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openMOVIE BASED ON MANGA
There's a movie that came out a few years ago in the West, I think maybe in 2012, that was based on a Manga. I think it was pretty well received on Rotten Tomatoes.
openCartoon Man Grows Wings Western Animation
I think this cartoon was from a series of shorts Nickelodeon did in the late 80s/early 90s. There was a man and he had an itchy back, so he scratched it against his chair and he grew wings. He spends the cartoon flying around until his wings get shot off. He's all depressed, then notices something poking out of his jacket. He smiles, scratches his back against the chair again and gets his wings back.
openUnnerving children's book about a girl going to an alternate dimension with her alt self and alt dog Literature
I read this children's book a long time ago...this girl goes to an alternate universe somehow and it's mostly located in her house in the alternate universe. I seem to recall her going in a hot air balloon but I might be mixing that up with the Oz books. She finds an alternate her there, who she just thinks of as her twin, and alt!her has a different name, I believe. Alt!Her is peppier and more popular, but really nice, and they become friends. There is also an alt!dog that's black. Maybe a Labrador? But there's also some sort of female guardian, either alt!mom or alt!aunt or something, though I'm leaning toward aunt, and she seems very nice but actually is a witch, or something. One day the dog...falls through a mirror or something and comes back out way different. Doesn't wag his tail or bark happily anymore, just kind of eats and walks. And his eyes look dead inside. And it really concerns the girl and her alt!self. Then her alt!self starts acting weird too, just brushing her hair and smiling with this fixed smile, and her eyes look dead too. And the girl realizes that their souls have been eaten by the alt!aunt. I don't remember the book ending that happily. I seem to remember her being successfully transported back to her own dimension, but the thing where her alt!dog and alt!self's souls are gone was never really fixed?? I remember that unnerving the hell out of me. Preemptively, it wasn't Coraline.
Edited by pieartyopenFind a tale
I want to find a tale from a book called "Strange Tale of (XXX) Street" (if you know, please tell me the full name of that book too): A man buy a cheap house, only to find it be haunted by a ghost/witch. She gave him three chances to chalenge her before she took his soul. He has a friend, that friend have a very wisdom fish. His friend talk (?) to that fish and give him idea: - 1st: a jewel glow like gold but made from rubber. The witch give him that jewel. - 2nd: (i don't remember, but the witch easily do that too) - 3nd: a haired frog. Since the witch's true form is the haired frog, she shapshift to her original shape. The man shave her hair, make her lost magic power.
openLooking for an old TV show
There was a TV show, long time ago. Mother and daughter move to a new city. Mother's lover from the past lives in that city and is now engaged to another, evil woman. It turns out he still loves her but can't break the promise he already made. The evil lady has another woman who helps her make all the decisions and who makes her cling harder to the guy. The mother is a high school teacher, her daughter goes to the same school. The daughter thinks she isn't pretty, doesn't believe in herself.She is a nerd and has long curly hair. She meets a guy at the school and they kinda click together. He is walking her back one day when the mother sees the guy and invites him in for dinner. There's also a scene in a cabin with the mother and her lover. I know this is very little to go off off. This was so long ago that I watched this, it might be something I dreamed of, lol. Please let me know if you have seen anything resembling this before.
openAncient Egypt-themed Fantasy Novel Literature
This is one of those fantasy books I read when I was a kid, but I can't for the life of me remember the title or author. I think I started reading the second book or something: I remember it was set in what Ancient-Egpytian themed fantasy universe. The main antagonist was some sort of general; he was conquering the land, but also constantly mourning for his 'Lost Lenore'. One place he tried to conquer was called 'The C Ity of the Dead' I believe, ruled by some sort of scholarly elite, but they bribed him to let them be.
One of the deities that keept cropping up was called "The Rain Queen" I believe, and there was some sort of legend about her falling in love with a mortal man, but him being killed, or betraying her or something. Because of that she was angry at humanity. Other than that, I can only remember a character, a middle-aged woman who was like a phony medium/spiitualist who made fake blood come out of a mirror, and a scene where it starts raining insects from the sky- the 'Rain Queen's revenge'. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
openBoys finds a tunnel in his bed Live Action TV
Hi, I have very vague memories of this show. About all I remember as of now is that a young boy goes under the blankets of his bed and crawls toward the foot of his bed but he keeps going and it turns into a tunnel to another place.
