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openhelp finding a japanese rap (i think) song. Music
There's this song about messing up badly. There's a verse about cigarettes, a verse about what if I remember correctly was a traffic stop, and another verse has something do do with a lottery and something blowing away. Most of the refrain is rapped except this one word.
Edited by UNoWhoopenKid's book about aliens Literature
There was this picture book about this kid who finds out some people are secretly aliens. Only part I remember clearly is he thought someone was an alien because his lunchbox smelled like tuna fish. Also at one point the protagonist tells an alien "only cowards point guns at people" I remember I thought it was really dumb even as a kid but I am still curious for some reason.
Edited by BootlebatopenI've been searching for months... Please help! Anime
I am beginning to think I just imagined this movie up as I haven't been able to find a single trace of it. I know that it was animated. I believe it was either 90's or early 2000's. So what I remember is that the "hero" of this movie was a golden robot that looked sort of like a man. He had a human-face and had straight white-ish hair. I remember that the two characters were just leaving a subway, and they witnessed these dogs attacking people and there were these creatures that started attacking people as well. I also remember the golden robot guy being able to turn into a jet and flying up to a giant spaceship that was hovering over the city. It was an animated movie. I hope someone can help me! I've been searching for too long of a time for this movie.
Edited by RichardWilhelmopenSome Japanese anime film with the word Mermaid in the title Anime
I remember the word Mermaid was in the title because that was why I wanted to rent it at Blockbuster when I was a little kid. My mom was pretty dubious about this movie, but I thought all cartoons were for kids and got it. What I remember was that the main girl fell off of a cliff into the ocean at one point after tripping over a kitten and supposedly died, then some people were tending to her body in their house. She was naked, and there was a bowl of water that this puppy was drinking from by her and it turned into blood or something. At this point, my mom made me leave and she finished watching the movie herself (she's Korean and likes anime). I just wanted to find out what the heck this movie was.
openMurder Mystery Literature
I read this book a while ago, in like, Junior High or High School. Some old guy died, and there is like, a completion to get his money. All the contestants have to live in his house, and there are clues hidden in his will. In the end, it's revealed he's not even dead!
openNo Title Music
A parody/pastiche of The Beatles' song "Yellow Submarine." It went something like "All of us reside on a something boat, on a something boat, on a something boat." I was thinking it might have been The Rutles but a brief websearh of their songs didn't show anything relevant.
Edited by randomsurferopenGuy Destroys Random Stuff Web Original
I remember this person on You Tube that made a bajillion videos of him destroying stuff in what looked like his basement. Most of the time, the objects he destroyed were kids toys. To be clear, this is NOT Shawn K. In one video, he runs over an Elmo toy with an orange lawnmower. In another video, he destroys a dryer(washer?) by putting a whole bunch of nuts, bolts, and metal bits into it until it couldn't hold the weight. He makes personal videos, too. One was on 2012, the supposed "end of the world." Anyone remember who this was?
openRainbow-y Alien Non Binary? Webcomic
I'm pretty sure that this is a web comic. A while back I was browsing tv tropes and found a cool webcomic, but had to put away my laptop. Now I can't find it again. It starred what I think was like, some completely white alien character who was a little bit rainbowy, and had a companion with it of some sort. I think that the alien person might have been a non binary, not sure. Haven't found anything in the ambiguous gender tag. The style seemed as if the comic was done in watercolor. I'm extremely iffy on most of the specifics, all I can really remember was a floaty, surreal creature, and the colors white and mix of rainbow. Plz halp.
openNo Title Literature
Two books either by Judy Blume or of the Judy Blume "type."
First book has a male protagonist who is a high school senior (I think) and gets involved romantically with a female teacher. She breaks up with him towards the end of the book. There's a scene where he is having a picnic with her and they're drinking wine; within the context of the scene it's not treated as a big deal but I remember thinking at the time that he's underage and drinking! Or maybe, he goes out alone in a picnic-for-one after she breaks up with him.
