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This is a young adult book I had to read for school in 7th grade or so (about 1995). It was about a girl who went to her family's Passover Seder dinner at her Holocaust-survivor grandma's house and is being a snot. When they say the traditional prayer to Elijah, she's transported back to early-1940's Poland and put in a concentration camp. She's reliving her grandmother's exact experience from her grandmother's point of view. I'm sure this was a Newbery Award winner, as we had to read it for an English Festival or something like that.
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So there was this animated kid's show, I'm thinking it was most likely on Disney Channel, probably airing around the late 90's-early 00's (I'm not sure if I'm remembering the actual airing or reruns- or if it ever even got reruns). All I remember was the lead was this blond girl that they kept insisting was "dorky". Any thoughts?
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There's these two books I read as a kid in middle school that I've been dying to read again, but I literally can't remember the titles or the character names or authors. It kills me.
They are both childrens books. The first one is about a girl whose sister is studying for finals and turns the entire house into a post-it mania, with each room having a different theme for each class. Her name and all her siblings names are after different colors of paint, and she meets a girl who can't walk and they go to Italy to find something in an old house, but I don't think she finds it. Or maybe she does. I feel like this is really specific, so maybe someone can help?
The second one was about a girl who lives in Vienna with two old ladies and then her real mother comes to take her away to some huge German manor. The lady turns out not to be her real mother, the "mother's" son is some fanatical military nut, and the girl is really kindhearted and at some point teams up with a stable boy or a gypsy or something. There is some kind of crazy treasure involved here at some point!
If these books do not exist I am going to feel completely insane but also kind of impressed at my imagination.
Edited by emmilionsopenNo Title Film
This film had an instance of the protagonist talking with a kidnapped blonde, when his cell phone battery starts dying, so he goes into a store and asks for a charger with a gun.
There is a scene where a police officer asks a redhead about the blonde, she says she has no idea what he is talking about. door closes, and her expression clearly shows she's in on it. They later meet up, the redhead fires on the police officer after he identifies himself as such, she is shot to death, and it turns out she's also a cop.
At the film's ending, the police boss comments to the officer that one of the something is getting to his head, and the officer shows cell phone footage of the boss committing a crime and says "It's a day spa"
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I saw a scene of some show a long time ago (late 90's) that's always stuck in my mind. From browsing around Tv Tropes, it seems like it might have been ripping off a Twilight Zone episode. All I remember is that this man keeps trying to save his blind friend, or girlfriend from being hit by a car. Every time he fails, he wakes up and realizes it was all a dream, only to try again and again and keep waking up until he gets it right. At the end he and the girl might start dating? Anybody recognize this?
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Okay I'm looking for the titles of a few books
The first was about a girl who when she was little she was in a helicopter going over the ocean with her parents. The helicopter crashes, her parents die, and she gets adopted by dolphins. Years later, she is found by some scientist lady who takes care of her and teaches her how to speak and read and stuff. She wears these rain boots or something, that squeak and remind her of her dolphin family. At the end they are in a boat, the girl spots the dolphins and then runs away with them.
The second is about this girl who is a ghost. She doesn't know she is a ghost and makes friends with this kid (a boy I think) who is the only one who can see her. I cant quite remember if he knew all along that she was dead or not, but I think not, because I remember there was some part where he mentioned to someone 'that girl who sits next to me in history class' and they told him that the desk next to his had always been empty. At the end I think he told her and she moved on. If memory serves, the ghost or the kid, or both lived in an apartment building where I think most of the story took place. I think the title was the girl's name or something incorporating her name. I'm also pretty certain that is was illustrated with fairly stylized drawings.
The third I can't remember much about. There was this man who was some kind of wizard who lived in an old house that I think was special or strange in some way, but I can't quite remember. There was a boy and a girl who befriended him and I think he taught them a bit of magic, and they had some kind of goal that they had to accomplish with magic (might have had something to do with the house or a villain I can't remember). I think there may have been a certain time involved like midnight on a certain date. I remember that one of the characters (I think the girl) had a hat with some pins on it. I think it might have had something to do with ghosts also.
