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A kid's TV show, kind of looking like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as humans in mostly flesh-toned Muppet suits. There are also a few odd human characters. One plot involved a girl muppet befriending a sleazy (human) reporter with big, wavy hair named Scoop. They sing together about "The Big Picture" and all her other friends are very concerned about it. A personal acquaintance is convinced this is from another show entirely, but I think the reporter is plotting to confuse a character with a horseish head into chopping down a beloved town tree instead of the old dying sycamore next to it.
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It's a series of television ads actually, but there's no category for that: the gimmick was kind of a variation on Waxing Lyrical - two people would be having a conversation, and not only would one person only respond in lines from one particular song, but they would be lip syncing and dancing to actual clips of the song that came out of nowhere. Typically, the other person might notice that they were saying something odd, but not that they suddenly had their voice entirely replaced by song clips. The two I specifically remember used Billy Idol's "White Wedding" and Patti Labelle's "Lady Marmalade". At one point in the "Lady Marmalade" one, a woman answered a request to pick up some coffee with "mocha chocolate yaya!", and the other person just said something like "no, just the regular kind is fine". I'm asking about this to answer the question of What Were They Selling Again?, though my best guess is satellite radio.
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Does anyone know anything about a Yotsuba doujinshi with the premise of it being a doujinshi "that chronicles how Yotsuba met mister Koiwai. He was working in the peace corps in a ruined village when a dirty, impoverished, and orphaned Yotsuba approached him nervously."?
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What My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic 8-bit fan game is this from?
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Short film, along the lines of Precious Images except with famous quotes instead of graphics. It was playing on a screen in a museum, probably the Museum of the Moving Image, and may have played during a WGA Awards ceremony.
The famous quotes were occasionally intercut with shots of scripts, with the stage directions show being read aloud and with a shot of the actual footage playing transparently over it.
All help is appreciated.
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Okay tropers, I know this is a long shot, but I'm desperate. I only heard part of this song, and it's not the kind of music I usually listen to, but I fell in love with it and now I have no idea how to find it. The only lyrics I heard were "Show me the way," repeating about five times. It was kind of Jim Bianco-like, which is the best I have for comparison. It's not much to go on, and I don't really expect any results, but I'd love you forever if you somehow found this for me.
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I remember this one murder mystery that was on Mystery! on PBS. It would have been on late 90s, early 2000s. All I remember was that there were two detectives in the 1800s-1900s, an older and a younger one. There were several incidents - a room filled with blood, an ear in a box, a dead violinist whose violin was smashed, and something involving sheep's eyes. The turning point was a passage in the Bible: "You worship idols of silver and gold. They have mouths but speak not, they have ears but hear not, they have eyes but see not," etc., etc.
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This was a skin flick I saw around 1995 while on a choir trip (we stayed at a hotel and they forgot to lock down the TV). I have a number of scenes stuck in my head, but I suspect there was more than one movie. There are two scenes, though, that I'm fairly certain are in the same movie. There's something going on involving a riot in the general Hispanic populace of the village. I believe they were rallying against an old white guy in a wheelchair. At one point, a Hispanic policeman tries to break up the riot, turning around and pointing his gun at them. Eventually someone hits him from behind and he falls. Camera cuts away as a single gunshot is heard. Later, a girl, I think from the old man's household, is outside being chased by the populace. She hits a dead end with a chain link fence and they tied her wrists to the fence before ripping off her clothing.
It's one of those things that's stuck with me through the years and I'm hoping to put it to rest by figuring out what movie it was.
Other scenes which I think might have come from other movies involved a man hiding cameras in the smoke alarms of a house and a man and a woman having sex in a pool while a snake slithered across their bodies.
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There's a picture of a comic (like a scan, I guess) that's in black and white. There's a naked / topless woman and a man wearing a mask with two eyes and a giant smile painted on it. He has a knife and the woman is screaming for him to go away. He slices her breast and maybe stabs her. Anyone know of the picture or, even better, where it's from? Thanks!
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I'm looking for what I think is a tv show, possibly a film It was definitely live action.
I'm pretty sure it was in feudal asia but the actors weren't asian. All I remember it had a bunch of peasants being terrorized by some faction.
The faction is what I remember the most: -I think they all wore black, I'm fairly sure they had a uniform -They were technologically superior to the peasants -They had gloves/gauntlets which when the wrists get rubbed together, they create sparks. This creates a ball of electricity in the user's open palm, which they could throw like a grenade
That's pretty much everything that comes to mind
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I'm trying to figure out which Christian children's shows these two horribly wrong puppet segments are from:
And this horribly poor puppetry act about being closed minded.
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Old computer game from the 1990s, maybe Macintosh, I think shareware. Strategy game, the old empire has fallen and you need to reconquer all 20 planets before a 1000 years have passed. Build ships, build transports, and conquer the other planets. Remembering a message from the space-combat screen "They got a transport" meaning that your ground forces were being shot down before they landed being very annoying.
Ring any bells?
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When i was little sometimes during the night this show was on it was in the late 90's begin 2000. It was a medieval like cartoon with a castle and with a lion in armor who fought for his castle together with some fellow knights. The themesong was medieval like music with some low voiced singing. It must be some kind of king arthur show i think it was on fox kids but im not very sure. All i remember was it usually came in the early night at about 1am. I would be really happy if someone knows what show it was.
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This entry on Parody Magic Spell -
- Used in an Italian comedy, where at one point the main characters make a fake Satanic ritual, including gibberish incantations as "Satan... Satanasso... Tapioca!"
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I'm struggling to remember this one book someone recommended to me a while back, so here I go (keep in mind this is recreated from memory, so much of it could be wrong): It's about an Alien Invasion of Earth with a quirk. Basically, every other species in existence is supposed to have psychic powers, and as such no conventional weapons are ever developed as lifeforms can use their mind-powers against each other. Then some alien race gets to Earth, but finds out that humans are not psychic, and cannot use their powers against them.
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On Christmas eve 2009 in the USA I saw a cgi animated half hour Christmas special on Cartoon Network, I think it was new for that year, it had four kids between 10 and 14, I can't remember the exact stated age, the main character was a boy I can't picture, there was a girl who I think might have looked goth who might have been his love interest, there were also twin black nerdy boys, the plot was they were trying to prove Santa exists, and the main boy wanted a unicorn wand.
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So, I saw this a very, very long time ago. As in, early 90s.
It was a one-shot short that I'm pretty sure was a Fourth of July special. The characters were fireworks with creepy, human faces, and the main character was angsty about having never gone off or something. One seen in particular I remember was a sequence where a whole bunch of fireworks go off with really creepy looks on their faces, and it ended with a man tossing the main character off into the sky, where he finally exploded.
I remember only a scene where a brown-haired, possibly Higsby-esque guy running around in a primarily blue background, arms in an upward 45 degree fist, yelling "Action go! Action go!" or something similar to that.