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opendimension travel artifact/tech Western Animation
I'm trying to remember an animated show from the 90s or early 2000s where some kind of dimension artifact/tech transported at least three people into a weird alien medieval-ish dimension where at least some of the inhabitants were non-human. The main character was Indiana Jones like with a standard hero quarterback build. The other two were a big muscle guy best friend who has above average intelligence for the standard big muscle guy in animation at the time, and he mostly held off the enemies whenever the hero needed time to figure out a puzzle or defeat the bag guy of the episode. The third character was the female action love interest who was capable of taking out a few mooks on her own but fewer than the other two.
There was at least one episode where they had to fight in a gladiator arena and another where there was a big evil tower that they needed to infiltrate/fight there way up where a high up bad guy was. The show goal was trying to find away home and maybe understand some of the ancient artifacts/tech from a long lost civilization.
I think maybe the season/series finale had them getting home with a shot of the three (or more) characters standing in a room with lots of glass windows (some broken) with a rainstorm outside and one character stating that they were back home in the exact room where they were originally transported.
openmusic from show Music
Can someone tell me what the song starting at 3:58 or so is (assuming it's a real song)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLZhrGG644Y
open'90s Cop Show with Sam McMurray Live Action TV
Okay, I remember a cop show on FOX in the early 90s. The show was done via the viewer's POV, like a first-person shooter, and Sam Mcmurray played the "detective's" partner. But the title escapes me right now. Anybody remember this show?
Edited by StarbugopenBook about boy and humanoid sea animals? Literature
I remember a book, probably a book series, about this kid who moved into a beachside/boardwalk town with his relative, possibly uncle or something, and he liked eating cold pizza, then he met this jellyfish girl and two other guys. Does anyone know it?
openAdult cartoon with rhino Western Animation
When I was a kid, late 90's/early 2000's (1999 - 2002?), I walked in on my mom watching something. I don't know if it was a TV show or movie, and I have no idea what the channel would have been, or if it was a VHS/DVD. It was 2D animation, very colorful. From what I remember, there was an anthro rhino (hippo? elephant?) standing in a forest as cute animals danced and sang around him. The rhino gave the camera an annoyed look, then he took out a gun and killed the animals. There was a narrator that sounded like a nature documentary host; I'm remembering the phrase "And then he took out a gun" or something similar being spoken by the narrator. I'm remembering a lot of blood, but that could be my imagination making it worse than it was. It looked to me like a kids' cartoon, then that happened and traumatized my little self, ha ha. I left the room right then, disgusted by it, so I didn't see or hear any further. Every once in a while that memory pops into my head, but I have no idea what it was! Any ideas?
openWeird game in spanish from my childhood Videogame
So, I'll try again to find this (just posted this very same text at /x/):
"Have you guys ever played a game that nobody even remembers about it and you can't find for shit anywhere?
I have an odd one giving me some trouble. If I record correctly, the name of the main character of the game was Max. He is a pale green alien that appeared to use some kind of... belt on his crouch and had a weird an apathic facial expression.
The game was educational and I played on my PC (Windows 98), but had some really strange stuff going on, and when I played, it was like back in the year 2000, and it had a very charming 3D aspect even for that time (besides my computer having 16MB or less of video at the time, it also ran just fine).
Thing is, about the weird stuff in that game, is that it was... dark. There was a segment where you would assume control of the character after he goes to a park to play, and after a certain scene, make a choice.
The scene was that a strange man whose face cannot be seen, comes in a car with very dark windows and call for you with his hand. The narrator tries to alert you that you should go back home, but suddenly, you are presented with the choice of either going to the car, or turning back home.
I don't remember what happens after you refuse do go to the suspicious figure in the car, but I do remember that, if you choose to do so, you would be presented with a black screen, which would turn into a scene where this same alien stares a static TV in an unknown house (where he appears to be in a pitch-black room or hall), while the narrator says he made a wrong decision in going to a strangers house like that. The game restarts at that point, and you have the same sequence in the park.
