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openFrench 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.
openHelp me name an 80s US kids tv programme Live Action TV
Can anyone help me to put a name to a USA kids tv show that I remember from my childhood, shown on UK tv. It was set around a girl who used to change her clothes on the way to school to be more popular/cool. She was blonde and would transform herself every day on the way to school, make up and everything. Can anyone put me out of my misery???? Really hope someone can recall this show. Thanks in advance :)
Edited by Hartleyresolved What is this meme from?
Who is that guy in the second panel, and what work is he from?
openFilm based around a love of Blues music in Nazi Germany? Film
I remember watching a film about a group of young German teenagers in the thirties who loved blues music despite it being banned due to the heavy connotations the genre has of black people. They'd sneak records around and one of them got beat up by an SS guard for being found with one. I don't think the film was very good, but I remember there being a sequence in an illegal club where everyone was dancing and the energy was absolutely amazing.
openAirplane film with people wearing shirts that say "_______ bound" Film
I forgot most of the details as well.
The only scene I remember from it is this:
<some setup which I have forgotten>
Mechanic: "Time for me to do my job." (pulls out wrench)
Intercom: "Ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna have to deplane." Cue mass disappointment.
Edited by EclipseMTopenAnimal documentary Live Action TV
So there was this show I use to watch as a kid and they were animal documentaries. Like baby animals learning to eat and play and such. In between the different topics there was an orange cartoon cat that would be doing something. For instance on segment was called "learning the hard way" this cat was carrying a large stack of books and stepped on a ball and fell. I have no clue what it's called but I remember that silly cat...
resolved Kids' novel about sidekicks Literature
This is a kids' novel that I read somewhere between 2003-2008. I do not know who the author was. I think it was part of a series, but I don't know which book in the series it was, and I never read any of the other books.
The title was something like "Sidekicks", but this is not the graphic novel by Dan Santat. The art style was similar, but it wasn't a graphic novel, just a novel with illustrations. Also, there were no animal characters.
It takes place in a city where superheroes exist, but the story is about their sidekicks. The main character is called something like "Speedy", because his power is Super-Speed. "Speedy" is the sidekick of quite possibly the worst superhero ever: Pumpkin Pete, who has a pumpkin for a head and appears to be wearing a green unitard. Pumpkin Pete claims to have "all the powers of a pumpkin", but the fact that he runs away from every fight makes it clear that he has no powers at all. As if that wasn't bad enough, he's a total glory hound who takes all the credit when someone else saves the day. And all the citizens believe that he saved them.
"Speedy" hates this, and wishes he was a superhero so that he could be acknowledged for once. He gets his chance when a Mad Scientist attacks the city with a giant robot. Hilariously, when he first meets Speedy, it takes him a while to come down and meet Speedy face-to-face because he has to go down the stairs in his robot. When he finally makes it to the bottom, he's out of breath.
I don't remember the mad scientist's name, but I do remember this: He was really short, and he hated it. His plan was to use his robot to crush everyone so that he would be taller in comparison. (I only just realized how horrifying this is.)
There's one other thing I remember: One of the other superheroes was called Haggis Man. I bet he's still more effective than Pumpkin Pete.
Does anyone remember this?
openOddly Familiar Music Music
Today, I came across a piano song that neither Shazam nor I could identify. All I remember is a recurring motif that goes, to the best of my memory, something like A-C-Bb-A-E / D-E-F-CC, with all notes being of equal length, except the final C, which was two beats.
Edited by KhantalasopenBizarro Animation Anime
I am trying to think of an old animation I used to watch with my friends. I don't remember too much of it, and I'm starting to feel like I made it up in my head. It sounds so odd when I try to describe it. We watched it in probably about 2011, and the show couldn't have been terribly outdated. It was probably made in that timeframe. It was vague-ly Japanese looking, but not in classic anime style. It featured a cutesy girl character, that I'm not sure was at all human, with a high pitched voice. She would answer a phone call every episode and say someone different was speaking. (ie x residence this is y speakng..next episode x residence this is z speaking) That's the other thing..I believe the same things happened every episode, with the slightest variations. I remember the phone would ring, and then the landlord would visit. The landlord was some sort of weird creature, and then the girl character would always get out of paying the rent. I also remember this character watching tv a lot. The whole show was very abstract and bizarre. I remember it possibly having an odd theme song/credits scene. Can anyone help me out? I'm dying to see this show again. The show was also a cutesy, almost Hello Kitty style animation, but had adult themes.
openStop-motion animation about delivering a pizza pie Film
I'm looking for a stop motion animated film I watched when I was very young. My great grandmother had a collection of weird and obscure VHS so I'm hoping I can figure it out.
Pretty sure It featured a young black boy who was delivering a pizza or a pie for his mom. I was confused as a child because they kept saying "Pizza pie". Anyway, on the way to his destination he reaches a fork in the road and ends up going down the wrong path. He enters a house and strange stuff starts happening, objects are flying around, I think there might have been singing, and eventually the owner of the house appears and they seemed to be a witch or something? In the end I think the boy ran away.
