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openYakuza tattoo Live Action TV
Does anyone remember a show that used to air on spike about a guy going around the world getting tattooed. I remover one episode he went to Japan and got an inner thigh tattoo by a yakuza artist but for the life of me I can’t remmber the show
openHelp Live Action TV
I can remember an episode of a tv show where the characters are in a rocket ship and it launches and in the end they have to press one of two buttons to ge home. One button blows the rocket up and the other sends it home. There is also someone on the ground who launched the rocket and says which button to press but they’re lying. Anyone know where this is from?
open70s 80s BBC tv possibly? kid has to find mirror or glinting object to escape a cave? Live Action TV
its been bugging me for decades, all i can remember is this kid in a cave has to find a glinting object to help him escape, or time travel or something fantasy/sci-fi and there was a man explaining it to him, possibly a wizard. it was probably BBC as it had that weird studio video thing that all the BBC stuff had at that time. maybe the glint was from a pile of treasure? like the scene in indiana jones holy grail.
Edited by samultoeopenKids absorbed into a computer Live Action TV
School kids that were absorbed into a game or something in a school computer. They were later found out to have been absorbed by a few of their classmates and those classmates went in to try to find them. One episode they were in an old time jail and after escaping at the end the jumped off a pier into water. They had to overcome a few obstacles to get around. I was shown this as a kid in class several years ago.
I also think the show was British.
Edited by ShiroNekoChiopenAN OLD "EGYPTIAN" SHOW I WAS SHOWN IN SCHOOL AS A KID Live Action TV
There was an Egyptian cat which taught a couple of kids about ancient Egypt. I think the cat was either black or mummified looking. I think it was on VHS so it must be quite old. I think the cat was summoned after the kids discovered an artefact or something.
opentv show Live Action TV
the tv show was about a white guy (the actors real name was ben) who went to india to start a company there and theres this rival company and he falls in love with a girl and its a comedy i think it got canceled at season 2
openawkward virgin show? Live Action TV
what's that british tv show with the black girl who's a virgin with a super religious mom and sister? also, her boyfriend hangs out in the garbage bin and writes poetry
openCooking show Live Action TV
it was either on cbbc/cbeebies or city but it was a cooking show that was maybe in space? there was a large creature that lived in a cave that either helped cook or had to be fed
opendebunking show Live Action TV
In the show it was a 15 ish year old girl and a similarly aged boy and a older man dressed as a scientist. They would debunk popular videos, show you how to prank people. It was always horror/scare themed. In one episode I remember they tell you hoe to rig red laser pointers in a bush to make it look like a monster was watching you. They also debunked that ghost video where the ghost jumps out into an alley for a few seconds then goes back inside and no one can explain it but they debunk it. They also taught how to make a volcano out of paper mache. The guy was probably mid to late 30s.
openscary high school where crazy things constantly happen Live Action TV
It was a show where it was a group of friends in school (not sure which grade) and it was haunted/weird stuff just happened and in one episode i remember specifically they went to eat lunch. They saw it was instead full of green slime? If you ate it you would turn into a monster/mutant and their principal or teacher are it and he begins to terrorize them. Weird I know, in another episode I think the school was run over by ants/insects maybe. They all dressed like they were from late 90s to early 2000s. Very dark set, always creepy looking and old.
open1990’s Kids Show Live Action TV
I was almost positive it was an episode of Sesame Street, but it could have been Reading Rainbow. There was an episode where a young girl around 10 or so trains a dog to be a service dog and gives it to someone who is blind. It’s not the recent Brandis Sesame Street episode, but that’s the only thing that comes up when I have attempted to google it. It’s been driving me crazy!
openChildrens tv Live Action TV
I cant find it on google anywhere. It was on citv. Based in a kitchen. Involved many puppets one was metallic silver one was made from a mop. They had a feature in it called ‘in the bin’. Early noughties i think?
openSchool based show where classmates are absorbed into the computer Live Action TV
The classmates are absorbed into the computer, I think it was a game or something but it was about history. It was a boy and a girl. One episode they were in an old jail cell but escaped and at the end jumped off a pier into water. I think the teacher or kids figured out what happened and they also went in to save them.
openDisney XD/Teen Nick? Live Action TV
It was a show about a blonde boy who had travelled the world. In episodes he recalls things that had happened to him during his travels, such as one episode where he flashes back to his time spent with monks and he slows his heart rate.
openKids Show I think? Live Action TV
There was a show that I believe had segments and in between there would be a picture that would start very unclear (different methods were different colors, lasers, etc.) and as the voice over spoke, the picture would be moving side to side, up and down, etc and getting more clear. At the end it would come into focus and tell you what you were looking at. Anyone remember that show? I believe it was the late 80's and it might have been on hbo.
openTv show where character is trying to remember stuff Live Action TV
I’m trying to remember the name of a tv show where one of the characters is trying to remember something (I know, it’s ironic.)
I’m pretty sure that whenever the character remembers something he/she always says the line “I remember something!”
I’m not even sure if this is a movie or a tv show because it’s been so long since I have seen it and I don’t remember anything apart from that.
Thanks!
openMid-90s Era Tween Sitcom Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember a particular show that had one episode that is sticking out for me. There were three main characters, a somewhat obnoxious boy, a loyal male friend, and a tomboy female friend. The generic plot was that the main boy was trying to get a new girl to go the dance with him. Much effort is put into it. The girl agrees to go with her. The tomboy female friend shows up at the dance in a beautiful dress (She Cleans Up Nicely trope) and the main boy ditches the new girl for the friend. He is a jerk pretty much the whole time to everyone. I remember a lot of snide comments directed towards the tomboy character along the lines of "You're barely a girl"
It's not Step by Step.
open2000's hbo kids show about ghost hunting Live Action TV
so there was this show that always startedwith this guy talking about the contestants and the locationand there always two kids per episode and they had to draw straws whoever drew the shorter straw went in first while the other one waited in a van but what happened was they went into these haunted places and whichever kid staid inside the longest would go up a spot to the next person in the chalengeand at the end of each season there was a championship one episode i remeber took place at a lighthouse and the first kid left within the first five minutes

It's about a family .. I think a mom and dad with three kids.. the dad throws his kid in the pool just to teach him a lesson.. the daughter gets into wrestling but can't find an opponent because she's small.. the thing I remember most is the neighbor kid who basically lives there and is always eating their food, so the dad sets a trap but accidentally catches a family member instead.