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openMysterious late-night show host quip Live Action TV
I commented out an entry on Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell for not mentioning the host who provided a quip on failed geography tests, with the quip in question being "Slovakia, which had been a country since, like, Tuesday, kicked our butts!"
Does anybody know which host it could have been? Judging how old the entry might be, it could be one who was active in the 2000s.
openBritish Series or Miniseries, Missing girl Live Action TV
I saw this on premium cable in 2019 in the US, but it takes place somewhere in England. The main character is a Black divorcee who is a former cop maybe, and he frequents a karaoke pub in his neighborhood. His daughter lives with her mother and step father and his large, wealthy family. He's important somehow, maybe government work. They live in a fancy area with a gate. The daughter goes missing after leaving a voicemail that she's visiting her father, and is last seen on video at a train station or on a train. So the father is suspected, and he goes looking for her on his own. The mother and their family go on TV to plead for information about the girl's whereabouts. Meanwhile, there's another character from the pub, a blonde guy, who has a secret laptop at his place that his wife doesn't know about which he uses to watch sick, dark web stuff of abducted kids trapped in rooms with live video feeds. The rooms are titled "fresh fruit", "bruised fruit", etc. Really awful. The main character wears a track suit a lot, he gets beat up late at night in a parking garage by a street gang, maybe robbed. He has a kind of casual relationship with a blonde single mother from the pub who lives in a nearby apt. complex. It shows how drinking kind of messes up his life, but he goes back into detective mode when the daughter goes missing. I only saw two or three episodes so I don't know much more except I didn't hallucinate it and have had NO luck with A.I. or exhaustive searching over the last several years. It was on cable TV like Showtime, Cinemax, Starz, HBO, etc..., and yet I've gone through seemingly every list and can't place it. It wasn't a BBC free to air show or anything, definitely an adult mature audiences kind of show. It was fairly recent then though, so I'd place it between 2014 and 2019. The owner of the karaoke pub was a maybe mid to late 40's woman with big, frizzy hair. I thought it was Alex Kingston but it wasn't. I didn't recognize any of the actors but they were all good in it. The main guy is suspected at first but I think he tries to solve it on his own, I think he tries to visit his ex wife's house. It's not 'The Missing', 'The Capture', 'The Five', 'The Tunnel', 'The Rook', 'The Last Train', 'The Fall', or 'Gangs of London'. Those are what these supposedly "amazing" A.I. tools have come up with. I know a real person out there has seen this and can help me though. So it could be a co-production somehow but I saw it on a movie channel in the US. It didn't seem like more than like a 6 to 8 part miniseries but I can't be sure. I think they probably figure something out through the blonde guy who watches the dark web stuff but I don't know if he's directly involved. It's SO STRANGE that there seems to be no trace of this show. I watched at least two installments of it and things got busy and I never wrote it down or anything because I figured I'd just see it again somewhere. And now I can't even find evidence that such a show existed. I appreciate any assistance. Thank you in advance.
resolved crime tv show with apathetic male lead who finally gets affected by a crime scene Live Action TV
i'm looking for a crime/detective tv show from around the 2010s, with an apathetic male character who i think is the protagonist.
i saw a clip of this show on tiktok months ago but i can't seem to find it anymore. what i remember from this clip is: a team of crime investigators is standing in front of a large building, discussing the crime scene inside of it. they talk about how it was a especially horrible massacre, and i think someone warns them that the scene is so ugly that they're not sure everyone can handle seeing it. so, they call for this guy who's apparently very apathetic towards everything and isn't affected by crime scenes, and they tell him to go inside first so he can come back and tell them how it is. he comes back covered in some blood and looking a little disturbed by what he saw, and i think he passes out right after
i'm pretty sure he also says that there's no bodies inside, only the blood, which everyone thinks is crazy cuz the crime happened only a while ago and there is no way the murderer could transport all the bodies so fast.
i think the mc is a white guy with black hair, and the main cast also includes a black bald man and a white woman with brown hair (which i know is how the cast of every crime tv show looks like but anyways)
openShow with quote about movies Live Action TV
I saw something in the last couple of years where there was an exchange like this:
Man: (in response to Genre Blindness) Haven't you seen a movie?
Woman: I've seen a movie, not every movie, like you.
I'm pretty sure it was a sitcom, but it could have also been a You Tube comedy sketch. I don't remember what they looked like or what trope was being discussed.
