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openPlease help Film
Looking for a certain children's movie, marionettes, storytelling?I've been looking for a couple movies I rented as a kid. They could have come out around late 80s or early to mid 90s. I think it had an old women in a rocking chair (could have been a puppet) telling a story, when she would start a story the camera would zoom out the window into some quilt-like land. I remember one story was about either a lamb or dog (marionette) I think the world was in pastels and made of pillows and quilts.
open1970s-2000 horror film Film
I have been searching for years for this film and I can't find it... It's about invasion of monsters into a small town (I think this might even be a sequel), I vaguely remember parts where a high-schooler looking girl walks up into the back of a moving van kind of van, and then gets dragged into the darkness of the van as she struggled and screamed. A man getting dumped into a huge barrel of acid/oil/hot water by the monsters, and I think the film concluded with teenagers running to a house chased by these monsters, and they stored an explosive/ molotov cocktail kinda thing inside a stuffed toy, left it out in the yard and made a monster eat it so it could explode (which it did). The monsters were in various sizes, all looked weird and different. I don't recall them having too much fur. Size is about average teenager/ adult size. The monsters could be vampires or goblins or something else I can't remember that clearly... Any help would be appreciated!!
Edited by canuckytheopenDark comedy from the (possibly) 90s Live Action TV
Been trying to think of the name of this show for a long time. The main character was a super spy type who has quit the business and wants to retire to the suburbs. However, his nemesis wants to keep the chemistry going between them so buys the house next door and keeps trying to do the former spy in. I don't think the show lasted very long (I only remember bits and pieces of two or three episodes), but I do remember the super villain dying at the end of one episode and coming back from the dead at the beginning of the next (so sort of a live action comic book type of thing, I guess you could say). I think it was airing around the time G vs. E was on, also.
opengame show Live Action TV
it was a show that had pairs of teens participate in jobs. if the pair came in last, they were eliminated (like amazing race).
was shot in canada and was on at least 5 years ago. there were at least 2 seasons.
openTop down command game Videogame
I have in memory what the title says. If I remember right, it was about a colony of robots trying to return to Earth while going through abandoned ships. Some have to stay in one room powering others rooms while some could analyze a room to detect enemies and lure them to another room.
openConstruction Video From Childhood
Hey guys, I have some random images in my head of a video I remember from many, many years ago. It must have been intended for either pre-schoolers or elementary aged kids, and I believe we had it on VHS and got rid of it long ago.
Here is what I remember from it: The video was all about heavy equipment / large construction vehicles (real ones, NOT animated), and there was at least one of most anything that had wheels or treads... there were bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, backhoes, cranes, etc. They were all lined up in a line at the start of a day, and I think somebody would announce a job for the day, and whichever vehicles were required rolled out from this line, ready to go tackle the day's work. There was definitely music associated with this, I feel like all the big machines had deep, throaty voices that sort of hummed along as they worked (the machines were able to talk). People did not play a role in this as far as I remember, it was just the machines interacting with one another. I think the storyline went like this: all of these big machines are working away, and then suddenly everything starts running out of fuel, only a couple of vehicles remain with any fuel left. One was the crane with the magnet, and he was carrying the key... I think to let the refueling truck in or something? But then he runs out of fuel, the magnet demagnetizes, and the key gets dropped onto this conveyor belt that is headed for a grinder or scrap or something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
openSeries of Sculptures/Costumes?
This is actually about some works of art that I saw at a museum at one point. I am guessing it was between six and ten years ago. I believe the museum was the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, but I am not positive since my family travels a lot and we have visited a lot of museums. The four works in question looked like statues that were about eight feet tall but apparently could be worn as costumes. My mother read a nearby plaque and said that the artist liked to wear the costumes around his home. I can really only remember three of the four costumes. One of them was a monster made of Chupa Chup lollipops, or at least prominently featuring Chupa Chups. I think it was a dark purple or maroon color. That one was the least human - it had a premade face on the body and didn't look like you could see the wearer. Another of the costumes looked like a Mardi Gras jester. It was green, gold, and purple. The weird thing about this one, though, was that strapped to the feet were two small cages, and inside the cages were two grey and black stuffed toy rabbits with red eyes and possibly bloody mouths. Those rabbits really creeped me out since they didn't go with the tone of the rest of the costume. My memory of the third costume is not as distinct, but it seemed to be Greek goddess themed. I remember it might have had an alabaster statue head attached (the jester costume was on a wire mannequin so it looked like a person but did not have a head or face). I think the goddess costume had a blue scarf on it, and maybe some plastic leaves on a vine. I keep thinking of a cloud pattern when I try to remember this costume. I know there was a fourth, but I just cannot remember it. I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have any idea of what artist or pieces I could be referring to? During a recent conversation, I had to convince my family that these costumes/statues had even existed, and the only one who even slightly remembers them is my mom - albeit very vaguely.
openForegin Live Action TV
One night my cousin and I were staying in a motel and really late we decided to flip through the tv. We came across this foreign tv show and this guy was dressed up as a (green or purple can't remember) rat. He was sitting in this room at a desk and was just talking enthusiasticly. We tried to look up the show a while later but couldnt find it. I looked at this show with a guy in a complete gray rat costume but it wasn't it, Beemans world or something like that. Please help, i've been searching for a very long time now. Also the rat costume wasn't a full one- he was wearing the ears and teeth and had like a (green or purple) tux.
