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openThe Magic Unicorn (?) Film
I was reminded recently of a movie called The Last Unicorn, which in turn reminded me of a VHS tape my sister had. Probably a mockbuster of The Last Unicorn, maybe called The Magic Unicorn.
The bizarre think about this movie is that it didn't match the VHS box art. The box art looked contemporary, while the film itself looked like it was animation from the 40s (by my estimation as a child.)
So perhaps it was less of a mockbuster and was just an opportunistic rerelease.
And the unicorn in the movie was white, while the unicorn on the box was pink, or vice versa.
It was an Aladin type story about a pauper wooing a princess with the help of a magical being.
I only remember one scene where the pauper had to bathe in a cauldron of boiling water, either as punishment or to prove something, I don't remember why. The unicorn turned the water tepid. But weirdly, it also turned the water rainbow-coloured, which no one somehow noticed.
This would've been the late 80s or early 90s.
openBook about fantasy world with a light based power system Literature
The book is about a tower in a dark world and the inhabitants use light magic and it is ranked according to the light spectrum (with red being the lowest). They also have shadows they can control.
resolved A new year film filled with rock star tropes Film
I am trying to remember about a film that is made in The '70s with a story when a big wild party is built with some blues and rock bands, the things I remember are:
- A big bathroom filled with mess and drugs (even there is a gigantic heroin syringe moving around)
- A blues band composed by orthodox jews that, after the party, end up really messed
- A rock band with a vocalist that leaves the gig to have sex with his groupie (while leaving the drummer to perform a very long drum solo) just to find her having sex with one of the main characters, this leads to some drama and to have the vocalist leaving the gig for good by entering a bathroom when he starts talking with his penis that encourages him to restart from zero.. (while the drummer ends banging the drums with his head)
openThis song that might have had something to do with Attack On Titan?
I saw a song on youtube that had a part that went something like "make the world (or people?) safe for every boy and every girl until there's no monster left in the world".
It might have had something to do with Attack on Titan, an english cover or a fan song or something, but i couldn't find it by searching that.
The singing and music style was pretty intense. The specific lyrics video i watched propably had a red background?
resolved Children's Picture Book with Man in Wheelchair Literature
It's a children's picture book, but the main character is an adult male. I believe he's a teacher and I think he and the other characters are anthropomorphic animals of some sort, though I wouldn't 100% swear to that. If I had to guess, I wouldn't say it was a very old book either, probably no earlier than the 90s at the earliest. In the story, the character is newly in a wheelchair and somewhat depressed and out of sorts. With help from his students, friends and family, he gets back into his normal routine. Sound familiar to anyone?
resolved Song with these lyrics
The repeating part had "(Something) will wander, (something) will wonder" or possibly the other way around, the somethings were different and both were in plural, but for the life of me i can't remember what those two words were (i thought "eyes", but didn't get search results).
There was also two (i think) other sentences in the repeating part after the two lines i kind of remember. It may have addressed somebody or something and tokd it to do something?
I have a vague idea of the singing style and rhythm, but i don't know how to explain it or what genre it might fall into. It was on the faster/more intense side? But propably not metal? Definitely not techno or a romance song either. Male singer.
I propably heard it on youtube.
Edited by NukeliopenCartoon episode where the sphinx was blown onto the Great Pyramid Western Animation
For some reason, for a long time I've had a memory of seeing an episode of a cartoon where at one point (due to massive, destructive wind?) the Sphinx was blown off of its foundation and sent flying, only to catch on top of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
The image I have in my head is, I think, of animation from the 70s (Superfriends, maybe?), and while I'm fully open to the possibility it was just my imagination, I'd like to be able to track this sequence down if it in fact exists.
openBook about a little boy magically turning into an excavator Literature
I didn't actually read this book myself, but overheard it being mentioned in my dad's phone call with my granddad.
So apparently there was a children's book about some boy who loved playing in the dirt and somehow magically turned into an excavator, and... that's about all I know, aside from these points:
- My grandfather himself does not remember the book's name (he said that to Dad).
