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openA new TV show on Freeform Live Action TV
It's about a British con artist (played by an Emily Deschanel look-alike) who gets bailed out of prison and goes to the U.S. undercover. She always wears wigs and tricks men into falling in love with her.
The show was created by Chris Fedak with executive producers J.J. Abrams, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and is produced by Fake Empire Productions, Bad Robot, and Warner Horizon Television.
I've seen a preview of this once on TV, but what is it really?
Edited by AmourMittsopenUK Comedy, I think about doctors
I used to watch this when I lived abroad in Europe and it was dubbed (horribly). One episode involved a young doctor invited to a party, someone passed him a CD case with drugs on it and the stupid bubbling idiot (his character) didn't know there were drugs, so he just turned the case over to see what the album was. It's been bothering me for 13 years.
openUK mini-series from the 80's? Set in Scotland about IRA Live Action TV
For years I have been trying to remember the name of this show. There was a woman with an idle unpopular son. (They may have moved from Ireland.) She goes to work at a fish cannery in a small port town in Scotland. The show is about the women who work in the factory, their terrible boss, and the IRA. At the end her son takes the blame for some minor IRA action he had no part in, maybe against the boss, and the townspeople cheer and put him on their shoulders. It probably was about 5 hours, several episodes. The boss was someone who reminded me of Bob Hoskins, but don't think it was him. Anyone know this show? Thanks!
openTwo BBC 'arena' programmes Live Action TV
The first one was very similar to Robot Wars, but instead of RC robots controlled by teams, it was CGI fighters controlled by one person at each side of the arena. There was a game of it on the PS 2 as well which I remember owning at some point.
The Second one was a CBBC show, again about CGI. But it was monsters that looked like they were made in a basic modeling program (I think they were actually) made by teams of kids, and the monsters automatically attempted to do challenges or beat others. It was set in a lab with all the kids in lab coats There was a downloadable kit you could get of the shows site that was the same one the teams in the show used and do the challenges yourself in it. Both were on around the same time in the early - mid 2000s I think.
open2d cartoon??? Help! Western Animation
I remember seeing this cartoon. It starred this girl and her pet cat. They ride in a limo. I saw an episode about mummies and Egypt and stuff. The girl was definitely POC. I think the cat was blue. I only saw a little bit of it, but then the channel was changed. What cartoon is this?
openCartoon from late 00s/early 10s Western Animation
A 3D cartoon with a bunch of teenagers set in some futuristic city and each one of them had a unique vehicle (I remember a guy in orange with a motorcycle and one in green with Rollerblades) and the main character was riding a hoverboard and I think some old dude was their mentor or something.
openmovie about a man a a woman who kinda wante to have a plataonic marriage Film
does anyone know the name of a movie about a guy who was divorced because his wife couldn't stand the fact he didn't want to have sex with her, and then he like falls in love with a teacher after he hears her talking with her students about how romantic love wasn't real but an invention of recnt times? and then they get married but he can't have sex with her either, and at first she thinks it's fine, that they can be happy only talking and spending time together but then her mother/friend (i don't remember) convince her that thats not right so she leaves him, but then he goes and puts a song in the radio for her in front of her appartment and they get back together?
I think they from the start decided to have a relationship without romance, but the woman didn't know it was also going to be a relationship without sex, in one part the were having a dinner and he got drunk, and the woman tried to romance him into bed, I dunno if he got drunk so it would be easier, but in the end it didn't work and he asked her to stop wich hurt her feelings
openplz help Western Animation
its a 2d animation series its about two boys and two girls each has a mask , they fight monsters and to fight them thy have to hold a mark thing on the monster so they can transform into there own animal, the kids animal masks are a lion a bull a lizard and a bird the monster has one mark only so who find his , he only can transform
openhelp Western Animation
a show is about two brothers and there sister thy protect nature and thy have a network so that people can help them and one of the brothers has a rodent sidekick and he is blond hear the girl is a ginger the other is black heard and wears glasses
openOld Sci Fi movie clip from 09/05/13 David Letterman Show Film
In an interview with Benedict Cumberbatch about Star Trek Into Darkness, David Letterman plays a clip of some unknown old black and white sci fi movie (maybe Japanese) where the hero fights three mooks (who look somewhat like Robby the Robot), hitting two of them with a mid-air split kick. Does anyone know what movie that clip is from?
