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resolved Black teacher dreams of a world where teachers are treated like sports stars Live Action TV
Saw an episode of what looked like an American series about the late 90s/2000s
- I think most of the cast were black
- There was this news report about an athlete getting a huge salary and some lady says that teachers should be paid that sort of money
- This teacher has a nap and dreams about a world where teachers are treated like sports stars - complete with NFL style commentators for their classes and slow motion replay when they draw on the screen
- He was teaching something like snails or something and he fakes eating it then the there was a replay showing how he palmed it
- He was considering getting a new contract for a whole heap more money this little girl tries to give her meagre savings to get him to stay
openA wild customer appears? Web Original
I'm trying to find a site I swore I got to from TV tropes a few years ago. It was basically just a log of a few rpg sessions where the guy was playing an IT consultant who had to deal with customers like enemy encounters.
openEpisode of Arthur, "It's a made-up word"? Western Animation
I'm looking for an episode of Arthur with this conversation:
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 RyanClark85openMan jumps, son ceases to exist, short horror/sci fi story from a collection (still unsolved!) Literature
This is all I know:
1. Someone here said that they remember reading something like this. They cannot remember basically anything, except that the cover had a monochrome appearance, largely white with some design in the middle in darker color, covered about a quarter to a third of the cover, and was centered.
2. Someone on Yahoo answers said that Joe Hill (author of Dark Carousel) writes these type of stories.
3. I read this on a horror collection I downloaded in 2015-2017, it was fairly new then. I have tried searching on my Kindle and found nothing.
4. This occurs in the story. A man jumps off a building or balcony (quite possibly suicide), I think a father. The mother and son (how old he was I am not entirely sure) were watching news. Suddenly, the son's body slowly disappears, first I think his legs, then his arms, as this happens, his mother screams, "Eli (I think that was his name), look down at yourself ..." He was ceasing to exist. I cannot remember the ending, but knowing how these stories turn out, I think it was not a happy one.
5. I thought it was the collection, "the Seer of Possibilities - And Other Disturbing Tales" by Thomas O or "Choose Your Doom: Collected Short Stories - Picking Stories for the Apocalypse." Apocalypse seems quite familiar for some reason. Something is telling me that this is from one of the Twisted Endings books by author Timothy D Mclendon, but unfortunately, though I downloaded the entire volumes from Amazon, they were returned, for some reason, they are currently unavailable. I will check E-bay.
6. I asked this (of course here), Reedit, Booksleuth, Yahoo Answers, Do You Remember.co.uk, three horror forums, and I sent this in to my local library. The librarian who was probably the most helpful of anyone, asked this approximately to 500 librarians and not one knew.
Now, I know this is very vague, but I know this must seem familiar to at least someone here, I know tons read horror, and searching several of the queries, people here are quite helpful and have made tons of guesses, and half even led to correct answers, and the queries are even vague. Now, only TWO people have helped, and I wish more would, the majority of the responses are bumps. This is discouraging and I do not know who else to ask. I will find this out by myself if I have to, but as I said, I know several of you read horror, and this must ring bells for someone here. PLEASE HELP.
Edited by thestormtrooperopenTrippy Anachronism Stew Fantasy Movie [Solved!]
I saw about fifteen minutes of this bizarre movie while on lunch break at work. It was running on a television screen some distance across the canteen, so I didn't get any audio, but I got plenty of weird visuals. It was apparently running on Comet.
It looked like it might have been made in the 80s or 90s and possibly took inspiration from Lewis Carroll, or maybe just whatever drugs the creators took while working on it. It started out in a forest, where a guy in a suit ambushed a guy wearing what looked like a tutu and tights by the former jumping onto the latter's head from a tree. Three or four other people quickly showed up, one of which was a woodsy-dressed woman with an axe, who were apparently on Suit Guy's side, because they all dogpiled Tutu Guy. But then some kind of gas started pouring out onto the set, and the dogpiling group tried to flee. Tutu Guy pulled out a gas mask, and most of his opponents eventually fell unconscious, although I think one of them got away.
