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openOne of my biggest inspirations (even though I barely remember anything about it) Film
So when I was little and confined to You Tube Kids, I ended up watching a lot of random pieces of animation. This was one of them. The show happened to be foreign, though for the life of me I couldn’t begin to imagine where it was from. I’m pretty sure it was an animated short film, though it could have been a tv show, I honestly have no idea.
Here’s what I remember; so there was this rooster guy and this giant cat guy. They find this little girl and decide to raise her. One day, the rooster and the cat leave (idk why) and the girl gets kidnapped by a fox with blonde pigtails.
And then younger me, being the idiot that they were, clicked off. And I never saw it again. The only other things I remember was that it had a lot of browns, and it had a cool paper-y art style. What I remember from it inspired most of my art style and some of my characters, and I don’t think I would be as good as art as I am without it.
This may have been a weird fever dream of mine since I never hear anyone else talk about it, but I’ve been trying to hunt this thing down for a while, and it’d be amazing to watch the full thing.
openRandomly remembered entire movie EXCEPT for the name :/ Film
Yeah, I know, this is a lot, but I wanted to get all the details I can remember for now before I forget again. Feel free to only skim through. I don't really expect to get a response, but I'm hopeful. If theres any questions of clarification, or anything else I remember, I'll put it in comments.
I believe it was a german show, ir atleast it was centered around a german crime family? Anyway, the boss was dying, and in order to finalize a deal and approve the deal and who he wanted to give the title of boss to, he had to sign a paper. But he was either not wanting to or too ill/dying to do so (probably both). There isn't a believed heir other than rumors of one of the lowly goons being the heir. Which eventually turns out to be true. Somehow the heir is kidnapped or finds out or something and is on the run from the crime family. The drime family needs to either convince him to sign over power or sign the deal, or lure him to kill him. They are trying to hurry so they can do this deal to get out of debt with a Russian crime family. The heir is on the run with this driver who I guess also worked for crime family. Also the most memorable character for me is the guy who wants to be boss, his son who is a pathetic pimp buffoon who is bleach blonde and owns a stripper lounge bar place. And eventually his dad wants him to prove himself and sends him to get the heir which he keeps messing up and failing.
Theres a few scenes I specifically remember too. One is when the heir goes to hide at a freinds rural house, where the blonde son and some goons find and try to get the heir, there is a big fight there the heir escapes. Another scene where the driver shows up to the blonde sons stripper lounge bar in only a white towel, and he tries to bluff saying he has the real (ring? I don't remember what they had to steal or why, i just remember some item of importance probably dealing the with deal with the Russians) and instead getting them to show the real thing? And swapping it? And also drags blonde son to the back office and makes him open a safe? And then leaves him tied to a table which he tries to cut himself out of with a phallic shaped knife lol. Also the driver gets the cops to distract the wannabe boss while he gets away in his car. Another scene is when the heir and driver are in the car with some guy the wannabe boss sent to negotiate and convince/lure the heir home to kill him I guess, and the driver is suspicious and assumes of the other guys plan to lure the heir, so he pulls over and shoots the guy. Which upsets the heir for a moment.
openFunny short comic strip illustrating the difference between a scythe and a war scythe Webcomic
Alright, this sounds very specific, but hear me out: I recall stumbling across a comic on tumblr way back in the day that illustrated the difference between a scythe (think harvesting implement/grim reaper) and a war scythe. It had two characters, both female (I think). One of them was a soldier (I think) trying to start shit (or was attacking outright and had stopped to gloat, the details are fuzzy), while the other person was a farmer (or a peasant) holding a scythe. The first person says something dismissive about the scythe they're holding and how it's not a proper weapon. In response, the second person takes the blade and rotates it by 90 degrees to form a war scythe, glaring the whole time. The comic ends with the first person, looking significantly less confident and significantly more panicked.
resolved TV scene Live Action TV
Nickelodeon or Disney show, possibly another network. Male character pretending to play the trumpet and making "doodily do" sounds and doing trumpet motions,moving their head and torso up and down. This is super vague, but I'm hoping to figure it out.
Edited by sassyelliott2403openFamily encounter wolves Film
A movie, set in New York, where a family encounter wolves. I read about it on here. The character sheet for the wolves has Artistic License about animals.
Edited by sassyelliott2403openUnknown TV series Live Action TV
A scene in which a blonde woman dressed in black knocks on the door of a man who doesn't want to let her in because he's only wearing his tight whites. So, to make him feel more comfortable, she decides to take off her pants, and he opens the door.
openLuciferina Film
A 2018 horror film produced in Argentina, and distributed in the US by Artsploitation. Starring Sofia del Tuffo
openA particular scene that stuck out to me Western Animation
I don't remember much about it because I randomly saw it on You Tube one day. What I do remember is that, there was this scene where some villainous being posed riddles and if not answered correctly, he kills which he did to a guy in this scene then I think maybe a girl answered correctly and he got angry so she successfully killed him in revenge. I even looked at the work's TV Tropes page at the time but completely forgot about it after.
openKids and robots on a boat looking for an island Western Animation
A kids 3D animated show where these teens had sentient robot friends, each with their own unique capabilities. They travelled on a boat looking for a mysterious island that kept disappearing in the fog and changing location somehow as though it didn't really exist. There was the occasional skirmish with pirates I think. A brooding captain looking out into the fog hoping they catch the island someday.
openOld CGI Cartoon About Robots that turn into diving gear. Western Animation
This is driving me crazy and i am starting to think i imagined this one. But it's an old CGI Cartoon where a bunch of kids explore the ocean by having pet robots turn into diving gear, which also gives them super weapons to fight against some evil guy with a punk hair cut.
