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openGBA Game About an Ant? Videogame
I remember playing this a while back while visiting a distant cousin's house. I don't remember much, but the player character looked like an ant, but stood on two legs I think. It was a platformer, as I specifically remember struggling with jumping on small floating platforms, right to left (?) with a darker colored background. I think it was like,the inside of a giant tower? Any help is appreciated, I've been thinking about this for weeks.
openDon't know
A short program - maybe 10-15 minutes long shown on British TV probably in the early to mid 1970's. I think it may have been shown at 10.30 pm. I seem to recall that it was set in a Chinese or Japanese garden and an experienced man answered a younger man's questions. They seemed to be dressed in Chinese or Japanese garb of 17th or 18th century.
openkids choose your own adventure books Literature
A slightly more modern version of choose your own adventure, this series featured a boy and (I think) his robot dog companion. They were illustrated and had choices where each decision moved you onto a different page and you had to find the right path that wouldn't get you killed/trapped etc.I think the boy was blonde and I remember a story about a problem on a space station and I think there was also one about a hall/castle of mirrors.
openMurder Mystery Film
Hi, I can’t remember anything too descriptive but I remember the description of the show was about a man who was helping the police solve murders around the time of Jack the Ripper. The preview picture looked like a man in a bowler hat.
openSimilar composition used in three different songs Music
The songs "Aerodynamic" by Daft Punk, "A.I." by OneRepublic, and "Do You Like My Wang(TM)?" by Freezepop all have sections involving arpeggios with a structure that sounds really familiar to me as if they came from a specific classical work. I couldn't find a specific reference to one in my research. Timestamps on the album versions are as follows:
- 1:00 to the end for "Aerodynamic".
- 3:08 to 3:26 for "A.I."
- 2:27 to the end for "Do You Like My Wang(TM)?"
openOne-shot Sleeping Beauty webcomic that turned gory [EDIT: FOUND] Webcomic
Years ago I saw a short comic online that disturbed me at the time and I'd like to find it again just to convince myself it actually existed. It featured the prince going to wake Sleeping Beauty, but as soon as he breaks the curse she rapidly ages through the entire duration she'd been asleep, putrefies, awakens as a zombie, and kills him. Anyone have any idea?
Edited by BreakingchainsopenA girl, a dog, and a magic necklace
Ok so I remember watching this show as a kid. It was about this girl and her dog. The girl also had a magic necklace that let her talk to her dog and it would take her to the realm type place, with more dog that could talk. And the cats in the show where all evil? This is all I can remember
openWired space anime? Anime
I remember watching this wired anime it was about a kid that went to space and he met a few girls and Be came a captain of a ship and the girls the crew of it? I think that was the second season though, I can’t remember much of it. I do remember it was a funimation anime.
open"The Dog and the Thrush"? Literature
Okay, this is perhaps a silly request, but I'm looking for an Aesop's fable that goes roughly as follows:
"A man had two pets, a dog and a thrush. The man would endlessly prompt the thrush to sing, but the thrush refused to sing. Eventually, the man threatened to kill the thrush if it would not sing by tomorrow, but it still would not sing. When the man had left, the dog asked the thrush, 'why won't you sing?' And the thrush said, 'my song led me to be captured, so now I won't sing.' And the dog said, 'there's no use in refusing now that you've already been caught.'"
I'm sure I've seen it, but every name I can think of to seek it under comes up with nothing similar.
openKnight Rider-based comedy/parody that I saw on TV between 2000-2010 Film
I think it was a movie rather than a series episode. There was a male protagonist, and he had a talking car. I think the car had a female voice, but I'm not sure. There was a scene in which the protagonist (or maybe it was someone else) walks into a girl's house, which from the outside looks like a small, cheap wooden house, or maybe even an old caravan/trailer, I don't remember exactly. When he goes in, it turns out that the house is actually way bigger on the inside, and it is an impressive mansion.
