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Live-Action Chase Scene Film
I'm trying to remember the name of a Live-Action film that had a Chase Scene where someone was using a car to chase someone who was in a train. There was also a villain who spends his last scene escaping on an underground train, waving goodbye at the person who was trying to capture him. In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, the villain in question is a Karma Houdini. According to my professor for Film and NYC, this was Based on a True Story, and the villain in question got Adaptational Karma in the sequel via Karma Houdini Warranty.
Album with a bonus disc that's designed for sharing with friends Music
I was browsing a record store in the mid-2000s when I saw a CD where the packaging advertised an unusual promotional tool the artist decided to use. The album had a "bonus disc" that was just the first few songs on the album again, and a sticker on the case explained that you were supposed to give away the extra disc to a friend, who would hopefully like what they heard enough that they would buy the whole album themselves. Thing is I'm 90% sure this was Begin to Hope by Regina Spektor, but I can't seem to find any evidence online about this version of the album having existed. I am at least pretty sure of the 2000s time frame, and I'm under the impression it was some indie artist's first major label release, which Begin To Hope was for Regina.
animated film where two walruses in an abandoned ship engage in a BLAM-y musical number (solved) Western Animation
This was a clip I thought I saw linked to as an entry on the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment page, but if it was, it doesn't seem to be there anymore (I checked both western animation and animated film pages). I think the actual plot may have had an environmentalist theme, the main characters were animals, and it might have even been set After the End (with remnants of human civilization still around but no living humans present). In the BLAM scene in question, the main characters encounter a pair of walruses living in an abandoned (or possibly sunken) ship, maybe an oil tanker - the walruses go into a song where the lyrics are nonsensical scatting, though the way it's sung and they way they behave while singing makes it seem like it's some kind of argument. The main characters leave the ship after the song is done, the walruses are never seen again (I think they actually die at the end of the song) and the plot moves along like nothing happened.
Edited by MikeK
Book series about spies in a school Literature
So the protagonist has to move to this school for spies after something happens to his parents or something. He's descended from great spies so he has natural talent for it. There were some fantasy elements to it too. Like some sort of knife that never misses a target and the MC's best friend was like a werewolf or angel or something. I remember the title of the first book was an acronym for the school's name. Its been a really long time so my memory of it is really vague.
Edited by Parkway
A galactic human empire/republic without grimdark bukkake like in WH40K
I'd like to watch/read a story, where humans have created an galactic empire, kingdom, republic, and so on where things didn't go to hell like in WH40K (it doesn't have to be an utopia, but please no grimdark bukkake like in WH40K).
Edited by arisboch
Stop-Motion/Puppet Piano Telling Jokes, possibly British Live Action TV
I'm not sure if this is from a movie, TV show, or something else, but I'm having trouble tracking down the source of a clip I found on Twitter.
The clip was of a stop-motion piano that looked like this:
It talked (by flapping its "keyboard lid" up and down), and the man who voiced it was... not very intelligible.
It opened its "comedy show" (to offscreen, canned, applause) by saying "Ladies and gentlemen... my impression of [unintelligible]". The unintelligible name, by the way, sounded like "Glen Kegall" but I looked up that name (and a few variants) and didn't get anything. The announcement was followed by a laugh track.
It then said "Him at a [unintelligible]" and did what can only be described as a "leg dab", which the canned laughter thought was really funny.
Then it said, possibly, "Him and a girl" and did the same thing, with the laugh track again finding it hilarious.
And then, it Non Sequitere'd to "And leave the rest. to. me." (with each period representing a "leg dab"). The "audience" thought this was uproarious. Then they clapped, and then the clip ended.
For those who think they might be able to actually figure out what the piano is saying, here's the Twitter post
. Note that the reference to Oscar's Orchestra was just done as a joke- this is not that cartoon.
Evolution game?
I remember this old PC game (90s or earlier, at least) that was a bit like Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life, but it had a lot more stuff with evolution, like trilobites and even robots eventually, and you could also manipulate plate tectonics and disasters to reshape continents. Any idea which one it is?
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Rabbit game (SOLVED) Videogame
I dont remember much of this game. Just that the main character is an anthropomorfic rabbit, I think he used a laser gun, and you fight against chameleons.
Edited by ElBuenCuate
Depressed penguin walks off into the distance Film
I remember watching a film where a penguin colony was on the rocky beaches of the Islamic Republic of the Koudeiland Islands for Summer breeding and a Gentoo Penguin started walking to a chain of mountains that was many miles away and farther inland and a narrator said the penguin would certainly die and that sometimes they just walk far from the sea and go too far to make it back.
Manga With A Chapter About The Red String of Fate Anime
I used to read this manga that I liked back in the day and I want to reread it, but I don't remember the name or anything about it. The only thing I remember is a chapter (or chapters) of this manga that talks about the red string of fate. One day at school the main character notices that her friends are falling in love or liking other people, than the person they used to like. They then bumped into a girl I think? Or boy? The Boy has a sister whose string is attached to her childhood friend and she didn't like that. She then painted her nails allowing her to break the string and tie it to the main character's male friend. The girl's brother is at the main character's school to fix the mess she made. At the end of the chapter or chapters, the main character (who is a girl) broke the red string of fate by making her friend realize he loves her or something like that. One detail about this is they made the nail polish with some herbs or something in order to see the red string. Another thing is this manga has a bit of magic, but I'm not sure. That's all I know about this chapter or chapters of this manga I am trying to find. If you guys know about this manga or the chapter of a manga I am describing please tell me!
