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openBug game (< not THAT one) Videogame
1 2 3 that’s enough for me. Anyways this one is for a game, (on roblox) it’s a role play game I enjoyed back then, the story is that humanity got teleport (by a big comet) to some A.U. where bugs had minds and stuff. Ants hate humans, ladybugs accepted humans, I believe there were spiders and crickets too(probably just the spiders) there’re also human-bug hybrids.
openPuppet hero show? Western Animation
I’m sorry for doing this a second time in a row but… I also remember this show where a boy who was a fan of a hero that was now turned into a puppet.(through everyone [but the petty villain] before the events of the show) the boy found the puppet(I forgot when or where) and when he puts it on the puppet(/narcissistic hero) the puppet gains powers. The animation is 2d, no 3D asset(I’m pretty sure). I remember a lot more about the show than my first entry on here, I even remember what the boy, the puppet and the petty villain (which I’ve mentioned before) looks! I just need to remember the name of the show. (More about the petty villain, he wanted the here [who is now a puppet] sidekick but the hero didn’t want that so he turned the hero into a puppet).
Edited by Bugsnaxeater24openWeird alien-brain show Western Animation
The show starred a black boy and his crew, they were kids and they fought these brain aliens, (I think they were aliens) the children lived in a abandoned mall(I think). The story is that all the parents are gone so the children have to fend for themselves. The show was CGI. I also remember that the alien’s king was dumb.
resolved Prehistoric CGI Cartoon Web Original
I remember a while back about a CGI cartoon on YouTube that was set in a prehistoric-like world with these Mons based on Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures where people with a stone-like device can tame and summon Mons along with having some competition based on it. I think it was based on a video game. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
resolved "My Little Pony"? ...Or was it? Western Animation
Back in the 90s when I was four years old my mom rented me a movie and said it was "My Little Pony", but... What I remembered was pretty different from My Little Pony.
For one, the horses had more realistic proportions, and the protagonist was a young human boy. There was a medieval European fantasy setting with thatched roof cottages, and the tone was not as cloying. I distinctly remember a black, shadowy horse, and a fire. Also flying horses, not pegasi, but sort of walking in the air like Santa's reindeer.
Now... It could very well have been My Little Pony and I just have bad memory/my mind playing tricks on me. I was only four afterall. I know the first gen cartoons can get surprisingly tense and maybe I mixed up Megan and Danny, but there is still the possibility it was a completely different movie.
But I don't know of any uh, animated fantasy horse movies from that era other than The Last Unicorn, which matches the proportions and setting I remember, but there isn't a young human boy in it or a shadow horse from what I know.
Sooo, is there some other 90s or earlier animated fantasy movie with horses I could have watched? Or was it indeed My Little Pony or The Last Unicorn and my memory just sucks?
Edited by ninjamitsuki2openRandom memory of a show. Live Action TV
This just popped into my mind and i can't remember what it's from. Think it's a british show, but not 100 percent on that. A guy starts to fall in love with a woman from the middle east who's moved in to his area. She has has a son and cooks a few different dishes for him. Things go sour and she breaks it off vut he goes to her new house and they decide to try again. There's something about the son with a phone and i think the guy works either as press or low-level government.
Thanks
Edited by Culchieman1995openPunk/thrash song from the viewpoint of a teenager having a mental breakdown and yelling at his mom
iirc the song is from the 90s. i thought it was by Body Count but maybe someone from Body Count helped play it
the lyrics are mostly screamed and they're from the point of a teenager having a nervous breakdown and yelling at his mom about how nothing is fine; apparently the mom calls the cops on the singer
openLooking for a "modern" fairy tale Literature
A princess was born, but her fairy godmother, due to old age, forgot her magic wand at home and blessed the little baby with a screwdriver. The princess grew up to be a mechanic. When her father the king wanted her to find a husband, she created and attached a third leg to herself. It would kick anyone who told a lie. The more false the lie, the farther the distance.
openA book about Mozart Literature
I want to find a book that I once read long ago (about 20 years)
It featured Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a seven-years-old child. One night, he woke up in the middle of the night because he heard music. Looking for the source, he found a cricket on the hearth. The cricket talked to him and inspired him to become a music composer.
As I remember, the book's title is "The Cricket on the Hearth" (but it's definitely not the Charles Dickens one)
resolved Reluctant travel companions
All I remember is Person A and Person B travel together. Person C assumes they're friends (or maybe more?) and Person A insists "We are reluctant travel companions!"
openMovie about car chase and kidnapping Film
I'm looking for the title of this movie I saw during a flight. I missed beginning, so I don't know the title. It was released during the early 90's, possibly 1993-1994.
Some guy has kidnapped a girl (willingly or not, I can't be sure) and is fleeing on a car while being chased/hunted down by the police. Naturally, the girl isn't happy about it, but during their ride they both start to know one another and like each other.
During the climax, the man release the girl unharmed. He's apprehended by the police who taunt him along with the girl's wealthy and jerkass father. The girl then grab a gun and have the guy released and they both escape on the car together.
Thanks.
openWorks With No Adaptation Deviations At All
As mentioned on the post's title, what are some titles for ANY adaptations of original works that do not use Adaptation Deviation subtropes AT ALL, making it 100% identical to the source material? AKA it's Type 5: Identical Adaptation on the Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification? That means no Age Lift, Race Lift, Gender Flip, She's a Man in Japan, any Adaptation(al) [X] tropes nonsense, etc, nothing. It simply stays true to the source material and fully respects it by staying faithful to it. In other words, the adaptation is absolutely the same word-for-word and a 1:1 copy of the source material with virtually no changes at all. A la Shot-for-Shot Remake.
