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openRidiculousness Live Action TV
Which episode of rediculisness shows the segment where the guy dutch ovens himself then says “ have you ever dutch ovened yourself to feel alive?” Also if anyone knows where i can find just that clip i wiuld appritiate it
Edited by EjfairlinesopenOld Asian Cartoon Movie/Short (possibly appeared on Cartoon Network) Anime
So I remember watching this cartoon short as a kid. It seemed to have an Asian setting and Asian looking characters. It didn't have a big-eyes sort of anime look to it, though.
What I remember most are parts of the plot. Three kids (two boys and one girl) are standing before an old man with a scroll. He throws it up in the air and the little girl catches it.
Later, I remember two thieves coming into a witch's house. She feeds them 'pancakes' and they turn into donkeys.
And then even later, the old man, the two boys, and the little girl show up at the same house to rest. The witch ends up tying them up and tries to force feed them the pancakes.
It ends up that the two thieves get turned back into humans and the witch gets turned into a green donkey herself.
That's all I remember.
openA couple of children's shows.
I have a vague memory of a show from between...I wanna say 2002-2008? It was one of those shows where all the characters were just people in big goofy costumes, kinda like Boobah or something, but in this show, they had this big house with a yard.
The other show had some kid who liked playing with a tire. I think it was even named "Mr. Tire".
Edited by BG99openBlocky toys that you change parts on?
I had a couple of these when I was young but I can't remember what they are. The main figure is a blocky stickman, and you place different parts on them using the square holes. I had one which had some kind of green monster face.
openFury the brave stallion (series) Live Action TV
Hey, can anybody tell me all the episodes where Joey is kidnapped or tied up. On the page it just says it happens a lot, but no specific episodes
openAn animated show
It was a show I watched as a kid, it was definitely older than 2010. It was I think about a guy who had I think long hair and he had a ponytail. He had the ability to gain somehow the powers of a dragon and his uniform would become red and he would get some tattoos, idk, something like that. And he would fight with people who had the same ability, but they had a different creature. There was a girl or a guy who i'm pretty sure had the powers of a serpent or snake, and his/her uniform would become green. That's all I known.
openOlder claymation or puppet show. Western Animation
So for a long time I've been wrecking my brain trying to remember the name of an old show from my childhood. I believe it was eastern European in origin but can't be sure. It only ever showed two characters who were almost identical except for wearing different colour sweaters. Each episode was fairly short and centred around the characters encountering some minor problem and in their attempt to solve it would go about doing so in the worst way possible. It almost always ended with the two standing in the mess they made but with the initial problem solved and then they excitedly shook hands. The two characters had these oval heads with a round nose and very simple dot eyes as well as some kind of beanie hat.
openTv show pls help
I think the show was western and was on around 1990-2010 ish It had kids or teens that would go off on an adventure in a spaceship to different alien worlds, sometimes helping some alien creatures. I remember one where they went to a frozen world and there was a massive frozen bird that was hurt or being hunted or something and the tried to help it, another one was where they were in a jungle and had to try to find some boxes that had a specific item in them- they seemed to be scattered about but they had some sort of trailer to help them locate the boxes, I think someone also sabotaged them while they were looking but can't really remember.
openSomething I remember from a while ago, need the title Live Action TV
I can't recall if this was a show or a movie, but I'm fairly certain it was a movie. Basically, these glowing white orbs were going around and possessing people, I think they were aliens, and carrying out their lives in that person's body. There was a group of humans without the orbs possessing them in it, and they were trying to run away and hide from the orbs. The main character is a woman that's possessed by one of the orbs, but it's going through her memories and realizing how unfair it is for its species to be doing this. That woman finds the group, and it turns out they know each other so they team up, but they're still not sure if she's possessed or not. I can't remember much else.
openWhere's this plot from?
I THINK this is either a video game or tv show but I'm not sure. The plot im remembering is something like: in the future instead of having wars when countries have a dispute they send some champions of some sort to fight it out, and which ever nation's champion wins gets their way.
openAn old US cartoon with a giant blue gorilla robot Western Animation
I've searched a number of times for this cartoon and haven't seen anything about it. It was late 90's, early 00's. All I really remember were the toys because I only saw the show a couple times. The main protagonist was a kid who was friends with /controlled a giant blue robot that had the general appearance of a gorilla, instead of huminoid. There was also another good guy that had a big tracked tank, like the size of a house. I remember it was set in a desert world. This may be wrong, but I remember the main stumbling across the giant blue robot like it was an ancient artifact. No memory of an antagonist. Also the name was very unusual... And it might have been the name of the robot.
openA book about a Bird/Bear/Wolf or something. Literature
I learned about it here. It was a about a bird that became friends with a wolf or Bear. The Bird and or bear were exiled.
