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Ashley Pomeroy
No Title Live Action TV
I am vexed and you will help me. Early 1980s, British television; not so much a TV show as a guest spot on something like Tomorrow's World. A small chamber strings orchestra made of players who dress in classical-style outfits but with featureless silver facemasks, as if they were robots. They play a haunting piece of classical music, and there is an animated film in which Big Ben, various landmarks sink beneath the waves. What was it? Did I dream it? I can still hum the music - dah, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, dah-etc - but you can't hear me.
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Okay, so I remember watching this movie when i was a kid. I remember it being kind of full of Nightmare Fuel, though in retrospect, what little I can remember makes it seem like it was just plain bad. Anyway... There's something about a kid brings home a videotape he wasn't supposed to, and because he played the tape in the player some bad guy inside the TV (who is trying to steal every shade of every color, for some inexplicable reason) kidnaps his little sibling because the color of their eyes is one of the few shades of color he hasn't collected yet. So the kid has to follow their sibling into the TV to rescue them. And so the kid travels through different channels, and there's like, a sci-fi channel, and a yeti (I think), or something, at one point. And as the kid gets to higher numbered channels eventually they reach channels that are all black and white because the bad guy stole all the color. To be honest, I don't remember liking the movie, I just have this weird memory of it and I want to know what it was because it's bugging me that I can't really remember such a strange movie.
Some guy. Ignore me.
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Does web-pages fall under YKTS?
I'm currently looking for a website that showcased the "awful" of the internet. I'm pretty sure I found it on tvtropes, but I'm not sure about the name or anything.
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Alright. This show was also airing back in the 90s. It was half liveaction/cgi cartoon. Basically these 3 teens(18-25) could actually transform in cars. Yup. They transformed into vehicles, and I think one teen was a black guy with dreads who turned into a green car. It sounds weird but was a pretty cool show. They fought bad guys with car fu. probably had missiles of some sort.
Retrograde Renegade
No Title Western Animation
A very hazy memory from my distant youth, so it could be a total fabrication, but it was an animated film, or possibly series, which featured an anthropomorphic mouse, who I think might have been some kind of noir-ish detective. The one distinguishing feature I recall is that he had some kind of compartment in his chest that he stored things in, possibly clues, despite being wholly organic. That's the part that stuck in my brain anyway. Was it all just some strange fever-dream?
No Title Webcomic
A friend explained this one to me a while ago and now I'm having a really difficult time remembering.
It's a webcomic with human-like 'aliens'... or maybe just one of them is an alien. It's a young adult/university student/teenager setting, not much in way of plot that I remember. I think the main characters were mostly girls, but there was a guy or two in there as well. In terms of how it's drawn... possibly something like questionable content?
Sorry I'm so horrible with memory and unspecific.
No Title Film
I've been looking for this movie, I think it was originally Italian, a sort of horror-comedy about a priest who find out that the Antichrist will be born in a few days, and decides to become a Satanist to gather information so he can find and kill the infant Antichrist. He teams up with a big bearded biker-type dude and a smarmy TV occultist. There's a scene in the beginning when the cross on an altar in a church falls down and crushes someone who's praying for guidance, and a scene where the priest and biker are performing a ritual in a circle and lots of bugs and rats swarm around and a black goat walks up to the circle and stands up on its hind legs. The climax of the movie takes place at the construction site of a building built in the shape of the 'mark of the devil,' which looks like this: / I want to say that the movie had a name like "Adversary!" or "Antichrist!" or something like that, but I really don't remember. Has anyone else heard of this? Thanks in advance.
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I'm looking for a specific iCarly episode: They're invited to some kind of convention, and Spencer cosplays as a character from a World Of Warcraft parody. This episode had Jack Black. More specifically, I'm trying to find the scene where Spencer and Jack start singing at each other. :p
No Title Anime
I remember watching this on YTV back in the 90's... it had two genies (father and daughter), one (the clumsy father) could be summoned by sneezing, and the other (the mischievous daughter) by yawning. They would grant wishes to a boy named Joey, but almost all of them quickly turn into disasters. There was also this weird, cartoonish old man with an umbrella who would appear during scene changes... Anybody know which series this was???
No Title Western Animation
Recently remembered this one, and trying to pull out details from my memory is like catching trout barehanded.
Animated series from late 80's or early 90's, featuring a preteen/early-teen kid who could become a big manly superhero by covering himself in some sort of goo. I remember the goo because one of the villains, a ghost or vampire, I think, once got to sample some of it and drew power from it.
The superhero was a variant on the Flying Brick, but I don't remember too much on that; I do remember that he was keeping his identity as a kid from his teammates; there was a funny scene where he was gorging himself on junk food and disguising his voice over the communicator, and barely managed to get his... ecto-suit up and going before they teleported him in.
Any ideas?
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Only saw the end of this film on TV more than a decade ago, maybe even 2 decades ago, and my memories of it may have changed. It was about a kid who seemed to be trained to be as an escape artist. When I got into the show he is apparently making his escape from some kidnappers. I remember him contorting his body to get off his cuffs. By the end he gets out and is being chased by the crooks. He hides inside what seems to be a public mailbox. A suspicious crook drops a knife inside and the kid gets hurt, but does not shout. Once the crook leaves the boy comes out and goes his way, dropping what seemed to be some origami or small artifacts on the road. And that's how it ended. Anybody knows this?
Three-Puppet Saluter
No Title Live Action TV
I'm looking for a dorama about an otaku in the fully negative sense of the word - he can't even afford the high-quality stalkery cameras the other otakus use - who falls in love with a fairly respectable woman. I believe at the end of the second episode, he sends her teacups or a sweater or something, and it's played as very sweet and redemptive. There's a parody of an anime involving a Magical Girl with phallic symbols popping up all around her. The opening credits have the "domo arigato, Mr. Roboto" song.
Edited by DomaDoma
No Title Anime
A while ago I was reading a thread and while I'm not quite sure I think it was Raw Power who linked to a shoujo manga, the poster stated that the protagonist looked like Lelouch and the heroine had glasses and a high ponytail, I can't find the thread or posts again and the name escapes me.
A later post also linked to the same manga stating that the page was "Cullen-Like" but still enjoyable.
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avatar: Durtal Okay, this might be a long shot, but: does anyone remember a series of science fiction guidebooks from sometime before the early 90s (possibly from the 70s or 80s) that were written as in-universe scholarly books about near future space wars and space ships? There were at least two of them, both hardcover. They had a lot of old-fashioned science fiction pictures, some of which featured spaceships in bright colors like pink and blue.
I used to take them out of the library when I was a kid in the early 90s but never knew why they were written as if they were true, because they didn't seem to be based on any preexisting franchise. I remember I liked the one that seemed to detail the war ships used in a recently ended war among factions in our solar system more than the one that focused on trade routes in a time of peace. I think the universe of the books focused more on our solar system and lacked any aliens or interstellar travel, but I could be wrong.
I'm going nuts. Maybe they really were reference books from the future.
No Title Anime
Who is this
◊ character and where is she from?