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openNo Title Western Animation
An educational action cartoon I saw about 2 years ago. It involved 4-5 teenagers who were heroes and morphed into dinosaurs. One teen was a punk rocker boy who turned into a pterodactyl and there was a black girl who turned into either a triceratops or parasaurolophus. In the episode I saw, I remember there was a creepy old lady who lived alone in a haunted house or something. A lawn party was also involved. It was not Dinosaur King or Dinosaucers. More like Animorphs but with dinosaurs and it was a cartoon.
openNo Title Webcomic
I was reading a webcomic about a month ago. It only started in around November. It has absolutely no dialogue, is entirely in color, and is about the adventures of a little boy who lands in a weird world after taking a ride in his shopping-cart bathtub thing.
It's made by two artists who go by Left and Right; they don't talk about the story at all, so it's completely spontaneous. One draws a page of the comic, and the other imagines what happens next and draws the second page. They alternate like that and eventually, the story goes somewhere. Left lives in the Netherlands; Right lives in Japan.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I can provide more details of the plot on request.
openNo Title Literature
Two in One!
A story I remember reading about on The Other Wiki about a world where the seasons lasted two millenniums at a time, thus resulting in the world's societies going through stages of development and decline with the change in the seasons.
Another story I've only read about on Wikipedia, this one was about a nuclear war told in three different stories: One dealing with the immediate aftermath, and the other two with the struggles of rebuilding society After the End. The latter two included Fantastic Racism because of mutants evolving due to radiation, I believe.
openNo Title Film
Low budget film probably from late 90's, early 2000's.
A family move into an futuristic computerised house, I think the father figure may have worked at the company. One day he turns off the security overrides (can't remember why) and it methodically tries to kill the family. The son is working out in the gym, hears the door ring, gets some Nine Inch Nails tickets in the post and goes back to working out where he gets crushed via his barbells. The daughter doesn't like the computer watching her so covers up the camera with a towel. His wife I think is attacked by the kitchen robot helper.
Aside from that, I don't remember much more.
openNo Title Literature
It was a Dr Seuss book. There was a big creature with multi-colored spots. He could put his spots on trees, and make them dance and turn red or blue, and all that jazz. He walked around with two kids, a boy and a girl. I think the title had something about a zoo.
openNo Title Film
Early 2000's. Thanksgiving special, maybe? There was this evil guy, and he had dinosaurs hidden on his spaceship. He fed them a special cereal or something. One day he ran out and the dinosaurs got away. I remember the trex crashing through the city and everybody thought it was just a parade float. The dinos could talk, I think, and they met up with these two kids. The evil guy by now had caught up with them and put the trex in a circus in the woods. He tried to make the girl sign a contract in blood.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Ok so this show was on PBS or one of those public tv stations and it aired some time in the early 2000s. It was about a brother and his wheelchair bound sister that are looking for their missing father. Their father is inside a computer program (I think, not sure) so they go into the program and when they do they become a character in a myth. In one episode the sister was the oracle of Delphi, in another the brother is Orpheus when he goes to the underworld for his wife, and the last ep I remember the brother and sister were Isis and Osiris. Basically if anyone knows this show it would be so awesome and thanks in advanced.
openNo Title Literature
Low Fantasy starring a woman who acts as a sort of spymaster for the king. The king has a whole system of them, who are always cloaked and masked in public. These 'spies' all have split personalities (only two) which have different skills and temperaments, usually without overlap. The spies use a silver mirror in order to switch personalities.
The plot involves the conflict between the main kingdom and these tundra dwellers who vaguely inuit-like. The king holds a race periodically, the winner of which can request a boon. This year is the first that the tundra land people are sending a runner, who is a shooin' to win. The tundra people are the only ones who refuse to be subjugated.
Anyway, our spy is in the middle of a mission to the tundra lands. After she lets her other personality out to party (and so the 'main' personality loses consciousness), she wakes up broken at the bottom of a tundra. She gets saved, eventually, by some tundra dwellers, the plot plays with the whole Going Native thing while our protagonist struggles vainly against the charms of oh-so-noble and righteous nature loving xenophobes she stays.
Its eventually revealed that the protagonist is a long lost daughter of these tundra people. What happens is the kingdom tortures child prodigies A.) so they'll never become brilliant and influential enough to be threat, and B.) so that their personalities will fracture and allowed to be molded into spies. The protagonist has a third personality, with the memories of her people AND the memories of her torture, repressed. Hooray.
Our protagonist makes it back home, does some espionage, figures the above out, and sides with her people. The runner for her people wins the race with the protagonist's help, and the runner does some voodoo on the king that doesn't do much except make him into a genuinely better person, and the runner declares her people will bow to the rule of the king, 'cause you can't fight progress even if you should (or something. Progress is definitely a bad thing in this book, but they accept it anyway. Probably because that's a stupid message.).
openNo Title Western Animation
Cartoon about three monsters: walking jack-o-lantern with monster-themed gadgets inside him, skeleton who could turn into different objects like table or draft and dog vampire.
