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openSong with synth melody very similar to "Queer" by Garbage Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ppiohVRZ0s I can't quite put my finger on the actual rhythm, but it was a lot like Queer, except it doesn't play the same notes as the Queer synth on the 4th bars. The closest second comparison is the synth in Extreme Ways by Moby, but the rhythm and the melody is a bit different. (and no, it's not Man of Straw, which is what Garbage sampled in that song, unfortunately)
openChildhood Tv Show Live Action TV
There's this tv series I used to watch as a kid, it featured a male creature (he's not the main character) who always rolled into his underground library to pick out a book to read/narrate and once he picked it out, the animation for the story starts. I can't remember much but I do know the main characters were much larger in size, and at the end they would play with bubbles, really large ones. Anyone else watched it?
openBritish(?) comedy TV show from 1960s or 1970s or 1980s Live Action TV
Can someone name this show I saw in my childhood? It was a possibly English comedy (dubbed into German), 2 actors, live action, (name) and (name) as title (In the German version)? With a big billboard in the intro. Each ep had one theme, e.g. ancient Rome, newspaper is 1 ton of granite tablets, fiddling while Rome burns. In another ep (of this show?): using rolls royce or bently to move through very large posh house. Thanks.
openRecent pop/R&B song Music
I apologize for the extreme vagueness but I couldn't catch any of the lyrics of this song despite my efforts. I'm looking for a pop or R&B song that I think came out fairly recently (it was on the radio) and it had a bit of an electronic tinge, as I recall. All I remember is that there was a section where every bar there was a short melody followed by syllables that sounded like "ah-ah, ah-ah". The singer was a woman, I'm pretty sure of that. Any ideas?
openDoes this exist?
I got the idea the other day of a 4th wall-breaking Omnicidal Maniac who's trying to trigger a Class-Z Apocalypse How by getting the franchize itself cancelled. I was wondering if anyone knew of a character like this who already exists? (If not then any aspiring Creators may feel free to use my idea; I guarantee you'll do better with it than I could.)
openHack and Slash early Xbox 360 Game Videogame
I remember playing a demo for some hack 'n slash game a couple years back. All I can concretely remember from it is that the opening had two armies of plate-armored soldiers marching towards each other. One army's helmets had 1's at the top, and the other had a stylized 0's. Does anyone know the title?
openWhat was my cousin watching? Live Action TV
I was visiting my first cousin once removed, and he was watching this live-action tv show that had a woman, a man named River, and another man who was kinda eccentric and kept talking about wanting to go back in time to make another big bang to prevent something bad from happening, but the woman was worried that would mean River would never be born. She was crying, and the man who wanted to go back in time had this wrench or screwdriver or whatever that he was using to make or repair a time machine. He was saying something about "the void between worlds".
openA specific Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner episode Western Animation
I remember seeing a Road Runner and Coyote cartoon where Wile E Coyote gets a hand injury from a book (I think) and he gets a hurt expression on his face as a single tear rolls down his muzzle to the tip of his nose. Any idea of the episode name?
openParticular Comedy skit - Mitchell and Webb? Live Action TV
I was 100% sure it was Mitchell and Webb, before I went looking for it and couldn't find it.
Some people are standing around in a futuristic setting, making chit-chat, but all their conversation is punctuated by random utterances of things like "hail zoltan" and "by zoltans glorious beard". (Example utterances only. Not sure if the name was actually zoltan). At some point, one character pipes up with " why are you all saying 'hail zoltan'? It just seems like I was away sick on Wednesday and when I came back everyone was doing this zoltan thing". And then everyone passes the buck in a "i dunno. I started doing it because Joe was doing it" fashion. Help, please?
openA sci-fi novel series about a prince, had a lightsaber that gave people cancer...? Literature
I read the entire series in high school, but now I can't remember the title. I remember that it had a not-lightsaber that would give the wielder cancer if they weren't of noble blood, and a space station the next galaxy over... the space-nobles were gene-modified to be perfect human beings... anyone else remember this?