Edited by AegisPopenChildren's Picture Book read in early 2000s Literature
When I was in elementary school, a teacher or a librarian read our class a story about a kid (I think it was a boy) that came home from school each day and told a parent what he'd learned that day. What he'd learned tended to sound kind of random, and I think the parent wasn't sure how the information really applied to anything, but the boy used the information in his own life. In particular, I think one day he said he'd learned about how plants spread (i.e. by seed pods), and left a big pile of dirt in the backyard. Soon wildflowers took root in the dirt after their seeds were dropped there (by birds/the wind?), and he had a flower garden. I think he might've also learned about telling time at one point, and developed his own time-keeping system that might've been based on breaking the day up into thirds or eighths.
openTime-Loop show Live Action TV
A tv show a bit like groundhog day but in tv format and for a younger audience i watched it probably pre 2012. i remember there was an evil super villain who would reset the day at the end of each episode, the main guy was I think ginger and the show was set in England. I think the show's title was the main guys name but not sure. in title sequence he did a monologe and stuff like getting pooped on by a bird and breaking glass happened every day. there was also a future version of himself there too.
openAnime series with airships powered by blue glowy stones Anime
About 10 years ago there was this anime running on Norwegian TV about a girl living in a world set in the time period before people learned to build planes. She was experimenting with this and got a lot of trouble from her parents for it (being 8 yo or something). Her brother went on an expedition to the eastern part of the world to look for a mystical substance and never returned. Years later she went out on a journey to find him and met a bunch of people on the way. When she found him he was a chief scientist in this utopian society. They had giant flying machines, kinda looking like trains that ran of a blue crystall they were mining.
Can anyone remember this show or the name of the substance?
openMusic videos names i can't remember Music
Pop and House hits of 2016 and 2017. The first one is House music and shows a girl walking in a high grass and she becomes a vampire at night. The second music video shows two girls holding eachother's hands and dancing on the outside of a building near the sea. Please, name them for me and thanks.
openWhat's this song, please? Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM This is someone's analysis of why Sherlock is not actually any good and looks at some of Stephen Moffat's other work and concludes he's a hack. But that's not the point here - my question is, what is the song you hear a brief snatch of at 47:06?
openA Hetalia Fanfic I Read On Fanfiction.net in Summer 2012 Anime
(Putting this under anime because there's no fanfic option.) This fanfic involved Lithuania forgetting everything that happened since around the middle ages (I think he hit his head or something?). He wakes up in the modern day and is confused because Poland is not there with him. At one point, he vomited in a shoebox(?) because he couldn't find any other place to do so. I only read the first few chapters of this fic, and this was in the summer of 2012, so there's a possibility that it might not even be online anymore. Thanks in advance!
openTV show i cant remember the name of Live Action TV
There is a show i have been trying to find, the first episode has two kids or teens going out on a boat and they end up in some alternate world that seems to be mostly water. i have the name storm runner stuck in my head but am finding nothing on that, also the title of the show is the name of a sub in the show.
This is a sitcom from the 90s. I only remember one episode. There is an alien who becomes the nanny/baby sitter. He can talk to dogs and when dogs bark, he can understand them. For example, on tv advertisements for dog food, when the dog barks, in the ad, they say "the dog approves" but the nanny says, "that's not even close to what the dog actually said".
There are 3 kids in the family. The oldest is a boy, a teenager, next a girl (a year or two younger) and the youngest is a boy who wore glasses. This one episode, The older boy wants to go to a party but he's not allowed to. He tells his younger brother and goes anyway. What he doesn't know is that the sister also is at the same party. When he walks in, he sees a girl with long black hair dancing from the back and tells his friend "that's my kind of girl". So he goes and says hi. When the girl turns around, she's the sister. She was sitting on a tall box or something and dancing. He's shocked because he never thought his sister anything other than annoying.
Back home, the baby sitter asks the little brother where everyone is, he says he can't say where the older brother is. So the babysitter says, "that's true, you made a promise, you should not break it". Then he miniaturize himself to talk to the dog (barking with each other), and the dog rats out both the brother and sister. Little brother says, he didn't know the sister was also at the party. Babysitter says seems the dog is the only one who knows what's going on at home. He then proceeds to go to the party and bring the siblings home. Brother asks little brother why he ratted him out, but he says, it was the dog.
I can't remember if the babysitter was alien or just with the ability to talk to dogs. I can't remember if the parents were both alive or just single parent. The kids do know he can talk to dogs, but the parents probably don't.
Could have also been a kids show and not a sitcom. But it was real people acting. Kind of like ALF and nanny and the professor. Thanks a lot for helping.
Edited by MechPrincess