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Children's/young-readers' book (I read this in approximately 2004?) about the characters in a book having to playact the entire book every time someone reads it, and the main protagonist eventually has to escape it when the book burns before eventually entering the daughter of the original owner (I think?)'s head and convincing her to rewrite the book from scratch. Had a sequel that I never got to read.
Edited by AsterSeleneopenNo Title
The other day I recalled bits and pieces of an old VHS from my child hood, featuring short stories. This VHS was most likely a recorded television program. I recall a mime with a fly following him. He would mime living in his home, by doing things like cooking eggs to eating. He would also draw on the walls, he drew an umbrella and a fire place.
I'm sorry for such scattered fragmented memories of it but that's all I've got.
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Seen on TV in the late 1970s or early 1980s but it was probably originally a theatrical film. I'm not sure if I only saw a little bit of it or what. There was a man who was smuggling Swiss watches from Switzerland. He was wearing a vest covered in watches under his regular suit. He was on a plane, and somehow got wind of there being customs agents at the destination. He gets some club soda from a stewardess and takes it to the restroom, where he pours it into the sink and soaks his vest in it; the point being to gum up the works enough so that they'll stop ticking while he's passing through customs, but not enough to ruin the watches. I think the stewardess comes in to help him; she isn't in on the smuggling plan originally but decides to join in.
It wasn't a zany comedy, it may have been a light action and/or romance with some humor in it.
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I think I was quite young for this one so late 90's? Here goes...
All I can remember is that it is a live action fantasy show. Either series or mini series. Each episode was a story that seemed to have a pretty strong "moral to the story".
There were always different kinds of strange creatures. I remember one episode, a man is playing cards or some other form of gambling with these small, red, creepy devil/demon type creatures in a castle. I think he ends up cheating.
Another episode I remember is a man is in the home of a couple of large humanoid type creatures. And at one point I think he somehow tricks the female creature into walking through a door into a room with no floor and she falls through.
Those are the only things clinging to my memory. I hope someone can help, I'd love to track it down and re-watch!
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I was so young when I saw this show that I only remember vague details. It must have been some time around 1990, it was like a network series or something, where a guy like in his 20s or 30s was searching for the villain who kidnapped his father. The finale builds up to a chase scene where the hero has a huge dump truck or some kind of construction vehicle and is chasing the villain in a car. I do vividly remember the final scene where he for some reason can't catch up to the villian but he can see him, and the villian opens the trunk and the father is tied up and he makes some speech and ends it with "happy father's day" then shuts the trunk and drives away.
open(SOLVED) Missile-caused tsunamis Film
I'm looking for a movie, possibly made-for-TV one, about an evil scientist using underwater missiles/torpedos to create tsunamis.
I thought it was Killer Wave, but I found a synopsis of it on the Internet, and it's definitely not what I have seen, despite the scientist villain having the very same name! (Stanley Schiff)
Plus I think what I had seen was from before 2007.
In the version I remember, one of the final scenes had the hero attempting to guess the two passwords on the villain's computer. The first password was "NOBEL PRIZE", and the second password was the hero's name, which I can't remember at all.
I also remember some other scenes:
- The hero tracing the trajectory of the nuclear torpedos on a computerized map; the trajectory is incomplete because they were launched from the sea, but the hero knows the torpedoes still live some radioactive trail even before they're activated, so he fiddles with the controls and eventually traces where they left the coast.
- The baddie committing a Sickbed Slaying with a gun he hid behind a pillow.
It could be that Killer Wave was a remake of something, but I can't find any indication of that on the Internet.
Edited by MedinocopenNo Title Live Action TV
I know the show, but I don't know which episode.
In the 1979 series Buck Rogers In The 25 Th Century, there's a scene in which Buck and other pilot crash land in the middle of a desert, and have to hunt animals to not starve. The guy from the future is horrified with the idea of eating animals, which establishes the future society as vegetarian. Which episode is that from?
