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openReality TV Live Action TV
I remember watching this program about real life accidents in which one of the segments I watched was a man having trouble drilling a hole in a tree in his back. One of his methods was shooting it with a gun, in which the bullet ricochets and hits a woman in the chest. The woman is then seen on a gurney crying in pain where she eventually dies. What show is this from?
openFresh Prince episode
Hi, I'm looking for the episode in which uncle Phill gets an English/british colleague over and starts to act "british". Anyone got the Series/Episode?
openA cartoon fable Western Animation
Hi guys. Years ago i saw this cartoon (not CGI), it was a beautiful fable but I don't know the who draw it. Here's the plot, I remember the whole thing: A young man wander in a church at night and there he sees two ugly mugs trying to pry open a coffin: he asks what they were doing and the criminals tell him that the dead inside was someone who owed them a lot of money, so they will take everything valuable is still on his corpse. Out of pity the boy give them the satchel with all of his money to compensate the robbers. In the morning he meets a tall stranger with a goatee that become his traveling companion. He seems to be some sort of warlock because, seeing a dead swan, he states that while he cannot help the creature there is still something he can do, and make the corpse disappear leaving only its wings (then he takes the wings and puts them away); later he repairs a tiny puppet that represent a princess with a salve that even makes the marionette become alive. The two arrive at a castle where the boy fall in love with the princess, a girl with black hair and a cold stare: indeed the old king himself warns the boy that his daughter is cruel and merciless, and that she executes all the pretenders who don't pass her trial (guessing what she is thinking). Nevertheless the young man is determined to complete this quest and the king, accepting his will, gazes sadly from a window a large field behind the castle, completely covered by the tombstones of the killed pretenders. Long story short: the stranger use the swan's wings to follow the princess and discovers that she is mind-controlled by an evil troll (the monster looks like a tall and muscular greenskin orc) that tells her an item for the pretenders to guess. Thanks to the stranger the boy wins two of the three trials, so the enraged troll orders the princess to think of the troll's own head: she departs and the stranger approaches the monster, unsheating a sword and grinning. The next day the boy give to the princess a burlap sack with the troll's head inside, winning the last trial and breaking the spell. So the stranger congratulates the couple and bids farewell to the boy, revealing to be the grateful spirit of the man inside the coffin and than vanishing.
Edited by CritterMasteropenEarly 00's Cartoon Western Animation
I've got this cartoon in my head about a young girl that grew up in a city (possibly new york) who somehow ended up in a 3rd world like village somewhere by herself. I remember an episode where she thought it would be a good idea to try and make a small skycraper with the village, but ended up only making a single floor because another young character, most likely the village leaders daughter wanted her own place so changed the plans everyone was following so that there was only the bottom floor with a giant roof. Also remember an episode where the city girl introduced currency for the first time. If anyone can guess this show you're a gem!!!!
openTv show about a lost child
I'm searching for a tv show that I watched not too long ago. It's about a child who was ought to be lost/dead came back as a grown guy to his family, but he suddenly had superpowers. I remember a scene where news outlets were going after the family right after he returned. Also remember a scene where he melted some stuff in his room.
open👽 on 🌍 | Nickelodeon Live Action TV
This show where a black kid (not to be a racist) played an alien who is on Earth and is a part of a family, this is around 15 years old, may be more... Today, when I picture him, I see Marquees Brown-Lee (from the youtube channel mkbhd?) I remember this distinct scene where he is walking on a rocky path and stands by a sign board for hours, as it reads STOP, Thank u in advance!
openSuperhuman kid detective Film
I only remember the main character, and one episode, but the main character is some blonde male that from what I remember was a good detective, and in one episode he faked his own "death by heart attack" after the some dude tries to scare the MC away by spooking him from inside a mirror, to which the main character then gets back up, and somewhere later or probably right after the scene they explain how he did it and it said something like he trained to stop his heart for a short amount of time without dying. I think there was another 1 or 2 main characters, but if I give details about them I could be wrong
openBooks with creepy tales Literature
I remember in one of my books from middle school some short stories that I presume came from collection of sci-fi/horror stories, but I can't remember the titles.
First story features a family getting some kind of hi-tech house with holographic walls that can change each room's appearance when asked. It's all fine and dandy until the father asks to make the story of Aladdin appear in his bedroom and it doesn't happen. He then hears some weird noises from the kids room and discovers that they asked for a savannah setting before the house's hologram system broke down, with a hologram lion becoming real and eating the kids.