Edited by DrkEmeraldAngelopenI'm trying to find an old children's cartoon TV show from the 90's Anime
This is a long shot, but I've been searching for this for aaaggggeesss now.
It was probably on from the mid nineties to either just before or after the millennium. I remember it being on around 1600 (ish) in the afternoon, after (or around) the time of goosebumps.
The tv programme was primarily set in a kingdom and based around a girl. There was a villain who regularly tried to ruin things.
For instance she (the girl) was in a horse competition once and in order that he (the villain) would win, he had rigged the jumps so that when she went round the jumps raised in height.
There was also an instance where the prince was kidnapped and replaced with a double - they (the royal family) knew something was up when the imposter like marmalade instead of jam (or similar)...
I also remember that the opening sequence was her riding her horse...
openit's an anime Anime
it's an anime i watched a long time ago, i just remember one scene where there was a boy in some kind of vestiary i guess and a girl come in and they have a short conversation, the girl says her name and is a really long name and it looks like the girl is never going to finish saying it.
openbabysitter from hell in US anthology TV series c. 1982-85 Live Action TV
I recall an episode in an American live-action anthology TV series along the lines of "Tales of the Unexpected" or "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". It would've been made in about 1982-85, IIRC. The plot concerned a tyrannical female teen babysitter who was left in charge of a young boy. The boy eventually turns the tables on her. Sorry to say, that's all I can remember.
Anyone?
openNot Strawberry Shortcake
I'm trying to find the name of a toyline. I remember seeing it on American tv circa 2007-2011. It resembled Strawberry Shortcake quite a lot, but I think the gimmick had something to do with being able to make the toys into cups... Or something.
openNovels about a second born daughter Literature
This is for my mom, who's having a tough time finding a fantasy novel series she read a while back:
It's a series—second-born into a royal family gets married off. Her older sister becomes the queen of her home country. I seem to remember that where she gets sent to is very dry and dusty. It's all about political intrigue and rulers that are not taking care of the people. She's working with some rebels, I think, to try to right that wrong. It involves something about a flower that's a symbol in the royal palace—especially in the royal bath, I remember, because that's where she has the epiphany about what it means towards the end of the series.
It's a series of several books I think.
Anyone recognize it?
openA particular manga Anime
I read a manga a while ago and was looking to find it again. It tells the story of a girl who gets date-raped, and her experience afterward with what they apparently call "secondary rape" or something, mostly victim blaming but also deals with some of the other trauma that can come after rape and both the good and bad things that can come from pressing charges. Just FYI, it's not discouraging people from pressing charges, which the girl ultimately does. It just recognizes that it can be a bumpy road that may hurt her all over again.
openMid 2000s animated show Western Animation
This has been annoying me for years. There was once a show on a british CITV television segment called Toonattik, and it was set in ancient China or Japan. The main characters were heroes in training or something, and I think they might have been animals. Each animal had their own 'seal' put on a monster when they defeated it, and in one episode they touched a seal their master put on a monster and the monster was free. I have no other imformation about this show and it's really been bugging me, someone please help! It was not an anome and I remember watching said episode on an old analogue TV.
openA cartoon tv show short clips Western Animation
There was a show that Cartoon Network and boomerang would put on in between shows about a girl who lives in an apartment complex, and all her neighbors were animals as I remember. I forgot what it was called, the animation was pretty weird and I remember the girl had huge eyes and in an episode there was a bird that pecked her eye once, does anybody know what I'm talking about? I've searched and searched through Cartoon Network and boomerang pages and there's nothing that saying anything about this mini series. I tried to draw the main character to kinda help out but she ended up looking like a cracked up Dora...
Edited by MemilyC1openFrench 2000s series Western Animation
I remembered a TV show aired in France in the 2000s. It was about three kids, one of them owned some kind of magical medallion and the show took place in South America. I am pretty sure the kids rode a giant bird at some point. Does anybody know such a cartoon?
openIrish Folk song about Saturdays? Music
Hi, I'm searching for a song I last heard about 10 years ago. My father had a CD of some irish folk band playing in the car. The song was a very relaxed nice folk ballad, sung by a male singer, I think otherwise it just had guitar. I remember lyrics about 'Saturdays' and 'best day of the week', also the word 'recognized' was in there somewhere. I cannot find anything with those lyrics though.
This was a book I read back in the '80's that I only vaguely remember. I think a girl was playing around with a chemistry set and created some kind of new lifeform. I think it was a sort of blob that communicated in whistles and something like whale song, and she kept it hidden in her room. She was worried about what people might do to it if it was discovered, and in the end she decides she can't keep it hidden away forever. I think in the end she releases it into the sea and hears it singing like a whale. I can't remember anything about the title, and google isn't any help with the few key words I can come up with that I might my mixing up anyways.