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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.
openI have an image of a TV character from a show I used to watch, but I can't remember the name.
Backstory: used to watch this show as a kid, but I forgot it. Now I see the main character in a You Tube video and it's killing me to know what the show is.
Yellow guy with a round head, wearing what looks like a red robe. It's a cartoon.
p.s. it's not the Simpsons, before anybody says that.
openWhat was it? Live Action TV
So I used to watch a show as a kid where these was a kid that had two blue alien friends that would float beside him one was good and one was bad/evil The aliens looked kind of like the blue button ugly aliens
openplz help me find this Live Action TV
there was a show I used to watch as a kid. the show consisted of two guys with brown hair. there was one lady and a few puppet people. they were all in this house that had many doors that lead to different locations. for example in one episode they opened the door and it was an air port. the main scenes would be shot infront of a couch with windows behind it. sometimes the guys would go behind the couch and pretend to walk down stairs. if anyone knows this plz tell me
openThe Donald Duck cartoon this image is from Western Animation
Webidolchiu94 sent me this image and neither of us can figure out the cartoon it's from, and Googling serves no help: http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/image-w-1050-h-1050-scale/public/cc_uk/galleries/large/2016/08/17/mornings.jpg?itok=WwGUmbPG
openBritish drama mini series late 90s or early 2000s Live Action TV
A young couple are desperate for money, she pretends she's posh, dresses up and puts on an accent and tricks a wealthy man into falling for her and helping her out with her "sick relative's care home fees". She finds out she's pregnant with her boyfriend's baby and then tricks the rich guy into sleeping with her and pretending the baby's his. She keeps up a dual life between the rich guy and the boyfriend until she gets found out. That's all I remember, don't know who was in it and can't remember when exactly it was made
openDyschrometria
There's this show on either Hulu or Netflix about a girl who has dyschrometria , she cannot keep track of time. Here's what I recall. She gets suspended from school because of an issue with her roommate. Her father Ed died but she has no emotion towards this. She breaks in to use a computer and the police arrests her. She's being questioned by the police. That's all I can recall.
open2 examples for Ominous Pipe Organ Film
This is a weird question, but...
If I recall correctly, the live-action films of both The Smurfs and Dudley Do-Right contain a brief Ominous Pipe Organ tune when the Big Bad is first introduced.
Is this correct? Can someone maybe provide more context, as well as Youtube links to these scenes?
Edited by DrNoPuma
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.