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Show called 1899 Live Action TV
I'm trying to see if we have a page for a television show called 1899. it's about an immigrant ship that finds another ship that went missing several months ago, and then things start getting Mind Screw -y
I've tried to look for it but i just get other media that were released that year. this show came out in 2022
TV show with an animated scene about Albert Hoffman discovering LSD. Live Action TV
It was on the Science Channel or History Channel, and the whole show wasn't animated, which is why I categorized it the way I did.
The animation looked like early CGI, kind of the Money for Nothing music video, only less cartoony.
I remember he was ride a bike and basically going to hell as recent of testing the drug.
thai tv drama with creepy lady and old house Live Action TV
saw this on my grandparents' tv a couple years ago.
some thai tv drama thing, probably on channel 3 or channel 7. might’ve been a horror/mystery show. took place in some old house ( that the main character might’ve inherited or something? ), might’ve also been a period drama or have some historical element to it?
there was a scene where the main character was sneaking through the hallway at night and he accidentally dropped a vial or bottle of some sort. but when he went to get it, he found that someone else was there. there was this lady with short, somewhat wavy hair and wide eyes with dark circles underneath, like she hadn't been sleeping for like 23897648219 years. she might’ve been wearing sort of old-timey clothes ( not too old-timey, i say something like you’d see during the reign of king rama v ). she stared at him as she held the vial and started reciting the old lullaby(?), จันทร์เอ๋ยจันทร์เจ้า.
i remember seeing a later episode where the creepy lady actually teamed up with the main character for some reason. don’t remember much details, but they were sat together and eavesdropping on someone else who was in the house with them.
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Earl grey tea commercial Live Action TV
A You Tube commercial I used to see all the time, for a tea company, in which this dude was dressed as like an 18th century aristocrat called "Lord Earl Grey" and gets punched out by a regular looking dude. The regular dude then says something about how people who feel intimidated by fancy tea companies should buy from this company instead.
Commercial with woman making men melt Live Action TV
The commercial was a beautiful woman walking down the street. Any time she passes by a guy we see him suddenly turn into a splash or puddle of water.
One shot showed a close-up of two men sweating as she walks by, right before they explode into water. The woman seems unphased, even proud of this.
May have been an ad for clothing or makeup.
Clip source from a Caddicarus episode Live Action TV
In a Caddicarus video titled "The Exhausting World of Making a Caddicarus Video
", at 31:16 he plays a clip of a father taking down stuff in his son's room, insisting he has to grow up. Where does this clip come from? Based on the production design it looks like a '90s or early 2000s american television show (hence why this is listed under Live Action TV), but I can't identify any specific show.
Live-action Disney Channel special or movie Live Action TV
Now this one I may or may not have dreamed, because it was late at night, I was a kid, and I was tired, but I remember seeing bits and pieces of this on Disney Channel sometime in the late 90s.
It may have taken place at a camp, possibly an all-girls summer camp or something, I'm not sure, but there were only two scenes that I actually saw on the TV screen.
First of which were all of these kids (again, I remember it being all girls) screaming and freaking out, because I think their tents or something had been destroyed while they were still inside, and there may have been a pick-up truck that sped off into the night (so maybe something was afoot and whoever was in the truck was making a get-away or something). While the counselors came over to console the frightened kids, there was one girl in particular the others were lashing out - I don't know if she actually had something to do with the mishap, or they just believed that she did, I just remember she was crying while the others basically just gave her a verbal tongue-lashing... even as the scene was drawing to a close and the others started to walk away, one taller girl just had to pause, turn to her, and say something to the effect of, "You ruined everything!" while the girl just stood there crying her eyes out.
The only other scene I remember (because I had stepped into the bathroom at this point to brush my teeth before bed) was that same girl was now in a really big and plush-looking bed that seemed to overlook either Disney World or Disneyland, while other girls were dancing in circles around her bed and singing "Hip Hip Pooh-Ray" to her, and as the others broke away, one of them handed the girl a Winnie the Pooh plushie to sleep with.
