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openAnimated.tv show from the 90s about secret government facility inside a mountain Western Animation
It's an old TV show.i can't remember the name or what it was about but it was about an secret government facility inside a mountain which dealt with aliens.
openA scifi comic from several years ago. Print Comic
There was a scifi comic like, 5 years back. There was a female lead who always wore a bubble helmet and I remember at least 3 issues. The thing that stands out is in the second or third issue there was a robot body that had George W Bush's head in a jar on top. Really want to figure out what this is.
openClip of a show i saw Live Action TV
I was watching a youtube video that had a bunch of funny clips and i cant seem to find the name of the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hOQsJo8Xqc
its at 47:02 in the video
Edited by OploopopenSong Similar to "How Ba-a-a-ad Can I Be?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYmrPn1CnzY This song (from the Lorax) reminds me of a pop song or something I've heard. It's specifically the "I'm just doing what comes naturally" and "I'm just following my destiny." Maybe it's the destiny line? I feel like I've heard "You know it's my destiny!" to the same tune. Or it may just be the tune I've heard somewhere. Help
Edited by yadnaravresolved Strategy Game I can't remember the name of Videogame
I'm trying to remember the name of a strategy game I played on Wii Classic Console many years ago. All I can really remember of it is that it was like Advance Wars, but set on the moon and without C Os. It was also really hard.
openBRITISH TV PLAY Live Action TV
Someone posted on this on the amazingly embarrassing parents trope page, and it looks interesting to me. Unfortunately, I have not watched much British TV or film to know this, but I noticed (and I saw this when I happened to edit the page, because I was temporary going to provide an example, but forgot what it was) that it was posted in 2008):
"Many years ago there was a one-off British TV play, not played for laughs, about a boy who is so embarrassed by his mother's erratic hyperactive behavior that eventually he can't even bring himself to tell people she's his mother and calls her "a sort of aunt"."
I asked this on the IMDB and one person responded with "Travels with my aunt", but they were not entirely sure. Does this seem familiar to anyone? Please help, thanks.
openPiano piece from X-Men movie Music
At the beginning of the first X-Men movie (as in, year 2000), there's a scene near the beginning at Rogue's house where she's with her boyfriend and I think her mother is playing the piano in another room. My question is, does anyone know what she's playing? Is it just random exercise or part of a longer piece?
opensong in video Music
what song is in this video that starts at about 12:10? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUak72GJ4E4
openGreen dragon show that was on Tv in Australia(sometime between 1994 and early 2000's) Western Animation
Ok, so I am pretty certain the name of the show was the name of the main character, but I could be wrong.
The main character was a young green dragon with wings and a medallion around his neck that was an orphan. He lived with these small creatures, and was the last of his kind.
I remember two distinct places, one being a cave overlooking a cliff that his father lived in? Or the bad guy? The second is this forbidden(maybe) place that had humans in it. The main character interacted with either one or two human kids.(I believe they found him in snow?)
There was....two henchmen that were trying to capture him, or it might have been the creatures that raised him. One thing I know for certain: It was DEFINITELY 2d animation.
The only show I've found is Dragon tales. But that doesn't fit. The green dragon was a LOT smaller than them, about the size of the two kids. If I had to give an example design, it would be similar to the design of Jake Long from American Dragoon season 1, but the size of his little sister.
Edited by Wareisthatshowopenhigh school tv show from late 80's or early 90's Film
I only remember theme song with clock, school yard, school bus, boys and girls - and they sing and rap something like tic tic toc. It was very colourful and playful with catchy tune ...I know its chaotic description but its all I can remember :( Thank you in advance! English isn't my first language, so please excuse any mistakes
opennot a show ...but some fanfics.... Anime
I realy want to see some "parental L" fanfictions whether babysitting/being an actual parent
watching L: change the world realy made me want to see more of papa wolf L .....
openTV Tropes series Live Action TV
I vaguely remember that there was some sort of webseries or You Tube series or TV show or something that was about TV tropes. I think the format was that every episode would focus on a single trope. What was this show?
openHistorical Fiction Novel Lost at 8th Grade Lunch Hour (RIP) Literature
Hoping and praying someone can tell me or at least direct me to the title of this novel I read back in Ye Olde times of eighth grade. The fact I never finished it has gnawed at the back of my skull since that fateful lunch hour. God help me.
