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This was definitely a japanese TV show. It was subtitled, put on a few websites, but thats all I know it through. I don't know the name, thats for sure, but its sort of a challenge show, 4, maybe 3 people are going through challenges each day, seems to be a sort of yearly gameshow-type-thing. Same challengers, maybe. Last year it was based on stuff like sentai or superhero's or something. I know this is REALLY vague, but I can't help but ask if anyone can direct me to the show I'm referring to.
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There was a shadow puppet like show I watched as a kid in Netherlands in mid to late 90s. Since it's a shadow puppet show (or maybe they just used black cutouts on sticks and used them like puppets) the scenes (forest, house) were all black except the sky had colors. If i remember correctly, the characters weren't too intricate.
I can only remember 2 scenes. One was a scene of a house with many windows and the lights on. There would be someone in the house and turn off a light in one room and you can hear footsteps walking to the other room to turn off those lights.
Another was a witch on her broomstick and she's traveling through the forest. Not gonna lie, it was a bit scary as a kid lol.
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Hello. I remember watching on television (Portugal) a show that had episodes, this was happening in a city and often a "giant cube" was coming down slowly from the sky, each "character" inside that would be "teleported" to a place where they had to "play a game" so that cube could go away and leave the city alone...Remember a episode where that "giant cube" came and thet were teleported to a place like a "playhouse" from a clown...Sorry can't tell more about it, i was very little, it was arround 1994-2000 kind of...Thank for your help!
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I remember playing a point and click PC (probably CD-ROM) game at the home of one of my friends around 2000-2003-ish that was set in a Clock Punk world where the player had to build and fix machinery by finding components and putting things in the right places, etc. All of the NP Cs were these wizard/scholar types associated with a certain force of nature and had titles like "The Master of Heat", "The Master of Electricity", etc. Does anyone remember a similar game?
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It was a tvshow made back in the 90s/early 2000s. The premise was teenage/college kids going to visit supposedly haunted places with cameras. I think the whole thing was filmed with those cameras too? It started out with a brief introduction about the place and then showed the teenagers going to that place. The people going in changed every time. It usually featured 2/3 stories like that per episode?
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I saw this show early 2000's, no later than 2007 on toonami. There was a red robot I think, looked a lot like the one from FLCL, but I could find no mention of this scene anywhere. Anyway, The red robot was fighting with a guitar, I think it shot bullets out of the neck? But he was fighting a guy in a hockey mask, who had a hockey stick. I think the hockey mask guy came out of a bathroom, or was flung into the bathroom through the ceiling. I think both were fighting in mid-air, but I know for a fact the robot could fly. I'm also pretty sure the hockey mask guy was human, just insanely strong and durable. I think this was either the beginning or end of the anime, as I think the credits were on screen. This has been bugging me for awhile, so any help would be appreciated.
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I saw this movie trailer about four years ago (so 2011-ish), but it wasn't brand new at the time— I saw the trailer on Youtube and not in a theater.
The movie was live-action, in English (I think American-made), and was probably made between 2000 and 2010.
Plot: Some rich guy died and left his money/property to another man who may or may not have been a relative. But he left the guy a series of challenges to complete in order to get the inheritance. For one of the challenges, the guy had to find a friend. In one scene, he went up to a mother and daughter on the street and said "I need a friend."
To which the little girl replied "Explain yourself!" Later, she said "So you made a bet with a dead guy? Cool."
Just one other line I remember: When the guy who got the inheritance and the dead guy's lawyer were driving to the dead guy's estate or whatever, at one point the lawyer said "We've been on his property for the last half hour."
Sorry I can't remember more, but I was only about 12 when I saw the trailer and I found it pretty confusing at the time.
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this show was a halloween special every year when I was young (so late 90s to early 2000s) I can't remember what channel it was on but there was always a few episodes of it for the month of october. It was about some kids who went into a haunted house and find some monsters (like a witch, a skeleton, someone else?) and they become friends with them. I can't really remember all of it but it was shitty animation also.
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Hi guys, been obsessing about this for years... I think it was a Dutch show around the 90's featuring a lady with magical powers. She would point her finger and blow outwards as to spread some kind of magical dust, which then gave her powers to walk through doors or walls. It wasn't a children's programme, but I think it was a series.
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I can't remember where I saw this or what the context was. It may have been a TV commercial. I don't think it was more than a few minutes long. I'm pretty sure I saw it on the Internet, but I can't remember where I saw it.
Here's the story: there's a female nude model (I can't remember if there was any actual nudity), modeling for an art class. The students all have to draw the model very quickly. When a bell rings, the students flip their drawings over to a blank page in their sketch books and start a new drawing.
