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openSome kids put on a play Literature
There's a few kids living in this apartment block and they put on a play for an old neighbour. There's something important about a dolphin and the neighbour wears a hat which is somehow special or mentioned often. Read the book more than five years ago.
openspooky 2000's animated show intro on a horse carriage by a headless horseman . 3 characters
there was a show I either watched on YTV or Cartoon Network in the early to mid 2000s, all i remember was a piece of the intro where either 3 (2 boys 1 girl) or 2 characters (1 boy 1 girl) in a horse carriage but i think the carriage was carried by a headless horsemen. It was these 2-3 characters entering a new town or something along those lines. The girl was taller probably older and spoke in a monotone voice. It was animated in a normal? way. it wasn't animated like Reboot..
openBag over parking meter
I remember a TV series where the intro showed the main character sliping an 'out of service' bag over a parking meter at a space he had just parked in. Cannot recall the series. Likely 70s/80s. Can anyone offer a little help?
openLooking for Name of Cartoon Western Animation
From what I remember it was a British cartoon around the late 90s/early 2000s (pretty sure it used Squiggle Vision). It was a comedy about cliche witches in the modern world. The only episode plot I can properly recollect is where one of them curses a woman into a turkey for threatening to kill them with stakes. If I remember correctly the titles involved some sort of roller coaster sequence. Ring a bell with anyone?
openscene from a movie with teenage girls in a bathroom sharing tampons Film
this scene happens within probably the first 20 minutes of the movie. a group of teenage girls are in a bathroom and they are sharing tampons. I think a voiceover might say that they're all on the same cycle. the camera pans on the bottom of the stalls and shows the girls passing a box of tampons to each other from under the stalls. the movie is definitely from the 2000s; I stopped watching it after that scene because I thought I was too young for it and it made me uncomfortable at the time. any ideas?
openSci-fi detective cartoon, somewhat adult Western Animation
I remember seeing this show a few years ago on Cartoon network (?). I only remember two episodes, but they involved what I believe was a detective in both of them.
One involved him chasing after some guy's hands that ran away, with one of the hands ending up turned into ground meat due to the chase, with the other hand trying to commit suicide after the cliche "seeing them in the clouds/sky" scene before being grabbed by the detective and being returned to the owner.
The other episode involved the detective finding and returning a naked blonde woman to who I assume is her father. The only parts i remember of this episode was the detective transporting the woman on some floating platform, and of her messing with the badge he pins on her. I also believe that she died at the end, with the father crying over her corpse after putting a earring back on one of her ears.
Edited by arde645openYoung Adult Book about 2 young brothers surviving the Holocaust in Poland Literature
I've been bugged by the inability to remember the title of a book that I read back in Middle school in 2005. Among the details I can remember about it are the following: Two Jewish children (who are brothers as mentioned earlier) who are living in Poland during World War II, of which the younger has blonde hair which makes the older one (who is the protagonist) envious because he "looks German" and thus isn't in as much fear of being spotted by the Nazis. The protagonist is living with a Polish family named the Rosens (or some variation of that name such as Rosenberg, Rosenthal, etc. again I can't remember all the details accurately) who are providing refuge for him from the Nazis. At the beginning, there is a celebration of Passover (in the present day) in which at one point it is mentioned something along the lines that "the Holocaust was more recent and just as true" in which the protagonist (who is a grown man at this point) then goes on to recount the main narrative in an extended flashback. Near the end of it, the uprising in Warsaw against German occupation happens. The protagonist and Rosens also meet a Russian soldier who reveals that he is also Jewish. The book also featured the Rosens in a photo dated 1992 after the conclusion of the novel.
openKids Show - Brother and Sister with crazy fake red wigs - watched on VHS Live Action TV
I know that these two would sing songs every once in a while and the only episode I had seen had a song about taking a bath and scrubbing with a bunch of stick figure drawings shown taking a bath. The two characters were definitely an adult man and woman and that they were acting more like kids.
openTV series (maybe film)
I was wondering if anyone had any idea what this might be based off the only scene I can remember. I think it is an American TV series, probably watched it on Netflix (though it could be a film). The only scene I can remember is of a road at night and there is a car parked up with a group of people in it who are all sort of suspended in time if you will. The car is on the wrong side of a barrier at the end of the road but it hasn't been smashed and there is no other way for it to have got there. A sherif (I think) find the car and goes to ring it in but the car disappears with no trace.
That's all I can remember, not sure how accurately I am remembering either!
I think it's a show/film about there being a rip in time or something Sci-fi-y like that.