Edited by SunchetopenNo Title Western Animation
I asked about this on the old YKTS, but I don't think it was ever answered. I remember quite a bit about it, but can't find any evidence that it actually even exists. It was a short film (maybe 15 minutes, maybe a half-hour) shown in a grade school assembly in the late 1970s, as an educational film about mathematics (probability, specifically), with extremely stylized animation. It involves a nebbishy guy rescuing a little man (might have been a leprechaun, might have been a wizard, but he was definitely magical).
The little man gives him a magical amulet (a circle that's half-red, half-blue, on a chain) which will grant his fondest wishes... 50% of the time. His wish involves becoming a superhero, and when he first uses it (and the blue side lights up), he becomes Probability Man, a large and deep-voiced Flying Brick with the man's face. Other times, the red side lights up, and he turns into something random. (Either way, it was for a limited duration, and he changed back on his own after a while)
The part I remember best is when his would-be girlfriend (who knows his secret identity) arranges to have him rescue her from a burning building when she jumps from a high window, while news crews record the rescue so he can become famous, but the red side lights up, and he turns into a (talking) bed instead of Probability Man. She chides him and walks away, while he (still as a bed) moans "awwww", and crumples.
The little man adjusts the probability a few times during the short (at one point reducing it to 33% blue/67% red, IIRC). At the very end, he raises it to a 90% (again, IIRC - my memory could be off on any of these percentages) chance of the blue side working, and it ends with narration along the lines of "But even 90% isn't a certainty, so every now and then..." as the red side lights up, the nebbish turns into a dog, blinks at the camera, and runs away. Any ideas? Does anyone but me remember this film at all? Google gives me nothing.
Edited by DarkStormopenNo Title Live Action TV
Okay this one is... difficult. I will honestly be surprised if anyone can get this. I'm honestly half convinced I imagined or even dreamed the whole thing.
I believe it was one of those quasi-educational, surreal kids shows that were popular on daytime TV in the 90's. It's... slightly along the lines of Ghost Writer, but weirder (at the very least, it was airing on British TV in roughly the same time period as Ghost Writer) My memories of it are less solid and more a series of vague flashbacks which may or may not be the same episode. These flashbacks are as follows.
-A backpack on a girl's back laughing and clearly enjoying itself as she runs away, upset about something utterly unrelated to the fact that there's a freaking happy talking backpack on her back.
-A machine that makes bread with sprinkles and icing on it. An unimpressed girl telling her dad "I want my mum!" before storming off.
-A group of... something's watching a film on a projector. They are discussing the film, which appears to feature children hopping about playing leapfrog. The creatures are being educated about this activity, with their "teacher" informing them that the human children are attempting to become frogs. However, this will never happen "as they were not tadpoles first". (Hey, makes perfect sense to me).
- A girl being pushed under the water during a fight with a friend at a swimming pool.
- From the same episode as the above -the aforementioned example has apparantly instilled in the girl a fear of water. In what appears to be an attempt to cure her of this, a talking elevator (don't ask I don't even know) takes her below the ocean, to show her a pool full of fish and other assorted sea creatures, viewed through it's open doors. The girl is frightened at first, but is encouraged to take a better look and actually plucks up the courage to stick her face right into the water.
- A large crystal dropped to the bottom of a pool (honestly, it looked like one of those tacky crystal doorknobs more than anything but I think it's meant to be a MacGuffin of somekind). The girl jumps in to retrieve it. Pretty sure that's the same episode as above, too.
(Don't say I didn't warn you...)
This vague collection of images has been driving me berserk for over a decade. Anyone got any ideas?
Edited by ScarabopenNo Title
A long time ago, by father showed me a point-and-click escape game, the Crimson Room (which one of his students had emailed him a link to). We found it too hard, so he produced another link, this time to a point-and-click adventure. All I remember of this is the photo-collage graphics, the storyline (your spaceship, which seems to be a planet itself, if I remember correctly, crash-lands on this temperate planet (looking sort of like The Phantom Planet), and needs to get back to his ship or something (perhaps he was going to pilot the planet? I vaguely remember the planet doing something at the end)), and two scenes (one in which there is a large screen with tons of cattle on it, and the edge of a cliff to the left, and another one with an elevator you can operate). I would very much like to play this again, if only for the maquette-like graphics. Any help is appreciated!
openNo Title Western Animation
Okay, this one is really hazy and far back in my memory, but I know for a fact that I saw it. It was either an animated film or an episode of a TV series (though the former seems more likely to me) that aired in the mid-to-late 90s. All I remember is that there was a noble family with a palace that had an irremovable blood spot left on the floor from the murder of the old Lord's wife or something like that. I SPECIFICALLY remember that she fell down the stairs and broke her neck (and it was explicitly stated so in the narration), and I believe she was named Lady Elgin (although that might be something else mixed in there). I can't remember the plot, but I think it involved a group of mystery investigators trying to solve a case. I also remember that the blood spot changed colours after each night which made the investigators think it was a fake. One final detail I remember is that they eventually found the Lady's decayed skeletal body hidden in the wall, with her blonde hair still attached to the skull, which really freaked me out when I saw it as a kid. I know this sounds really weird, but I know for sure that I saw it. Any Ideas at all?
