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openPokemon copy? Anime
Hey, I am trying to find this show I used to watch when I was a kid, from what I remember it was kinda like a yu-gi-oh/pokemon clone. It started out with monsters from another dimension coming to the real world, these monsters were able to be fused together but this was a permanent process. The main character had a sidekick monster (kinda like pikachu) that was short, blue and may have had a marking on his head. This monster could talk and had a secret backstory, which if I remember correctly was that his big brother or father had attempted to fight the main villain of the series but had died in the process.
openLate 70s/Early 80s UK Christmas Special About Rejected Toys Live Action TV
I remember a Christmas special about a bunch of rejected toys, called "rejects" scheduled to be incinerated. After the staff left, they came to life as live action adult actors who then interacted with other non rejected toys - a bunch of toy soldiers who believed it was there duty to get "smithereened" by cannon fire and a bunch of dolls who arrogantly sang about being perfect and looked down on the reject toys. When the staff returned and they returned to being toys all hope seemed lost until a bunch of yelling children invaded the factory (toy store?) and grabbed the rejected toys and saved them from the incinerator. I recall some lines from it - "What's wrong with a reject?" from the lead reject toy and the line "We are perfect. Perfect. Absolutely perfect." sung by the arrogant male leader of the dolls. Any ideas? Would have been a BBC or ITV broadcast.
Edited by Exxolonresolved White haired guy with psychic headaches (solved) Anime
I watched a fairly mature anime (there was smoking, drinking, blood, etc) on SBS anywhere from late 90s to the 2000s. Key points I remember:
- This woman goes to this private detective-type to find her brother
- The brother has white hair and he was having these massive headaches that cause him to kill people with Psychic Powers against his will
- When confronting the brother another guy takes off a cloak(?) and he is a man in military uniform with white hair. The military man reveals that the brother is actually a clone of him and he was sort guinea pig for the process for giving Psychic Powers. The military man boasts that the experiments on the clone allowed him to have the powers without the headaches
edit: found it, Goku: Midnight Eye II - sequel to Goku: Midnight Eye
Edited by jormis29openDaily/Weekly TV Show Series
There was a show about a girl who first lost her mother and then her father and was sent to live with her mother's sisters, whom she had never met. It was a working farm, close to the ocean, pacific I think (COLD WATER). One sister was headstrong and ran the place, the other sister was very quiet and reserved. The show I believe was named after the girl. The girl has a gift of seeing certain things. Her best friend was a girl who had long, blonde hair and her Dad was the only Doctor. I believe Lance Henrickson was on it and he played her cousin Jimmy, who was slow and he slept in the barn. GOD can someone help me find the name! I really enjoyed that show. I believe it was on in 2010, early mornings and then only on saturdays. I want to say PBS but I could incorrect. THANK YOU
openDaily/Weekly TV Show Series
I forgot to add the time period was late 1800's I think. They used candles and women slept with head bonnets.
open1990s live action hero show Live Action TV
There was a tv show that I barely remember from possibly the 90s. The only episode I remember is a guy in red armor has to battle a clone of himself. When he ends up winning, he gets an upgrade with better armor and/or weapon. I believe he was part of some hero team but could be mistaken.
openHorror(ish) Themed kid show Western Animation
I remember the intro started in a suburban area with all of the kids going on a school bus (think some of them were horror creature but i am not sure), and then suddenly they where deep in the woods (greyish sky and kind of a dark but kid friendly atmosphere) where there was an academy. I remember one episode with a kid (brown skin color if i remember correctly) finding a jacket that makes him into a bully, he tries to take it, struggles and somehow gets it off in the end of the episode.
openFilm about Children raised to become organ donors Film
I honestly didn't understand a good chunk of what was going on since I missed some of the dialogue (we were watching it at school, not only was it not Mean Girls so no one cared but, when people actually did start paying attention to it, there was a neverending flood of stupid comments and commentary) but the basic gist I could guess was children are cloned from real people, these clones are raised from birth to be in perfect condition throughout their lives and then, in adulthood, they become organ donors only they give away their organs while still alive and through several sessions of harvests. The main lead has a love interest who gets taken from her by her jealous, possibly bisexual friend who kisses her in one scene (my class flipped out at that part) before said friend admits that she knew that main protagonist and love interest were meant to be. The friend in a later scene goes through her final harvest where she dies. The main protagonist and the love interest then attempt to get some sort of 'get out of harvest free' deal because they heard from some characters at an earlier point in the movie that, if two of the donors fall in love completely then they can opt to get out of the harvest for a year so that they can live their lives together. It turns out that was false and love interest then dies in a harvest in a later scene. The movie ends with the main protagonist in front of a tree, talking about how she's going to start her harvests soon. This movie was also apparently an adaptation of a book of the same name but I can't remember the name
Edited by Shine101openNetflix show, female killer, psychological rehab Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember the name of a tv show that I saw a trailer for on netflix but forgot to save! It was about a woman who had killed her whole family, or she was a servant that had killed everyone she worked for and was deemed insane, has no memory of the act and it follows a psychologist tasked with rehabilitating her... Did I imagine this?
openShow about teenage kids living in some sort of mansion or school Western Animation
There was this show, i think it was aired on nickelodeon, maybe 10 years ago, it was about this group of kids who i think were kinda half monsterish, i remember it was a cartoon but kinda dark (still kids cartoon), and there was this girl (i think half werewolf) that was with one of the boys. And there was this episode where one of the boys goes to the lake and finds a girl (it could be the other way around) and falls in love.
openUnknown show about teenagers with some sort of powers Live Action TV
Ok im honestly unsure if this is a dream or a real show
The main thing i remember is that a villain in it can shapeshift into a large black snake and there's a scene where one of the protagonists wanders into his office and hes shed his skin in there.
