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1990s/2000s mutant show Live Action TV
Hi! I'm looking for a TV show from the 90's, possibly early 2000s. It was about a group of mutants/powered people. The only one I can really even remotely remember was a blond girl with short hair, and she could either read people's mind or was an empath. I'm sure it was only one season, but I remember I really liked it. Any ideas?
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90s drama, comedy Live Action TV
I am trying to remember the name of a show. Unfortunately (again) I have very little detail, in fact just the opening scene of the first episode. US. Drama, comedy. 90s. Main setting may be California. It starts out with a wedding, seems like a small town. The bride runs out of the church and into a waiting car, convertible of some sort and it drives off. I think the bride was going to marry her high school sweetheart, but decided she want to see the big city instead. I feel like she runs off to some kind of beach city. Like Malibu or Laguna Beach. I keep getting a feeling that the name of the beach city is in the title, but I am not completely sure of that. Any ideas on what show this was?
(Short) story, poisoned well Literature
So here's what I recall about this story, which I believe was a short story in a collection of such (I don't think it was online as repeated Googling brings me nothing). It's a historical piece, though I can't recall the exact time period; and all the wells in town are either going bad or running dry. Either at the very start or the very end of the story it has someone putting a skunk's corpse into the last well available as revenge for something, though I'm muddled as to whether the well's owners did it or whether someone else did and doomed the entire town as a result. Definitely a skunk though. I think it was at the very end, because I think it was framed as a tragic reveal, pulling up the skunk's body and realizing that someone had destroyed the last source.
It's a weirdly specific thing to remember about what I think was part of an anthology but it's bugging me So Much.
Old Racing Game for the PC Videogame
I remember, back when I was a kid, I had a go on this old racing game for the PC (as the title suggests). Well, I say racing game, I can't actually remember if you race anyone or if you just had to get from point A to B. I distinctly remember the physics behind kind of floaty and it was easy to wreck your car. Plus, you could see your driver, who looked kinda like a low-poly Serious Sam.
The levels/tracks had pretty diverse settings; I remember a volcano/mountain kind of place, a city in a desert, a ski slope, and the wastes of the antarctic. The tracks all had NPCs wandering about, including wildlife. The thing I remember the most about the game was that, if you wreck your car, you get a little scene where your driver frustratedly kicks their wrecked car while surrounded by a circle of that level's NPCs - for instance, on the city level they'd be surrounded by police cars, and on the antarctic level they'd be surrounded by penguins.
I remember liking it a lot, actually, which is why I'm annoyed I can't remember what it was called. I thought it might have been one of the Carmageddon games but it wasn't nearly as violent - if I recall, if you ran over a person or animal they just ragdolled off into the distance like in Smuggler's Run, but were otherwise unharmed. Somehow. I was a kid, never questioned it. :V
Preschool Website Web Original
Alright, in the past, I remember a preschool website that had a colourful dog family (Blue, Purple and Sand Green) and a Yellow Koala family. There were 2 languages, English and French. They also travelled in a hot air balloon around the world for clues to the Yellow character's origin and to find petals that blew away.
It is classified as a website but there are animations and games in it so I consider it a Web Original.
Some people don't know it but I do. It's surprising how I remember it. Do you know what I am talking about? :o)
That one show with three to five animal characters. (Solved) Western Animation
I believe it was a Nickelodeon show. It was called something like Pig! Goat! Snake! Sheep! I don't remember the title, though.
Edited by GoodNewsEvry1
A witch tv show Live Action TV
So I remember watching this show on Netflix years ago (But it’s most likely off of Netflix) and I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me. It was about a single mother with twins, but they were witches and the mother was cursed to have twins forever. The twins never knew they were witches. But when the twins get older one of them always dies then later the other twin dies. When both twins die the mother is immediately 9 months pregnant and in labor. I remember really liking this show and I want to rewatch it but I can’t remember the name of it, I’ve tried googling this so many time but it brings me to shows that don’t match. If anyone knows the name of this show please let me know, thanks!
