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On the Victimized Bystanders trope page, someone mentioned a commercial they saw somewhere around the 00s, a Dutch commercial about Greek cuisine. In the commercial, a woman cooks Greek food for her family, her son tries to taste a piece of meat, but before he can eat it, his mother turns him into an ancient Greek statue. The family gathers around the table to eat later, but he is not present, having the viewers believing that he is a statue and will be one for eternity, or by the rest of the night, hopefully the latter. Has anyone seen this? I tried searching for this all over the internet, even on You-tube, and cannot find anything. Perhaps it was banned? Can anyone please help me? Thanks.
Edited by thestormtrooperopenNo Title Western Animation
Let's if I can finally get some answers here. Searched like crazy and cannot come up with anything. There is this cartoon (that I thought was either on Nick Jr. or PBS Kids, or TLC. None of these.) I saw one episode from in the autumn of 1999. The episode involved three girls. The main character had red hair and was named Nan I believe. Cannot remember any more names. But Nan was trying to befriend this other girl who was fat, in a dress, with glasses, had two ponytails or braided ponytails. She was only trying to befriend this fat girl to become friends with this other girl who was a bit more popular in school or in the neighborhood who was also befriending the fat girl. Nan was basically using the fat girl and pretending to befriend her to get to the likes of the other friend. At the fat girl's house, Nan kept saying things throughout the episode like "I also like *such and such* just like (whoever the fat girl's name was)." Meanwhile, Nan didn't really like the fat girl at all. She only wanted the friendship from the other girl. The whole episode was leading up to this weekend trip the fat girl's family was taking and the other girl that Nan wanted to be friends with was originally supposed to go with the fat girl. Nan was trying to befriend them so that she could go on this weekend trip to spend the weekend with the other girl in the hopes to befriend her. At the end of the episode as Nan was getting ready to leave with the fat girl in the packed up station wagon, she was wondering where the other girl was. The other girl showed up and told Nan that she's not going because she didn't want to "get in between her friendship with (fat girl whatever her name is)". The end of the episode showed Nan with hands on the back window of the station wagon as it was driving away, showing us that her plan backfired and she ended up going on this weekend trip with the fat girl alone who she doesn't want to be with and the friend she wanted to be with ended up not going. I have no idea what any other character's names are or what station this show aired and the name of the show. I've been searching cartoon listings for several different networks, searching Google for many different search terms, coming up with NOTHING. It's driving me crazy. If anyone knows the name of this series, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Edited to add: I found it. It's called, The Kids From Room 402. The episode is called, "Is Your Refrigerator Running". Here's the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqumLfCJ9E
The Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_from_Room_402
Edited by Shane1978openNo Title Western Animation
Looking for a cartoon that is at least 9 years old. I think it might have been CGI. It stared a group of animals who lived together, a panda, a bear, a rabbit and I think a hippo. They had this ability to turn into little floaty things and could move objects when like that. I think their chimney played an important role too. I mostly remeber specific episode plots. In one episode, the rabbit had a spider make a web between his ears. Another episode was about them going to the Arctic and spray painting seals to protect from being killed for their fur. Some episodes would be an imaginary adventure made up by the bear about a super hero version of himself or something like that. The hippo(?) was very passionate about food and sang a song about it in one episode.
Any help would be super appreciated.
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TV Tropes needs to add "Comic" as a medium here...
Comic book—a young man is a superhero who can turn himself into a super-strong giant anthropomorphic rabbit. The rabbit, I believe, is pink.
The story I remember is him chasing down a robot that has kidnapped a human it is using as a Human Shield. He defeats it by hiding in a garbage can that the robot is ordered to take using both extremities (causing it to discard the human) and insert in itself for "analysis"—whereupon the young man transforms into his superhero form, destroying the robot from within.
Edited by MrInitialManopenNo Title
A long time ago I was watching TV when i came across a channel with a black screen and some words on it. I kept watching to see what was going on, and it turned out to be the thing that was airing.
all i can remember is the black screen with thoughts being written, and the narrator went to the grocery store then something made him mad and the words became red (and might have exploded into blood splots.)
sometimes his thoughts would race and they would take over the entire screen, turning it white, but as soon as he calmed down they disappeared and the screen was black again.
there was no visual besides the thoughts, i can't remember if it was asian and subtitled, i can't remember if i could hear a narrator speak or if i just read the whole thing, and i have no idea if it was a short, a movie, a tv show, or what.
i think im going crazy. halp plz.
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A Children's book I loved as a kid but just can't find on Google. It was about a dinosaur or sea monster named either Otto or Auto who lived in a lagoon and went snorkeling underwater a lot. I think he was either green or orange in color. I think it was called Otto's Lagoon but Im coming up empty. If it helps, I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska as a kid.
Edit: Nevermind, I just found it. It's "treasure of the lost lagoon" by Geoffrey Hayes.
