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open Black and white film or show, dead piano player Live Action TV
I only saw one scene in this, where the bad guy walked into a bar or something, killed the piano player, then later he ordered the man to start playing.again. It was pointed out that he was dead, then the bad guy shot into the air and the body jerked up and started playing again.
open Disney Channel Movie - brainwashed kids
This was a movie, probably Disney, about a company kidnapping kids and brainwashing them to want to grow up to work for the company. I think one of the ending scenes (possibly the climax) was at a concert.
openTiger claymation
I don't know if it's a movie or a short but it's about what looks to be a Chinese story of a tiger wanting to become a man. On his journey he finds a cave with a tablet with instruction on how to become a man. The thing is he needs to find 2 kids and possibly eat them if he wants a full transformation because he achieved transforming but still had his tail. It was in the 90s when I saw it from 96-99 maybe.
openPresident TV Show
There was this show where there was a president giving a speech, and suddenly the white house blows up. The undereducated vice president is sworn in and has a controversy on if he should leave the presidency. I know that the show was on CBS, ABC, or NBC. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
openA Boy and His X style comic Webcomic
Basically, the webcomic is about a young(?) boy who is best friends with a demon. Said demon is purple, really short, and has really tall ears (I specifically remember thinking it looked sort of like a Crobat with arms/feet, though this would've been unintentional).
It's a gag-a-day type comic, generally with pretty dark humor. I remember one strip was about the boy's mom being dead, so he asks his demon friend to resurrect her. They do so, and they end up regretting it because she immediately starts nagging at them. Or something along those lines. I'm trying to see what else I can remember.
I believe it's still ongoing. At the very least, it was several months ago when I got linked to it.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
openCosmo's pets keep dying Western Animation
I remember an episode of Fairly OddParents where Cosmo kept adopting a bunch of pets, but they all kept on dying and making Cosmo cry, much to Wanda's annoyance. Does anyone remember the episode name?
openWhats this TV Show? Aired around 2008/2009 Can't remember Film
This TV show was about a man travelling the world with only a limited amount of money, for each country he was given a small amount of money which he had to use wisely and budget, he also had to earn money. I remember in one specific episode he tried to donate blood to get money but wasn't able to because he was a foreigner... (I think). The guy was a baldy.
openA Dreamcast Spy and Strategy game Videogame
I'm looking for a Dreamcast game that i once read in EGM. It was strategy game set in the future where Corporations rule the world. You play as one corporation controlling a group of spies with different skills like fighting and hacking where you direct the spies to infiltrate buildings owned by rival companies to steal important data inside.
openLiterary Work about a school play, lion and tree
I recently came across this example in the Literature section of Playing a Tree: "One story, name forgotten, revolved around a girl in a school play who played a tree, and liked the role because she helped a lion to hide and was the tallest one in the play.". That's the entire text for the entry.
My first thought was to delete the item, as an example of unknown source appears to violate the Wiki rules, but then realised a better fix would be to find and add the source.
Googling's thrown up nothing, so this seemed like the best next place to try - does anyone have any thoughts?
openBUGS BUNNY CARTOON Western Animation
I'm trying to find a Bugs Bunny cartoon in which he (Bugs) was chased around by a cowboy in a horse I think. I remember the setting was desertic, the cowboy was red-haired (I think) and was NOT Yosemite Sam, and there was a lot of comedic twisting and acting from the horse as well... I really don´t remember much else, just that it was very funny when I first saw it. Thanks!
openQuest Western Animation
I remember this old cartoon where a quest needed to have some kind of toast or blessing for it to be succesful both water and wine were suggested but the main character suggested milk and it was approved of I cant remember anything else about it
openTouhou fanfic
The fanfic I'm looking for was the typical self-insert kind of fic, I think. In the beginning the main character is driving, and gets in a car accident. He then wakes up in Gensokyo, and gets taken in by Yuuka. At some point Yukari becomes the main antagonist. Haven't found it since I first read it, and I think it was on a website separate from most other fanfics.
Edited by 27firefliesopenTwo Films Film
So, I remember when I was little kid (probably around '02-'03 but I could easily be wrong) there was this movie that kind of caught my eye on TV, but the only thing I can remember is this one scene where a guy was looking at what appeared to be confidential information on an old computer monitor, but it looked like he was confused and had the wrong program or something (again, I was really young so sadly I don't know if my memory's serving me right here). I believe it started off with some sort of simplistic DOS-looking animation until it was cut by a logo of sorts (I remember it being the FBI's), then he's suddenly looking at a list of sorts. Cue a gentleman or two in suits coming into his apartment and shooting him.