Clearly remember the protagonist is female. Honestly only remember one of the biggest subplots built with the main (??) female character reminiscing about her troubled childhood. When the main novel storyline takes place, she's older and a wife and a mother, if I recall, but the backstory littered throughout follows her crappy life as a teenager.
Subplot goes as follows: protagonist has hot sister, but she herself is stout and plain. Sister has affair with man who, after she tells him she is pregnant with his child, tips his hat and says "awesome! Better get back to my wife and kids" and hauls his merry ass outta there, leaving her devastated. Lucky (??) for sister and protag, protag was arranged to be wed to a man who was Simply Awful and who disliked the plainness of the protag. So he of course jumps on the chance to bed her sister. Sister Dearest sacrifices herself by lying to the fiancee that the child is his after some wild nights in the hay barn. He marries her, angrily, and Sister thus spares Protag from a lifetime of unhappiness and abuse. Hooray? This sets us up with the characters and circumstances occurring in the story's present (which was historical, but I haven't a clue which era it was; post 18th century North America is all I can give. Now I think about it, immediately post WWI? WWII? Perhaps? Heavens).
So, the suspense builds with this subplot throughout, building up behind the main plot which takes place when, as I said, Protag is an adult. Main plot follows the issues faced when a homeless man and war veteran (if my memory is correct) shows up at their house after someone dies (Sister? Father? Who knows who dies but I swear someone does). He starts out being referred to as unrelated, but it quickly begins to be nudged at that he may be some Super Secret Integral Family Member. Mystery is Who the Hell this man is.
I just wanna know. If you guys know this title (found in middle school library, so that sorta playing field, even though I found hard porn in that place so go wild I guess) just tell me who he is. Thank you.
I'm wasting away.
EDIT: Additional tips: I think the author was female, and story takes place in a rural area. Second tip has a 0.0001% chance of helping but at this point I'm just throwing things out there in desperation.
Edited by tsjoiopenKids Cartoon Western Animation
Kids Cartoon about a red headed girl with a magical amulet that could let her travel through time (or teleport I dont remember which) when she spun it around and she had a tiny dinosaur (or possibly dragon?) friend who she took with her and the little reptile thing could talk? It was from the early 2000's
openNew tv show Film
Hello! Not so long ago I saw a trailer of new series. It involved man searching for a dog he never had, and sequence of strange events, like rain right in the room and upside car. I forgot the name of the show and searched through lists of new 2016 shows but can't find it. Can anyone help me with this one? The first words in trailer were like this: just because you are searching for your dog, doesn't mean you had one. Thanks)
Edited by NahimovopenCanadian Blonde spy show Live Action TV
A Spy ish live action show with a blonde female as the lead actress. Ran on a Canadian network (CBC?) between 1999ish-2002ish. The episode plot had our lead breaking into an underground complex, she used a prop (kids toy) that attached to her head and shows her the hidden lasers that crossed the hallway that she needed to run down. Her accomplice over radio disables the lasers and she runs the length of the hallway, avoiding the lasers. A different episode, (spoiler alert) she meets an evil doppelgänger who calls her 'Dolly' because one of them is a clone. What is the shows name? edit: i don't actually remember what years it came out, im assuming before 2006, because thats about how old i was by the time that the show would have completed. im fairly confident its a low-budget CTV or CBC Canadian tv show.
Edited by agentsmihjropen"Something that belongs to you" song Music
Hey guys, I'm new here. I need you to help me. This past week, I went on a vacation to Florida and I stopped on Pensacola Beach. I went and ate at Flounder's and there was this song that was playing there. It went something like:
Something that (something something) is you
Something that (something something) is you
Something that (something something) is you
Something that belongs to you/Something that seems to be you
The song I would describe as country/tropical/rock/I really don't know. If it helps, the song that was playing after that was "Manic Monday" by the Bangles, so it could be around the same genre as "Manic Monday". Thank you!
Edited by chrysleraspen
so i saw a music video on VH 1 once and it was about a video game starring a bird thingie with no arms, but i dont remember the name.