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unfortunatezorua
(Five Long Years)
11th Dec, 2018 01:38:36 AM
Could it possibly be "The Who Was? Show"?
Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
Riley101
Since: Aug, 2017
16th Dec, 2018 10:49:01 AM
No, that's too recent. I remember it being around for at least a decade or so.
There would be these kids walking around a museum or castle of some kind, and they would come up to this painting. The painting would come to life, and it would be a famous person from history (like, for example, Erik the Red) and they would tell them about their life and how people lived in their time period.