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video of Simpsons fancomic remaking treehouse of horror stories
Okay so it was two videos of someone's Simpsons fancomic remaking the I know what you did last summer and Island of Dr. Moreau treehouse of horror parodies but Marge and Lisa had the Most common superpower and the stories were played dead serious. There's no voice work just music. I think I watched in like 2012-2014 and I feel like they were like the old videos but the time I watched them but I may be wrong. Does this ring any bells for anyone ?
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Cartoon about a Scottish girl Western Animation
A 2D animated cartoon about a Scottish girl going on adventures... the episode I saw was about the Loch Ness Monster. The show was probably from the mid-late 2000s
An anime that starts with a nameless student getting ran over Anime
I only saw the first episode, after which I got sidetracked by another show that was coming out at the time, and now that I've been reminded of it, I can't for the life of me remember what the series was called or what the actual premise was.
All I remember is that it heavily involves (if not outright revolves around) an Absurdly Powerful Student Council, and, early in the first episode, there's a scene where a random student is shown taking some apparently incriminating photos, only to be unceremoniously ran over by someone who was either a member of or was hired by said Student Council, all so they could retrieve and destroy said photos.
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Board game, please? Film
In one scene in the Amazon original movie "The Manor", the main character and her grandson play a horror movie trivia board game with little gravestone pieces. Does anyone know what game it is?
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Sidescrolling Elf Platformer Videogame
This computer game was a platformer where you played as an elf-like character. The player character was very small on the screen, their face being maybe one or two pixels. I do remember the elf having a running animation, as well as an elf hat, but my memory when it comes to these childhood games is always a little spotty.
Pickups included gold pixels that made a noise whenever collected, and keys that would open doors. The game started outdoors, but quickly progressed from left-to-right into a castle or fort. I remember gameplay being smooth - not today's 60 fps or anything, but not like Treasure Mountain, either.
I've made this query before on this site, and gotten many helpful suggestions, including the aforementioned Treasure Mountain (which I also played a LOT as a kid), Elfland and Hocus Pocus (in both of which the player characters are too big) and Solomon's Key (too old). The game I'm looking for would have likely been released in the 90s, as my dad's collection was primarily DOS games like Monster Bash and Commander Keen.
Edited by FortyTwoForty
Power Rangers Team up fanfic Web Original
There’s this Power Ranger fic where Dino Thunder teams up with several other Ranger Teams including an OC team. Trent the White Dino Ranger dies cause the author doesn’t know how to write him or something. One Ranger ends up in Super Sentai universe where he meets the Gokaigers. The Timerangers apparently gave Gokai Silver something so the Gokaigers would know about future teams.
Rope foreshadowing Western Animation
I've seen this in a cartoon or more likely an animated movie. The thing is that there is foreshadowing involving a noose and a twist villain. As the twist villain is talking to the hero, before their intentions are revealed, a noose loop is shown before the hero's face. Not on their neck, but the noose is upside down and the loop looks big enough to show the hero's face inside it. I can't explain it very well. But the noose thing is supposed to foreshadow to danger or the twist villain.
Children's Story About A Grey Kingdom Literature
I've tried here before and got no response, so I'll try again. I recall this children's story from when I was around nine or ten, so I assume it was released prior to 2009 (Rough estimate). It was about this man who I think was the king of a kingdom of music and color who wanders into a different kingdom where color and music are banned, so his kingdom is grey and silent. The colorful king gets caught whistling and is imprisoned in a dungeon with a woman who tells him the grey king is going to force her to marry him.
The two escape from their cage and meet another woman, a very confused chief for the grey king who turned dinner into breakfast. Later in the story, some people from the colorful kingdom who are named "Do, Ri, Mi, Fa, So, La, and Ti," that musical scale, go to save their kind. But Mi gets captured and has their voice stolen. So the colorful king says to the guy (who is also mute) that if he gets Mi's voice back, the colorful king with help him get his back.
At the end of the story, the grey king gets tricked into marrying the chief lady instead of the first woman, while the colorful king and the rest of the gang head back to their colorful kingdom.
2D Animated Movie Released Before 2006
I vaguely remember some 2D animated movie from a DVD at my cousin's cottage I watched sometime before 2006 if memory serves me correctly.
