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There was a show similar to a “Black Mirror” style where they had a big twist at the end. I can’t remember a whole lot, but I remember that it starts by showing two men in a bed together who are a couple. One white & one Spanish guy I think, and the Spanish guy is planning to go and see his younger or twin sister to try and help her because she’s been displaying troubled behaviors, and I think she was maybe a recovering addict. The main character’s husband/boyfriend was hesitant about his partner going and worried about him, But he decides to go anyway for his sister. He gets to this eerie cabin/house type of place. It’s dark and I want to say there’s a basement inside too. The sister is possessed or being told what to do by demons/evil spirits in the house. The brother begins to see and experience this evil too. And then the twist at the end is that the partner shows up because his husband/boyfriend has been missing, and the partner and cops find the man dead on the couch (apparently he was actually dead the whole time) from an overdose. Possibly with bugs crawling out of his mouth/his mouth open. I want to say this was like a 20-30 minute episode from a show which had episodes about many different odd scenarios like this, etc. anyone have any idea what this is from? Driving me crazy 😩 thanks
Several Different Works Literature
So, I was browsing online and I found a bunch of comments of people talking about books they couldn't remember the names of. Here are the ones that really intrigued me:
1. "...a book about a boy turning into a yellow bus. The cover really disturbed me as a kid"
2."...a story where a girl drank petrol and turned herself into a car."
3.“Some kid discovered a "new letter" for the alphabet. The letter was this white-skinned, living and sentient creature. For some reason the kid has to keep the letter away from people who are searching for it. At the end, I'm pretty sure the letter is taken away or killed”
4. "I think I remember a story where a kid turns into an inanimate object then dealing sad as their parents ignore them"
5. "children's book... a kid or teenager who was always on their cellphone being transformed into a cellphone with human features at the end." (Edit: I am not the only person searching for this https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=89671&type=ykts )
Does anyone know what these are?
Edit: One more. "I definitely remember, in a similar fashion, a Kafkaesque version of 'I'm a Little Teapot' which has a child grotesquely morphing into a teapot and having relinquished all that made him human by the final illustration...which is just a dainty teapot sitting on a table surrounded by teacups, saucers, and dishes of lemon slices and sugar cubes."
2nd Edit: I found another one "Reminds me of a story of a boy becoming a tree and gets cut down and turned into a cabinet iirc. Gave me nightmares and got paranoid about the furniture watching me." [The second sentence implies that the story said the boy was still aware as a cabinet]
3rd Edit: "An older cousin had a book about a private school and each poem was about a kid enrolled and how they were actually awful (and how they met their end). This sounds like it could have been one of the chapters... But what I'm seeing in the comments is that there were a lot of books like that, apparently. (The poems I remember were about a kid getting eaten by a living arcade machine with a terrifying illustration and an end line something like "BURP! Pac-Man had an early lunch" and a kid who would torment a dog every day, until one day the dog was loose, unbeknownst to them." I only care about the arcade machine one, and NO, it isn't "Cabinet Man"
Edited by sRAMrelevratPuppet media with some alien-lookin' things.
Everything Is Terrible! posted "WHAT WE DO WITH A MENORAH!" last month and I wanted to know if anyone knew the source.
Internet safety video Film
Somewhere from 2011-2013 I watched an internet safety video that was probably from before 2011-2013. It was live action with probably green screened/prop backgrounds. I remember it being on DVD or VHS on a small TV they sat us in front of in a school computer lab. I vividly remember a scene with a woman(?) in a canoe, in a jungle/rainforest setting that was like cardboard cutout-ish. If anyone has any leads, I'd love to know them.
Online animation about real soda that could be different flavors depending on how one opened it Web Original
I may have found it via Pointless Sites or Explorable Explanations
. It was a minimalistic artstyle animation (no shading, lineless, clean shapes) detailing a person's real experience with this sort of soda that flavored itself with the cap, if I remember right, or it just depended on how you opened it.
EDIT: If you know the name of the soda, that might help me find the animation.
Peephole to another world
I remember reading a children's novel about a boy who finds a knife that can cut triangles to look into a different world.
Cartoon With Rocket Girl (No, it's not "Interplanet Janet") Western Animation
So, a while ago I saw a cartoon with a weird... rocket girl? She had a blue-purplish body, I think with little "rocket windows" on her. She also had absurdly red hair, shaped in a way that just kinda reminded me of a paintbrush (you know the look).
