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openQuest Western Animation
I remember this old cartoon where a quest needed to have some kind of toast or blessing for it to be succesful both water and wine were suggested but the main character suggested milk and it was approved of I cant remember anything else about it
openTouhou fanfic
The fanfic I'm looking for was the typical self-insert kind of fic, I think. In the beginning the main character is driving, and gets in a car accident. He then wakes up in Gensokyo, and gets taken in by Yuuka. At some point Yukari becomes the main antagonist. Haven't found it since I first read it, and I think it was on a website separate from most other fanfics.
Edited by 27firefliesopenTwo Films Film
So, I remember when I was little kid (probably around '02-'03 but I could easily be wrong) there was this movie that kind of caught my eye on TV, but the only thing I can remember is this one scene where a guy was looking at what appeared to be confidential information on an old computer monitor, but it looked like he was confused and had the wrong program or something (again, I was really young so sadly I don't know if my memory's serving me right here). I believe it started off with some sort of simplistic DOS-looking animation until it was cut by a logo of sorts (I remember it being the FBI's), then he's suddenly looking at a list of sorts. Cue a gentleman or two in suits coming into his apartment and shooting him.
The second was much more recent, at least three years ago at most. I only started watching near the end, but there was a kid strapped to a chair and his eyelids were held open. It was clear he was being brainwashed, and I think a teacher in his school was behind it. The whole thing was confusing out of context. He eventually broke out, and a bunch of high school kids (one of which was definitely a jock) led by said teacher was sent to chase him down. Don't remember how everything went after that, sadly. This one had a stereotypical 80s-cheese movie vibe to it.
I'm sorry I don't remember much detail about either of these movies, but any kind of lead would be great!
openNo Title Literature
When I was in, maybe 4th or 6th grade, we read this memoir by some American woman who had spent a portion of her childhood in China, where her parents were, I think, missionaries, but might have been involved in business or something. The family had Chinese servants, and the clearest memory I have is how one of the servants was a communist, but the author would notice how he stuck his pinky out when drinking tea.
The most plausible person to have been the author, if I were to guess, would be Pearl S Buck, who was living in China at about the right age and time frame (early 1900s) but I can't easily find either of her autobiographies to see if they jive with my memories of the book, and from descriptions of her autobiographies on the internet, either she's someone else, or I read a heavily abridged version of one of them.
open(SOLVED) Lots of twins Film
A movie where after someone is accused of a crime (likely rape) committed by his Evil Twin, it's eventually revealed that there are actually seven to eight clones, all with violent tendencies though some were squashed from youth (like the protagonist who became a nice guy as a result) and others made something productive of it (one guy runs a S&M club).
When the time comes to expose the Big Bad, all other clones are called to a gathering to expose the coverup.
Edited by MedinocopenNo Title Literature
Two books I vaguely remember reading as a kid, but the titles escape me:
The first was a picture book in which a little boy's dinosaur-shaped birthday cake turns into a real dinosaur. The dinosaur ends up in a zoo and is miserable, so the boy helps it escape and takes it somewhere it will be safe from the people who want it in the zoo.
The second was about a girl who tries to befriend two new students at her school. She initially succeeds with the one who turns out to be a jerk, but makes friends with the other girl toward the end. I think there was also a subplot about how one of the girls (can't remember which) is bi-racial and is ashamed of having a white mother because her grandmother hates white people.
openMovie about cloning and genetic propensity to crime Film
It’s been a long time, so my memory is very sketchy. The big plot twist in this movie is that the male protagonist, who has had a perfectly healthy upbringing and reasonably successful life, discovers that he is the result of a cloning experiment and that there are 6/7/8 (don’t remember the exact number) other clones just like him who were brought up in other families around the country. He finds out that all of them are criminals or at least violent people, even though he is not. The moral of the story is that even if your genes give you a strong predestination towards crime, a good and healthy upbringing can counteract this.