Thanks for the help :)
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A children's book with Quentin Blake-esque drawings. It was about a family who runs into a mermaid at the local pool, but doesn't make an appearance for the rest of the book. The front pages shows two mermaids holding something.
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Made a previous request for this show, about a series from the 80s. Apparantly European, and the episode focuses on a seahorse race, and a man who flies away after seeing it. Here are some screenshots from it (I have it on VHS but it doesn't have any other information on the show, as it only recorded half). The brown... bear thing is the 'storyteller', and I think it might be German in origin.
http://tinypic.com/r/1zpl5b4/5 http://tinypic.com/r/30bh8uf/5 http://tinypic.com/r/28r2vxf/5 http://tinypic.com/r/eg75ox/5 http://tinypic.com/r/iw5icy/5
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So there was this ironically extremely disturbing baby show I watched a long time ago. There wasn't any dialogue at all. Only weird...sounds. It seemed like it was directed at very very young aged infants. There were these colorful baby blob things...like they looked like...a baby in a little fruit costume. And it wasn't a cartoon. It was life like, and I think only certain things were animated. It was very very strange. And I'm pretty sure it had a weird name. But I can't remember. I doubt anyone would know what this is since it's a baby show, but come on, I'm trying here!
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From Insecurity Camera: "In one film, an art museum had only infrared cameras protecting a Monet. Once the thieves disabled the air conditioning unit during a heat wave, it was useless."
Anyone know what film it's talking about?
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I remember a children's book - or at least, I think it was a lower reading level - where this boy (with a couple others. I think maybe a guy and a girl?) goes to a Magical Land and everyone in the party gets powers. I think. This part is what I'm least sure of, actually.
The boy is an Idiot Hero who gets a book that updates itself with a spell every day. Each spell can only be used once, and in order to cast a spell the boy has to put a finger on the page. The finger glows blue.
The Big Bad was the mysterious Emperor, who turned out to be the (disguised) boy Aiden (Aidan? Something like that), who had been with the party "helping" almost the entire book.
There's a time when the group is in the mountains/travelling and the mage boy gets into a fight with the other members of the party. He might have felt useless/like he was underappreciated? Anyway, he throws a hissy fit and won't help out with ANYTHING for the next ten days, not even using his spellbook. At the very end, there's a monster (or something) and Achilles finally stops sulking in his tent and presses all his fingers on the unused pages and beats the monster with the spells. He only needed nine to defeat the monster, so he uses his tenth spell (one with a title referencing monkeys or bananas) to trip up someone very obnoxious who had witnessed the event. I want to say his principal, perhaps? Adults Are Useless was in full effect.
So, um, yeah. Help remembering the title (and the boy's name) would be very much appreciated.
Edited by AruciaopenNo Title
It's a Web Original show on You Tube, presented as a vlog by a wannabe frat boy in his freshman year of college. Basically, the whole time in all the videos he's boasting about how awesome he is, and while he's talking it cuts to footage of him doing stuff and people either ignoring him or not being impressed at all.
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It's a videogame for the SNES and had multiple characters to start off as. One was a girl with wings from a floating island. The game is not Secret of Mana. I am constantly having people suggest this. There is a town where the dead rise at night and visit their families. It's an RPG with night and day and had a big maze on the world map.
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Looking for a British comedy set in space, Nick Frost played one of the main characters.
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Dear TV Trope,
Today I remembered a time in my youth when I was channel surfing, at some point in the early nineties. During this channel surfing, I encountered an animated show which was set in a snowy place with a cavern. Inside this cavern were these beings, creatures, aliens or ghosts who lived within the cavern roof. They watched the intruding spelunkers who had brought machines along with them from above. Their eyes were visible in, through, or on the cavern roof. Occasionally, they attacked and froze the intruders.
It terrified me and I never learned the name of this show. It is bothering me a great deal that I can't find anything about it on my own. I am beginning to doubt it actually existed.
-Skyth
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A Sci-Fi short story about Ret-Gone weapon. There is a war, and the enemy country bombs where the characters live. Whatever blown up by the new weapon (I think it was called "existence-destructive bomb" in my language), be it a mountain or a half of the human body, is not lamented. Everybody are just confused, being unsure if it ever existed.
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