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openTv show where character is trying to remember stuff Live Action TV
I’m trying to remember the name of a tv show where one of the characters is trying to remember something (I know, it’s ironic.)
I’m pretty sure that whenever the character remembers something he/she always says the line “I remember something!”
I’m not even sure if this is a movie or a tv show because it’s been so long since I have seen it and I don’t remember anything apart from that.
Thanks!
open2000's hbo kids show about ghost hunting Live Action TV
so there was this show that always startedwith this guy talking about the contestants and the locationand there always two kids per episode and they had to draw straws whoever drew the shorter straw went in first while the other one waited in a van but what happened was they went into these haunted places and whichever kid staid inside the longest would go up a spot to the next person in the chalengeand at the end of each season there was a championship one episode i remeber took place at a lighthouse and the first kid left within the first five minutes
openNon-English New Girl Kids Show Live Action TV
This was a kids (probably aimed at preteens) show which probably aired in the mid to late 2000's. It might have aired on Disney or some other channel. A new Poor Ugly Duckling (glasses, braces, blonde hair in pigtails) move to town with her single mother. She hasn't ever met her father. Falls for the Popular Guy (not sure if he was popular) who is the Rich Mean Girl's boyfriend or something. The usual stuff goes down and there's a costume party for everyone. The love interest and rich girl are wearing Mickey and Minnie themed costumes. I don't remember the main character's. Her mom was dressed as Batwoman or Catwoman or something close. There's a guy dressed as her male counterpart who may have been the mean girl's dad ( I don't remember correctly). The mom used to sing a melody the mysterious dad used to sing. The main character once went to the house of the Batman guy and heard him singing and playing the same tune on the piano. It may have been the other way round, but it was definitely in the guy's house. He was strongly hinted to be her father and was probably the mean girl's father, too. And that is when the show stopped airing in my country (after the costume party). I remember the main character being shown riding a bicycle in the opening theme. It was a drama and I don't think it featured much comedy. The kids were in their early or mid teens.
openDo you remember what this is from? Live Action TV
Ok so im fairly certain this was live tv. It was probably 90s, but it could of been 80s. Theres a bunch of people sitting in some diner and a man goes to the entrance and opens the door to reveal they are in outer space. Do you remember what this was from?
Edited by VulgarVespineopenTV SHOW Live Action TV
I once watched an episode of a TV show and cannot seem to remeber enough details to find it on my own. The episode went like this: There were teenagers (I believe 4 or 5?) and their parents, all lived in a small town (I believe). In the particular episode I watched, two of the teenagers (girl was blonde) that were in a relationship went to a small wooden home (it was also snowing I think), to have sex for the first time. They try it an night, but she got scared and cried, so they just slept. The next morning, they had sex afterall. When the girl went home to her family, her parents asked how she was (they knew she had had sex, but she wasn't aware of it) and they were glad it went okay. On that scene, she was wearing a brown turtleneck. On the same episode, her friend (I believe she had brown hair) gets tested to see if she also has a hereditary disease her dad has. The doctor tells her that in the case she doesn't have it she could have survivor's guilt, but she already knew about it. Turns out she didn't have it. PLEASE HELP!! IT'S BEEN 8 FUCKING YEARS I NEED TO KNOW!!! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
openTV Show where the internet turns into an AI. Live Action TV
It was a show where some kid theorized the internet would at one point turn into an AI. As in a singularity would just form, and it eventually did. He gets the help along with some girl he likes to fight off the AI. I can't remember the show's name and google has helped nothing.
openWWhats this show Live Action TV
There was an episode of a popular tv show/movie that I watched where a girl was doing a privilege walk, or something similar to one, and she kept taking too many steps forward, to emphasis points, so one of the principals/teachers supervising took her away from the other students to talk with her. about any problems she may be having and to behave accordingly? Any help would be greatly appreciated
openSci fi show I think? Live Action TV
I don't remember much just that it was a kind of live action show I saw once around 98 or early 2000. There was like a teen main character and he fought aliens and he came back to earth sometimes . And other times he was on different planets. He was able to turn his arms into weapons and other things. I sort of remember one episode where he accidentally turned one arm into a fruit ? I've been looking for it for hours now because I randomly thought about it and now I need to know what it was called . Thanks in advance if you somehow know what I'm talking about .
openOnly remember one episode Live Action TV
Okay, there's a detective and they get a case about a man who died in an oven explosion. The man however was protected from the torso up by a fridge. His body was missing his legs. They looked into the man and found he had two houses with two wives who didn't know about the other. He also worked for the tax company and was secretly tracking a bomber (the same one that killed him) through the tax system. They then learned the bomber would attack soon and ended up stopping him. That's the episode but I can't remember what show it was, someone watched this and remember it?
openShow about a Mummy man? Live Action TV
On YTV, in the late 90's/early 00's. He was a king, lived in this family's attic, and he was kind of a jerk. He was supposed to do some Important Thing, or be forever unable to pass on properly.
openScene Where Woman Kisses Man on Hospital Bed Live Action TV
I distinctly remember a scene where the woman is happy about something or proud of her husband/boyfriend, and she jumps on him and kisses him as he’s in a hospital bed. The woman’s coworkers/friends run out to give them “privacy”. Soon after, if I remember right, the couple gets into a fight and breaks up. I could have sworn it was from Parks and Recreation, but I can’t find it anywhere! Help!
Edited by Andalite911openweird sci-fi made for tv movie space opera Live Action TV
Well I'm not sure if is an unpicked pilot for a tv series or a made for TV movie. It was a typical sci-fi space opera with The Federation (in this case called the Galactic Republic I think, and no, not the Star Wars one) with Rubber-Forehead Aliens. The main bad guys were Nosferatu-looking aliens dress on black, with white hairless skin and fangs, who forbid all forms of physical contact and brainwash human children into becoming like them. All their leaders were kept alive inside some sort of Body Horror blop.
