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openShow from my childhood
Ok so..... it's about these three kids right? And they (in a team of 3) battle other bad guys I think? In a team of 3 but it's a little fuzzy so sorry. Ok now it's like this futuristic looking place where they choose the monster that they are gonna be and then then the teams get transported into this world as the monster they chose and they battle it out and I'm pretty sure it's from 2009 but I could be wrong, but I love the show and I home someone can help Thank you!
openOld TV Show-Sort of like Soupy Sales Show
I am trying to remember an old children tv show from the 70's or 80's. It was on an independent local tv channel (maybe channel 55 in NY). There was this young guy at the piano with a Pinky Lee hat on singing children songs. Staff laughing in the background. Was like a Soupy Sales show. Talking to puppets. Saw this guy in later years doing dramatic parts on TV or movie. What was his name ?
open"the most dangerous game" Literature
is there a movie that correlates to this short story?
openA movie about a building with no rooms that end with a number Film
So, there's a movie that I've watched a lot of years ago, but I never got to see the end of it. I can only remember roughly about a building (maybe a hotel?) that, for some reason (probably luck) there weren't rooms that ended with a certain number in any of the building's floors (i think the number was 4, 13, or any of those unlucky numbers). If I recall correctly, there was some way to move through the building via the space where the rooms should be, and I think I remember a scene where someone is killed and they stick his body to the ceiling with a clipping gun, or something like that. Anyone remember a old-ish movie with something like this?
openNon-English New Girl Kids Show Live Action TV
This was a kids (probably aimed at preteens) show which probably aired in the mid to late 2000's. It might have aired on Disney or some other channel. A new Poor Ugly Duckling (glasses, braces, blonde hair in pigtails) move to town with her single mother. She hasn't ever met her father. Falls for the Popular Guy (not sure if he was popular) who is the Rich Mean Girl's boyfriend or something. The usual stuff goes down and there's a costume party for everyone. The love interest and rich girl are wearing Mickey and Minnie themed costumes. I don't remember the main character's. Her mom was dressed as Batwoman or Catwoman or something close. There's a guy dressed as her male counterpart who may have been the mean girl's dad ( I don't remember correctly). The mom used to sing a melody the mysterious dad used to sing. The main character once went to the house of the Batman guy and heard him singing and playing the same tune on the piano. It may have been the other way round, but it was definitely in the guy's house. He was strongly hinted to be her father and was probably the mean girl's father, too. And that is when the show stopped airing in my country (after the costume party). I remember the main character being shown riding a bicycle in the opening theme. It was a drama and I don't think it featured much comedy. The kids were in their early or mid teens.
openAnimated show for kids about 10-12 if i remember correctly
I remember watching a tv show when i was younger some time 2009-2012 i am 15 right now, The show was about this teenager/ young man with some kind of Supernormal powers. The series was set in the future (a almost post apocalyptic future) With alot of monsters and things like that. I remember the first episode was the main protagonist having a monologue with himself and then jumping out of some kind of flying vehicle. Then fighting some big mutant snake or sandworm. The series later included something about genetic engineering if i remember it right. And something about the main characters father. If someone found this i would be extremely thankful, Sorry for my weird English i'm not a native speaker
openKids TV series featuring the British Empire and Slavery
I remember watching this TV show in the late 90s or early 2000s ... I remember watching episodes of this on tv daily. I think it opened featuring a scene with a shipwreck, also sailing ships flying the Union Jack. I remember a scene where two British soldiers chat about how they are referred to as 'soldiers of light' but are currently powerless to help the slaves because they do not want to cross their captain as they dread the repercussions of doing so. I think the main protagonist is a kid/ teen and he was part of a larger English crew ... was trying to remember this show from my childhood for ages. Any help will be much appreciated, Thanks in advance :)
Edited by rikibankspatopenDo you remember what this is from? Live Action TV
Ok so im fairly certain this was live tv. It was probably 90s, but it could of been 80s. Theres a bunch of people sitting in some diner and a man goes to the entrance and opens the door to reveal they are in outer space. Do you remember what this was from?
Edited by VulgarVespineopenplatforming game played by jacksepticeye Videogame
a video game, played by youtuber Jacksepticeye, where you play a series of knights attempting to find the holy grail. each level requires one or more knights to die, whereapon their body is used to bypass obstacles by the next knight. at the end of each level you grab a cup, that has a name like 'cup of happiness' or 'cup of never spilling' and all of your knights (that is, all of your lives) have randomly generated names and noble titles.
openInvisible Being takes over School Kids Bodies? Anime
Okay, searching for an anime in which an invisible & perhaps omnipotent entity takes over the bodies/minds of schoolkids? It's a sort of existential style (perhaps horror/scifi) show in which maybe the entity turns the kids against eachother or plays games with them. I can't seem to remember if he (the invisible entity) only takes over one kids body or if he moves between body to body. Also, I don't remember the nature of this entity- if he's an alien or what. hope u can help!
