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This one has been bugging me for years, and I just can't figure it out. I believe the film was anime of somekind, and it involved an innocent girl who starts the film in a wheel chair. And there is some kind of evil thing that sits on a throne in some other place trying to destroy her. He has minions who makes out of grubs in a bowl near his thrown and tries to stop the girl from doing something, not sure what. There is also some kind of world change or something and the girl can walk in this other place. Any ideas?
openNo Title Literature
Okay, this is one that's been bugging me for years. It was a pretty thick fantasy novel, hardcover, and the cover had a girl standing in front of a pair of gates that had wings wrought into the design, so it looked a bit like she had wings. I remember the title being something very simple, and I'm pretty sure it was just one word.
Setting was either France, or something like it in feel. Or maybe it was just the characters that gave me that impression. Anyways, the main character is/was nobility of some kind, I think. She definitely was in the palace for a time, taking care of the queen, I believe, along with a bunch of other girls. They would take some kind of pill to give them enough energy to take care of the queen, dance, and socialize all the time.
For the plot, there were, I think, 3 machines that the people had discovered/unearthed. They didn't understand what they were, but I know they eventually started feeding people into one of them to kill them. It was the one with a more feminine name, Kokotte or something like that (spelled phonetically, because I remember taking the trouble to sound it out). There were also women that called themselves the "Coquettes of Kokotte". The main character's grandmother is fed to this machine.
There was also a boy, a street-urchin type, I think, towards the end that takes in the main character and hides her from people that are searching for her.
Anyone know of/read this? Much appreciated. :)
Edited by oneboot17openNo Title Live Action TV
I'm trying to find out if I'm just crazy or if this was actually on the air at one point. It could have just been a Canadian thing, or it could have been international (or it could have been a Candle Cove/Eldritch Abomination thing)... This was in the late-80s/early-90s or so.
Anyway, there was this girl (I think her name was Hope), and an evil witch/queen/something. The witch had a henchmonster (fuzzy brown puppet guy) called Erg (possibly spelled differently, but pronounced as I spelled it). There was also a talking waterfall/spring/pond/well/something. I think it was probably either a well or a waterfall, because I seem to recall if being an alliteration with the word 'wise' or 'wisdom'.
Edited to correct 'canned' to the more accurate 'called'.
Edited by OmegaX123openNo Title Film
1) Some old black and white movie. Death comes to claim some guy. I think the guy had an apple tree that whenever someone goes up in it, they always get stuck and can't come down. So the guy asks Death to go up into the apple tree and get him one last apple before he dies. Death does as he asks, and then he is stuck in the tree. Nothing can die after that.
2) Possibly the same movie, but I think a different old black and white movie. Some rich people in a huge house are negotiating with Death, or trying to get out of a deal with Death or something? I'm not sure but Death is in their house for the duration of the movie for some reason, and he is supposed to take someone in the house. At the end, you think he's supposed to take that person, but then he takes off his hood and cape and announces that he wants to stop being Death. I think he fell in love with a woman in the house, or maybe there was some other reason? I mostly just remember my Mom yelling "Copout!" at the TV when I saw it as a kid.
openNo Title Film
I'm trying to figure out the name of a strange movie that I saw a clip or trailer of a few months ago. I think it's from the nineties or early 2000s. The main character was a fat man who was schizophrenic or mentally ill in some way who wears headphones and may or may not be homeless. I think it was shot on video tape and has a very unconventional structure. I saw it while looking for films similar in style to those of David Lynch. Some of this description might be wrong but hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
Edited by wfletchopenNo Title Film
I saw this one on TV in Canada, but can't find out what it was called. It was about a little boy who was kidnapped by a profession wrestler and taken to an island hidden by fog in the middle of a swamp. The wrestler had two assistants, one was a fish man and the other was a chicken lady who was in love with him. There were a bunch of kids stuck here, being terrorized by the wrestler. However, the main character (who I think was called Jimmy) realized that the wrestler was actually a nice guy who bullied kids to make himself feel tough. After all, no one that evil would be nice to their dog.
Meanwhile, a pair of ineffectual child heroes were trying to save them. They didn't do much of anything. Eventually, the fog was dissipated, the lair was exposed to sunlight, and the two assistants turned back into what they were made out of (fish and chickens). This turned out to all be a daydream and the show ended with Jimmy getting yelled at by a salesperson for stealing a tomato.