Gumball Featurette Web Original
I’ve been using my VPN provider to access some YouTube videos from Cartoon Network Asia and Australia that were formerly available in Canada. However, I'm having trouble finding a featurette for The Amazing World of Gumball that begins with Richard singing along with the theme music.
Evil Underwear Literature
I dont remember what it was called. there was a young boy protagonist. he never changed his underwear, so they were all ratty and torn, so his mother took him to a store to get new ones. the pair he tried on were sentient, and decided to use him as a host, and wouldnt come off. so he wore them out of the store and they started controlling his life. thats where the specifics end. anyone else read this book?
Fantasy trilogy I read in school Literature
I'm pretty sure there were three books. Every chapter title was some hilarious statement. In part 3, I think, someone mistook "subtley" for "suddenly".
One of the villains in book 1 was a 10-year-old king who rose to power by murdering his entire family.
The series was a parody of fairy tales, with like four or so different prince Charmings. I'm pretty sure they all had different names.
I hope I can figure out what this series was called, because it's been bugging me for weeks.
Book series about people in an apartment building, one of whom is an elderly trans woman
Sometime in The New '10s, I read a review in the paper for the latest book in the series, which was about the trans woman's backstory. I think her name was an anagram of her deadname. All I remember about her backstory was that she came to the city as a teenager while still living as male.
A show that had only a pilot episode Live Action TV
So a while ago while browsing random videos on Youtube, I found a pilot episode of a show that only had that pilot episode, and then got canceled for some reason. It's been a few years since I watched it and I only remember the ending of that pilot episode. Btw, I'm not sure if she was a spy or special agent. But I know most of the episode played during nighttime and it was a American show.
Okay so, the main character is a female spy, and at the end of the pilot episode she was fighting another female spy on the rooftops at night. The female spy was wearing a mask/pantyhose to hide her identity, but once she got unmasked by the main character, the other female spy appeared to be a friend of hers(She had blonde hair). The main character eventually overpowered the other female spy. That's as much as I can remember about the pilot episode.
There was also a side character who was an Asian man. It is very vague, I know and the chance of someone knowing which show I'm talking about is very slim(especially since it only had a pilot episode), but I'm shooting a shot anyway.
thai tv drama with creepy lady and old house Live Action TV
saw this on my grandparents' tv a couple years ago.
some thai tv drama thing, probably on channel 3 or channel 7. might’ve been a horror/mystery show. took place in some old house ( that the main character might’ve inherited or something? ), might’ve also been a period drama or have some historical element to it?
there was a scene where the main character was sneaking through the hallway at night and he accidentally dropped a vial or bottle of some sort. but when he went to get it, he found that someone else was there. there was this lady with short, somewhat wavy hair and wide eyes with dark circles underneath, like she hadn't been sleeping for like 23897648219 years. she might’ve been wearing sort of old-timey clothes ( not too old-timey, i say something like you’d see during the reign of king rama v ). she stared at him as she held the vial and started reciting the old lullaby(?), จันทร์เอ๋ยจันทร์เจ้า.
i remember seeing a later episode where the creepy lady actually teamed up with the main character for some reason. don’t remember much details, but she was helping him.
No Title Literature
You're my last hope, TV Tropes! My description is extremely vague, because it's been a very long time since I read this novel. Here goes a long shot:
It's an adult or YA novel (pretty sure it was an adult) about five or so sisters. I'm 93% certain it was magic realism. The author is a woman. The parents weren't around and/or dead, and the eldest sister got a Promotion to Parent very early on (possibly before the novel started). She worked, while the others were in high school and, I think, middle school. One of the sisters was rebellious, and one (probably the youngest) acted very dreamy. Butterflies might have played some kind of motif.
It was set somewhere in Europe.
Here's my only detailed memory of it: the oldest sister went out with a guy, a doctor, and at one point she decided to break her own hymen with a hairbrush handle so he would think she had some experience when they had sex. Yeah, I think that scene supplanted my memory of the title and author. Dangit, brain.
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No Title Literature
You're my last hope, TV Tropes! My description is extremely vague, because it's been a very long time since I read this novel. Here goes a long shot:
It's an adult or YA novel (pretty sure it was an adult) about five or so sisters. I'm 93% certain it was magic realism. The author is a woman. The parents weren't around and/or dead, and the eldest sister got a Promotion to Parent very early on (possibly before the novel started). She worked, while the others were in high school and, I think, middle school. One of the sisters was rebellious, and one (probably the youngest) acted very dreamy. Butterflies might have played some kind of motif.
It was set somewhere in Europe.
Here's my only detailed memory of it: the oldest sister went out with a guy, a doctor, and at one point she decided to break her own hymen with a hairbrush handle so he would think she had some experience when they had sex. Yeah, I think that scene supplanted my memory of the title and author. Dangit, brain.
Edited by TaffyCat
No Title Literature
A novel or novella written in the first person, entirely as one half of an interrogation. There are only two characters, both men, and the novel consists of everything one of the men says, and nothing of what the other says. As the interrogation progresses, the reader infers the unheard man's reactions and responses based on what the voiced character says.
I heard about this book through part of a lecture that was broadcast on TV Ontario last year. I think the book is set in the Middle East or in some other conflict zone. The original language might not be English. It sounds very intriguing... has anyone heard of it?
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Micronations documentary Film
A live documentary about the micronations of the world which aired live and featured the Islamic Sultanate of Qarsherskiy, Sealand, Molossia, and other well-known micronation.