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openweird 90s australian (i think?) kids tv shows
I can remember 2 kids tv series that i watched when i was probably around 7 or 8, so 2005 ish? But i think they were older, both Australian imports to the UK (i might have watched them on really early morning cbbc, when it was restricted to like 3 or 4 hours on a saturday?)
1. this boy who has an internet pen pal who i think he imagines as this really attractive woman but irl she's a really average girl? I can't remember anything else about this one.
2. another australian tv series about this like magical travelling circus? there's an episode where everyone bar one of their group get hypnotised or something and they all start eating gross stuff (worms and urine are the ones i remember). there's also a baby that's not actually a baby but somebody's soul implanted into its body?? I'm fairly sure the main character was this blonde girl who had a definite sort of xena rip off vibe.
Any help would be much appreciated xx
Edited by PerrisBuelleropenKorean/Chinese 3d Animated show about a angry girl with electricity powers who likes a boy. Anime
And no it is not a certain railgun. i say this trailer on You Tube a year ago and i really liked it but i lost it. it was about a girl with electricity powers who who is anti social and tries to stay away from people because she doesn't want to hurt them but a boy falls in love with her anyway and doesn't mind being shocked by her. i think it is based on a tv show.
openA movie where the remaining time in your life is used as currency? Film
Ok so a few years back (I can't remember the exact year but it was probably sometime after 2005) I saw a trailer on TV for a movie where the currency is the amount of time you have left in your life. In the trailer there was a guy (who sorta looked like Justin Timberlake,) going up to a coffee stand to buy some coffee and to pay for it he held his wrist out and on his wrist was some sort of watch with some numbers on it and he used it to pay for the coffee, and then the number went down. I also remember the tagline having something to do with time, so thats why I assume the number on his watch was the time left in his life. Tbh I could have dreamed this, but I am curious if this is a thing or not.
openOld cartoon Western Animation
For years and years I have tried to find out what this cartoon was... It was an old cartoon, people were small and lived in a garden, there was a wall around the garden and a cat that lived on the wall. It was kinda trippy, I want to say it was 1960s. It may have been British, because I was living in Canada and a lot of the tv shows were British.
openWhat show is this scene from? Film
I can partially picture a scene but can't remember which show it's from and it's driving me nuts! The protagonist is a woman, old enough to be established in her career I believe, but maybe has been laid off recently or for some reason that's "not her fault" not working. She is a writer and considers herself to be a serious writer. She's been courted by a blog (I think, or a vlog) startup that is run by someone who I think she knows from a past life, who is much younger and she finally gives up and is desperate and calls them back and schedules an interview. When she gets there she expects to just be handed the job and the owner sits down with her and asks whether she's prepared samples and tells her to "sell me on you working here." The protagonist is taken aback because she sort of felt like she was deigning to interview in the first place. Ultimately she has nothing prepared and the owner walks her to the elevators and I think she gets a call on the way out the door saying they went in a different direction.
openHelp me find this series
Im looking for the name of an animated series, it was about a girl that was a spy ( i think ) and had originally pink hair but she could change her personality as well as her hair ( from pink hair/eyes to blue hair/eyes ) she worked with a litle robot and her enemy was a tentacle monster with the size of a human
openFrench Educational Shorts Series about Art Western Animation
I remember watching this one in 2008. I can say for sure about the series that: 1) the shorts were 2D-animated 2) it was French 3) each episode was about 1-2 minutes, so they were shown during commercial breaks 4) a work of art was covered during each episode (Amedeo Modigliani and Le Bateau by Henri Matisse were featured) 5) it was either sponsored or supported by some cultural organisation (French Ministry of Culture or European Cultural Commission or such) 6) there were three anthropomorphic characters (not animals), one of whom was tall, and they spoke about the work's history 7) a title of the painting and the name of the author were shown on the black screen at the end of each episode
That's about it. I'm hopeless.
Edited by NilsKorgieopenMovie Film
Looking for a movie where a black girl falls in love with a white man. She loves art, I think she paints and he gave her a painting. They weren't able to have any kids. She looks like Ruth Negga in the movie "Loving" but it's not her, she also has black hair, short and with faux finger waves I think... I think the movie is set in the 1940/1950. Please, I'm going crazy!
openhelp me find this tv series Live Action TV
17th century man survives hanging by breathing through an iron tube
openAn old cartoon with a guy, who had a alive car, it was breaking down and he needed to get a new car. Western Animation
It's a cartoon I am unable to find anywhere.
I remember it from a childhood that some guy was driving with a car and the car was old and was breaking down. The car was alive too and had feelings (Like he had a mouth and eyes). The guy threw it into the garbage area and bought himself a new car. I remember the new car being all badass ang angry. And at the end the car exploded somehow and the old car came back to the guy and he continued with the old car.
I so so wanna see that cartoon again.
Edited by FlackoWeaselopenThe Queen's Guard? Film
So, a long time ago I borrowed a film from my local library and thoroughly enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I cannot find it now.
It was about a princess traveling to some other kingdom in order to be married, and her dowry was being taken with her. The queen felt this was unsafe, so she dispatched a few members of the King's Guard to protect them, feeling no bandit would risk attacking a caravan so heavily protected.
