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openDisney or Nick Jr short Live Action TV
This would have aired late 90s or early 2000s, around the time out of the box and bear and the big blue house were on, in the U.S. It was a short of some sort where a teenage girl shows how to paint a dresser and a chair with a sky and I believe planets as well. It is not amby and dexter.
openEarly 80's-90's kids show Live Action TV
Trying to remember the name of a show from the late 80's early 90's the intro the guy would take a secret path through the woods and had to crawl through a hollowed out log until he got to a secret clearing. That's about all I can remember.
openboy stuck in a dream (not the oddessey) Live Action TV
This was more of a miniseries in the mid/late 90s. I was very young so my memory is hazy. It was about a boy who was having a rough go with life, his mom died and he had trouble fitting in etc. At some point he gets stuck in a dream, where he has this wild fantasy adventure. There were all kind of different characters he met along the way. He meets this girl with funny ears who helps him in his travels. At some point there was a giant baby. Eventually he gets out of his dream, and he goes back to school. When he's at school he meets a girl who is literally the girl from his dreams except she doesn't have funny ears. I've been trying to figure this out for years, it's been bothering me so badly. It's not the oddessey, any time I search the net, that's the first thing to pop up. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
opencartoon Show about two student and a cave man solving monster mysteries
A show about two college students a guy and a girl and a caveman solving scary mysterys about monsters i rememeber on episode in witch they came to a town taken by an alien mushroom that replaced everybody with clones but they do the same things over and over and there was another episode in witch there was a girl coursed by a mirror to be so pretty that every boy that will fall in love with her will turn into a monster and that's all i can rememeber i hope that's inuA show about two college students a guy and a girl and acave man solvind scary mystery s about monsters i rememeber on epasode in witch they came to a town taken by a alien mushroom that replacte everybody but they do the same things over and over and there was another epasode in witch ther ewas a girl cursed by a mirror to be so prety that every boy that will fall in love with her will turn into a monster and that all i can rememeber i hope that's inuff please help me recover the name of the serie i will be thankfull
openChildren's Magic box programme Live Action TV
I'm looking for a programme I used to watch at school. It was an educational mini-series about a magical box belonging to an old man. It was made by either BBC, Channel 4 or Channel 5. The old man had two children trying to help him open it, and the girl working for him was a spy for the villains. The video was two cassettes in a pack, and each episode would feature a short educational song about what just happened.
openGraffiti on the walls, or the right perspective Videogame
I half-remember a game; in it the player was in a sort of retro-aesthetic city, wandered around and into buildings, all to gain a proper perspective on graffiti on the walls and streets outside the buildings. The city itself was neon-lit, like Bio Shock if it had been in the 1980s instead of the 1960s. It was a sort-of investigative dystopia game as far as I can recall, and some Youtuber did a stint on it around 2015-ish. What game am I remembering?
openGot a " two-fer " Webcomic
Doing a search for two webcomics.
The first one I'm almost certain has been featured on TV Tropes before but it must've vanished from the archives or something. Anyway, the webcomic is a comical superhero genre parody comic but it's set in a superhero/supervillain school setting. Some characters from the comic I remember are a nerd who becomes a Lex Luthor expy ( except with hair and glasses ) and an average joe ( I think he was dumb or naïve too ) who gains Superman's powers. There's also a Supergirl/ Power Girl expy whose a brunette and wears a black costume. I also remember the nerd and average joe have a physical altercation, that ends with the average joe dead ( The nerd uses a power armor and a kryptonite like mineral ) A particular line from the comic : " From the shadows, I leap/dive at thee ! " ( ...Or something like that )
The only things I can remember about the second comic is that one character seemed to be a female caucasian cop or dominatrix. While another female character was African-American, wore her head in dreads, had an EXTREMELY stripperific outfit and seemed to love the colors green and purple. In short, she made Nicki Minaj's sense of style look tame.
Special Notice : Sorry if I don't have the trope names right .
openKids/Teen Show About Kidnapped Dad? Live Action TV
i have been down so many wiki and imdb rabbit holes. please help. here's the facts as best as i can remember:
-was on air late 90s to early 2000s -definitely aired in Canada, perhaps elsewhere -a kid's dad goes missing (is presumed dead perhaps?) and this kid has to go stay with their aunt. either their sibling(s) or cousin(s) are also staying in this house. -they find out the dad is a private detective of some sort and communicate with him via a big screen in the basement of auntie's house(...?!) they take up his mantle of detecting stuff. -there's an ominous character that's around town that they try to get information on. The Bent Nose Man? The Bald Headed Man? Slender Man!? somehow they refer to him in relation to his appearance. he seems to be the key in whatever is keeping Dad in hiding. -in one episode the Aunt is trying telephone dating and the kids have some software that analyzes voices and tell her which of her potential mates are sketchy. they end up using this software to bring down a local DJ (either with a jungle-themed name or at a jungle-themed club) who is wanted for arson and they have two voice recordings of his to match.
