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This is an odd case, because I think I might have made this up a long time ago. All I can remember is one line that goes "I am the sun, and the moon, and the stars." That's it! I can remember how the melody of that line goes: "I (C) am (D) the (E flat) sun (G) and (F) the (E flat) moon (D) and (D) the (F) stars (E flat)."
I tried looking up these lyrics on a Lyric Finder website, but I couldn't find anything, which supports my theory that this is a wild goose chase and I just made this line up. However, it sounds to me like something out of a contemporary Christian song. (The "I", of course, would be referring to God.)
So, is this a real song, or did I compose a line of music without realizing it?
openNo Title Live Action TV
This is actually a commercial that I saw on tv. The commercial had something to do with missing kids and showed a teenage girl lost and alone in a dark alley while the song "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel played in the background. This sound familiar to anyone.
Edited by BootlebatopenNo Title
Does anyone remember/have video of an animated short that appeared on Spanish language TV? No not THAT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQ1PsDQTtI) one...it did feature cartoon dogs too, however. In this one, a family of dogs are about to have dinner, when the father notices his son is missing. He finds him in an alley where cats are trying to give him cigarettes.
I recall the designs being similar to "Que Duerman Bien", which starred a comic book character called Mac Perro. But none of the dogs were Mac in this short, apparently.
openNo Title Western Animation
In the mid 90's I watched a hand drawn kids cartoon that took place on a tropical island. The animals there could talk because there was an old scietist living there who had a 'speaking potion' that they had to take every once in a while at the same time. The show was named after the protagonist: a grey, humanoid animal with a dinosaur looking snout and little ears. The other characters include a female biologist who is nice to the animals and a couple of poachers who try to catch the talking animals for a zoo.
This sound familiar to anyone?
openNo Title Western Animation
I remember one time my family rented an animated movie about two British kids who find a magic tree that transports them to a land with faries. All I remember about it are a character named Broom and a lot of Conspicuous CGI.
openNo Title Western Animation
One of those wonderful, innumerable, one-shot Merchandise-Driven cartoons in the mid-80's, this one involved a baby doll that came to life behind its owner's parents' back.
At some point, I think there was a flood and the doll had to blow its cover to save her—unfortunately, it was about here that my Dad turned it off and took us to a movie.
Edited by CivanfanopenNo Title
There is a few programmes mainly children's shows I'm also trying to remember if anyone can help me I'd be very grateful
1. Early 80's A show that had a dark dressed figure hanging about some kid's house and eventually leads them to a treasure of gold under floor boards in a house, he's revealed to be a ghost or something. 2. 80's ITV show I think, It was a period show about a group of kids set in the countryside I think the girl of the gang was from a rich background and was from the big mansion in the area 3. 80's aswell I think, the show was about a red haired not very attractive girl who had a sister that was dark haired and beautiful but she dies (or is killed I'm not sure) and the girl starts changing and becoming like her sister becoming more attractive and confident and being able to play a piano like the sister could
I know these are vague but perhaps something might ring a bell.... thanks
openNo Title Live Action TV
I'm trying to find this show for a friend. He remembers renting it from the library when he was a kid. He remembered it was live action, and this girl (wearing purple maybe) walks into a manhole and gets trapped in a sewer. She finds a person in the sewer who tells her to find the giant fork, spoon, and knife and that's how she escapes. She eventually found them and escaped. This may have been a show or a movie, he's not sure. Thank you!
openNo Title Western Animation
I need to know this to provide an example for a YKTTW. (If you're interested, the YKTTW in question is called Popeye Workout.)
It was from a Garfield cartoon, either Garfield and Friends or a holiday special. Jon is going on a date with Liz, and he's trying to decide what to wear. He tries on several crazy costumes, including a Popeye costume complete with big forearms. Each time he comes out of the closetnote Yeah, yeah, I know with a new costume on, Garfield gestures to him to try another outfit.
Does anyone know which Garfield cartoon this scene is from?
Edited by DrNoPumaopenNo Title Literature
This was a children's or young-adult book I must have read in the mid-2000s. It involved a boy and a girl, possibly brother and sister, who were part of some secret agency, I believe. My memory of it is extremely hazy, but I remember them getting a suitcase full of different scents (one that smelled like rotten eggs), and them infiltrating a base that looked like a pyramid. The last chapter of the book was left intentionally blank, and the author invited you to write your own ending.
Edited by RyonneopenNo Title
I use to watch it on kids wb or foxkids I thought it was max steel but I can't find the episode I'm thinking of. On it was a ship that the hero was on looking for the crew or something but was eventually attacked by these metal spider things, another episode had his missing friend appear inside these small robots and they began attacking the city
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Saw this movie in the 90s on showtime or hbo it was one of those erotic movies not for kids lol, but on it I remember a guy coming up to a mansion and saw a guy and woman on a blanket towards the side of the house going at it, he knocks and this woman answers and he glances back but they're gone, he tells her he's there for the job, the husband comes in and it's the guy that was on the lawn outside with the other woman who turns out to be the maid. The husband later on goes on a business trip and when he returns sets his case down at the top of the stairs and then climbs in the shower with the maid, the wife ends up catching them and fires the maid the husband gets mad at him for firing her. The guy sleeps with the wife once and catches the husbands daughter in the pool house sleeping with a boy from school. At the end of the movie the husband is held hostage by the pool by his wife with a gun the maid shows up and tells the guy who would believe someone who can't speak English, the husband ends up shot and the guy knocks the two woman out and saves the husband then goes upstairs and sleeps with the daughter who's called 911.
Edited by uglyz88openNo Title
I watched this on Youtube early 2013 or 2012. It was a two-part video series recapping the history of the Fallout series, all the way back to its roots in Wasteland and the narrator's own desires to explore a nuclear wasteland when he was young. It ends, I remember, in him speculating about the location and prospect of a Fallout 4. I've searched all over Youtube for this particular recap, but can't seem to find it. Does anyone else have a link, if it hasn't been deleted?
Edited by RyonneopenNo Title Literature
I remember reading a series of horror YA books starting with a kid that discovers that demons killed his family. I think he turns into a demon-hunter or something with his uncle. I remember in one book they're in a role for some demonic movie but the director is evil and the deaths are real.
openNo Title Anime
I watched this show sometime between 1998 and 2000. The only thing I remember about it was the main character is a guy with a robotic limb, either and arm or a leg. It was a more serious and dark show that focused on humanity's hate/fear of technology, specific to AI, I think. I just remember how cool the main character was, and that it had some great fight scenes featuring him. At the time I watched it, I also remember thinking how good the graphics were compared to other shows at that time. I could have watched it on Cartoon Network late in the evening when they showed Anime.
Please, please help me remember! It's been killing me!
I recall this one puppet show I watched as a kid. One of the characters was this full bodied purple cat thing who had a stovepipe hat or something. I think it took place at a circus? Maybe that was just one episode. I vaguely recall the plot of one episode where (I think) the purple cat had these color coded emotion things. I know that was also the plot of an episode of Aladdin, but that's definitely not what I'm thinking of. This has been bothering me forever.