I clearly remember a narrating voice saying "There was nothing wrong with the Queen's plan. It just didn't work" or something to that effect.
What followed was essentially a siege situation as the princess and the guards, along with the dowry, were stranded in an isolated position and surrounding by the bandits, with a former King's Guard helping them in order to achieve his nefarious goals (I can't remember exactly what they were.
Highlights from the film include the traitor former-Guard killing someone from the bandits in a duel, the use of a maneuver called the Tiger Claw(three of the Guards flee from the siege to seem like they're running for help, then run back through the enemy lines killing as many as they can), and lots of arguing back and forth over whether they should run or fight.
As far as I remember, the film was called The Queen's Guard, but I cannot find any trace of such a film by that name. There is a film called "The Queen's Guards" which is about something entirely different.
openNeed the name of a 90s kids cartoon
What I remember is that they looked like sylvanian families. It was stop-motion. I remember an episode were one of them was scared of the dark because they saw a monster, but it turned out to be a tree in the way of the moonlight so it only looked like a monster. Please help, it's going to bug me until I know what it's called.
openEvil Flower Pyramid Movie?? Film
I can't remember the title for the life of me, but I remember the plot. A group of American tourists on vacation go up into a part of the jungle they have been explicitly warned to avoid. They find a pyramid(Not the Egyptian variant) and pose for a picture. Early on, a group of natives spot them and start yelling angrily in a language that none of them understand. The group of natives consist of a few men, one woman and one very young boy. One of the Americans approaches and offers money thinking it will help . The natives shoot him much to the horror of the other tourists. One of the tourists (A girl) gets agitated and throws a cluster of leaves at the small native boy. Much to his mother's dismay, the others turn and shoot him to death without a shred of hesitation. Afterwards the Americans climb the pyramid to avoid being shot. Ultimately it turns out that the pyramid is full of a very strange plant that grows into their bodies and causes hallucination as well as several other problems. The natives weren't just trying to be evil, they were aware of this plant and wanted to keep it where it was so they stayed all night to quarantine the Americans until every one of them died. They didn't even spare the little boy because they thought he was infected. None of this is explicitly said. It's an ending you put together from watching the movie. At the end, a search party arrives at the pyramid and calls one of the dead tourist's names.
Edited by BenthelameopenSome Perfectionist Mage Girl who, when they fail, increases their goal and makes it harder... Literature
Does anyone remember a book with a Perfectionist Mage Girl who, when they fail, increases their goal and makes it harder...?
And I think the thing she was trying to perfect was spellcasting?
Edited by MaladyopenNew Year's Movie - Channel 9 (Australia) Film
I've got a weirdly specific but annoyingly vague request to find a film. It was broadcast on New Year's Eve on Channel 9 in Australia in the space between the family and midnight fireworks, and whilst I didn't watch it, I caught enough of it to be slightly intrigued by what it was about. I remember that it was live action, featured a team of people on some sort of mission, the closing credits were in a sort of Saul Bass-esque style, and there was a scene just before an ad break where it appeared as if one of the team members was going to betray them. I'm a bit fuzzy on year of broadcast, but I'd say that it was either 2005 or 2006 (give or take a few years). Really curiious to either find this, or find some easy place where I can search old TV listings in Australia, because for what I lack in detail of the film, I more than make up for in the broadcast time/day.
openmiddle grade book series about princesses Literature
When I was in elementary or middle school (circa 2000-2005, possible published earlier) I read a book from a series about princesses. It's not the royal diaries books; I'm pretty sure it was a fictional princess. It may have also had wolf in the title (but not the Wolf Princess by Catherine Constable). I can remember the cover pretty distinctly: it was mostly brown (possibly a brown archway or border), with a girl looking over her shoulder at the reader. I'm pretty sure this was one of a series of princess books. As a kid I actually tried to write a similar book, but ended up pretty much copying the opening paragraphs. The first word was something like Bang! or Wham! which was the titular princess falling off her stool. Then she runs around packing things for a journey of some sort. I'm not sure I read any more than the first couple chapters because I don't remember any of the plot. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
openMan fighting something at the beginning of film or show
This was either a film or a TV show from inbetween 2000-2010. My minds taking me more towards it being a film. I can remember at the beginning a young handsome man, mid 20s maybe, entering the screen, talking and then fighting a group. I can picture it being a dark setting and then after the fighting I'm about 70% sure the film/show turned to animation but I'm not positive. Any help would be great as this has been bugging me for years now. Thanks.
openOddly relaxing video game I played a long time ago but forgot what it was called Videogame
Hello, TV Tropes community! I'm here to ask for help in finding a video game, (I think it had "sandbox" in its name,) about these robot dogs or monkeys who had lines that displayed different colors, and there were also goblins who had shirts similar to soccer jerseys on. There was one quest where you had to find apples for a goblin to make apple pie. This sounds like a weird premise for a game, I know, but it was really relaxing to play! Any answers to my question are appreciated!
openCan't remember the name of a cartoon character. Western Animation
This one kid from a cartoon like Kids Next Door who wears a purple cap with a bowling ball under it or some other sort of ball.
Looking for a You Tube vid that's something like "some things you should never say to an Asian person" and I remember this line