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openChildren's Tv Show meant to be frightening Live Action TV
I think it was an anthology series. One of the episodes had a girl bullied in school who ran across a crystal (?) who could fulfill wishes and she wished that her bully became her best friend. Comes the next day the bully decorates her locker pink and supports her in basketball despite our main character cannot score a point. I remember the way she threw her ball was very awkward.
openSpace ship tv show
okay so I barely remember any of this show so I'm not even sure what it was really about but basically from what I remember there was like a group of people living on this space ship going to who knows where and I'm pretty sure it mainly focused on this group of teens who slept on bunkbeds together and the drama of their relationships and stuff. The part I can remember most was like this man on the ship that died or something and when they died they put them into like some sort of coffin/pod thingy in a massive room full of it. All I remember is that when the guy died a clone of him woke up and then they ended up discovering hundreds of clones of the same guy. PLEASE HELP this show was good when I watched it but I have no idea what it is
open kids that have nature powers Western Animation
Okay so it was a kids program on CITV or CBBC I can't remember but I'm pretty sure it was the first. Basically there were four kids and they could turn into like nature heros? Like one of them got water powers, one air, one fire and one earth. They got them by going down to this library I think in their house and they were transported to another world. Anyway I had a desire the other day to rewatch and would really appreciate and help!
openRed orange pants with lightning bolts down the side Live Action TV
It was a GAME SHOW in the height of game shows, so around the late 2000s, probably 2007...ish. I'm pretty sure it didn't make a full season, probably cancelled once the network realized what it was (I'm thinking NBC for this reason), but the premise was taking audience members as contestants (they filled out a questionnaire) and making them do weird things, especially things they're afraid of (I remember someone skydiving and another who thought he ate a casserole of worms, but it turned out it was just a regular casserole) and there were gag prizes at the end. Someone won a car... frame, and another won "red orange pants with lightning bolts down the side", I swear that's what it was, but I guess it was 10 years ago, so I might have forgotten. They made fun of the guy for writing that he wanted "red orange pants with lightning bolts down the side" and he said he did it on a whim, seemed great at the time. But they made them for him and it was great, now I want them too. Host may have been British, might as well have been Jimmy Carr I guess, but I don't know, he was a white male.
Help! I've been thinking about this for like 10 minutes and I want to know what this was!
-Katie
openA certain anime Anime
Sadly, I don't remember a ton about this but it's been bugging me. I recall it having the typical staple of a boy and a girl with superpowers fighting monsters or some other sort of enemies. I'm almost certain the girl had red hair, and I think she was sealed and maybe altered her physiological age after waking up. I know though that the guy has a soft-spoken little sister and one opponent (temporary I think) is a tiny blonde with a kind of beastly look to her, probably used lightning powers, and had lots of panty shots.
openTrapped in School TV show Live Action TV
So I watched this show a few years ago and I barely remember what was happening but there was this girl and a boy, and the boy was taken to this facility, and then the girl managed to break in there, but when she saw the people in there, they all looked like him, but none of them were him.
She was caught and firstly she was taken into a classroom where all the boys were on tablets and she was handcuffed to the desk/stand and then after that she was taken into one of the rooms with a bed and she demanded she wanted to go home and someone told her she was already home.
Then it cuts to one of the FAKE boys, impersonating the REAL boy at his real home.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS BUT I WANT TO WATCH IT AGAIN HONESTLY! PLEASE HELP ME!
openPerson goes blind in order to help sibling ?