It's also a big adventure with continuity and quasi-constant progression, The characters were: a cocky boy who could shoot cyclones from his chest, a reasonable that had some stun powers, her little brother who has submarine that he later turns into a robot, and a wannabe reporter girl that's never part of the action.
I remember watching it in french on teletoon, i can't pin point the year since i was really young.
Pretty sure it had at least two seasons, with the second one introducing an incompétent pirate.
resolved Reluctant girl in a shrine Anime
I remember watching this anime on animax when I was young, it was about a girl in a family that owns a shrine. She can see spirits and can go to the spirit world, among the ones I remember are a trio of familiars, one was a little girl in a furisode outfit, and two animal-like ones, and another human sized spirit who sometimes possesses a friend of hers. At one point, when she touch her brother(?)'s money, the images turned into monsters, becoming worthless. At some point in one episode, she and her familiars were being chased by armed men, and she had a talisman that slowed down time around those people but she could move normally.
resolved Sick town origin story Anime
I remember this episode of an anime I caught while channel surfing, the main gist of it is that this pair of guys are trying to help the children of a town be cured of their illness, at one point trying to steal medicine (they get caught but a friend of theirs managed to get the medicine anyway). So the town gets the medicine, but a bunch of the kids sold their medicine so their parents could have food to eat. Pretty much all the kids die, I think the girl who helped them get the medicine also died? And one of the guys breaks because of this. By the end of the episode it was all a flashback and the guy who broke, now an antagonist (?) visits the other guy who was at the graveyard where all the kids and the girl are.
open2D anime zombie shooter game Videogame
I remember watching a gameplay video of a certain game. It was a sci-fi shooter game with platforming elements rendered completely in 2D graphics with a white-haired girl clad only in a bikini and open jacket (which served as some kind of armor) as a protagonist/player character, fighting against surprisingly fast zombies. Or maybe simply mutated humans but still with the peculiar feral carnivore behavior.
The game began in some kind of biological research lab, then took the fight to a ruined city. Soon the protag met up with some kind of resistance group and woved to protect a little girl in hospital gown (some test subject or patient zero - somehow the kid was tied to the infection turning people into undead).
In the finale the resistance wanted to kill the child and the protag had to fight their leader who was using a katana.
The game is at leas 10 years old. There was a wide variety of authentic-looking customizable firearms.
That's all I remember. Hope it helps.
Edited by pandrlakresolved Characters stuck Live Action TV
Are there any TV shows/movies/cartoons with a character stuck in a bathroom stall? I'm thinking if a scene and it's all I can remember.
openCartoon sleeping pills hammer gag Western Animation
I remember seeing a cartoon as a kid - maybe it was Tom and Jerry? - that included a gag where a character took the top of a bottle of sleeping pills and instead of pills, he pulled out a hammer and hit himself in the head with it to knock himself out.
Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
openMysterious prescription ad mentioned on WWTSA
On What Were They Selling Again?, this ad for a migraine prevention drug is brought up as an example of the trope.
- Some years ago a new drug was on the market. The ad featured shots of a nurse in a maternity ward, as she lovingly blanketed, diapered, fed, weighed, and cuddled various adorable babies, or brought them to their parents to do the same, as the announcer read a list of side effects and urged viewers to "ask your doctor if [blah] is right for you!" They do not mention what the drug is for; but you can guess it's a fertility drug, right? Wrong — it was for migraines.
The problem is, as you can already tell, the editor didn't identify which migraine product it was advertising.
If anybody is able to identify the ad, I'd thankfully accept the help.
Edited by DongwaChanopenA movie about a guy working in a car repair shop taking a young delinquent under his wing Film
This is a movie from the US and it's either from the 1990s or early 2000s. The main character is a middle-aged man who works in a shabby car repair shop on the outskirts of a city, or maybe on the countryside. The man lives in the same house where the shop is. I distinctly remember some shots in the movie showing the shop being located at the base of a hill, with a narrow road going past the shop and winding up the hill.
In the beginning of the movie a young African-American guy suddenly shows up at the repair shop. He's some kind of delinquent, maybe even running from the law. The older man takes the youngster under his wing, gives him accomodation and a job at the shop, clearly trying to set him on a straight path. For a while it works, but towards the end of the movie the young man runs away, possibly because the cops are after him. If I remember correctly, the movie ends with the older man sitting alone at his shop, looking sad because of all that's happened.
Edited by Tuomasopenno skills but still powerful Anime
I'm looking for a manga where the mc has no skills but becomes great at anything he tries. There is an arc where he joins one of several magic schools and reveals that his father got a rare title by mastering pieces of every magic including necromancy or dark magic which the heads of the school are surprised since they look down on it because the leader of the necromancy/dark magic is weird and creepy despite being implied to be powerful enough that he kept the position after his death. In another arc he becomes a monster tamer and tames several legendary monsters. Finally one of his sister became ruler of a kingdom and set things up so that even skill less people could live there easily but he rejects her offer despite her doing it all for him because he never had any intention of just living a normal peaceful life and was surprised she thought that was something he wanted

I remember at some point between 2015 and 2019 I was on holiday with my parents and we went to an arcade. There was this one game I played in it that I can't remember the name of for the life of me, but what I do remember about it is 1) one of the game's gimmicks was that you chose two tracks and the game strung them together seamlessly through a portal, 2) the two tracks I chose were a city and a volcano, and the car I chose was a Ford Focus RS. The city was also in the middle of collapsing, 3) at the start of the race it showed a mini cutscene of my car swerving through the debris from the collapsing buildings, and 4) all of the cars had a boost ability which, when activated, would cause some of the panels on the back of the car to fold inwards, Transformers-style, and then a giant jet engine-looking thing would protrude out of the back of the car. My long-term memory isn't too good so some of these details might not be perfect, but if anyone can get anything on this I would be very grateful.
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