Edited by CanzetTheCoyoteopenNo Title Music
I'm looking for a song I found on audiosurf a few years ago, 2010 or 2011. It was the recommended song of the week or something. I'm pretty sure it was Spanish or if not, a very similar sounding language. Sung by a woman. I then looked for the song on youtube and found another rendition of it. I believe it was a spanish folk song but this version from audiosurf sounded a bit more modern. I find it hard to describe the song but one thing I remember is that during the refrain, there would be a short part a capella or at least with notably less instruments.
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There was this one superhero group show I think with a fat guy who can transform into a ball and on the first couple episode I think there was a tryout/ it's kinda spaceish with ships and flying cars I think/ times frame would be 2004 to 2009 maybe 10 ish
Edited by MuuopenNo Title Live Action TV
...y'know what, never mind, I think I got my wires crossed with the guy from The Santa Clause.
Edited by CasWarneropenNo Title
From Reddit, but I wanna know as well:
I would watch this movie on VHS in the early 90s all the way up to 2000's. It was either in a room or a small toy shop. There were lots of toys on the shelves and they would come to life. The real life would be humans. There was a rag doll, (maybe a bouncy ball) a jack in the box and (maybe a nut cracker). I do not remember a lot sorry. It is not Toy Story, Small Soldier, nutcracker, the Indian in the cupboard and the Christmas toy. Thanks :)
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Wasn't there a Magical Girl show where monsters are made from some emotion relating to the Victim of the Week's memory or something and when said monster dies, the victim forgets literally everything related to said memory? And when said Magical Girl finds out about what they do, they have a Freak Out or a Heroic BSoD or something?
I think I might be thinking of Black★Rock Shooter or Battle Hero Absolute, but if there's anything that matches what I'm talking about, let me know.
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I watched this a few years ago idk which channel it was on but, it was supposed to be like a teenage indiana jones thing(themed its not actually indiana jones im just giving you an idea) and its either a bunch of short movies or a tv show.
Alright so the protagonist is like this australian outdoor survivalist teenager and is portrayed as an awesome and able to do anything athlete with brains.
The first episode starts with the protagonist transferring to this museum and becoming an employee. (Kinda like the librarian tv series and movies)
I cant remember much about it except that it has to do with a lost submarine filled with gold, and a bird that has a hallucenigenic poison that causes heart attacks.
The protagonist suffered from the poison before he transferred but was saved by a witch doctor i think the cure was scorpion or centipede venom not sure though.
If someone can help me find this thatd be the best its been bugging me for years ever since i watched it.
Edited by CandyfreakopenNo Title Film
This was a live-action film made around the early to mid 1990s. I think it was made somewhere in Europe. I can't remember if it was in English or if it was dubbed. I only saw a little of the movie. Here are the scenes I saw:
The main character was an attractive waitress. She worked at a café on the beach. Her uniform was a black shirt that split all the way up the middle in the front, but came together at the neck line.
A male customer is buying coffee or something and he faints for some reason. She and a friend of hers get permission to take the customer back to their place to tend to him for a while. He wakes up in an hour or so and they send him on his way before returning to work.
openNo Title Literature
Kids' book with a boy who lives in a hotel and makes a voodoo doll of his mean teacher. For some reason this book was the reason I learned the "Miss Susie Had A Steamboat" chant, so I think it was in there too. Also I think his best friend was a taxi driver?
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I am trying to remember the name of an obscure children's film about a boy who gets trapped inside of a board game by a mad scientist in order to teach him a lesson about responsibility. The most memorable thing about this film is that the parts that happened in the real world were in live action while the parts in the board game were in stop motion animation. I think that the name of the film (or at least the name of the game in the film) was something like "Humania" or "Whomania" but I don't remember very well. It probably was made during the 90's or 80's. I want to know what the exact name is because it provides a good example of a few of my favorite tropes.
Edited by legendaryweredragonopenNo Title Live Action TV
Show aired in the UK in the 2000's at some point. Followed some kids in a fantasy world who traveled back in time to stop the world being destroyed by this ugly evil guy, the world was kinda steampunk. Had mole people/miners in and guys in gas marks as enemies, they traveled with a family in a carriage or something.
Someone told me about a social education short film (out of the norm sort of film), American possibly Canadian, animated, they saw in 1987 in school as part of a social relations camp (the camp was not technically camp, but rather a series of day long seminars and workshops revolving around social activity, teamwork, social expectations etc). Anyway, the short film they saw went like this, it was produced in the late 70s/early 80s.
"It talked about parental expectations and the influences, both good and bad, that young people can be subject to. One scene involved the parents inflating their son with a bicycle pump, saying 'son' at the same time as pumping in another round of air. "Son!" (whoosh) "Son!" (whoosh). You get the idea. Eventually they pump him up so much that he flies off the tube into the air. (The person did not say why in the short they showed that, but possibly to put life into the son again maybe because of a bike accident he had)
Later, the son takes a groovy, almost psychedelic walk down the street, while people offer him cigarettes, alcohol and drugs. While he walks, some funky music plays, and he has a slow, relaxed gait."
Any ideas? Please help, thanks.