So I remember this one time I was bored and watching random movies and I stumbled across a movie called Oseam which has to do with a blind girl and her little brother and it reminded me of something that I had once seen before... It was something different and I'm unsure if it was Anime, a Western Cartoon, a book, or even a video game (definitely know for sure it was NOT live-action though), but whatever it was I recall it having 2D art. What I remember from it is that there was like a brother and sister (?) and they are faced with some sort of power and so the sister gives up her eyesight so that her brother can receive the power or whatever. I'm not too keen on the details as I hadn't seen it in years, but I'm 100% sure it had to do with a sibling going blind and I feel like it had to do with a power. I recall the brother being ashamed of himself and ultimately avoiding his sister because of how ashamed he is that it's his fault she lost her vision?? But then she confronts him about it. It was a sad scene, but my memories of it are jumbled up as I really don't know if I saw it, read it, or played it. The similarities that I'm pretty sure Oseam had to the thing I'm thinking of was in that one sibling was blind (but wasn't born blind) and that there were bullies that preyed on the blind sibling while the other sibling would fend the jerks off. But the key difference was that the story I'm thinking of involved, as I mentioned before, a sacrifice that CAUSED the blindness of one of the siblings. Sorry if I'm being vague, but I've looked everywhere for at least something close to a sacrifice of ones' eyes for another and can't seem to find anything at all... Is the thing I'm looking for even real? Help??
openTrying to find a book
This book I'm looking for is about gorillas/primates in popular culture, stuff like the Destroy This Mad Brute poster, King Kong, etc. The most vivid memory I have of the book is a two-page spread of screenshots from the film The Mighty Peking Man (1977). I've tried finding the title, but have been unsuccessful so far.
open90s Live Action Children's Scary Mystery Show Live Action TV
I have a very distinct memory of an episode of a TV but I can't figure out what it was. It had a bunch of real kids at a camp and they were given clues in a shoebox about a spooky mystery that occurred at the camp. I feel like it was pretty scary at the time, I remember a lot of it taking place in the dark and the kids running around the camp, screaming, and looking for clues. I think the episode I remember involved a kid that drowned trying to get his brother's pet frog. Anyone remember this or know what this might have been or did I just fever dream this?
openHelp! Western Animation
Okay, so I need serious help. Recently my friend and I have been talking a lot about a show we remember, but all we can remember about it is one character! I believe it is from the mid-2000's (2009-2010 ish), and it was a 3d animated show. I'm not sure if it was Disney or Cartoon Network, probably the latter. I don't even remember what the characters did, or looked like, but I know there was an evil man, the only villain of the show, and his minion. The minion was completely harmless, and just laughable. It was an orange eyeball with a mouth and bat-like wings with two dangling legs. It had two small teeth and an awkward and silly voice. He was your typical dumb minion that didn't really realize what he was doing. Does ANYONE have ANY idea what I'm talking about?! Please help ASAP!
openVocaloid songs Music
There are two alternate versions of Vocaloid songs I would like to hear again but cannot find on neither You Tube nor Nico Nico and I want to know if anyone knows where I can see them again.
One of them was a version of the Hatsune Miku Family Mart, and the change was that there would be a human male voice rapping between Miku's verses. It was around five minutes long.
Another was a Nico Nico Chorus of Po Pi Po where it cycled through all three official versions of the song playing in the background (the three female Character Vocal Cryptoloids). A lyric would be sung by one Utaite, then the next, then the next etc., not sung by all of them at once although sometimes a few would sing at a time. I remember one Utaite was rapping in the background of this one too, although I don't believe it to be the same guy from the Family Mart video. The Utaites' avatars would come onscreen when they sung. At the end, Lamaze-P himself (I believe) showed up to sing the song.
Would anyone happen to know where I can find these?
openHumorous book about a bear stealing an author's masterpiece. (Solved) Literature
The premise of the book was that an aspiring author went to a remote cabin in the woods to work on his first novel without any distractions, and one day a bear gets into the cabin and takes, among other things, a briefcase with his manuscript in it. By the time the writer makes it back to civilization, the bear has already come to the city and inadvertently taken credit for his work. The rest of the plot deals with the bear being put on a tour to promote the book and the writer trying to expose the bear and get credit for his work. Aside from satirizing the book industry, a lot of the humor comes from the fact that no one seems to see through the bear's Paper-Thin Disguise other than the writer: The bear has somehow learned to speak a few words of English, and walks upright, but is otherwise very obviously a bear wearing human clothes, and yet the public just sees him as an eccentric genius.
