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This must have been a Miniseries or limited series of films, maybe possibly a TV series (but I think I remember the installments being around one-and-a-half hours long). It was from the early 90s or possibly late 80s (i saw it on startv or star movies in asia as a kid)
Anyway, it was this fantasy world with fairies and i believe some characters from fairytales like humpty dumpty (or similar ones). a series for kids, with i believe some 12-15 year old kid in the main role, who may (or may not) have been transported there from a normal world and is Trapped In Another World.
it was kinda cheap and for some reason really terrified me (Accidental Nightmare Fuel, but maybe only for me). i've not seen it since the mid 90s.
somebody must know this pleeease
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I saw a Wild Kratts commercial where it showed Chris, Martin and an aardwolf peeking out from some bushes. Can someone please tell me the name of that episode? I absolutely adore aardwolves! They're like miniature striped hyenas that eat insects and are Ridiculously Cute Critters.
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A campy horror movie (I believe Foreign/?Argento?) where all of a sudden you did not know what “level” of reality you were in, and nor were the characters sure. I believe it was just before the mid 1980’s Freddie Kruger dream vs. reality era (but possibly concurrent.) It had to do with television – and people watching images of themselves would pop the story level up or down – like infinite regress in opposing mirrors – and as the viewer, you became one of the viable levels incorporated within the story. I was young, but remember thinking “holy cow – that is cool and different”.
All I can think of are: Re-Animator, Suspiria, and Videodrome – but definitely non of those (same era though.)
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I read a short story and I don't remember the exact title or the name of the author. The title was something like "I'll Meet You on Uranus" and it was in a collection of short stories (all by the same author) that may have been named after this particular story. It was an epidemic of people coming down with what was called "suit," in which a silver spacesuit grows onto the person's body and ultimately they float up into space. The main character was a man whose wife had contracted suit and he kind of realizes how much he loves her as the suit grows onto her body and he has to deal with the fact that she'll float away. When she finally does, he tries to grab a hold of her to keep her on earth, and there's a Title Drop when she floats away.
I read it online on Google Books or something like that, I don't remember, and I tried to search for it on Google Books and couldn't find it. I read it in 2008 but it had been out for a while by then. I want to say it was written in the 90s but I can't be sure.
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A Western seen on TV in the mid 70s, probably filmed in the 50s or 60s. It was in color, I think. Only scene I recall is someone demonstrating his Improbable Aiming Skills by shooting at a rotating windmill. 5 shots pass between the blades but one hits with a "ping." Another guy admires his skills as he passed through 5 out of 6, but the shooter admits that he was actually aiming to hit the blades, and only got 1 out of 6.
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Some kind of comedy film set at a college, which I remember seeing on comedy central one afternoon years ago - I kind of remember it looking like it was made in the 80's, but I could be completely wrong. The only scene I remember is one where one of the main characters, who is apparently Jewish, gets harassed by a dumb Jerk Jock who pretends to be making friendly conversation while constantly emphasizing the word "kite" (i.e. "It sure looks like a nice day to fly a kite!"). Eventually a second, less dumb, Jerk Jock tells him that he doesn't even have his ethnic slurs right.
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Back in the 1970s on U.S. television, there was a one-hour cartoon anthology show; it usually contained 5-15 minute episodes of various serial stories. I especially recall an animated adaptation of The Three Musketeers," and a truly disturbing (and faithful to the novel) adaptation of Frankenstein''. There were some other, surprisingly dark mini-serials, mixed in with lighter fare. Most of them, I think, were from different creators.
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In this YouTube Poop at 20 seconds in a man says "What the heck is this?" and a waiter says "Chicken sir." the man is holding Pinkie Pie who was edited it. Where is it from?
Also in the page image for YouTube Poop in the very upper right corner is some guy I don't know, who is he?
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There was an anime I just caught the last couple minutes of on YTV a few years ago. All I know is that it took place on a spaceship and there was this woman that turned out to be an angel or a robot or something that exploded into tiny crystal shards, somehow saving the galaxy in the process. The male lead kept one of the shards. The woman had pale skin and long hair (can`t remember the exact colour), while the boy had short brown hair. I believe it was a movie, and the animation would suggest it came from the late 90s at the latest.