I feel that this scene happened in an office
I think there was a blonde girl on the villains side who the protagonist has a thing for too
I know its not much to go on but if this sounds familiar id appreciate any help
Edited by JiendoopenAnimated Show about teenagers who find and defeat monsters Anime
First off, I am not looking for Scooby Doo. Ok so the show is about a group (or maybe just two — can't remember) of teenagers who fight monsters after analyzing some sort of crime scene relating to the monster. There is always some kind of slime or sludge or some substance like that, and the main character tests it and it resulted in telling them what the monster was and other info on it. I believe the male character was blonde, and always energetic. The only other thing I remember was an episode where there was some sort of tree-like creature who would try to kidnap children who misbehaved.
The show aired some time in the mid to late 2000s
Sorry if this is not much to go on but if any of this sounds familiar any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edited by SuspiciousSlothopenGOOSEBUMPS-ESQUE SHOW - EPISODE WITH 2 BROTHERS, PARENTS GO OUT OF TOWN... Live Action TV
I'm looking for an episode of a show—I think "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" or "Goosebumps," but I have looked through episode synopses for those series to no avail. There is a pair of brothers whose parents are going out of town for the weekend. The parents hire a nanny/babysitter—an old lady. But once the parents have left, the older brother draws red chicken pox-like dots all over his arm and, when the old lady arrives, pretends to be his father and tells her they're sick, they have canceled their trip. She goes away so the brothers have the place to themselves. Then turns out there is a monster in the house. Please help!
resolved Thriller-type movie Film
I caught part of this film on Starz (either just the regular channel or a spinoff) while relaxing in a hotel a few days ago, and I would have caught the name if the schedules on the DVR were correct. Best as I could tell, it was a thriller film about a girlfriend and boyfriend being chased by this scary dude and the police, because they were framed/blamed for killing people when it was actually the scary dude.
One scene had them trying to sneak past the cops (New Mexico police, I think), but the guy got caught until the girl pulled a revolver (probably from one of the cops) and made the cop holding her boyfriend let him go, but then the scary dude shows up, there's a gunfight with one or two cops getting killed (by the dude), and the couple takes the squad car and runs away. They get into an argument with the Sheriff over the car's radio, and are being chased by a ton of police until the scary dude shows up again in a busted-up black Pontiac while "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails plays during the sequence, and the guy runs the cops off the road and then maybe the couple.
The last bit I remember was that the couple managed to hide out in a motel, they're staying in separate rooms, the girl's in a shirt and underwear, then she's attacked by the scary dude again, fends him off, goes outside, and discovers that her boyfriend is bound, gagged, and chained up to a semi truck and a trailer.
The scary dude is in the cab and driving the truck, threatening to pull the dude apart, the girl pulls the revolver on the dude, but he says that he wants to die and that if she shoots him, his foot will fall off the clutch and the boyfriend will likely die. But then the cops showed up, and that's about the point where I had to leave the room for the day's activities.
I have tried looking this film up on IMDB by keyword, but either this film is super-recent, or it's too obscure to have all the relevant keywords applied to it.
openI want to know anime name. Anime
In that anime there was one boy and his 5 alien sisters. That boy had one watch which gives him some ability to fight with monsters. It was airing on cartoon Network India in 2011 or 2012. It was airing in between 7 to 8 pm on every Monday to Friday.
Edited by Goku21zenithopenOld spooky cartoon
I remembered this show, where this boy sneaked into a barricaded house. Which was haunted. He meets skeletons dressed in 1800th clothing. They all sit around a table talking and so on, they tell him about the curse of the house and such. I saw it when i was young and in russian.
openScooby Western Animation
Has Scooby and the gang ever went up against a villain who hasn't put them in danger?
openChildrens TV show pre 90s Western Animation
My sister and I can both remember a childrens TV show that was stop motion animation about a bunch of animals and its driving us mad that we can't remember.
The little clay animals put on a show and it all goes wrong when the stage sets fire or something breaks. Its got a crocodile who wears a mask and a cape and he has a really annoying cackle type laugh. Theres also a part or a seperate episode where some different animals go ice skating arm in arm and their legs don't bend. We can also remember there is an elephant that blows bubbles and another animal cuts the lawn in perfect stripes.
It might have been a film or a short that we had on VHS. Possibly dubbed from another country? Would have been pre '95. Please save our sanity.
I'm having trouble remembering the name of a webcomic I fell off on reading due to impatience in waiting for each page.
It's about some guy that gets shot or dies some other way and becomes a zombie. The comic is mainly about his relationship with his fiancée and him facing discrimination by society due the unexpected feral-ness of zombies. Also, the zombie's have blue skin.
I think the comic was on the group Hiveworks, but I checked and I had trouble finding it.
Edited by TropeFanaticFan