- It was ambiguous whether he was referring to a book from his own childhood, something from my father's childhood (Dad doesn't know of/remember it at all though), or something my very young cousin (visiting him) liked to have read to him.
- It's not some weird misremembering of Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel. That book is beloved in my family, and it was Dad mentioning Mulligan that got him to bring up this book in the first place.
- At the end, it MIGHT have turned out to be the boy's dream. Don't quote me on this though.
- It's not one of those Boy Who Turns Into a Truck books.
- I tried looking it up but didn't get anything, but I've learned (from the time I was asked to find a specific book for that same cousin) that a lot of kids' books just don't show up when you try to put their plot synopsis into Google. Unless it's popular, you need a title or to get lucky with phrasing.
I've told my dad to ask my grandfather for more details the next time he calls him.
openTeenage Nerd Crush Literature
It's set in a high school. This nerdy shy kid has a huge a crush on this girl but they've never spoken, She doesn't know who he is, until at some point where they somehow meet.
I remember one part where the boy sneaks over to her house to talk to her, and he looks through her window and sees her lying on her bed in her underwear reading a book and I think he blushes because of that. Then I think she somehow notices him and goes over to talk maybe?
I don't really remember but I think the cover was a lime green color with modern/minimalistic art.
resolved Game about working in a giant robot controlled warehouse Videogame
You're the only human left in the warehouse and you're on a hovering scooter thing, you wanna see your family again but you have to complete your job first. I know it exists I just can't find it.
openWhat Pokemon episode is this? Anime
On the Heartwarming page for Pokémon, there's an entry that's referring to one of the episodes from the anime. Now, this entry should be on the Heartwarming page for the anime, but it doesn't specify what episode it's from. This an issue because the page is organized by season, and the entry itself doesn't have enough details for me to clearly label what episode it's from.
- Some extra Team Rocket Heartwarming (they sure do it a lot): In one episode, James nearly gets himself killed by trying to capture a rare and powerful Pokémon on his own, and while Jessie comes to rescue him, they both end up getting trapped by the raging Pokémon. Resigned to the fact that they're going to die, Jessie tells James that, if there's an afterlife, she wants to meet him again there. This actually makes the terrified James smile, knowing that he and his best friend won't separate even in death. Luckily, they end up getting saved by Meowth, but still.
- Even sweeter because Meowth and Jessie, discouraged by their bad luck, had just abandoned James to go pursue careers. He was extremely upset, but as soon as they found out he was in trouble they ran to rescue him. Then they teamed up again. Status Quo Is God, but still, awww.
If anyone knows which episode this is from, then I can move it to the respective folder on the anime page. I can't really message the person who added it either, since it predates the edit history. At best, I can say it predates the XY anime, since the page history goes back to 2011, which is while the Black and White anime was airing.
openA song that i preformed with the whole school in elementary school Music
When I was in grade 1, in the year 2006, our school did a parade, and at the end after it we preformed a song. The parade was themed to the earth. The only lyrics to the song I remember are, there so much we need to do to do to pitch in on our home. But the lyric might have been world.
Edited by zxdert123openFolk story about evil wizard miller Literature
I read on Tv Tropes or Wikipedia about folk story where there was a mill no one went to (and i think it said nobody who did go returned), whose miller did some kind of dark magic or he might've been a demon or the devil. I don't remember if the hero was male or female, but the miller propably died at the end somehow.
I vould have sworn the title was "The Black Mill", but i can't find anything by that name...
Edited by Nukeliopen2000s anime with monster exorcising -- with a reference to Japanese mythology Anime
While rereading my query for a cartoon that turned out to be Mix Master
, I remembered another anime I saw in the same time and place.
I remember not finding this anime cool back then, for some reason. Once again, it had at least an Italian dub, which was broadcast in 2009.
It was probably a fantasy setting. There's only one of the heroes I remember in some capacity, and it's an angel/cupid girl, wielding a bow and arrow that gets used to exorcise/purify the Monster of the Week. The villains included a old crone-like witch, and an ugly, goblinish critter doing Pokémon Speak.
