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openPiece of Art depicting a yellow field in New York City Print Comic
This was an artistic photograph (found through the service DailyArt), where a woman in white was wandering through a yellow (presumably grain) field outside of New York City. It was mentioned to be made around the 1960s-80s, before that area was turned into housing.
The best way to describe it is that it’s similar to the album cover for Melanie's "Garden in the City". It’s a similar angle and with a similar-looking woman.
openThe Seems Literature
A boy named Becker Drane is recruited to the facility that created the world in order to fix problems, such as a Glitch in Sleep, a Split Second, and a Lost Train of Thought.
openStrange Radio Song I Heard Music
During a road trip in 2023, I tuned in to All India Radio and came across a segment on 'Western Music'. There was a song playing that had a refrain that went something like "You don't play at night". Although I don't remember all the lyrics, I recall that the second half of the song had a pseudo-rap form and incorporated some disco(?) music.
openComedic Car Crash Film
It's driving me bananas, but everything I think it might be turns out to not quite be it— I chose film as the medium but it could be a cartoon or something. All the action occurs in one static shot (wide shots are comedy!), the view is of a wide open field and there's a car going out of control off the road for some reason, and it crashes into the one tree in the whole field. It does not cut to the interior of the car at any time during the proceedings. Wide shots are comedy.
openhorror magic realism
I'm not trying to look for a particular media or anything, I'm just curious—is there any media that is like magic realism, but horror? Horrifying things happen but the characters treat it as a daily occurrence.
openGenius Party Beyond soundtrack - looking for name of specific track Music
Anyone have an idea what this track in the Dimension Bomb is named and who composed it?
Thank you.
openStory where women are hyper-sexual and always seek male attention even putting other women down
Can't remember, am just searching for such
openYA anthology Literature
A YA anthology of short stories, the first short story was about lesbian witches I'm pretty sure but I know one of the next stories was a monkey's paw-esque story but its like a plush cat doll and the MC is a musician who chooses to NOT use the magic. please help, I've been going insane for YEARS trying to find it.
openSuper obscure anime with monsters from the 2000s (possible lost media) Anime
This is... something, alright. Nobody I ever talked to it about knew what I was talking about, nor it seems that it was already documented here. Did I have hallucinated this? I don't know.
I remember in the year 2009 in Italy they broadcasted a Mon anime series, which unfortunately, I never memorized the name. I'm pretty sure it was an anime and not just an Animesque cartoon, because it had that style typical of the Turn Of The Millenium animes. It had at least an Italian dub.
This Mon show was very notable in that it looks like it lacked any semblance of mon-related collectibles, which implies it was NOT Merchandise-Driven, nor it seemed to have evolutions for the mons; this also means that I couldn't possibly have seen Bakugan or a Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
Other details I can give to better help identify it: The setting was mostly like our world except critters live alongside humans.
The protagonists were a quartet of kids plus the mascot mon, and pretty cliched; the protagonist was a red-headed Hot-Blooded Idiot Hero and probably an Extreme Omnivore as well; the deuteragonist was much more stoic and probaboy wore either blue or black, but also had some un-boyish hobbies; then there's the girl who was a pink-wearing tomboy; and finally the timid yellow-wearing smart guy; plus the mascot Mon who was a white-colored Cartoon Creature. I remember the five main characters bickering a lot with each other.
The main antagonists were a Terrible Trio of Green and Mean devils who were revealed to be brainwashed, but there also were a couple of GreaterScopeVillain.
I also don't remember any of the characters' names.
Some episodes I somewhat remember:
- An episode where the aloof lancer is revealed to like collecting plush toys, but his parents scold him for having such hobbies, but it's also revealed that the big guy from the Terrible Trio also collects plush toys and attempts to steal a rare plushie from the good guys;
- An episode where there's a huge monster on a rampage, and also a Mon that looked like a fire-breathing Jack-o'-lantern (one of the few "generic" Mons I remember from it);
- An episode where The Smart Guy saves the day but mistakes a boy for a girl;
- The Myth Arc and possibly the "finale arc", where the masco Mon flees, the kids try to find him with the protagonist trying to bait him out with EXPIRED snacks (that's very dumb, but one of the only scenes I remember clearly...), all the four kids touch a magic stick and get transported to a special place, where a "butler-like" Mon reveals to them that the mascot had an older brother who did an Heroic Sacrifice, using carvings in a wall to illustrate the story.
I've tried giving the most detailed account I could give at this point, and so far nobody else even had the faintest idea of what I was talking about. It could be lost forever..
resolved Netlix movie about gang who decides to raid pre-Columbian temple Film
Hi everyone, new troper here and this my second query on "Ask The Tropers".
Do you guys know the name of recently released Netlix movie about a gang who hatches a scheme to raid pre-Columbian temple? Because I added this movie to my movie's list, but then our account was deleted, and now (since we have new account) I can't find it. Can you help me?
EDIT: Found it! It's not movie, but a series, and it's called "Bandidos".