I saw this cartoon when I was in kindergarten or 1st grade, and for the longest time I used to think that she was Interplanet Janet, but when I was in 5th grade or so I went and watched IJ and realized this was a different character.
Does anyone know what cartoon this is?
Clock open heart surgery Film
Hiya! I'm looking for a traditionally animated movie I saw on TV about fifteen years ago but can't find.
The movie featured animated clocks as the main characters, alongside some humans. The only bit I remember and which has been driving me mad is a scene set at a circus where a clock trapeze artist does a performance but falls to the ground and smashes herself. The clock main character alongside an elderly "watchmaker" type opens her up to try and fix her by putting her back together. One of the main components she has is her "heart cog", a pulsing heart-shaped gear that is swapped out for another.
Unfortunately, searching for it is quite difficult because Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is dominating the search. Even removing Jack using Boolean isn't helping me find it.
Any aid in finding this movie would be really appreciated.
guy races a dinosaur
all i remember is this one scene where some guy races I think a koreaceratops, with some giant theropod dinosaur on a track field.
Funny one night stand run in Live Action TV
There was a show where 2 people had a one night stand and when they wake up the woman’s like I don’t usually do this and the guys like when women say that I means they usually do do this and then they run into each other at a restaurant when they’re on dates and the woman sends over drinks and the server the woman didn’t order alcohol for his date because she wasn’t sure if she was of age ( it was meant in a funny way) the guy then sends over a bread basket and gets the server to say something like he wasn’t sure if her date had spent all of his money on crack, then they end up running into each other in front of the restaurant bathrooms and end up kissing
2 girls chained Live Action TV
It could also be a movie?? So all I remember is that there are two teens/young women one of whom is blonde are kidnapped and are chained/shackled around one ankle one of them manages to pick the lock but the guy comes back and takes one of them away
Two (Edit: Now Three) Pieces Of Literature Literature
1. A hard sci-fi short story involving humans on Mars. The main character is waiting for robots to finish building her a little one-woman research station so she can study... something. I forget what. The robots are actually explained in detail: A swarm of coordinated mini-rovers that can convert Martian dirt into a building material. They're smart enough to overcome most obstacles, and can do things like using a big rock as part of a wall. So, the main character goes off to the building site to investigate what's taking the building rovers so long, and finds that they've run into a big alien artifact (think like the Monolith from 2001). And that's it. Random detail: There was also mention of a "crane-printer", which I imagine is a crane that acts like a giant 3D printer to build stuff.
2. A book (part of a series) that I read in elementary school. The protagonist is a "kid inventor"-type character who comes from a long line of geniuses, and the villain is from a long line of people who stole the ideas of people from the main kid's family. He's also a teacher at the kid's school. So, the villain is recovering from the effects of something that happened in the previous book. He got... disintegrated or something, he managed to mostly pull himself back together but he doesn't have a shadow and if I recall correctly he also doesn't weigh very much. The "no shadow" thing gets pointed out when his pet parrot (I think Polly Wants a Microphone was in effect) perches on his shoulder, and someone notices that they can see the parrot's shadow but not his. (But then shouldn't they have also been able to see that shadow of his clothes? Or is he still wearing the outfit he was wearing when he got disintegrated?) The only other thing I remember is that the book opens with a diagram of either the protagonist's or the villain's family tree (maybe both, side by side so we can see who stole what idea).
3. A book about a girl who develops superpowers. I don't remember much, but one of her powers was turning into a liquid form. I think her liquid form might've been silvery (think like mercury), and maybe she could only stay in it for a limited time? Also, maybe one of her other powers was super strength?
Edited by sRAMrelevratNo Title Western Animation
I half remember from my child hood a movie or TV show that involved some talking kitchen utensils. The show took place on kitchen shelves (and as far as I can remember there were no humans) and had a scene that involved some kind of rat poison or similar. (This scene stuck out for me as I was around 6 yrs old, eating rice in the dark by myself and cried because I began to think my rice was poison)
There was also a creepy toaster who screamed at one point(also terrifying) Whether this is related to the poison or not, I cannot recall but it is firmly linked in my mind to the poison thing.
I would have seen it in the mid-90s as it was a VHS that was borrowed from the library. It's always bothered me that I've never been able to find it and whenever I try, the only thing returned is The Brave Little Toaster. It wasn't a cartoon but somewhere in the realm of James And The Giant Peach style animation. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about or have I just made it up?
Where is this clip from? (SOLVED) Western Animation
So, a video I was watching used a clip that I would like to know the source of. The clip is CGI animation.
