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Looking for TWO pages about websites:
1) You Tube channel about four/five "critics" who review stuff. All I know is that one of them (a woman) was absent for several videos for being too violent.
2) Website about a reviewer who reviews movies. All I know about him is that he really hates The Lion King!!!
Please somebody help me!!!
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Im trying to find a comic version of Faust. Not sure if it was in Heavy Metal, but it was definitely in an anthology. It showed the story of Faust through the eyes of his servant who he promises to free to become a student at university while he is under sway of Mephistopheles whom he summons through the dark arts. But of course it isn't the already tainted soul of Faust, Meph is after, but that of his virgin and saintly male servant, who of course, loves his master. Meph offers to release Faust, for that of the servants soul. Great artwork, have no clue who wrote it or inked
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I'm trying to find this great show that aired on G4 a few years back. All I can remember is that it was kinda like a Soap Opera/Comedy, and that it mixed live action with footage from different video games, mostly MMO's.
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Reposted from another Forum.....hoped folks nerdlier than I could assist.
From the NYC area back in the late 80s, VERY early 90s, possibly only 1990.
I guess it technically wasn't really a show, but more like bumpers introducing movies and such on WWOR channel 9 before it was a network affiliate. Although it could've been some other channel, either WPIX 11 or Fox 5, but I doubt it was on channel 5.
In any case, the guy was a mad scientist, and he would do stupid things before introducing the movie outright or coming back from commercial. He had a mute executioner/hangman named Chompsley or something.
I had a tape of the original Godzilla (the American version intersplicing Raymond Burr) and I remember it so vividly but I can't seem to find any info on it now.
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A science fiction that I read the back-cover of about of the book six or seven years ago. I remember that a character was a dancer, probably ballerina. There was a disease/virus/ability that causes one person to take away a sense from another person. The opening scene was a dance teacher helping a student and the student starts screaming that she can't feel her leg or some other part of her anatomy. The teacher took away her sense of touch. I'm pretty sure the teacher faced being locked-up or killed, because the ability to take away a sense from someone is such a threat. That's all I remember.
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This was a movie, I think. I watched it on video in class at some point during elementary school, so early '90s and definitely not any later than 1995. (This was in the US.) It featured a boy without a mother, who lived in a village near a big lake. It turns out that, when his mother was pregnant with him, there was a famine in the village. She caught three (I think?) fish from the lake, but instead of sharing them among the whole village, she was so hungry from her pregnancy that she ate two herself. As punishment, she was turned into this giant sea serpent thing that lived in the lake and - if I'm recalling correctly - sort of resembled a Chinese dragon. The boy finds out and interacts with her. I can't remember much of the plot after this, but I know she dies, possibly because the lake dries up. I remember a shot of him sitting with her on the dried lake bed, and a shot of her dessicated form. I don't remember how it ends, though I think she may have come back to life as a woman.
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Does anyone remember an anime with the main character being a boy with blonde(I think) hair whose father was a writer, he gets sucked into a fantasy world in which he finds a cave with a treasure hunting witch in it trying to open the treasure inside the cave. He opens the chest and inside is a large sphere like weapon that can talk.
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A science documentary show from the mid to late 90's. I think it aired on PBS in the morning sometime during the weekend, and we might have watched it once or twice in school. The only thing I can remember is the opening credits, which featured a red parrot flying through a series of white rooms with a wooden floor, like a museum, and on the walls were pictures/videos/sculptures of various nature/sciencey things like volcanoes erupting or crashing waves. At the end of the opening, I think the parrot flew into a room with a big globe, where it zoomed into the title. Also, for some reason I think it had something to do with National Geographic. Help?
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Has anyone heard of a card game (a playing card one) played with multiple decks that involves twelve different levels with different requirements (a run, a set ,etc) where the goal is to get rid of all your cards and be the first to complete the levels? I think it has a name like "lumchuck" but the internet has no record of it.
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I'm looking for the name of a Discovery Channel special that aired sometime around 1996 or 1996. It was about Cambrian life, particularly those found in the Burgess Shale. They talked about opabinia a lot in particular, as well as anomalocaris, and some of the scientists in the program made a model anomalocaris with a working mouth that they used to test whether the animal could have made the W-shaped bite marks in some fossil trilobites. I also remember there was a part with an animation of the evolution of pikaia's notochord into a human vertebra. This special may or may not have had other parts that were about extinct mammals (either additional episodes or just later sections of the program), but I might be combining it with other programs I watched around that time, which is entirely possible—I was 7 or 8 and these kinds of shows were the only things I watched. It wasn't part of the Walking With Dinosaurs series, I know that. It came before WWD. This is driving me crazy that I can't remember the name of this thing, since I made my parents tape it and then I watched it at least once a week.
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This is a particular Transformer I can't identify, but I would imagine you can still get it. It's a black and purple Decepticon, except it doesn't transform into a vehicle or anything else particularly identifiable, but a slightly different kind of humanoid robot. It's got no visible head when transformed, just a sort of jutting lump where a face should be, a bit like a xenomorph, and it has two huge purple arms with long forearms. The legs are the weird part, being very stubby with what I can only describe as cowboy boots for feet. Looks a little like Lugnut, but is much older going by the amount of grime it's collected. Any ideas?
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A book that was part of my required reading in English class either in middle school or early high school (New Brunswick, Canada.) It followed the story of a group of street children in russia. The parts that stick out the most is when one child visited Lenins coffin, and how they all wanted to go to the country because they had the idea the could just get food from fields with ease.
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This was a show that ran sometime after 2000. It starred Ioan Gruffudd as a lawyer set 20 minutes into the future. It was a legal speculative fiction show with one episode dealing with nanobots which caused one person to experience the sensations as another and they were utilized by a stalker to experience sex that the victim was having with her spouse/boyfriend.
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I remember a book, probably young adult fiction, that was about a girl (probably about 18?) who's mom was a thief (and so was she). In the book I remember she falls in love with a cop. Her mom may or may not have gotten sick at the end or something? I don't quite remember. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me, I have a feeling it's a fairly recent novel?
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This book has crept in and out of my memory since I read it over a decade ago but now it's lodged itself firmly into needing to be identified for the sake of my sanity.
Here's all I remember about it. It's a sci-fi novel with a male protagonist who lives with a form of multiple personalities or dissociative identity disorder. What stands out about this book is that the protagonist also had, I think, artificial eyes so each personality had a different eye color. And when they were plotting something, with the use of a camera and computer, they could effectively have a group discussion despite only one personality in control at a time.
I really wish I could remember more. It might have also had a sequel if that narrows it down any. Thanks.
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I want to say it was on tv in the late 90's. A father and his family come back to america after being in a jungle for a few years. During that time the US has become a presidential dictatorship of some sort. I remember a couple of scenes. One, the father is walking down a street and a soldier asks if he has voted for president yet. After saying no the soldier takes him to a polling place where it is clear his only choice is to put a strip of white paper in a box marked YES, as no is totally empty. In the background the president is thanking voters for their support. Another scene, they are about to get on a plane to escape but are stopped by a government agent. He says they can leave if the fathers boy gives a kidney to the son of a presidential supporter. When I try to think of the actor portraying the father images of red hair, goatee, and freckles come to mind.

I cant remember a tv show it was anime and it started with a guy around 17 and finds this kid at his door with a blue book and the kid has blonde hair and hornes.The kid was around 8 and the guy cant read any of the strange words on the book.Later another guy comes along with a weird looking kid and asks for a battle since they both have books that look the saem and then the guy can read a part of the book and when he does the blonde kis shoots a blot of lightning out of his mouth.Can anyone remember?