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openManga about a woman who's boyfriend sold her organs...(I might have some plot elements wrong) Print Comic
...and she has to work for some people (cyborgs?) who's language she doesn't understand to earn them back. (I only read the 2nd volume so I don't know the entire plot.) She carries around a doll that talks to her, and I think the doll contains her brain or her heart or something, and I think is missing an eye but I could be wrong. And she's not supposed to talk to the doll but it's the only thing she can communicate with (I think.) During the errand/mission she's given, she comes across a place where there's preserved organs (as in being kept functional,) and the doll warns her not to destroy any because some might belong to her. The plot and art style are pretty dark from what I can remember.
openEvil Gingerbread Man? Western Animation
Hi. This time around I'm trying to remember a show that once dealt with an evil gingerbread man. He is missing a leg and yet somehow manages to walk around with a candy cane. He gave his Freudian Excuse in a poem that explained how his creator, (revealed to be a little fox in a dress) actually bit off his leg shortly after pulling him out of the oven. His name was Greg. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Edited by BenthelameopenShow about human rebellion against robot masters Western Animation
A memory of a show struck me the other day, and as I think more about I remember more. It was set in the future, when robots had taken over the world. However, there was a small faction of humans rebelling against the robots. I seem to remember that they had a central base, and the closer you got, the more dangerous it was. I think the colors of the robots had something to to with how strong they were as well. The humans had some kind of machinery, I think they were robotic fighting suits, or airplanes, I'm not sure which. At some point in the plot, one of the MC's friends/relative (maybe a sister) was kidnapped by the robots and made to work with other humans. I think they also kidnapped people to design new robots for them, and there was a side plot of one of the human scientists that didn't want to design new robots. Does anyone know what this show was? It might have also been one of those small paperback "comic books", but I don't think so.
openAnime with creepy monster Anime
I've been trying to find a lot of old anime that i used to watch but one that I cant put my finger on is this one that I think is either early 2000's or late 90's. I remember this one scene from it that creeped me out (I think it made me stop watching it but now I'm really interested). There was this guy crying because his wife died and then this creepy monster thing showed up. The monster asked the guy if he wanted his wife back. The guy said yes so the monster brought her back as this robot thing that then proceeded to kill the guy and crawl into his body. The whole scene happened in a foggy place, and the monster had a huge smile. I'm fairly certain it was dubbed but I cant remember the names.
openPossible Christian novel. Literature
This was a novel around the early '80s, I heard it during story time in primary school. There's this city full of magicians and this new arrival does magic tricks. The other magicians can't figure out how he does the tricks, and he doesn't understand what there is to figure out since unlike the others he is doing real magic. I think it was a Christian novel because I was at a Christian private school and I think the point of the story was to believe in miracles, not deceitful trickery.
openanarchist italian movie Film
its a movie about a bunch of guys and chicks (punks?) living in a single abandoned house like a commune, they get in trouble with cops, have parties, and the thing i remember the most is the statement which ends the movie in italian, the translation is something like "the pisa tower is not leaning, whats leaning is the world" i saw it with subtitles the languaje is italian for it is a italian movie. thanks you.
openRoylty and her Butler Anime
There is a manga where a young boy becomes the butler to the Empress of Japan in the 1800s and eventually a servant at the palace to stay there and serve her. His brother is a louse regularly getting the family into debts with his bad behavior. And recently his maid has come to like him.
openTv show about a man and woman on a quest
There was a TV show on regular tv about a couple on a quest in medieval times? He had short dark hair and she had long dark hair and wore a green dress. He had a special sword. I don't remember the channel it was on. I remember one episode where they went into a painting to save someone. I don't remember much else. Not sure if anyone can help from such little detail.
openweb series about female casting calls Web Original
There was a series on Youtube a few years ago that was about a woman and some of her fellow female actor friends trying to find a paying role that didn't cost her too much dignity and I can't remember the name of it now, nor are searches helping.
At least one episode is her at her apartment just reading awful real casting calls off of a fake casting site and her boyfriend not seeing what the problem with them is, at least if she got one of them she'd be able to pay her share of the rent.
At least one episode is a gross audition experience.
The last episode has her come across a listing for an actual human character, go to the audition, find pretty much every woman in the industry also came to audition, so the casting department locked the overflow in what's essentially a closet, and after an awkward silence they start singing "Do You Hear The People Sing" and then march out to demand they be heard, only to be told the role has been filled and would any of them be interested in the bimbo on this other production?
openKids Show about Office Supplies Western Animation
I can vividly recall an episode of a kids show about office supplies that travelled to Machu Picchu in an episode, and talked about an ancient form of communication involving strings and knots.
I remember there were about four characters; a pen, a pencil, and a paperclip, but I can't remember the fourth character if there was one. I watched it in fourth grade around 2010-2011. Can anyone help me out? It's an American cartoon and I've scoured ever possible search query I can think of.
Edited by baambeiopenANIME (Early 2000's) Anime
There's this anime where the characters use familiars made out of the elements to fight each other.
I don't remember much about it but the main guy could summon a fire fox and one of side protagonists had an ice wolf.