TIA
openGuy in Haunted House Confronted by Two Ghosts Live Action TV
I am desperately trying to identify something I saw as a kid. This is everything I remember. This would have aired on local TV (not cable/satellite) in either the late 80s, or early 90s (not after fall of 1992). A man is near or at a railroad. He's offered a place to stay for the night and is taken to a house. In front of the house are three crosses, one smaller than the other two, I believe it is said a family was killed there. While the man is staying there overnight (I think I remember a deck of playing cards for some reason?), two ghosts, possibly one white and one red, appear and fly towards the screen. This is all I remember. Scared the shit out of me, and I would kill to find out what this is. Major thanks in advance. I listed it as "live action TV" but I can't rule out it was a movie. I know it was on at least twice.
Edited by RyanClark85openMum turns into baby leaving teenagers in charge?
Okay this is probably a really weird one but I'll take my chance, I remember this cartoon kids show when I was young with a mother who was some sort of scientist or something and for some reason she got turned into a baby, and her teenage daughter found her And has to take care of her . And some criminal / orphan boy comes into the picture some how and he is sort of a love interest while trying to find his father. I can't remember the name though ? Anyone ??
openUnknown Live Action TV
I'm looking for a specific tv from early 2000s. It's about animals. This guy with glasses has a table with pets on it and he talks about proper animal care while this parrot sits on his shoulder and always steals his glasses. Anyone know the name?
openAnime ED Song Anime
Putting this under anime because I'm more interested in knowing the Anime this is from than the song. So, I remember the Getter Robo ED starting with the line "WIN! WIN! WIN! VICTORY!" in a thick Japanese accent and then having some line in Japanese that ended with the singer saying "1, 2, 3" in English. However, I saw the ending online in my video suggestions on You Tube and decided to have a listen, and the line was nowhere to be found. I also, upon hearing it, remembered that song as being the actual ED. So I think I might have been confusing some other ED with the Getter Robo ED, but I can't find where it's from. It was probably from an Anime from the 70s, most likely a mecha, but it could have been something else. It might have even been an insert song or something, the most important part is that it has "WIN! WIN! WIN! VICTORY!" in it.
openAtmospheric mystery documentary show from 80th-90th
I remember the show from 90th, it was a documentary series. It begins with the silhouete of a man in a window in an old atmospheric house, with books, skulls, different machinery. The narrator is looking at the window and starts talking. Then he goes to the other room with a big machine with periscope. He talks a little and than starts to watching the stuff that is happening inside of the periscope. It was very mystical show, I remember the same themes as in "Great Mysteries and Myths of the XX Century", and the whole set looks like in Charlton Heston TV special "NBC’s Mysterious Origins of Man", but I don't think it is the thing I'm searching for. Help please!
openWhat cartoon is this song from? Western Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbNNLgRpL0 Could it be something to do with The Addams Family? I'm asking because they mention the name Addams or Adams and there's a cemetery and the woman outside looks a bit like Morticia? Except it's a cartoon?
openShow on SYFY? Live Action TV
I was at a hotel, half asleep and channel surfing when I saw a show. There were two kings fighting with swords, but one ran away and the other had to chase him. They got married later? There were different realms and such.
openCant remember a characters name/show Anime
Hello! Ive been busting my brains out cause i cant remember what show this character is from...Any ideas? https://gyazo.com/c1b1ac8473c441cc81f636fab0b1c17b
openBook Series? Literature
It's a post apocalyptic book series. The main characters live near New York, but going into Manhattan is banned. There are like aliens who are Not So Different. The bad guys end up invading the main character's base after a while.
openI can't remember an old TV series
Can you please name the TV series ? I only remember the intro music and here's the link to the music https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/497439.html
A short story about a young girl spending time at a relative's house (her aunt, I think), and how there's something horrible at the bottom of the pond. She's Dead All Along, and the thing at the bottom of the pond is her drowned corpse.