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openVoice actor Western Animation
Who's voicing the cat in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS9M4N5b46c at time 0:11 to 0:13. The voice sounds really familiar yet i'm having trouble placing it.
openOld Movie about kids vs bad guy on plane
Hi, I watched this movie in 90s on tv, it's a live action movie and feels like a holiday movie alot, it's about a group of kids, a typical kid group that has the leader, the chick, the silent badass girl, the big kid and others, that for some reason they were involved in a hijacked plane with bad guys, without their parents. The bad guys are two adults (or more, cant remember) ala home alone, where they have to fight them in clever way to take over the plane.
Not really sure it's a movie or direct to video, but i'm sure it's a one-shot because I remembered the ending, where the silent girl can actually talk all along and can fly the plane, she just being edgy. She also chews gum alot and wears shades.
Also a bit backstory, I lived in third world country so back then we hijacked singaporean tv signal to watch English speaking movie, and 6 year old me barely understand english back then, so I can't remember whether it's american or british or even australian (we got plenty of australian contents here), Thanks!
Edited by dandymanopenOne of my favorite shows cause I remember I had to keep figuring out the name cause I would forget Western Animation
So this is SUPER vague but I remember this show and part of it was about this animal I believe it was, painting a house, and I believe there was another animal that didn't really like it but I don't remember it having any audio, maybe some background music but that's it. There was a lot of colors but not bright colors and it was pretty "flat" I guess you could say, and it was from at least late 1990's gosh it's killing me
openKids TV Show Western Animation
I remember watching an episode of a TV show when I was a child but I only remember the intro to the show.
The adults are going out and they go down the stairs out of their apartment (having hired what I would assume is a babysitter) the two children (one girl and one boy) also follow down the parents to meet the babysitter on the stairs ( I remember he wore a white coat). All three go back upstairs and he lights a candle on an old gold candle holder and he blows it out and the stories he tells are in the form of a cartoon.
EDIT: Pretty sure it is an Australian TV show.
Edited by J0n3syopenLooking for an old cartoon
I know it aired in the 90s it was kind of like pokemon except with time travel. As far as I can remember the plot was someone created a time machine and something happened to 2 kids on their way back to the future dropping monster all across earth's history. In order for the timeline to not be messed up they searched history logs to find them and "catch" them, and that's how every episode starts. I remember episode 1 they had only one monster and it happened to be to weakness of the first of they go back and find.
openAsian American Show?
I cannot remember the name of this show and it is driving me insane!! I doubt anyone will know this one because i don't remember it being a really popular show but anyways, all I can remember is that it's a show that i used to watch online about this asian family,v ( i think it came out anywhere from 2015-2016, i think 2016) there's a father, mother, brother, sister, and older brother...I remember in one of the episodes the parents were splitting up and the mother kept asking the kids questions about the things the father would say about her when they would go visit...and in another episode it was the older brothers birthday and he finally got himself a girlfriend and the family embarrassed him badly infront of her.... I know its not much detail :( i can't remember!!!!!ugh!! PS: its not fresh off the boat but it's a little similar in ways
Edited by NoxiousCorpsopenSomething about blocks Videogame
When I was younger, my grandma would play this computer game all the time. I can't remember much of it, but I think the little symbol thing on the desktop was a red block. I can't describe what the game itself was about, but i remember one level where there were layers of blocks that were always shifting left or right on alternating layers. I think it also had an overworld where you could select levels. Finally, I think it was a Popcap game because some of the other games my grandma played (Zuma, Peggle, Bejeweled, Chuzzle, etc.) were from Popcap.
open80's song with saxophone Music
The song was made in the eigthies . It starts with about twenty seconds of saxophone . The videoclip is about a fat black woman who is dying and then buried while they throw a party around her. But I think the singer is a white woman , however...
Edited by Nuup-Kangerluaopena show with a couple dressed as babies and with a tropical background behind them
I remember it when i was in kindergarten or day care which was early 2000ish
openA show about a 14-year-old Asian American who can turn into a dragon? Western Animation
I remember a show about a 14-year-old Asuan living in New York City who can turn into a red dragon. He is a skateboarder and has a crush on the blonde girl who is voiced by Mae Whitman, I guess. It only appears on Disney Channel and I have watched most episodes of it. I remember this show when I was a kid. What is the show called?