[FOUND] Second book has a younger female protagonist. Two incidents I remember are: (1) the boys in her class are all tit-crazy, and at one point at a public pool they untie the back of this one girl's bikini top while chanting "boobies, boobies, boobies." She's wearing the kind that has a strap across the back and also around her neck so she doesn't get exposed but she is (a little) traumatized. (2) There is an old saying to the effect of if you get shat upon by a bird it's good luck. When it is first discussed the proper verb is discussed at a little length; the protagonist suggests "plops" but is rejected by her mother for still being disgusting. At one point the protagonist does get "plopped" on the arm by a bird, which she displays to her mother and points out the good luck. (All of that may have been the same scene.) [EDIT: Found.]
Edited by randomsurferopenComedy set in Ancient Rome Film
I only remember a scene from this film. I saw it as a kid in the 1970s and it felt like it was a 1960s or 1970s comedy. It was set in Ancient Rome, the scene I'm thinking of was probably the end of the movie, and increasingly slapstick as the camera pulls away. The scene may have been sped up, like a Benny Hill skit, but not as fast. As part of the comedy, someone was running into a fat man and bouncing off his belly with a comical boing or bass drum boom sound. One of the actors might have been Roy Kinnear (the comedian, not his son Rory who has been in recent Bond movies) although I could have that confused with the episode of the Goodies where he is the Roman Emperor. I am child of the 1970s and this is a hole in my entertainment memory I would be grateful to have filled!
Edited by TargetOnMyBackopenRocket Competition TV Series Live Action TV
Hi, I'm trying to remember this name of a kid's show that I watched sometime around 2006 on ABC (Australia). From what I recall, the show was about two British kids entering a competition to build a model rocket, but they continued to almost fail to cross various hurdles (such as lack of thrust, fuel, etc.) because they lacked money. The series finale had the two kids reach the final contest and, in a desperate attempt to get their rocket working, they cover it with an assortment of good-luck charms, only for it to turn into a huge spaceship and take them both out into space.
Can't remember anything else about it, but the ending keeps popping into my head and I'm just curious to see if there was any build-up to it in the show, because it seemed to come out of nowhere to me.
openSherlock Scan-esque Western Scene Film
I believe this one starred Clint Eastwood, so it's definitely not from any recent western.
The scene is outside, somewhere on a hill. I'm thinking there was a nearby tree or something. The movie's protagonist is doing something, probably farmwork, when he is approached by four men, all on whom are on horseback.
They talk for a bit, and a gunfight ensues. As is classic for the genre, our gunslinger shoots down all four pretty quickly before they can get a single shot off. Another character comes up and is surprised the gunslinging hero was fast enough to outshoot four people. The hero responds by pointing out a couple of things he observed, assessing the overall experience of the men he just shot, taking in the type and position of holsters they were wearing and such. Then he quickly figured out who would have the fastest draw and shot them all in order, from highest threat to lowest.
For what it's worth, I believe this was some kind of second-act scene. There was still a lot to the movie after this scene, at least.
That's all I've got.
Edited by FreshmeatopenPolice Drama LGBT episode Live Action TV
This has been bugging me for a while. I remember seeing a police drama type tv show. I know the show involves flashbacks. They show you what happened in the past to fill you in on the murder. The only episode I can remember involved what I think was a minister's son. I'm not sure if this is exactly what happened but, the church was involved in conversion and the minister's son was gay. I think his boyfriend was murdered
openWintery Anime Death Scene Anime
I have a dim memory of a few minutes of an anime from the early 2000's. There was a character, possibly a child or young teenager, being hunted because of their anomalous powers, where they could manipulate ice, to some extent, but their lack of control made them a danger to others. Eventually, the person in question is cornered outside in the snow and darkness, leaving a few seconds of tense silence, before a gory discretion shot cuts to a sillhouette or shadowed shot, the sound of ice impaling flesh is heard, and blood splatters across the snow.