The second was much more recent, at least three years ago at most. I only started watching near the end, but there was a kid strapped to a chair and his eyelids were held open. It was clear he was being brainwashed, and I think a teacher in his school was behind it. The whole thing was confusing out of context. He eventually broke out, and a bunch of high school kids (one of which was definitely a jock) led by said teacher was sent to chase him down. Don't remember how everything went after that, sadly. This one had a stereotypical 80s-cheese movie vibe to it.
I'm sorry I don't remember much detail about either of these movies, but any kind of lead would be great!
openNo Title Literature
When I was in, maybe 4th or 6th grade, we read this memoir by some American woman who had spent a portion of her childhood in China, where her parents were, I think, missionaries, but might have been involved in business or something. The family had Chinese servants, and the clearest memory I have is how one of the servants was a communist, but the author would notice how he stuck his pinky out when drinking tea.
The most plausible person to have been the author, if I were to guess, would be Pearl S Buck, who was living in China at about the right age and time frame (early 1900s) but I can't easily find either of her autobiographies to see if they jive with my memories of the book, and from descriptions of her autobiographies on the internet, either she's someone else, or I read a heavily abridged version of one of them.
open(SOLVED) Lots of twins Film
A movie where after someone is accused of a crime (likely rape) committed by his Evil Twin, it's eventually revealed that there are actually seven to eight clones, all with violent tendencies though some were squashed from youth (like the protagonist who became a nice guy as a result) and others made something productive of it (one guy runs a S&M club).
When the time comes to expose the Big Bad, all other clones are called to a gathering to expose the coverup.
Edited by MedinocopenNo Title Literature
Two books I vaguely remember reading as a kid, but the titles escape me:
The first was a picture book in which a little boy's dinosaur-shaped birthday cake turns into a real dinosaur. The dinosaur ends up in a zoo and is miserable, so the boy helps it escape and takes it somewhere it will be safe from the people who want it in the zoo.
The second was about a girl who tries to befriend two new students at her school. She initially succeeds with the one who turns out to be a jerk, but makes friends with the other girl toward the end. I think there was also a subplot about how one of the girls (can't remember which) is bi-racial and is ashamed of having a white mother because her grandmother hates white people.
openMovie about cloning and genetic propensity to crime Film
It’s been a long time, so my memory is very sketchy. The big plot twist in this movie is that the male protagonist, who has had a perfectly healthy upbringing and reasonably successful life, discovers that he is the result of a cloning experiment and that there are 6/7/8 (don’t remember the exact number) other clones just like him who were brought up in other families around the country. He finds out that all of them are criminals or at least violent people, even though he is not. The moral of the story is that even if your genes give you a strong predestination towards crime, a good and healthy upbringing can counteract this.
The movie is live-action and it is not overly scifi-themed (no fictional technology in the characters’ everyday lives); if it is set in the future, it’s only the near future, but I think it was set in the present. It does not deal with parallel universes, timelines or time travel; no mind swapping or mind control; no simulated realities or simulated brains/minds, manipulated memories or anything of that sort.
Edited by TimwiopenNo Title Literature
When I was in grade school, I had two different experiences where somebody read part of a book to our class, then didn't read the rest. To this day I'm curious about what happened. I can't remember the titles, of course. Here's what I do remember:
1. A kid fixes his little brother's teddy bear, which is missing an eye or something. He notices that it's too heavy for a stuffed animal, and suspects there's machinery inside. So he tells his brother, "I'm going to perform an operation on Teddy" (or something to that effect). To be continued...
2. A group of kids somehow end up with an idol or something that's supposed to grant wishes, but don't take it seriously. Sort of like the movie Big. One of the kids is a girl who isn't very well-liked because she's talkative and tactless. When she's alone with the idol, she wishes to be popular. Then a mist comes out of her mouth. To be continued...
Edited by FloydPinkerton
This was a book where when you play the game you have to actually do the scenario from the game (most of what I remember was in a jungle.) There were enemy 'pieces' which included a giant spider. Their weakness was water, when they got wet they became tiny and turned back into game pieces, and went back to the board. The main character(s) beat the game by getting the board wet. This was not Zathura or Jumanji.