I remember seeing it (or fragments of it) twice in the 2000s. Maybe it actually was a Knight Rider episode or movie, but I don't think Knight Rider would have such weird moments as the aforementioned house situation, and I don't have the time to watch all of Knight Rider right now to check it. Maybe it was just my dream, and such a movie doesn't actually exist, but I think that it is worth asking here, maybe someone knows what it was. Also, I don't know if it's important or not, but I live in Poland, and I watched it on Polish TV, but I'm certain that it was not a Polish movie.
openPenguin Cartoon I Can't Remember The Name Of Western Animation
I remember watching this cartoon I rented on DVD a lot while I was a small kid. It was about five or maybe four penguins of differing colors. I believe it was an educational show as I remember them counting and showing the numbers on screen. The animation itself was 3D animation and I remember it being quite cute compared to other 3D animated cartoons at the time. The time frame I'd say is somewhere between 2005-2009. Now that I think about it, this might've been an animated movie instead of a series. But I'm not really sure.
openLong shot, cause I barely remember, but it's killing me Western Animation
I watched this when I was about 4 or 5, so everything's foggy, but from what I remember it was about a group of troll or brownie-like creatures who were hiding from humans. I think they mightve had a human ally or two, and I remember a scene where they slide through a drain pipe or laundry chute or something, maybe to rescue one of the other creatures. It's definitely older, maybe 70s-80s, and had a somewhat clunkier Don Bluth animation style. (It's NOT Borrowers or the Littles. I've tried to Google it but have found nothing.)
open[FOUND] Anime/Korean Cartoon about Toy Mons Anime
Edit: Found it, it is called Uniminipet. I remember the title was either in korean or japanese, it was about a boy with a pendant who met with a blue cat toy. He would find and deactivate toy mons that wreak havoc in the town and store them in a storage or toy shop.
The supporting cast was:
- A professor who gave the boy binoculars that identify toys
- A girl that also has a pendant and unknowingly keeps the antagonist toy in her house
The toys I remember:
- The blue cat that could 'evolve' and transform into a stronger form, he also feared snakes.
- A feminine orb-like toy that is infatuated with the boy
- A toy that somewhat resembles Kingler
- The evil toy that looks like a ball with 3 legs and an antenna
I also remember that at some point they had to go to another world, presumably the toy world. There could be an episode where they visited an abandoned house. Either the opening or the ending had the boy and his toys on a hot air balloon floating over a flower field. This is all the info I have.
Edited by YosefuopenTrying to guess the next musical hell episode Film
As the caption says, I’m trying to figure out what the next episode of musical hell will be (so I’m impatient; sue me). Here’s what I know: it’s a movie musical that could generally be considered bad, and that contains “probably the only time a pair of black cops planted evidence on a white man resulting in an absurdly severe sentence for drug possession” (Diva’s words). Anybody wanna take a guess?
rollin' on dubs
openA boy claims to be a decendat of royalt but he isn't. Live Action TV
SO there was a US TV show on in the 90's or the 2000's where this young African-American boy is one of the characters. It was set in a high school - and this episode had the character assigned a "genealogy" project. He then claims to be the great-great-grandson of a price.
He basks in this until the truth comes out - and the moral of the story is delivered.
But- unusual of a Teen/Tween show - the kid has an Imagine Spot where his real ancestor, a sharecropper, speaks to him. The "ghost" (for lack of a better term) asks the boy if he is ashamed of him and why did he lie?
An yes, you can PM me.
I want to know what show this was. This was a great episode in an otherwise forgettable TV show.
Edited by TairaMaiopenMoths that pop upon contact with light Western Animation
White moths with bulbous eyes came out of a cereal box and flew upstairs to where a boy was sleeping and woke him up. He didn't realise it was a moth because he didn't have his glasses on and when he turned his bedside lamp on, the moth popped into dust on contact with light.
I can't remember where this was from. This scene has haunted my nightmares for years.
Edited by Clanger00openOlder Newgrounds platformer flash, something to do with not trusting the narrator Videogame
I remember very little about the game except the final sequence which I remember vividly. At the end of each level, you would walk into a column of light which would take you to the next level. The final level, however, would reset every time you walked into the light. To defeat the level, you had to wait in front of the column until the light dwindles and goes out, and you then walk through a corridor where the narrator delivers a threatening monologue as eyelids on the wall open as you walk past, until the final room where you are made to face your shadow that mirrors your moves.
openKids TV Show Live Action TV
There was a tv show for kids and it started with a “P” But I forgot the name of it. I used to watch it. The characters were a blue monkey and a pink dinosaur and a elephant, Reply If you know the name.

This has been driving me crazy. I'm very sure it's from a TV show. I strongly believe it's either from a medical show or a cop show. I don't have much to go on. All I can remember extremely clearly is a man (white, average build, clean shaven), smashing his face into a mirror. I believe he does it in order to trick a girl, (who was definitely a main character), into believing someone else attacked him. Because he's jealous I think? Its so so little to go on. It definitely also happened at the very end of the episode. I remember a train station as well. I maybe think he stalks the girl there? He is definitely stalkerish and and creepy. It wasn't just the 'case of the episode'. It was a main characters storyline.
Edited by StellaCross12