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opendoes this movie have a page? Film
"As You Are" is an indie movie about these high school stoners, Jack and Mark, who fall in love and then Mark dies at the end. I couldn't seem to find it with a simple search although I thought it was a somewhat popular movie, does anyone know where to find the page or if there can be one made? Idk if it's under an alternative name or something.
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openCreepy giggle Videogame
Where is this laugh
from? I know I've heard it in a game before, but I can't put my finger on it. I thought it was either Boos or Midna, but I searched those and they don't match.
openPicture book (*maybe* comic?) featuring man-eating tree and ants Literature
So every now and then I dimly remember some picture books - or maybe they were comics? - from my childhood in China. The stars were these two kid brothers who usually went around shirtless like Tarzan... I think they might have been lab subjects with Super-Strength or something? (I also think one was brunette and the other blonde, but don't quote me on that.)
Anyway, the art was typical 80s/90s picture-book, but the plots contained a lot of stuff straight from 1900s Lost World pulp fiction. The stuff I remember most distinctively:
- A man-eating tree rapidly digesting a snake
- A horde of man-eating ants that chase after our heroes by rolling into a giant ball
- A frilled lizard depicted as a giant monster with poison breath
It's possible this was a Chinese-original series, in which case the chances of anyone here identifying it fall to somewhere around 0.0001%, but it never hurts to ask...
Tired and confused
resolved 2000s or earlier sci-fi/horror/mystery live-action show where unexplained phenomena mutates plants Live Action TV
The show takes place in modern times. One night, some kind of weird unexplained phenomena happens a-la Roadside Picnic. The rest of the show is about discovering its effects and figuring out what it was. Things I remember:
- The phenomena was some weird glowing flying geometric shapes and some kind of sound. (I'm not 100% sure on that, actually. I might be mixing this up with some other media.)
- One of its effects was Body Horror-esque mutated plants. I think I remember the characters looking at vegetables in someone's garden and it had like... teeth or something.
- I also remember that the people living there were affected too, but I don't think they were mutated physically. I think they were either driven insane or mind-controlled.
- The phenomena might've been caused by aliens. Or it might've been just a theory the characters were throwing around in-universe. I honestly don't remember.
- I feel like the show ended very abruptly, so it might've been canceled early. (Or maybe the rest just wasn't aired in my country.)
resolved Fashion Manga where lady gets tutored by man Print Comic
Manga I read in my teens two volumes in; I know for a fact that one of the American publishers of the 2000s licensed it.
Basically it’s about some teenage/adult? Girl who wants to get better at picking up dates, so she seeks the help of some fashion expect. He had black hair I believe.
In the 1st volume, she wears an outfit that the fashion tutor to an admirer, but he says “something came up”. She heard him on the phone criticizing her outfit, and he finds out immediately . She almost gets kidnapped by this guy, but the fashion tutor saves her.
There’s also a big plot about her falling in love with and giving up a himbo to the fashion tutor’s sister.
At the end of the 2nd volume, after a basketball game, she realizes she has feelings for her tutor.
resolved Mecha anime where the mecha is armor for the giant pilot Anime
I only saw a clip of it as described in title. There was a mecha in a hangar and it opened up more like armor revealing the pilot was a giant woman. I think it was discussed in the comments for the clip the pilot can also shrink down to normal size.
resolved ww2 holocaust movie Film
So I remember watching a movie set during the holocaust all in German and I think maybe another non English European language. But, from my memory it follows a young jewish boy trying to escape the Germans and one scene in particular I remember is he is working on a farm and his left arm gets damaged in an accident and he gets taken to the hospital but the German nurses leave him in the hallway on a stretcher because he is a jew and when a doctor finds out he screams at them for leaving him there and takes the boy into surgery and I think he does wind up losing his arm. I remember watching it on either Prime Video or Netflix probably 6-8 years ago.
monkeyheroine
openSonic the hedgehog roleplay website from the 2000s Web Original
I'm looking for an old sonic rp site from the 2000s that was mostly based on Sega!Sonic Canon(though other canons were allowed). The site was really big during the mid 00s - Early 2010s. On the site people could either play as Canon characters or simply create their own OCs (original characters)to play as. The OC profiles were posted on the site.
One of the OCs was a spider OC named Octavia or Ophelia that was bullied alot for being a spider. Another oc was a snake.I believe the site had a forum too.
Edited by monkeyheroine
open"I thought I was Dale."