openLooking for Rugrats episodes Western Animation
So I have been watching Rugrats for the nostalgia factor, and I was wondering the names of a few episodes. First is an episode where Tommy gets trapped in a toy store (with Chuckie maybe?), second is one where the babies go to a carnival and get free small boxes of Reptar cereal, third is one where the kids go to like a gardening place and pretend it's some sort of jungle, and lastly one where Tommy goes to a park but it's really hot so he puts a diaper over his head and it's like a desert. Thanks in advance
openBig babies Live Action TV
This is probably a misuse of this tool, but there is no mention of the CBBC comedy 'Big Babies' on the website, and I want to use this as a 'media launchpad' of sorts, to see if anyone is aware of it. I'm inexperienced with wiki editing, so some tips to get a media page started (or someone doing it for me) would be helpful. Please don't kill me for this.
openEpisode of Some Horror Anthology Live Action TV
I saw something on TV a while ago. It was just a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure the show was from the 80s. There was a marathon of this show, which I want to say was Tales from the Darkside (though it could have been a different one). In the episode I'm thinking of, a woman goes home from college by train, and she ends up in the last car with a lot of really unusual people. Everything is relatively normal until the train enters a ridiculously long and dark tunnel, and then everyone goes nuts, attacking each other and seemingly killing each other, then acting totally normal and alive again. Eventually it comes to light that everyone in that car is dead and the woman is shown at the end as a spiderweb-covered corpse sitting in the train car. I can't find any record of this, but I'm reasonably sure it exists- I remember far too much of it to have imagined it.
open Book about board game come to life.
This was a book where when you play the game you have to actually do the scenario from the game (most of what I remember was in a jungle.) There were enemy 'pieces' which included a giant spider. Their weakness was water, when they got wet they became tiny and turned back into game pieces, and went back to the board. The main character(s) beat the game by getting the board wet. This was not Zathura or Jumanji.
open Black and white film or show, dead piano player Live Action TV
I only saw one scene in this, where the bad guy walked into a bar or something, killed the piano player, then later he ordered the man to start playing.again. It was pointed out that he was dead, then the bad guy shot into the air and the body jerked up and started playing again.
open Disney Channel Movie - brainwashed kids
This was a movie, probably Disney, about a company kidnapping kids and brainwashing them to want to grow up to work for the company. I think one of the ending scenes (possibly the climax) was at a concert.
openTiger claymation
I don't know if it's a movie or a short but it's about what looks to be a Chinese story of a tiger wanting to become a man. On his journey he finds a cave with a tablet with instruction on how to become a man. The thing is he needs to find 2 kids and possibly eat them if he wants a full transformation because he achieved transforming but still had his tail. It was in the 90s when I saw it from 96-99 maybe.
openPresident TV Show
There was this show where there was a president giving a speech, and suddenly the white house blows up. The undereducated vice president is sworn in and has a controversy on if he should leave the presidency. I know that the show was on CBS, ABC, or NBC. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
openA Boy and His X style comic Webcomic
Basically, the webcomic is about a young(?) boy who is best friends with a demon. Said demon is purple, really short, and has really tall ears (I specifically remember thinking it looked sort of like a Crobat with arms/feet, though this would've been unintentional).
It's a gag-a-day type comic, generally with pretty dark humor. I remember one strip was about the boy's mom being dead, so he asks his demon friend to resurrect her. They do so, and they end up regretting it because she immediately starts nagging at them. Or something along those lines. I'm trying to see what else I can remember.
I believe it's still ongoing. At the very least, it was several months ago when I got linked to it.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
openCosmo's pets keep dying Western Animation
I remember an episode of Fairly OddParents where Cosmo kept adopting a bunch of pets, but they all kept on dying and making Cosmo cry, much to Wanda's annoyance. Does anyone remember the episode name?
openWhats this TV Show? Aired around 2008/2009 Can't remember Film
This TV show was about a man travelling the world with only a limited amount of money, for each country he was given a small amount of money which he had to use wisely and budget, he also had to earn money. I remember in one specific episode he tried to donate blood to get money but wasn't able to because he was a foreigner... (I think). The guy was a baldy.
openA Dreamcast Spy and Strategy game Videogame
I'm looking for a Dreamcast game that i once read in EGM. It was strategy game set in the future where Corporations rule the world. You play as one corporation controlling a group of spies with different skills like fighting and hacking where you direct the spies to infiltrate buildings owned by rival companies to steal important data inside.
I'm looking for a show in which there's a scene in a beauty shop (I think) and a guy comes to talk to a girl who shops there near the cashier, just before the man who was accompanying the girl comes and tells him "You know she's only 16?" or something like that. The guy doesn't seem bothered IIRC. I know it sounds tacky like that but it was better brought than what I am depicting... Thanks!