The Twilight Zone-type show Live Action TV
It’s a The Twilight Zone-type series... american one from the 80s or 90s... This one episode, this college girl went to this empty historic village trying to get a summer job that fits with her major, and the old man hired her basically right away and she was asked to/agreed to start right away because she had some free time/why not, and told to go through this door which turned out to be a portal to the past and she was super slow to realise this and thought they were all way into character and was annoyed/weirded out they wouldn’t break character, and when she lit up a fag (cigarette) with a lighter, the couple whose house she was in got spooked and didn’t know what that fire stick was and that meant she is a witch, and the people there started riling up against her and were going to burn her at the stake but the wife in the couple whose house she was in, Sarah, realised she’s not a witch and is from the future, and then it turns out she is the daughter of the old man who hired her in a hurry and sent her there, because he was the mayor and wanted to get famous as a witch-hunter by sending people from modern-day (which was the 80s or early 90s) back then and they’d believe the person is a witch and burn them at the stake or hang them (I can’t remember but probably hanging because it’s the US not the UK) and he’d get the credit for it, so Sarah convinced her it IS the past not reenactment and helped her escape just in the nick of time, but she got killed for helping her escape instead...
I’ve checked all or at least most of the possible series and can’t find it! Thank you! And have a nice safe day!
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Bubble magic and music video old-school (80s-90s) VHS program, singers looked Hawaiian Live Action TV
This was back in about the 90s or so, when public libraries in Canada had VHS rentals, and this one program/song really stuck with me and I can't find it anywhere. The show itself went back and forth between a guy doing really neat bubble magic tricks, like attaching two big bubbles together and making a ring of tiny ones at the join then making them spin, and music videos from two singers that looked like they are a couple. The guy singer had long black hair and looked Hawaiian or Southeast Asian, the lady also had long dark hair and looked more Latino but could also be Hawaiian.
They had several songs and duets together, one in front of crashing ocean waves against rocks, another was a wedding-like scene, and another which I remember most clearly was the guy barefoot wearing white in a black room studded with little lights like stars, very simple setup, and singing a 80-90s-like ballad about someone being their shining/shooting star, doing airplane motions now and then, one move had him imitating a beating heart over his chest during the pre-chorus, etc; typical 90s edutainment cheese. The only lyrics I remember are the chorus, which are something along the lines of "You are my shining start, no matter where you are, you shine your light upon me", which makes it IMPOSSIBLE to search as so many other songs have those or similar lyrics. Did anyone else see this/remember this, and know what this show was called or the singers' names at all?
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Where's this clip from? Live Action TV
I need to know the context for this.
80s TV with U2 song Live Action TV
I remember a tv show in the late 80s-maybe early 90s on US major network TV… I think the main subjects were high school aged. It was a drama… this episode a group of teens (?) we’re driving around trying to find a friend who had ran away, I think! While they were looking U2 was playing “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” … I remember even at a young age being very moved by the scene. Ideas? Thx!
Sexy British sci-fi series? Live Action TV
Late one night in the summer of 2008, I ended up on that "weird part of YouTube" and found a video clip from what I believe to have been from something that was in a similar vein as Series/Torchwood (but I don't believe it was actually Torchwood) for three reasons. A. It was very sexually charged. B. It seemed that something otherworldly/extraterrestrial was going on. And C. The characters spoke with British accents.
Anyway, here's what happened that I can recall: a couple were in a bedroom where they were recording their escapades, and all the while, I believe they were being watched by someone... or something through a hole in their wall: all we see through the hole on the other side is an eyeball in a green-lit room, and more the couple get into their love-making, the more we see the eyeball widening and jittering (I think it was implied whoever or whatever was spying on them was having A Date with Rosie Palms). And just as the couple are about to climax, a couple of nerds barge into the room, presumably to inform them of something important, only for them to apologize for their interruption in a rather cheeky/naughty manner.
