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Tv show or movie where a girl tries to die crossing red signs Film
the only thing i remember is that this girl tries do get in a car accident after her mom gets into one. Her mom ran over a red sign and got into a car accident so later on she tries to do the same by crossing red lights because she also wants to die or something along those lines. For some reason i don't remember its name
90s U.K. Drama about evacuees or orphans
Im trying to find a british TV show from the 90's, think it only had a few episodes maybe just 2.
I believe it was set during a war and had groups of teenagers, maybe orphans or evacuees sent away on boats. At one point where they stay there is a flood on a building site/plot.
At the end there was a procession of some kind on the street and someone gets stabbed
All vague i know but thats all i can remember, would have been originally shown on bbc or itv
Thanks
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show with unexpected endings?? Web Original
there’s this show i watched on netflix back in 2015 i think. maybe a web series? in one episode there’s this guy who hears a ringing sound coming from his apartment so he pretty much tore his whole apartment up trying to find where it’s coming from. at the end of the episode, after he pretty much drove himself crazy, a bug flies out of his ear
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Discovery Channel Survival Series Live Action TV
15 or 20 years ago, the Discovery Channel ran a survival series regarding survival stories in different climates/conditions. One was about Alan Cooper, who tried to drive his Morris car from Kenya north through the Sahara desert and died with some of his companions. The 2nd was a couple and their baby that got stuck in a snowstorm (after Hot-tubing) and left their car to find a ranger station and the wife died from eating snow in order to produce breast-milk. The 3rd was a woman who was the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle and was rescued by a canoe. Another nights episode told the story of a family driving in an African desert and got a flat tire, were stranded and the husband was picked up by someone with a car but when he finally got back, his whole family was dead from the heat. What is the name of this series and how can I view it again?
Cover of Rudolph the Reindeer where he tells the other deer to get lost Music
It was on the radio at work, but as I was on the shop floor at the time (and Christmas music loops a lot less), I couldn't identify it, or try and google it on my phone.
Name of the Toy Seen in Wreck-It Ralph 2
Ralph Breaks The Internet featured a gag about Blind Box toys. Was that a real brand?
(FOUND) Fantasy/sci-fi show featuring a guy with a zip on the back of his head Live Action TV
FOUND - it's the miniseries Tin Man.
So I'm looking for a TV show, sci-fi/fantasy genre. I think it was British. One of the main characters is a white man with dark hair tied up/in braids/dreads (?) and a reeeeally characteristic zip on the back of his head. I've only seen the first episode and I think part of it was set in a forest. There was also a female lead character involved. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Edited by hatchworth
Errands Game Videogame
Looking for a Edutainment Game computer game from between 1997-2002. The game has you basically helping a woman with her daily errands (going to the store, hospital, bank etc.) and that's all I can remember. Google brought up both A Quiet Weekend In Capri and The Fool's Errand both of which are not it, thanks in advance.
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Online game trilogy where a guy has to save his home and his dog Videogame
So I'm trying to remember the name of this game. Only the first two incarnations are available for free. It was kind of an adventure game with puzzle-solving aspects. The main character is a little guy dressed all in white with a floppy white hat, kind of like an elf hat. I remember he also used to say "oh no" in this really high pitched voice. The other really memorable thing was the art style. While most of the characters were drawn 2d, there were other characters that were created using a fix of 2d drawing and real life images, such as human faces plastered onto a squirrel's face. Also the main character's ship was an aluminium can of soup (if I recall correctly). In the first game the character has to divert a planet away from crashing into his own planet (which is must smaller). In the second game he has to save his dog who is kiddnapped by green aliens looking for fruit. That's all I can really remember.
Nevermind I literally just found it. It's called Samorost.
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Was this a fever dream Live Action TV
i saw such a strange episode of a show that I’ve never been able to forget it(atleast 5 years ago). The plot of this episode went as follows: two teens(a girl and a boy) awake on a boat(in an alternate timeline) in a beautiful river(it looked like Europe), they’re having a peaceful time drifting down it, she see a bank to up on and once they get off a lady dressed in Victorian era clothing sees them and just freaks out and pulls them in the get put into nicer clothes, while all the other adults also dressed in Victorian era clothes, sitting around cute tables eating, watch them intently. Basically she dresses them up, feeds them and acts all nice and starts to tell them about this alternative reality/future that they’ve ended up in where adults can die or age, but they also can’t have children. After this it’s revealed that they want the two teenagers to fuck so they can have kids because they realized living forever w/o kids sucked or w/e and the teens like run off and escape.