Edited by DynastiNobleopenFrom a Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Tales From the Darkside like series Live Action TV
Im trying to remember an episode from a (science fiction) type of series that probably aired in the 90's. I know there was (voice over at beginning and end) like some of the shows I mentioned in the title. From what I remember the main character (middle aged white male) was on the run because he was trying to hide a fantastic secret contained in a notebook (i believe he could teleport but not all the time) at the end of the show he is locked in a jail cell and desperately needs to escape to save his secret from coming out (and perhaps used for evil purposes). So he teleports himself outside to escape and I remember him burning pages of a notebook, so his secret could not get out. I remember that the ending sparked a sense of wonder and imagination. I saw it more than once but cannot recall anything else. And this is in color so at the least it would be in the remade versions of the shows listed above. Thanks in advance!
openSpecific version of Castlevania song Music
I thought it was one I have, but I've been through my entire library. I swear there's a version of Vampire Killer, or Bloody Tears, that fades out about halfway through and has a heartbeat for a few seconds before fading back in. Might happen more than once.
openA Cartoon a friend and I had watched when we were very young. Western Animation
Does anyone remember an old thing called something along the lines of the Tomato Juice Vampires? The concept is Exactly What it Says on the Tin: Kid-Teenage vampires that drink tomato juice instead of blood. I remember watching it with a friend back in the early to mid 90's on VHS (I want to say this was 92-95 when I was between 3 and 5), so I would like to say it was made somewhere bwtween the 80's and then. I apologize if this isn't much to go on, I just happened to remember it a few days ago and it's been bugging me.
EDIT: I think it might have actually been Ketchup Vampires. I knew it was some sort of tomato based food/beverage but I couldn't remember. Like I said, this is based on a memory from when I was very young.
Edited by JS671779openCartoon with man dating a "cuckoo" woman?
So a man gets a crush on this lady while dressed up as a carrot but then she hits him. He asks another woman for dating advice and she tells him two things 1: She's cuckoo. 2: She doesn't like to be told no. They go to a cafe and she gets mad at him for saying no too many times, even when it seemed logical (i.e. "Are you suggesting you want to marry me?" "No, or course not"). Then, the advice lady says, "I told you she was cuckoo"
openONLINE POINT AND CLICK ADVENTURE Videogame
I'm trying to find a point and click adventure game that could be found for free online and played in the browser. It was very comedic, and used a time travel mechanic à la Day of the Tentacle, if I remember correctly. Also, I seem to remember Iron Maiden's mascot, Eddie the Head, being a part of the plot.
openTeen/Kids Scifi Book about Luck Literature
There was this book I read back in middle school (so at the earliest it's from the early 90s probably older). It was a scifi book geared for probably the young adult audience. The protagonist was this teenager who is essentially the luckiest person in the universe. In school in this futuristic society, everyone takes a test to find out where they sit on the probability scale or something like that and he tests as the luckiest person in the galaxy. He ends up pursued by the government of this empire or something and involved with the rebellion, lots of improbable things happen to him along the way because of course he's the luckiest person in the galaxy. I can't remember the name, though, and can't seem to find it through internet searches.
Edit: Never mind I actually found it... Starluck
Edited by ironwolf56openMovie with RogerRabbitEffect Live Action TV
there was a movie I watched part of years ago. The main character was a live action boy who was turned into a cartoon cat by an evil cartoon owl. Another thing I recall is a rooster that needed to learn to crow.
Edited by TheNerfGuyopenmovie where the ceiling falls through to reveal a woman in a bathtub Film
I only saw this one scene from a movie that my dad was watching once when I was a kid. It's from no later than the 2000's but possibly from the 80's or 90's. I think it starts with people fighting (making me think it's an action movie of some sort) and results in the floor/ceiling falling through to reveal a woman in a bathtub in the floor below. I think the scene had a yellowish tint when it looked down at the woman, and I don't think there was a closeup, only a shot from above at her. The floor might've fallen through a couple of floors (but I could be mixing that idea with the Italian job when they blast a hole in the floor to steal a safe). Anyone know what I'm talking about? It stuck with me because I knew I wasn't supposed to be watching it.
Are there any shows other than Inside Out mentioning this debate on whether pineapple should be put on pizza? I'm adding those examples on Stock "Yuck!" and Hold the Unsolicited Ingredient.