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openSome things...
Okay, so here these are...
1. A Korean commercial. It's in a kitchen (the color I remember was mint green/pink?) and featured a girl band (maybe Girls' Generation). It's apparently for a phone or something, they're also singing a song but the only thing I remember is something like "hey, na na na na na" or something.
2. A Russian You Tube series (not You Tube Red), about traffic. It's where some guys who put warning stickers on cars of people who violate traffic rules (or something like that) and most of the time the target rages at them.
3. A Nintendo DS game, about a girl and her living rabbit plushie who cook stuff for a guy that the girl likes. Suddenly, there's this rival girl who wants to have the guy to herself, and it turns out in The Reveal that she was actually from the same world that the plushie was from, and the rival actually saying that the whole thing is a test (?)
Edited by ActualBeatriceopenEpisode of Amazing World Of Gumball (TAWOG) Western Animation
There is a certain episode of TAWOG in which Darwin takes over Elmore using safety rules. What is the name of the episode, and for a bonus, can I get a link to that Trope page?
openMore cartoons along this theme Western Animation
I enjoy old cartoons that are chock full of caricatures of the movie stars of yesteryear. Of course I know about "The Autograph Hound" and "Hollywood Steps Out", and today I discovered "Mickey's Gala Premiere", but are there more like these?
openchildren's show with insect who wants to fly? Western Animation
It's a CGI for kids about a group of creatures and one of them looks like a giant beetle and I can't spell his name but phonetically it sounds like "Zig-zoo". He wants to fly because the club is only for flying creatures, but can't. Then, someone is rolling in a ball of jelly towards a bottomless pit and then Zig-zoo (?) gets an idea to curl up in a ball ("If anything goes faster than a ball of jelly, it's a ball of me", he says) and successfully saves the other creature and they eventually let him join in despite the fact that he can't fly.
openOld PBS kids show about space Live Action TV
I'm looking for the name of an old kid's show that ran on PBS stations in Utah during the 90s. The show featured a person in a really weird looking robot costume and a early CG sidekick character that floated around the screen as a pink blob. The show was mainly focused on educational entertainment about space exploration and related topics.
Edited by BrathoropenWolfing out?
An odd request: anyone know the first time 'wolfing out' (or to wolf out or to be wolfed out) was used? As in werewolves transforming into wolf form. If there's a better place to find out on this forum (or a better site to ask), let me know that, too.
...Was it Buffy? A lot of these are from Buffy. It sounds likely, now that I think of it. But I wanna know for sure.
Edited by UnsungopenSeinfeld....i think Live Action TV
i think its a seinfeld episode, where a store doesn't give back change, they give play dough instead. I think at the end of the show elaine goes and buys a inexpensive item with a large bill, when they don't give her change back she steals the entire ball of clay. Help me please. If this isn't Seinfeld let me know what show it was instead.
openDrama airing between 2005-2008 Film
Detective drama i think. More likely a TV show than a movie. I remember the end scene was the main guy comes home and either finds wife/girlfriend dead or he's looking through old evidence photos of dead woman. He's crying and the music that's playing is Breath Me by Sia. I think a black man is also a main character, maybe his detective partner. I'd really like to watch this show, just don't remember the name.
openHelp. This is driving me insane! Anime
So I'm 17 right now,this has to be like the worst thing ever. I remember a cool show that came on tv when I was like 10-13 I don't remember but it would be on in the morning really early. 6am-9am EST. it was on those cartoon channels before the really American shows would come on, it was this guy who was searching around for these jewels that were special. He kept it on a BRACLET and it got really warm whenever he got closer to another gem. I can't remember the shows name for my life. He would search around with this girl and an old man. It was kinda like an anime style of show but in English. I have a feeling it was on Disney XD or Cartoon Network or even the boomerang channel but I can't find the show anywhere. Please.
Edited by WickedDreameropenAnti-German propaganda piece
I'm not even sure if this would be possible to find, but it would be really cool if someone could. It was really interesting, and I'd like to be able to finish it.
So the film is a short (more than ten minutes, less than thirty). It's in black and white and was clearly made after WW 2. It argues that the Germans are inherently evil, and American shouldn't trust them after the war. I remember the beginning is broken up into three chapters, Bismarck, then Wilhelm II, then Hitler. There's lot of shots of German people dancing. Also, at the end they talk about the German American Bund.
If anyone knows what I'm talking about, that would be great.
openCrude Mario Sunshine parody on Newgrounds Web Original
It involved badly drawn art, bad grammar, Mario going to get Shine Sprites to have sex with a Toad (represented as a picture of a naked woman with a Toad head crudely pasted on) that at the end was some kind of monster in disguise and a flying Bowser pooping on everyone's head (with the narrator box saying "BOWSER GO SHIT" every time). Also at a certain point the video stops until the user doesn't click on a Shine Sprite Mario is unable to see for some reason.
openWhat show is this? Live Action TV
So I watched a show the other day, where every episode had HUGE plot twists. I didn't see all the episodes, and now I can't remember the name of the show.
- In one of the episodes a police officer is investigating a murder in an apartment complex. He knocks on one of the doors and a seducing woman appears. She invites him in and while he starts telling how the murder happened she gets more and more interested. She has some paintings that she's been doing, and she kills the officer the way she describes the paintings or something. I can't remember.