I completely forgot about this game until some months ago, when I had a very weird nightmare re-calling the time when I played it.
I asked my mom about it, and, surprisingly, besides reminding of a lot of other educative games she bought at the same time I've played it, she doesn't know anything about it.
At the time she actually listed me which educational games she bought, and the list included an english game called "Steps 1" (on how to learn english, there was a penguin in there), the "Reader Rabbit" series, a game with a deformed wizard in brazilian portuguese (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bffku4cxJ1Y) [Embed] and some Rugrats ones there were not really educational.
In any case, I couldn't even remember many of these, besides remembering this weird 3D alien game. Doing some research in some forums and asking even on yahoo answers for it, I've even drawn more or less how does that character seemed to be like. Zero answers from anyone. Nada.
Eventually, my PC broke, so I forgot about it for some time in order to organize some IRL stuff until I would eventually buy a new one (also giving some time to my research to gain any attention from anyone (I visited and posted on forums in 4 different languages I knew well: Portuguese, Spanish, English and Italian).
Well, here is where the issue becomes a little bit interesting. None of my questions, which I also got bookmarked on chrome in an specific folder, were there any longer.
They were completely gone. "The Page is invalid", "This page doesn't exist", hell, even internet wayback machine couldn't do shit (the question on my yahoo account also got removed, and besides having a save image of one year ago or so, I couldn't see it, since the question list was private.
I'm working on making a new drawn of it (I suck a lot on doing this shit though) and will soon post it in here, since all the other copies are pretty much not where they should. "
Edited by danpmssopenShow about Magical Bar Live Action TV
there was show that i used to watch and i cannot find the name if the show. the premise is about different people are living their lives and open a random door and the door magically opens to the bar. the bartender tells them there is a reason why they came there. and i think they have to make some sort of life changing choice that changes their fate. and after they change thier lives they can leave. i think it used to air on THE HUB network but i am not sure. every episode their is a new person that has to solve some dilemma by going into the bar.
open"It's not a tragedy when a man dies of old age." Film
This was a movie I remember seeing many years ago, perhaps 10? I think it was something my older aunt was watching. It was about a theater troupe (?) who were being haunted by an angel of death. The angel was a beautiful young woman dressed in a white suit and fedora. She was seducing members of the group, i.e. leading them to their deaths. She actually killed the oldest one of them after a nice meal (?) but said something to his friends along the lines of, "It's not a tragedy when a man dies of old age" or a very similar line. That line stuck with me for a long time and I think it might've influenced my own views on celebrity deaths—whenever a particularly old celebrity dies, I always find myself thinking "Well, he/she lived a really long and full life, so that's something to be happy about." Does anyone know what this might be?
Edited by PeppermintTwistopenAnimated kids (teens/young adults) show about entering a computer and resetting time Western Animation
I remember watching a show on YTV somewhere between 2000 and 2006 that featured a group of school kids who had a computer and some kind of AI in the computer. When they were outside the computer, it would be 2D animation. However, they would enter the computer in each episode and the animation would switch to 3D. They would all get new costumes and they would fight their way to some kind of "terminal." They would then enter the "terminal" and this would cause time to jump back several hours, meaning that they could prevent some catastrophic event in the real world. During one particular episode, the geek of the show spilled cereal on his keyboard, allowing the AI to manifest in the real world, but she had to go back in as part of the time-resetting, and he didn't know what keys were pressed.
openSiblings Travel to a Fairy World
Okay, so, I honestly can't remember if it was live action or animated (though i'm leaning towards animated) but when I was pretty little there was either a cartoon or tv show or movie about a pair of siblings (an older sister and younger brother) who... move, or something, or just happen to stumble upon a fairy world, and then the little brother eats some of the fairy food and due to fairy law he can't leave? And then either just the sister or both of them have to go on some sort of journey to... change the rule or... something? It's a really vague recollection, and it could have also just been the episode of something else. I also remember the ending scene being a celebration and the boy getting to eat as much fairy food as he wanted because it was no longer forbidden to eat. Also I think they shrunk down when in the fairy world.
openhelp finding a japanese rap (i think) song. Music
There's this song about messing up badly. There's a verse about cigarettes, a verse about what if I remember correctly was a traffic stop, and another verse has something do do with a lottery and something blowing away. Most of the refrain is rapped except this one word.