During the eighth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, there seemed to be a Running Gag of Mike or the bots saying "I thought I was Dale" or some variant whenever characters in the movie look at their hands (or even just a shot of a hand). What is this referencing?
monkeyheroine
openAn old sonic adventure 2 redub where Eggman calls Rouge "Big boobs" Web Original
It was on You Tube in the early 2000s . It was a redub of Sonic Adventure 2 where Eggman called Rouge the bat "Big Boobs". Another scene had tails hold up a chaos emerald and say "I chose you Pikachu" in a really raspy voice.
openBook about large dogs
This was a very long time ago, back in elementary.
It was about a pair of Shepards (?) who lived next each other. They both had a pair of large dogs that resembled Irish wolf hounds. One was a young man who was the main protagonist, and the other was an older man who was antagonistic.
Spoiler: At the end, both the older man and his dog die, and it's understandable portrayed as tragic.
There was a picture where the older has his dog standing with his paws on his shoulders. (Which seems to be a fairly common pose with Irish wolf hounds.)
Edited by datadoggieein
openFootball ad (I think) Web Original
I remember seeing this video, where I don't remember if it was an animation or live-action, where real-life footballers show that they are imperfect, and thus are replaced by perfect clones. Football becomes boring, but one man (I think it was Ronaldo) reunites the players to beat them.
pragmatic scientist
resolved Riding Dragons before it was considered cool. Also fighting Orc-like bad guys. Western Animation
There was a classic-drawn fantasy animation set in sort of a post-apocalyptic world where humans rode dragons. They fought some sort of Orc-ish demons who also rode their own dragons. While it was mostly fantasy, there were a lot of technology elements, namely armors and some antagonist had something akin to a lava cannon. The show was brimming with tusked faces, skulls and bats. I vaguely remember a swarm of lizard-like critters with bat wings and one bad guy had a scouting pet in a form of one-eyed dark bat.
openManga about Fantasy trials that let you graduate (Boys’ Love maybe?) Print Comic
Making a list of manga and comics I read in my youth, and I’m trying to remember this manga that had an interesting, if not sort-of complicated premise. I know one of the American manga publishers of the 2000s licensed it.
So, first off, the main protagonist has a dated depiction of gender dysphoria, that being his privates are all weird where he could be mistaken for a girl, despite being mostly biologically male.
Being depicted as a girl is a fear of his, and he’s having trouble graduate high school (I think it’s high school). So he ends up finding this challenge where one must complete trials while acting out as their worst deepest depiction of themselves. In our protag’s case, it’s just him wearing a girls’ school uniform.
In the first volume, he comes across a student who lost her identity, being depicted as her having no face. Her backstory is that she did a lot of deeds and kissed a lot of ass in order to get into a college she wanted, but she got rejected, thus her form in the challenge arena is her having no identity.
Events ensue, and the main protag lets this faceless girl win, but at a cost. See, whenever a student wins a challenge is able to graduate the high school, everyone’s memory of that student disappears.
So the 1st volume ends with this other guy we met before who basically wants to “sissify” the main protag because he wants him to be his girlfriend.
Edited by TropeFanaticFan
openChildhood Trauma Video. Web Original
Looking for a childhood trauma video that mentions the cabbage monster episode of 'Adventures of Piggley Winks', don't remember the name of the channel but it's a fairly recent video from maybe last year.
resolved Adult cartoon Western Animation
I remember a scene about this cartoon. I think it was an adult cartoon, more like The Simpsons than South Park.
A husband and wife go to an insurance company and the agent offers a nice plan for the widow. Then the husband has an Imagine Spot of his wife in a fancy mansion already with another man, asking him to make her forget about her husband, while throqing her cigarretes on his own ashes. And then he simply asks the agent for more plans.
Phd in Hubris
openLooking for a twine game
What the title says, looking for a twine text adventure You are going to the mall, and on the way your identity gets stolen and you become a vague ghost and you use the mall to enter these dreamlands, and find new identities from guys who are all titled after various phrases beginning with man? so darin' man is a daredevil and with the right choices he gives you an orange, drake man gives a mandagora, drill man gives you a baboon, etc. I remember it clearly but nothing about it's name
monkeyheroine
resolved 90s-2000s claymation shorts on Teletoon Western Animation
I vaguely remember a series of claymation shorts on teletoon during the 90s. The characters had british accents, and one of the shorts was about a movie about plants eating people.
I beleive that the ending theme had he words "always having fun"
Can anyone tell me the name of the claymation shorts?
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