Recent SciFi TV Series Film
I am looking for a recent sci-fi TV series aired probably on either Netflix or Amazon prime. The opening scene was of a thinly built Asian man strapped inside a tube that immediately begins to fill with fluid. At the last second, he is flushed out onto the floor where he later finds others from the same situation. They search to find out what’s happening, quickly discover that they are in space, and all the crew are either missing or dead. Those found to be alive eerily convulse and their extremities crack and break while transforming into monsters.
Another scene is of three people climbing the core of the space ship while elsewhere others are debating whether or not to activate a control near the base of that core. In so doing, they unwittingly activate the slow retraction of the ladder on which the three others were climbing. Two survive where the last plummets to his death.
Amongst all this are flashbacks of the original man’s history as a crime lord’s henchman which ends up in his brother, a police officer Who was trying to warn of his impending arrest, being killed by that particular crime lord. Any help?
Edited by Hutchandjen
Children's Story About Music Literature
This was a short children's story my music teacher told the class back in the early-mid 2000s (No idea how old the story is, though). I could never remember the title, but I remember the story well enough.
It was about a man who I believe was the leader, if not the outright king, of a land filled with color and music, where everyone was happy. But somehow the leader ends up in another land that is completely grey with signs that outright way "No music," "No Color," that sort of thing.
Then he gets into trouble with the ruler of this town after tapping his foot and humming a song and ends up in a cage with a woman who the grey leader wanted to marry. They somehow escape and meet the lady who runs the kitchen who is very confused and somehow turned dinner into breakfast (Yes, this is a plot point).
I forget most of what happens in the middle, but I know there is a group of characters named "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, and Do." You know, the musical scale thing? Well, Mi gets imprisoned and his voice stolen and placed into a secret room where musical objects are stored.
So the colorful leader says to the man guarding Mi (The guard is also mute), "You give Mi's voice back right now! And if you do, I'll get you yours." The guard leads the colorful leader to the music room, and the story ends with the grey leader accidentally marrying the kitchen lady who was disguised as the other lady, while the colorful leader, the musical scale characters, and the other lady escape back to the musical kingdom.
No Title
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MK vs. DC Fanfiction
I remember reading a fanfiction based on, of all things, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe on Fan Fiction.net, but it got deleted and I can't seem to find it. I remember it referenced a few of the arcade endings in that game (The ones I can remember referenced off the top of my head are Superman, Raiden, Sonya, Shang Tsung, The Joker, Sub-Zero, Jax, Batman, and Deathstroke). There were a few... interesting ships in there, such as a love triangle between Superman, Raiden, and Wonder Woman, as well as a ship with Kitana and Lex Luthor. There were also a few fight scenes in there such as a fight between Superman and Raiden on Themyscira, a scene with a runaway train in Metropolis involving Deathstroke, and a misunderstanding between Sub-Zero and Superman in Gotham City. It was made in 2009 and contained 16 chapters. The name of the story was "MK vs DC: When Fighting Stops Love Begins". For some reason it wasn't included in the crossover section, but in MK only. As far as I know, no one has archived it (though given the controversial nature of the game, I have a feeling no one really cared about it), so it may be lost forever.
Highest Note Western Animation
What is Tyrone's highest note? I was always thinking.
Edited by AutisticAlivia
Game I played in Computer Lab Videogame
It was a 90s game. I remember playing Storybook weaver around that time. The only gameplay I can really remember was a pet creating mini game with where you had to match a pet to a kid with specific wants. Like “I want one that red, but no polka dots, with pointed ears.” I also remember that on girl always said “puppy chow” when she said goodbye.
Foreign teen dystopian tv? Live Action TV
I saw this show advertised in the last month so it should be recent. I think I saw it on Facebook or Google. It was a European (non English) tv show about a girl in a dystopian (Maybe?) like future where girls are repressed. She does something wrong and is sent to something like a finishing school with other unusual girls.
I hope someone can help me find this, it’s been driving me crazy!
Thank you!