openWestern Film- Shaman, Bison and Lava Film
I saw the movie when I was a kid, sometime around 2001-2005ish on TV with my parents. I don't know how old it was, but it was in color and the overall quality makes me guess it was made withing the last couple decades (quite good bracketting, I know). What I remember of the plot centered around this fairly standard 'town with a secret', that a group of cowboys had just rode into, and the one scene I clearly remember was a man in a western barber outfit (black vest, white button down shirt, those black strips on the elbows to keep them tight) hitting a man in the face with a shovel. Right affter that, a mysterious Native American showed up on a bison, and led him away. Later, he took two of the cowboys, unconscious for some reason, away as well, though I don't remember why, and threw them, into this random canyon full of lava. Both got shots superman-cam style as the fell down, showing their face, and them waking up and screaming right before they hit the surface. Weird as hell movie, be awesome if someone knew what it was. T Hanks!
openJungle with kids...? Western Animation
I remember a cartoon that took place in the jungle and there was two kids i think were brother and sister it was kinda aztec-y there were temples but there was one episode where the boy lost his tooth and was told not to bury or throw it into or leave or whatever in some haunted area downside of a cliff and he did and bad haunting things happened it's just been bugging me i don't know what it is.
openI can't find this one cleaning show i was obsessed with Live Action TV
I found the show it was called how clean is your house
Edited by SirCorpseopen80's song - probably Music
I have a song lyric that has been in my head for more than 20 years and cannot remember what the song is - even the lyric in my head is sketchy at best - "...and fly way" something something "..one way trip to wonderland." For the love of God, please help!
openNo Title Literature
So I remember this book (actually got it as an audiobook), it took place in a just barely post apocalyptic setting. The main characters were this one guy and his little sister whom he actually has legal guardianship over. She's probably about 16 or 17 and does ballet. After the apocalypse happens courtesy of all sources of power cutting out she starts transforming into something strange and vaguely angelic. They set out, looking for something with this wrench wench-esque woman who is pretty clearly a love interest for the hero. The story also has a man who is trapped underground with his mining crew and they also start transforming, although into something different, and two (brothers, I think) one of whom was in a coma when the apocalypse happened, but is somehow still kinda alive. I think that's probably enough for anything who knows of it to recognize it by?
Also, could someone tell me how to close a query? I had a previous one that was already answered.
open[SOLVED] Some super depressing fckd up show where each episode is its own little story... Live Action TV
[SOLVED] Called "Black Mirror"
This show made me feel like hell after watching it.. I think it was kind of just showing how screwed up people / this world can be maybe?
I think I watched like 3 episodes a few years back at a friend's house, but don't remember hardly anything..
I do remember some part with a guy on a treadmill watching news or something..
Not much to go on! :/
Thanks!
Edited by burnfaceopenLooking for an old documentary-style show
I'm looking for an old tv show from the late 90s/early 2000s. There was a team of archeologists that researched and excavated old medieval battlegrounds outside of castles in england. I don't remember much else about the show except that they found a grave of a really large knight, and in another episode they found possible evidence of giants.
openMartial Art TV reality Show
Ok guys, this is bugging me i seen this tv realty type show about 13+ years ago and it is about random everyday martial art students that went on to this show to compete on who would be the best. they used to get trained by the monk masters and at the end of each episode they would have to fight each other to stay in the house.. i think they were all british aswell.
openDoes anybody know the name of this book? I think it's YA. Literature
I remember briefly reading a book in high school that was for young adults I believe and it was historical fiction. I attended high school from 2004 to 2008 so the book was either published during the 2004 to 2008 time frame or before. The plot involved a woman, she was homely and she worked as servant and was promised to/made to watch over a deformed man that was kept shut away. There was a picture of a candle on the front I think or wood and the background was dark in color. She was none too fond of the man and referred to him like he was a monster. I don't remember if she grew warmer towards him. Also, I think some people mocked her for her appearance and for being promised to a deformed man.
Edited by WriterGirl2015
In school I remember learning this Native American chant (though it could maybe be from somewhere else). It went something similar to this: Gishay Gishay ee manihu x3 Mamuhayha wamatah x3 Gishay Giahay ee manahu Hey Hey Any iidea? Not sure about the spelling, so Google is not much help.