Unknown emergency show from 90’s Live Action TV
TV and Movie Buffs I need help!!! Fire rescue tv show from the 90’s
There was a show in the 90’s (almost positive) that was an emergency rescue show (fire fighters EM Ts etc...) from my childhood that I am trying to remember. I don’t remember much but I remember 1 scene with pretty good detail. It is as follows:
A couple have just been involved in a pretty bad crash, [i believe] a freeway overpass or support beam has fallen on the vehicle and both individuals are badly injured. After a lengthy assessment they have determined that the unconscious female is going to die if she is not extricated quickly, which means removing the chunk of concrete on top from atop the vehicle. Now for the kicker.. her bf (or husband) is only still alive because the slab of whatever is holding him together. He has been cut nearly in half and after they remove slab of concrete he will die shortly after. With time short for his wife, he sacrificially instructs the Fire dept to remove the slab from the car and you can guess what happens from here.
I thought FOR SURE this was Third Watch but I have watched the series again in the last few years and was sadly disappointed. Then I thought ‘maybe it was rescue 911’ but that more based off of true 911 calls so I feel it is also wrong. Someone out there must know the answer!!! Google has failed me.
Looking for info on two '80s PBS shows Live Action TV
Hi folks! Sorry to inconvenience you with one of these requests because I actually found out once what it was called via a YKTS post from at least three or four years ago, but so much has happened since and I completely lost track of the answer! Anyway, so that first show I was talking about concerned a young woman who was a recent immigrant to the U.S. and lives in an apartment next to a young American man who's a writer and who teaches the woman proper English grammar and how to write English more clearly. She uses that knowledge at her workplace, a department store where she's the secretary to a black American woman who's the head manager of the store, and teaches the janitor of the store some of what she's learned. The immigrant woman had long, curly red hair and spoke in what I would assume was a Central or Eastern European accent, and there was a "will they or won't they" element between her and her neighbor.
The second show is something that's bugged me for almost as long, but I've never gotten anywhere with regards to finding out on my own what it was called. It was perhaps a Texas PBS production that was set in medieval times and was basically a sort of mock evening news program; during said program they began by showing a particular date in the past on the screen (similar to how ABC's or NBC's evening news programs displayed that day's date info when they began their broadcasts), then the camera moved in closer to the fictional news anchor, who'd report on historic events in that particular time period as if they were news reports. I don't think there were any field reporters or anything, though people were shown in the background working as if they were hustling to write and file reports; I think what was shown on screen instead were historical artworks depicting whatever event the "news anchor" was reporting on. I wasn't traditionally interested in history, but I remember that show making medieval history seem interesting and would love to see if there are even the shortest of clips available online for me to enjoy.
As stated in the title, these were shows that aired on my local (a city in Texas) PBS affiliate in the 1980s, both during the afternoon "instructional TV" block. During that time I was a young child who watched PBS more than any other channel and found the instructional programs of the time VERY entertaining (even if I never picked up anything, e.g. "French in Action", a show that failed to teach me even the slightest of French), but the above shows were my absolute favorites of the group. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'd be highly appreciative.
puppet show Live Action TV
there was a weird puppet show, i think on cbc canada, where a they were telling native tales? the main character was a wolf who had strange powers, the episode i remember the most was he had the power to remove his eye and make it float around. a crow caught it in a cage the 4th time he used it, cause the turtle told him to only use it 3 times in a day...
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Looking for a cartoon episode with a father/son duck hunting scene, probably from Ned's Newt Western Animation
I remember this one scene in what I'm pretty sure was a Ned's Newt episode, where Ned is going duck hunting or something of the sort with his dad. His dad wants to show him his hunting tricks and tries to hide from the ducks in a pond with what I think was a reed snorkel. He fails of course. It's not the father's day episode of Ned's Newt btw, I checked. Would really appreciate any hints, not knowing the name of the episode is bugging the hell outta me.