The movie has some guy enter a cave and end up sent back in time to an ancient civilization. He meets a woman who is unhappy with her arranged marriage since her betrothed kills pumas when those are precious to her. There's a whole lot of blank in my memory after that, but I do remember that at the end of the movie, the betrothed, who is the main villain, gets thrown off a cliff and the main character returns to his time period together with the woman.
Comedy with a scene involving a suggestive gesture with a garden rake Live Action TV
This is a scene from what I want to say is a tv show, or possibly a web comedy skit, where two guys are in a home improvement store of some description. One of them picks up a garden rake and offhandedly makes a vague gesture while jokingly saying something along the lines of "give her one of these". The other then refuses to move past it and interrogates him on what exactly the gesture was meant to convey and how he was planning to use a garden rake sexually.
I could have sworn it was matt and jay from nirvana/nirvanna the band the show, but I just finished the entire show and apparently not. Searching for "garden rake suggestive gesture comedy scene" hasn't been terribly fruitful, so any help would be super appreciated.
weird shapes and dimensions show? Western Animation
I remember a story from many years ago about a city of 2D shapes, a character named Hex, and the circles ruled the world. However some character that was a square found out there was a 3rd dimension.
Weird movie Film
I saw this movie a while back. There was this girl and three tiny animals. One was a bear I think. And another was a Wolf. Some dude threw the wolf in a fireplace and a human face appeared or something. There was purple mist. I think that’s all I remember
CGI Christmas cartoon
There’s this CGI Cartoon about this boy and he’s friends with sentient plants and maybe talking animals. The father planned to chop down one of the trees to make a Christmas Tree. After a Snowstorm, the tree became beautiful which caused the father to realize he makes a good outdoors tree. There was also another CGI show most likely made by the same creators. Basically it involved a raccoon and a tiny critter. I think they befriend a kid. Or maybe two. And there’s a log and some chefs. I think they were making cake. I think it was from the 2000s or earlier.
Book series about a boy and his annoying brother Literature
There were at least two-three books in the series, with a spin-off book about a side character.
The first book (and the only one I really remember) was about the main character, the boy, getting a pet turtle, and how he then has to deal with his annoying younger brother. At the end of the story, the younger brother eats the turtle, however the boy is then given a pet dog as a replacement pet, who he then names “turtle”
The boy lives in a small apartment, and his dad worked for a juice company whose products taste really bad.
Watchmojo episode Web Original
I want to make a D To S page about them but I can't remember the episode. It was an episode where they thought a man mourning his niece was silly.
Comic - Man joins brand design team Literature
I'm trying to help my brother find something. He thinks it may have been one story in a larger book, possibly one that mixed prose and comics, or not. Here's his description:
Man joins design team finding a brand for google-like corporation
I remember it was in an anthology of the best American works of fiction or something similar. It may have been the best american nonrequired reading anthology. I read it in the last two years and I believe it was published in the last five, but am not positive about the latter. The story is somewhat dystopian - the corporation has become a huge player in world affairs.
The main character is a young man who joins a design team creating a new brand and logo for a google-out-of-control like organization.
During the story the man is afflicted by a mysterious cold-like sickness supposedly cause by plants on the property. He gets medicine from a semi-sinister doctor at the company, which helps him. They tell him that the sickness is due to allergies, but we never get the full explanation.
The main character goes for a swim each day and sees a woman sitting by the pool that he lacks the courage to talk to. During his last swim, he looks up and she is no longer there. He wonders whether he imagined her entirely.
The design team is led by a man who is somewhat obsessed with primality. He leads the team to break in to the headquarters of their rivals in the final act of the comic.
The last scene is the main character looking at a bloody handprint after injuring himself during the break in. He decides that this will be the new logo of the corporation.
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The Titan Oceanus/Okeanos Film
I remember seeing a picture of a film where he was portrayed by a man in highly unconvincing blue paint, I just can’t find anything on it.
No Title Literature
A small anthology of sci-fi stories based loosely around - get this - Space Mountain. Well, the first story was, anyway; it involved a kid riding the coaster and getting stranded on an alien world. If I remember correctly, the rest were basic kids' sci-fi fare. Anyway, I read this book as a Disney-loving kid, and I just remembered it now, but I can't quite recall the name of it.
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Ass tattoo
Movie or TV show (I don't remember well) in which there is a girl who has a heart tattooed on her butt with the words "Spank me".