Edited by UNoWhoopenKid's book about aliens Literature
There was this picture book about this kid who finds out some people are secretly aliens. Only part I remember clearly is he thought someone was an alien because his lunchbox smelled like tuna fish. Also at one point the protagonist tells an alien "only cowards point guns at people" I remember I thought it was really dumb even as a kid but I am still curious for some reason.
Edited by BootlebatopenI've been searching for months... Please help! Anime
I am beginning to think I just imagined this movie up as I haven't been able to find a single trace of it. I know that it was animated. I believe it was either 90's or early 2000's. So what I remember is that the "hero" of this movie was a golden robot that looked sort of like a man. He had a human-face and had straight white-ish hair. I remember that the two characters were just leaving a subway, and they witnessed these dogs attacking people and there were these creatures that started attacking people as well. I also remember the golden robot guy being able to turn into a jet and flying up to a giant spaceship that was hovering over the city. It was an animated movie. I hope someone can help me! I've been searching for too long of a time for this movie.
Edited by RichardWilhelmopenSome Japanese anime film with the word Mermaid in the title Anime
I remember the word Mermaid was in the title because that was why I wanted to rent it at Blockbuster when I was a little kid. My mom was pretty dubious about this movie, but I thought all cartoons were for kids and got it. What I remember was that the main girl fell off of a cliff into the ocean at one point after tripping over a kitten and supposedly died, then some people were tending to her body in their house. She was naked, and there was a bowl of water that this puppy was drinking from by her and it turned into blood or something. At this point, my mom made me leave and she finished watching the movie herself (she's Korean and likes anime). I just wanted to find out what the heck this movie was.
openMurder Mystery Literature
I read this book a while ago, in like, Junior High or High School. Some old guy died, and there is like, a completion to get his money. All the contestants have to live in his house, and there are clues hidden in his will. In the end, it's revealed he's not even dead!
openNo Title Music
A parody/pastiche of The Beatles' song "Yellow Submarine." It went something like "All of us reside on a something boat, on a something boat, on a something boat." I was thinking it might have been The Rutles but a brief websearh of their songs didn't show anything relevant.
Edited by randomsurferopenGuy Destroys Random Stuff Web Original
I remember this person on You Tube that made a bajillion videos of him destroying stuff in what looked like his basement. Most of the time, the objects he destroyed were kids toys. To be clear, this is NOT Shawn K. In one video, he runs over an Elmo toy with an orange lawnmower. In another video, he destroys a dryer(washer?) by putting a whole bunch of nuts, bolts, and metal bits into it until it couldn't hold the weight. He makes personal videos, too. One was on 2012, the supposed "end of the world." Anyone remember who this was?
I'm looking for the title of a manga where characters that are a Little Bit Beastly tend to experience fatal Spontaneous Human Combustion. Their animal attributes amount to little more than ears and tails and they live amongst regular humans, but are treated as second class citizens due to Fantastic Racism and live in relative poverty. I think their combustion had something to do with a drug habit? Like taking the drug in question results in an increased probability of randomly bursting into flames. I'm almost certain the main character's girlfriend dies this way in the first chapter. (Also that the main character was high school student/ young adult who was part cow, or had cow-like attributes.)
For what it's worth, the manga was likely published some time between 2000 and 2011/ 2012. I'm pretty sure I read it while clicking around on some scanlation site. I don't know how much of it was actually published, as I can't recall reading more than a few chapters. It wasn't very well written, but it's bugged me that I can't figure out what it was called.