The movie is live-action and it is not overly scifi-themed (no fictional technology in the characters’ everyday lives); if it is set in the future, it’s only the near future, but I think it was set in the present. It does not deal with parallel universes, timelines or time travel; no mind swapping or mind control; no simulated realities or simulated brains/minds, manipulated memories or anything of that sort.
Edited by TimwiopenNo Title Literature
When I was in grade school, I had two different experiences where somebody read part of a book to our class, then didn't read the rest. To this day I'm curious about what happened. I can't remember the titles, of course. Here's what I do remember:
1. A kid fixes his little brother's teddy bear, which is missing an eye or something. He notices that it's too heavy for a stuffed animal, and suspects there's machinery inside. So he tells his brother, "I'm going to perform an operation on Teddy" (or something to that effect). To be continued...
2. A group of kids somehow end up with an idol or something that's supposed to grant wishes, but don't take it seriously. Sort of like the movie Big. One of the kids is a girl who isn't very well-liked because she's talkative and tactless. When she's alone with the idol, she wishes to be popular. Then a mist comes out of her mouth. To be continued...
Edited by FloydPinkertonopenNo Title Literature
I'm trying to remember two young adult novels from the mid 90s:
1) Book about an American teenage girl and a prince from a fictional European country. They secretly shared a psychic link since birth- once in a while, one of them would go into a trance, and see what was going on through the eyes of the other. Thus, they grew up as best friends and knowledgeable about each other's lives, even though they'd never met. One day, the prince tours America, and they finally meet. However, the prince gets kidnapped, and the girl has to tell her parents and the prince's handlers about their link and use the power to help locate him.
2. A book set 20 Minutes into the Future, about a brother/sister duo who made virtual reality games for a living. Their games are sabotaged to hurt people who play them, and they have to run from the law and prove their innocence. I remember they had to go into their latest (unfinished?) game, a generic horror/fantasy setting, and get to the end, but I can't remember why- maybe the saboteur was in the game? Another part I remember is that the brother and sister had discovered that you could erase a CD with a powerful electric shock, but kept the discovery a secret for some economic reason. The brother used his CD erasing/electric shock device to stun some thugs on the subway.
openNo Title Literature
Looking for a certain superhero book. I remember a lot about it so this should he easy enough. Read it four or five years ago I think, but could've been three. Books about a kid who has the power to fly and has super strength. I remember that him flying was difficult for him because he had to fight against gravity and he had very little control over his strength. Anyway, there were other kids with power in the story too. One girls had th powers of being really sticky. One was a gadgeteer, one had a black hole in their chest, one girl was a shapeshifter, another was a cat girl who had a brother a bit more beast-like than her and then there was a boy with ice powers who the main character assumed was the villain because he was the son of the real villainess, a woman who also had ice powers. The villainess was trying to boost the powers of the kids or something and the hero at the end of the book loses his powers but possibly gains the power to see through walls. What is this book's title?
openNo Title Literature
This sucks, it seems that this site has deleted everything old? So I can't find my old query that someone was so incredibly nice to answer.
1. Young adult or children's book about some siblings or kids stuck in a museum overnight I remember the word "Abode" being used in the book. Crazy stairs, trap doors, etc. On the cover, there are two girls crawling along the floor, and the stairs go in impossible directions. Yellow or orange cover. Possibly called something like "Scared Straight" or "scared Silly".
2. A book about a school — I feel like it's probably Louis Sachar or likewise? Where the kids in the corner make snide remarks all day, but nobody can tell from what person the remarks come.
Thanks for help if you can provide it.
openNo Title Literature
So I remember reading this books a couple years ago. I don't remember much about it but I do remember that the main character was a boy who was left at an aunt's house while his parents went somewhere. He saw a picture of some ancestor and the boy in the picture looked just like him. Something happened and he got sent back in time and switched places with the ancestor boy who had some fatal illness that could be cured in the present. Everyone thought the modern boy was ill since the ancestor boy looked just like the modern one and the parents came home. If I remember correctly, there was something about a storm. There was a scene where the two boys played marbles in the attic. They were both good at marbles and the modern boy was trying to win so that he could switch places with the ancestor boy and go back to his own time. The modern boy won just as his dad was coming up in the attic to get the ancestor boy to put him back in bed. I remember there being a sister of the modern boy who though something along the lines of her brother going crazy from the illness. The modern boy was thought to be the ancestor boy when he was back in time and he had to play along. I know this is confusing, but does anyone have any ideas?