Been searching for one and nothing was eye-catching.
Edited by holygrail24resolved Child Abuse drama with fantasy ending Film
I randomly remembered a drama (?) movie aid heard about, but I can only remember the ending. It was a kid with an abusive father, and the movie ends with him building a plane and flying away or something like that. Apparently he movie doesn’t provide a definitive answer on what actually occurred. Did the child escape, and the plane was a fantastical description? Or was he killed by his father? I put a question mark near drama because it might have also been tonally weird, maybe advertised like a family movie or something
openA play about a friend group breaking up, told in reverse
I remember once, probably in an old playwriting class, we read a play about a group of friends in New York, told Back to Front. One of them had gotten in trouble and it ruined the friend group... either they were a murderer or had killed themselves or something serious like that.
I only really remember one scene in which the group, in a flashback, trudges through the snow while singing "New York New York" from On the Town.
resolved Brief anime scene in ''Luis and the Aliens'' Western Animation
If you have seen Luis and the Aliens, early into the movie there is a scene onboard the alien mothership where the aliens watch Earth tv broadcast and for a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" moment there is a scene from some anime*of a short-haired blonde girl takling on a cellphone while lying on her bed on the tv screen, before the aliens switch the channel. Anybody knows what anime is the screen from?
openAnime search
What is that anime where the main character's male and female forms are voiced by Khoi Dao and Laura Stahl in the dub.
openFunnyAnimals with magic shields? Western Animation
Thanks to the Media Finder, I think I finally found the identity of an Animesque Mon show I saw when I was a young lad (Mix-Masters).
Then I remembered I also had to find another cartoon I saw sometimes when I was a kid. As in, back when I was less than 9 years old. So a looooooooot of time ago.
I think it was a Western animated show from the 80s or 90s, looking back, but there's always the possibility that I couldn't distinguish between styles from different decades at such a young age, or that it was 2000s cartoon made with outdated technology.
Anyway, it was at least broadcasted in Italy during the early 2000s, between 2004 and 2006 for certain.
I remember it being a French animation, or European at least. I don't know why. Maybe it was the names of the characters or shown in the credits that looked French to me, even if I was a stupid lil baby AND I didn't actually memorize the names themselves; but I still think that it could've been something France would make.
As for the setting: it's a World of Funny Animals, the two main characters are two wolf-like Funny Animals, and they have a sidekick that's like a young girl; I remember them being pilots of some kinds in their daily lives (either racecars or spaceships).
The premise was built around two or three magical shields: one red, one blue and one green (maybe), and they possibly could merge. I don't remember what powers they had exactly, but they looked like that they were pretty powerful nonetheless. And the main characters had to search all these magical shields.
The main antagonist was a villainess, possibly a reptile or amphibian; once again, I have a very nonsensically specific memory of one of the scenes, where she was taking a bath and singing, and her singing was SO horrible that they flushed her down the tub so they didn't have to listen to her.
I feel like this will be harder to find than Mix-Master, since this was probably a more obscure show, which I watched back when I was even younger, and I fear some of the things I said are incorrect and just make it harder to identify the show.
But I'm confident that the premise of Funny Animals with magic shields is unique enough it could help, and that I could add it to my Special Ability Shield one day.
openGag source
I’m trying to remember the source of a specific random gag. Like “If you’re the X and I’m the x… then who’s flying the plane?” or something to that effect. Just questioning the identity and then asking an unrelated but important question.
openDiamond Brothers book with a coded message Literature
I was going to see if one of the books in the Diamond Brothers series had an example of a coded message, but I forgot which one.
I remember one scene in which someone was given a letter that seemed innocuous, with "Ma" talking about how things are going. It began "Bad news, I'm afraid." and said something about the recipient's granddad being in hospital, if I recall correctly. However, it turned out that the first letter of every other word created a message when they were put together. Said message was something along the lines of "BIG ED TAKING OVER, COME HOME AT ONCE." I also remember that the titular brothers were in police custody, but I might be conflating it with my memory of another book since they frequently ended up there, at least once for wasting police time.
It's definitely not "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" since the brothers never got arrested in that book.
Edited by Riolugirl
Ok so...this show was on one of the streaming networks (Hulu, Netflix,etc). It was an international show (maybe... Turkish?) & dubbed in English. It was about a young man in college (with well to do parents), & a beautiful young woman, attending the same college (yet,not rich, & she helps in her widowed Father's little cafe). It's a pretty modern show about two people who, after going through several krazy times (she became homeless after she went to college), he finally got her to fall in love ❤️ with him (after also dealing with extremely snobbish 'rents who wanted him to marry someone else). They had several krazy friends who hung in & tried to help, but keeping*The Family Resistance* at bay when you're trying to fall in love to eventually get married through several episodes equaled a pretty fun Rom Dramedy! Please help me find them, cause I got into an accident,& never finished. Thanks to All who had the time to work on this, I do appreciate it! 😘🤗 Plus, I have two more I'll submit in a few. I'll certainly help with what I can for the group, as well. Thanks again! Plucki 😊