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openAlbum re-release with the opposite of a "bonus track" Music
This is going to be a tough one, because there's not a lot to go on: It's just something about an album I read about while going through Wikipedia. The gist of it was that there was a band who had a small-run independently released debut, and when they got signed to a bigger label that reissued the same album, they refrained from adding any bonus material and actually cut one song from the track-list. Their stated reasoning was that adding a bonus track to an album is ripping your fans off by making them pay for a whole album again to own a few more songs, but if you left something off a reissue, you'd be rewarding your long-time fans because they'd now have an "extra" song that's exclusive to the version of the album they already own. I'm not even sure what genre of music this was, although I have an inkling it could have been a punk or pop-punk group.
openChildren's book, WWII dark fantasy Literature
Looking for a children's book I read in the UK in the early 90s. It's a fairly dark fantasy story set in Britain during WWII. The heroine is a young girl who's been evacuated to a country house. She gradually realizes there's something very strange about the place, especially the grounds at night. Turns out she's one of a long string of evacuees to have been sent there, but all the others have disappeared. Some kind of dark force traps them in the gardens (possibly specifically in a hedge maze?). She keeps hearing a peacock screaming, which has something to do with how the whole thing works. In the end, she manages to rescue them by taking a register; the act of counting them saves them from being 'lost' and brings them back into the real world. The title might have had the word 'Night' or 'Midnight' in it.
openThriller where woman leaves husband and he comes looking for her Film
American movie, where there is a very large luxury house at the sea. A lady who lives there is married, and her husband abuses her. She decides to leave, and throws her ring in the toilet. And at one point she pretends she's drowning. Then she goes away, and begins a new life in a different state. She meets a bearded man, but she's reluctant because of her past. She also has a blind mother whom she visits. The original man finds out she lives, and goes after her (also meets the blind mother), and finds her.
openanimals vs humans / Western Animation
There is this cartoon I cannot seem to remember the name of. I think it was in the 2000's. All I seem to remember is that it was sort of taken place in a world where animals were kind of superior to humans. The animals had evolved a lot and lived in big groups all together. Like for example, there would be the vultures living in the mountains and the pandas living in a forest. That kind of thing. And there was a group of humans, I think they were young adults, that would go around to each of these "tribes" of animals and have them be allies/ not hate humans. Every time they tried to make peace, if I remember right, the group would have to go through a challenge or a puzzle in order to earn the tribe's leader's trust. I also remember the base was on an island(?) in the ocean and was shaped as a turtle shell. Also, whenever they would get an "alert" for a mission, they would get on turtle shells and ride off to the main land. The whole cartoon had sort of a sharp/Asian look to it. I remember one episode sort of clearly, there was this cave that if a human went into they would turn into an animal that their personality or soul was supposed to be. I remember the opening to the show was the brief history of how it got to be. Like this, humans and animals were all once friends but then there was an animal (the main villain) that told all the animals that humans were not to be trusted, that they were evil. Some believed him, some did not. Then the ones that believed him hated humans and hurt them? I have horrible memory, I need to know!!
Edited by cactus-dogopenNo Title Literature
Read in the 1970s.
Picture Book about a boy who has a cardboard box toy. All his friends want to play in/with him in it so he fortifies it so that they can't get in. Then he gets lonely, and realizes how much he enjoyed making the fort so he goes into a cardboard-box-fort making business.
Edited by randomsurferopenChrono Trigger fanfiction Web Original
Here's a deep pull. A circa 1997-1998 or so Chrono Trigger fanfic. Details I remember: there's some kind of war involving Guardia in 1000 AD with a naval assault and guns. Magus somehow gets a version of the Epoch that is able to go to exact specific points in time as opposed to traveling to years (i.e. old version runs on San Dimas Time, new version doesn't). On the site I first found it on, there was some weirdness about its presentation in the first few chapters. One chapter was a mailto link with the entire text in the subject line.
openOnline Game - Making Alliances
This was a game I played last year. I remember that it was probably a flash game and that you played a soldier or something, and you could make alliances with a few different groups. You had to do things like killing enemy soldiers to be able to join the groups. I think one of the groups was a trading guild.
openGlee-Like Musical Band Thingy Film
Live action film/musical about a guy who's performing and his girlfriend and they're alternating between mushiness and angst (or something) and there's one scene where another girl is telling Girlfirend that when Boyfriend gets up on stage he will forget all about her and go after other people. There is also a scene where a bunch housewifey women sing (or at least lipsync) to 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot', and part of the number is them singing the song in church and part of it is them beating their husbands.One of the main character's names began with a D.
openUnknown Koala-Thing Slavery Adventure Rescue Mission Extravaganza Film
I have this memory of an animated film (could have been a TV show) that I saw a bit of when I was younger. I remember a creature that MIGHT have been a koala, and he (I think it was a he) had no idea where his parents were. They'd been missing for a while, and the animation then shows what looked like animal slave labour underground and the koala-thing's parents were down there as workers or prisoners or something and they needed rescuing (as the animation moved underground I remember there was a worm). I think the plot was the koala-thing setting off to rescue them. No-one else has heard of this, and now I think about it it could have been a dream, but I've always wondered what was going on and what happens next, and because I know nothing about it I've never been able to find out. Do any of you remember this?
