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openSitcom from the 90s to early 2000s
I remember a scene from a sitcom that must've aired sometime in the nineties or early two thousands. In the scene, the Dad tells his sons he has superpowers and used his super speed to see if they cleaned their rooms. When his older son is skeptical, he claims he's just jealous that his little brother has superpowers and he doesn't. The younger son asks what his superpower is and the Dad says he can shoot fire out of his tongue when he rolls it up. Naturally, the little boy tries breathing fire.
openTrying to find tv show I watches
It's about a teen I think he's from Australia or newzealand and he's working for these bad guys and I think he's trying to find hes missing dad or find out who killed him he becomes friends with some one from he's school who is a genius and they team up the first episode he's breaking into a house to steal a necklace he climbs the building with ease and he opens a safe and finds jewly and he rides a skateboard not sure if the dad is dead and he could probably be trying to find out what happend to him the guys hes working with could be responsible he also has a older sister who is trying to keep him out-of trouble he's hair is kinda long i think it's curly in one episode I think he finds he's dad car and it's not conspiracy 365 the teen isnt white
openMafia TV show, long episodes 10-20 years ago
Can you please find a show for me here is its plot 2 kids lost their mom, mafia killed her and want to kill these kids as well cuz they saw too much one random woman is running away at the start when she took the kids they ran away with a boat from one harbor with them to somewhere else this woman does not know much about them but knows their mom got killedshe is trying to save them by contacting police firstly but unfortunately, a high ranking police detective or smth like that is corrupted and trying to get these 2 kids only for the mafiaso she became wanted and marked as kidnapper of themcuz she cannot rely on the police, she trying to get to the paris for a help some ppl finds out she is that wanted one in the train while she was trying to escapeshe came to the one house where was her partner or smth like that and old man who owns that big house, but later mafia arrives there, trying to get info on where are these kids and that woman, then mafia kills both cuz they dont wanna cooperate anyways one of the kids saw that, and that corrupted cop saw him as well, and makes gestures so that kid can leavethat corrupted cop starting disliking his cooperation with that mafia and their actions, so he would like to change the sides, but ofc he cannot do that so quickly and simply, otherwise he might die kids were like 12-13 that woman was mature, brown hair ig, was not very skinny there was also one scene which happened after the train incident, where she tried to disguise herself one the girl was sick so she tried to get her help one doctor contacted them and invited them to his house he acted like does not know them but he knew that doctor just recognised them from the TV where it was showing her being WANTED but they escaped the episodes are long and it was released about 10-20 years ago
openDiamond Brothers book with a coded message Literature
I was going to see if one of the books in the Diamond Brothers series had an example of a coded message, but I forgot which one.
I remember one scene in which someone was given a letter that seemed innocuous, with "Ma" talking about how things are going. It began "Bad news, I'm afraid." and said something about the recipient's granddad being in hospital, if I recall correctly. However, it turned out that the first letter of every other word created a message when they were put together. Said message was something along the lines of "BIG ED TAKING OVER, COME HOME AT ONCE." I also remember that the titular brothers were in police custody, but I might be conflating it with my memory of another book since they frequently ended up there, at least once for wasting police time.
It's definitely not "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" since the brothers never got arrested in that book.
Edited by RiolugirlopenPollution Pirates Videogame
There was an Edutainment Game I vaguely remember playing at school in the late 90s (97-98?). I think there were like four missions but the only one I remember playing was called Pollution Pirates.
It had like a live-action video of these two guys on a boat one was older and the other was tall and skinny. They were dumping stuff in the water.
I don’t remember the gameplay but I remember at the end when you won they showed the two guys getting locked in a jail cell.
openHelping my mom find a book about a billionaire Literature
A recent book (the kind you’d find in Facebook communities) that my mom is looking for the name of.
The basic plot is that a billionaire goes into hiding, but silences his wife by giving her $500 million, telling her to never tell anyone about him. The billionaire vanishes, but unbeknownst to him, the woman was pregnant. Now with a son, the billionaire returns for them.
openSpace adventure with a group of 4 Videogame
I remember seeing this in around the early 2010s, but I recall seeing some sort of space adventure game that has a group of 4 people. One of them could even get a randomized superpower. I think the last section of the game involved a parkour section
openTeenager's Lies Coming True Film
American, mid-2000s. A crass comedy about a teenager boy who gains the power to make his lies come true. His life falls apart because of the unforeseen consequence of said lies.