Second story is about a kid writing letters from camp to his parents. He tells that apparently there is a T-Rex roaming in the woods, but it's obviously a tale told to scare people. Then, some days later, he writes them another letter stating that the T-Rex is real and is chasing him, who is now closed in a hut writing the letter so that they can hurry and get him back home, and then the letter stops in midwriting, implying the kid was eaten by the T-Rex. It's followed by a letter from the camp organizators, informing the parents that their special program to get rid of disobeying kids was indeed successful.
openEarly 2000s tv show
I remember they lived in a trailer and they weren't human, they would make smoothies, and look out of a large telescope.. that's all I remember. It was aired on treehouse
openAnime about a prince in exile Anime
There was a anime that aired here in Brazil in the early 2000's on cartoon network i think on the weekend mornings, to be honest i don't know if it was an anime or western animation but it looked in my memories more like an anime. It was set in fantasy kingdom (i think) and it was about more than one character character but the only episode i remember was the one of a prince, a young prince that was in a kind of exile and in this episode he is confronted by an entity that i don't remember well but this entity takes his forms, although he defeats it, this entity by the end of the episode makes him thinks like he is not himself (the prince) anymore. For some reason the designs, i can remember, reminds me kind of like Zelda wind waker but i'm not so sure.
openChildren's Show Western Animation
I have a cartoon stuck in my head about 3 villains, one of them had a bucket on his head, and the military that was trying to stop them. It was CGI and was made in the early 2000s. The show was very dark in aesthetic and was on Netflix at one point. And the show was NOT Monsters vs. Aliens or like it in any way.
openKids tv show
What’s the show with the characger that draws something and it becomes an object that he can use, and I’m pretty sure there’s a bee or ladybug or something that flys around with the character
openThere was this one children show i don´t know the name of
There is this one children show i remember which there was 3 main characters. One blond kid who always got in trouble. and his friends were a boy and a girl. In this one i remmember he was over at his friends house and there was some girls there and suddenly the light went off and he tought he kissed this one girl but instead it was his friends mom or something like that. Do anything ring a bell for someone?
openAnimated children's show with green airships
Children's show with giant green airships, and I believe they either used some kind of mech or summoned some kind of avatar that looked like one.
openLive action show in Japan - nerdy girl gets into a fight? Live Action TV
Okay, this is a real long shot. I was in Japan in April and I happened to be flicking through TV stations - I remember one of them was NHK but I have no idea if that's what this show was on. It was a live action show that seemed to be set in a high school; I think it was a brand new show. The main character was a nerdy girl who, if I remember correctly, at one point got into a fight and had a nosebleed which prevented her from attending a dance.
It's really silly but I'd love to find out what this show is!
openWeird kids music show “I think we better get out of his way
ok so in this show, a specific scene is a guy in a small car with a acoustic guitar. The room goes dark and he’s on a track and he moves around a stage meeting different creatures such as a troll, and a big goofy looking mechanical dragon/crocodile with googly eyes and has a goofy voice which a spotlight shines on the different creatures and when the car starts moving the guy sings something like “I think we better get out of his way” after every encounter. It’s not a animated show it’s on a stage or small studio but it was meant for kids
Edited by BrolicopenSome anime with a porcupine monster Anime
I'm looking for an anime that I saw an episode of sometime back. It had a boy and a girl that seem to be competitors. The boy seems to have a crush on the girl. The bit that I saw had them chasing a monster that was kinda like a porcupine. They set up some barriers to defend themselves, but the monsters attack pierces through it. The boy tried to set up more, but was stopped by the girl who helped him make a reflecting barrier. The boy tries and eventually manages to replicate it back at home base. The barrier sent a boulder up into the air which came crashing down and broke some pieces off that showed that it looked to be made of metal under the rock. One of the people there asked someone about it and they said that they would tell them later.
opencomic with a brother sister team Print Comic
I read a comic way back that I'm trying to find again. I believed it had a brother-sister team who used to be rulers before they were overthrown by the villain. They were going someplace and ended up in a cave of sorts where they got separated and had to deal with representations of the zodiac. I don't know how old it was.
openHigh Heart Rate Live Action TV
All I remember is a show where the MC has a heart condition that he/she (think it was he) took medication for, but the high heart rate was some kind of ability that the character needed to learn to use.
Hi, I am trying to find an old cartoon I enjoyed as a kid, from either the 80s or early 90s. The name is something like 'Les Jontas', either french or spanish made I think, could be wrong, even through it aired on New Zealand TV. They didn't actually speak a language in it. It was a kinda cartoon, and it was all in plan view -looking down, and it was a social setting seeing coloured dots moving around, supposed to be the top view of the heads of people I guess. It was usually humourous with someone causing a raucous and being chased or causing a fight, and groups moving in and out of buildings. So you would see like a bunch of orange dots and the protagonist yellow dot move amongst them, and they would shake a litte for whichever one was speaking, but what they said didn't matter, you could infer from shouting, or whisper etc, it was quite clever in that way.