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openSHORT OF CARTOON NETWORK Western Animation
When I was a child, I used to watch this shorts between ads in cartoon network. I remember there was one about a kid in school, his teacher was teaching about the Pythagoras theorem, the kid had a friend that was a pencil. As far as I remember, the kid and the pencil travel around dimensions, I think the reason was because the teacher needed a glass of water, or something like that.
A friend told me that is the same director as KND and Chimpy the monkey, but I am not sure about that info. Please help me! I am gonna die!
openLate 90s/Early 00s cartoon Anime
I only have vague memories of this show and I've been doing heavy internet digging for the past few months and still can't find anything, so was hopeing some of yall might be able to help? This was a kids cartoon I think shown on weekday mornings, most likely an anime. I only remember bits of the theme song sequence. There was a small group and they had these wrist communicator things that could be used to transform into this hero with certain animal powers. I can only recall just two of the characters-one was a male who turned taller and had a red suit with lion aesthetics, and the other was a female who had blue/white butterfly aesthetics. The theme song was really cool and I used to sing it a lot, but I only remember the word 'evolution'. Nothing else. The only other thing I can remember is that when they transformed, I think their body turned white as their clothes went away and suit came on. Besides that nada.
openNo Title
There's a song at the end of the ball/prom episode of the Animorphs Television series - Tobias and Rachel are dancing and this plays.
The title seems to be 'Young Love', but there's a million songs with that name. I've searched for the Animorphs ending song, ball song, prom song, Rachel and Tobias song, and also for combinations of those lyrics - but nothing.
Some of the lines:
Male voice: 'There's a time/ A special time in your life/ When everything is new'
Female voice: 'There's a place/ A special place in your heart/ Where everything is new'
Dunno who's voice: '..... in a clouded room'.
Please help me find it guys
Edited by MarOnautopenAlternate theme song to Baby Looney Tunes Western Animation
I remember that when I saw Baby Looney Tunes for the first time the show had two theme songs back to back. First this one I can't find, then the usual one we all know.
This first theme song was animated in a completely different style than the show, like the characters had this lucid effect like the Baby Bugs on top of the show logo. The music was completely instrumental and was some kind of carillon tune, and the visuals had the main characters playing in the nursery. But the thing I remember most was that, along with the usual characters it featured Baby Wile E. Coyote and Baby Marvin. The former was shown sleeping and dreaming about chasing Baby Road Runner (and failing), while the latter was giving a bath to Baby K9.
openMock ad for a salt grinder Live Action TV
I wanted to add this as an example to Not So Crazy Anymore, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's from.
I think I saw it on television, on some kind of sketch comedy show, though it might have been on a website similar to The Onion. It was a fake ad for a salt grinder, a few years before those were actually a big thing (so before the mid-00s, I guess), and it contained a phrase similar to "For that fresh-ground salt taste!" (I tried Googling that phrase — but all the results are for a real product now.)
openBritish tv show about murder Live Action TV
A pregnant girl and she has a boyfriend there's a murder and she gets stabbed in the end by a psychotic women all takes place in a house
openLive action movie featuring macaw Film
This is a tough one and I wouldn't be surprised if nobody here can find it, especially since I didn't actually watch the movie, I just remember seeing it in a video-renting store. This would be around the late 90s/very early 2000s - almost certainly between 1996 and 2001. I'll always remember the cover; there was a side-view of a young woman's (I think) face leaning in towards a macaw. I think it was one of the red ones but I can't remember for sure. The background was kind of yellowish, probably a sunset. It was called something like "The Secret/Promise/Legend of the Macaw" or "The Macaw's Secret/Promise/Legend" but I haven't been able to find anything by searching those up. This has been driving me crazy because I'm certain I didn't imagine this, but it must be really obscure since I've never found so much as a trace of it. I remember thinking I would have really liked it, since I was really into birds as a little kid.
openNatGeo kids' show from the 90s Live Action TV
This was a part-history-documentary, part-screwball-comedy (at least if memory serves), that followed three Rubber-Forehead Aliens that got stuck in our solar system. I've been trying to figure out the name of this show for ages. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks fam!
Edited by miniJagopenForgotten Mystery Show
This is an animated show aired in the early 2000's, I believe. Unfortunately, I cannot recall what channel it was aired on. It was superhero a show about a woman who during the day disguised herself as a male but at night was a superhero. To the best of my knowledge she wore all black and had a hat and long scarf. I think the title started with an S and may hav involved the word Seven.
