears/Bananas all rejoice.
The problem is actually figuring out what the name of this episode is and finding any media material that actually exists. The last time I tried searching this I came up with "Bananas to the Rescue", but searching that name up again reveals that it's a reboot episode. I so dearly wish to find this episode again but it appears non-existent on the internet.
openCartoon help
Please help! I think it was on cartoon network. My approximation around 2004 to 2007. It was anime like but I'm not sure if it was. All I remember was the opening episode feature the protagonist being hung on a tree for I think doing something to the villagers (maybe a prank not sure) anyway the only other part I Remember was it's a fitting show where he transforms his armor to cover him and I think it was red. Their is obviously a princess who he is trying to protect. I can't seem to figure it out!
open"Trauma meme" entry Web Original
Months ago, a friend showed me a video of the "trauma" art/animation meme on You Tube. It had a priest-looking guy in it, who turned into an Eldritch Abomination at some point of the video. Just now, at the time of this writing, I looked up the site for the entry but failed. Anybody can provide a link?
Edited by ActualBeatriceopenCGI Mouse Film Film
So I remember it involving a Mouse who liked to read fairy tales/Storybooks and then one day he goes to the human world and then he accidentally lands in the queen's soup and gives her a heart attack and there is also a sub-plot that involves one of the workers I think trying to find his daughter who has I think a crown shaped birthmark on her neck and then it turns out that his apprentice is his daughter, Please help since it's driving me crazy.
openBuffalaxed music video on Youtube Music
Does anyone know the TRUE name of this song and who does it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f-zEuFa480
It's pretty catchy and the music video reminds me of a Halloween costume store ad.
openWeird Kids' Show? Live Action TV
I remember watching this when I was younger, so it aired sometime in the early 2000s. I don't know which channel I watched it on. I think it was either shot with puppets or people in costumes. If I remember correctly, there was this strange fuzzy blimp-like thing thing that may or may not have been an important aspect of the show. It was set in a forest, I think. I also recall there being a character who wore a flower around their waist as a kind of skirt, but I don't know if that's correct or not. And I think it was centered around dreams somehow, but again, I might just be making stuff up. Sorry for the vague details, it's been years upon years since I've last seen this.
openWIndows Detective Game Videogame
So in this game, you play as an old detective. As always, you're trying to solve a murder. I kinda forgot the gameplay but roughly, in each room, there's some sort of clue, and you click the wrong clues to make it disappear. You can listen to the characters' testimony to determine the right answer. If you click on the wrong answer, there's a thunder sound. Oh, and also, after you finish the stage, there's a footstep representing the murderer's actions.
Thanks in advance.
openFilm (or possible live-action show) where children can't identify drawing?
When I was about seven, my parents were watching a film where some children were looking at a drawing and they don't know if it's a dog or a rat in the picture. Dad then warned me that the next scene (set when the kids grew up) was not suitable for kids.
openCan't remember the name of an old computer game Videogame
You controlled an egg and had to save chickens, it was bundled in an Egames disc.
openbook series about the afterlife being on a distant star Literature
I read these books (it may have been a trilogy, there were definitely 2) around 9 or 10 years ago about a young girl somehow making it to the afterlife, despite not actually being dead. Everyone around her is a ghost except her and her cat. I don't remember a whole lot about these books but I do remember the girl befriending a pumpkin ghost and the pair having to stop some plot. Also the afterlife may or may not have been located on a distant star that the girl is later able to point out of the night sky.
openWheel of Fortune for kids with a monster Live Action TV
I remember this one kids' game show that (I think) aired on Saturday mornings in the 90's, possibly on Fox. The game show part played almost exactly like Wheel of Fortune, but I don't think it was officially licensed.
The set was themed around a jungle temple, and had some sort of lore behind it. There was said to be some sort of monster that lived under the wheel, and when a contestant spun the equivalent of "Bankrupt", they were said to have awoken the monster and provoked it into eating all of their points. This involved light and fog effects coming from under the wheel.
Edited by MiffPengiopenEpisode of a 1970s show Live Action TV
Looking for the episode of a TV show from the 1970s (I think with a predominantly African-American cast but not sure) in which the teenage protagonists submit an idea to their favorite show. The idea is that the characters from the metashow find a bag of money, not sure what happens after that. Soon afterward, the metashow airs an episode where exactly that happens. The protagonists somehow confront the producer of the show about the idea theft, but the producer opens a filing cabinet to show them all the letters they received with the exact same idea. I thought for sure this was What's Happening but I can't find it in any episode guide.
openA Superhero Version Of Saw Film
Hi. I just can't remember the name of it and it's bugging me now.
There was a low-budget superhero short film of some kind, it didn't involve any of the major companies, but it was basically about a supervillain who got tired of always losing, so he captured all of the heroes and basically forced them into a Saw movie situation. It was a dark and twisted kind of plot.
I'm pretty sure it was a film, but I never watched all of it. I know it was fairly easy to find clips of it on Youtube.
openStop Motion fight between Wallace & Gromit and Garfield Web Original
A Couple of things I Remember about the animation:
1. Had Pikachu in It.
2. Was set in a Wrestling arena.
3. Had nothing to do with Celebrity Deathmatch.
Edited by 123MannCoBoxopenI cant remember at all!!!!!!! Live Action TV
There was this show that i saw a while back and i didn't get to watch it and all i remember is that magic was illegal or banned or maybe just certain types you couldn't use and there was this police or task force that went out and took care of the people who broke the magical law or something like that and the only part i can remember was a scene of them on a buss or train and they were fighting this criminal for some reason.......im sorry i cant remember more but anything can help
thank you
openOld kids' scifi robot show Live Action TV
What is the source of this video? https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=636_1367116419
open80-90's children's educational show - Possibly different shows? Live Action TV
I remember renting two VHS tapes in the 90's, both of the same program. One of the covers of the vhs had a picture of an octopus on it I believe. From what I recall the whole program was live action, but there might have been some animated sequences. The show was an educational/entertainment show, I believe all the actors were kids. At the end of one of the episodes, there was a stop motion sequence of some animal crackers being eaten and a glass of milk being drank (with each frame showing another bite taken out of the animal crackers).
This next show might have been also part of the previous one, just a different episode or whatnot. Another education/entertainment show with all the actors being kids, this one was more musical. Each segment had a song playing in it, with probably 6-8 segments per 30 minute episode I would guess. One of the segments had a huge bunch of kids playing in a field, each one of them wearing a different color of shirt. The song they sang was about colors or the rainbow. Another segment was in a dark place, with a monster suit guy jumping around singing about how he's "a hairy scary monster" or something like that. The monster suit was very colorful and vibrant, and was either fuzzy or stringy(think Oscar from Sesame Street). At one point he might have been jumping around a parking garage.
openBuffalaxed music video on Youtube Music
Does anyone know the TRUE name of this song and who does it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f-zEuFa480
It's pretty catchy and the music video reminds me of a Halloween costume store ad.
with mommy bingewatching beast wars,one of my uncles was trying to remember an '94 anime. 1)it was an cop anime- it shows in the title"something police something" 2)it was about an fourth grader who was an boss of an group of crime-fighting robots 3)one of the 48 episodes featured an giant panda 4)another one of the 48 episodes was about the leader having an weird dream of the disbandment of the robot team. of course he woke up right in front of the entire team of crime-fighting robots.