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openA sitcom with a party not ending verry well ^^ Live Action TV
Few years ago, I saw an extract an an episode of a show (which is certainly a sitcom) and I can't just find this episode or this extract on internet.
So, as I remember, there is a party with, I think, young people. After the party (maybe on a sequence at the very end) an old lady which is certainly a maid/housekeeper come and, instead of doing her job, sits on the sofa and turn on a system which bring out a tv, and a guy is tied up and gagged on it. She come to him and take off his gag.
If you can help me with that, it would be really nice !
Thanks in advance !
openHorror novel about magical murals
I'm trying to find a horror novel about magical murals.
From what I can remember, it was about the main protagonist (maybe a girl) trying to rescue two boys who are trapped in murals. The protagonist must find a way to save them before a sinister caretaker erases the murals.
openChildren's/YA scifi book about duplicates Literature
I believe this was from the 80s or earlier, and set at that time. Some kids find a mysterious way to duplicate objects. One of the first things they try is a mug or similar, and the duplicate is almost perfect except that instead of "Made in America" (or wherever) written on it, it has "Mad in America". Events escalate and I think by the end a girl has duplicated herself.
openNEED THE NAME OF A KID’S SHOW (I think TwT)
I was recently reminded of an animated show I saw a couple of times when I was a child, but I’m not sure exactly how many years ago.
I only remember that the protagonists were a female fairy with orange hair and a green outfit, and a male elf with long, raven black hair. I believe the fairies and elves were at war or something, but these two fell in love. The fairies lived in a big tree or something, as I recall in one episode the orange haired fairy was making some flower baskets/crowns with her fairy friends upon a tree.
I don’t really remember much more, but I would be super duper grateful if somebody could help me find the name of the show. Thanks in advance!!! 😭
openA 90s/Early 2000s era Daytime Soap Live Action TV
I have the distinct memory of some Daytime soap opera that used the distinctive saxophone opening of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" as either its opening or closing theme. Any ideas which? I can't find any proof online.
openMid 00's youtube AMV Music
I remember this animated music video. It sounded kinda like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50dngX7mb8c&list=PLXsbd-d7oaBdtZre9JHqVWfh9RCNmVS7U&index=78&t=0s
and the main chord/tune whatever sounded like that of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df0rlvjxl_A&list=PLXsbd-d7oaBdtZre9JHqVWfh9RCNmVS7U&index=53&t=0s
(it's at 2:30.) The visuals from what I remember looked something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5jH0MHZTDE&index=50&list=PLXsbd-d7oaBdtZre9JHqVWfh9RCNmVS7U
(sorry about the links, I'm bad at explaining things.) It was made in either 2009, or 2008. I think it was about a space man. But what I remember for SURE was how much it reminded me of Bit.Trip (a game that's really nostalgic for me tho I never played it, that's the main reason why I want to see this song again.) It was fast-paced and had a sorta "retro" vibe. Please help me if you can.
Update/Extra Details: The animation style was hand-drawn and kinda sketchy-looking. While the colors were quite bright, but the contrast was kinda dark (from what I remember). The "main tune/whatever" thing that I mentioned up top was played on a xylophone, and here's something that's probably pointless but...
I remember somebody commenting something like: "When my cat had *insert illness here* when I'd play this song, I'd imagine the one side of the fight as the illness, and the other side as the cat fighting it off." It wasn't EXACTLY like that, but that's what it spoke of in general. The video took place in a city at night (overall, it looked inspired by NYC.)
Edited by cake64openHilariously Bad Old Anime I Saw At A Convention Panel... Anime
I was at the panel "Bad Anime, Bad!" at Animenext this year, back in June, and there was one anime that really stuck out, but I can't remember the name of it at all. It was definitely from the 80's, possibly even 70's, and it was a movie or OVA and was dubbed into English. It was about humans fighting off alien invaders.
What I remember was a recurring phoenix that would show up in the sky, a guy in a spaceship breaking a window IN SPACE and then shooting another ship with a gun through said broken window in the middle of space like it was nothing, and at the end they refer to the alien invasion as an "illegal immigrant problem".
Does anyone know which anime I'm talking about? Maybe someone who went to the same panel with a better memory than me?
edit: Found it a year later, it's Defenders of Space in case you're curious.
Edited by ninjamitsuki2openSome webcomic about a flirtatious "witch"? Webcomic
The various bits and pieces I can recall are as follows: The setting is either within an RPG or is very reminiscent of an RPG, as seen by the very skimpy battle armor on the women. One of the main characters is a total two-faced "female dog" who flirts with everyone to get them to do as she wants and throws a fit when it doesn't work. The other main character is either asexual or some other realistic reason why a flirtatious girl wouldn't affect him. Something happened that resulted in the girl sticking around the guy for some punishment reason (I remember it being either jail or being banned, depending on the context of the setting).
open90s kiddie music video Music
I used to have a tape of TLC (the learning channel's) Ready Set Learn kids programming block, that unfortunately I lost. On the tape was a music video that's remained in my head for years. It was a female singer performing on stage at a concert, and the lyrics were: "Digging in the dirt, digging in the dirt, I don't care if it's my new clean shirt" Anybody know what song it might have been or who sung it? Pretty sure she was a children's music artist, and this would've been the 90s
openneed help finnding a creepy music box tune song Music
i cant remember much except for the tune and its the beginning it sounds like Radioheads Paranoid Android
tune is on piano or keyboard and it sounds like a music box has that creepy vibe that fills with dread if thought about too long
Famous or on radio alot during early 2000's or 90's Its a whole song wiith lyrics too
looked for in a band called Archive Stone Temple Pilots or Radiohead and related bands but could not find
kept finding similar ones to no avail
Please help its been driving me crazy
openPersonalizable Thomas the Tank Engine ripoff Western Animation
Can anyone name a personalizable DVD series, where you could put your faces on trains, of which there were at least two episodes, one of which was about going to a land called Tracks-No-More and another of which was about one of their birthdays? The other vehicle characters were a school bus, Uppity-Up the hot-air balloon and Hippie Digger (who wasn't really much of a hippie).