There's a guy in the class and for some reason, he's not supposed to be there, but he's there anyway and he's not a good artist. While he's drawing, he's trying not to be found out by the teacher. Luckily, every time he's about to be found out, the timer goes off and he's able to flip the page just in time. At one point, he's about to be found out, but the model makes the bell ring with her foot. I don't know why she was helping him, but she was.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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There was a show I remember watching in the late 90s- early 2000s. I don't remember the network, but it was a paranormal investigation show of sorts.They took an entire family to what was supposed to be one of the most haunted castles in the world and they were supposed to spend the night. They would take the family and split them up and they had to use chicken blood to perform a portal ritual on a mirror in the room they were in. It was supposed to awaken the things in the castle. And then they had to find each other and roam the place till dawn. There was some kind of woman waiting in the foyer of the castle who would take them out if things got too intense. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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so i have been trying to find this tv show so i can watch it but i cant see to find it its about this girl who has powers in the first episode she gets scared and all the feathers dropping from the celling stop dropping her farther is sellected to protect her so i cant give you more its vage in my mind
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Today in a shop I caught a glimpse of a music video, but I didn't get the name of the song. What I saw from the video was a typical young couple doing typical stuff like going to the beach and an ice cream parlor. The last shot of the video was them taking selfies and holding hands as they walk away from the camera. Seems to be a recent, mainstream song, does anyone know?
Edit: forget it, I already found it: "Lovin So Hard" by Becky G.
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Looking for the name of a show which was set in space, had a number of characters living on either a ship or a space station. All characters were actors in foam/rubber puppet-like costumes. Many of the main characters had beards (made of this same foam) Screened in the late 80's in Australia, may have been older than that however. Possibly a Canadian show? All characters wore white space suits which looked kind of Paladin-esque from memory, they did not typically wear helmets. The foam beards were certainly memorable.
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I had a VHS or DVD of this show when I was little, in the late 90s. There was a group of magic girls that each had a pet I think. I know one had a little dragon. Maybe they all had horses/unicorns. I remember one episode one of the gilrs was hypnotized and all the other girls watched from above as she walked through a waterfall that was actually a secret passage. Her name was Tamerin I think. She had green hair? This is driving me bonkers becaue I watched this all the time with my cousin.
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There was a show I remember watching when I was younger. It would have been around the early 2000's. It was a comedy sketch show hosted by an extremely offensive ginger dude. The name Stamper comes to mind but google gives me nothing on that. It was either on MTV 2 or Scuzz and two of the clips I remember clearly were one where the dude was advertising his funeral party service where he 'puts the fun in funeral'. Another was something to do with a hooker shooting ping pong balls out of you know where.
The name of the show was named after the presenter, I would have sworn it was something like Stamper TV, but as I said that brings up nothing. If anyone has any ideas that would be great!.
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I remember a very old Peter Rabbit cartoon made sometime during the 1930's or 1940's. It was also one of the earliest animated adaptation of "The Tale Of Peter Rabbit" story by Beatrix Potter. I believe this was also made while she was still alive since she died in 1943 but I could be wrong. I can't remember the name, but I remember the title card had a jester introducing the cartoon.
The only memory I have is when his sisters Mopsy,Flopsy, and Cottentail are scolding him in song by calling Peter a "naughty boy" and Peter responds by calling them "Tattle tail". I also remember in the beginning where his mother spanks him and Peter can be seen with a tear rolling down his eye. I remember seeing this cartoon a few times on Cartoon Network in the early 2000's. I think it was made by the Fleischer company or the company that made the Casper cartoons but I could be wrong.
For those that seen if, can you let me know what the cartoon is? This also wasn't the last time Peter Rabbit was adapted in a musical (I'm looking at you HBO Family's Storybook Musicals). And I'm also not referring to the one from 1991 as part of an anthology called "The World Of Peter Rabbit & Friends".
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I'm hoping someone can solve a 20+ year question for me!
The premise of the Episode was terrorists (80's versions of terrorists anyway) stealing the famous "football" nuclear briefcase. It was in the possession of an agent who was was trained to confuse the terrorists by fast talking and being clever. I remember they couldn't torture him because he had surgery to disable pain receptors in his body.
It ends with the reveal that he is actually the football. His leg (or arm) has two buttons embedded in him. He then confuses them on which to push.
I saw it in the late 80s or early 90s. I want to say it was a show made of vignettes like Amazing Stories or something.
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I can't remember any episodes but I do remember the theme of the what ever it was. It was about a cat that has lost 8 of his lives and now only has one more left. This God like figure tells the 8 ghost to find a way to kill the cat. In each episode one of the ghost possesses the cats friends ( who is an animal , the show does not contain humans ... If I remember correctly) and his friend finds complex ways to try and kill the cat but it never works . The cat is completely oblivious to what is happening with his friend. Also they don't speak. At least not English. It's like a muffled gibberish