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mystery cartoon Western Animation
I'm looking for a cartoon about I think a smalltown reporter who solved supernatural mysteries with the help of three comedy relief ghost sidekicks. I remember the ghosts being afraid of water because they apparently suffered from wicked witch of the west disease and would melt.
70s Batman and other DC Comics Print Comic
I remember some Batman and other DC stories from the 1970s and I am trying to find them again. These were in annuals or UK editions so they may have been reprints from earlier years. All of these were black and white line art but that may have been because they were reprinted. Details are: (1) Batman and Robin go against a criminal with dogs trained to attack on specific words. He calls Batman a demon he is going to send back to hell but 'demon' is the dog's attack word and it savages him instead. (2) Dick Grayson is at college where he finds Professor Crane is teaching a psychology class on fear. Somebody else releases fear toxin and chaos ensues. This may be the same story as the attack dog one as the dog guy was panicking (3) The sons of Batman and Superman are adult men. They drive through a weird power field into a western town where they are trapped and Clark Jr is depowered. Two evil cowboys fight them and our heroes use their wits to fake powers and win. I remember Clark Jr using a revolver with candle wax bullets to shoot and stun a bad guy (4) A band of DC villains including Vandal Savage and Degaton work together and take over a city, possibly Washington DC. All I remember is Degaton appearing from behind a pillar and choking someone with his forearm (5) An evil sorceress villain has someone using a bazooka to blow holes in the Pentagon turning it into the world's biggest pentagram (just go with it) and amplifying her power. This may be the same supervillain story as above (6) A Teen Titans (or other youngish hero team) story which starts with a black character trying to join and accusing the team of racism even though one of the team is blue. (He is rejected because his powers aren't useful). An explosion later is drawn so if you lean the page way back you can read the words "holy cow will you look at those fireworks" or something like it. I am looking for the original editions they were in or any compilations printed since. Thanks!
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Condo scene Film
There was a live-action movie I watched in high school, so it couldn't have been newer than the mid-2000s. All I remember is there's a scene where the white male protagonist is in a condo with a glass wall, I think overlooking a pool, at night. Then he opens a drawer and pulls out a small cardboard box (may have been bullets or cigarettes or something else).
Mad emperor that kills at night Literature
This emperor was paranoid about his safety because every night an unknown assassin would attack and kill his personal guard, leaving him alone alive. Every night new soldiers would be assigned. Few generals knew the truth and those that knew were afraid to act, for the assassin was the emperor himself who would awake in the middle of the night and kill the bodyguards. I think that otherwise the emperor acted as a sane and responsible ruler, but that might be just my flawed memory.
This wasn't the main plot of the book I was reading but was used to illustrate a point. I don't know if the main book is non-fiction or science fiction, but I'm more interested in this story than the book it appears in.
Old multiplayer game Videogame
I played a game with my brother 15-20 years ago, and all I remember is my character was a wizard or mage, and I used a spell that rained rocks down all over the screen. It damaged my brother's character (even though we were allies) and made him mad. The game was a older, isometric-viewed game. I think it possibly had zombies as enemies, chests you can open, and I think a farm level with a bunch of tail grass or wheat. It's been so long I'm not sure on any of these details.
Song I can't remember the name of Music
The chorus very clearly included the line "I only ever dream in color", and there were some other lyrics that went "I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind" afterwards.
I'm pretty sure the name of the song was Dream In Color or some similar title, by an artist I forgot, but looking it up gives nothing.
Deconstruction of Superman movie Film
I think it was a movie. I remember seeing something about the plot being a man and a woman finding a baby in a rocked. The baby grows up and learns he has powers. Unfortunately he's not interested in using them for good. I'm not sure what it was called or if I got the plot right but I think that was the basic of it.
a magical bakery game Videogame
so ur this magical girl with a long blonde hair and purple dress. Strongly reminds me of rapunzel, but the game is old af... like it's back when I am in elementary (I am not in college). So the magical girl is using her magic to run a bakery, and you sell em. There's a lot of magical properties, with colors of purple. The game is really simple, it's really similar with the usual bakery flash game but with beautiful colors of purple, and magic.
Dinosaur Comics comic that changes after the page is refreshed Webcomic
This was a particular installment of Dinosaur Comics. The comic is a "guide for time travelers" in which T-Rex says something like "this comic will self-destruct in five seconds" near the end, and if you refresh the page the comic (but not the Contact/title gags) would be replaced with a different one with a similar theme but completely different dialogue. The replacement seemed permanent but I can only assume that clearing your web browser's cache/cookies would reset it.
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Australian series from the 90ies or 80ies Live Action TV
There was a kids/teens live action tv show in the 90ies or 80ies, pretty sure it was Australian. It was about two rival gangs of kids, the Bears and the Wolves (I vividly remember the opening having members of first one, then the other next to the rest of their respective gangs with the gang name on screen). At least one of them had their hideout/HQ in a treehouse, and I think there was a storyline with forbidden romance/friendship between the groups.
Dragon Cartoon from the 80s/90s? Western Animation
I saw this on VHS sometime in the 90s, but I'm pretty sure it was older than that. It was either a direct-to-video miniseries or some obscure cartoon about dragons with a very 80s-esque opening, and the episode I saw/remember was a take on the Trojan Horse where this really vain dragon allowed the other dragons to send her a wooden sculpture of herself, but when she allowed it to pass through the doors, the face changed to the other characters. It had a moral about vanity, I guess.
