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openEerie live-action TV show? Live Action TV
So it's this live-action show that sorta reminded me of The Addams Family but it was in colour. There was this gothic-style mansion; its design was sorta fancy and with a lot of black and grey. And there were visitors (maybe a couple with a child, or just a couple, there were definitely more than one) who were scared when an old lady in a black dress (who looked kinda witchy) showed them a smoking skull while chanting. There was one lady who was an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette with a black dress on, a man in a suit, and a bunch of others who were wearing sort of formal, gothic clothing. And those guys were sort of friendly and intimidating at the same time. Again, it reminded me of The Addams Family, but it was in colour and I can't remember any specific characters or plot points, nor do I remember anything that specifically correlates to the Addams Family (like I don't remember a butler called Lurch or anything like that). That's all I remember.
openNetflix tv show Film
There was a show on Netflix back in 2014 I believe where there were different scenarios, like different people going about their business and such. It was dark, and mysterious. They would show how they would live their lives but somehow they all had some type of connection, from knowing one another to living in the same building. At the end one of them would die and it would always be unexpected. I think every episode would should a new cast. I believe in one episode there was this girl who was either a prostitue who went to meet up with a guy and ended up being killed or she was in her room of a building and her window was opened and she was changing and this guy from across was starring and I think she gets killed. I don't rememebr much but it was soooo good :((( if anyone knows of this plssss
openHallmark or Disney Channel Movie Maybe? Film
I'm looking for a movie about a boy, I think his name is Bobby? Anyway the kid is dealing with being bullied and makes a new friend, a girl, who helps him with a nosebleed. I think they eventually make up with the bully. I also think there was a scene where he sees some sort of horse out of a bus window that no one else sees?
The kid also gets mixed up with some sort of criminals, gold was involved I think, and takes comfort in the spirit of his dead father. The criminals were two men, I think one of them is depicted as mentally challenged?
Based on the premise, I think it may have been a Lifetime or Hallmark movie from the late 90s early 2000s. There is a Hummer in one scene so it had to have been made after 1992. Any help would be greatly appreciated, it's driving me crazy that I can't find this.
Edited by scoobydoodlesopencell beach???
I can remember during sex ed in 4th grade, we watched this vhs tape about AIDS. I can remember a segment of the tape being a stop motion animated segment that I THINK was called Cell Beach; it mustve been some years old, I can remember the graphics of the film looking pretty dated (and also kind of dark/shadowed). It was about the Helper T cells and the Commander T cells and those kind of cells being attacked by the HIV virus if i remember correctly. I also believe the Commander T cells were portrayed as life guards? idk. I've searched for this stop motion animated segment EVERYWHERE, but I've never been able to find it. If someone knows where I can find it, please tell me.
openNo Title Literature
A REALLY old Sonic The Hedgehog fanfic I read around 2002 or 2003. I don't remember any plot but there was one OC that really stood out to me, an adorable ferret named Ty. He was very clumsy, a bit of a Butt-Monkey and other characters called him things like idiot and airhead. I remember one scene where he got injured on a skateboard or roller skates. He was more or less a comic relief Woobie character. In a later chapter, he finally got mad and stood up for himself so another character commented that he might have a backbone and is not spineless after all. The fanfic was fairly close to the Sat AM type of Sonic universe.
openBritish musical educational film about paper
At some point between 2005 and 2007, my class watched a live-action educational film about the uses of paper. I distinctly remember one musical scene set in a house, in which the youngest child in the featured family ripped up and attempted to flush a Thomas the Tank Engine magazine down the toilet. The song playing was sung by a male, probably middle-aged, with a chorus of "paper, paper, hey hey hey!" I believe this was part of a series on materials because I recall watching one about plastic another time. That one featured LEGOLAND Windsor for a scene.
I'd appreciate if anyone could locate either of these although just the paper one alone would be fantastic.
openThe name of the show is "mouse house"
I know the name of the show is "Mouse House", and it's an episodic stop-motion children's show of British (or maybe Australian) mice living in a house together. It's from the 90's I believe, but could be from the very early 2000's. I remember it pretty well and even remember the theme song. But any time I try to Google-search it, all I can get is results for Disney's "House Of Mouse". I can't find a single thing on it because of that and it's really frustrating.
openAlternate universe? Western Animation
There were a bunch of preteen(?) children who went into this lab and they had vertical tubes that one would step into and then be transported to another deminsion/universe. And while there they became more animal like? (Ears/tail)
open90s tv show
There was a episode i wanna say from are you afraid of the dark but i cod be wrong. It was about a kid that died in a cable car accident he fell to his death and his ghost haults the place where he died. And a few young kids stumble upom the cable car but end up getting stuck in the middle of the line with no way down. Im trying to figure it out its been bothering me for weeks
openAsian Girl, Fuzzy Hat, Spear, Stairs Anime
An old animated TV show with a little Asian girl in a fuzzy hat who runs up the stairs with a boy who she gets along with very well and they both have spears.