Also, I think the witch from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles was in it too but not sure.
openAlan Thicke and robot son Film
Does anybody know a movie that feature Alan Thicke as a scientist who created a robot son. I think there were three films and aired on the Disney Channel back in the 90s.
openScientific Fiction, AU, Post-Apoc. series... Live Action TV
There is this series I can't seem to remember the name of, its set on some alternate universe, or in the future, society is separated between "normal" humans and some humans who work for the govt who are secluded in some hood and they are alien type or more evolved and they have blue marks on their faces / skin like patterns, there first episode happens when some govt program tries to include some teens that belong to that race to a college of "normal" human teens, so one of the guys falls in love with a "normal" human girl and eventually shows her in his hood that's secluded from the city. I can't remember much more but it was dope and I just can't remember the name. I think the series ended up cancelled...
openBuildable alien dinosaur toys
I recently remembered about a toyline I loved years ago, but I forgot the name.
It was a series of buildable creatures that looked like anthropomorph dinosaur skeletons. There was a battle game between the creatures that involved cards that represented the attacks of the two opponents and pink spines that represented the dinosaur's health: you detached one of them every time you lose a battle and the first remaining without spines is the winner.
There was also some kind of lore for them in the instruction booklet: basically it talked about humankind travelling in space to find a new home after Earth became overcrowded, and then they find this planet inhabitated by the dinosaur creatures. A scientist creates the pink spines as cyber implants to tame them, and with the help of the now-tamed creatures they manage to build buildings on the planet and make it the new home for humans. Many years later, the scientist's grand-grandson (who was named Trey IIRC) opens a Pokémon-like fighting league between tamers with their creatures.
If it can help, the toyline was released around 2004-2005 and the same company also released a series of regular dinosaur figures, using the same building pieces as the "cool" ones described above.
openCould you please help me out Anime
I want to find the name of this show. It's about these four boys who find these glowing stones from a shop. In the basement of the shop there is a portal to another world. Using the stones the can travel to the other world when the stones glow. They transform into these warriors and the other planet, which was square. They have to protect the planet from this evil person on it. The heroes can form together into a giant hero or planes and other things.
openKids Show With a Young Bald Host Live Action TV
does anyone think they're a 90's kids tv expert? I'm failing at google right now. I'l trying to find this show where the host was like, a bald guy in a t-shirt in a warehouse. People would write him silly questions and he would sort of mythbusters things for them.
One episode he painted himself gold because a kid asked if being painted gold would kill you ala goldfinger.
He looked alot like Steve Martini from Major Payne.
It's driving me crazy!
Edited by GabeMichalskiopenA YURI TYPE MANGA WITH A GIRL WITH GLASSES AS THE PROTAGONIST? Anime
I remember reading it so long ago, the protagonist was a freckled(?) short dark blonde haired glasses wearing girl who didn't understand the big deal of relationships and the like, or wanted one really badly. it involved cell phones, dealing with rumors and her meeting a girl with a bad reputation, she had long black hair and isolated because it was rumored she had sex with guys. last time i read i was near the part where the protag starts to realize something is off with her feelings towards the other girl. I think it may have had something to do with strawberries in the title? Either way it was maybe about ten chapters and unfinished, but it seemed to have been created Very Long Ago.
Things I remember about it, very old art style, like Yu Yu Hakusho, with all the little things about 90s manga. The protag had these really iconic dad glasses! like these : (http://d111vui60acwyt.cloudfront.net/product_photos/44937467/silver_20Oculos-Vintage-Eyewear-Frame-Myopia-Glasses-Clear-Lens-Women-Spectacle-Frame-Men-Eyeglasses-Optical-Glasses-Frame_20imatterial_large.jpg) The other character looked at lot like hell girl but with dark eyes. Their school outfits were a plain short sleeved button up blouse with plaid skirts. It was under the Yuri tag.
openPc game 1990's to early 2000's Videogame
I remember playing a pc game. It had a robot and you had missions. The biggest memory I have of it is the music. It had the music called "In the hall of the mountain king" by Grieg.
openShort Youtube Skit on the Games our Brain Plays Web Original
In the same vein as my other question Two distinct clips were one about how when we're throwing a ball when lying down, we try not to hit the ceiling whilst throwing it as high as possible. And then imagining a thing running along the scenery outside your car window, never touching the ground.
I don't know if it was a trailer but I cannot for the life of me find it again
I think it might be Brain Games but I don't think so. The biggest clip that I remember is having random people on the show who have trouble in the dating scene go through a scenario. The whole bit is about priming, where the host keeps dropping "three" in conversation or the concept of three. For example, the car ride was three hours long, the walk is only three hundred feet or whatever.
And at the end of it the contestant chooses a pit to fall into. I think he's told that only one pit doesn't have spikes. Naturally, he chooses the third pit, which is safe. We're assured after the fact that if he didn't choose the third pit, it would've been called off.
I think in the same show they were talking about how the power of suggestion works and the guy was presenting flowers to random people, and they all reacted to the tune of "OMG, how did you know?" even though apparently he was priming them to want whatever type of flower he had.
I'm not sure when it was on air but it was probably around 2011-2012