Suit Guy, Axe Lady, and another woman then woke up in Tutu Guy's Secret Lab. Tutu Guy was apparently some kind of Mad Scientist and had imprisoned them all in little plastic tents hanging from the ceiling. There was a bunch of lab equipment around, and at one point Tutu Guy appeared to be performing surgery on a cadaver or maybe a living body — looked like he might have been trying to remove organs? His prisoners freaked out, but were no match for the might of the plastic tents they were in, and after they spent a minute or two pointlessly slapping the tent walls and yelling, Mad Scientist Tutu knocked them unconscious with some kind of yellow foam he vented into their tents. Then Scientist Tutu took a nap, his prisoners woke up while he was sleeping, and were able to swing around in their tents enough to use a fire that was going in a corner of the room to burn the plastic. The whole lab went up, and Suit Guy and one of the women escaped — I don't recall seeing the other one after that, so I don't know if they just got separated or if they left her for dead. No word on the Tutu Mad Scientist.
The freed captives wandered through the woods for a short bit, then ran into a crazy dancing guy who seemed to be a gatekeeper of some kind. He annoyed them, so Suit Guy killed him, but then his body lit up green and he respawned double, so there were now two annoying guys. Suit Guy and the only guy to escape the gas (who had shown back up at that point) threw the two guys off a bridge. That was about the point I had to go back to work.
There was also some kind of wooden sign in the woods that the characters kept going past, but I don't recall what it said. I don't know if I actually want to watch this movie, but it was one of the most whacked out things I've seen in a while, and I'm quite curious to know what the hell it was I was watching. Has anyone seen this? Is it supposed to take place in a medieval fantasy land? Why was the Mad Scientist wearing a tutu? Who were his victims and why were they incompetent sociopaths? What's the deal with the dancing gatekeeper who's secretly a hydra?
Edited by SpocktorWhoopenGiant Transmedia Game Videogame
I can't recall the name but it was a game in a website (kinda indie) and as you would play you would go through "pages" each of these pages was a mini-game in of itself or had some comic pages or other transmedia interactions and each one would lead you to the next one but not in a linear way (like you could skip from page 20 to like 84 and come back to 21 depending on where you'd click); I'm pretty sure I found it through Youtube in 2011 and I think it already had like 900 pages or something like that.
openHorror anthology book for kids Literature
I remember checking this out from the school library probably in the late 90s. It was a horror anthology book like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The main story I remember from it was about a dog that attacked a girl in her bedroom. The townsfolk shot it and followed it to a mausoleum where they found the dogs decayed corpse. Scared the hell out of me as a kid, would love to find it again. I think the cover may have been yellow, but I could be thinking of a different book.
openLooking for a character called Trista Live Action TV
All that I know about the show is that there was a woman on a beach and the character's name was Trista.
This would either be a show or a tv movie, that would have been on tv between 1968 and 1972.
Any help would be appreciated as I have been searching everywhere on google. My grandmother named my aunt "Trista" after this character but she doesn't remember what the show was called. My family is looking for the show that inspired my grandma. Thank you!!!
openA game described as weird Videogame
I saw a stream of a game where the player character apparently is having the worst day of his life.
Several of the levels have him being chased by a giant metal globe, another level had him strapped to a cot where he gets electrocuted if he answers wrong, and the following level has him haphazardly tossed out of it and onto the road where he has to steer around oncoming traffic and barricades.
It as described as a weird game by the person streaming it.
openBook I read a lot in 2008-2010 Literature
Okay, I remember a ton about this book, so strap in.
First, I read this book in a high school library, and it had a personalized handwritten dedication in the front, so I believe it was a gift to the school.
Also, in the forward, I believe that the book was published posthumously by the author's relatives, and that it was a limited release/self-publish, or something like that. So, completely possible that there aren't many/any other copies out there.
