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I remember this comic from a long time ago about a teenager with an angel and demon, but he wasn't aware of them except for a few parts like in the middle of a test he yelled for both of them to shut up out loud and everyone just looked at them, but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it.
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A commercial for a show I saw on Adult Swim. The show was very acid-trippy, had a man with a bird beak for a nose and some old master told him "You have shown TRUE loco-spirit!". What was that show called?
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A book about a boy who has to go live with a huge family of homeschooled kids for some reason. They find out that he has a really good singing voice and convince him to be in a musical (The Sound Of Music, I think) with them.
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There was this anime show aired in Cartoon Network about a decade ago, There's a Magic Girl named Cha Cha with two other companions Lia and (some other Mage with a blue cloak) Cha Cha looks a lot like Red Riding hood but then she can transform into another form, with long blonde hair and looks similar to Sailor Venus from Sailor Moon but not really, her parents were turned into stone by a bunch of bad guys...
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I'm pretty sure it was an anime that aired on Fox Kids (Australia) back in the early 2000s. Judging from what I can remember, and the pictures of the characters I used to draw, it was some sort of monster-catching anime. There were two or three kids, I remember one of the kids having green hair. They either had to catch the monsters that were turning evil, or they had to calm them down. Each monster they befriended had a special ability of some sort. I remember there was a winged blob that according to my drawings was called "Getalong" (though that could have just been my nickname for it) that would shoot hearts to calm people down. There was also a pterodactyl like creature that I can remember being called Terry.
Does anyone recognise this show? It's been bugging me for years!
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I saw the ending of a movie on television in the early 1990s in which a ninja cut off his own arm to drop his foe down a hole and then cauterized the wound in a fire. I think I also remember a butler wandering a castle repeatedly asking, "Ninja? Ninja?" Thanks to anyone who can help.
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From the Unnamed Parent article:
In Hey Arnold, Arnold's grandmother's real name was mentioned in... the one that reveals that growing up, Phil had a relationship with a girl that was almost identical to Arnold's relationship with Helga. Guess who.
What episode was that?
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Anime time, people. I remember an OAV from the mid-'90s that had a strange title, Two Words, starting with A, not Japanese or English; it was like a made-up word. I don't remember its signifigance to the plot. The plot did have a blind woman trying to help solve a case involving a serial murderer. She had extrasensory abilities. Of course, she wound up becoming a target and the climax of the film had her dangling from the ledge of a building, with the main male hero trying to hold her up. This was also the anime's cover art.
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So I hear third-hand that there's this Disney movie that takes place in a post-apocalyptic future revolving around hats? Maybe check the All Animation Is Disney tab on this one, because I have to say, that sounds a little... out there. But hell, I have to see this.
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I sorta remember this quirky little children's show. It Centered around what was basically Sesame Street but contained within a TV broadcasting Station.
Only other thing I remember Is there was a Big Red Button in the middle of the station. And Once an Episode it would get pushed, and cause something random to happen.
Any Help?
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A science fiction story where the main character is a young boy who becomes obsessed with a virtual reality arcade game, even going as far as to shave his head to put his brain closer to the sensors in his headset.
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Well, I think it was an anime, but I'm not totally sure. This is gonna be kind of vague, but. . . I remember a scene where someone talks about being able to recognize women by the curve of their hips. That's all I remember. I just want to know what that came from.
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Fallout 1+2 style game only in the past. It might be barbarian or roman or such. You could get completely naked. It was pretty much a sandbox game, though you did have goals. The first goal was to talk to some priestess. I remember a cave in the first area, which was a village. You could kill anyone.
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This has been driving me crazy for years now. I remember a Sci-fi series from the 90's. Set in deep space about the crew of a sentient space ship (or maybe just an semi-organic AI control).
The crew are a bunch of teens that are actually clones of the original crew. They've been "woken up" early by the AI for some emergency (which is why they're still teens with incomplete memories of the originals). I also remember the ship keeps threatening to kill them and re-clone them (it's done it before) if they don't do as it says.
I remember the title being something along the lines of "Starship Black" but I can;t seem to find it under that name.
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I remember this film quite clearly, I even know the Portuguese name. Unfortunately, I cannot find the original title. The European Portuguese title is "O Silencio dos Culpados". It was a Psycho/Silence of the Lambs wacky parody. I recall a lot of scenes but I don't know the exact order. There's a guy who tries to say FBI but always has an accident at the I (FBAIIIIII). The female lead gets stopped by a cop and shows him her registration, but a giant condom falls out. The FBI guys go to a stable(?) where chunks of meat are lying around. A clock strikes and the pieces get together, forming Pavarotti (Yes, the singer. This was before he died.) He starts singing and the FBI guys are touched. The female lead is showering and she has three breasts. At the end (I think) the films cuts to a poster and the narrator tells us to go see Pigzilla(?). I don't remember the exact ending but it had something to do with unmaskings (like Scooby doo).