Cancelled comedy show Live Action TV
Back in probably around 2012-2015 or so, I would record shows and after one of them it would capture a few seconds of a show that kinda interested me, but I never actually found out the name or watched it. It was a comedy, and it always started out with a woman in what appears to be a therapists office, with a black Male therapist, kinda thin and muscular Aldis Hodge type build. Likely came on after something like necessary roughness or 2 broke girls or my boys, they're the only shows I can remember recording that weren't on syfy channel at that time.
No Title
There was a show and in an episode a guy is getting getting abducted by a woman.and she ties him to a bed I think and she dresses up as a nurse in one seance while pointing a gun at him and she has him bath with handcuffs on his feet and his woman believes he is lost or dead something like that
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Aye Aye Anime
I'm looking for the anime all the footage from this video
is taken from. I've tried searching for it myself, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
Old western outlaws Time Based Show Live Action TV
It was a show that came out around 2014-2016 I don't know if it's still around but it was a western outlaw show the title was Something VS Something Please Help
Science show where teen got random moments of genius Live Action TV
I am trying to remember this show I saw as a kid where there was a group of friends in like high school and something happened to one of them where he would some times get this moment of extreme intelligence and they would like zoom in on his eye when it happened and he would go into genius mode and solve a problem or create something incredible. The episode I remember best is one where I believe he genetically created a live dinosaur and it was loose in the school. Hope somebody can help me remember the name of this show.
Thanks.
Late Night Relaxation Live Action TV
It was just classical music pieces over nature videos. Once one piece ended, another would come up with a different nature video. I know it broadcasted on a channel called Showcase (or Showcase 2) on Sky (for UK viewers) and it was usually on pretty late, like at 2am for a couple of hours. I think it had a 'HD' at the end of its name like '_____ HD' but I can't remember what it's called. Can anyone help me?
Family owns van with super powers Live Action TV
I remember watching this as a kid in the early 2000s. It's a live action TV show about this suburban family that owns a maroon van that has super powers. In one of the episodes I remember distinctly the van shrinks so the family can enter the bloodstream of a person so they can save him, and in another one the van becomes a submarine.
No more fairy tales Western Animation
A Western animation that looked either Canadian or Australian about the daughter of the Tooth Fairy, the nephew of Merlin and the son of the Jack and the Beanstalk giant (who’s normal person sized) at a (middle)school named No more fairy tales with the rest of descendants of fairy tale characters (Little Red Riding Hood, Pinnochio and another guys). Magic wands work like phones there (having wi-fi), I think.
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a flash shooting game
i remember playng a flash game when i was younger, that you controlled a little guy with a red shirt and fought dragons. you controlled the little character with the mouse and you throw fireballs by the right click you coulud also charge the fireballs by holding the click. each level was called differently like area of the mountain dragons sea dragons etc. the name had dragon in it. youhad limited space you shoot the fireball while dodging the other fireballs by the dragons i would love to play it again please help me find it
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Little platformer game Videogame
I remember playing a short, side-scrolling, web-based platformer where you're a small black robot-like character and you navigate levels using (iirc) your extendable arms. It could be completed in under 30 minutes. The plot, as I remember it, was that either you or your girlfriend fell in love with the moon and wanted to reach it/obtain it. The ending had you either find your girlfriend (a similar robot with a pink bow) or the moon, I don't remember which. I want to say it was called "I/she fell in love with the moon". I remember playing it on either Cool Math Games or its sister site (it was often advertised at the time I played, but I also don't remember its name)
It was a really short and sweet little game and I'd love to play it again someday, tyia!
Flash Game were you create Colorful Flowers (SOLVED) Web Original
Back in middle school, some of my classmates introduced me to a game where you great flowers. The process involved taking a selection of seeds and DNA of sorts and combining them together to create different types of colorful flowers. If you wanted to save a particular one, you can copy the number code at top. The background was just the blue sky with the fertilizer being depicted by a simple brown floor.
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