Edited by Nebok0
No Title Live Action TV
I remember a plot point about a room of officials making a serious guilty / not guilty verdict, and some reason they all get injured. But the last testimony wasn't read out and he was sent to hospital under Lockdown due to rioting and assassination attempts. Until he was well enough to give his verdict before he died, live to the world if I remember correctly. May have been just a mobile phone.
Tv show?
I can’t remember anything About the show besides the intro Credits/song. The intro had two headless bodies in dresses I want to say they were blue or pink maybe? And there was also a body that was covered in bees or butterflies. It seemed Very creepy to me.
Edited by Sage19
Sci fi planet colonisation Literature
Came across this ~20 years ago, and it was probably not new then. It was an "escape the end of the world, colonise a new planet" type plot, focusing on one family, a dad and three kids, I think the eldest was called Sarah. The evacuation of Earth was obviously handled in a rush, because there was a thing about each passenger only being allowed one book: the dad agonises over the complete Shakespeare but takes the dictionary instead, which turns out to be a good move because a bunch of people took Shakespeare. The world was ending because of something wrong with the sun: I remember the kids asked tehir dad if some photos had "gone brown with age" but he said no, that's how the light used to be. Later when they're on the planet they colonise, there's some concern over whether Earth seeds will grow in the soil, and what'll happen if they don't, plus the native lifeforms are some kind of giant insects that the youngest child befriends.
That's all I remember. Not a big deal, I just always wondered how this one ended.
Please help Film
I am looking for a tv show, it was about some dysphoria - all i remember about it is that people were living in extreme poverty and they had to undergo some test to live in some sort of paradise or something, at the end they were told they can't have kids or something so some didn't to, some guy killed himself in the first episode by jumping.. thank you for help
No Title Live Action TV
It was a kids TV show on like POP or something. It was set in a school. In the first? episode a science teacher disappeared under mysterious circumstances and the new science teacher was a sorta main character also stuff was like phasing through the floor. One episode had one of the kids transforming into every element on the periodic table BC he was feeling unstable and everyone had to fix that before he became uranium and killed them all. It was a science-y sci-fi type show. In another episode I think they travelled into the future and the school was abandoned or something. Overall I think it was about the kids and science teacher trying to figure out what was going on in the school.
Weird children’s show parody Live Action TV
The parody was called Andy’s World or something like that and the main character was Andy. It looked like it was a skit from a sketch comedy and could’ve aired on Comedy Central (looking back on it now). There was also a head who lived in some sort of cabinet who talked with Andy (or at whatever his name is). I remember watching it during the summer of 2010.
Edited by TheGeekType
CD-ROM Children's Encyclopedia (UNSOLVED) Videogame
When I was young, I had a children's encyclopedia on CD-ROM that had a host called Annie (short for Annuit Coeptis), a female, floating green pyramid who looked like "the weird pyramid thing on the back of the dollar bill," as she described it. She had a floating round eye where the Eye of Providence was, and introduced herself and explained the meaning of the Great Seal upon bootup. I think we sold the disc at a flea market. And yes, I'm asking mainly because Bill Cipher reminded me of her.
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It is a movie
I don’t remember much about it I was very young but I do remember a few things. 1. It’s animated not like anime or Disney 2. There is a fight circle and this guy is getting his ass handed to him then this hot chick walk over shirtless with a towel of her boobs and she flashes him then he beats the other guys ass 3. It’s a space movie with aliens 4. They are like military or something 5. There is one seen where they are about to be over ran and one guy was injured so he told them to leave him and he said “see you in the other side” they ran closed the doors he died violently 6. And a lot of the movie takes place in space in spaceships
Edited by Iforgetmovienames
Unknown Live Action TV
Hello all. I hope someone can help me please. I watched a sci fi tv series when I was younger. It was like The X files but not. They had to investigate things and one of the episode where they had to investigate a pice of land that had no life on it in a woods that was teaming with life. Anything that was alive that went onto it would rapidly age and die. I can't remember what the series was called or the episode.
Please if this rings a bell with anyone I would really really appreciate any help. Thanks and I hope everyone is staying healthy in this time for Coronavirus.