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There's a kids' novel I read in the 80s or 90s that I want to add to But You Were There, and You, and You, but I don't recall the title. This girl's sister or cousin gets kidnapped by evil goblins and she goes on a quest to rescue her. Her quest companions include a robot similar to her know-all brother, and an eagle who reminds her of her father. At one point they meet the queen, who has no legs (the girl's mother is bedridden with illness). And the goblins turn out to have been torturing the sister or cousin by brushing her teeth until the enamel thins and scrubbing her face until she loses layers of skin (yeah, good hygiene as Nightmare Fuel. It was that sort of book...)
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A very hazy memory from my distant youth, so it could be a total fabrication, but it was an animated film, or possibly series, which featured an anthropomorphic mouse, who I think might have been some kind of noir-ish detective. The one distinguishing feature I recall is that he had some kind of compartment in his chest that he stored things in, possibly clues, despite being wholly organic. That's the part that stuck in my brain anyway. Was it all just some strange fever-dream?
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I remember watching a muppets YouTube Poop with the phrase "shit everywhere!" in it a lot
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Yet another early-to-mid-80s anime series. This time the memory reminds me of Urusei Yatsura, except there's no Lum or aliens; just a bunch of down-to-earth high-schoolers with the slapstick humor. I remember characters who now remind me of Urusei Yatsura's Mendou, Ataru, and Sakura. The Sakura-like character is also very attractive to schoolboys who keep pestering her. She would literally send the boys flying, and as they soar through the air, the boys have their arms stretched out and their legs forming a diamond (soles clapped together), leaving jet contrails in their wake. The episode I got to watch was the gang visiting a temple and they seem to be taking up the challenge of breaking the temple's bell. The Mendo-like character uses a ladder to try to break the bell from the inside, while a couple of other guys are repeatedly punching and kicking it from the outside. The Ataru-like character comes on to the Sakura-like lady who slams him into the bell (as apparently was his plan). Apparently they fail and the priest gives them their consolation prizes, which are smaller versions of the bell. (The Ataru-like character gets a very small one for hitting the bell only once.) I'm really interested in knowing the series' title.
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There was a film I watched a while ago with a plot similar to Bedtime Stories. There was a father and an estranged son (who I believe were both black), and the father was competing with a guy who claims to be a Native American. He gets the upper hand by interpreting his son's drawings, whose results actually carry out into real life. Near the end, the Native guy figures it out and hypes his son on Red Bull to level the playing field.
Anyone remember this? The actor portraying the "Native American"'s name was Thomas [something].
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There's SF series of stories or novels or whatever, where there are loads of other worlds accessible via some sort of a portal planet, and by entering each world you are being changer into one of the inhabitants.
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Trying to recall a novel wherein the hero would put on a helmet and become a berserker, and he had to gain mastery over the helmet in order to use its strength effectively.
This is for my dad, actually - he thinks it was called "Deathstalker," but that's not turning up what he's looking for.
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I seem to recall a very obscure Fairy tale (I think). It was about a young girl who was kidnapped by an old witch, and Every day the witch would test the girl by sending her to a stream. She told her that if she could fill a bucket with water using only a fork, that she would release her back to her parents.
Any ideas.
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Here's an odd one: I'm looking for an article. The article talked about how fictional characters may compensate for one's lack of real-life friends or social life, and went into how viewers/readers bond with characters and resulting emotional effects. It's not just identifying with them, but that people think of them as friends.
And I'm pretty sure this effect has been featured on a Cracked countdown before, but I can't seem to remember which article. I also think it might have had a page on The Other Wiki (or at least was mentioned as a subtopic).
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Okay this was actually a board game but I figure asking here isn't too taboo. I was a horror themed board game, your pieces were gravestones, and you had to watch a tape that came with it to play. The guy on the tape was kinda like a dungeon master. I remember there was something about black holes which I think worked like jail in monopoly. You also had a coin to flip with a demon/gargoyle head and tail for...well heads and tails.
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I think I remember this show (I'm pretty sure it was an animated short film) that had no talking in it, just music. It seemed pretty old when I saw it seven years ago. The characters were a female violin and a male...other musical instrument (maybe a percussion?). The violin was somewhat coquettish and the male was in love with her (I'm not sure if it was returned. He was a Dogged Nice Guy). Their own "families" of instruments were at war with each other, so their own pieces conflicted. When the male's father (who might have been a tuba) discovered his son's feelings, he got very angry. I think he tried to lock him away somewhere.
That's all I remember. If anyone can help out, I'd be very appreciative.
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A Harry Potter Sailor Moon crossover fanfic that had Rei raised with Harry at the Dursley's. This Troper doesn't remember it as particularly good, but it's been bugging her for awhile.
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This was a fairly recent novel, last ten years or so. The cover was marked with the "Sci Fi Essential Books" logo, but I can't seem to find it using that. The main character was one of a set of brothers (probably seven, I forget) whose father was a mountain and mother was a washing machine. He befriended a group of young people living in a boarding house or some such, but mostly one girl who had wings constantly trying to grow from her back. I seem to remember this led to a But Your Wings Are Beautiful situation between them. One or more of the main character's brothers were evil, and I think he was the only one remotely "normal" in his family. This ringing a bell for anyone?
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Does anyone know what he says at 4:17? (now it does not have -word I do not know- or masking)
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I'm trying to remember a fantasy novel. I think the title begin with an A or E. It opens with a guy assassinating a woman, most likely a queen or other powerful figure, by throwing her off a dragon. Their is royalty invovled. A white dragon is supposed to be a royal wedding gift, but the party taking the dragon to the castle is attacked and the dragon escapes into the wild with its handler. It is revealed that dragons are not dumb, but are highly intelligent with a racial memory. Long ago, Humans and dragons were at war and humans were losing badly until they discovered the drug which is a closely guarded secert. Now, the white dragon is free she remembers all of this plus a couple hundred years of enslavement. The white dragon frees another dragon who dies killing humans or attempting to kill humans. People who raise dragons from eggs are peasants and die of a horrible disease that comes from the baby dragons.I think their skin slowly becomes solid. However, their riders are rich, because the dragons are controlled by the royalty and are really expensive to purchase and maintain. The human characters are mainly bastards with lots of backstabbing and murdering. I think their are three sisters, all princesses, one married, one to be married off, and the other independent minded and loves to ride dragons.
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Swedish novel, which I believe I read for school. The characters were school children, probably early teenagers. The main character was named Erik, he was in love with a girl named Pia but she didn't like him at all. He admired some Swedish athlete, might have been a skier but unsure about that, who had a famous catchprase I cannot recall (wasn't Stenmark, though). He once got said athlete's autograph with a dedication to Pia, who in response took it and burned it to show she wasn't interested. Took place not quite in the modern day, but at least in the later half of the 1900's, probably 70's-80's.
Not that I especially want to read it again, but not being able to remember the name of the book or said athlete and his catchphrase is driving me absolute nuts...
My girlfriend is trying to remember a Young Adults book (maybe in more than one part) that involved both killer sheep and 'zombie' snails (that when captured in a box, would move in the direction of the Big Bad). The protagonists were brother and sister, and their mother had died in a bus crash previously - there's a scene where they revisit the decaying bus and time starts skipping backwards, a skeleton of a goat rebuilds itself. Kind of creepy but offbeat in tone. Probably had a green cover?