openA VHS toy animal movie. (solved) Film
I remember having a VHS tape as a little kid and I loved to watch this movie. The movie had toy animals in a wild setting, they were medium size plush toys that could stand. The toys kinda looked like the sylvanian family toys. They lived in trees with washing lines happily and then something happened,I think something tried to threatened the animals out of their home but they stayed at the end. The animals wore clothes.They were real toys,the background was probably green screened.The wild setting looked old but it could have been the VHS.
Edited by CatzandstuffopenGang of Children take on spies Film
I haven't actually seen the show myself, but I saw the tvtropes page for it. It takes place in WWII and an American city and involves a Japanese-American who used to be a friend of the adult female character, but now the Japanese-American is working for Imperial Japan, and one of the kids' brother was dishonorably discharged, but that was really a cover story for him to go back home and bust the plot. The group of kids also do something to a shop (I think that it was vandalism) and the friendly police officer tells them that it was bad because the man wasn't Japanese, but Chinese. They then get flowers and apologize to the wife of the man. Could anyone help me please find it?
openEnglish Learning Cartoon With Claymation Western Animation
It was for learning english, i remember the show had “time”, “zone”, “english”, with the title (might be wrong). The logo was a yellow paint splatter and it was probably from BBC.
The story was about an old man with a computer which has this clay characters. It was 90 ish looking and this old man make the characters from clay and they can be alive. The animation was claymotion. I remember the character is similar to plonsters.
I remember that one of the main clay character is orange and looked like a hand. His face is in his body and the hair looks like fingers. He had hands. I remember his name is twig or twik (a big chance that the name is wrong). And the other one is purple with hair looked like a rounded brush. The show was extremely colorful with blue and purple as dominating colors. I am confident of my drawing skills and if this is not clear, i could draw it and show it to you.
There’s one episode where there’s a girl character named ms. Malice which had a frown face and being evil to the characters. The old man turned ms. Malice with a smile and changed her name to Alice. Then she became one of the good characters. I am really certain with this episode.
It was packed with a book for learning english and some plushies of the characters.
open2010s Pop Song Music
I can't find this song and it's likely because I'm getting the lyrics wrong. I remember the chorus being "(...) love the one you're with/sometimes you (it?) feel so sad and sick/but you (...) love the one you're with". I can't find anything with those lyrics so I must be getting it wrong.
From what I remember, it's about a girl who likes a boy despite already having a boyfriend. It's probably a 2012-2016 song that sounds a lot like Ellie Gouding.
Edited by Pichu-kunopenPS2 licensed(?) Game Videogame
I remember that I used to have a collection of demos on a PS 2 game disc. There was a Harry Potter one and a few others that I forget, and a lot were just trailers and not even full demos. This one in particular was centered around a guy who was escaping from a volcano, you have to platform across rock masses in the lava and I remember there being a cave after a little bit with some crystals or something in it, but I always fell before I made it there.
In short: PS 2 game, looks like it's from a Disney movie, Platformer, Volcano level
openI don;t remember the name, it was a series of cartoons Anime
Hi, I am looking for an old cartoon, I don't remember the name, it was about a boy who goes at night in his room and the to his space ship (kind of a racket) and travels throw galaxy on other planets and discovers new worlds, something he is taking his dog some gold dog (maybe a golden retriever). The series is very old, ca colors are faded and it may not contain conversations, just sound similar with Tom and Jerry on this part. Maybe someone else remembers it. Thank you
openI try to find the name of a western movie is watch once when i was young Film
I can only recall the plot but not the name of the film. It the story of a family of settler ( the father was a carpenter, the mother is pregnant and a son) that was on their way to start a new life at the western frontier. The story was told through a diary of the son that was pass down in the family. They arrive at their destination before all other settlers and befriend an old shaman who was following a bear. the shaman help the mother delivery the baby. They also meet a cowboy whom the son look up to and listen to his advice to use the money his father give him to buy a gun instead of a cow. The finale was that the family and their friend had to defense their house from a group of local gangster that though they were prospectors and have gold. In the end they defeated the gangster, the son found new respect for his father, th cowboy leave but gave his gun to the son( the gun became the family heirloom).
openShow about art starring puffin Western Animation
When I was in elementary school I saw this show in art class with a puffin as the main character. The memories are vague, but I think he flew all over the world and traveled through time to meet artists like Van Gogh and Picasso. Every time he landed after flying to a new place he would crash land into the ground. Nothing else I remember other than finding the puffin to be Adorkable as a kid. Doubt any of you guys know what it is, but if you do I'd appreciate it.

As a child back in the mid-nineties, I can recall seeing an episode of a TV Show originally on the air (I believe either 80s or early 90s) about a robot that resembled an average human. The robot in question was played by an adolescent man (so no, this isn't Small Wonders). I can recall one moment in the episode in which the robot was trying to go through a metal detector, but obviously being made of metal, he kept making it go off. The robot even went down to his boxers and set it off and by that point the security guards assumed something was wrong with the metal detector and let him go.
Anyone know the title of the show?