Tales from the unexpected

I’m unsure if it was Tales from the unexpected as I’ve trolled through all the 112 episodes and none of the titles or the short write up’s are saying anything to indicate what I remember. My recollection is of an old man making toys for the children from what I remember used pieces of cloth etc and the parents decide they will no longer allow the children to visit the old man saying they could get infections from what they believed was filthy items. The old man was devastated and sort of give up on life . He dies but then the story becomes very dark and he seeks revenge and he comes back from the dead I think and targets the people who had done these selfish and unkindly acts to him. I’m sure it was tales from the unexpected but I just can’t find it . Can anyone help

[SOLVED] Animated film about a girl whose ears were pulled by her grandmother Western Animation

When I was about 4 years old, my father would take me to the library, where they showed short films in the auditorium. I vaguely recall one rather bizzare cartoon about a girl whose grandmother constantly pulled her ears until they stretched and were big. This girl then ran away to the woods, where she sang to the animals. I don't remember how it all ended, only that the grandmother was missing her at some point. What could this have been? This was likely a European fairy tale of some kind (I recall the library also showing episodes of "David the Gnome").

Old sort of space w/ macaroni and cheese commercial?

Iirc it sold macaroni and cheese. There was this green alien in a space suit on Mars or something and there was this catchy classic tune playing over with lyrics made specifically for the commercial.

Movie about giving up the rat race Film

I posted this a while back, but there were no suggestions, so I thought I'd try again. Can anyone remember this?

There was this comedy-drama movie I saw years ago, made in the seventies or eighties I think, about a yuppie who decided to take his family out to a house in the Pacific Northwest and live a survivalist lifestyle there.

I remember there was an teen daughter who got grossed out by Gorp as survival food. That they got strapped for cash and decided to live off the gorp, but they caught one of their more extreme survivalist neighbors trying to steal their gorp. That there was a huge rainstorm and that neighbor's house washed away down the river.

I have no idea what the movie's title was though. Does anyone recognise it?

Shadow of the Beast - Aabron's transformation scene Videogame

I vaguely remember a short introductory scene from Shadow of the Beast where the main protagonist turns into a monster and then lets out a grievous pathetic-sounding groan. I've been searching youtube for the scene but had no luck. I have a strange feeling the scene was exclusive for certain versions of the game. For your information I owned the C64 version.

Does anyone remember the scene? I'd like to post it as an example.

Animated film about a teddy bear who took a helium balloon trip from Sweden (?) to China (?) Western Animation

Another film I saw at school sometime in the 1980s: it was a story narrated in rhyme about how a girl in I think Sweden decided to send a doll or some other present to another girl in I think China, and sent her animate teddy bear to run the errand. She gave him a helium balloon as a means of transport. As I recall, the trip had several legs; I vaguely recall that the teddy bear's balloon burst or was lost when he got to Russia, but some kids he met there took him to a rocket plane, with which he quickly flew to China. Finally, the girl in China mailed him back to the girl in Sweden, along with a gift of a doll.

Stop motion short about a boy and a girl in a red hot air balloon Western Animation

In 1983/1984, my kindergarten teacher showed us a film that may have been called "The Red Balloon" (NOT the 1956 French classic live-action film). It was probably a stop motion short and showed a boy and a girl take a trip on a hot air balloon. That's all I remember. It was likely made by a European studio such as the Polish Se-Ma-For animation studio.

Stop motion short about a girl's watercolor paints removing color from the world Western Animation

There's this stop-motion cartoon short that I saw at a company Christmas party at my parents' employer circa 1986; it looked like it might have been made by the Polish Se-Ma-For animation studio. In it, a little girl had a box of watercolors and was sloppy in using them; so, each color cake came out of the box and absorbed its color from the world around. The paint cakes then run away, and the girl finds out that the world around her has become black and white. She wanders around until she comes to a spot where there is a rainbow, and the paint cakes are dancing around. She gets them to restore color to the world and I assume was neater when using her watercolors.