openNo Title Literature
I'm looking for a book I read in the 2000's about a girl who gets kidnapped to find herself on a under construction space station that's big enough to have field in it that the kids have to plow. They wear special thermal clothing. It turns out that when they are through, the bad guys plan to just space them/throw them in the Sun. It's probably a ya or children's chapterbook.
openNo Title Literature
Two books, both childrens' books.
The first was part of a series, it may have taken place in the Victorian Era, though I think it took place in modern times (at least the mid 20th century). It was about a girl and her friend who had the nickname "Rubberboy" or something similar, who couldn't feel pain. There was also a part with a tower of pterodactyls or something like that.
The second book was about a girl and a talking rat (and other rodents) it was revealed that there was something special about rodents in general (that may have been the reason for their sentience), and there was a part where a chinchilla was forced to stamp its paw on cookies for some reason. I remember the cover was orange and black, and it was called something like "Rat".
openNo Title Literature
Reading this page has made me think of several books I read or at least skimmed as a kid. I'll try to keep this from becoming a wall of text like last time.
1.A book about a pair of twin sisters who buy an old doll from an antique store. It turns out that the doll is evil(possibly it was possessed or cursed or something)but only one of the twin's realizes it.
2.A book about a girl whose aunt died in an apartment fire as a kid. The aunt is fondly remembered as a hero because she was the first to discover the fire and ran around the building ringing all the bells which alerted the other residents to the fire and ultimately saved their lives. The aunt also had a weird hobby of collecting things in boxes. The main character and her cousin like to play out these events as a game and one day the girl finds one of her aunt's boxes in her granny's closet. However when she and her cousin are seen playing with pretend jewelry inside the box by the cousin's father he gets upset. The girl later discovers that her aunt wasn't a hero at all, the uncle had been the one to ring the bells and her aunt was a brat who refused to leave the apartment without her boxes(which is what lead to her death).
3.A book about a young witch named(I think) Libby. It may have been part of a series and it was not Sabrina The Teenage Witch or The Worst Witch.
I read all of these during Elementary School, which for me would have been the mid-late 90s.
openTwo books Literature
I have two books I'm looking for: The first is about a brother and a sister who find a parallel world where time moves much more slowly than on Earth, and is accessed by crawling through somewhere. The brother ends up staying in the parallel world to save it (with a giant swing), while his sister stays on earth and grows old.
The second is a part of a series, I believe. The cover had a humanoid dragon on it chained up and kneeling. I don't remember much of the plot, except that the main character was a boy raised on an island, was anti-magic in a world full of magic, and befriended a dragon when dragons were persecuted.
openNo Title Live Action TV
There was a 1990s special on PBS similar to A Hot Dog Program and An Ice Cream Show which focused on diners. From what I've looked up it doesn't seem to have been by the Hot Dog/Ice Cream producer.
openBook about girl from island who goes to school on mainland Literature
I read this book series in Middle school. I cant really remember much, but I know it was written by a woman who had many other books- mostly for tweens, but this was aimed at a slightly older crowd. The main character is a girl who lives on an island, and travels to the mainland to stay with a woman who owns a boarding house, where other kids from the Island also live so they can attend school. I remember a random detail- about a long, twisted staircase that the characters had trouble with, and the woman who they lived trying to make people think that the main character is crazy/ has a weird thing for fire. I've been struggling to find it for years!
I'm trying to find a Bugs Bunny cartoon in which he (Bugs) was chased around by a cowboy in a horse I think. I remember the setting was desertic, the cowboy was red-haired (I think) and was NOT Yosemite Sam, and there was a lot of comedic twisting and acting from the horse as well... I really don´t remember much else, just that it was very funny when I first saw it. Thanks!