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Spy Show Live Action TV
Alright, so, there's this old show about spy kids that juggled with school and work and they were a part of MI... 6? 7? There were three main characters and their mentor, and... I think it was on Disney XD? Not sure. It's probably from around the mid/late 2000s.
Cartoons on netfix Western Animation
Ok so there was this show i used to watch on netflix as a little kid, about this little kid who i think has orange hair and he lived in this house with his mean, i think it was adopted parents and the house that he lived in always had weird stuff going on.
Video game on a website - alliterative, possibly called "Tiki Terror" or something similar Videogame
My friend is looking for a video game. The game was hosted on a website for children with school, math, etc. related games (for educational purposes). The game's protagonist was in Hawaii in a maze finding a treasure. The treasure was gold and had a grimacing face. He would be attacked by tikis that blew fire at him and evil coconuts with facial features. The game's protagonist was a short old man with a safari outfit on. You couldn't see his face except for a large mustache. There was fast-paced, badass drum music playing in the background.
80s stop motion
What were the old stop motion animation short films that i used to watch with a city made of blocks including sailboats and bridges? The blocks would move and the sailboat would go under the bridge. This may have been on Nickelodeon possibly within another show.
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Murderer called the "Thistle Killer"? Live Action TV
It's this old, I think black-and-white, TV show that my father and I were watching on DVD years ago (don't remember when, but probably not important).
There's this Serial Killer who's a man called the "Thistle Killer" because after killing people, he throws thistles on the bodies. I think one of the victims was a woman. The Thistle Killer dressed up as a police officer, which made people scared of policemen.
These two men were investigating it and I think one of them was asking lots of questions to the other.
I googled "Thistle Killer" but only got ads for herbicide.
80s/90s Animation About a Kids Club Film
Not sure if this is a movie or show, I just remember watching it on vhs tapes. It involved a club of kids that met in a tree house or clubhouse and they had certain problems like getting along with siblings or something. For example, the one I remember is this little brother went camping and took and picture of his sister squatting (it was a children's show so it didn't show anything graphic at all) and he was gonna put the slide of the picture in during a school dance or something and they end up making up or something like that. Another storyline ended with them writing thank you notes for cookies or something. I want to say the name has something to do with humanity society or tree house society but I've Google all variations of that.
Thanks in advance, new to this site and this is awesome!
Looking for a show and a movie Live Action TV
I think this show was on before the X-Files. I think the main characters were paranormal investigators. There was one episode that featured astral projection.
The movie was about a student and a virtual reality program. I think the student didn't realize he was in a virtual program. I remember at the end of the movie the kid gives his teacher the program to try.
What is this show?? Western Animation
I’m trying to remember this show that I watched when I was younger- It was a kids show, but not for toddlers and babies. The characters all had colored hair and big faces and big eyes so they looked human. I just remember the main character had blue hair and always got into trouble. He had a friend that had pigtails and a baby brother and an older sister. The theme song has him running around the house breaking stuff because he always got into trouble. There was one episode where they were all playing basketball and that’s all I can remember!! We watched this show sometime around 2013
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Online video game with a quiz on internet safety
I believe it was one of those games along the lines of Club Penguin or Animal Jam (but not either of the two) where the main focus was on social interaction. The quiz on internet safety (dealing with strangers, etc.) was just a feature in it. I remember the quiz had some board game theme where choosing the right answers would let you move forward.
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A podcast (radio show?) about vanity projects and development hell Radio
Someone I know once described a podcast where each episode, they'd delve into some project that was either the result of the creator's ego trip (some examples I remember are Lady in the Water, Heaven's Gate, Battlefield Earth), spent a long time in Development Hell (e.g. Duke Nukem Forever, The Thief and the Cobbler), or were ripped from the control of the creator (e.g. Brazil). They don't remember what it was either.
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No Title
A husband went missing and came back a little different and I remember it leading on to be spiritual.
A Blog about Journaling Web Original
I remember reading a blog whose main topic is stationery reviews and study-related matter/journaling. It's called something like "Ahnthology" (yes, with that spelling I think, "Ahn" being part of the author's name) but I can't quite find it and Google searches think I'm looking for the original, non-punny word. I remember the author telling about 2019 resolutions and an insight about categorization in pencil cases?
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Animated dream sequence in live action show Live Action TV
So I have this very vivid memory of a TV show from when I was little, so I would assume this show is from the early 2000s, where there is this whole dream sequence with a cartoon style where animals (I remember them being monkeys, but I've been doubting that since I can't find anything) break into a house at night, and a momma picks up her baby to defend it from them, but they draw a gun at her, and then suddently it's over, and we're back on live action, where this blonde girl is waking up from the dream. I think it was either a recollection of a traumatic event or something related to solving a crime.