openTwitching body, zoom into eye
I think it was a game or an ad for one, but all I can recall is a slow zoom in on a twitching body, then the eye opens and the camera zooms into there. I cannot recall what happens before or after. Anyone able to help me?
openAnimal children's cartoon ? Western Animation
Does anyone remember the name of this cartoon about wild animals that could talk from the late 90s early 2000s? I specifically remember watching it as a child early in the morning like 6am, 7am, 8am and it was about the adventures of the small woodland creatures( I can't remember what kind of animal), they were always traveling somewhere and threatened by other wildlife such as predatory birds, snakes, fish, foxes, wildfires, crossing roads, humans themselves. I remember it being animated pretty realistically, as in the animals looks as they would in real life. If anyone can help me out with this given my sparse details that would be great!
Edited by MercifulCaravanopenMight be totally spies Western Animation
There's a show about a couple of teen girls who go on exciting adventures one episode involves something that steals faces and one of the main characters faces is stolen and gets it back by the end I highly doubt that it's totally spies but if it is I wouldn't be surprised
openno title lol Western Animation
I remember it was like 2006 or 2005 it was a cartoon where they were like cavemen but nothing like the Flintstones. One of the charters was like a buff suffer dude and the main character was a little boy where a leopard print tarp
openMail plane Western Animation
So this was an animation I saw as a child, the things I remember is that this was about a anthropomorhic plane (like in the film Planes), it was a mail plane and would deliver its first batch of mail, the mountain through which it had to fly was stormy as hell and the flight was really hard for them, nearly losing their mail at some point, in the end they made it through just to see that the 'important mail' was only a single holiday card.
Edited by Sergey_SmirnovopenTitle and singer of an Epic Meal Time Song Web Original
I trying to find out the title and singer of this song that used to be played in Epic Meal Time. Here's an example of the song from the Epic Meal Time game. https://youtu.be/qyx-isArXtA
openNeed to know this
Guys I suck at describing but we have been trying to know this for a while now lol it's a cartoon show about a man I think in scout not sure he wears a long coat and a hat he have like a super power where his legs can get soo long and his glasses can see what he want if any one knows the name or even remembers anything about the show it'd be do helpful thx
openanimated short and comedy show
Hi, I remember an animated short about a couple that found a lost child and adopted him, took him to school and all, but at the end it was revealed that he was Santa Claus' son.
Also a black and white comedy show where a guy was waiting for someone to come to his house, but he kept getting different guests and he started to hide them in different places of the house so they wouldn't be seen. At the end, when the expected guest showed up, something happened (don't remember what) that caused everyone to run out of their hiding places and flee the house, the dog was biting the pants of one of them xD it's not much, but it's what I remember, I only saw it once
openMystery Show from Like 5-7 years ago
I used to watch this show When I was in like the third grade (i'm a sophomore in high school now) and It hasn't really bothered me until now because a friend showed me a video with the song My Bonnie lies over the Ocean and it reminded me of it. But in the show this girl can see the dead i guess because she can see her mother but her mother is dead and her mother is collecting tears in a little bottle and the girl was determined to find this bottle and at one point she is singing this song My Bonnie lies over the ocean but I can't remembrer correctly but I think instead of saying Bonnie she says Daddy instead
openKid in space forming letters with his body Anime
I've tried to dig this up online a few times over the years and never actually found it, but this snapshot memory has bugged me for a long time. Years ago, probably pre-2000, definitely pre-2005, I ran across this scene on TV, and part of me thinks it was Digimon or another kids' anime, but it may have been a western show.
The scene was pretty surreal, with a blank black or space/stars background, and there was a boy floating around reciting the alphabet while his body contorted into each letter. His voice was flat and echoed a little bit, like a dream sequence or other kind of abstract scene. I believe the other characters needed to wake him up or save him, like he was entranced or possessed by something, but I can't be sure. Anyone else remember this?
I saw part of a movie on TV two or three years ago, and I chiefly remember it for one moment of Black Comedy. I think the overall plot was something to do with a group of siblings coming back to their old home town to stay with their parents for a while. In the scene I remember, the setup is that their father has this very old, sickly dog, and one of his sons is concerned for its well-being and wants the father to have it euthanized, which the father refuses to do. The father is fond of feeding the dog treats by hand, so one day the son surreptitiously replaces the dog treats with poisoned ones. He sees his father coming to give the dog its treats, and seeing how much affection the man and the dog show each other, has a last minute change of heart and tries to distract his dad so he can get rid of the poisoned ones and replace them. While this is happening, one of the poisoned treats falls to the floor and the dog of course immediately eats it.