EDIT - https://youtu.be/JFle8UgqzdI?t=7m21s
Edited by TroperFromItalyopenChallenging question... but what movie is this? Film
1) It's an action/espionage thriller directed by Danny Boyle
2) This movie stars various actors from a popular live-action children's action-adventure TV franchise
3) The logo is a circle inside a triangle below three lines
4) It was seen at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
5) It's from TriStar Pictures and GK Films
Edited by AmourMittsopenLooking for a fighting game character... and which fighting game they're from. Videogame
There's one fighting game character I'm thinking of that I can't remember the origin, name or even looks.
The only clue I have is that they do a sweep (not sure if it's a sweep?) that is like twirling one (or two?) yo-yos in front of them from their waist to about 1/3 screen length on the ground.
Also, I'm not sure if it's yo-yos, it could just be martial arts ki manipulation, dunno. The yo-yos/energy balls could be pink. And it's definitely not Guilty Gear's Bridget.
openCartoon Or Anime Anime
So a few years back I watched this anime or cartoon and I really enjoyed it I can't really remember its name but I remember parts of the first episode: A boy wakes up and gets ready for a race he is having for school or a club or something and he has a special stone its very small around the size of a pen lid...during the race it starts glowing he blacks out and appears in another world he meets a boy and a girl which both have weird creature pet things, one was a rhino who could control vines and nature ( I think ) and the other animal I have no memory of but the main character, the boy he has his own which is summoned through the stone and its a wolf-like creature with blue and white fur... and this is all I remember.
Please can you help me find this cartoon or anime its driving me insane trying to think of its name
Edited by VoodoosanopenStop-Motion Foreign Kids' Show About Girl Becoming A Teenager
This was super weird and I watched it on an airplane in maybe 2005ish. It was translated from another language, maybe Spanish or Portugese, and I'm pretty sure it was claymation. There was this family with their grouchy daughter and their son who was like 6. The son went to wake the daughter up and she started screaming at him to leave her alone. They take her to a doctors' office and they discover that she's becoming a teenager and that's why her personality is changing. They take her to this room (?) where there's a wall and paint to test if she'll make graffiti or not, and also a room with a cat? I think in the end they 'cure' her. It was super weird and Googling it doesn't pull up anything.
openWinston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong Western Animation
There is an 2016 animated show on the Canadian channel Tele Toon starring a boy named Winston Steinburger, a cat named Sir Dudley Ding Dong, and a mouselike alien named Hampton. With a homemade space cruiser, the three explore the galaxy together.
Can you help me with this one?
openGuide to Unicorns, Dragons, and Monsters? Literature
When I was younger, there were these three books I had, each were dedicated to specific topics (one was on unicorns, one was on monsters, and one was on dragons) These were NOT the dragonology, vampirology, etc. books, they were smaller, thinner, and paperback.
They all featured their topics from myths and lore, literature, and film. The way they were set up was the left page had "practical" information on it (the backstory, the size, powers, location etc). While the right was dedicated to art of the thing. I believe they were published by Scholastic, as I got it out of a school catalog, from maybe 2008-2012. I can't find them anywhere, any ideas?
openTwo shows in the 2000s Live Action TV
The first show was about a special school that kidnapped kids with super powers, the main character was a male that could get premonitions of the future, another character could mimic other peoples (voices?) handwriting by watching them write. The main plot point was that the huge plant wall keeping them in was a hologram and the AI becomes their friend before becoming replaced
The second show was like warehouse 13 but it was based around a highschool, i remember one episode where they were trying to contain a saddlebag from the pony express. I think the main character was a world traveller
openDoing this for a friend
Its a show that was on netflix a while ago, about the rapture and some kid is the antichrist with the horsemen and angel. I know this is super vague so any guess is appreciated (:
openExample for WhatTheFuAreYouDoing/'eyelid kung fu Film
The fim (Asian, color, dubbed into English) starts off with a guy doing what a narrator calls 'cooking kung fu' around a bunch of pots with stuff cooking in them. Later in the film., the guy's silly friend says he does exercise also and starts winking and blinking. The hero asks "What's that?", the friend replies "Eyelid kung fu!", and the hero answers "That's not kung fu!" That's SILLY!".
I don't remember if it was a movie or tv show but basically two men where released naked in a city and had to make the most money possible. They stole stuff like clothing and like I remember a scene where one of the guys dirties a jacket of a stranger and says that he will clean it and give it back (to use it). And basically at the end who had the most money (or object value) won. I remember that like at the end both guys had the same but one won because of a coin the other gave him at some point. Idk if I'm making sense.