TV Show - Cold Case? CSI? Law and Order? Film
Im trying to find this episode where a guy was lead back to a place by a women and she handcuffed or tied him to a bed. Then I think she gave him like a blue pill like viagra or something. Then a guy comes out of nowhere maybe from a closet or another room and got taken advantage of by the guy. I think this is Cold Case, or CSI, or maybe even law and order? This is all I can remember about this episode.
Playground Safety Video Live Action TV
There was this weird video I watched in elementary school where a dog or bear or something taught kids to be safe on the playground. Part of it was animated. In one scene, some boy brought a knife to the playground to show his friends.
???? Live Action TV
-Staged in a highschool -There's this kid with a disabilty who our protagonist calls "retarded" -He breaks his arm (the kid with a disabilty) -Our protagonist is a girl with a brother -Our protagonist skips school for the first time in her sophmore year -Our protagonist refuses to join the Math Team -Our protagonist is white (i could pick her out of a line up) -There this like blonde stoner kid with a black streak who makes fun of her for no reason (could also pick her out of line up)
Vampiresque original work with "A Pale Horse" in its title Web Original
North Korea launches nukes at several world cities; from the irradiated zones comes a horde of vampire-like people, spreading through the world. The story is told from the perspective of a US Army officer who eventually becomes a vampire himself after being wounded in a major battle.
It was hosted on some kind of message board as a downloadable file, but I lost the file (and website) when my last computer got fried in a power surge.
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Overly long jpop song title youtube ad? Music
Im looking for a jrock/jpop song with a REALLY long and weird title. It had the word scientfic in it and it was a youtube search ad for a bit.
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Educational science 1980s TV series Live Action TV
I am trying to find the name of an educational TV series from the mid 1980s to early 1990s. It was similar to 3-2-1 Contact but was for a more mature audience. All I can remember is that it had an intro that included a snake striking, balloon sitting in a boot, and a tribe of people dancing with large masks on their faces.
Biographical Comic about a Comic Artist Print Comic
The main character had brown hair. He liked to read comics and went to a Christian school. The nuns didn't like kids reading comics.
70s or 80s Horror Movie Film
I only remember one scene but I've been trying to find this movie for ages. The Scene is: a young couple check into a hotel, the manager is creepy, they find a hidden slide in their room and their door starts opening on its own, so they go down the slide. There's a split in the slide so the woman ends up outside the hotel screaming for her husband, and the guy lands in this big pile of bones, sees a hole in the wall, and watches the manager remove parts of his face starting with his nose. I saw it when I was little but it stuck with me and I'm pretty sure it was 70s or 80s horror. Anyone know it? Thanks.
Obscure Seinen? Anime
Had a dream where there was a massive crossover fic I allegedly wrote at 14 but it included stuff like Mass Effect...however, this was among the works featured so here's what I can remember about it:
Had to be when I was 12-14 (so 2007 earlier), royal intrigue/political drama with a dash of historical fantasy, followed the prince of the kingdom as he's used as a pawn by everyone around him. Evil tyrannical king with guards to match. Everyone had long black hair. It also had a sort of classic elaborate seinen style from around the late 90s/early 2000s with shoujo influences. Help?
edit: before I see it suggested, it's NOT parasyte, a lot of people I P Med have been saying such. idk why. it has zero to do with the description I gave.
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early 2000's Scify fps Videogame
I remember someone playing a game as a kid on a computer that had better graphics than anything I've seen at the time. I remember metallic rooms and interesting looking gun designs. I don't remember there being any fighting in the rooms he traveled through, but I think he showed me a couple of the weapons on empty rooms he traveled through, maybe he cleared them before. I think there was some kind of gun that launched deadly disc blades. I think there were some windows in one of the rooms that had some Nevada-type desert landscape with mountains or something but it could have just been sunlight with no landscape visible underneath, could have filled in some blanks in my memory and assumed it involved aliens,but I don't really know for sure. I expected to experience a fun weapon like this in the Halo series, being a Scifi series with aliens, but it didn't have the interesting futuristic guns I remembered so it's not that. Anyone got any ideas? The main console out at the time that I knew of was the N64 and the reflections seemed beyond that system's capabilities from what I remember, and I had a couple games that required it that were out at the time too: Jet Force Gemini and Donkey Kong 64.
It could be possible that I remember the graphics being better than they were though, but I think it was probably a PC game.
Non fiction book on the subject of superheroes Literature
I remember this being one of two books, on the nature of heroes, I remember the book beginning with some sort of disscusion on the origins of the idea of superhuman characters that were larger than life, like Heracles also known as Hercules, but also pointing out how he wasn't the hero that Disney portrayed him as in their 90's movie about his life, I recall the cover featuring a face mask on a red background and the SECOND BOOK'S COVER WAS GREEN.