So, the book is a gentle satire of the fantasy genre. The main character is a young man who is trying to join the royal guards, because that's what his father was before the father's death. The captain of the guards doesn't want to let him in, but as a favor to the dead father, sends him to an unofficial member of the royal guards to be his personal trainer. This unofficial member is a lunatic, but his zany ideas get results, and even saved the life of the king once, so he's allowed to stick around, but no one really listens to or respects him.
The king, by the way, has died, and his wicked brother has taken the kingdom. However, the king is actually alive, being held prisoner in a distant land, and his jailer is known as "the skull" (or some close variation), because his skin is transparent from being underground for his whole life, so you can see his skull through his skin and you think he's just a skeleton. Anyway, the king determines to escape, and manages to, over the period of some long time (months? years?) train a rat to get a message to the outside world. This message eventually makes its way to the loon and his apprentice. (This part is really memorable. The apprentice has just vented that he thought being apprenticed to a hero would be exciting, but all they've done is sit around all day. The loon then says that you can't plan for adventure, and it often just walks in through the door out of nowhere. Enter a man stumbling through the door with an arrow in his back, dying just after giving the king's message. The loon then says "see what I mean?")
The two heroes go on an adventure to rescue the king, going through several hijinx to reach the fortress of the skull, with the loon training the young man all the way. They sneak in, manage to rescue the king, who then kills the skull, and they make their way back to the kingdom.
Meanwhile, the king's brother has been doing general wicked things, including the generic kidnapping of beautiful girls to pick his wife. He chose one girl in particular, but she has, in assorted clever ways, made his life a living hell for this whole time (weeks? months?), to the point that he still hasn't even managed to sleep with her. Anyway, the king, the loon and the young man return, and they confront the evil brother, who either dies or is imprisoned in the same fortress the king was kept in. The young man and the beautiful girl meet, and they end up getting married. The book ends with her doing the same vent that the young man did earlier, and her husband doing the same "you don't know when adventure will just walk through the door", with another man stumbling through on cue, arrow in his back (the young man says "see what I mean?). The book then says that the three of them went on many other adventures, but those are stories for another time.
Any help would be appreciated figuring out the author or title.
Edited by RicorumopenAnthology of stories about fairies (Finally resolved!) Literature
I read this as a child - probably in the early 2000s, but it was probably published (way?) earlier. I'm assuming the stories were written by various authors, since they didn't use a consistent mythology about fairies.
One story involved a fairy and a young blind girl. In this story, humans could hear fairies, but were unable to see them. Since the girl was blind though, the fairy was able to to befriend and play games with her, without her realizing that he wasn't just another child.
Another involved a fairy who kept playing pranks on a girl, and making her late for school. I know one thing he did, was transform himself into a baby in a baby carriage, and roll out into the road so that she would save the "baby".
Edited by rachiebirdopenKids parents turn into monsters late at night Live Action TV
I think it was an ( anthology) TV show from the 1980s. All I remember is a boy whose parents make him go to bed every night and stay asleep all night and make sure not to get up. Then one night he stays up really late and watches his parents turn into grotesque monsters and finds out that all adults turn into monsters late at night and then turn back into regular people in the morning
openAn episode of Sci-Fi tv show
Hi! I'm looking for an episode of tv show. All I can remember is the beginning of the episode. A man hears doorbell, opens the door of his apartment and sees a group of children, maybe boyscouts. As they speak to him, the man starts to see germs on them with a naked eye, then screams something like "Get out! You're infected!". He closes the door, runs to the bathroom and washes his hands till they bleed. Then the show intro begins. In my memory the X-Files intro plays, but I've watched all episodes recently and haven't seen such episode. Does anyone know this episode and tv show? Thanks in advance!
