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resolved SpongeBob image origin Western Animation
What Spongebob episode is this image from? I found it floating around Reddit a few weeks back.
resolved Romance (?) novelist Literature
A while back, I remember watching this documentary series on a romance/mystery novelist that I can't remember the name of. All that I remember is that she was a British woman, and that her works were most popular in the 1980s. I also remember her sister was a popular-ish actress who also decided to write books in the same vein to cash in on her sister's success.
Anyone have a clue as to who she was?
resolved Kids go into the TV Live Action TV
I remember this old Discovery Kids show where a group of siblings end up inside the TV and find their favourite personalities, who all happen to be rude and fake.
- The girl admired an newscaster who just happened to alwasy use greenscreen for her reports.
- The boy admired some famous atlete promoting milk, when he doesn't even like milk.
- The kid admired some private eye who never made his own stunts.
resolved Album cover Music
Album cover with a girl smiling and looking up? I think she had black hair or something. From the 90s
Edited by sassyelliott2403openShort story about a husband who killed his wife Literature
I read this story in an anthology and don't know if it's part of something longer or a short standalone. Original language is probably english (I read a translation and don't know if it's a British or an American story)
The story was told by the husband's friend, reminiscing about him. The narrator explains how he always used to be boisterous and a bit uncaring and probe to lose his temper. Then they lost sight of one another and when they met again the man was a shell of his former self. He seemed to have no energy anymore and he never lost his temper - except once when he saw a young boy taunting a girl and making fun of her for scaring easily. The narrator then proceeds to explain this change: he had gone away with his wife (can't remember if it was for a vacation or a job) in another country (probably India but can't remember). He loved his wife but was always making fun of her for scaring easily. At some point he got really annoyed because everything seemed to scare her so he decided to teach her a lesson. He made a model of a fake snake and left it in the living room. At some point he went away leaving his wife alone and closed the door behind him. He heard her screaming and knew she had seen the snake. He let her scream a bit and stopped the servants trying to get in because he wanted her to calm down. His intention was to go back in a while and show her she had been scared of nothing - maybe even laugh about it. His wife stopped screaming and he went in only to find out a real snake had crawled inside and attacked her. He killed the snake but it was too late to save his wife and he knew she could have been saved if he had gone in when she first screamed instead of wasting time being a jerk. Since then he had completely changed as the narrator had noted at the beginning.
resolved Lightning strike music video Music
I found a bunch of gifs clipped from a music video that I suspect is from around late 1980s/early 1990s.
It appears to be a guy with long hair and a red bandana, playing an orange V-shaped guitar, on top of a skyscraper at "night" and a specisl effects lightning strike comes down behind him.
I found the gifs on Whats App under "fall down hole" but I couldn't find anything searching just that. Any thoughts?
openWhere's this guy from?
So I have this avatar in my gallery and I Don't know who he is or where he's from. Anybody else know?
openAPP 2000s/10s song with male vocalist and guitar, one lyric ended with “Tonight” Music
It wasn’t a super upbeat and poppy song, was probably very well-known since it played on a station with other hits. It kind of had similar vibes to Lifehouse but it wasn’t them.
The lyrics were about a relationship I think, and it mentioned doing something with the partner “tonight”.
Edit: Tonight wasn’t the main focus of the song, it was the relationship
Edited by EeveeTraineropenComic strip set in Canada Print Comic
I'm looking for a newspaper comic set in Canada.
The set up is that an American man married a Canadian woman and had a son and they decide to move to Canada and live with her father.
A lot of the humor derived from the American finding life in Canada to be strange and clashing with his father-in-law because of it.
resolved heartwarming movie Film
I'm looking for a movie where the main characters are an older man and a young man, probably late teens. the younger man has some problems and bonds with the older man. I think it's a pretty well known movie but I completely forgot what it's called
openFilm with Snake Charmer Film
I remember watching a trailer (or possibly a review or preview) in either the late 90s or the early 2000s, I don't remember much from it, but I remember two things vaguely. One being a (bearded?) Snake Charmer who gets kissed by the snake, the other being some kind of living gruel or other foodstuff or sludge. (Or maybe I'm wring and that's from a different film). I remember it being comedic. Anyone got an idea what I remember? (I don't think it's The Master of Disguise.)
openConstruction Video From Childhood
Hey guys, I have some random images in my head of a video I remember from many, many years ago. It must have been intended for either pre-schoolers or elementary aged kids, and I believe we had it on VHS and got rid of it long ago.