Some cursory searching keeps pointing me to s-CRY-ed but I can't definitely find anything in the show that resembles this scene. I believe I saw it on Adult Swim back in the day.
openReggae(ish?) song
I heard this song today and I'm pretty sure I've heard it several times before, though I'm not sure how long ago.
I'm not familiar with reggae subgenres and styles (or electronic and pop for that matter), but it's a sort of reggae-ish mixed with some kind of techno/dance/pop (or maybe British garage?) with lyrics that go like "(something, something) one by one" followed by two similar sounding lines, ending with "two by two" and "three by three". I also think the word "family" is in there.
It has a male vocalist who sounds sort of like Shaggy or Sean Paul (and may be one of them for all I know).
Google turns up nothing.
It's not T.O.K. - Top A Tappa, unless there's some techno/dance remix of it that got airplay.
Edit: Gah, forgot to use the "Music" category.
Edited by supergodopenAuto racing dubbed in english during the 90s Anime
Sometime around the early 90s, I watched a show that I'm convinced was a dub of an anime but have never been able to figure out which it was due to the Anglicized names of basically everything and everyone and running for quite a short time, so as far as I know, none of it survived to reach the Internet. It was about auto racing, but it was newer than Speed Racer and I'm almost positive it was not Cyber Formula or any of its derivatives. It involved professionals and racing teams (this wasn't Initial D either, in other words). Time has faded my memory of the cars involved but I know they either reminded me of Lamborghinis or open wheel (Formula 1 style) cars - no weird gadgets or flying. I know it aired on either The Family Channel, YTV or Disney (yeah right) because I could only watch those channels when I was on vacation with my family near the beach. I also seem to remember one of the antagonists being "Team Ruth(less?)". Any help here would be hot!
openCD COVER Music
I was in a music store once and I saw this weird cover. I cannot remember the band or songs, but I think it was alternative rock. The cover had a green faced boy with teeth wear standing by himself, with a frown, starring at three people (a woman, man, and girl, or two boys and a girl, don't know their ages) looking at him, laughing, meanly. I think they also had green faces. I think the band was Bucktooth, or something like that. Can anyone please help? I know this is very strange, but I want to know this. I know I did not imagine it. I saw this in the store around 2001-02.
openTasty kid
I remember a website/app that was titled something like tasty kid ( yes this should be a somewhat easy one) that askedmyou what you liked ( comparing a video game to a videogame, or a movie to a movie, Ect) and showed you what you might also like. I would appreciate a link. Can't seem to find it.
openPossibly an mtv challenge episode Live Action TV
So this was a number of years ago and I was younger so the details are slightly fuzzy. It's possible it was one of the older episodes of the MTV show The Challange. All I remember is that a group of people was split into two teams. When they arrived in their location which was desert like, each team had to select one person who had to strip down to a bathing suit and get into a tub. Once that Person was in there, multiple tubs of different kinds of gross and crawling bugs were poured on them. The other team members then had to essentially lick the bugs off of that person and use their mouths to transfer them to a large plastic container and the first one to fill it to a certain line won. The most distinct part was at the end one girl who had been covered in bugs was like cleaning off and someone noticed there was another one climbing up on her inner thigh and she kinda squealed until it was off. I'm hoping someone can tell me if this was an episode of the challenge, or what show for that matter, and what season and stuff. Thanks.
Okay, so, I honestly can't remember if it was live action or animated (though i'm leaning towards animated) but when I was pretty little there was either a cartoon or tv show or movie about a pair of siblings (an older sister and younger brother) who... move, or something, or just happen to stumble upon a fairy world, and then the little brother eats some of the fairy food and due to fairy law he can't leave? And then either just the sister or both of them have to go on some sort of journey to... change the rule or... something? It's a really vague recollection, and it could have also just been the episode of something else. I also remember the ending scene being a celebration and the boy getting to eat as much fairy food as he wanted because it was no longer forbidden to eat. Also I think they shrunk down when in the fairy world.