Thanks!
openDog Game Videogame
I recently remembered a game I played as a kid and am now trying to recall the name! It was a snes game, I believe, and all I can remember is you played as (or took care of) a golden retriever dog. I know that you could go down to a beach and dig up bones(?). It might have had day/night cycles as well because I remember the beach being dark as if it were nighttime. Also, it was before Nintendogs.
Edited by santablitzleopenWhat's this show again? Anime
the main character uses a katana and used to fight in the Japanese military and helps out a dojo and he was something like a man killer or slayer
openEarly 2000's Possibly 1990's Western Animation
It's been driving me mad for years but I remember a VHS tape at my Nana's house that had two girls on the front, one was blue or purple and the other was pink. The style was similar to that of Rainbow Brite but I've seen all those movies and none are what i'm thinking of. They were on a stairwell with either a candle in one of their hands or a torch on the wall, they could have been conjoined or just back to back but they looked either like twins or just sister's. One had a moon hairpin and the other had either a star or a sun, It's not Johnny Test's sisters because they weren't around at that time period, especially not on VHS.I was really little when I saw the cover but I'd love to know what it was, if anyone has a clue i'd love to hear it, i'm out of idea's.
openExplodingmirror Web Original
I'm looking for a story about a guy who lived in another guys house without him knowing and thought he was the guys girlfriend. I think I found it on reddit
openYoutube Poop with Robotnik dancing Web Original
I remember seeing a Youtube Poop a long time ago that featured AOSTH Robotnik dancing to the beat of "Dani California" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
openThree funny animal kids going on an adventure together? Film
An animated kids movie from the 2000's at the latest (Probably earlier, about 1970's-1990's) about three funny animals, one girl and two guys (About 8-12 years old I think) who need to find a cure for a younger female one (About 4-5). I think there were mice and racoons among other animals. There was a scene near or at the beginning where their teacher(?) asked them why they missed school(?), to which one responded "My mom", one (A girl mouse) "My dad", and the third (A chubby raccoon boy) "Breakfast".
openan show where an small yellow/orange bot piloting an bigger one similar to the pilot
with mommy finishing up beast wars and one of my uncles starting brave police j decker, an guy in his senior year asked me to look up an animated series from '99. all he remembers is an small orange robot piloting an bigger orange robot(it may be yellow) in an manner similar to power rangers. i asked my mom about it, and she says she has seen it too, but she remembers that the orange bot that the guy was talking about was yellow, and an teacher confirmed the yellow robot was named 'bee or something to that tune.i asked another senior about it, and he said that 'bee and his human partner did some chores and got into an adventure while doing chores in one episode. any help?
p.s.they like ripped off of poke-and digimon, so it isnt one of those. p.s.s. they are not yugioh nor beyblade either. not even bdaman.
Edited by exkaiserisfunnyopenEdutational show with a dogman, a guy with orange hair and a hot latina babe Live Action TV
Does someone remember this show? It was educational about a “teen” boy (he was at least twenty but in-universe was a high school teen) who after school travels to some sort of parallel universe inside his computer to be the captain of a ship. His crew was a dog-man (played by the same actor who played the main character’s father), a scientist with orange pointy hair, a very good looking brunette named Maria and a strange android dwarf woman. The villain was (always the same actor) or a Villainous Harlequin that came out of a box or a biker-looking Obviously Evil bold guy. The villain would make a riddle and he have to answer at the end of the episode or the villain would escape his imprisonment, and thus they had to travel on time to meet historical characters in order to find the answer to the riddle.
Edited by LuppercusopenUnknown western series Live Action TV
No goodniks enter town with evil plan, are all set to rob the bank, lure the virginal girl away, do whatever they planned, always watched by two old guys who seem to serve no purpose to the town except care for a rosebush (In an area where no other roses survive .. .) Just as the plan is about to come to fruition, the bad guys disappear without anyone suspecting them, the virginal girl finding comfort with a local fellow . . . at the end, it is revealed that the two old guys are former toughs who like the town, and have kept the rose bush alive by silently doing away with anyone who threatens their peace and quiet and burying them underneath. At the end, one expresses worry that no one else will show up in time to keep the fertilization cycle going but the other says Someone Always Comes . . .
I think it was a british tv show about these teens who had something like a lab in a hotel, really high tech, Kind of an old show, used to watch it as a kid and they'd solve small crimes which occured around the hotel like something going missing, they'd take in suspects, and there'd be something like a cage to keep the suspects, it was a staged show to see if the kids would figure it out
Edited by LamentableKoala