Anyone remember it? I kept thinking Jimmy Two-Shoes, but that's a cartoon.
openNo Title
Video game (Why isn't that an option on the medium?):
For some reason I can't remember anything except the soundtrack, but I'm pretty sure it was a fighter. All I remember is some guy going "Round One...Fight fight fight fight!" and then "Round Two...Fight fight fight fight!"
Ring a bell for anyone?
openNo Title Literature
There's SF series of stories or novels or whatever, where there are loads of other worlds accessible via some sort of a portal planet, and by entering each world you are being changer into one of the inhabitants.
openNo Title Western Animation
I watched a cartoon years ago set around Baker Street. It was centered around a group of street urchins, two in particular (a boy and girl) who lived in a boat moored to a dock. They went around solving some crimes or other peoples troubles. They caught and sold rats for some money. It had a catchy theme song. (something about "How do they munch?/How do they munch?/How./do./they./munch?") - word might be different it was years ago. Any ideas?
openNo Title Western Animation
I watched a cartoon when I was a kid that had...a fairy that granted wishes? But she needed a helper or something and so she (made a wish? asked a...mountain genie? it's vague in my memory) for one that had all these traits "sugar, spice, sweetness, whatever" and ended up getting one helper that represented each. Hi-jinks ensued as they went to earth to grant wishes.
I think it was a stand-alone movie thing, but I might be wrong. I rented a bunch of random stuff from the family area when I was a kid.
Any ideas?
openNo Title Film
There was a film I watched a while ago with a plot similar to Bedtime Stories. There was a father and an estranged son (who I believe were both black), and the father was competing with a guy who claims to be a Native American. He gets the upper hand by interpreting his son's drawings, whose results actually carry out into real life. Near the end, the Native guy figures it out and hypes his son on Red Bull to level the playing field.
Anyone remember this? The actor portraying the "Native American"'s name was Thomas [something].
openNo Title Literature
I seem to recall a very obscure Fairy tale (I think). It was about a young girl who was kidnapped by an old witch, and Every day the witch would test the girl by sending her to a stream. She told her that if she could fill a bucket with water using only a fork, that she would release her back to her parents.
Any ideas.
Edited by pokedude10openNo Title
Here's an odd one: I'm looking for an article. The article talked about how fictional characters may compensate for one's lack of real-life friends or social life, and went into how viewers/readers bond with characters and resulting emotional effects. It's not just identifying with them, but that people think of them as friends.
And I'm pretty sure this effect has been featured on a Cracked countdown before, but I can't seem to remember which article. I also think it might have had a page on The Other Wiki (or at least was mentioned as a subtopic).
Edited by apassingthoughtopenNo Title Literature
I recall seeing this in the library when I was a kid; it's a children's book or at least a part of a children's anthology book. I don't remember any words, and each page has one picture on it. It shows how one village/town finds a giant egg, and how they worked together to open it, pour out the insides on a giant frying pan, cook the contents into a giant omellete and have a feast. As they did all this they get to have some fun, like, if I recall correctly, skating along the giant frying pan as if it was a frozen lake or an ice skating rink. I also remember after eating the omellete they turned the shell into a condo. This story really made me crave for eggs!
openNo Title
Okay this was actually a board game but I figure asking here isn't too taboo. I was a horror themed board game, your pieces were gravestones, and you had to watch a tape that came with it to play. The guy on the tape was kinda like a dungeon master. I remember there was something about black holes which I think worked like jail in monopoly. You also had a coin to flip with a demon/gargoyle head and tail for...well heads and tails.
Edited by xkiraopenNo Title Western Animation
I think I remember this show (I'm pretty sure it was an animated short film) that had no talking in it, just music. It seemed pretty old when I saw it seven years ago. The characters were a female violin and a male...other musical instrument (maybe a percussion?). The violin was somewhat coquettish and the male was in love with her (I'm not sure if it was returned. He was a Dogged Nice Guy). Their own "families" of instruments were at war with each other, so their own pieces conflicted. When the male's father (who might have been a tuba) discovered his son's feelings, he got very angry. I think he tried to lock him away somewhere.
That's all I remember. If anyone can help out, I'd be very appreciative.
I remember watching a video on Cracked which had something about internet fan parodies of famous songs. Can anyone help me find it?