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openCommercial mentioned on "Nightmare Fuel" page Live Action TV
Title. I'm very interested in tracking this one down as it's come up on Reddit several times and I've managed to get the Lost Media Wiki on the case. The description is as follows:
"There was a commercial for a carb bar, and it took place in a baby shower. One of the women in said shower offered the pregnant woman some cake, to which the pregnant woman declined, instead sticking to eating said carb bar. Then, without warning, the face of the woman who offered the cake went all demonic and scary. Also a case of What Were They Selling Again?, as absolutely no one knows the name of the carb bar being advertised."
All other accounts are remarkably similar to this one, though in every case people have been unable to recall the brand or any identifying information. I would very much appreciate any leads, no matter how small! The commercial aired in the US (and potentially Canada) somewhere between 1999-2001.
openEarly 2000s show or a weird dream? Live Action TV
Hi, I’m looking for the name of a show from the early to mid 2000’s. So it’s three girls with super power one could do mind control, one was really fast or strong and I don’t reminber for the last one but it maybe had a link with fire. Their mentor was a man around 50 or 60 years old. They had electric blue costume, it was always the same villain with a kind of dumb sidekick and in the last episode I remember they almost die and the villain sidekick lose his legs.
openCop Show Live Action TV
The episode I remember is its about a cop that is chasing a suspect and he develops tunnel vision and he passes by a bunch of other cops beating someone up and the cop doing the chasing gets blamed for not seeing it. So the people set out to prove that because of his focus on the chase he could not have seen the other cops in the first place. I thought it had Simon Baker but i could be wrong about that point.
openLooking for an old tv show my dad used to watch Live Action TV
All I remember is that the show's premise was a law firm inside a shoe store. Can't recall the name.
openshow about magician with an amulet that makes magic real Live Action TV
I believe the show was from the early '80s about a magician that has an amulet/medallion that makes magic real. he goes around helping people I think. the show has a reoccurring line about the is no magic without the amulet, and he loses/gets it taken from him a lot. I was young and don't remember any other details except that I think it was from around the time (relatively) and maybe station as "Manimal".
this has been driving me nutz and google hasn't helped... does anyone know what this show was? Thanks in advance.
opena new tv horror/thriller? Live Action TV
I recently saw a trailer for a tv show or movie? possibly set in older times, a black couple move to a rented apartment and start hearing noises/voices in the walls, then smash some holes in the walls & seemed reluctant to tell the landlord. I can't remember much else about it & cannot seem to find it again, so sadly cannot remember the name. Has anyone else seen this & knows what it is? Thank you.
openA sci-fi series I watched in I think late 20th or early 21st century (Solved: The Outer Limits 1995) Live Action TV
Well, I only remember one episode, maybe someone can identify it from a recap:
A young woman travels to visit some alien society and live among them, using a technological teleporter.
The way the device works is, it scans the person, builds them on the other side (probably using something like a 3D printer, but it's not displayed) and then sends a confirmation signal, upon which the original is destroyed (presumably painlessly and without even realising it).
The woman is placed in the device and sent, but the confirmation signal is not received...
So they wait, while she worries, what will happen to her?
The confirmation is eventually received, and the device's operator has to kill the woman... who, obviously, does not want to die and is terrified. He can't bring himself to do that, either.
Eventually, after some convincing ("And what will you tell her, when she returns, that someone else is living her life?"), the operator shots and kills the woman, but takes it hard.
In the final scene, some year or two later, the woman returns, visibly a bit different as a result of her experiences (she has a different haircut, and a tattoo) and happily greets the operator, whom she remembers sending her the other way (she doesn't know what occured on this side). Still traumatised, he responds with "I don't remember you.".
Edited by DagrothopenSVU Episode Live Action TV
There was an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where, for some reason, Rollins and Carisi were looking for a guy out of state. They went to a bar, and Carisi was thinking of admitting his feelings for Rollins. When he went to the next morning, he saw she had a one-night stand and didn't end up telling her.
Does anyone remember or know what episode this is?
openI don't remember it, maybe California-something Live Action TV
Premise: I'm italian, I saw the show I'm looking for when I was in the middle-school, so it went on the air in my country between 2003 and 2006.
It's a drama-teen non-binding show, I think. It's set in California or in another US warm place. I clearly remember only two things:
1) one of the side character is a white, blond guy who is addicted to chocolate. (But I think also this guy appears in the first season only, lol). During an episode, his friend try to do an intervention for him, but I still think it was a subplot.
2) At the end of an episode, the main and side characters are partying in the local café and then they all goes out to see the falling snow for the first time in their life (this is the reason I think the show is set on a warm place).
These are poor elements, I know, but I can't remember anything else. Clearly this show did not shock the world of TV series or my life. As I said, it's a drama-teen with love stories, humor, high school situations and teenage-dailylife events.