Edited by PPPSSCresolved Man turns into baby cartoon (still unsolved) Live Action TV
I thought it was a Betty Boop cartoon, but perhaps I am wrong. It was colorized, but was around that same era. All I remember is a quick gag, in which a snobby, gruff older man at least in his 50s to 60s is seen in a mall (an escalator is behind him, I think), does something embarrassing and he metaphorically turns into a baby or small toddler. We see faces (just faces) of some people gathering around nowhere as they laugh (a quick get together just for a brief moment). He does not turn back, I think the short just ended there. I looked up the tropes, Circle of Shame and Freelance Shame Squad, even baby transformation tropes, but found nothing. Can anyone please help? Thank you. I know I did not imagine this. It is not a Popeye cartoon.
Edited: I found it, it was actually a Little Lulu episode, thank you to those who helped!
Edited by thestormtrooperopenDark Fantasy High School (?) show that WASN'T Buffy (I don't think) Live Action TV
Title says it all. I'm looking for a show where I BELIEVE the main character is a man and it looks like it was in high school or college...the person in the scene I vaguely remember was a white male, that much I know. He was confronting some evil woman and she disintegrates and then the male cuts himself as I believe his parents come in and maybe he feigns that he was hurt, I dunno. I don't think it was Buffy but I could be wrong. It's POSSIBLE it could be Supernatural but it feels like it came MUCH earlier than that. I was almost a toddler or a very young kid when it was on air. If anyone knows what episode of a TV show it was, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Edited by hackdashopenBritish TV Variety Show - early 1980s Live Action TV
British TV show which involved a series of dance scenes set to old show tunes. Theme was quite 'grown-up', with one scene involving a society lady performing a striptease (she was in a red suit IIRC). Pretty sure it was a one-off.
openIndian tv show opening Live Action TV
There is a great Indian TV show opening that I just can't get out of my head but I can't remember the title. I think the TV show was around 2005, it's an absolutely banger opening with CGI showing various animal forms, Hindu gods, and statues. The music starts with a woman singing solo and then, boom, the awesome music starts and people start singing, there's a male solo in it too.
openPossibly Canadian Show About an Alien Girl Who Looks Human or Disguises Herself as Human Live Action TV
The main characters befriend a girl who is an alien. I think they may have used a valve in their school’s boiler room to go to a different world? In a scene from the commercial she drinks orange juice by sticking her finger into it. She may have an alien form but disguises herself as a human and when they go to the other world she is an alien? This would have been on TV 15-20 years ago and I watched it in Canada, possibly on YTV but I’m not certain.
openWhat episode is this? Live Action TV
This is an entry on the page Mourning Apparition:
- NCIS: One episode during the Port-to-Port Killer arc was told via flashbacks, with the Framing Device being Gibbs discussing the episode's events with Mike Franks. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that Franks is lying on the mortuary slab next to Gibbs, having been murdered by the Port-to-Port Killer, and Gibbs was imagining the conversation as a means of processing his grief.
Does anyone know which episode this actually is?
openOld Pilot film Live Action TV
I remember an entry on trope pages I think were related to Adaptive Ability or some other trope about teleporter merging. It was about a pilot episode or film that aired on one of the older alphabet channels like CBS, NBC, or maybe even PBS. Not sure if i misplaced where the entry was or it got deleted.
It was about a man who accidentally combined with a space probe due to a teleporter. Though outwardly human, every time he was distressed the probe responded by extending mechanical parts that reacted violently to the cause, that evolved the more often it happened. It gradually ate away his humanity and replaced his mind with the cold intellect of the machine. Found it on YouTube, but it's buried in my history and I can't recall the program it's from.
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openKorean Drama where the hero turns down the love intrest for his best friend Live Action TV
A long time ago I was stationed in Korea and there was a historical K-Drama on.
There was this area with a huge fight and the hero and his best friend finally win.
Hero looks up and the love interest is all demure and not really saying much.
The Dad - who likely arranged all this - is FUMING that the Hero is still alive.
Hero gives a "I'm tired of this shit" look and he and his best friend (who helped him win) walk off into the sunset while the love interest looks on crushed.
Me being a cynic at the time found this HILARIOUS - "bros before hoes" indeed.