One lie was that his mum and dad were a rock star and a fashion designer, which leads to them filing for divorce.
Any help is great. Thanks.
resolved Card game Anime Anime
On Cheez TV or Toasted TV there was an Anime series that based around a card game sorta like Yu-Gi-Oh!
Elements I remember include
- Believe there four main characters
- The male hot headed boy protagonist
- Shorter glasses wearing boy who was The Smart Guy
- A girl who was friends with them
- A slightly ditzy girl who was new to the area and was mostly used to ask questions about the game so it could be explained to her and thereby to the audience
- Before each game the players would hold out their decks in front of them and shuffle them
- One game has the protagonist playing the game outside in near a waterway and some storm clouds start rolling in. The opponent points to the sky and makes a speech about how the storm is harbinger of his victory. The opponent gets exactly the cards he needs for his tactics and while the others are wondering how the ditzy girl points out that he swapped his shuffled deck for an unshuffled one while they look up at the storm clouds in the sky.
- The characters going through rooms beating top players until the come to a girl's room and while they are looking for the occupant, a phone starts to ring and the ditzy girl answers. It turns out it's the ditzy girl's room and she is the player, pretending not to know about the game for some reason I forget and have a game.
openan online essay that discusses the unfortunate implications of trauma defining a superpower
Trying to find an online essay that discusses the Unfortunate Implications of trauma defining what superpower that people in a universe get.
Edited by MaladyopenA Mon(?) animated series where the heroes explore a highly technological Ghost City Western Animation
This was back in Italy during the summer of 2009, the same time period I was watching Bakugan, Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, and even Mix Masters, the latter of which I rediscovered thanks to you people again. Well, it wasn't the only obscure Mon series that I almost forgot about, that I watched in 2009.
It was a Low Fantasy/Clock Punk-like setting; the characters had these Mons that they could summon from and store in dice-like items. These Mons could have been artificial in nature, and at least The Smart Guy's Mon looked like a robot. I remember it looked like Western animation (as in, it didn't look like an anime), not sure if American or European; it might even had 2D Visuals, 3D Effects.
I didn't see many episodes of it, but I remember one of them pretty well: it involved a city that locked its inhabitants in devices similar to the ones used to keep the Mons, and use them as Living Batteries. The result was a city that was way mote technologically advanced compared to the rest of the setting (it even had vending machines), but was completely empty. The episode ended with the Villain of the Week, that was responsible for the state of this Ghost City, being converted in one of these Living Batteries off-screen. Does that ring any bells to anybody?
Edited by TMH-Sir-Iron-VomitopenLooking for movie, about father and son. (please please please) Film
This movie tells the story of a father and young son, the father has a sickness, and he is the one that takes care of his son, they also live in a small, poor, and tight community. It's modern setting, at some point the son receives a chocolate cake for his birthday, and the father would pick up trash to make money. The son and father are the main plot, it's all focused on them, mostly the father.
The movie might be Turkish. i think there's a part where the kid goes out to help him collect trash, the father had a beard, they both had brown hair, both were white, the kid was pretty small too.
That's all, please and thank you. It's a matter of great urgency.
Edited by emilydickinson7openOld ELA horror book Literature
A story about - and some details might be wrong - these people. They all went to a masquerade party held by a very rich man. Every room, of which there were seven, in the rich man's mansion had a color to it. The rule in the party was that every time the clock struck, the party-goes would move into the next room. As the clock chimed, the party-goers moved into the red room, then the orange room, then the yellow room - you get the idea. They grew more nervous, however. By the time they got to the seventh room, the host of the party - who also wore a mask and danced - killed somebody at the party.
I can't remember who they killed, I can't remember character names if any were given, I can't remember what POV it was in (though I think it was first person from someone who wasn't the host)
openVetinari used to look fat Literature
so, I know this exists somewhere and the page on vetinari talks about it but offers no link or title.