Thank You for your help
openNo Title Live Action TV
I've googled and googled but can't find it. Which show is the catchphrase "Hey-oooo" originally from?
openBeauty and the beast/Arabian nights movie tv show Live Action TV
I think this was an episode of a tv show but could’ve been a TV movie
A man/secret monster kidnaps a group (harem?) of women and keeps them in his house. He is a rich man and very powerful. Every night he brings a women to meet him and show him there talent and he kills them. One woman is there with her sister or potentially in place of her sister? When it’s her turn she tells the man stories to keep him distracted and he doesn’t kill her. She keeps coming back and they are slowly falling in love. Then he turns into a dragon???? Maybe??? I’m not sure might be making that up
I think he lets her go and she comes back maybe but I’m sure it’s a happy ever after
openworkplace psa with cartoon Live Action TV
Hey, so i'm trying to find an older psa that was basically about bigotry in the workplace, or something like that. It had an older business man interviewing a cartoon rabbit for a job at an office, and by the end of it i think they kinda swapped roles or something like that? all I know is that the rabbit ended up as an exec or something. Its was 80s or 90s i think. I'd appreciate if a link could be provided, but the name will do as well.
openNot sure Live Action TV
This was a show where two guys would set up a booth at business trade shows around the United States and pretend that they ran a business in that industry despite having no knowledge of what that business actually was. It was an online show, I believe I watched it on Hulu about 10 years ago. I remember one episode one of the hosts was very excited to have a company that was named using only letters, and the letters were just chosen at random and had no meaning.
openKids TV Show Story Live Action TV
I remember watching a show on PBS Kids in the early-mid 2000s that had a sort of animated short-story segment. I don't think it was associated with the main plot of the show, which was live-action.
It was a story about a husband who had bought cheese for his wife as a gift and hid it in the oven. The wife was making bread for her husband as a gift and put it in the oven to bake, not knowing about the cheese. They found it later and were upset that their gifts were "ruined," and left the house. Then an orphan girl walking by their house smelled the cheesy bread, went in, ate some, and shared it with everyone, who loved it. And then the couple made a business from selling their new cheesy bread and adopted the orphan girl.
openWoman in wedding dress riding in a limo Live Action TV
I saw a snippet of this movie at a friend's house back in 2011 or 2012. It was definitely made around that time or just before.
In the scene I remember, a woman is riding in a limo . She's wearing a wedding dress. She tells the driver to stop and buy her cigarettes. I think he resisted at first but eventually did stop. It cuts to her sitting in the open door of the limo, smoking. Then, at some point, she and the limo driver start having sex in the backseat (nothing graphic is shown). I think she even says something like, "don't get it on the dress."
And then it cuts to two other characters talking in a hospital, I think.
I remember it being a legit movie and not like a porno or anything because at the time, I think I recognized one of the actors.
That's all I really remember. It's been bugging me for years.
EDIT: This is a movie, not a TV show. I accidentally clicked on the wrong category.
Edited by elle1072openA Cesar Millan Episode Live Action TV
In this Cesar Millan (aka the Dog Whisperer) episode, a dog is brought back from Iraq or Iran from a battle or war. It attacks other dogs on sight. It was taken by soldiers. I believe that the dog was brought back to Texas who now lives with two women.
openLate 1990s/early 2000s Disney Channel show Live Action TV
I know this sounds obvious, but it's about a group of four teenage friends who stumble upon a great-grandfather's jersey with the uncanny ability to transport one of them into possessing the body of a famous sports star.
openAsian Drama Live Action TV
There is an asian show that I watched probably 6 years ago. It was about a boy and girl who fall in love and the girl gets sick. Her father, who I think is a doctor, cryogenically freezes her until they can find a cure for whatever she has. The boy grows older until one day the girl awakens with amnesia and she is still very young. The boy, who is now a man with a full grown child, finds her and is still in love with her but she doesn't remember him and he's a lot older than her now. She ends up falling in love with his son for awhile and then something happens and she ends up gaining all her memories back and falls in love with the man again. I remember a detail about the girl was that she always painted only her big toe nail red and left the rest of her toe nails natural and that is how the man recognizes her. I THOUGHT the name was something like Ice Princess but haven't been able to find it at all! Please help!

This is a tough one. I believe this was an episode in an anthology series from the 90s. Something along the lines of R Ds Tales of the Unexpected or Monsters. The story was interesting and the atmosphere of the "town" was memorable.
(As I remember it...) There was a scientist who was experimenting with near-death experiences. He kept increasing the duration of his "death" and at one point "woke up" during the experiment and found himself in a place that looked like an old town. There were cobblestones and lamps lighting the road. At one point a group of scary-looking people began to move toward him, but the experiment ended, and he was back in his body. He once again increased the duration of his "death" and the same sequence played out, but the people grabbed him and dragged him to the town square. An old crone cackled and thrust her hand into his chest apparently tearing out his soul. His soul was thrown down a deep well filled with flames in its depths (presumably Hell?). When the experiment ended this time, the scientist woke up...but it wasn't really him anymore. Suspecting there might be some risk, I seem to remember that the scientist had his body locked in a cell, so when his body awakened, whatever was inhabiting it wasn't able to get out. Instead of trying to escape, the thing began ~teaching~ the scientist's assistants many astounding scientific discoveries, solutions to unsolvable equations, etc. He was doing this for some nefarious reasons though.
I only saw it the one time, and have not been able to figure it out searching through many series episode guides. Any help on this one is appreciated. Thanks!
Edited by Morloc