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This will be a hard one, since I only saw one scene. A woman(?) is trapped inside a room, while two men watch them. One of them wears glasses, I think he's the main character. The other is a bit older. The older man asks her if she believes in god, she says no and the man tells his companion to push the button. He doesn't want to, so the older man does it himself. The woman is set on fire. The glasses guy freaks out. A bit later he enters an elevator to deliver something (maybe) and pushes a button he shouldn't have pushed. The older man screams at him but it's too late. Glasses guy enters some sort of maze. I think it then switches to some other people. One of them goes through a door, but it shuts, and when it opens again she(?) disappeared. Back in the first room, a creepy old man appears with two body guards with the intent of finding Glasses Guy in the maze thing. I think he had some sort of robotic prosthetic, maybe an eye or a hand. The older guy is obviously terrified of him and his goons. The goons flip the room's keyboards over and start typing. I had to go to school at this point, so I don't know what happens next. I remember it looking somewhat cyberpunk.
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Looking for a point-and-click adventure game from the early '90s. It was set on a space station and was a typical space-horror deal where the people on the station were being killed off one by one by... someone or something. It reminded me a lot of 7 Days a Skeptic, actually (though naturally this game came first by a good 10+ years). The graphics, I think, were side-scrolling and fairly simplistic and pixel-y. A little low-tech even for their day — I get the feeling it wasn't an incredibly high-budget game.
The protagonist was the father of a guy who'd been working on the space station and had recently died under mysterious circumstances. I want to say he either committed suicide or was made to look as though he had. The protagonist was just supposed to be there for the funeral, but then weird stuff started happening, and naturally the protagonist came under suspicion and had to figure out what was really going on.
The main plot had to do with aliens and some kind of government/corporate conspiracy, but I don't remember much about it. This is the part I do remember: in the course of going through his son's belongings, the protagonist learns that he (the son) had been in a relationship with another man working on the station. They'd had to keep it a secret due to the program they were working on having what amounted to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy (so they'd both lose their jobs if they were found out). The son's lover finds out that the protagonist knows about it and, assuming that he's going to be a jerk about it, kind of flips out on him; the protagonist assures him that he loves his dead gay son. ... Then in the following scene the lover turns up dead (of course!) and that's the end of that subplot.
Anyone know what this thing is called?
(On a side note, why is there no "Video Game" option in the "Media" menu?)
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You remember how back in the early 2000s networks were churning out Hilarious in Hindsight bad dubs of kids anime just as fast as they could so that they could cash in on some of the success that Pokemon had? And a lot of these were hilarious crap, like Flint The Time Detective. There was one, and it's been bugging me like crazy that I can't remember it, and that I can't totally differentiate which parts I remember from this show or Flint The Time Detective (I blame the likelihood that they were in the same time block).
Here are the details of what I remember: The two protagonists were children, and there was a Responsible Adult father who was some kind of scientist. They went on adventures to some alternate world, where it assumed a pretty non-challenging Monster of the Week format, if I'm remembering correctly. Remembering character designs and interactions is a bit sketchy, unfortunately. I get the feeling the girl had pink hair and the boy had some two-tone haircut, and the the scientist father acted a lot like Dr. Toros from Zoids. The villains as a whole were a threat, but the daily ones were a female set of Those Two Guys.
The one episode that's sticking in my mind revolved around Frog Dissection Day in the normal world (which freaked out the female protagonist to no end), and the villains in the other world doing some freaky bug experiments (with at least one of the underlings complaining about the ridiculous bug-like hairstyle the master had her wearing). Also appearing was some blond chick filling the role of Distressed Damsel (possibly with dryad-like empathic powers), who got an Imagine Spot of the male protagonist, I Am Not Making This Up, in a cloud of Bishie Sparkle and a kilt (the ludicrousness of which was lampshaded in the Imagine Spot—gotta love faithful translating). I believe the female protagonist got a little Tsundere about that. The protagonists eventually beat the genetically altered gigantic bug creatures with some combination of light and sound tricks, and the two minions were tied up and dangling from their ship. Back on planet Earth, the female protagonist got over her froggy issues and was the only one not bothered when the frogs all got out.
If I had to sum it up, I'd say it was probably what would happen if you mashed up Flint The Time Detective with Shinzo, favoring the ridiculous side of things. I've looked through some lists of programming blocks from that time period on Wikipedia (with a very wide window for time), and have so far turned up nothing. Any help for this rambling and possibly over-specific query would be appreciated.
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This is a fairly recent song; I remember the video but none of the lyrics. Although some nagging part of me insists it was called "State of the Nation", You Tube isn't giving me anything that looks familiar. The band/singer are out in the woods (the lead vocalist had a big indie-dude beard), and in between cut-shots of them playing, they manage to round up a whole bunch of people and march through the woods waving the American flag with someone playing one of those military drums.