Edited by Filip04opencomic with death and murder
i remember a few years ago there was some girl who put on a cat mask and went around murdering people with like plants, but did that because of something that happened to a friend. and also there were spirits involved and one of them looked like a fairy and i think it called itself cherry? there was a theme song around that fairy that played occasionally, and also some lady who could see golden strands of what would be, and another lady from a different faction who talked to demonic crows.
opensheep princess in wolf's clothing Print Comic
adoro esse mangá,queria compartilha-lo nesse site,mas não sei e nem consigo criar medias aqui.
openBanned from movie theater
My friend told me about a comedy show he saw once where someone dressed like a grandpa to sneak into the movie theater because he was banned. What show is this?
Edited by sudrictoonopenDigital Touchscreen Toy
As a kid my sister and I had these cool touchscreen toys with connected stylists. I remember that they were in black and white, had a variety of games, and came in different colors. It was not something like the Game(dot)com; I forget what all the games were, but I know one was a drawing program.
Edit: and to be clear the games were just loaded into it, there were no cartridges or anything as far as I remember
Edited by WarJay77resolved Mockumentary about pretentious photographer Live Action TV
I saw a british mockumentary, a comedy centered on a pretentious photographer and his younger, somewhat goth girlfriend. He's portrayed as a ridiculous loser who assumes his random pictures of trees in black and white are high art, and she's obviously dating her to piss off her parents. I remember two scenes in particular:
- The girlfriend is going on a nihilistic rant about how people are sheep, and she lights a cigarette to look cooler, but she misses the tip with the lighter and "smokes" the unlit cigarette, until the cameraman says the cigarette is unlit, she gets mad and tries to light it again - burning half the cigarette off.
- The photographer shows some of his pictures to a critic (or gallery owner) and the critic, while very polite, trashes him - he says "I think you're using words you don't understand" and "this pictures have absolutely no meaning".
resolved Mario Party video that's eluded me for years. Web Original
I have done a lot of my own digging to find this one specific video which (despite remembering so much from) I cannot find the video or it’s creator.
The main things that the video had was (given the title) reviews of games that were “knockoffs” of Mario Party (one of these games was Fuzion Frenzy), and an opening sketch where two of the reviewer’s friends were fighting to the death over a Mario Party gone wrong.
I also know that this creator made a sequel video, and also during that time covered Grabbed by the Ghoulies. I’d estimate the video was made around 2013-17.
Also, the creator was not Connor The Waffle or Austin Eruption.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1openStory about a man trapped in a casket/cast Literature
Okay so this is my first time trying this feature, hope I get it right
I remember this Italian old story from the 1800s (maybe before that) about a man who was jealous of his friend. So, one day he invites his friend over, leads him to his basement, and traps him in a casket. I don't remember the name, I could have sworn it was trending on Tumblr a while back and also had a page on This Very Wiki. The name was "Casket of Antamillardo" or something. Please help.
EDIT: The Cask of Amontillado
Edited by deerhornsaresoprettyopenVillage game from late 2010s (deleted?) Videogame
Hello, I remember a village game that was probably on most phone and tablet app stores back in the late 2010s. It might have been deleted, I don’t know.
It is closest to the game Virtual Villagers in its gameplay. You would try to grow this community and see it progress. The villagers were cartoony humans.
The map had a river in the upper part and land everywhere else. There was a major quest where you had to save a child that was in a basket. The child was supposed to be in the river and you had to craft a thing to help them get out.
I’m pretty sure it existed.
resolved 2 series mashed together or 1 Literature
I apologise for how all over the place this is going to be as I remember details.
I think this was a single series, but I could be mashing 2 together. I know for sure it was a series with different books though.
I think the title was something like "the grimorie ofthe dark woods" but that doesnt sound right, at all.
What I can remember plotwise:
A girl (13-16) finds a grimoire, and discovers she's a witch that can control animals, shortly after her mother is hung for being a witch.
She got out of this fate by subconsciously commanding the magic hounds to ignore her.
Theres these woods near her village that like no one is allowed in. Big bad lives there.
Except hes not really bad? He was cursed by his friend, I think. But the woods are sworn to protect him so it attacks outsiders.
I think she tries to avenge him and starts fighting a monster?
He explains that to use magic, all witches must give up something. Emotions, looks, humanity. She chose memories and slowly forgets everything.
Her best friend joins the witch hunt, and she helps, cause now the witch hunt only looks for bad witches.
The hunt collectively skips over one girl and shes like "well that's weird, why do they all blindly trust her" come to find out that girl is a witch and enchanted them
I think theres a part where her and her brother (?) Takr a train, and shit is HAPPENING on this train. When they stop they go to some like hourglass place where time stops. And brother person signs his name on the door and some creep comes out from the shadows and is all like "well, the demons behind this door wants you now" and she says no take me, I'll come back later.
The dude finds her years later and says "the demons demand a soul." And she says "yes, but it will not be me" and uses her powers over creatures to lure the demons to take the man.
Aaaaalllll over the place.
EDIT: Found it! The series is "The Thickery" by J.A. White
Edited by Zee-Trayhorne
I am trying to remember the name of a web-based interactive, episodic cartoon. The protagonist was a kid who is part bug (antenna growing out of head) and whose pet roly poly ran (or rolled) away. Each episode represented a different stage in his search. Completing the episode required you click on different things like a point-and-click adventure game. Throughout his search he was followed by a one-armed man in a Napoleon costume and a psionic frog carrying the man’s severed arm in a glass box. The tone of the cartoon was mysterious and surreal. I never saw the end and was always curious what happened. Does anyone remember watching this in the late 90s?