Edited by LuppercusopenWeird comedy skit Live Action TV
So I remember watching this show a couple years back, but I can't remember what it was called. It was on one of the big kids channels, (Nick, Disney, or Cartoon Network, I'm not sure) and was super weird. I only remember three 'skits', one where the main cast is talking about 'farts in a jar', one scene in the style of found footage where two bigfoots get married, and one where the main cast is given rings and they become floating heads. And that's about all I remember.
open1990s TV movie about time-traveler in transforming car Live Action TV
Okay, I remember seeing this in the early 1990s or so. I watched two scenes before changing the channel. A guy is time traveling with some kind of special car that can transformed by these kids at a computer in modern day. His adventures all seem to be car-related.
He goes back to 1800s Germany and meets Mercedes Jellinek, namesake for Mercedes-Benz. Then he ends up in the 1950s being taunted by a bunch of teenagers in T-bucket hot rod, so the kids at the computer transform his car into a Lamborghini and he blows their doors off.
Only other thing I remember is the car is always white no matter what it gets changed into. This probably came out after "Quantum Leap" and definitely before "The Matrix."
Edited by DarkwingDorkopenMy mom and I saw an episode and really liked it but didn't know what it was called. Live Action TV
We never saw the title anywhere, not even in the end credits. It is modern day and the main character is a mom. In the episode we saw, both plots center around gay people. The lady is convinced her brother is gay and so is the audience. She is very supportive, and expects him to come out any day. Then one day he as to talk to get about something. It is a very funny bait and switch. He is not gay, but wants to get together with his best friend's former girlfriend. In the other subplot, the mom characters young daughter has a classmate who has been adopted by a lesbian couple. The two children go on a couple playdates while the mom and her husband get to know the lesbian couple better, but it turns out the couple is a pair of assholes who let their kid do whatever he wants so he is really mean, and go all "are you repressing my child?" when someone asks them to control him. The kids is allowed to hot his parents and also hours the little girl. None of the other parents in the class are willing to call the lesbian couple out because even though they are horrible, the person who calls them out will probably be called homophobic. It's Better Than It Sounds, I swear.
openSomething about a fridge? Live Action TV
I remember watching an episode of a tv show (pretty sure it was a sitcom) where the characters are competing in a store like home depot to win a fridge. There's one part where a character picks someone to compete with which disappoints another character, and that's about all I can remember.
openWay Out, Anyone? Live Action TV
A graphic anthology show in the vein of The Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It had more gut wrenching stories than the two I mentioned: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054574/
openAnyone remember this kids tv show? Live Action TV
Ok so this is going to be a hard one. I remember clips of this show in my head, it was something me and my sister watched. I was born in the mid 1990s so the show could have aired anywhere between then and lets say 2005. I don't think the show was on for a long time or I just stopped watching it. I don't remember the name and I don't remember the channel. Heres what I remember. I'm pretty sure the show revolved around a family, father, mom, daughter, and son (for some reason I remember him clearly, he was younger, 13 tops, he had dark brown hair and glasses). It was a more supernatural based episode. Like in one of the episodes the kid is kidnapped by a frog and starts getting turned into one, like I remember an image of him lying an exam table in white room with sensors attached to his stomach, which was starting to turn green. In another episode I remember that part of the family is kidnapped and trapped inside of an hourglass that is slowly being filled with sand. In another episode the mom is possessed by an ancient egyptian, or a which? and starts going a little crazy. Like I can remember her lying in bed and being surrounded by plants. In another episode the families dog is turned into a dinosaur, or just like a really big monster/big dog. I'm sorry I know this sounds weird but thats like all I can remember, anyone have an idea of what I'm talking about? It was a live action show.
openPlastic Surgery Reality TV Live Action TV
I watched it a couple of years ago, it was about a cosmetic clinic and the drama surrounding the workers. The plastic surgeon was an Asian guy. One of the character's name was Alexandria or Alexandra, and I remember she got veneers in one episode. Another main focus was on the receptionist, who was repeatedly scolded for being unprofessional and having a messy desk. It's not much but it was mostly workers drama etc.

I am trying to remember a TV show I watched as a kid. I remember it being a supernatural show, the main character was a girl, I'm pretty sure, and I remember a few details from some episodes: 1. There was an episode where I think they were playing with a ouiji board, and the name Chad kept coming up for this girl. She looked at her high school records and there was no boy named Chad there. But then one day she is assigned to write a school paper on the country Chad. 2. There was an episode where her bother (maybe?) hits a golf ball through the neighbor window, and he doesn't tell anyone, and it began to haunt him, the window looked like it was an eyeball staring at him, and one night he hears a golf ball upstairs, it comes downstairs and rolls next to him, and it's an eyeball, and then hundreds of golf balls appears and he gets buried in them. He then realizes it was an illusion. 3. There was an episode where the girl is caught in a time loop, on vacation I think. The family stops at a quick stop, and this is the time loop part. Her mom goes to throw away trash, but the bag breaks. Her brother gets his foot caught on something, at the same time the RV loses its breaks and starts rolling backwards. They stop the RV before it runs him over in plenty of time. They leave the pit stop, start driving again, only to come upon the same pit stop and the same things happen. The events keep getting worse, with the RV getting closer and closer to running over the kid. That's all I can remember from the tv show. I've been racking my brain trying to remember what show it is but to no avail. Would love to finally stop trying to figure this out. Any ideas of what this TV show was?