Edited by MikeKopen3D animated,3 robots, 1 kid, transforming Western Animation
Okay this has really been bothering me. Does anybody remember a 3D animated show about transforming robots. One was a generic regular bot, one was kind of an edgy guy robot, and one was a girl robot. They had a kid sidekick. And I remember this show premiered around the time of buttugly martians and Yu Gi Oh so like early 2000s. The only clip I remember was the guy robot singing "I've been working on the railroad" on a train like beating up monsters. I don't know why this stuck in my brain. I remember they could transform or upgrade and the girl robot did anime transformations with hearts?? what the hell was this show?
openDragon civilization webcomic (NOT Dragon City) Webcomic
I'm trying to remember the title of a webcomic, relatively lushly drawn, that takes place in a universe populated by anthropomorphic dragons where the Internet is just starting out but cars are contemporary anyway. I know it's not *Dragon City*.
A little help?
opencomedy tv show on netflix following a middle aged couple through their life
i only remember a few details of some episodes. one episode their whiny dysfunctional son drops off his dog to the home. the dad takes the dog for a walk and suspects a black man of being a drug dealer but the wife scolds him for sterotyping...another episode, the mom is at a store and bumps into someone she went to high school with. the friend brings up how popular and beautiful she was in high school, saying she was jealous. the mom reflects sadly making it feel like she didnt live up to the life the woman portrayed her as having...there was also a scene where the couple has their bougie friends come over. it shows they conversing how they dont want them over before the friends come. once the friends are over they judge their home and the new couch the woman bought, which is white and shaped obscurely, and is very uncomfortable. i think the main mom character worked in a museum, not sure what the dad did but he had glasses. that was a very bad explanation but hopefully you can get something out of that
openSci-fi show Live Action TV
I remember a tv show from around 5-10 years ago, about a guy who finds an egg(?) ship that takes him to space.
Now I don't remember much else, besides one episode, where he and his crew (a woman, an alien and I think a robot) find a time machine left by his father(?) and when the guy is inside it a badguy on a motorbike(?) swopes in and takes the girl. At the same time the robot activates the machine and the guy finds himself back at his ship, reliving the day. Also there is a sandwich here(?). He tries to convince the girl to stay away, but he ultimatly fails, and at the end of the episode simply resigns and promises to rescue her.
That is all I remember.
openShadow fighting puppets. Anime
Ok I need help with this one. I have been searching for a long time and I have found actually nothing. All I can remember was it was about some kids fighting using their shadows, their shadows turned into giant monsters that moved when they moved. It was like two kids fighting with giant puppets. Note: I say kids it could very well be adults. Its very hazy. I can't even remember what channel it was on.i was hoping it was so unique that it would be hard to find something similar.
openYoutube video about guy who goes into Japanese hobby shops... finds a Boku No Pico figure? Web Original
A few years ago I saw a vlog video of a young white man from the US visiting Japan, and he goes into some Japanese toy and hobby stores with a female Japanese friend of his. I seem to remember he had a lot of videos about living in Japan on his channel. At one point in the video I'm looking for, he finds a figurine that I swear was of two characters from Boku No Pico and he asks his friends in Japanese "What is this? Hentai?" and she laughs and tells him yes. I've actually found what I believe to be the figure from the video but I want to make sure. Does anyone else know what video this is?
openTV or Movie featuring UFO festival in Roswell, New Mexico Live Action TV
All I remember is that it was dark, a family (?) was driving through the night and stumble across aliens wandering the streets... it turns out they are all in costume and it's the UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico.
This is a cartoon I believe I used to watch on either a channel called MBC 3 or another channel called Space Toon in Egypt. It was dubbed in Arabic and I saw it from around 2004-2007ish. The style was a colorful 3D/CGI. The story was about a group of about 4 kids (one being a girly girl and another being a nerdy boy) and them entering a virtual world after school. Once they were in the virtual world their outfits would change and so would their surroundings. The episode usually focused on this period in the virtual world and ended once they finished their mission or whatever they had to do. They could also get hurt while in the virtual world but their real bodies would not be affected. I can't seem to remember any character names or specific descriptions but they had pretty large heads and skinny bodies.