Here is what I remember from it: The video was all about heavy equipment / large construction vehicles (real ones, NOT animated), and there was at least one of most anything that had wheels or treads... there were bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, backhoes, cranes, etc. They were all lined up in a line at the start of a day, and I think somebody would announce a job for the day, and whichever vehicles were required rolled out from this line, ready to go tackle the day's work. There was definitely music associated with this, I feel like all the big machines had deep, throaty voices that sort of hummed along as they worked (the machines were able to talk). People did not play a role in this as far as I remember, it was just the machines interacting with one another. I think the storyline went like this: all of these big machines are working away, and then suddenly everything starts running out of fuel, only a couple of vehicles remain with any fuel left. One was the crane with the magnet, and he was carrying the key... I think to let the refueling truck in or something? But then he runs out of fuel, the magnet demagnetizes, and the key gets dropped onto this conveyor belt that is headed for a grinder or scrap or something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
openPokemon/Yugioh-like Action Adventure Fantasy Print Comic
I remember reading a comic about a young man wearing a headband finding a strange carved stone in the shape of an angel lady during one of his venture to the forest outside his village. Fast forward and his village was attacked by people looking for that stone, and in a fit of desperation cast/summon the spirit/beast/entity inside the stone to protect himself. The way to summon them is to hold the stone tight and call their name, and the protagonist learned that he has to listen to the entity's true name to properly summon them. I think it's Lucinda or some majestic-sounding name. The dust sleeve is brown/black with only the title of the series printed vertically.
It's perhaps of Japanese or Korean origin, maybe its' related to an MMORPG too but I'm not sure. It's a pretty niche, I think. So I know what the cover and the story is but I don't know what's the title of the comic and perhaps you guys would know.
resolved Looking for TV Show (spoilers for show included)
It was I believe a Hong Kong show, but it could be Taiwan too (it's been some years since I found it) though I could be wrong. It had four main characters - an older gentleman who's wife ended up getting arrested, a token female character, a more comedic member of the team who could lip read and had a condition where he would go temporarily deaf (?), and a suspect of the first case who was a boyfriend of the victim but ended up joining the group after. He ends up dating the female lead, but they break up and she ends up with the other guy. I know it was on Netflix (US) but I'm pretty sure was taken off. Does anyone know the name?
Edited by WhoThey7openDad was an astronaut named Donor Live Action TV
I think this was live-action, from series or film. Possibly a murder mystery.
What I remember is some character was regularly dunked on by their mother for not being as good as their awesome (astronaut, scientist, etc.) father. And at some point it's revealed "in some papers I found my father's name, it's a funny name: 'Donor'.", implying the mother had actually gone to a sperm bank to acquire a DNA sample.
openno idea, sorry Film
it was a korean series on netflix, except it had only 3 episodes and it's not in my list anymore, so i think it was removed. It had themes of suicide and mental health, which korean shows tend to do really well which is why i was intrested in it. I believe the three episodes were three seperate stories, but i may be wrong about that, sorry if it's not much, it was a while ago and i really can't remember
openPlay with specific line about God asleep Literature
I once found a play that had a line by a character than went like this:
"Once God fell asleep, and Gorm was born."
Gorm not being the right name of the character, since I cannot really remember; the actual name was just something in that direction.
The plot, as I can recall it, was something about this Gorm being a bad person (maybe some bandit or lord?). There are two other characters at least, who are "good", but don't know what they did besides commiserate. Gorm possibly repents at the end of the play, but I might just be making that up.
It was probably already in the public domain, since I could access it fairly easily. I thought it might be Chesterton, but it does not seem to be the case; there might be some Christian association with it though.

I remembered watching a video where they made fun of the Conversation Cut they had a car they drove between places and they were planning a robbery or maybe an assassination. Also I remember they were eating a twizzler during the part where they asked to like and subscribe and that part was also in the form of a Conversation Cut