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openA Tv Show
So quite a while ago there was this one tv show with a name similar to Mythbusters but the difference was that it was made with an adult male and a girl and boy in their teens and they went to various locations answering myths from the viewers but also tested out urban legends and myths often to do with horror subjects like at certain times you can see a ghost or something happens at a certain type of day out of the ordinary. I cannot remember the name or channel of this but used to really enjoy it can anybody help me with this
openPicture Book
I'm searching for a children's picture book that would have been around in the 80s/90s (or before that). It involved two young children, the boy with a blue teddy bear and the girl with a pink one, and as far as I can recall, the story involved the two of them squabbling as they walked home with their parents, using their bears as mouthpieces.
The striking thing was the illustrations, as each page involved a giant sculpture of a hand being carried through the streets: each one was in a different position, and none of them had anything whatsoever to do with the actual story. They were just a very large Funny Background Event. (I recall one sculpture being a pointing hand, and people on the street turning to see what it might be pointing at).
In terms of style, it very much reminded me of Tony Ross, but I've looked through his body of work and nothing is popping out at me. It could be the book is out of print, it could be it's not Tony Ross at all.
Edited by Ravenya003openCorny sitcom with "eat my dust" Brick Joke Live Action TV
I remember seeing an episode of a cheesy sitcom in the mid-2000's where the main character (a middle-aged man) was criticized by his wife (I think) for once saying "Eat my dust" and then farting. Later in the episode, the character does exactly this. Would anybody happen to know the show and episode? Google turned up nothing.
openPokémon-Related Song Music
I remember hearing a song that was Pokémon-related, but only remember part of the chorus: "Oh, come on, try to catch me. Oh, catch me if you can." If it helps any, it played during the "Pikachu's Vacation" short at the beginning of Pokémon: The First Movie, during the scene where Squirtle is racing Marill.
openCartoon shown in the 1980's about different fairytales and fables
Does anybody remember the the show that revolves around a small imp/pixie with a sidekick or two? Her wish is to become a beautiful princess one day. She goes around the fairytales / fables trying to help them or do good deeds. At the end of every fairytale / fable she is rewarded by getting heart cards for each good deed she did. She has to earn 100 heart cards so that her wish will be granted. I do not know what animation house made it. It's definitely not ANIME. It was shown in my country, Philippines, about early 1980's. 2D animation. The imp/pixie was small and pink with a pig nose and bat wings and a crocodile tail with hooves and hands. She could change her shape at will but there was a catch with her power which I can't remember. Again she may have had only one sidekick but there might have been a second sidekick. Can anyone tell me the name of this cartoon series? Thanks!
openMovie about help operation with crashed airplane. Film
Movie from the 1980's where a plane crashes in a cornfield. Amongst the survivors is one boy, who knows his parents are dead.The focus of the movie is about the rescuers, but it is not a documentary.
openAn old "horror" film
A while ago, maybe about a year, I saw an utterly ridiculous film on Netflix. It's since been removed, and I can't remember its name. It opens up with a man being given the chair for a long series of murders and rapes. Right before he fries he speaks in a low voice about how he'd raped "your" children and committed other acts of violence, and how he'd come back I believe. Jump forward some time (I don't remember how long), and a bunch of kids are alone in a high school when things start to get weird. After a lot of standard horror chases, we wind up seeing a "monster" that looks just about as real as a Power Rangers monster (at least in my humble opinion). As I said I found this to be utterly ridiculous and hilarious to watch, if only I could remember what it was. I think it might have had "angel" in the name, but I'm not sure; I was kind of binging on dumb horror flicks at the time.
openMovie about a boy who was kidnapped as an infant. Film
Movie, probably from the 1980's. A boy who becomes 18, his parents, he knows he is adopted, he gets an expensive watch, he starts travelling through America, he finds a family where he eats with them and there's a strange feeling that they know each other. There are flashbacks, the boy as kidnapped when he was two years old. I don't know the ending.
openAny show with this plot
I want to find manga/anime/comic/film... with plot like this: AFTER the heroine KILL the Big Bad, she found out she is pregnant with his child and decide to raise him/her to a better person than his/her father. More describe emotion, better example.
openNo Title Literature
I have a recollection of these children's books. They looked somewhat like the Mr Men books, being the same size and shape, but they all had these monster things in them. There was this one which was long and (I think) orange, and which ate golf balls, and a purple one which ate a house in the story. Those two are the only ones which I remember. I would have read them in the early 2000s but I assume they were from further back than that time. I read them in England as well, and they were in English.