What was this K-drama?
openMind Reading Woman Live Action TV
Not a lot to go off of, but there was a show of a scene from a show or movie (possibly early to mid 2000s) where a man and a psychic woman were walking. The man was talking, but before he could finish, the woman would read his mind and finish his sentences. At one point the man got frustrated, and started asking her to stop, but she finished that sentence too. Can anyone help me remember?
resolved Countdown Show? (SOLVED) Live Action TV
There was this TV show I remember from my later childhood (2013-2014). It was a show that had Top 20s of a topic depending on the episode. One episode I remember seemed to be about embarrassing injuries, such as someone falling off of a ball, and someone licking a metal pole that had something sharp on it if memory serves me right. The latter scared me and I couldn't go on.
Another episode was about "Dukes of Havoc", which was my favorite one. One had someone blending stuff in a blender, even a medal. Another had a dog tearing stuff up, even mentioning that things were different for that entry because "this duke is a dog." Another segment featured "Rotate Your Owl
", which I had no idea back then was by Weebl. One more segment I was told to leave the room for during my first couple of viewings involved a whale corpse having.......something ejected from it at a high speed.
One more episode was for "Homemade Heroes" which counted homemade inventions. All I remember was this edited car, though I don't remember how it was edited.
Edited by KingofNightmaresresolved James Bond expy with visual transmitting contact lenses Live Action TV
I remember a series about a James Bond expy who wore special contact lenses. These transmitted everything he sees to his Mission Control partner - a somewhat nerdy computer guy, who in turn gives him advice on how to proceed.
resolved Animated show race cars with morals for kids (still unsolved!) Live Action TV
I apologize first off, I asked about this a few times before, but I have not asked questions for quite a while here. I am searching for this television series, which I saw around 2005-2006 on TV, I cannot remember what channel, but I live in the US. It was not English (probably Spanish or French) and it was definitely not the Cars movie (I saw Cars), though it was circa around the same year approximately. All I remember of the plot is a racing car, I do not know what models any of the cars were, so I apologize in advance regarding that, but these cars were racing, so I am guessing different types of ideal race cars.
The main car for some reason annoyed the other cars, I do not think he was a bully or anything, maybe a showoff though. At the end, he screamed for help, I think he drove over a "road end" cliff or a just a ditch, as he screamed for help, the other cars stopped, and thinking about how negatively they reacted towards him. They decided to go and assist. They formed a chain and pulled him up, the first car using their front bumper. It was either a show about morals or just had lessons per episode. The ending credits showed the white and black race line.
I know this is not much to go on, but can anyone please help me? Any help would truly be appreciated. I have searched on this for years, but found nothing. This could be Real City Heroes (RHC), but none of the episodes seem familiar to me. Thank you in advance.
Note - just solved, thank you so much for the person who helped me, just had to find the correct episode! Thanks millions!
Edited by thestormtrooperresolved Son's transports to the world of his deceased father's TV show Live Action TV
I remember a TV mini-series or show about a man whose father, the creator of a popular children's TV show, had died recently and attends the funeral at his childhood home. However, as he tries to participate, he keeps being transported to the world of his father's show and interacts with the characters. Spoilers for the ending, the son takes on the show's helm and helps continue it much like his father did. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
openGhost show where guy pushes lady out of the way as he runs off Live Action TV
It’s been years since I’ve see this show like around 2000s but I remember a ghost show where they were in like a castle/big house. It was the ‘medium’ Chip’, a dude and a lady. The dude was acting all macho telling the lady he’d protect her but when Chip acted ‘possessed’ (I think) the dude whipped around, shoved the lady out of the way, and ran out of the building
It was a running joke between me and my mom so I was wanting to see if anyone knew the name of the show. I remember Chip being a constant but he had people join him at different locations

Back in 2013, I would watch My Little Pony a lot on a channel called The Hub. Almost every single time I watched it there was this commercial for what I believe was some high-tech bracelet, it went with a song which I don't remember all the words to, but they were like this to some degree:
"It's time to have some fun, (something) put it on your wrist and now you're number one!" "YEAH! Tons of awesome things to do"
I don't remember the exact name of the bracelet, but it kinda rhymed with something like "zoomer 2" or whatever?
It actually might've been a commercial for something else, and the bracelet was just synced with it? But I doubt it
There were I wanna say 8-10 year olds in the commercial. Mix of girls and boys I think
If someone can find this commercial on You Tube or find what I'm talking about somewhere I would really appreciate it!