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openNo Title Western Animation
I remember my math teacher used to make my class watch some educational cartoon that was on tape. The art style was similar to Ed, Edd, and Eddy with messy lines and extremely stylized characters. It took place in a somewhat fantastic, modern urban setting as I remember there used to be these killer robots with long, pointy noses dressed in black robes that inhabited downtown. The protagonist was a kid that looked a lot like Eddy with no neck and a flat head. He would come up with word problems based on what he saw and the teacher would pause the video until the class came up with the right answer. The last word problem I remember was based on how close the show's bully was sitting next to his girlfriend at the bus stop, or something. And the last thing I remember happening in the show was the protagonist being cornered by a killer robot and ending on a cliff hanger.
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This is for a specific episode, either of Mac Gyver or Scarecrow And Mrs King (I can't quite remember which). The boss was, for some reason, wandering around a museum. Every once in a while, he'd hold his hand up with his thumb and index finger together and a floppy diskette would appear and then disappear as he figured out his next clue. I suspect that he was either hallucinating or remembering some past detail.
Edited by FuzzyBootsopenNo Title
I am looking for a comic series, based on a strip, or just a scene. (The strip/scene was hanging as a poster in our school library).
It depicted a librarian talking on a phone with a kid gagged up behind the counter. The single piece of dialogue placed above the picture went something like this: "We're not kidding around any more, mrs (surname I cannot remember). You have our book, we have your son".
Might have been something else than a comic series.
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My class listened to this song in French today. It was an upbeat (needless to say, FRENCH) pop song with a bubbly, colourful, live-action music video. There were subtitles for both the English AND French lyrics.
There were male vocals, and the lyrics were basically telling us how this guy's mother was telling him to get a life - and by "get a life", she meant DANCING.
Some of the lines (in English) were:
- Why are you wasting your life?
- Are you high or are you gay?
- Dance, dance, dance! (This line is repeated several times in the chorus.)
I'm sure my teacher showed it to us on You Tube. Any ideas on the actual name, though?
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There was a show on years ago (probably five or six) about a brother and a sister who travelled through time to important events in history searching for their father, who had built the technology used for the time travel and some how became lost inside it. The show aired on PBS here in New York. I remember one episode that had the brother in Rome and there was a point when he told a child the story of Star Wars. It seemed kind of low-budget but had excellent writing. Anyone have any idea what I'm thinking of?
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Ok everyone this is a BIG ONE, not one person I asked knows it and this is my last chance.. it is killing me!!
So this show has completely slipped my mind and I just recently remembered but I do have some pieces to give.
Ok so it was basically an island, like prehistoric times but the show started with a boy being somehow transported there by some random happening (I believe it might have been by sea). On the island it has a lot of weird inhabitants like a snail with hairy legs and heels (I think that is right), a little caveman or caveboy who would say things like "upa!" or "upapa!" (if it is not spelled like that then it was probably something similar) and he had a big appetite and was strong as ever and lets not forget dinosaurs. The main character was confused by it all but if I recall he was trying to get back to his home?
Some facts I am certain of: -The little caveman kinda looks like Baby Beel from Beelzebub only he has black hair and is not a baby
-The show was a bit random like Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
-I saw it on demand on Comcast and I believe it may have been a FU Nimation show (because I watched it the same time that Nerima Daikon Brothers was on FU Nimation..)
So I hope someone can figure it out.. it is driving me crazy that I cannot remember... please help ;A;
P.S It is not Flint the Time Detective ( I do not know why people keep thinking it is..)
Edited by TheSkyBlueMoonopenNo Title Live Action TV
I seem to want to recall this as an episode of Stargate SG-1. Unfortunately, I am having no luck finding it with any of my Googlefu, so posting here because I might be confusing this with another show. This was a long time ago, late 90's or maybe very early 2000's. I was an early teen then. I live in America, and pretty sure I saw this on Sci-Fi (Sy Fy).
I remember they came out of a warp (hence, I think it might be Stargate) and landed into the future. There' a distinct scene I remember, showing a commercial for a board-game or video game? It was two kids in red shirts, red hats, and jeans, sitting on opposite sides of the game, against a white background, I think.
The end of the commercial had the quip of "It's fun for every boy," and one of the kids taking off their hat, letting down a ponytail (or other long, female hair?) and her finishing the line with, "And every girl."
Again, this might not be Stargate, but another scifi show. I'm just saying strong possibility it was, because mum is a huge Stargate fan and watched the first three, four or so seasons of SG-1 regularly.
As another addendum, I ran it past my BF, also loves Stargate, but he doesn't seem to remember it.
openNo Title Live Action TV
There was a TV Show on CBBC (Children's TV for the BBC) around the late 90s or early 2000s about a family who were on the run: I don't remember why but I think it was to do with the father being involved with international relations, espionage or something. It was aimed at slightly older kids. The family had two daughters, one in her teens and one was maybe a tween.
