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openOld anime with a chased little girl? Anime
I think I saw this anime in around 2007-2010. The scene started with some kind of red and black monsters looking around a dark room. A little girl is shivering in a corner, and a white and blue monster saved her by using a laser to cut the entire roof of the room. The chase scene happens on a ruins, and ended in a high-tech looking room, where the white monster died after getting shot. The monsters look very simple, spherical in nature, and the girl wears red clothing if I remember correctly. There is also a scene that shows a chunk land falling from the sky, and the escaped girl holding something resembling a crystal close to her chest Edit: more details
Ideas?
Edited by XelixionopenPit Pumpkin Live Action TV
Im trying to remember a Halloween special tv show or tv movie from the late eighties or early nineties that had kids out at night on Halloween , they come across a pumpkin patch and the lady/witch owner of the pumpkin patch has a "pit pumpkin" that she attacks on them.
openWhat episode of Martin Mystery were these pics from?
[1]◊ They look like they're from the same episode.
Edited by WESTERNANIMATIONFAN96openI can't remember the cartoon name
It's a cartoon about tiny monsters that can turn into big ones, they fight every episode and at the end of the episode they turn small again, every episode group of people finds new monsters. NOT POKEMON OR DIGIMON
openchildrens book explaining how snakes got venome Literature
I remeber there was this childrens book that had a myth explaining the orgin of venom in snakes. In the beginning snakes were stepped on and evem chewed on until god(or some other entity) gives them venom to defend themselves. Can anyone tell me what the name of this book was?
openWill work for name of show. Please help. Western Animation
OK, so the show I'm looking for had a clip used in the Youtube Poop "SUPER DUPER SUPER MEN," so be sure to check there.
It's animated in paper cutouts, and one of the main characters is a bear. It aired on the Finnish channel YLE. One scene involves a boy saving the bear from a crack in an icy pond. (That's about all the info I can give you.)
It will help me if you can find the name of the show. Thanks.
openKid's book about a monster who wants to eat the kid Literature
This book is about a kid who is captured by some kind of monster. The monster is going to eat him, but the kid convinces him that he would be tastier with a certain recipe, which requires the monster to go out and gather outlandish ingredients, like bicycles and bricks. This repeats until the kid has got enough equipment from the recipes that he can brick up the monster and escape.
openDystopian show around 2012-2014
There was a show where the premise was that one day suddenly 50% of all humans in the world suddenly vanish or something similar. The show deals with the aftermath. The lead role being played out by a cop! I watched the first season and want to watch it again or any possible following seasons but cant for the life of me remember the name of the show. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.
openBook thingy Literature
i was browsing this very wiki, and i found this book series i really liked. it was something like a future colony being cut off or something, and regressing to a feudal era, and then a ship with people in stasis wake up and see this dutur, and try to make it right. Thanks!
openSabertooth tiger/dragon hybrid creature, possibly a Pokemon?
My friend was describing a creature that she saw a little girl holding a stuffed animal of. She thought it was a Pokemon and told me about it because I'm a huge Pokemon nerd, and I'm trying to figure out what exactly the stuffed animal could be. She described it as a cross between a tiger and a dragon, with normal yellow/black tiger colors and it had dragon wings. I asked if it was more cute or badass, and it was more badass looking. It was on all fours, and she thinks the dragon parts were blue/black colored. I then showed her a bunch of possible Pokemon that I could think of and none of them were what she saw.
The Pokemon that I showed her: Raikou, Arcanine, Landorus (the changed form version), Pyroar, Luxray, Solgaleo, Absol, Entei, Type: Null, Ampharos, Heliolisk, and also Saber Leomon from Digimon (might as well give it a try lmao)
So now I'm not sure if it's a Pokemon or if it's from some other creature-based show. It's killing me not knowing.
openFunny film about kids fighting over a crystal Live Action TV
Exactly what it says on the title. Little kids fight over a crystal, and there is a scene when the crystal was catapulted off and a kid got a telephone stuck on his/her head. There is also a part when a couple get joined together (I mean, they became one body two head person thing) because of the aforementioned crystal. Also, there is a joke about someone who literally uses rolls and rolls of tissue after touching one "unhygienic" thing. Ideas?
openWeird live-action British show. Live Action TV
A teenage girl (brunette) was worried about being in the hospital on Friday night as she wanted to do stereotypical Friday night stuff including dating. I know it was British as everyone had English accents and the girl was calling soccer "football" and didn't like it. And there was a baby named Aggs or even Eggs and there were cartoon stink lines when she needed to be changed, and I remember at the beginning, the girl said that the "world was adopting the shape of a pear".
openMountain Man Transformation in a car Commercial Live Action TV
I'm looking for a (youtube clip of a) car commercial featuring a clean-shaven but worn-down guy who looks into the showroom of a car (SUV/Truck?) and then immediately grows a beard and wears flannel, I think? Any help is great, thanks. Just the name of the car would be helpful too.
openLine From a Cartoon
I think it was From Billy and Mandy or Dexter laboratory, They Scream WHATS IN THE BOX, WHATS IN BOX?????(In a Funny Voice) Everyone Tells me im thinking of the Movie Se7en But No, i remember hearing it as a kid and one of my friends are agreeing with me and were going crazy trying to remember what cartoon its from.
openSitcom about a black man who was killed by Death, wasn't supposed to, and returned to (un)life. Live Action TV
I remember a quite unique sitcom from around the early 2000s, where the main character was a black man around the age 25-30 (might have been bald, or very short hair) who was killed by Death/The Grim Reaper/Angel of Death, but it was actually a mistake, so the man was given the option to return to his old life, altought he would be technically dead. One of the "symptoms" was that he didn't feel any pain, other might have been something like no heartbeat and cold body temperature.