There's one thing that really stood out to me, though, and that's a reference to an event from Japanese Mythology, where a hairless hare kami tried to cross a river by jumping on the backs of either sharks or crocodiles. This is also why I'm confident it was a proper Japanese anime, instead of merely Animesque.
By the way, the reason I could recognize that reference to Japanese mythology, is that I had a book when I was a kid that collected various myths and legends from around the world, and one of them was the same Japanese kami trying to cross river tale.
resolved Flash webcomic with a character named Mr. Inverted Webcomic
I know someone who REALLY likes a character named Mr. Ivan Inverted, a white humanoid Sharp-Dressed Man. However, for some reason she won’t tell me where he is from. All I know is that he’s from a (old?) flash webcomic/animation (probably combining both flash and webcomic, similar to Homestuck). There’s also a pissed off looking girl wearing a cloak with blond hair and green eyes who Inverted teleports somewhere. The art style and animation is rather crude, looks like it was made in the late 90’s/early 00’s and the person told me the comic was “pretty much lost media”. Any help would be appreciated, maybe it’s somewhere deep in the webcomics index but I don’t know the name of the comic.
Edited by MochaSlushesopenOld story about soup and a carbuncle Literature
My friend told me that he remembers from his school days (in the 1990s) a story that he says was from The Canterbury Tales. The story told of a cook who had a disgusting sore on his body that was called a "carbuncle", and this cook was famous for making a creamy potato soup. But the cook's patrons avoided the soup because it looked like the pus oozing from the sore in the cook's body.
He insists that the sore was described with the word carbuncle. I tried searching for this and I can find nothing. I think some of the details of my friend's account are mistaken because The Canterbury Tales is from the 14th century and potatoes are from the Americas, which means they would have been unknown in Europe at that time.
Can someone help me find an old tale about a cook with a carbuncle on his body?
EDIT: After more searching I found that the Cook from The Canterbury Tales is described as having a disgusting sore on his leg, and the Summoner is described as having a carbuncle on his face. I can still find no mention of a person who is put off by the resemblance of the Cook's creamy soup having a resemblance to oozing pus though.
Edited by FerrousFaucetopenOld Edutainment Game that Took Place in a Circus Videogame
I'm trying to remember this one computer game I used to play on Windows 7 when I was little. All I remember is that:
- It took place in a circus
- The circus served as the main menu, showing a list of all available minigames
- The "leave game" button was represented by a clown icon
- The only minigame I remember was when you control a mouse with a mouse (get it?) to navigate a maze to get cheese
- It's not Math Circus or JumpStart 3 Ring Circus. Nor is it Putt Putt Joins The Circus
Sidenote: I think the game was a sequel to another edutainment game that was animal-themed and both games (I think?) shared the same credits music.
I know this is awfully specific but I hope it's not lost media or something I made up back in the day.
Edited by SleepingStarAikunoopenLate 90s/early '00s anthology series Live Action TV
I've been trying to find a specific episode in an anthology series I used to watch when I was younger - I thought it was Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone but I've never been able to find the episode I was looking for by searching through those shows.
From what I can remember of the episode, it involved a group of college students (or maybe late high school?) Camping or something, and they end up in a cave where they find a bowl or chalice filled with blood. They accidentally spill it and seem to get stuck in perpetual night.
I think it ended with them killing one of their friends to refill the thing with blood, but the ending is ambiguous on if it worked.
IF anyone knows which episode this was, or even what anthology series it was in, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I may be misremembering some thing, but the bowl/chalice of blood and them having to sacrifice someone to refill it are definitely correct.
EDIT: After checking for the 500th time, it actually is the twilight zone - the episode is Sunrise, from the 2002 series.
Edited by phantomlink959

I remember a film about a group of mercenaries looking for gold in an asiatic setting, one of them gets shot and, after some days, he got gangrene, so their partners had to amputate it, he feels angry (thinking that his partners want to run with the treasure without him), so a woman decides to give him some sexual pleasure in front of his father... he decides to stay with those people in the end..
Edited by Travsam