Edited by tsar_meowmeowopenhelp finding dinosaur tv show. Live Action TV
this tv show takes place at either summer camp or a ranger station. the main protagonist is a girl that finds a raptor whose name i think is enoch or something like it. the series ends with enoch going back home underground where apparently the dinosaurs went to escape the meteor.
openOld animation
I remember watching a show from VHS tape my dad got from library over 10 years ago. If i recall correctly, the show probably was about dragons, good and evil ones, which fought over this one glittery egg or something what resembles egg. I am not sure if it was only dragons, or dragons at all, clearest memory of mine is that the egg was really important in whole show. I remember artwork being like regular old cartoon/animation/anime typeish. Bottom line is, its an animation.
I have not been able to get any kind of information from anywhere, this is my last hope. please, i know its not just my imagination ;(
open80's/90's show with a cave Live Action TV
All I can remember vividly about the show (or TV movie?) I'm looking for is that there was repeated imagery of a flower growing in some kind of cave or underground space in the one beam of light available. If I remember correctly, the flower was unusually large, perhaps a sunflower. I can't recall for sure what the show was even about, but I think it was something of a drama for kids.
openBackwards black-and-white short film Web Original
There was some B&W short film (I feel like it was College Humor or Funny Or Die or one of those, but when they were just getting started, maybe like 2004ish?) that was shown in reverse involving an old man destroying his apartment (backwards) and the punchline that started it all was a note about someone leaving him and "taking the chicken". Please help! I've been searching for this thing for years.
Edited by WAYFanopenCGI animated film with alien invasion Film
I'm trying to remember this movie I watched years ago which I'm pretty sure was CGI. There was an alien invasion with giant robots and people were hiding underground and for a while we followed this kid with a small yellow robot. And one of the aliens made a Heel-Face Turn because I think their leader was possessed by some sort of Eldritch Abomination or something
openPSX game, sub simulator, set AfterTheEnd Videogame
I recall playing a Play Station 1 game about submarine warfare that was set on Earth after a cataclysmic flood (you could find ruins of modern cities on the bottom in some places. Your submarine was upgradeable, and one of the weapons was a guided missile that launched upwards and dropped on the target from above the water surface. IIRC, the ending somehow caused the sea levels to drop again, leaving your sub stranded on top of a ruined skyscraper.
openAn old fantasy TV series Film
Trying to find a TV series. I watched it like a 15 years ago or even 20.
First scene I remember: a girl is standing in some cave and talking to a voice from somewhere. Shortly after the voice says that she is in his mouth and she really is.
Next thing I remember: something about... getting sword from a tree? This one maybe from a different show.
And there were some witchcraft like one bad witch was attacking a good character with a flying auto-aiming dagger.
openWeird Remix of "Ain't Nobody Got Time for That" Web Original
This was a video on You Tube, and no, it's not the one everyone knows. This one starts off with Sweet Brown talking about her experience as usual, but with the beginning of Firestarter by The Prodigy is playing in the background. As soon as she says "Ain't nobody got time for that!", the song IMMEDIATELY switches to this soft techno sort of thing, and there are now visuals of a burning building, flying fire extinguishers, and exploding soda cans. Later, Sweet Brown returns and says "pop," but echoed. A little warning before looking for this, I have looked for the past 30 minutes and found nothing but copies of the original remix. Good luck.
P.S. It's not this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c-sdsrYaqK8
Edited by GitarooHeroopenVarious AU Londons, and a character called by two different names Literature
This was a book I bought new in paperback (in the U.S.) in 2003 or 2004. It involved a group of characters in a city in the British Isles — probably London — slipping among various alternate-universe versions of the city. A nursery rhyme or similar traditional poem was involved somehow.
The most distinctive thing I remember about this — though I don't know if it was deliberate, or an error that might have been corrected in future printings — was that one character was referred to interchangeably by two names. They both began with the same letter, but it didn't seem to be a "real" name/nickname situation, nor anything caused by the multiple-universes plot, because it was never commented upon. To me it read as an error that the author made in revision and the editor failed to catch.
openNo Title Live Action TV
I was once told about a show where they'd dub over bad movies.
This was NOT Mystery Science Theater 3000, or any of it's 'spinoffs'. (So it was NOT Mst3k, The Film Crew, Rifftrax, or Cinimatic Titanic, or any recent thing inspired by any of those, OR that ripoff show Project Popcorn I am familiar with all of those.)
I don't know when this was a thing, but it probably would have been the 80's or 90's. Really, all I know was that they dubbed over bad movies. I think it was more funny dubbing instead of riffing or quipping? I think the one I was described was a zombie movie, but I'm not sure if it was a horror based thing, or it just happened to be a zombie movie.
Not much to go on, but it's worth a try.
Edited by TheTeeth
As it says in the title, I'm looking for a drama site. I used it a few months to a year ago, I remember it had a pink background, and I used it to watch Clone Baby. I want to use it again because 1. I know it's decently safe for my computer and 2. I don't use many drama sitess so I got used to this one.