And no, it's not Friday the 13th (2009), even though there is a similar scene in that movie, it clearly was not Jason Voorhees watching the couple through a cabin window.
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Dad, baby, computer, model Commercial Live Action TV
I am trying to recall a commercial from some years ago. I don't remeber the product, just the premise. A baby is upset late at night. The father takes the baby to the computer where he pulls up photos of a sexy woman model, which both of them enjoy. Then sometime later the front door opens and in walks the model. She is the guy's wife and mother of the baby.
2000's Disney or Nickelodeon Show Live Action TV
I remember this was a live action show, akin to Zoey 101. The main character, a girl, does something bad, and this breaks "The Girl Code". She later has a dream where her she sees her brain as one big file room, and has to resolve the bad thing she did. The episode ends with her understanding what "The Girl Code" is. Any help would be appreciated.
Early 90s Disney or Nickelodeon show Live Action TV
I don't know why this is suddenly coming back into my mind, but I recall it being a live action show from the early 90s, it was either Disney Channel or Nick (since Cartoon Network didn't do live action yet), and I recall it was a group of teens who hung out with some kind of robot who could have very well been an early Teletubby before Teletubbies were even a thing. The robot had a TV set for a body, and I believe a VHS tape for a head (with the spools for his eyes, and the actual tape ribbons for his hair) - I seem to recall he also spoke like a Surfer Dude.
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What's the show where there was a family who had a conflict with elderly Live Action TV
I don't exactly remember and don't know how to describe it but as you seen the video the major factors are:
-some teenage girl who often becomes a Butt-Monkey -her younger brother a deliquent -a friend with a cowboy hat who has some shapeshi(f)ting abilities -a mother who doesn't approve her daugther behavior -and a house maiden (grandma maybe not sure), who usually plays the antagonist role in the story
This video is the only source i could find from my memory. I can't find it on this site either, was looking through some tropes and got nothing.
What's the show where there was a family who had a conflict with elderly Live Action TV
I don't exactly remember and don't know how to describe it but as you seen the video the major factors are:
-some teenage girl who often becomes a Butt-Monkey -her younger brother a deliquent -a friend with a cowboy hat who has some shapeshi(f)ting abilities -a mother who doesn't approve her daugther behavior -and a house maiden (grandma maybe not sure), who usually plays the antagonist role in the story
This video is the only source i could find from my memory. I can't find it on this site either, was looking through some tropes and got nothing.
Take off pants Live Action TV
TV series in which a woman knocks on the door of a man dressed only in briefs, and before he opens it she takes off her pants.
Psychology professor guy meets cute with woman, his neighbors all get involved Live Action TV
It's a one season show, short even. The professor guy either meets or sees the woman and tries to track her down. Meanwhile she is a caterer, I think, also involved with the university, and they keep missing each other. His neighbors are always in his apartment, causing a ruckus and giving advice. One of them is pregnant through the course of the show. They finally get together last episode I think. It was supercute and funny, but I can't remember the name. I do remember that the producers were two first time producers, because they loved the script and wanted to make the show. Maybe from around 10,15 years ago. (I think it also had different names in different countries.) would appreciate any clues/actual name, thank you!
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Late 90s/Early 2000s sci-fi show episode Live Action TV
I remember it was a sci-fi show that aired in the late 90s or early 2000s on the Sci-Fi Channel. It was the end of the episode, with the man and woman characters on the ship struggling to stand up during turbulence or some kind of attack on the ship. The woman is dressed in black evening wear and kicks off her high heels to get a better grip on the floor. Later on, it shows her kidnapped and strapped to some kind of torture device, but the male protagonist realizes she's a hologram created by the villains because she's wearing the shoes she discarded earlier. He shoots the hologram with some kind of laser or phaser or something. I've looked up every sci-fi show I can remember from that period but can't determine which series it was ... or which episode.