Edited by thomas_macaroniopenCreature Feature Album
For some reason, the title of this Creature Feature album eludes me. It was one with a well or some other brick structure on it and I think had a decayed tree visible near it. I didn't recognize it as artwork from the other albums, so help would be appreciated.
openIndie song about california Music
The other day in Hollister one of the songs playing was really good, but I can't find it like anywhere. I believe some of the lyrics are "getting close to Indio" and "go to California", breaking the word California into its staccato syllables. There were A LOT of oh oh-oh's. Help?
openNeed help finding the name of a kids show/movie/short film with a Teddy Bear Western Animation
A long time ago, I remember watching a show of some sort about a teddy bear. the only part I remember from it is once scene: The teddy bear was running from his house, he might have been looking for someone/something. It was night time and there was a blizzard/snowstorm. He ran into the woods near the house and it became very difficult for him to walk. He became very cold and there was a lot of snow. He was very cold and shivering. I think he tripped over a twig or rock and fell down on his stomach. He had gotten a big cut on his stomach area and his stuffing was coming out. He was crying and screaming I think,and he might have had a British accent, not sure. And there was very sad music in the background. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks so much <3
openComedy Live Action TV
Canadian comedy show in 70s or 80s, which always ended with a woman in a rocking chair talking about a man Tall and erect, erect and tall.then she fell off her chair.
openA Mouse and A Frog Literature
I remember having to read something for school. I actually remember a lot about it, except for the title. I'm fairly certain the protagonist was female, but I could be wrong. I'll just refer to her as female. So, our mouse protagonist meets a frog named Magic Frog, who tells her that she can assist her in finding a fabled land called the Far-Off Land. She then names the protagonist Jumping Mouse. On her travels, Jumping Mouse meets a bison who went blind from drinking poisoned water. Jumping Mouse names this bison Eyes-of-a-Mouse, which causes her to go blind and giving the bison his vision back. To repay her, Eyes-of-a-Mouse takes her as close to the Far-Off Land as he can go. Travelling further brings Jumping Mouse to a wolf who lost his sense of smell due to his pride. She names him Nose-of-a-Mouse, and sacrifices her sense of smell for him. Nose-of-a-Mouse takes Jumping Mouse as close as he can get to the Far-Off Land. Eventually, Jumping Mouse makes it, and Magic Frog appears to her again. The story ends with this quote:
- Magic Frog: I shall give you a new name. Your name shall be Eagle, and you shall live in the Far-Off Land forever.
openA Book about Dragons Literature
I read it when I was a kid and it's always bugged me. It has dragons who breath gas and strike something like a flint on their tongue/back of mouth or throat to make a spark and that's how they breath / make fire.
openBBC Radio 4 drama Radio
I just remembered something I'd meant to Worthless Foreign Degree a while back, but I only heard a clip of it on the BBC listener-response show Feedback, and now I can't even remember how long ago it was to find the right episode of Feedback. I'm pretty sure it was some time in the past couple of months, though.
A radio play about immigration, possibly based on true stories. The clip I heard has an Afro-Caribbean woman trying to apply for a job as a teacher at a UK school, and the headmistress bluntly telling her that, as far as she's concerned, a certificate from a Caribbean teacher's college is completely worthless. When the woman questions this, the head assumes (perhaps sarcastically) she's having difficulty understanding, even though she clearly speaks perfect English. And that was the end of the clip.
Edited by DaibhidCopenGame where the boss is already dead Videogame
All i remember about the game is that it was a metroidvania, and i think the boss was a skeleton by the time you got there.
openBerlin, 1945
some time ago i watched a documentary on the national geographic channel, i think, about the Russian/American siege of Berlin and one thing that stuck with me was a large gun firing.
-it was big. very big. i assume artillery but... -it fired horizontally. perfectly straight. -its undercarriage had tracks. -despite this it jumped quite a bit backwards. -it was filmed in black and white. -filmed from a corner, somewhere just behind the gun and far to the side. -i think it was Russian.
i don't expect anyone to know what i am talking about but it can't hurt to ask.
edit: i think it was a 152 mm M1935 http://d2ev13g7cze5ka.cloudfront.net/pit/pitg35_5.jpg?v=0000000001
Edited by M808V
So, there was a game that I found on my mom's iPad one day, only for it to disappear without a trace. It was sort of a Pokémon-esque RPG game where you could choose between three elemental baby dragons at the beginning of the game. The only one that I know for a fact was there was the fire dragon, but if memory serves, there were also electric and ice ones. You used cards to capture monsters in random encounters, and had to level them up in order to defeat all of the Dragon Overlords scattered across the map. I keep remembering the title as "Dragon Island", but I've been told that was wrong.