openI know the name but I can't find it on Tv Tropes Literature
It was a series, of which I read the first two. The first book was called Black and White, and the second was called Shades of Grey. It was a superhero setting where all powers could be classified as Shadow-based, Light-based, or Mind-based. It was widely known within the hero community that everyone with Shadow powers would eventually be driven crazy by their abilities. Every child who manifested abilities was sent to a special school, and anyone who protested or showed signs of going villain was taken away and brainwashed by the mental abilities department. The first story follows a second-generation, Dark-classified heroine who went by Jet. Her mentor figure goes crazy and tries to use her powers to devour all light in the world. The second book shows the heroes trying to break free of all the brainwashing and finding out who's kidnapping powered children. I read this a long time ago, but cannot find it anywhere.
openSome kind of anime or cartoon involving defective robots in one episode Anime
It was anime episode with a stereotypical group of kids investigating an old laboratory where they find piles of cogs and machinery, and it turns out that they are the remains of defective robots which suddenly begin shimmering and vanish into those piles. I recall an image where there are robots lining up, a few flickering into rusty machinery, and brought into a crushing room where scientists destroy them due to being defective. I recall them showing a robot being crushed while screaming Nooooooo! I think they made friends with some robot, then there's a huge gap in my memory. Anyway, they find themselves in a plateau surrounded by robots, the one they made friends with then flickers and vanishes into a small pile of machinery. They then walk away really depressed, but then suddenly they (for either a reason I don't remember or absolutely no reason) they begin laughing and run cheerfully away. I think it might have involved magical animal trainers, maybe not. I recall absolutely loathing this show and avoiding every airing episode like it was the freaking plague.
openI'm really out of ideas. Film
Does anybody that 3-5 minute per episode 3D animated series that used to spring up around 6PM all week on ABC 3? It was some strangely bulbous dog astronaut stranded on an alien planet trying to fix his ship, and he keeps getting trolled by/into getting dat on by this one big alien bear guy. All my searches consistently turn up Courage the Cowardly Dog and Monsters vs. Aliens xD it was more like Figillo Po or whatever, that guy who has nightmares daily? Real twisted train of thought, I know.
openMaybe HIMYM? Live Action TV
I only remember some episode's plot. A man meets a woman from "little britain"(?) and he falls in love with her. However he has some difficulties to date the girl because of her father. At the end, he can finally be her boyfriend, but he discoveries she is mentally challenged. I think the guy even thinks the father is a spy and I believe it's a sitcom and is from arround 2010's. [sorry for my English]
openCHILDRENS CLAYMATION SHOW Film
I remember vaguely watching this VCR a bunch as a kid. I think it was a promotion for some new play doh toy maybe? It might've been a short film or a a tape with a couple episodes I don't remember it being very long. All the creatures were monster like, made from what looked like play doh and their would grow and shrink (since that's what the play doh toy would do)
openSinging Female Park Ranger Western Animation
Around 2010, I saw this kids show playing on a TV. There was a heavy-set female park ranger with a green uniform, brown curly hair and bright red lipstick. She had a deep voice and was singing "The Ants Go Marching". The animation was 2D and in retrospect, she looked like a brunette version of Ranger Tabes from We Bare Bears. I'm pretty sure it might be some non-muppet short segment that appeared on Sesame Street but I'm not 100% on it.
Anyone?
Edited by CanzetTheCoyoteopenChildhood TV show about ghosts Western Animation
I've been looking for the title of this TV show for quite some time now... Please help me! So, here's what I remember: - The main character is a boy ghost. The shape of his head is similar to that of Stewie Griffin from Family Guy, but colored pale white. He has no hair and a black 'body'. - He has a mother, also a ghost. Her head is white and she has white hair. Her 'body' is also black. - The series were drawn very 'messy' and I also remember some colored monsters featuring in it. That's all I have... I'm almost convinced it is not The Addam's Family or Casoer the Gost, or I must have missed something in my research. Please help!
openLive Action/Animated Bible Series for Kids Live Action TV
Okay this is a pretty obscure one but I remember a ton of details and have tried Google searching every variation of this I could possibly think of.
So, the episode or movie starts with a boy and girl in live action and they're throwing a baseball. The baseball goes under their neighbor's fence and when they go under the fence to find it they are in a cellar or basement or something. They find a scroll and it's the book of Genesis so they start reading it and it becomes a cartoon. They tell the story of Adam and Even and it features a tiny talking lamb character. They then go back home and say they're going to return tomorrow to read some more.
This is all I remember and I have literally been trying to find this title for two whole years. If anyone knows it or can help me find it I'll be forever eternally in your debt. My mom and I can't stand not remembering.
I'm trying to figure out who this guy is, he's narrated a lot of Mizugi promos, here's a link to one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o92JlO9TwY