- In a different episode a girl thinks she has a neighbor watching her from a room in building across the street, which creeps her out in the beginning. She eventually starts making a show for him, checking if he is watching. One night she's checking to see if he's watching her, and she starts masturbating. Suddenly the curtains open on the other side, and the guy she thought was watching her, was actually hanging from the ceiling.
Does anyone know which show this is??
Edited by FurtiveWormopenTwo different Live-Action VHS Videos teaching English concepts to Kids Live Action TV
I remember watching two different videos in elementary school, around the late 90's/early 2000's. The first one was about a group of kids who had a clubhouse with a computer and a hatrack with their names on it where they hung their hats (they each had different styles of hats; a newbie cap, a jester's hat, a viking helmet, etc.) I remember that their club was called the _____ Club or the _____ Kids or something like that. Each episode would have one of them encountering a problem and then using some sort of english concept to fix it: I remember one boy had to write a story about something that happened to him using similes, metaphors, and hyperbole; a girl named Trax wrote stories about the rest of the club to show different genres (myth, fantasy, scifi, realistic fiction); and a girl writes poems using personification, which brings the objects she's writing about to life. I remember that one of the kids was African American and named Gator and another girl was a brunette named Tracks/Trax.
The other videos were about a group of kids in a room (almost like a hotel room/office?) who were working on a newspaper or something like that. I remember a kid (I think his name was Sam) coming into the room groaning and flops down on a couch; the other kids come over to him and are surprised that his messenger bag isn't full of ideas like usual. A girl narrates the situation. The kids consult Ms. Grammar, a woman on a computer (like she was skyping them, except that this was the 90s), for ideas. She teaches them about adjectives and suffixes, like green, greener, greenest, as the kids make frosting with green food coloring.
Does anyone have any idea what these two videos are? They're VHS tapes but i'm not sure what the tapes looked like.
openVHS Video teaching History Live Action TV
I remember watching this video in school. It was about a group of kids who go to some kind of basement or garage where another kid claims to have built a time machine. The kids are skeptical since his other inventions have never worked, but he insists that he's serious this time. The other kids accidentally get into the time machine and go back in time, but they're able to communicate with the inventor kid through a walkie talkie. They visit a bunch of historical places (I can't remember where) before finally ending up at the end of world war 2. They cheer for the end of the war and end up accidentally yanking out a crucial cable they needed to run the time machine. The inventor kid tells them how to fix it through the walkie talkie: by putting "our year" into the place where you enter what year you want to travel to. The kids do so (literally entering "OUR YEAR" ) and return to the present. Does anyone know where this could be from? It's been bugging me for years?
Edited by DaggerQuillopenNickelodeon short
I remember seeing this really weird short years ago, on one of the nickelodeon channels, either Teen Nick or Nick Toons. It wasn't even from a particular show, it was just filler. It was either cgi or claymation and it starred these three kids in an alleyway who looked like rappers, or maybe gang members. I don't remember what they were doing, but in the middle of the short, some other kids walk by, way younger than the alley kids. The alley kids jump behind a box and start doing a puppet show (I know, weird). And then the young kids run off and the alley kids resume their activities. If I remember right, here were NO actual words spoken in the short, just sound effects and grunts. Anyone know it?
Edited by Loopytires55openCivil War Doc Series Live Action TV
This was a show on in the late 80's/early 90's about early American History. The host was an older man with a white mustache and a cargo jacket. Most of what I remember was about the Civil War, and they would show drawings or letters and they had people voice over. Not Ken Burns... any help would be greatly appreciated because it's driving me nuts. I believe it was on Saturdays or Sundays...
openInsert Song from Grey's Anatomy? Live Action TV
Okay, so I'm looking for this song that played on Grey's Anatomy - I was just hearing someone else watch it so all I remember is that it played behind a conversation with a kid named Andy who was sick somehow and the doctor saying "the next stage of tests involve sticking a needle in your spinal cord." I know this is incredibly vague but please help, this song is stuck in my head in the most annoying way.
openShow with Live Action TV
What I remember about the show was that there was a doctor, or therapist, or something along those lines that had a rival friend/buddy come over that he always competed with. The guy brought along his son, a young boy, and I think the main character had a kid(s) as well. The basis was that the main noticed something wrong with his rival's kid, and schemed to spend some alone time with him to confirm. Coming upon the conclusion that he might be autistic or something like that. I know the father rival was pretty angry, thinking that it was a joke at first.
openTwo Nickelodeon Shorts Western Animation
I remember two shorts that aired on Nickelodeon in the early 2000's. One had a red cat-like creature, obviously a thief, escaping from a castle with a giant pile of loot. An angelic cat would see him and meow, alerting the guards. The thief's efforts to evade them cause him to get cornered by the angel-cat, who meows and gives him away.
The other one was of a blue kangaroo-looking creature, for lack of a better term, standing underneath a stereotypical lab ray. A Mad Scientist lizard pulls a lever, zapping the kangaroo and turning it into a blue cat.
So there was this youtube clip circulating on tumblr a while ago of a weird 3d anime with graphics that glitched out and character models that would distort when they talked. I feel like the audio was really scrambled as well. The title was something cryptic and the description was a paragraph of weird nonsense text that started with something like "Wanna see a dead body?". TBH it's kind of haunting me, it was very strange and I want to see it again but for the life of me I can't find it. Thanks guys!