Edited by DiscoProphetopenAnimated TV Show in Late 90s/early 2000s Western Animation
I cannot find a trace of this show online and it's driving me insane. Basically it was this animated TV show that I think might have been either animated over live action or like a 2D CGI. (It was kind of a unique style. Like if you took A Scanner Darkly, made it ghetto and mixed it with Reboot, but then made everything 2D with static textures and patterns on clothing, for example.) It was some time in the late 90s/early 2000s, either Canadian or American. I thought it would have been on YTV or Teletoon, but I've searched both of their show lists and nothing is twigging my memory. It was something about this group of friends (2 guys, 2 girls, I think), and they had some sort of ability to leave their bodies and project themselves into ... I want to say dreams or alternate realities? I think they had some sort of memory loss that was a big part of the plot. And there was some sort of shady organization after them. I hope that's enough to go on. It was kind of for teens and adults, I'd say, rather than younger kids. Please help!
openTrained dog points to detective who the murderer is
Me and my friend recall American TV series we used to watch when we were kids. It was probably in middle 90s but we both lived in Poland so show could be few years old already. What we know for sure is that there was an episode in which someone was murdered at some kind of hotel or maybe country club and the only witness was trained dog. Detective(s?) knew about it so he was talking to the suspects with dog by his side (it was supposed to bark when sees the killer). At the end of the episode detective accused a women who showed up few times earlier in the episode. Dog wasn't barking when it saw her because she used trick that it was trained - everytime she was in the same room with the dog she was holding something in her hand (like a tennis ball) - the clamped fist was a signal to stay calm and don't bark for the dog. Can anyone help me please? We tried to look it up but we can't recall any names...
openweird 2000's cartoon
I remember this TV show. It was live action but there was a disembodied CGI head that was green and had a tongue that looked like a spring, which had an eye on. It spat eyes. I remember that I was about 6, but im 12 now. It was creepy but wasnt intentional. Also, I think the head spun around. He was a reoccurring villain too. That's all I remember.
openNo Title Literature
Swedish novel, which I believe I read for school. The characters were school children, probably early teenagers. The main character was named Erik, he was in love with a girl named Pia but she didn't like him at all. He admired some Swedish athlete, might have been a skier but unsure about that, who had a famous catchprase I cannot recall (wasn't Stenmark, though). He once got said athlete's autograph with a dedication to Pia, who in response took it and burned it to show she wasn't interested. Took place not quite in the modern day, but at least in the later half of the 1900's, probably 70's-80's.
Not that I especially want to read it again, but not being able to remember the name of the book or said athlete and his catchphrase is driving me absolute nuts...
open(SOLVED) looking for a kind of obscure cartoon about birds Western Animation
i remember there was this cartoon about birds that went on like rescue missions and stuff. i think it was originally french, but had an english dub. i really liked watching it when i was younger.
i remember there was a group of female ducks, and a bat there too for some reason. i also remember watching one episode where they had to save a condor egg from getting crushed by a train. i found it again a while ago, but i forgot the name of it :(
Edited by mitziolet
I can't remember any names of the characters, however I do vaguely remember what some of the characters looked like. Most of them were clearly not human, but some did closely resemble one. (Not human, as in, having body features such as clean white faces, bean-like fingers and toes and strange but cute ears and noses.)
One of the characters, which I remember the clearest, was this white-faced kid with monkey ears, wearing a woolly hat. He wandered around dragging a red cart to which he collected invisible stones every now and then.
One was a small flying mixture of a cloud and a showman. This creature's name I think was like "Pom" or "Pou" or something like that and I remember the show's name being very close to the name of one of the characters. Not at all sure though.
Another was this large and tall, eggplant-shaped blueish "thing" with four feet and a cute face and large eyes who could reform their body at will. They also might have had some red and orange polygonal spots scattered around their body if I remember correctly. I also remember a small child who was obsessed with his wooden building blocks which I think there were 13 of them.
The color scheme I think was overall mostly blueish gray and orange.
I was pretty small when I first saw this so that might have affected my perception of everything but I remember the events of the show being very random, as well as the characters. Everyone did lots of weird things and no-one ever really questioned anything.
This aired in Finland and I watched it somewhere around 2004-2009 and I have absolutely no idea whether it was an originally Finnish cartoon or just dubbed.