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Saw this on cable sometime in the 90's. I think it was a 10-15 minute segment of a larger show. Anyway, the story is that some high-school kid is in chemistry class, messing around with some pink and blue chemicals. He accidentally spills just the right combination onto a magazine laying on the floor, and the chemicals landed on the picture of a dog, which made a real life dog appear. He realizes what happened, and what's the first thing he does? Takes the chemicals home and grabs as many magazines as he can containing supermodels so he can make himself a girlfriend. His first attempt created a woman so huge she couldn't fit in the room. The second attempt only created the top-half of a woman because that's all there was in the photo. And the final attempt worked perfectly, except that the kid's friend/roommate or whatever only proceeded to cock-block him and take his new woman.
I remember the whole plot, but can't think of the name of the episode/show. This has been bugging me forever.
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It was a kids show late 90's and 00's a kid could turn his arm into different things, it was sci-fi and had a Mcdonalds toy line that went with it. Saturday morning cartoon, I only saw one episode sorry I can't give any more.
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I have never watched Buffy, so can anyone find a Youtube upload of when Xander calls himself a Butt-Monkey? Or the origin of Insane Troll Logic?
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It was a live-action I-think-it-was-British kids adventure show about a boy who found this egg-like spaceship in the sewers which took him into another dimension, where there was this wise frog-man with telekinesis and a blue super-fast proud-warrior-race-guy who got colder from friction or something (and had to remain cold or he could die, which nearly happened in one episode) who both joined up with the boy on his quest to go home. Also the boy could cause "glitches" where he could exchange his limbs with those of the other two guys (and a few others, I think). And at the end of the series it turned out his mother wasn't dead, but she was from that alternate dimension and returned there. The bad guy for alot of the series was some kind of expy of Darth Vader.
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A CSI-like police procedural show where the main character is a detective (or captain, or lieutenant or whatever) who sees "ghosts" of the victim of the week. They aren't actual ghosts however, just hallucinations in the main character's head, so they can't tell him who the killer is until he figures it out himself, since he doesn't know. The ghost usually appears after he sees the face of the victim, and he talks with them to try to think out loud in order to figure out who the killer is. The 'ghosts' are aware that they are just constructs in his head, and they correct their behavior as he learns more about them. Since they are only in his head, other characters can't see these ghosts and he tries not to let anyone else know what is happening or they'll think he is crazy (I think he had already been taken off the force at one point due to a mental breakdown, possibly caused by the ghost thing, or maybe the ghost thing was a result of the mental breakdown.)
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A movie I saw on Disney Channel around the early-mid 2000s. It involved a Boogey Man kidnapping this teen girl's annoying little brother and her going after him. In one part of the movie, she talks to some black guy genie that gives her advice and she tells him to leave her because he's making her look crazy at a party.
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This was a show with puppets. The puppets were dogs and one of them was a little bit older or wiser than the other dogs and kind of looked like a cocker spaniel or a poodle. They did arts and crafts, I think, and I remember there was one big building they always used to be in, as well as the courtyard outside the building which had a couple of big trees and stuff all around. That's about as much as I can remember. Thanks guys.
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In the 90s (in Canada) I watched a kids' show with a recurring craft segment. A guy would come in on his bicycle (I think) with a bunch of "junk" (you know — pristine pie plates, unused coffee filters...) and proceed to make some kind of sculpture, like a robot head. There would be music, but he didn't explain the craft — it was just "watch me assemble these random things into something you'll eventually recognize". Kind of like Art Attack, but way less epic.
(This segment may have been part of a show with "hands" in the title. I seem to remember two shows with a similar "feel" to them airing one after the other — this was in one of them. Another scene I associate with one of the other of these shows is a regular meeting of adults and kids in a library for some kind of story time and/or book club.)
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God this has been killing me, and I know I didn't make this up...
I recall watching a show that probably aired 2000-2006, on ABC? I'm Australian btw. and I think it was on a segment called Rollercoaster.
Anyway, from what I recall, they were very short episodes featuring vegetables and fruits doing funky thing and making patterns in a kind of stop-motion way? if that makes sense. Like they were real vegies and fruits and they did stuff, and it was just pretty darn cool.