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I didn't catch the name of the show, but I'm curious as to what it was, because it was really funny! It was a comedy program with a bunch of different sketches. One sketch had a grandma talking to a teenager about all of the different drugs she tried when she was their age. The segment started out saying how having a grandma was the newest trend for teenagers. Another had a lady (who was obviously a man in drag) taking her dog for a walk. The dog could talk and told the lady to take off all of her clothes. The lady said she couldn't, they were in a public place. The dog then says that if she loved him, then she'd take off all her clothes. The lady strips down to her underwear and asks the dog if that's what he wanted. The dog then tells her to get in a trash can. Police officers promptly come and arrest the lady. Another sketch had a British couple having dinner at a restaurant for their 40th anniversary. The woman was completely silent the whole time and the man was awkwardly trying to make conversation by saying each and every thing he saw happen or that he did. And the last part—and most disturbing, in my opinion—had two men in a locker room at a gym. They take off their towels and reveal that they are totally naked! (even their private parts were shown! I was in shock at that it was actually uncensored on television, considering it was late-afternoon when this show was on!) Anyways, they start talking about all the women they'd had sex with and even start demonstrating what they did on one another! (Brain bleach, please!) Then one guy begins shaving the other guy's private area with a pink razor. (More brain bleach!) That's pretty much where the show ended. I was really surprised about that last segment but now I must know what this show is! Any help is appreciated, thank you!
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(I'm relatively sure this is anime, but it could also be western animation)
I remember watching a show at my friend's house a few times. Couldn't tell you what the channel was, even, but what I do remember is a very shonen-style show (think Dragonball Z with more bishonen protagonists). The hero had this red power ranger thing going, though I don't think it was a sentai show, and I remember a fight against an opponent who because invulnerable to any attack that hit him. I don't remember how that fight ended.
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there was a webcomic i saw, it seemed steampunk-ish. i only saw the first few pages, but it was western-style art, long/comic book style format, full colour. two men were sneaking across rooftops in the middle of the night, then one picked the lock to a roof, and they snuck inside to someone's room. they seemed to have the intention of stealing something specific. anyone know?
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There's this tv show i think it's about 5 years old (MAYBE!!!), and i think it was called something with 'hyper', 'start', 'jet' in the name or something. It was a sci-fi, and there was like this spaceship, but the crew were all teenagers except for the leader who was an adult. I remember one episode where they found a spaceship identical to theirs, but they boarded it and found it was severely damaged and empty, and a lot of things were wrong. Then they found a survivor, who said they were invaded or something, but they found a tape or something and it turns out he was the culprit.
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There's this thing used in YouTube Poop s so much it's not funny, yet I'm still very unclear on what it's from, it's some poorly drawn cartoon with uneven lines that had a cheerful king dressed in orange robs and this guy that looks like Link. What the heck is it from?
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I saw an episode of Cow And Chicken where Chicken was playing duck duck goose, and one duck turned into a dragon. It had something to do with video games and kicking a can.
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The protagonist is a boy living in either Alaska or Canada with his grandfather. He needs to make money (I think his grandfather is sick), and his grandfather won't let him take money out of his college funds. The boy trains his dog as a sled dog and they enter a race for a cash prize. They are about to win and the dog's heart bursts and it dies right before the finish line. Another competitor takes out his gun and threatens to shoot anyone who crosses the finish line before the boy. The boy carries his dog's body over the line.
That was just as depressing to think about the second time.
I'm looking for an Artemis Fowl fanfic I read a while back. It's after Artemis get's mindwiped, and the whole plot is that his Da wants to spend time with him, but there's so much that Artemis already knows how to do, until he finds out that Artemis doesn't know how to drive. Hilarity Ensues. I've been looking on FF.net, which is where I thought it was from? But I'm not sure about it, so...
Edit Nevermind. Apparently my brain decided to give me the one freaking keyword to search for this fic as soon as I posted. -_-;
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