Since the Patrician in Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic was so different lots of people had supposed it was in fact not Vetinari. That's untill Pratchett himself came along and said that it was Vetinari but he wasn't that good at writing him at the time.
Part of the fans refused to believe him - he's only the author, what does he know? - and part of the fans decided he had gone on a diet (Pratchett himself suggested he had lost weight due to the stress of the job).
But there came along someone who wrote a short story - and posted it and it was lovable and Pterry himself liked it - about how the Patrician wasn't really fat. You remember that candied jellyfish he used to eat all the time? it was from some kind of blowfish and retained the blowing ability. He looked fat. He had to actually pay attention not to be to agile because he didn't weight what he looked. He just used it to lull the other guild leaders into a false sense of security while he consolidated his power. The moment he decided to make his move he would just need to stop eating the jellyfish and wait until the toxin left his body. A pity really, he did find the candied jellyfish quite palatable...
So anyway, I have no idea of where I read the story the first time or how I got there. There may or may not have been a post by Pterry himself. Help please, my ability to find things on the internet is in the negative numbers
openNo Title Film
I only watched a small scene ten years ago. I remember being implicit that they were in a type of apocalypsis scenario, they could not fall asleep or they were turned into something like zombies or maybe they became part of the hive mind or smt like that. The scene showed a mother with her son in a shopping I think. It had a greenish filter I think. Ty in advance.
openMatch 3+ Magic Flow Puzzle Game Videogame
I vaguely remember playing a certain puzzle game on my grandma’s computer. You’d have a rather large level (like, multiple screens large I believe) on a square grid, where every tile had some colour of gem on it. Your task is to guide a flow of… mana energy? Towards some destination. Along the path, stone tiles would interrupt your progress, and you had to form links of gems above them to break them. Links would be formed by clicking on one gem, then dragging outwards (even diagonally) to other gems of the same colour. The longer the chain, the bigger and more powerful a bonus explosion at the chain’s tip would be, sometimes it could even fill the whole screen.
Collecting enough gems of the same colour would give you a single-use special ability that you would have to recharge, and in some sections you’d get grid chunks outside of the main path, so you had to collect powerups. Levels are also timed, and the only way to lose is to run out of time.
After every four levels, you’d get a mini-game of comparing two Tarot-like cards and spotting their differences, and every 16 levels you would have beaten one quarter of the game and got rewarded with a hidden objects sequence themed after the quarter you just played through.
You also got a fairy companion who would tutorialize you.
Once again, it’s been ages, so I might be misremembering stuff, but if anyone has a name, I’d be immensely grateful!
openManga where a catgirl gets flattened by weird invention Anime
I think the scene in question happened in a school's printing room. The catgirl stood too close to one of the machines and her tail got caught in the rollers, dragging her through. She's unharmed, but stuck in a paper-thin state. She runs off to find the scientist who made the machine so that he can restore her to normal, which if memory serves is achieved with a (possibly oversized) microwave.
open2D anime zombie shooter
I remember seeing a gameplay video of a certain 2D zombie shooter with clearly anime/manga styled "hand-drawn" visual.
The protagonist was arguably teenage white or bright grey haired girl (long ponytail) clad in nothing but bikini and open jacket which kind of served as armor (meaning it disappeared after a single hit).
She began in some kind of research facility fighting through droves of Technically-Living Zombies and later got outside and joined forces with some kind of ressistance group. Also she agreed to protect some enigmatic child clad in hospital robes.
That's all I can remember.
open"Get out of there before Craboon is born." Live Action TV
So there was this TV show where the villains made basically fusions of existing animals to fight the heroes.
I remember a female villain was radioing a male henchman who was planting like an egg or something and it would give birth to a crab baboon fusion and they called it Craboon.
And the female villain was giving orders and said something along the lines of "Get out of there before Craboon is born."
Can't remember how many contests ago or which country — there was an artist who was supposed to go to Eurovision but got replaced by the powers that be with someone more generic before the competition. I remember people sharing his music around to give him more visibility but that's it. He was a twink if that helps