Funny fail video from long ago Web Original

This video is about a couple idiots mixing raw eggs into partially cooked brownies and laughing like mad while another guy, the cameraman, narrates the whole situation. I saw it a very, very long time ago and I just can't seem to find it anywhere. :/

Non fiction book about ninja

Looking for a non fiction book about ninja from their beginning to their place in modern pop culture. The name was along the line of "complete story.." or "untold story.." or something like that. It had these illustrations at the end of every chapter and was in a series of similar books about Japanese cult with 2 other being about ghosts and monsters

Non fiction book about ninja

Looking for a non fiction book about ninja from their beginning to their place in modern pop culture. The name was along the line of "complete story.." or "untold story.." or something like that. It had these illustrations at the end of every chapter and was in a series of similar books about Japanese cult with 2 other being about ghosts and monsters

Vampire anime Anime

Its an anime that has this like vampire theme... There is a doctor? (brown hair) i remember he has like stubbles but he wears a long white coat... The main character has blue hair and they live in like a small town... there are vampires... It has this specific style with the hair of the characters being ribbon like and by that i mean the ends of their hair is like the tips of ribbons (W shaped)... I think the town is trying to get rid of the vampires and stuff

Anthology Horror TV Show Live Action TV

I saw that show as a child around 1992-1993 but it could be from the late 80s. It started in a creepy dark mansion. The host was sitting in a dark room close to a fireplace drinking red wine. It was an old man with long thin white hair (bald on top) a long nose and long yellow nails. I remember a plate of broccoli on a table nearby (?) and maybe a dog lying next to the man. There were two stories in the episode and it cut back to the host in between stories. I only saw one episode. As a child I found it really scary but in retrospect it was probably just campy. What I remember from the stories: 1) A man can never be mean or can never lie or something terrible will happen. He has a crush on a woman at work and he asks her out but things don't work out. I vaguely remember that it ended in a plot twist where the woman couldn't be mean or lie either. One of them ends up exploding. 2) Something about an evil cabbage patch kid doll (a very common trope, so not super useful). I've looked up horror anthology shows but none really match my memories, especially regarding the host.

kids make up a job about selling boxes Western Animation

this was probably a gumball episode but i could be wrong

these 3(?) kids (if i remember they were all male and they may have been all human too) were hanging around in their house when someone called for something and the kids pretended to be telemarketers i think and the person asked what they sold and one of the kids was like "oh we sell... uh... boxes!" and i think the guy placed an order or something

not exactly sure of the timeframe this could've been in but possibly early 2010's

slight edit: apparently they made up the box thing as a job for one of their parents but in not rly sure

Movie about toys coming to life Western Animation

I vaguely remember this old animation movie, maybe from around the 2000s of before. It was a movie about siblings who were sent somewhere (Orphanage? maybe, Idk) and they aren't allowed to bring toys. They end up in some place with living toys. Near the end of the movie they wind up a bunch of toy soldiers to stop the toy city from burning down or something. Please help me find it!

game that unexpectedly has creepy audio whispering your name (solved) Videogame

I never actually played this game, but I remembered reading about it on this very wiki somewhere - my immediate thought was it was somewhere in nightmare fuel, but a quick check didn't yield anything that sounded like it. Anyway, at the beginning, the game asks you to type in your name, Hello, [Insert Name Here] style, but the dialogue doesn't really make use of it, so the player may forget having even entered it. However, depending upon what name you typed in, at some point you may hear a disembodied whisper of your name come through the speakers - apparently they had a voice actor read a bunch of common first names just to freak the player out.

Harpoons in space

A character is floating in space, with no way to return to the ship/station they originally came from. However, another character has a harpoon gun, so they shoot the first person, in the leg, then reel them in. I can't recall if this was from anime, western animation or live action.