openNetflix Show Western Animation
Okay so I'm currently trying to figure out this show I watched a few years back. First saw the show when I was on Netflix. I can't exactly remember the names, but I do know that it was revolved around a boy who always wore a hat and was living in a village with his foster father who he thought was his real father (I think?). This main character and some of the people there were furries, I believe. It was a world of all kinds of creatures. He soon figured out that the man was not his real father, since the man found him as a baby, and went on a quest to find either who his real father is or who he really is.((At The end of the show it was revealed that he was from another planet with people who wings on their heads to fly, which is why he always had a hat on. Didn't question it.),On the journey, he meets a silly knight with a red scarf and orange hair and no nose, an elf girl with blonde hair (these two get together) and I think an old man?? I don't remember.
I remember there being an episode where the knight was kidnapped by some ugly girls and was brought to their tree house. Something about them having been turned ugly and the only way to make them pretty again is to have a man fall for them, or something.
Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
resolved Puppet used to frame midget for serial killings Film
This might sound a little weird but I remeber watching something on SBS. I don't remember if it was a movie or a tv show or if it was in English but it was live action
- The main character is looking into an old serial killer case
- At one point he finds a life sized puppet of a midget that was used to make it look like a midget was running away from the murders and frame the midget for the crime. The midget had a history of drunkness and violence.
- The main character connects the killings to lines in childrens book or poem. One of the victims was a farmer who got stabbed with a flute or similar instrument. He realises that this connects to line about a farmer working with his instrument and the killer didn't understand that instrument could refer to a tool. He then realises that the killer was a child because they wouldn't be able to understand that and it us why a midget was framed - to match up with the child height stabbing and wittness accounts.
- He then finds out it was a friend of his that was the murderer and the friend's father was behind the frame up
openIconic Album Cover Featuring a Person Riding a Bipedal Creature Music
There's an album cover I've been looking for. The problem is, I can't remember who the album is by or what it's called. I distinctly remember that it features an illustration of someone riding some sort of bipedal creature. I think the person riding it is in armor, and the creature might be some sort of alien. There's a chance the art comes from an animation cel from the film "Heavy Metal," but it's not featured on any of the film's posters. Any help would be appreciated.
Edited by mutations2000open1,2,3,4,5 song Music
This will probably be fairly obvious to anyone, but i can't figure it out. I occasionally hear a song on the radio but being half deaf i can't hear the lyrics very well. I tend to like music where the instruments and lyrics have an interesting rythmn even though i can't otherwise understand it. Anyway, this song, goes 1,2,3,4,5 and something about bells chime but otherwise i don't know. Without anything else googling it gets me nowhere. I think it's possibly a pop song from the '80s and the singer sounds English.
openLate 90s maybe? Creepy Fairy Tales Western Animation
Could anyone help me find this show? They were short segments, maybe about 5 mins in the style of Freaky Stories, airing around 6:00. The clearest episode in my mind is the tale of Bluebeard. When the door was opened, all the dead wives were strung up around a room like marionettes. The animation was quite good.
opena 2000s animated kids show
so anyone who grew up watching hbo kids should be able to help me what was the show animated like the 3d animated scenes from code lyoko and it was about these kids who were told stories by this sweet old grandma and the story always taught a life lesson relevent to events earlier in the episode also judging by their accents it took place in south africa
openStretching Figures "Humans Vs. Reptiles"
I remember getting these toys for Christmas one year. They were these stretchy "figures", though I use that term lightly as their bodies weren't solid, they were made of a material similar to those little sticky stretching hands you can get. They came in two-packs. There were two sides, and each pack came with one of each. The one was humans, and I believe they were the good guys. I remember them being along the lines of superheroes, wrestlers or army guys, some kind of macho theme. The other side were all reptile based, the two I remember being a snake-man and a frog, who I remember having several warts on its body. I don't think they were licensed or based on anything. Thinking back, they kind of remind me of franchises like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Battletoads, Clay Fighter and Garbage Pail Kids. I don't think they were Stretch Screamers, and I can't seem to find them anywhere.
openI CAN'T REMEMBER THIS TV SHOW OR FROM WHAT SERIES IT IS FROM.
This is from a TV show series like The Outer Limits or something like that.
There is this one repair technician on a spaceship and he goes around fixing things all around the ship like control panels and so on. He is very unhappy because he’s sick of being cooped up on the ship and sick of technology.
In the end, he finds a beautiful primitive tropical planet, and now he’s happy because he’s away from space and technology.
so there was this show that always startedwith this guy talking about the contestants and the locationand there always two kids per episode and they had to draw straws whoever drew the shorter straw went in first while the other one waited in a van but what happened was they went into these haunted places and whichever kid staid inside the longest would go up a spot to the next person in the chalengeand at the end of each season there was a championship one episode i remeber took place at a lighthouse and the first kid left within the first five minutes