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I've asked this a couple times, and maybe it's been answered and deleted before I get back to it, but I've yet to see the answer so I'm asking again. I'm 99.9% sure that it's from an episode of Are You Afraid Of The Dark. There was a girl wearing a hooded cloak who had been trapped by the creepy evil villain in a cage. And when she refused to/couldn't do... something, the evil dude sent all sorts of creepy crawlies and bugs into her cage. The evil villain might have been part of a group, the something she protested to might have had to do with her brother, and I think the girl had long, curly brown hair. I saw it on a TV in a video rental store when I was four or five. Any ideas as to which episode this might be?
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Another one that just popped into my head: a boy and a girl, both around thirteen, fought baddies in blue and pink suits, respectively. The suits were one-pieces aside from the helmets, which had spikes (horns?) coming from where the eyebrows should have been. The boy had a bad haircut (parted down the middle, similar to Devon Sawa in Little Giants) and the girl always wore a baseball cap backwards. Any ideas?
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Okay, see if you can stick with me on this one. It's a kids show with a childlike elephant in a pink dress and an orange cat in overalls and red-and-yellow stripes, both played by people in costumes. There's a big red button in the middle of the floor—like, three-foot-high-platform big—which your not supposed to press, but someone does anyway. I think it was the cat, who was kind of an asshole. The button causes a power outage.
I only ever saw that one episode, but it was implied that a different bad thing happens each time the button is pressed, and it always is.
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Not actually Live Action really, a commercial. I would really appreciate it if someone else remembers the commercial for some CD set where some guy in sunglasses does a back flip out of a plane yelling, "IT'S AWESOME!" I know it was something like buzz ballads or monster ballads or something along those lines, but I can't remember which nor can I find the video on youtube.
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This show was about a kid genius who threw together invisibility-spray in his garden shed. The invisibility-fluid was always stored in neon-yellow containers and kinda glittered when sprayed, anything that came in contact with it would turn invisible until it was splashed with water.
They boy would use it for gerenal mieschief, I specifically remember one episode where he used it to turn a bench invisibel and then used it as a stepping stone during a school long jump tournament. He confessed to the principal about cheating ,but didn't explain how exactly, and the principal gueesed, among other things, rocket boots.
Later, there was a plot about a low criminal stealing some invisibility-fluid and using it for robberies, and some eeeevil corporate man stealing it and wanting to sell it.
Also, they main-boy was really good at chess and had an indian friend who also knew about the invisibility.
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There was this 70s-80s paramedics/rescue show which was NOT Emergency. Its title in Spanish was "SOS Central de Urgencias". I'd like to know its original name and more details.
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A movie or Made-for-TV Movie, for which I have a very hazy memory of a weird scene I saw many years ago. Stumbled on it while zapping.
I know for sure it was not some kind of snuff porn or something because it was in the afternoon on a non-cable channel (not to mention I was like 10 at th time), but it shown a man plotting a murder, and then having an Imagine Spot of him murdering what looked like his (ex?)wife and two daughters by hanging (fully clothed). The scene had that kind of picture deformation and sound echo that makes it clear it's an Imagine Spot or dream. Very weird.
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BBC (probably) drama about a rock star type character who is staying in a small town recording a new album in a studio. He meets a woman and seduces her. The husband/boyfriend finds out and the girl runs off with the rock star at the end. The one line I remember specifically is when he convinces the girl to try smoking weed, he says "Purple Haze isn't about air freshener you know."
Probably late 90's, early 2000's. Don't know why but I picture the woman being Billie Piper, although i'm sure it isn't. I think it was just a one off, as opposed to a series but details are extremely hazy.
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There was a series, I think, about 2 siblings who have this crazy time travel device that lets them transport important historical figures through to their time, who then help the kids in various? problems? I saw this show a couple of times in the early 2000's, but the title always escapes me.
Help?
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Date range: late 90s or early 2000s I think. Likely either a Canadian or American show.
Basically, there's this guy who gets tomorrow's newspapers delivered today, and he tries to save people from the tragedies reported in them. And I think the reason he gets them is because of a cat (was it magical?).
That's about all I've got, really.

I'm looking for a show probably from the late 90's or early 2000's. The only episode I remember is about the female main character and her boyfriend(?) who discover this woman's plot to turn people into dogs through this red/pink liquid. The boy is turned into a dog along with a bunch of other characters and the girl finds a way to change them back. I remember when she turned the boy back she poured the liquid in his water bowl and threw his clothes at him so she wouldn't see him naked. At the end they turn the evil lady into a dog using her own potion-thingy and she remarks that she "never really liked being human anyway." I saw this when I was around 5 or 6, so my memory is a bit fuzzy. I'm pretty sure everything is accurate, but please don't rule anything out if it sounds vaguely similar.
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