The Death character was a middle aged white man, who was a HUGE fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and(/or) her actress, having a big portrait/poster of her in his office building or whatever the place was. The main character would visit him sometimes.
Other characters: (who all lived together in shared flat or something like that) White woman with short, blonde hair. Don't remember much about her, except that part of the greater plot was that she and the main character would eventually fall for eachother. *SPOILER* The big twist was that she was actually the person that was supposed to die.
White woman with dark brown hair. While the blonde woman was generally nice, this character was angry/moody/bitchy.
White man with somewhat long, brown hair. This character was bit immature and kind of a loser or deadbeat, who liked playing videogames, and asking the moody woman for a date.
Some things I remember: While the main character was black and dead, I don't remember any focus on racial themes or humor, and the being dead aspect wasn't always the main focus for plot. The show might have been british, or maybe even australian. No idea really. I doubt there was more than one season. Some episode plots or situations: 1. For some sitcom reasons, they had a bar, atleast for a night. Everything was ready for the customers inside, everyone else was waiting for customers inside, while the moody woman was standing outside the door, and was supposed to lure in as much customers in as possible. Not a single one was coming in, and after checking the situation, the woman was declining every single person at the door for not being good enough for the place. 2. The deadbeat is playing videogames, and the MC asks for time. He replies something weird, like 4 am, and when questioned about it, he would reply it would be 4am in Vietnam, where the game was taking place. 3. The deadbeat suspects something is weird about the MC and comes to a conclusion that hes a russian spy or something along the lines. He (purposefully?) spills boiling hot water on his hand, and when he realises that he didn't feel any pain, says or thought something like "they trained you well, comrade". 4. Somehow, the moody woman accepts to go on a date with the deadbeat. He made a poor choice for the location, because it was a steakhouse, and she was a vegetarian. After looking trough the list, she says that "Ill have to take the starter salad, as its the only one no meat on it." He replies "But it has beef tomatoes in it." She: "Idiot, beef tomato is type of a tomato, its not meat!" Waitress interrupts: "Actually, the sir is correct. Our beef tomatoes are actually filled with beef."
Thats pretty much all I can remember, everything might not be correct as it must be around 15 years since the show was shown in Finland. However, I doubt there is more than one show with that premise.
openShort Story about a Game Library Literature
I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's a short story about a man that dies and leaves his game library to his nephew. Among the books, the nephew finds a stack of unpublished RPG books that detail a very simulationist system which his uncle used to play god with.
open1970's television show I need to find
Back in the 70's I remember a tv show that used B&W photos to describe life in the 1890's or 1900's. I have always believed that William Shatner narrated it but that could be me projecting. The only other thing I remember about the show is that it was broadcast basically in the Boston area. If anyone remembers the name of the show I would be deeply grateful.
openUnknown SciFi Adventure Movie, Aliens Abduct Child Film
I've been trying to remember the name of this movie... for years.
I saw it in the late 1990s/early 2000s, possibly as a TV movie or a TV show pilot, on broadcast TV in the USA. It was a scifi adventure, with a spaceship. It starts out on a planet that is not Earth, with mostly humans, but included several different alien species coexisting.
Here's what I remember about the characters: -main character is blonde or brown-haired man. -a tough, dark-haired woman -a child (I think a girl; it may have been the main character's daughter) -scary, hairless, humanoid aliens with pale white faces (they also wore robes)
One of the first scenes is the main character arriving at a trading post on the planet, featuring an open sky with a few tents. This is where the main character and the woman meet. They later leave the planet together in a ship for a voyage or a mission. I don't remember the main plot, but I remember the subplot. The kid is abducted by a group of scary aliens on the planet. She was special, and they were using her for her mind or messing with her memories somehow.They helded her underground, in a cave. Their leader or god may have been trying to meld with her or use her for some purpose. I only remember it being a scary scene, watching it as a child. Anyways, the adults rescue her at the end. Any ideas?
I seek the name of a TV-Serial for children/Teens from ´80s:
Some children, maybe with an adult as leader, are able to teleport and/or time travel. I think that they are using a wristband.
In one scene, one or more of the children jump of a bridge and disapeer i a bright oval light. It could be a British show. I think that in one episode they go back i time to the middel age and help some local kids.
I know that is not much to go on.
Thanks,
René