There was one episode where one of the girls made friends with a girl from a gypsy or traveller family because they both knew how hard it was to travel around all the time. There was also an episode where some boy developed an unrequited crush on the elder daughter and left her a present on her doorstep. This became a bombscare or something, and for some reason he was interviewed on TV and told the reporter the name of his crush. The family saw and freaked out because that meant the people hunting down the dad might see it and be able to find them.
Like Jeopardy (the one with the aliens, not the American quiz show), it was pretty much designed to scare kids to death.
Edited by HeartOfAnAstronautopenNo Title Literature
I'm putting this under 'Literature', but it's a comic. Black and white, probably late-70s to mid-80s, probably no later than 1985. Might have been manga, might have been European; either way, it probably wasn't American.
The setting was sci-fi. The only part of the comic I remember involves a ship with some cryogenically preserved passengers/crew. One of them was woken up (maybe before s/he was supposed to?) and went for a 'walk' on the outer hull of the ship in a spacesuit. This is the part I remember very clearly: after so long in space, the ship had accumulated a thick layer of dust on the outside, so the person left deep footprints, like they were walking through snow.
I have no idea whether this was early in the story, or the very end. I think they eventually reached their destination, but I don't know whether that was Earth or some other planet.
openNo Title Anime
i'm looking for an anime of some sorts. the title supposed to be odin's legend (translated from hungarian back to english), but there is nothing out there by that name. i saw it as a kid on vhs. it had slaves working in a mine excavating rubies, and an evil guy who is a robot (android, but it realises much later on). there is a princess with a big white personal robot with a black display for a face, with a red dot on it for an eye. there is a mercenary type with a strange starship that can turn very quickly 180 degress by rotating it's engine gondolas. oh and there's the antagonist, a little slave kid who finds a fancy sword hilt with no blade in the mines, and much later he discovers that with his mind he can project a psychic blade of some sorts, and he can defeat the evil slaver lord.
it was the end of the eighties, and super channel was broadcasting robotech, and vhs casette recording was king.
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Looking for a Country song I heard once. The name might have been something like "Circle of Love" or "Chain of Love." It either begins or ends with a guy giving a waitress an abnormally huge tip. Anyhow, either this waitress goes on to help someone, who helps someone else, etc, or this guy was the last guy in the chain of people who have been helped, and tells the waitress not to break the chain. Anyone have an idea? Oh, and it was sung by a man.
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There was this videogame that was either for the PC or the first Playstation. I think there were two (one and a sequel). I played them when I was little, so it was out around the mid- or late-ninties, but it may have been released earlier. It was primitive 3D animation.
The playable character was a cute green dinosaur with a tooth sticking out. He wore a brown backpack where a little friend of his stayed and gave him advice, kinda like Banjo Kazooie, but not. He was the only dinosaur, and all the other friendly NPC's were wierd but cute fuzzy/hairy creatures. The levels were set up with a central area with portals or doors to other areas that you had to beat before advancing to the next level. I remember that the first level had a beach where you had to fight the first boss, and the second level had a prehistoric theme, with lava floes and dinosaur bones.
I remember so much about this game(s), but I can't remember the name! (It's not Gex. I just realized there were some similarities, but that's not it)
openNo Title Literature
Sorry, somehow my query got posted twice. Just ignore this.
Edited by thajaro1openNo Title Literature
This was probably a novel, though it might have been a short story. All I remember is that the narrator tried to establish the setting chronologically through sentences in brackets like this: "They rode horses (this was after horses)." However, these events that the narrator referred to contradicted each other, like he would say that the story happened "after electricity" but "before Shakespeare." It reminded me a lot of Lemony Snicket's writing style. I think there may have been a fake review or editor's footnote that pointed out the absurdity of the setting.
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Medium: Fanfic
This was a fic I read... I'm not sure when. Probably in the last six months or so, but not since March. Fandom is Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the flame Aang and Zuko were supposed to carry in this version of "The Firebending Masters" was actually baby dragons.
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Early mid 1990's CBBC drama (british) which followed the lives of a group of what seemed to be ordinary children that were hunted (I think) by a band of medieval fantasy knights.
The 'pet' of the of the leader of these knights was a black helmeted man that couldn't speak (I think he had no tongue) and tended to crawl rather than walk. Sn M style (lol). Was on a chain. One scene he tries to break through the childrens front door letter box.
The fantasy knights were trapped in another realm and trying to break through into 90's Britain (because we all would love to do that..!). Opening title scene was of an army of mounted knights fighting.
This is all very misty from my hazed memory but this TV drama's name has been bugging me! Anyone know what I'm rambling on about? Cheers
There's this show that I saw on /co/ once about these girls doing girly things with magic and stuff. Apparently it's a pretty big deal, but I don't have any screenshots of it.