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I'm trying to remember a book, probably a YA book and/or romance, in which the heroine was given a paintbox full of expensive paints by an unknown donor. (Naturally the donor turns out to be her love interest, I think.) I have a vague feeling that it was a "period" book either written in or set in the early 20th century, but no real clue. Any ideas?
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Kids TV special from 80's-early 90's during Halloween to promote candy bars, three short colorful aliens eat Mars bars, Milky Way, etc.
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Alright, you're all going to have to bear with me on this one. There was this show I remember watching in early elementary school, it must've been a late 90s/early 2000s kids' show.
Basically what would happen in every episode would be this group of kids seemed to transport back in time by jumping through a picture frame, where they would then find themselves in various scenarios.
I can recall an episode with some kind of mime, and also an episode involving a chef (at least I think, don't quote me.) I'm almost certain that the episodes would begin with a painting, and they would jump into the painting, and then the painting became animated and real.
I remember there would be a villain, and he would always be riding a motorcycle, and whenever he would come near he would have a little theme song that would play so the audience knew he was coming.
I'm assuming this show had some kind of educational purpose, due to the fact that it would be shown to my class in school.
I really hope someone can help me figure this out, thanks!
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A few Youtube commenters and I want to find the source of a short music clip playing in a You Tube Poop from 2:54 through 3:10. (warning in advance, whole video is Nightmare Fuel, link below will autoplay at 2:50 and it gets considerably louder and flashier at 3:14 onwards)
https://youtu.be/sN6N4k1dcTA?t=170
It's not anything from the Salad Fingers animations as another commenter suggested. It's possible it could be a distortion of something else, but of what, I still have no clue.
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Repost: Some sort of animated western tv show: So, sometime during the 90's I watched a TV show and all I remember is an episode where this general or army dude asks for help from the protagonist/protagonist squad and as he hangs the phone up it shows that his lower half had been absorbed by this giant pink jelly monster with tentacles and purple spots on it, thing that was forcing him to commit evil. Can anyone remember this one? Thank you
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Ok, this show is haunting me for years. I watched it in 90's and I don't know which decade it originated from. All I remember it's a silent comedy, about some crazy hotel, and in every episode guests don't pay their bills, and it ends with manager running with bill waving after them. Also the show is most likely from Europe. Pleeeeeease someone help me end this misery :)
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Putting this under "not sure", because there doesn't appear to be a category for web animation. Anyway...
When I was really little, my parents showed me this online Valentines Day animation that showed this cutesy teddy bear reciting equally cutesy poetry, ending with the bear being squashed by a giant foot a la Monty Python. I also remember the thumbnail showing the bear with a red "no" sign over it.
Anyone know the name of this animation, and where I can find it?
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Looking for the name of a kid's book that I can remember very clearly. It was a picture book about a fairy who noticed it was her birthday tomorrow (June 16th, that's how clearly I can remember it despite not knowing the title). So she tried to throw a party for herself and visited all her wood land friends only they all flaked out on her saying they were busy. The next day she gets no letters and the only one who comes to visit her is her sister who brings her out to see a waterfall but doesn't make the journey pleasant by walking really slowly. They get back and (as you've probably guessed) reveal a surprise party leaving everyone all happy and dandy. I think it was named after the titular character and could easily be part of a series.
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A while back I saw bits and pieces from this horror movie that I cannot for the life of me find. It was about this family who I believe lived in a cabin (or at least a woodsy area). There are only three things I distinctly remember: the boy has an "imaginary friend" (who is undoubtedly a demon), this demon overflows the bath and starts writing in black water on the walls (and no, the film I'm thinking of is not Dark Water), and the a friend of the father's asks his little girl what she's drawing, and she says it's a picture of him, but he's dead. It probably came out in the mid 2000s (2003-2007).
I'm looking for a movie, most likely horror.
It opened with a stranger walking into a morgue. I vaguely remember a toe with a tag on it and he did something to it. It suddenly cuts to a family man cutting up a Jack o Lantern.