openNo Title Film
It was a movie where there was this guy with an old radio/microphone setup whose father died in a fire (he was a fireman, and he took the smoky route out of a house instead of the fiery route and suffocated; the correct choice would have been the fire on the right). Then one day the aurora borealis or something allows the radio to communicate with a past version of itself, and he tells his father who he is (and helps his brother found Yahoo in the process). He saves his father's life, but it makes his mother a target of a serial killer, and she is retroactively killed. Then, with the confusing cooperation of the past version of himself and his past father, they eventually take the killer down (the climax involves the killer's hand disintegrating, and his father shooting the killer in the back). Then the aurora fades and they live happily ever after.
I watched the Hungarian dub, though, so I don't know how popular this is in the West.
Edited by mszegedyopenNo Title
A film from somewhere between the late 70s and early 90s.
I only remember one scene around the beginning of the movie: The hero (big, muscled, cool, rough guy, anti-hero, maybe?) knocks out a woman by punching her and then casually slings her to carry her on his shoulder. It struck me as a child -when I saw it- because I had never seen a human carry another person in that position -and, uh, the knocking out people casually thing too. I think the woman was wearing a very short skirt or dress, because you could see her thighs. (Again, impressionable little me latching on to unimportant details instead of, you know, the plot.)
The setting was in a gritty city -colored reddish-, it was night-time. It was sort of the Apocalypse and everyone had thrown rules and laws to the wind, running here and there to rob stores and getting violent everywhere, but the rest of the movie is completely blurry and I can't remember what it was about.
Edited by MazzopenNo Title
I have things I need help with. 1. There is a book that I remember reading (I think), about a girl, around age 13, that has a bad problem cussing. 2. Does anybody know where the line "I said I didn’t come here to leave you I didn’t come here to lose" come from, cause the only song I have been able to find with that line in it was one from 1995-96 called "Love By Grace". 3. I am looking for a commercial from the period of 1992-1995 for a medicine called Senokot that uses the song I feel Good (I Knew That I Would) I think in it. 4. there is an old computer game from 1998-99 (maybe) that has you helping a woman do her errands in a city (the city is not named, I don't think). So could you help me?
Edited by pikafanopenNo Title
A kid's magazine about DC Comics. Randomly got an issue of this as a kid (I'm thinking this was roughly in the early 2000's), and I remember there were a few superhero-themed puzzles (one involving Mister Miracle escaping from Darkseid), some articles I can't even remember the contents of (except for one that featured Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl - can't remember if it was Donna or Cassie, though), and some little comics that featured Bizarro and Mr. Mxyzptlk.
openNo Title Western Animation
There was this animation shown as part of the children's TV programming in Norway in the mid/late 80s early 90s. It had a dog (possibly black) in it, and cat or a mouse, I cannot fully remember. But the dog was inspired by/inspiration for Muttley in Stop The Pidgeon. I don't fully remember what the show was about, but I do remember that either the dog or the second character was showering in the opening sequence. Can anyone help me figure out which series this is, because it is driving me NUTS!
Edited by Scarab

It was a sitcom with no laugh track, taking place in an earlier decade, and the main character or narrator was a youngish teenage boy. I remember a couple episodes featuring his older brother's attempts to impress an (Austrian?) girl who was a foreign exchange student.
In one, the brother was supposed to be helping her with her English class, which was reading The Catcher in the Rye. He hadn't read it yet himself, being a slacker, but when he did, he was enthralled by it. The two ended up going to an appearance by the author, where the brother inadvertently drives him into a depression by suggesting that he might not be able to top Catcher in the Rye.
In another episode, the brother watches amused, from a distance, as an old man attempts to pick up his keys but is unable to. The girl is angered at this, goes to help, and then berates the brother. The brother, attempting to defend himself, glances behind her at a poster about an old lady needing help around the house. He tells the girl that he does respect the elderly and in fact is volunteering to help an old lady. He takes the job to maintain his cover. It mostly involves giving the old lady footrubs. They end up bonding, as she shares her life's stories with him. When he tells (Austrian?) girl about all this, she seems strangely jealous for a moment, until he reassures her that nothing more is going on besides footrubs. One day, he throws a surprise dance/party for the old lady, meaning to mimic something from her youth. She's elated and, when asked for feedback, replies: "It looks nothing like it." Nevertheless, she appreciates the thought, so they dance together. They end up falling down due to her inability to keep up with him, and he falls on top of her. Just then, (Austrian?) girl walks in, sees them, says: "I thought you only rubbed her feet!" and runs out, upset. (All played for laughs, of course.) Guy gets up, shouting at her to wait, then hesitates and runs after her, leaving the old lady lying on the floor, unable to get up herself and looking puzzled.