The film might have been black and white, but I think it was more of a sepia tone look. I just remember feeling kind of scared because of the visuals, and the audio wasn't the best. Any ideas? I've been looking for ages!
Edited by KristophopenOne-shot comic about Wild Child being rehabilitated Webcomic
I'm trying to find a one-off comic about a Doctor/Professor finding a child raised by wolves, then adopting and raising her to be a proper lady in order to test his theory about rehabilitating feral children. It showed a few scenes of the Doctor teaching her various skills and manners (And disciplining her with a bag literally labeled "discipline" or something similar.), with the second-to-last panel showing that was successful. It ended with someone asking the doctor if he realizes that the proper "lady" he raised is actually a boy, to which he replies "Yes, and?".
It was only about one page long, with only a few panels (Around ten, I think.), and had a diary entry style narration.
I vaguely remember it being on Deviantart, but I've had no luck finding on there. Or anywhere, actually. Does anyone know?
Edited by Blue_the_ThiefopenBreakup Song About Record Collection Live Action TV
Looking for a breakup song. Indie sounding, with a male (I think) vocalist. The lyrics consist almost entirely of "you took the____, and I'll take the ____", and variations upon that, name-dropping other singers and albums, with the plot of the song being that the singer has broken up with his girlfriend and they're deciding how to split their record collection.
openOld Mac Kids Drawing Program - Obscure and Not Game But Driving Me Crazy! Videogame
I am on the hunt for an old Mac drawing program. It was definitely aimed at children. I remember having it on an old Mac computer I was handed down by one of my relatives. I used it in the mid 2000's, but the computer was probably from the late 90s. It was a kid's drawing program with a yellow user interface, and whatever tool (Markers, crayons, etc.) you had selected was displayed at the bottom, in an array of colors arranged like a box of crayons. There were a bunch of different shapes of brushes or stamps you could draw with (I specifically remember one was a simple christmas tree shape), and there was one setting in the colors that caused your brush to constantly change colors if you held the mouse button down. If you held it down while drawing you would draw long rainbow lines. I am 100% sure it made some sort of noise while doing this. I absolutely love this program when I was a kid, but no longer have the computer and don't have any memory of what it may have been called. I am sure it was not Kid Pix or Tux Paint. I feel like I hallucinated the whole thing, so I would really really appreciate it if anyone remembers this program, or may have used it or loved it as a child like I did.
Edited by thecuriousostrichopenNo Title Western Animation
This was a Christmas special I saw on TV some years ago. It was only about 30 minutes long. It was about a man who had a toy making empire but he was cursed to turn into a monster (just on Christmas I think). His backstory was that he had been a toy maker living in a forest that fell in love with a fairy. He wanted to impress her by making more toys but as part of this he cut down a tree that, I think, was tied to her life-force or her magic. Turns out her spirit is haunting this toy reindeer that a kid bought from his store, so he admits he was in love with the fairy, she is restored, the tree comes back in place of the toy factory somehow, happy ending. And all the dialogue was done by the narrator as if the story was being read from a book and all the lines were in rhyme.
openAnimated Christmas Movie Film
I am looking for an animated Christmas movie I saw a few years ago.
-It involved a greedy CEO who transformed into a beast every year. he had a golden cane with a Christmas tree on the top. -There was a deer that turned into a fairy when a little girl put a pair of glasses on her. -There was a narrator who did most of the speaking. -It was centered around an enormous store that sold everything including live deer in boxes as Christmas presents -the CEO and the fairy had a business arrangement and fell in love but the CEO in an effort to show how much he loved her cut down their special tree and was cursed because of it
opena chrismas special/movie Western Animation
so i remember a chrismas special i saw in cartoon network in the 2000's, like, divided in either two or three storylines that end up connected in the end, one of them was about an old guy who was powerful but quite grumpy, i suppose, and he had a backstory on how he ended like that, that he first moved into an old cabin, an there was this pine tree that was either magic or it was the house of some fairies, and these fairies helped him with making wooden toys? or wooden stuff in general, anyway, the guy, as a way to say thanks, he made somekind of castle/building/it was a fancy home thing, but he made the mistake of cutting the tree, the fairies got bad at him, and he suffered with a winterstorm or something...and another plot going at the same time was about a girl, who asks for early chrismas or something, for a deer, that are been literally sold in boxes in a huge supermarket, and the girl is happy and wants to play with the deer, but the deer doesnt like being there, it has a sad look for a while, and it escapes, and the girl goes after her ....and it ends with the deer and the girl meeting the old guy in a forest, the guy is forgiven, and thanks to the fairies, the deer gets to fly and the girl becomes a fairy with wings and wand and everything... i dont know the origins of the special, but it had this stickman like artstyle more or less....
openAliens in the ocean? Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember the name of a tv show I watched in the late 90's or possibly early 2000's about an alien that was found by a boy. He hatched the egg in a bathtub and kept it a secret until it's parents or whatever came for it and caused massive flooding or a tidal wave to get it back. There was something about electricity involved, I think. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or am I crazy?!
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...
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