Is this ringing any bells for anyone?
Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic
A while ago I read a fanfic where Yugi was half demon-dragon on his father's side; while I think it's been taken down, I want to see if I can read it again using the wayback machine. Early on there was a scene where Joey sat on a bean-bag filled with river stones, Skywise and Skot of Elfquest showed up for some reason, and everyone else was developing magic as well. I can't remember how long ago it, was, but I'm thinking it was around ten years ago, during the point in time when Cactus Bob on FF.Net was writing "The federation of Genii"/"In the Land of Blue Forests" and Celeste 5502 (also on FF.Net) was working on the "Alternate Reality" series.
Again, I'm pretty sure it's been taken down, but I'm sure the Wayback Machine could let me read it again if I could find it. Any ideas?
Forrest Games? Videogame
It was an indie game revealed at e3 2018 I want to say, about surviving in the woods. The short teaser had a pot boiling on a stove and a bear with glowing eyes.
Edited by James1968
Made up fairy tale movie (found it) Film
The movie was a fake fairy tale (it had the whole medieval setup, Once Upon A Time storytelling etc) about a girl who was cursed by a fairy as a baby to be unable to disobey orders and requests.
In the fairy's words, she had just created the most obedient child in the world. She displays this by telling the baby to stop crying, and she instantly stops.
Right afterwards, the scene changes to a Time Skip where she's a young girl. She was told by her mother to get down the stairs and practice her violin. The girl - aware of her curse - tried to go down slowly but her mother repeated the phrase and she went down the stairs with Super Speed. She was also ordered to never reveal her curse to anyone.
By the way, the girl was blonde, living in a rural but really nice house (two stories and very bright), while the fairy was dressed in black.
Never mind, I found it. It was a film adaptation of Ella Enchanted.
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Creepy documentary style show Live Action TV
It had to have been similar to Haunted History, I was watching them at the same time. I think this was found footage about cryptids, various paranormal things. They did something about a “fallen angel” that was super creepy. But it was a documentary style show. I think they might have also done things like Jersey Devil etc? But I’m definitely remembering the creepy fallen angel being featured.
Non fiction book on the subject of superheroes Literature
I remember this being one of two books, on the nature of heroes, I remember the book beginning with some sort of disscusion on the origins of the idea of superhuman characters that were larger than life, like Heracles also known as Hercules, but also pointing out how he wasn't the hero that Disney portrayed him as in their 90's movie about his life, I recall the cover featuring a face mask on a red background and the SECOND BOOK'S COVER WAS GREEN.
Spy Show Live Action TV
Alright, so, there's this old show about spy kids that juggled with school and work and they were a part of MI... 6? 7? There were three main characters and their mentor, and... I think it was on Disney XD? Not sure. It's probably from around the mid/late 2000s.
Cartoons on netfix Western Animation
Ok so there was this show i used to watch on netflix as a little kid, about this little kid who i think has orange hair and he lived in this house with his mean, i think it was adopted parents and the house that he lived in always had weird stuff going on.
Video game on a website - alliterative, possibly called "Tiki Terror" or something similar Videogame
My friend is looking for a video game. The game was hosted on a website for children with school, math, etc. related games (for educational purposes). The game's protagonist was in Hawaii in a maze finding a treasure. The treasure was gold and had a grimacing face. He would be attacked by tikis that blew fire at him and evil coconuts with facial features. The game's protagonist was a short old man with a safari outfit on. You couldn't see his face except for a large mustache. There was fast-paced, badass drum music playing in the background.
80s stop motion
What were the old stop motion animation short films that i used to watch with a city made of blocks including sailboats and bridges? The blocks would move and the sailboat would go under the bridge. This may have been on Nickelodeon possibly within another show.
Edited by Sultan97
Murderer called the "Thistle Killer"? Live Action TV
It's this old, I think black-and-white, TV show that my father and I were watching on DVD years ago (don't remember when, but probably not important).
There's this Serial Killer who's a man called the "Thistle Killer" because after killing people, he throws thistles on the bodies. I think one of the victims was a woman. The Thistle Killer dressed up as a police officer, which made people scared of policemen.
These two men were investigating it and I think one of them was asking lots of questions to the other.
I googled "Thistle Killer" but only got ads for herbicide.
80s/90s Animation About a Kids Club Film
Not sure if this is a movie or show, I just remember watching it on vhs tapes. It involved a club of kids that met in a tree house or clubhouse and they had certain problems like getting along with siblings or something. For example, the one I remember is this little brother went camping and took and picture of his sister squatting (it was a children's show so it didn't show anything graphic at all) and he was gonna put the slide of the picture in during a school dance or something and they end up making up or something like that. Another storyline ended with them writing thank you notes for cookies or something. I want to say the name has something to do with humanity society or tree house society but I've Google all variations of that.
Thanks in advance, new to this site and this is awesome!
Boy and his bear? Live Action TV
I joined this site just to try and find this memory... This would've occurred somewhere around 1998/99 and I'm pretty sure I saw it at my grandma's house, which means it would've aired on PBS, CBS, NBC, or ABC. The only things I remember are it was a real human boy, and a person in a bear costume. I had thought the bear might be his teddy bear come to life. They were some place dark and shadowy, I think it was a bedroom at night. I can't tell you if this was a tv show, movie, specific episode of a completely different show, or even a commercial for something. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!