90s British Children's TV fantasy Live Action TV

I am hoping someone can help me identify this show:

- British children’s TV drama, early to mid-90s. Live-action fantasy, with a similar vibe to BBC’s Elidor. - Set in a modern-day village where a long time ago there was a big fire that had burned so hot a stone building had set on fire. The ruins are in the village. The cause of the fire is a mystery. The one surviving witness of the fire is an old lady who is deaf and blind. - There’s a mysterious gold mask, which may have magical properties, locked away in a cabinet. I recall the mask looking a bit like the famous Sutton Hoo Saxon helmet. It may have originally been kept in the stone building that burned down – I’m not sure about that. - There’s a sinister businessman in a suit who is up to something. He either has possession of the mask or he's trying to steal it. - The lead characters are children around the age of 11. It’s possible they are staying in the village on their school holidays.

I only ever saw part of the first episode, which is why my memory is so hazy. I think it was on ITV but I could be wrong. Thanks for any help!

Creepy Puppets in PS2 Third Person shooter

I remember seeing my cousin playing this on his PS 2 back in 2000-ish.

It's a supernatural-themed third person shooter where the hero goes around shooting monsters. I distinctively remember one of the stages to be in a dimly-lit auditorium/theater where the player gets assaulted by hordes of Perverse Puppet as tall as themselves.

Anyway, does anyone remember a game like this?

A threatening, poorly-translated sign

It was a picture of a sign someone posted on a pole or something saying not to make noise outside of "my bungalow house" or else you'd be met with violence. I think I saw it on a listicle on Boredpanda or one of those sites around 2013.

Some children's book Literature

So in elementary school, there was this library book about these colorful and cat-like creatures (i think they were called emots or something but when I try to Google search can't find anything) and they each represent sort of an emoji or different personality something like that, and then there is this hovering robot character that has a face shaped like theirs. anyone know this

weird sci-fi book about the "it's all a simulation" theory Literature

it was about these two or three kids who were gonna perform a magic act for a talent show in their town, but when they do it, they black out. after they wake up, they find everyone is gone. everyone is found doing a multitude of strange things, like throwing out all their furniture, and having weird robotic "tentacles or tubes" sprout from parts of their bodies. only a select few others aren't being affected, and the other citizens don't seem to notice the kids.

it was revealed that the whole world is a simulation, and they recently updated humanity while the kids were out, but they didn't update. this has happened throughout history, leaving others unable to communicate or even be perceived by the other people that did update. the entities running the sim offer the kids a way to update if they so wish to rejoin their other friends and family, or stay as is and live in the world as if they don't exist anymore.

What is this quote from?

"the unflappable [character name], all...flappy." I am trying to remember what this quote is from and it's killing me! Any ideas?

Old anime on AXN or Animax in the 90s or 2000 Anime

This was a very old and super generic heroes-trying-to-save-the-world show I watched sometime from the 90s to 2000.

The MC is a sword-fighting red haired boy and is said to often get mistaken as a girl. I mean I remember thinking that he looked feminine enough that he could pass as a girl. I know he's a guy because he and (maybe) some others had to swim across a river so he took off his shirt.

The heroes (MC included) each had a mystical ball of power with a kanji or something on it and travelled from planet to planet. They are not really special in any way; they were just selected to be heroes as they had the ball.

I remember they fought human-sized robots (which I guess was to lower the age rating as the MC cleaves his enemies into pieces). It was not a mecha anime.

The main(?)/last villain had a ball of mystical power too. I recall near the end (I know because the show ended soon after) that he killed his attendant with a sword to increase the power of his ball (The sword had a socket or place for the ball).

The villain’s ball was crushed in the end, and a ​blonde or brown haired girl was the only survivor of the heroes.

The world is saved.

P.S. I. I could have sworn the blond/brunette's name was Isabelle, Isabella or something similar. But Anime-Planet had nothing.

II. My sis recalled that the title of the anime was pretty long. She also found the show poor.

Woman karate chops a guy Live Action TV

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So I've watched this a while back, realizing the actress but not knowing her name, I saved the video and tried to search for her on the web, didn't find anything. In this specific scene she's helping her friend (I think?) against some suspicious guy luring on some girls in a bathroom. Then she chops his neck and knocks him out flat.

I think its French, but I saw it dubbed to English if I recall correctly.

Does any of you know her name? of the name of the show? Thanks.