It starts with a possibly-teenage girl leaning around a doorway. She is Caucasian, and has brown hair pulled back in a braid, green eyes, and glasses. Her shirt is black with a red collar.
The camera then cuts to behind her, so we can see the room she's looking into. On the wooden floor is an assortment of toys: Some kind of red robot, a pink... thingy that looks like a collection of Easter eggs, a plush-looking toy of someone in a blue suit and mask, a kinda lizard-looking action figure, a "buff barbarian" action figure, and two different action figures of people in Powered Armor (One red, one green. The green one is bigger).
The girl is saying something, but the video didn't use the audio from the clip so I have no idea what she said.
Then the camera cuts to a close-up of the red Powered Armor action figure, showing that under its transparent green visor it has a nervous expression. Also, we see that the action figure isn't purely red: it also has golden and blue sections of its armor, and its joints are black. Then we cut back to the girl, who looks around for a second before ducking back behind the wall.
The context in the video was mentioning how the toys in Toy Story would "go inanimate" when humans around, but NONE of the characters in the clip are from Toy Story. (I suspect it might be from a short film.)
Edited by sRAMrelevratEarly 2000s documentary/movie about a sea lion/seal rescue? Film
I remember watching a movie or a documentary in the early 2000s about a sea lion rescue/rehabilitation center. I can remember that at one point the staff are very sad because a sea lion they rescued has some sort of poisoning and is going to die. For some reason I think Mercury poisoning?
Video game that markiplier played, has painting puzzle
A horror video game played by Markplier. Since that doesn't narrow things down much the one thing I remember most is a painting puzzle. In a room there is a number of paintings that must be aligned according to a recording describing each painting.
show from late 90/early2000s Live Action TV
I only remember the plot of a single episode, I think it was on YTV. In the episode a young girl comes across another girl who appears her age but turns out to be hundreds of years old and her parents were perhaps thousands of years old, their family just aged really slow. I think it was a mystery type show each episode involving supernatural elements, and 90% sure main character was girl maybe 16.
action movie about hindu gods Western Animation
i watched this thing in mid/late 2000s on a (probably pirate) dvd. it's some kind of cgi animation. the first setting is a modern city, the protagonist is a western blonde girl with a pet dog, living in a skyscraper. she meets some dude when her dog runs in front of his motorcycle. the dude will be important to the plot later. her friend is kidnapped or something, and someone is targeting the blonde girl, th above mentioned dude is helping her. the plot revolves around hinduism and their mythology, i remember the goddess kali and krishna, bengal tigers, labyrinth ruins etc. the bad guy looks like some kind of criminal organisation boss, he has resources and like hologram technology. any ideas?
kids' show about spotting the difference? Western Animation
the only voice in the show was the narrator's. feminine. scottish accent. in fact, i’m pretty sure the show was scottish, or at least from some gaelic-speaking country, but i don’t remember the narrator speaking gaelic or scots at any point. or maybe she did, but it wasn’t in the episodes i watched. the animation was pretty simple, bold shapes and colors and all that. also the characters were stylized anthropomorphic animals ( i remember one was a zebra, but i’m at a loss for the other one(s) ) and they didn’t speak. it had an interactive component, where two pictures would appear on-screen and the audience was given time to find the differences between the two. after the time was up, the differences would be pointed out and the animals would do a cute little dance. then the narrator would say a rhyme, which i don’t remember, but it ended with “you just found an opposite!” or something.
No Title Anime
I remember two different Train Mecha anime that I don't know the name of.
The first one is about a bunch of living train robot-things (they look like modern trains, not steam trains) that can turn into full trains that have passengers but mostly walk around in human-sized forms instead. The only thing about it that I remember is that a one of the Villains (either the main one or the Dragon) is a black and red train mech with a split personality. One personality is nice and silly, while the other is dangerous. He switches between personalities whenever he sees a Kappa. I think he has two other giant robot pets who are also evil?
The other train mech show is about a kid who has a Train Toy in a Sci-Fi world with a Virtual Reality / Cyberspace thing. An Evil AI or Alien is basically using the Cyberspace to cause mayhem in the real world, and the kid has to use his Train to upload into Cyberspace and pilot a Giant Robot to stop it. I remember one of the later villains being a giant robot so massive that the protagonists can run around in it (like, a Unicron expy or something), and that the AI Alien Villain eventually creates a Bishie human avatar for some reason. Also, that the Train Mech combines with a different mech to get wings called V-mode or something.
Thanks to anyone who can help.